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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1967
Page
2
Enterprise staff writer explains magnetic routing numbers on checks and the Sept 1 Fed system change. Local banks will still honor local and counterchecks, but universal checks without proper magnetic coding may be rejected. The advised remedy is to carry personalized checks with full bank and personal details.
The U S Weather Bureau at Friendship Airport reports 80 percent chance of rain through Sunday and Sunday night for the High Point area. By 7 p m Saturday .41 inch of rain was recorded. Today and tonight will be cloudy with mild temperatures and possible scattered thunder showers. High around 75, low near 65, cooler on Monday with more variable clouds and a chance of showers.
The 35th High Point Agricultural Fair begins Monday at Welch Fairgrounds on Penny Road, sponsored by the High Point Jaycees. It runs through Sept 16 with Thomas Joyland Shows adding seven rides. Premiums rise 50 percent. crafts include stone work by Dr. John Andrews and Helen Neave ceramics. Half-price tickets at opening. two children friendly afternoons set for Wednesday and Saturday.
Students at High Point College toured the Horace A Haworth Science Building as fall classes began on September 1. The building is the first funded by the Golden Decade Development campaign and will house top science facilities. A computer terminal will soon link High Point with the Durham Triangle Park computer.
Guilford County invested 3.7 million dollars of early paid 1967 taxes to earn five percent interest. County Accountant Hugh Ross said more funds may be invested in days ahead. Taxpayers paid 5,184,924.35 dollars in August during the one per cent discount period.
The narrator recounts a misfit at a community luau and a bachelor party. He wears a flowered shirt and ill fitting Hawaiian phrases, drinks punch hoax, observes leis and jokes, and notes the bachelor’s somber sendoff. He prefers the luau and its flowered shirt over the wedding party.
The Daughters of Dorcas of First Baptist Church will meet with Mrs. Victor Blackburn at 1206 Crawford Street on Monday at 8 p.m.
Two senior girls write weekly high school columns for the Sunday Enterprise during 1967-68. Glenda Jelle of Central High and Saundra Kendall of William Penn High join as student columnists, with campus roles in journalism, music, and clubs.
Asheboro bids for the new sanctuary will be opened Thursday at 2 p m. The 438000 square foot project names Harold E Wagoner and Associates of Philadelphia as architects. Seven general contractor bids are expected to be opened by the church official board.
Revival starts at Foster Grove Baptist Church Jamestown today at 3 p m led by Rev M L Johnson chair of Turner Chapel Methodist Florence with congregation in charge Rev Ledbetter leads 7 p m service Evangelist for the week is Rev Baxter Mason Pastor Rev J W Flake Also a meeting at William Penn High School Alumni Assn today at 4 p m in the school auditorium
Mrs Eunice Guy returned to Madison Wisconsin on Wednesday after visiting her sister Mrs Dorothy Rice. In High Pont she stayed with the Stanbacks Morgan Davis Yokely Wilson Williams Blackburn and Witte households. She was guest of the Dorcas Club daughter and attended a church basement picnic in the First Baptist Church. Mrs Rice accompanied her sister on all occasions.
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