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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1976
Page
4
Federal Power Commission approves Duke Power fuel purchase and billing policies after a 21 page audit covering June 1972 to May 1975. The agency found Duke billed wholesale customers about 55.3 million via the fuel adjustment clause and that fuel procurement procedures were adequate and staff highly qualified.
A historical note asserts that ideas Franklin did not pursue were later showcased as inventions at the St Louis World's Fair, illustrating how his undefined pursuits foreshadowed future innovations.
High Point police logged a light day with only routine offense reports. Items stolen included two doors and mirrors from a Jeep and a carburetor from a car at Hollingsworth AMC on N Main Street valued at 265 dollars. A citizen’s band radio was taken from a vehicle, wallet from a department store, bicycle from Washington Terrace Park, and multiple car parts from various locations. An arrest, William Morton, 62, for drunken driving. The department also investigated theft of county weekly inserts from Enterprise circulation.
Kathy Derrick, a Guilford County Republican candidate for register of deeds, resigns as deputy register of deeds effective Aug. 10 to focus on campaigning. She faces no primary opposition and aims to present ideas for office while avoiding office divisiveness noted during the Democratic primary between Mark Stewart and Jack Noland, with the November winner to face Derrick.
The Thelma Easter home at 1513 Gaves Ave suffered extensive kitchen fire damage after vapors from paint remover ignited by a natural gas water heater. Easter escaped unharmed. A separate car fire damaged a car driven by Donne Baxley and owned by Paul Baxley on W Fairfield Road. Multiple calls followed including alarms on W Ward Avenue and Kimberly Drive and a gas leak check on Johnson Street.
Black Rhodesian guerrillas in Mozambique or Mozambican troops backing them fired about 30 mortar shells at the eastern Rhodesian town of Umtalli early today damaging several houses. Police said no one was hurt in the hour long barrage. The attack was a retaliation for a Rhodesian raid last Sunday on a guerrilla base camp inside Mozambique. The Rhodesian government said it killed more than 300 guerrillas along with some Mozambican soldiers and about 10 civilians aiding the terrorists.
Liberian President William R Tolbert Jr will travel to Washington on September 22 to confer with President Ford. The White House announced the visit, Tolbert's first to the U.S. since becoming president and the first this year by a black African leader. The report follows Rhodesian cross border raids into Mozambique and escalating fighting in Rhodesia's eastern highlands.
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