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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1977
Page
13
Fireman Roland Lee aided a Cantonese speaking woman from a third floor apartment after a basement garbage-room fire at a four story Nob Hill building. He saved one cat but another died. the blaze damaged the structure with $250000 in losses and five alarms were needed.
Aruba ends two day general strike that paralyzed the island and stranded tourists. Airport and most shops reopen as riot police patrol Oranjestad. A fire bomb targeted a local newspaper office and violence flared at a Thursday political demonstration.
Joy Hussey, 22, was crowned the 23rd Miss Randolph County at Asheboro Auditorium. She is a Meredith College graduate and piano performer, daughter of Hal and (unnamed) Hussey. Beverly Ruth crowned the new title holder, as 1977 winner. Robin Kindschi was first runner up, Myra Auman second runner up, Sandy Davis third runner up, with Auman also earning Miss Congeniality.
Mrs. Mary Ruth Ensley Sink of Burton Street Thomasville died early Saturday in High Point Memorial Hospital after a five day stay. Born January 5 1925 in Davidson County she was a daughter of Eugene M and Fern Foster Ensley. Surviving are husband James Richard Sink two sons Tony and Ted Sink a daughter Lisa Sink mother also a Ensley sibling and a sister. Funeral at Zion United Church of Christ Monday at 4 pm with burial there. The family will receive friends Sunday 7 to 9 pm at the Harold C. Davis Funeral Home and the residence. Memorials may go to Zion United Church of Christ Endowment Fund or to the 10-A Fire Dept.
The Liberty School building, in use for over five decades, was torn down when a demolition crew brought down the auditorium roof on Wednesday. Only a small crowd watched the collapse.
Former Congressman Nick Galifianakis, who lost to Jesse Helms in 1972, says he is considering a Senate bid and will decide by late September. He notes renewed interest from supporters as about 10 potential Democratic candidates surface in Durham.
High Point police arrested William Lewis White after a man fired a gun into Roslyn Blocker’s Morgan Place residence about 3 15 a m Saturday. Six bullet holes were found. Blocker fled and called for help. White was located without a gun.
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