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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1969
Page
9
Daily lunch menus show spaghetti with tossed salad and peach cobbler on Tuesday followed by hamburger with lettuce and tomatoes and gelatin on Wednesday. Thursday features whipped greens beans hot rolls and chocolate pudding. Friday offers a fishwich with French fries and cole slaw plus gingerbread candy and milk.
Walter J. Huntley 74 of Smithfield died Friday owner of Huntleys Department Store served on Smithfield Town Board 1932 1936 mayor 1936 and director of Smithfield Savings and Loan. buried Sunset Memorial Park. Grace Gray Smith 50 former Trinity resident died in New York City daughter of Belvin Gray and Leatha Coltrane Gray taught in New York City. survived by daughter LaVerne Dawson and three sons. funeral arrangements announced.
Ralph Conrad a resident of Prospects Heights died after a brief illness. He was a member of the Holly Grove Lutheran Church and leaves two brothers Grimes and Glenn Conrad of Lexington Route 1, and several relatives including Mrs. Gilbert Russell and Mrs. Cliff Leonard. Funeral services will be held at 3 p m Monday at Holly Grove Lutheran Church with Rev. William Hall officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The body will be at Davidson Funeral Home until 80 minutes before services.
A brief note urges readers to study others' mistakes to better their own conduct and character. It emphasizes self-improvement through careful observation and reflection.
Reports from Sylva North Carolina describe a mild earthquake lasting three to four seconds at about 5 40 a m The tremor was felt in Asheville and Greer and Greenville area with numerous calls to the weather bureau starting around 5 15 a mOfficials noted a statewide tremor felt across several towns and cities
Greensboro high point airport authority requests permission to sell about 700000 dollars in revenue bonds to aid the 860700 dollar land purchase for 166 acres and future taxiways near the northwest southeast runway area. Commissioners meet Monday at 9 a.m. in the Guilford County Administration Building.
At a Friday ceremony opening a Triad Plan Room in Greensboro officials unveiled 1969 figures: building permits in High Point Greensboro and Winston-Salem totalled 145.386 million for the first ten months. Projections show 1970 starting slow but finishing near the current pace with housing projects in High Point and Winston-Salem and school programs steady. About 22,500 Triad residents are tied to construction and related industries. Mayor Robert Davis, Mayor M. C. Benton, and City Councilman Charles Phillips Jr. attended.
A late Thursday night break-in at Ayler’s Esso Station on Ward Street left two vending machines damaged. one pried open and one opened with a key, totaling about $2.80 taken and $20 in damage. A typewriter theft was reported on Greensboro Road from a building, valued at $100. An attempted break-in occurred at Craver’s Red Dot Store on Elm Street with window damage but no entry.
Firemen could not determine a cause for a Villa Motel fire on Interstate 85 Friday. They suspect careless smoking in a linen storage room where an ashtray was found. Damage estimate unavailable. Earlier, gasoline vapors ignited a laundry truck engine on English Road at 9:50 a.m., damaging ignition wiring.
The annual Christmas vesper service is set for Sunday at 4 30 p m at Memorial United Methodist Church in Thomasville. The Chancel Choir with High Point College Madrigalians and chamber orchestra will perform Mozart Glory Praise and Power. Directed by William Highbaugh with Tim Cahil on organ. Open to the public. Life quotes appear in the piece.
The Allen Jay School music department presents a Christmas program at the December P T A meeting. Primary, elementary, seventh grade, eighth grade choirs and the high school chorus perform at 7 30 p m in the high school auditorium.
A dense list of 6 to 12 evening programs outlines the local TV lineup. Highlights include News, Death Valley Days, Huntley Brinkley, The Tonight Show era events, Wimbledon of variety shows, and late-night films. Specific show titles include The Newlywed Game, My Three Sons, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Hollywood Palace, Mannix, and Cowgirl acts with Porter Wagoner.
TV listings present Jackie Gleason Milton Betle as a WWI spy spoof with Germany's invincible Red Baron. Ken Berry Peggy Lipton and the Temptations join evening line up along with My Three Sons Adam 12 Green Acres Petticoat Junction Hollywood Palace Mannix Shock Theater Sahara and Devil's Agent among other films and shows airing tonight.
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