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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1977
Page
2
Archdale Randolph County officers search for two masked young men who bound and fatally shot Earl Reese White at his farm home on Friday. White’s wife and two farm workers were bound. she freed herself and found the body in an upstairs room after White arrived around 4 30 p.m.
Deputies say the assailants bound Mrs White and two farm hands after forcing entry through a back door. They ransacked little, waited about seven hours for White to return, then shot him with his own pistol, leaving four bullets in his head. The attackers fled in a cream Volkswagen. White, a cattle breeder and father of Logan White, Randolph County official, remained uncharged.
Two Winston Salem men Paul Stockton Wilson 45 and Wylie Franklin Cummings 48 were arraigned on federal bank robbery charges for the Archdale First Union National Bank robbery. A stolen Volkswagen was used to flee and money recovered from a glove compartment. An air pistol was used in the holdup and red ink marked the clothing of the suspects.
Dr. Daniel Okun urged the Interagency Task Force on Water Quality to consider a regional authority to transfer water between basins and improve decision making. He warned Guilford County faces growing shortages in 20 years and suggested groundwater injection and higher water rates to curb use. He noted Denmark uses permeable blocks to infiltrate rainwater and recommended using $100,000 for watershed open space to protect green areas and recreation.
Guilford County School Superintendent E P Pearce said nothing improper occurred during a Wednesday visit by three county principals to the State Legislative Building in Raleigh He spoke after a complaint from Guilford County Commissioner Ogden Deal who said he found the principals there during school hours Deal's letter alleging the issue had not been reviewed, and Pearce planned a determination.
A North Carolina legislative committee concluded that inmate labor should not be used for major construction projects due to logistics, security, federal funding restrictions, and negative impacts on private industry. Small maintenance and renovations could help reduce idleness, with work-release earnings explored to cover inmate upkeep costs.
High Point police charged 27 year old David Lee Pittman of Amos Street with burglary after he was found in a living room during a 12 55 a m call from Janice Rose Hartle of West Ward Avenue. The report lists multiple break ins and thefts including radios a watch an electric shaver a car theft and a $600 property damage claim. Several witnesses report gunfire and related incidents at a Wilco service station and other nearby homes.
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