Wasteland or Garden Spot A Look At High Point Future
A city planning piece projects High Point merging with Greensboro and Winston-Salem by 2000. It predicts uncoordinated growth, heavy auto traffic, widespread blight, and a shift to home based life, with a push for regional planning and slum prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Greensboro
Jamestown
Sedge
Winston-Salem
Fire City
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Reporter Measures Weight With Penny Scales and Fortunes
An Enterprise staff writer spends two weeks trying to gain weight with steak meals and workouts. He tests 11 penny scales in High Point, weighing 155 to 163 pounds, then finds a drugstore fortune machine. A Libra sign, luck notes, and love and money forecasts surface as he weighs himself at various machines. He ends with 157 165 160 pounds and returns home to his steaks and barbells.
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Enterprise
High Point
Monday Outlook Warm Humid Forecast
The Daytime forecast calls for warm and humid conditions Monday with highs around 85 and considerable cloudiness. Scattered showers are possible in the afternoon and early evening, as the mercury dips to about 68 overnight and rises again the next day.
Miniature Pinscher Tops Local Dog Show Honors
A miniature pinscher was named best of show at the Armory dog show co sponsored by the Furniture City Kennel Club and High Point Exchange Club. Champion Rebel Roc's Casanova Von Kurt owned by Mrs Josephine Gibson Tipton of Kingsport Tenn also claimed best in the toy group. Nearly 500 dogs entered the Cincinnati event.
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Furniture City Kennel Club
High Point Exchange Club
Rebel Roc
Josephine Gibson Tipton
Kingsport
Tenn
Mr Pennymeters Organized Now Time was a Morn Pace
High Point Traffic Bureau staff cope with donations from an unknown Mr Pennymeters who has sent four money filled letters about five cent parking meters and tickets. The notes reference Pennymeters Inc and instructive labels. Officials seek a name to match the license number as the mystery man remains at large.
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High Point Traffic Bureau
Mabel Brooks
Pennymeters
High Point
Pennymeters, Inc
City of High Point
Raleigh
Walls Dilemma and Oddities From A Week Of T and T
A local industrialist faces a wall boundary dispute as a neighbor owns a rear 18 inch strip and uses part of the plant as his wall. A High Point dentist bores a patient who resists pain with a boastful prank by the narrator. The Parents fear a youth shifted by peers and a street-name committee endures criticism. A week of troubles closes with a tale of a man who avoids a sidewalk shot.
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Pennns Semaioe
Bs Nemed Deie
Cates
High Point
Mem
James Joins Schoch Law Firm Here
Bobby E. James joins Schoch and Schoch as an associate. A Kannapolis native and Wake Forest College School of Law graduate, he was Phi Theta Kappa member and Phi Delta Phi. James served in the Air Force 1948 to 1953, stationed in Denver and Alaska. He is the son of Rev. and Mrs. R. C. James of Albemarle.
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Bobby E. James
Schoch and Schoch
Kannapolis
James
Wake Forest College School of Law
Wake Forest
Phi Theta Kappa
Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
Air Force
Denver
Colo
Alaska
R. C. James
Albemarle
Fairview Baptist Church
Omeg
Ruby Lee Ledbetter
Marion Ave
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Schnauzer
Armory
Joan Bauernschmidt
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David Cox
High Point Enterprise
Pine Top
William J. Cyaffane
Daen Dahhine
Nac
TVD
Cincinnati
Ohio
Landfale
Audrey Middleton
Norfolk, Va
Champion Barlow
Romeo
Marjorie Barrow
Charleston
S.C
Orleans
Kooremeyn
Maj. R. C. Koorem
Miami
Martha Kingkiner
Norristown
Boner
Kazan
Kepplea
Splai
London
Leonard Phillips
Edlen
Mr. Pennymeters
Forrest Cates
Johnny
Bers
Drive
Mangum Avenue
Ol’ T&t
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