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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1961
Page
9
Weatherman at Friendship reports no sleet, predicting rain rather than frozen precipitation. Highs near 42 tomorrow, 34 overnight with a 31 low last night. brief sleet/snow at the airport amounted to a trace. Thursday forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures.
Mack McCracken 37 of Willowbrook Street was sent to the roads for four months after being found guilty of violating judgement terms in a prior larceny case. He had received a 9 day suspended sentence last month for stealing a 73 cent bottle of wine from a Kroger store. Judge Haworth activated the earlier sentence and added 30 days on the roads for public drunkenness. In a separate action Municipal Court sentenced Marvin Airey Mosley 37 of S Hamilton Street to 10 months on the roads for issuing four worthless checks totaling 25 dollars to F C Harthcock and a 36 dollar check to Annie Mae Pike, with 60 days on the roads in each case.
The court dealt with a tea kettle assault case between Henry Fewell and Joe Pickenpack Jr. Both defendants received prayer for judgment continued on condition they stop hitting each other with kettles. No costs were awarded. Dec. 31 incidents led to mutual assault charges.
The new St Marys Catholic Church and parish center in Sac City Iowa features a fish shaped design. Rt Rev Msgr J E Tolan says some refer to it as the holy mack ese church.
Bonnie Barneycastle of High Point faces a second trial in U. S. Middle District Court before Judge Edwin Stanley on a charge of bank embezzlement. The 22 year old teller allegedly diverted more than 5000 from Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. between August 1959 and February 1960 and falsified books. A prior jury failed to reach a verdict, and a mistrial was declared after four hours of deliberation over two days.
The parks and recreation commission named the new under construction pavilion City Lake Center. It will be year round and not leased in summer to keep facilities available to swimmers and picnickers. Two nights a week will be public use while the department reserves the other four nights, with revisions possible.
City commissioners boosted the street capital improvement fund to over 400000 and added 63000 in street work. They bought City Manager Harold Cheek a new Buick and approved park vending machines to replace the concession. A public hearing was set on water sewer improvements and officials authorized Knox Bridge use for March of Dimes.
Rep Ed Kemp says 1955 act gives High Point City Council power to call a liquor referendum on its own motion after three years from the 1955 vote upon petition by 15 percent of registered voters. If passed the act allocates profits to county education and library projects with 25 percent to county, 75 percent for public education and rehab, and limits on Greensboro pro rata shares. The move toward a second referendum is uncertain with campaigns not expected until after the May city election.
Hope dims for Chief Yeoman Darrell Adair Bost of High Point and Army pilot Capt. Joseph Thomson after a small plane vanished January 27 in rugged Iranian mountains. Ground teams and a helicopter struggle to reach the 12,000 foot site as weather and terrain delay recovery efforts.
Vernon W. Idol Jr. was struck while crossing N Main Street at English Street by a car driven by Donald Johnson. Idol suffered minor injuries and was treated at High Point Memorial Hospital. Johnson was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian and faces court March 1.
Firemen called it the year’s highest blaze as flames consumed a radio shack at the top of a 107 foot forest observation tower near Birmingham Alabama. Four firefighters climbed the tower in a futile rescue attempt.
The text argues students derive only about one fourth of knowledge from reading and three fourths from listening. It notes many students lack listening skills and teachers fail to teach attention. It claims minimal thinking space is needed to hear and the rest affects grades.
Practical guide on preparing for lectures by reading in advance and fitting new points into existing knowledge. It offers techniques such as anticipating the speaker, asking questions, and playing "What else" to uncover gaps, plus tips on concise note taking and rewriting for review.
A man named James E. Trivett, 46, was sentenced to five months for stabbing Paul Douglas during an attempted car theft on February 1. Douglas, an English Street printer, was wounded but continued working. Trivett faced 60 days on the roads for larceny and 60 days for assault with a deadly weapon, plus 30 days for public drunkenness. Additional court actions included James Clarence Isley receiving four months for four violations and other charges leading to activated suspended sentences.
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