From The Randolph Guide – Jan. 6, 1960
An area south of Asheboro that was annexed by the city last week will begin receiving most of the municipal services immediately.
City Manager John J.Gray said today that crews were to begin laying sewer lines along Atlantic Avenue with work to be completed by the end of summer. The area is already receiving police and fire protection, street cleaning and maintenance, garbage collection and leaf pickup.
Representatives of the city and Carolina Power & Light surveyed the area earlier this week to determine the location of street lights, which will be installed in the near future.
The area includes portions of First, Second and Third streets, Atlantic Avenue, Washington Street, Springwood, Country Club Drive and Fairway Drive. Annexation also takes in the General Electric plant, Asheboro Municipal Golf Course, a number of businesses and the old airport property which is being developed into an industrial park.
An outline of city services and a welcome to the city will be mailed to the new citizens of Asheboro tomorrow. It will include a timetable of services.
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Randolph County’s blood program got out of the “red” last week as 247 pints of blood were given by volunteer donors in a one-day visit to the National Guard Armory by the Bloodmobile.
Another 48 citizens visited the blood center but were rejected for medical reasons.
The visit by the Bloodmobile was the most successful in Randolph County in recent months and the collection was enough to wipe out the 200-pint deficit which the blood program faced as 1950 drew to a close.
The county had used some 200 more pints than it had contributed and the blood program was in jeopardy. Red Cross officials had indicated that a crisis had existed and the program might be faced with a situation of providing blood only for those families whose members had made contributions to the program.
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The January meeting of the Ramseur Senior 4-H Club was called to order by the vice president, Linda Caudle. The group repeated the club pledge and Kelly Watkins presented devotions.
Sammy Williams led the members in singing and the minutes of the last meeting were read, followed by grade captain reports.
The joint program, “Parliamentary Procedure,” was given by Linda Caudle, Julia Parks, Doyle Allred and Marian Green. The group then divided for separate meetings.
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The Randolph County Board of Commissioners on Monday accepted the low bid from Auto Sales Co. of Asheboro for the purchase of a new automobile for the Sheriff’s Department. The vehicle, a Plymouth, replaces one now in service.
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C.H. Pace, plant manager of the Asheboro General Electric plant, announced this week the appointment of C.H. Bliss as quality control manager.
Bliss will succeed E.F. LaChance, who has accepted a position with the company’s manufacturing operations and quality control services in New York City. LaChance leaves for New York this month.
Bliss has been quality control engineer at the plant.
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Garland Coggins, production engineer with National Carbon Co., was inducted last week into membership of the Asheboro Kiwanis Club. He was presented to the Kiwanians by John Williams.
– Compiled by Larry Penkava from archives of The Randolph Guide
