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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1975
Page
1
A five year old, Paul Rodney Olson, sits on a parked motorcycle outside the Jamestown post office, a playful moment captured as he watches his dad Gary Olson. Nearby, Debbie Bass of 3009 Willingford Drive smiles shyly behind a quirky potato from the family garden.
Independent insurance agents of North Carolina accuse Commissioner John Ingram of political manipulation of auto rates. J B Gibson says rate plans were rejected and public understanding worsened, delaying purchases for families with young male drivers. Agents urge meaningful reform to save money and prevent costly litigation.
High Point will collect about 750 000 over three years as its share of a Duke Power rate settlement with wholesale customers. The court approved a deal to cut wholesale rates by 7.5 million total and rebate excess payments to industrial-rate levels. The City Council will decide how to spend the windfall, with no explicit budgeted use in the 1975 76 plan.
East Side Curb Market at 2308 E Greer Drive Extension was robbed Friday night shortly after 11 pm by a gunman who fired a .22 rifle twice and took about 250 in cash from employee Leroy Beeson who was locking the gate. He fled on foot after the second shot.
Jamestown residents may have free trash pickup on Tuesday for items two men can lift. City Manager Charles Turner urged placing junk curbside by 8 a.m. in separate piles for yard debris. The program promotes beautification and safety for houses.
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Milton Floyd Barnes 26 of Dogwood Circle injured Friday around 11 40 p m when his motorcycle left Guyer Street near Briggs Street. Harriet Gordon Pope unknown age from Charleston S C slightly injured in a two vehicle crash on Fairfield Road near S Main Street. Stephen Franklin Dalton 35 of Jamestown charged with failure to yield after collision with Pope’s car on Fairfield Road. Christine McRae McCall injured when her car ran off Johnson Street and hit a utility pole.
High Point firefighters answered several minor incidents Friday afternoon starting with a reported odor of smoke at Perkinson's Jewelers on North Main Street at 3:41 p.m. A 4 brush fire was reported in the 200 block of Oaklawn Street at 4:06 p.m. and a car fire occurred in the 200 block of Eastchester Drive at 7:24 p.m.
Guilford County moves to file a Title 10 grant application to cover Evergreens nursing and rest home cost overruns of about 500000, plus 157000 additional sprinkler and inflation costs. The package funds renovation of the old courthouse, expansion of the Juvenile Detention Home and fire department facilities at the regional airport, with the Evergreens project deadlines looming and a one year program. Kenneth White notes the approach uses unemployment quotas to funnel funds to projects and reduce taxpayer burden.
North Carolina moves toward using minimum custody inmates for highway work under a formal pact between the Departments of Transportation and Corrections. The agreement sets pay, transport, tools, and supervision details, with 1,000 inmates slated for road tasks and prison enterprises funds financing the program.
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