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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1970
Page
2
Governor Bob Scott says NC schools should open with little trouble in fall. He opposes diverting federal highway funds and notes Nixon’s waning popularity. He aims for more governor influence in the Democratic Party and hints at pay raises for teachers and staff.
The Fire Department reports July damages reached about 141,900 with a Miller TV Products blaze on Lincoln Drive driving the high total. Eleven more alarms and 76 fires extinguished reflect a busier month than last year with three deaths and injuries to seven firemen and six civilians. An 85-foot aerial apparatus valued at 62,000 is on order.
Employees of Nu-Products Inc and The Blacksmith Shop Inc voted against union representation by the Labor's Union. The National Labor Relations Board conducted the election with 64 votes, 3 challenged, and several ballots deemed invalid.
Four people face drunken driving charges in Thomasville area police reports. Ethel Morrison of William Combs Sutton 45 Winston Salem Ernest Brewer 38 Rt 2 Lexington and Sellers Lavon Love 21 Jennings Street were cited with varying custody status. Police also investigated a break in at Hinkle Milling on Random Street showing forced entry and damaged emplacements.
Thomasville report says Donald Gray Sutphin a Davidson County Community College spring graduate is named to the vocational drafting staff at the college. Sutphin formerly of Winston Salem now resides in the Springs High School area in Winston-Salem and Technical Institute earned an applied science degree in May.
High Point police report a car owned by Susan Loflin of Apex Place was broken into Friday with a tape player and five tapes stolen. Value of the one item listed at 120 dollars. A 9 year old boy was taken into custody after allegedly taking two bottles of cosmetic spray from Mann Drug at Fairfield Plaza. An Auto Oil Co. drink machine at Five Points was found broken into with many drinks reported stolen. Henry Lee Hunt on E Russell Street reported an electric razor stolen from his front porch.
Davidson County Community College plans a two year journalism program starting in September to train beginners for daily and weekly newspapers and other publishing firms. The program offers seven quarters of study plus an internship, leading to an associate in applied science degree.
No injuries were reported in two Friday wrecks. Paul Butler 74 of East Chester was charged with a stop light violation after a three car crash at Lexington Avenue and Hamilton. his car hit Nathaniel Milton Goins 20 of Kent Street and Terry Randall Giles 23 of Archdale. William Roosevelt Payne 21 of Davis Avenue was charged with improper backing after a two car crash on W Ward Street near Ridgeway. Olen Oliver Smith 66 of Redding Drive was the other driver.
In Thomasville Recorder's Court on Friday Wayne Beasley received a one year active sentence for breaking and entering at Bennie Fegues home on South Street. Jesse J. Stanley got six months for assault with a pistol against Dorothy Stanley. Paul Sink Sr. and Linda Laughlin faced multiple charges with mixed outcomes. Three drunken driving convictions and two appeals to Superior Court completed the docket with fines and costs assigned.
In Thomasville Johnny Marvin Lane 29 of Silver Valley faces a January trial in Davidson County Superior Court for unlawful burning of the Florida Market in 1968. Lane fled after bail was posted, was captured in Dallas Texas, and returned to custody with a fugitive warrant. He also faces four counts of breaking and entering larceny assault drunken driving trespass and two counts of prohibition violations. Judge James G. Exum Jr. will preside.
Thomasville sheriff's deputies report a theft at the Clay Craven residence on Old Greensboro Road in High Point. Missing items include a trunk and contents, a clock, wash bowl, two oil lamps, antique bottles, a table, a chair, seven water glasses and two toothpick holders. No value estimate was provided.
The Guilford Barracks No. 670 of the Veterans Of World War I will hold its regular monthly meeting at 2 30 p.m. Sunday at 302 West Burton Avenue The auxiliary meeting has been canceled.
Eighteen of twenty five North Carolina counties with a one cent sales tax posted more receipts than levies in the first three months, while seven larger counties kept less. The tax, effective March 1, allocates half to each county and a population based pool to all adopting counties. Buncombe and New Hanover show notable gains and losses, with voter bids noted in multiple counties.
Governor Scott's study committee probes restructuring of 300 plus agencies into 25 or fewer departments. Four subcommittees examine duties and implementation, with hearings and two year timelines shaping a 1975 goal and a November constitutional vote.
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