Nine Charged With Drunk Driving In Thomasville Weekend
THOMASVILLE nine people faced DUI charges after a busy patrol weekend in the area. Names include William Fonville Joe Teague William McCauley Robert Nichols Wash Singletary James Rhenark John Poston Hubert Clinard and James Johnson with two additional charges for Teague and Nichols. Separately Sherman Rogers was arrested for assaulting his wife with a knife. James Freeman faced drunkenness assault on a police officer and resisting arrest after a confrontation in a patrol car and at the station.
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Thomasville
Highway Patrol
William Elfonzo Fonville
Asheboro
Joe Douglas Teague
Cloniger Drive
William Bernard McCauley
Church Street
Robert Lewis Nichols
Rockingham
Wash Singletary
Winston-Salem
James Allard Rhenark
White Street
John Poston
James Ervin Freeman
High Point
Freeman
House Hit By Blasts From Gun On Old Lexington Road
A home on Old Lexington Road near Thomasville was hit at least six times by shotgun blasts Saturday night. Deputies say two men stopped at the Britt residence and opened fire on the door and windows. Investigation continues and a separate breaking and entering at Jerry Hunt’s Manns Trailer Park home is under review.
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Thomasville
Old Lexington Road
Britt
Jerry Hunt
Mann
Fisher Ferry Street
Adkins Wins Speech Contest at Greensboro Event
Franklin Adkins of the Piedmont Club of High Point won the central division Toastmasters contest at Albert Pick Motor Lodge Greensboro. Runner ups were John Friedrick of Duke University and Jim Wood of Winston-Salem. Adkins, a Globe Furniture Co. sales rep, lives in High Point and spoke on The Insidious Compromise of Freedom.
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Greensboro
Toastmasters International
Albert Pick Motor Lodge
Franklin Adkins
Piedmont Club
High Point
John Friedrick
Duke University
Durham
Jim Wood
Winston Salem
Adkins
Globe Furniture Co
North Carolina
Virginia
Albert Pick
Doomed Mine Blast Kills 26 in Moravian Silesia
Thirty miners died and two were rescued with minor injuries after an underground explosion halted work in Mora vian Silesia. The blast occurred early Saturday. radio reports from Prague confirmed the toll and survivors.
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Prague
Moravian Silesia
Prague Radio
Randolph Schools Face Hiring and Funding Pressures
Randolph County Board of Education met to plan hiring for Southwestern High School next fall and address a projected $4.9 million cost over five years. Parents from Echo Heights sought to transfer area students to Asheboro City Schools, while the Army requested 23 acres near Coleridge School for Exer cise Gobbler Woods maneuvers. The board also noted a new fulltime vocational education director for county and city programs and considered right of way for State Road 1608 near Trinity School.
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Asheboro
Randolph County Board of Education
Southwestern High School
Echo Heights
U.S. 64 East
Asheboro City
Sudy
Army
Coleridge
Randolph
John Lawrence
State Dept. of Public Instruction
Boards of Education
Lawrence
Voca
State Highway Commission
Trinity
Trinity School
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Chair City
Mannking
Bay Street
M. R. Harris
Harris
Archdale
Main
HM Blankenship
F.d.1.c
Randolph School Board
Tional
Davis Patrol & Watchman
Allor Hy
Ward ST
Hedgecock Bolder Supply CO
High Poin
Shy First Union
First
Union National
First Union National
Fairview United
N.C
James C. Lentz
Stanley C. Gibson
James Lentz
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