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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1973
Page
1
A father recounts 1973 car culture and fuel crisis in a humorous vignette. He recalls big gas guzzlers, windshield washing, and cross country trips while explaining how shortages forced living changes, rationing, and shifts in suburbs and cities alongside social tensions.
The youngest youngsters led by the High Point Recreation Dept gathered at Washington Terrace Park Friday for an Easter egg hunt. Children used rocks and tree stumps to uncover hidden eggs, with other city parks hosting similar hunts as the event concluded.
Two-vehicle collision at S Main and W Commerce injured Linda Cashatt and Lisa Cashatt slightly. Linda Cashatt charged with failure to reduce speed. Other incidents include arrests for auto larceny, drunken driving charges, gambling, leaving the scene, and shoplifting. Police also reported forced entry at Tucker's Car Wash with unspecified stolen change.
Elementary parents of children entering school next fall are asked to bring birth certificates. Registration will be held Monday April 30 and Tuesday May 1 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pupil data sheets should also be completed at the same time.
North Carolina lawmakers wrestle with what season suits next year’s primary. May risks conflicts with a long legislature session and rural turnout. July midsummer offers a compromise but could affect General Assembly races. September/ fall timing could squeeze campaigns and affect a presidential primary repeal debate. The House weighs a July third Tuesday plan amid split votes and party considerations.
SARAR Point resident Mrs. Josephine Pyrtle is ordered to appear in Federal Middle District Court to answer charges she continued to receive widow’s benefits after remarrying James Gray Pyrtle April 1, 1967. Benefits allegedly received from May 1967 to August 1970. Also appearing June 4 term is Roy C. Eddinger of Rt. 2 Thomasville charged with failure to timely file income and Social Security taxes for Superette Carving Co. where he serves as president and treasurer.
Bob Rule, veteran YMCA worker of 19 years and current executive at the West Essex Branch in Orange New Jersey, is named the High Point YMCA executive secretary. He will assume duties in about 60 days, succeeding Max Cooke who left to lead the Orlando YMCA. Leon Safrit, president of the High Point YMCA, announced the selection, praising Rule as a true professional and asset to the YMCA and community. Rule, a Knoxville Tennessee native, is a University of Tennessee physical education graduate.
A Woodside Drive apartment suffered living room fire damage Friday around 5 03 p m due to a hair dryer left running. smoke and heat reached other areas of the unit. Small fire at Carr Street caused no damage. rear of an electric clothes dryer on Barbee Avenue started a stove incident with food, no damage reported.
Guilford legislators defend plan for a High Point school referendum amid objections from city officials. Representative Charlie Phillips and State Sen. Coolidge Murrow say no council members objected, while Mayor Bill Bencini insists delegates ignored High Point wishes. The effort follows PTA surveys showing broad support for switching to an elected school board.
Brig. Gen. Julius Becton of Fort Dix, deputy commander and one of nine black generals, said those who fled the country to dodge the draft should not go unpunished but would eventually receive amnesty. He spoke at the A and T College ROTC banquet on Friday about military cutbacks, the all volunteer force, and integration efforts.
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