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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1966
Page
17
The tight money market and higher interest rates threaten High Point's spending plan for a $9.8 million bond program. City officials note no immediate problem but warn of potential delays in selling bonds for a reservoir, administration building, streets and utilities. Short term borrowing offers a future alternative if markets worsen.
Army Major Paul L. Ross of Charlotte received the first Oak Leaf Cluster to the Army Commendation Ribbon for Meritorious Service with the 4th Armored Division in Germany. He is assigned to the Armed Forces Examining and Enlistment Station in Charlotte.
Guilford County council will review bids for leather jackets for policemen and tennis courts for parks, approve ambulance service operations for three ambulances, adopt a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity, and authorize a street drainage pipe project across Ray Hillcrest and Scott streets plus East Central Urban Renewal areas.
The mild days and cool nights of the past week will continue through Saturday. Skies should be generally fair with zero rain probability. Sunday will be partly cloudy and a bit warmer with a 20 percent rain chance. Today's high near 82 and tonight's low around 53. Saturday's high near 84 and last night's low was 52.
Police indicted Richard Michael Ford and John Clay Holland after confiscating four reels of The Secret of Nina Duprez at the Pointer Drive-in theater for showing a nude female scene. Ford and Holland faced court on Sept 19 while Vincent Furio faced earlier charges.
High Point College reported fall enrollment at 1 080 with 27 part time students. Women outnumber men in dorms 366 to 280. Freshmen number 300 with 95 transfer students. Robert Phillips notes average College Board scores of 1015 for freshmen and 1017 for women versus 1013 for men.
Guilford County Board of Education advances a plan to acquire 7.69 acres along U S 29 A near Vickery Chapel Road for 1800 per acre to host an industrial arts shop and science lab. Superintendent Pearce notes it is the only triangle parcel not county owned and GTI may seek it as a testing lab site. The move ties to funding in this year’s capital outlay and a new James Town Junior High architect has been named.
Worth Coltrane the Randolph Republican chairman denounces Democratic candidates on a proposed 4-3 county school board plan. He cites failed 1961 and 1965 bills and urges a nonpartisan top seven vote getter method for filling seven seats. Coltrane criticizes earlier moves to abolish local school committees and calls for restoring them.
A compact page item from High Point Section B dated Friday afternoon September 9 1966. The readable text offers a snapshot of local notices and brief items typical of the era.
Greensboro official Joseph Hunt proposes a tunnel under Friendly Road near Friendship Airport to separate road traffic from the runway area. estimated cost for lowering the road is 350 thousand, tunnel deck about one million with the airport authority to pay.
Joseph J. Cox of High Point and William P. Kemp of Goldsboro were elected to Guilford College board of trustees to fill vacancies from Nereus English and B Clyde Shore. Cox, class of 1928, leads local clubs and alumni groups. Kemp heads Kemp Furniture Co. and holds Quaker birthright ties.
A North Carolina injunction hearing in Alamance Superior Court Graham Monday will determine if National Food Stores may be restrained from selling milk below 59 cents per half gallon. National had cut prices to 39 cents, challenging Milk Commission price fixing as unconstitutional under Sherman Antitrust laws. The case could reach higher courts as National tests legality of state price controls.
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