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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1971
Page
9
High Point and other North Carolina cities study creating their own power system. EPIC members seek feasibility and legal clearance as engineers project future loads for a possible self supplied utility within two years. pública
Police investigate a second break in at Leonard Street Elementary School amid rising vandalism in city schools. No items missing yet. officials consider more watchmen and electronic surveillance as costs rise.
Five persons were injured Monday in automobile wrecks but none serious. Samuel W. Dodson of Thomasville and Harold B. Kennedy were treated at High Point Memorial Hospital after a two car crash at English Road and Chestnut Drive. Sandra Mabe of Sinclair Street also treated. Dodson charged with failure to yield right of way. Damages estimated at 400 and 500 dollars. Eddie McFadden injured on W Green Drive in a two car crash with Paul T. Lee. No charges. Jerome Gillespie injured when his car overturned at Thissell and Olga streets after hitting a curb.
Rhonda A. Moore, senior at Central High School and editor of the school newspaper, has won a $1000 National Merit Scholarship. She is active in National Honor Society Beta Club Quill and Scroll Masque and Gavel student government French Honor Society choir and serves as choral accompanist.
Four high school seniors received High Point College Presidential Scholarships worth $1000 yearly. Recipients are Kathy Idol Barley of High Point Andrews, James Wesley Coble of Southeast Guilford, Barbara A Chapp of Silverspring Maryland, and Donna Louise Goldstein of Rockville Maryland. The awards honor leadership scholarship and citizenship and are renewable each year.
Thomasville ministers will send at least six people to Raleigh for a 9 30 a m hearing on the municipal ABC referendum. City officials will attend in support of the measure. Rev John Rusty leads the opposition and has gathered over 250 signatures with aims for a thousand or more.
Burris Industries showcases plastics driven furniture with chairs and recliners from its Lincolnton plant. Bassett Furniture debuts a new line using a rigid polyurethane foam inner frame, molded by Rex Plastics Inc. The chair promises lower cost, lighter weight, and resistant performance, amid favorable market response.
Two city officers T S Bryant and G E McDowell were found not guilty of assault and battery against Robert Ray Perdue. Perdue, 20, received six months for assault and battery and one month for disturbing the peace, plus 13 months active on three charges after appealing. Perdue claimed he was beaten during the Rathskeller incident. officers testified Perdue struck first and denied excessive force. Bond set at 500 dollars.
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