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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1967
Page
13
City Council utility committee studies meter reading procedures to protect residents from overcharging and safeguard city revenue. Preliminary findings suggest irregular reading intervals cause fluctuating bills. an education campaign may teach customers to read meters themselves.
Thomasville Davidson County officials reveal county manager Jim Varner unknowingly caught a stray horse while driving on Holly Grove Road. After chasing, tying it to a tree, and failing to locate an owner, the deputy later learned the owner found the horse. Varner quips he is “slobbered on.”
Public Works Director Carl Willis said the sanitation department is 15 workers short and has fallen behind on pickups partly due to Labor Day and overall manpower shortages. Officials planned to meet with Municipal Court Judge Byron Haworth to discuss using Work Release prisoners, aiming for two pickups next week and noting October should ease the load.
Kit for United Appeal distributed to key workers including Kit Pete Thompson, personnel manager for Sears in High Point. He plans to use the kit in the fall campaign to solicit employees at High Point plants and businesses. Luncheon in the Sky Room of the Southern Furniture Exposition Building.
Robert Grubb plans to resign as solicitor of Davidson County Court in Lexington. R B Smith Jr expected to replace him, resigning as assistant solicitor of Davidson County Superior Court on Sept 24. Smith has bar association endorsement for the county court post, appointment by Governor Dan K Moore.
The Friendship area weather forecast shows a growing rain chance tonight at 20 percent and 30 percent on Saturday. Tonight will be variable clouds with mild conditions and lows in the low 60s. Saturday looks cloudy with a chance of showers and highs in the low to mid 80s. The coastal forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and mild weather. Sunday trends toward little change.
A Civil Aeronautics Board examiner recommended Piedmont Airlines be approved to provide direct service from the Greensboro High Point Winston Salem airport to Nashville and Memphis Tennessee. The ruling is not final and will be reviewed by the full CAB. Southern Airways also sought the route and the decision followed a Western Tennessee route investigation.
High Point College awards multiple scholarships for 1967 68. Recipients include Margaret Brookbank Leary and Robert Michael Sale with Presser Foundation honors, Talmage Steve McLain with West Market Street Methodist Church fellowship, Harold Creasman and Sandra Lee for Hutchens Scholarship, Steven Lynn Hicks for Litaker Scholarship, and several J B Cornelius Foundation grants.
Plans for Robin Hood Manor Apartments with 56 units in eight buildings on MA zoned Westchester Drive at Robin Hood Road were filed for City Planning and Zoning Commission review. The project includes a pool and 120 parking spaces on about 5.5 acres and is the first major apartment submission since zoning reforms.
The annual Farabee reunion will be held Sunday at J A Farabee’s home on Route 3 in High Point. Picnic lunch is scheduled to be served at 1 p m.
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