Freshmen Begin Year At High Point College Orientation
About 357 freshmen started at High Point College with a Memorial Auditorium orientation address by Mayor Floyd Mehan welcoming the Class of 1968. Dr. Wendell Patton and faculty participated as 12 foreign students joined a total enrollment of 1,107 this year.
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High Point College
Memorial Auditorium
Floyd Mehan
Wendell Patton
Patton
David Cole
Dennis Cooke
Harold Conrad
Natives on Holiday Faces Mixed Local Crime Report
Weekend police log shows minor injuries and several disturbances. Notable incidents include two intoxicated driving arrests: Noah E Camp 48 Jamestown and Hillary E Billings 61 Radford St bonds set at 300 each. A wreck at N Main and Farriss Ave involved Hillary Billings.
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Noah Elbert Camp
Jamestown
Hillary E. Billings
Radford Street
Sunny Skies Expected In High Point Area This Week
The U S Weather Bureau at the Greensboro High Point Airport forecasts sunny and warm days with cool nights through Tuesday. Today’s high around 84 and a low near 55, tomorrow 85, with last night’s low 53 and Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer.
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High Point
U. S
Household Hazard 2 Plus 2 Not Equal 4
The Guilford Fireman warns that mixing household chlorine bleach with acids such as toilet cleaner releases toxic chlorine gas. Mixing bleach with ammonia or lye can produce irritating gases. Read labels and follow directions to avoid deadly fumes common in cleaners.
County Board to Act on Proposed Street Names
The Sumner County Board meets at 9 a m to approve a road naming plan aimed at eliminating duplicates and standardizing names countywide. They will also open bids at 10 30 a m for a crash truck and a rescue vehicle for the High Point Greensboro Airport Fire Department and hear a petition to remove an unopened street from dedication on Sum mit Ave Heights Monroe Township.
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High Point - Greensboro
Summit Ave. Heights
Monroe Township
Carl
Speaker Set For Meeting Of Society
William T. Cavanaugh of Willow Grove Pa will address the September meeting of the High Point Chapter Administrative Beareene Society at Schrafft's Restaurant starting 6 p m The speaker is executive director of AMS since 1959 and former executive secretary of the Engineering Manpower Commission He is a Navy veteran and holds the rank of commander in the Naval Reserve
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William T. Cavanaugh
Willow Grove
High Point
Beareene Society
Schrafft
Educaton
AMS Poten
Surplus Sales Co Moves to North Main Street
Surplus Sales Co relocates to 130 N Main St moving from 218 E Washington Dr. as reported by iJ C Bostian. The North Main site replaces the former S Main location per latest notice.
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Surplus Sales Company
N. Main St
S. Main
E. Washington Dr
Ij. C. Bostian
East Davidson High PTA Board to Meet Thursday Evening
The executive board of East Davidson High School PTA will convene Thursday at 7 30 p m in the school cafeteria. The meeting was called by PTA president Mrs Lamont Smith.
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East Davidson High School
PTA
Lamont Smith
Traffic Light Two Wrecks Mar Labor Day Record
State Highway patrolmen reported a quiet Labor Day weekend overall with two accidents in the area. Saturday on Highway 421 east of Colfax involved Walter Poole and Gary Whicker, with Whicker cited for speeding and registration issues. Sunday near High Point a car driven by Troy Beeson left the road after blacking out, injuring him with a fractured jaw. no charges were filed.
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Colfax
Walter Raleigh Poole
Rt. 1
Gary Edwin Whicker
Old Panies
Winston-Sa
Wesley Long Hospital
Greensboro
Whicker
High Point
Higha
Troy Clarence Beeson
Rt. 2
Trinity
Beeson
High Point Memorial Hospital
Gardner to Tour Randolph County Fair in Campaign Swing
Fourth District Republican candidate James O. Gardner of Rocky Mount will visit the Randolph County Fair officials said. He planned meetings in Raleigh with leaders and Asheboro to greet city employees then tour towns and plants. Tuesday he speaks at Kiwanis Club dinner and Grant Community House for the farm association.
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Thomasville
James O. Gardner
Rocky Mount
Randolph County
Gardner
Raleigh
Asheboro
Robert Reece
Kiwanis Club
Grant Community House
Farm Association
Board Deliberates Industrial Zone Housing Requests
The board considers two permits to build residences in an industrial zone. One family home on Allison Gray property west side of Elizabeth Street. a duplex at West Fairfield and Henderson streets. Also on the agenda are five cases for the 4 p.m. Thursday meeting in the City-County Building.
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Allison Gray
Elizabeth Street
Pearl Brown
Universal Development Corp
West Fairfield
Henderson Streets
Herman Maness Jr
Gulf Oil Co
CD Leaders Will Stay In Shelters
Civil Defense Director George Spinnett outlines the shelter managers course for High Point. Trainees will undergo practical tests in a 24 hour fallout shelter to simulate life under emergency conditions and learn the psychology of crowd management. Rev John Soloky will lead the fall instruction with a corps of nine instructor trainees.
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High Point
Civilan
George Spin- Saadeh
Spinnett
Hou Indroston
Civil Defense Organization
Oe and Sons
Emerfeed Enuns
Thene
Civil Defense
Commerce Street
John Soloky
Soloky
C.D
Lyles Heads UA Drive Division for United Appeal
George W. Lyles Jr of Lyles Chevrolet Co is named commercial division chairman for this fall's United Appeal campaign. His 50 firm division will seek fair share gifts of 10 per employee for retail, 16.50 for wholesale, and 22.50 for financial institutions, toward a goal of 331,475 to fund 26 agencies.
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George W. Lyles Jr
Lyles Chevrolet Co
United Appeal
Fred Swartzberg
George Lyles
United Fund
Lyles
United Community Services
United Way
Prayer for Today from Donald Archibald at Tara Ont
Prayer asks God to bless daily labor and protect workers in danger or temptation. It prays for relief for the overworked and the ill paid and asks for success in one’s own work as deemed good by God. Signed by Donald Archibald, Tara Ontario, minister at Knox Presbyterian Church.
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Donald Archibald
Tara
Knoxterian Church
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HPC
Montlieu Avenue
America
Elmer Horton
Doug Combs
Phillip Faucette
Ed Whitmore
Bob Betterton
Park Street
Commerce
Lewis C. Fullard
Whiteoak Street
Visib
Guilford
A Fire Protective
County Planning Department
Field Road
Sumner Town
Greens
W. T. Cavanaugh
George Lyles JR
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