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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1965
Page
2
With five days left before Christmas the Christmas Cheer Fund is unlikely to reach its $7,000 goal. Receipts since Friday total $442.50, projecting a shortfall near $1,900 on Christmas Day. Donors are urged to send in contributions promptly to aid eligible recipients.
Newsboys in High Point will collect payments earlier than Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. They plan to make rounds on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to ease the holiday rush and ensure payment before the weekend.
Downtown merchants in High Point expect a strong 1965 Christmas season if crowds grow and winter weather boosts buying. Stores are well stocked but reorders are unlikely before Christmas due to manufacturing delays. Shoppers favor name brands and big-ticket items. clothing sales edge lower but remain solid. One merchant warns the magic block project must proceed soon to revive downtown traffic while an appliance dealer fears stock shortages if sales stay strong.
Disturbance calls topped Saturday police activity with five wreck reports on Brentwood and Model Farm Road. No injuries occurred in these or two earlier accidents on E Green and English. Jesse Thomas Johnson, 19, of Park Street, charged with breaking entering and larceny, bonded at 500 dollars. Lonnie Edmonds, 29, of Hall Street, charged with driving while intoxicated, bonded at 300 dollars. Jack Kincaid, 24, of Richland Avenue, bonded at 200 dollars for resisting arrest and public drunkenness. Kincaid previously found guilty of resisting arrest in last week's Municipal Court session.
Three people were injured in two crashes near Thomasville. Ronald Suggs, 25, suffered facial lacerations after his eastbound car skidded 85 feet and left the road at a N C 62 Holly Hill intersection. Garry Barringer, 17, sustained a back injury in a single vehicle crash on Lake and Emanuel Church roads while Don Keith Daniels, 33, escaped with his car crashing into a creek. Barringer remained in water until rescue. Daniels was treated and released.
Thom asville detectives said Richard Sutton may be en route to Mexico after a Friday morning shooting at Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. vice president Eric Sellers. Robert Sheffield, 16, is jailed on first degree burglary and assault with intent to kill. Sutton remains at large as police probe a planned kidnapping and vault entry.
James Richard Hooven 31 of High Point, an electrical worker for Walden Green Electrical Co., died in a house trailer fire near Laurinburg. Sheriff B P Lytch said Hooven was alone when the blaze started and the cause was not immediately determined. A fellow worker who shared the trailer had left town for the weekend. another worker, Donald Perkins, visited until about midnight Friday. The fire occurred around 4 p.m.
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