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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1976
Page
12
Deaths and funerals from Asheboro to Concord detail Mrs. Maria Brockmann and others including Nerius Lowe, Charles Ellington, Esther Lovett, Luther Hill Sr., with ages, birthplaces, spouses, children, and memorial services. Details cover churches, cemeteries, and family addresses, plus times for services and burial locations.
Residents call for utility boxes to be placed at two Green Road Friendship Ledford intersections and two Southmount locations near Southern Railroad and NC 8. One box would be six miles south of Denton and another in the Fairgrove Pilot area along the proposed I 8 corridor.
Police report burglars pried a door at Powell's Airport Mobile on Highway 68 near I-40 and stole over 1100 in cash. A Jamestown resident reported a 65 spare tire stolen from a vehicle. Another Jamestown resident reported a 45 loss from a car at Jamestown Shopping Center. Vandals damaged Sumner Hills Golf Course green with a golf cart, estimated at 500.
Emma Moody Hutchins 79 of 209 Lexington Ave died at High Point Memorial Hospital. Born Sept 25 1896 in Walhalla she was married to Jerome N Hutchins who died 1963. Surviving stepchildren sisters and relatives noted. service 2 pm Wednesday at Harald C Davis Funeral Chapel. Burial Oakwood Memorial Park. Family at the funeral home Tuesday 9 pm.
Real estate transfers list numerous parcels and owners across High Point and Deep River townships including Jonn D Writer to David T Rinter, Dana Pringle to Interior Design Factory Inc, and Alice Grown to Harold H Hill. Transfers cover subdivisions and properties in Ridgecrest, Westminster, Eastchester village, Oakview Estate, Emerywood, and other named locations with multiple spouses and tract descriptions.
Guilford County Commissioners appoint Clarence Keever of High Point to the Greensboro High Point Airport Authority to fill the unexpired term of the late Paul Ingle. The board also approves the 1976 77 secondary road program allocating 617 200 for county roads including 276 200 for asphalt paving and 341 000 for rural road improvements. Wall Road gets 65 000 for a one mile upgrade.
High Point firefighters answered two Sunday morning alarms that proved false. One was from a Holiday Inn downtown pull station at 1:15 a.m. The other came from a box at Ingram and Elder Roads at 2:37 a.m. A third call at 9:09 p.m. on 240 Montheu Ave. involved a child playing with roaches and starting a small porch fire. No damage occurred.
State Senator Kathy Sebo urged redirecting state funds from juvenile justice systems to community based programs during a Greensboro seminar. She highlighted House Bill 456 for county level needs assessments and noted programs already developing in Greensboro Asheboro Raleigh and Wrightsville Beach. The plan includes ending commitments to training schools by July 1 1977 and leveraging $250 000 in federal matching funds with ongoing state support and local initiative.
Workers at Stedman Manufacturing Co in Asheboro began a Sunday night strike at the industrial park plant. A spokesman cited grievances over lack of raises beyond five and dime hikes, no paid holidays, no air conditioning, filthy restrooms, and unfinished janitorial staff replacement amid a $120,000 YMCA gift controversy.
A chaotic panel of comic sketches shows a boy facing a recurring mishap as a friend fails to notice a new hairstyle and misreads the situation. The strip mixes humor with social awkwardness in a slice of everyday life.
Randolph County Board of Education approved fee schedules and lunch prices for the 1976 77 school year with no increases. Lunches cost 45 cents for grades 1 8, 50 cents for grades 9 12, and 60 cents for adults. Fees include elementary 2 50, secondary 9 12 6, typing 912 7 50, PE 12 20, art 12 3, music and choir 1 50, science 1 12, scholastic insurance 3 per year. School hours: elementary 8:15 to 2:30, middle and high 8:35 to 3:05. Bids on ice cream and milk to be opened at 2 p.m. today.
The Enterprise corrects a previous wreck account noting that Jerry Lee Gregory 19 of Phillips Street allegedly drove his vehicle into Fred Raymond Byrd Jr. 33 of Route 3 off the roadway into a service station parking lot. There it struck Paul Blankenship 60 of Wise Avena while Blankenship was fueling.
TV listings show a Democratic governor race forum at 7 30 followed by a sequence of programs including Monday Night Baseball Jigsaw John and Eyewitness News. Other entries include Crosswits Wild World of Animals and various talk shows and movies across prime time slots.
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