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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1961
Page
9
A 1962 Printers Ink Guide to Marketing study forecasts steady gains for the Greensboro High Point metro area. It notes diverse industry, large labor supply, rising population, and expanding industrial parks. Manufacturing employs about 43,000 with $133 million payroll in 1958.
Police records show 14 people treated at Memorial Hospital during the Labor Day weekend. A late model sedan on Old Thomasville Road rolled after speeding, injuring three occupants including Joseph and Thomas Folsom and George Miller. Only Thomas Folsom was admitted for observation.
William Junior Crain, tenant at 110 Dalton St, refused to press charges after being cut with lacerations requiring 16 stitches. He told police he would get the attacker. Officers could not identify a suspect and Crain was taken to Merial Hospital for treatment. Police pending further investigation. James Overby of Clara Cox Apartments faced reckless driving and disorderly conduct charges with $50 bonds and Oct 9 court date. Marcus O Ledwell of Club Drive was charged with operating under the influence, trial set for Oct 4.
In North Carolina in school television returned to the air at 9 30 a m with students in High Point at several schools tuning in. Programs originate in Chapel Hill and Greensboro and are carried on WUNC TV Channel 4. Over 27 000 students and teachers began the new broadcasting year with support from the Ford Foundation and state education officials. John Hawes of Raleigh to head in school TV statewide.
Greensboro Guilford County commissioners faced a charge from Rev R E Gibson pastor of First Seventh Day Adventist Church that the state Sunday closing law is religious and violates church state separation. The petition seeks county exemption while officials note the law is unenforceable and will be considered. The Greensboro High Point Merchants Assn backs the law as routine reports on county records follow.
THOMASVILLE The Mills Home a unit of the Baptist Children’s Home of North Carolina will hold its second annual visitation Thursday at 10 a.m. About 75 persons are expected to attend.
College students head to campus, and The Enterprise offers daily mail service. Contact the Circulation Department to arrange yearlong delivery to your son or daughter during the school term.
The forecast from the weatherman at Friendship predicts little variation in the next few days with partly cloudy skies. Highs near 90, evening temps around 68, and widely scattered thundershowers possible in the evenings.
A fall school season prayer from Robert W. Burns of Atlanta prays for truth to free, guidance from Master Teacher Jesus Christ, and attentive listening to teachers and spiritual insight.
Registration for baton classes will be held tomorrow afternoon at Goldston Park between 4 and 5 p.m. Beginning next Tuesday instruction for ages 4 to 6 runs from 10 a.m. to noon. Additional beginner classes occur Tuesday and Wednesday 3:30 to 5:30 led by Mrs. Havana Martin.
The Piedmont Chapter of the National Association of Accountants set plans for the coming year at a recent executive board meeting. The first regular meeting for the new business year will be in Greensboro on Thursday September 21. Incoming president is E. H. Cannon of Winston-Salem senior partner at E. H. Cannon and Co CPAs.
The annual Allred reunion will occur Sunday in the Youth Fellowship Hall at Gray's Chapel Methodist Church starting at 10 30 a m.
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