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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1975
Page
5
Obituaries note Viola Branson of High Point dies at 82 in Lambs Nursing Home after living there since October. She is survived by daughter Grace Galloway and nine great grandchildren. Funeral held at Calvin C. Orrell Chapel with graveside rites at Caroleen Cemetery. Also listed are Daniel Arden of Bainbridge Georgia aged 83 and Joseph Sechriest aged 87 of Mt. Airy with services and burials detailed.
Obituary items report Pauline Hicks 67 of Astor Dowdy Apts died Monday afternoon at home with four daughters and two sons surviving. The notice also covers Donald Wayne Wilkins 28 of Route 1 Madison who died from head injuries after a tractor fall, with funeral plans and survivors listed. A final line notes an education on fossil formation.
Marvin Holley 60 of 1009 Redding St died Monday at 8 15 p m in High Point Memorial Hospital after a year of declining health and a week in critical condition He was born in Macon Ga Oct 27 1914 son of Tom T and Donna Mae Benson Holley and had lived in the High Point area 30 years A World War II veteran he served in the U S Army in Europe He was a member of Ennis Street Methodist Church and employed as a foreman by Carolina Spring Corp Surviving are one brother William T Holley of Newport News Va and two sisters Mrs Edith Dalton of Altavista Va and Mrs James McRae of 1009 Redding St Funeral will be 2 p m Wednesday at Ennis Street Methodist Church with Rev C E Hedgepeth Burial will be in Floral Garden Park Cemetery at Cumby Mortuary on Chestnut Drive until placed in the church 30 minutes prior to the service The family will be at the funeral home tonight 7 9
Commissioners reviewed 1974 pool use showing 7,000 paid riders and total attendance about 12,000 with 5,000 children and 2,000 adults. They proposed applying summer operating contingency to construction. A move to light Pershing Street Playground to 10 pm gained support from residents. New members Mrs. Arthur Utley Jr. and A. J. Simeon were introduced as City Council appointed.
County commissioners urged the Secondary Roads Council to meet and discuss a possible second traffic count after protests over road paving priorities. Citizens question why four of five roads slated for paving are in the Denton area and why counts changed from prior years. County officials note possible funding impact and recounts show cross-county counting.
The Randolph County Board of Education, with no dissent, voted to move its regular meeting from the first Monday to the second Monday starting with October. Superintendent John Lawrence cited better alignment with the County Commissioners and growing student enrollment across 20 schools, with 13,609 enrolled in the first five days and projections near 13,700.
Ashland Kentucky native Crazy Mike Maxwell has been a carney for four years after leaving a saw mill. He enjoys the crowd, the natural high of working at the carnival, and returns each year despite a month at home in December. He says only two prerequisites exist, to party and enjoy life.
Eight Davidson County elementary schools Northwest Arcadia area Churchland Davis Townsend Fair Grove Hasty Midway Silver Valley and Wallburg will join a two-year accreditation program administered by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The program targets ages 19 to 21 for participants, with attendees at community colleges potentially aged 50 or older. Walser notes accreditation will require little extra county expense and a few more teachers to meet a 25 to 1 student teacher ratio.
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