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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1970
Page
8
Senior High Distributive Education Club of America students at Thomasville High School earned top spots in DECA contests in Mount Airy. Bucky Clark won first in job interview with 16 competitors. Diane Faulkner took second in sales demonstration.
In Los Angeles the Do It Now Foundation hires a group of former drug users for eight thousand dollars to conduct an in-school drug education program in the Paramount School District. They have met with students parents teachers and community leaders for six weeks and will stay three more weeks.
Thousands of young demonstrators march through Washington as helmeted police block them from reaching the White House. Police arrest more than a dozen while riots unfold near the Washington Monument and symbolically flag tensions from the 1968 Democratic convention.
Randleman students plan an April march to spark civic pride with orange painted fire hydrants and white orange trash receptacles downtown. Meanwhile Asheboro hosts the Sports Council banquet March 10 at the Holiday Inn with Jim Gardner as speaker. The Randleman ABC store eyes a new site costing about 39000 amid church protests. Bloodmobile visits Asheboro produced 178 pints Monday and over 300 pints across two days.
The Mortgage Bankers Association reports rising default and delinquency rates in late 1969. The 0.79 percent of one to four family loans were in serious default, tied for the highest in two years, while the 30 day past due rate rose to 2.43 percent and the overall 30 plus day delinquency reached 3.22 percent. The GE strike and industry layoffs contributed to the uptick.
Israeli businessman Haim Golan and wife Ruth planned separate flights to avoid disaster. He arrived in Tel Aviv to learn she died in the Swissair crash near Zurich with 47 others aboard.
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