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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE HIGH POINT MODEL CITY COMMISSION
September 29,1972
Residents Elect Eighteen To Model City Commission
Seven Commissioners Regain
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Seats; 700-Plus Cast Votes
ODESSA PRIMUS of 1307 Franklin Street, center, casts her ballot in
Model Cities’ third Commission election as Aljuana Curry of Citizen Partici
pation, left, and Barbara Sloan of Triangle Consultants look on.
Business Development Corporation
Will Hold Workshop On October 3
Better than 700 Model Neighbor
hood residents cast 2400 votes in the
September 23 election for Model City
Commissioner.
Seven present Commissioners re
gained their seats for another two-
year term. In all, 18 were elected from
the five sub-neighborhoods for the of
fice of representative to the Model
City Commission.
Some 40 candidates ran in the elec
tion, which was coordinated by the
Citizen Participation project.
Later this fall Mayor William S.
Bencini will make his 18 appointments
from the private and public sector to
sit on the Commission. Four youth
representatives chosen after the body
is seated will round out the total of 40.
Winners by neighborhood in last
Saturday’s ballotting are as follows:
Southside — Incumbents Hazel
Starr, Thomas O. Moore and Walter
E. Moore, and new members Ruth G.
Melton and Nathaniel Waden, Jr.;
The High Point Business Develop
ment Corporation and the Charlotte
office of the federal Small Business
Administration are jointly sponsoring
a seminar Tuesday, October 3 for all
current and potential businessmen in
the community.
HPBDC director Tom Robinson,
who with John Chase of the SBA is
in charge of the seminar, said the
three working sessions will be geared
to those who are in business already
and who need advice, and those who
are interested in starting a business of
their own.
The workshops will be on the fol
lowing topics: how to apply for a
loan, community development pro
grams and what monies are available
through the SBA, and general busi
ness topics.
These workshops will be conducted
by SBA officials. Loan officers from
several local banks will also be
present.
The seminar will be held at Holi
day Inn Downtown. Registration,
which costs $3, begins at 5:30 p.m.
to be followed by dinner at 6:30.
Pre-registration is not necessary.
All businessmen and their colleagues
are welcome.
Don't waste your vote No
vember 7! Register now at the
Guilford County Board of Elec
tions, City - County Building
basement. Registration books
close Tuesday, October 9. You
must be registered to vote!
For transportation call Citizen
Participation, 885-0817, Then
support the candidates of your
choice!
Macedonia — Incumbent Lillian
Harris and new members Billy Col
lins, William Blue, Earl Brown and
Gloria McDuffie;
Spring Valley — Incumbents Benja
min Brockman and James Couser and
new members Theodore Autry, Ida
Strickland and Carrie Bennett;
Harrison — Incumbent Ida Coving
ton and new member, the Rev. F. L.
Andrews;
Brockett — New member Joe
Daughtridge,
Residents could vote for candidates
from their neighborhood only. This
was the third such election held in the
Model Cities target area.
Before taking office in January, all
the new Commissioners will receive
special orientation and training on the
Model Cities process, its programs,
and its goals.
On Friday evening, September 22,
a banquet honoring all the outgoing
Commissioners and the candidates
was held at Fourth Street YWCA, to
which were also invited all task force
members, project directors. City
Councilmen, Model Cities staff and
their guests. Well over 100 persons
attended.
Florists donating arrangements for
the tables were as follows: Bailey
Florist and Shrubs, Blossom Shop,
Comelison’s Florist, Ellington’s Flor
ist, Grace Flower Shop, Gray Art
Flowers, Warner and Son, Whitlark’s
Flowers, Lazy Daisy and William
Flowers.
Model Cities expresses thanks
these generous businessmen.
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1.25-Acre Site in Brockett
Park Construction Begins After Long Delay
After a two-year delay, Brockett
neighborhood residents are finally get
ting their park.
The start of land clearance two
weeks ago came as an anti-climax
to long months of frustration which
began when the money was appropri
ated as part of Model Cities’ First
Action Year.
A year was lost when the City first
tried to acquire a parcel of land which
was later found to be zoned industrial.
When a second piece of property was
identified, new approval was required
from the U. S. Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development, which
provides the Model Cities funds.
These new approval procedures,
along with an extension for time to
acquire the second parcel of land,
cost many months. Residents last
winter, however, were assured by
City Hall that their park would be
completed by March 15.
Delays in getting an appraisal on
the land, losing the appraisals, and
contradictory appraisals also ate up
time, and once again the park was
put off until mid-spring.
After the appraisals matter was set
tled, it was left up to the city attorney
to search the title for the land and
record the deed, a procedure which
normally takes about a half day’s
work. It took eight weeks.
As soon as the deed was recorded,
the 1.25-acre site on Herbert Place
between Brockett and Little Avenues
was officially owned by the City of
High Point and could be transformed
into a park.
The Parks and Recreation Depart
ment is supervising the construction in
cooperation with the Public Works
Department’s rodent control division,
which is clearing the heavily wooded
area. The $11,000 available in the
budget for two years for development
of the park is finally being put to use.
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AT THE CORNER of Herbert Street and Brockett Avenue
woods into a park.
turning