High Point Faces Growing Water Concerns and Cooperation
A Piedmont region study notes rising water shortages pushing towns to cooperate on a solution. In High Point, planners estimate 15 years of water at current use, with population growth and drought risks ahead. Options include another dam, dredging the lake, or relying on the Yadkin River as a dependable source.
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Piedmont
High Point
Jamestown
Bill Williams
Yadkin
High Point City
WCMC
Lyda Sowers
Jean Hester
Barbara Cole
Anna Meisel
North Carolina Scholastic Press Institute trip for HPHS reps
Six HPHS representatives head to Chapel Hill for the 14th annual NC Scholastic Press Institute. Irene Whitney and Bobby Kirkman hold state offices. group stays at the Carolina Inn Friday night and returns Saturday.
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HPHS
Chapel Hill
North Carolina Scholastic Press Institute
Louise Tapp
Pemican
Eleanor Young
The
Pointer
Irene Whitley
Bobby Kirkman
Jean Blankienship
Emita Bray
Irene
Bobby
Carolina Inn
Gardner-Webb lists 17 students from Davidson county
Gardner-Webb College shows 17 Davidson county students this year the fourth largest county representation in North Carolina. Total enrollment reaches 422 with three days left and an increase of 51 from last fall. Students hail from 39 NC counties and seven other states.
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Boiling Springs
Gardner- Webb College
Davidson County
North Carolina
Baptist College
Cleveland
Rutherford
Gaston
Six Killed In Collision Near Shamrock Texas
Six persons perished in a head on crash four miles east of Shamrock Texas when one car attempted to pass a truck. The victims include Mr and Mrs Shelby Fitzsimmons and their daughter Donna Jo of Salisaw Oklahoma and two Shamrock residents Johnny Little and Samuel Brabham along with Miller Leroy Gaskin. Ferguson Cross was injured in the same car. Connecticut plates were on the car but occupants’ hometowns were not confirmed.
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Shamrock
Tex
Shelby Fitzsimmons
Donna Jo
Salisaw
Okla
Johnny Little
John
Samuel Brabham
Miller Leroy Gaskin
Brabham
Gaskin
Ferguson Cross
Connecticut
Here
Furniture Executive Seeks Philadelphia Area Lines
A 37 year old furniture representative with twenty years in buying and selling seeks furniture lines covering Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and New Jersey. He understands retailer manufacturer issues and aims to be the connecting link. Progressive and ambitious.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
New Jersey
Water supply experts warn High Point lake adequate if droughts avoided
Experts say High Point's city lake can meet demand if droughts like last summer do not recur, when water fell seven feet at the dam. The dam can hold about 1.2 billion gallons when full, as after Hurricane Hazel, but silting gradually reduces capacity and heavy growth could make any year critical.
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City Lake
High Point
Hazel
Thief Steals Car Then Crashes It Into Cress Truck
In Erlanger Kentucky Ted Cress faced a bad run of luck when a thief stole his car from a lot and then crashed it into a truck owned by Cress. Police investigated the incident and documented the damage.
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Erlanger
Ted Cress
Cress
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Pat Davis
Sandra Parnell
Ellen Hatley
Junior Classical League
Patsy Hogg
Bill Armstrong
Margaret Haworth
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Tuesiday
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Arche Schoch
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Future Teachers of America
Edna Ross
Maxalynn Mourane
Mary McInnis
Nancy Poston
Los Amigos
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Thelma Howell
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Frank Shields
H. E. Hi
Elizabeth Lindsay
Florence Shaw
K. G. Mann
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sEeeelynss Mourane
Geneva Highfill
Ruth Goodman
Mary
Mican
John Moore
Ce Studios
Irene Whitny
Barbara Madison
Becky On
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Donald Poole
William Atlas Poole
Robert Henry Tobin
Austin Lockahill Jr
Jack Ledbetter
Scotty Frizzell
Charlotte Carroll
Maxie W. Doby
Jerry Doby
Frances Buckner
Frank King
Wallburg
Charles Loftin
Denton
James Parks
Churchland
Sory Fulp
Winston-Salem
Dorothy Aaber
Lexington
Joyce . Tick
Care Enterprise
High Point Council
L., Green, LM. Nesbit Caughman
Salem Steel CO
Winston-Salem, N. C
Oldsmobile
Olds
N. Main Street
Highland Motors, Inc
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