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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1971
Page
9
The Friendship weather station forecasts sunny and mild today with fair and cool conditions tonight and Monday. Highs reach the 60s today, lows in the 30s, and Monday's highs in the 50s with zero percent chance of precipitation.
A five year old male lion named Nico escaped from a film set in Berlin. Police armed with machine guns pursued the animal through city streets. Nico was captured after the trainer subdued him with two tranquilizer shots. no damage occurred.
Patricia Ann Mann a 19 year old nursing student at Watts Hospital in Durham and Jessie McBane a 20 year old NC State student were buried in Sanford and Pittsboro after their bodies were found tied to a tree in Orange County. Police pursued clues as autopsy confirmed strangulation in the double murder.
North Carolina traffic deaths rose to 218 for the year as three men died in weekend crashes. Lloyd Allen Sandy, 22, of Roseboro, died after his car ran off a rural road while attempting to pass near Fayetteville. Kenneth Oxendine, 23, of Radford, died when his car overturned on a rural road near Radford. Robert Sidney Moore, 41, of Timberlake, died Friday evening when his car struck an unlit farm wagon on a rural paved road east of Roxboro.
High Point artist Harrison Rucker will teach Painting with Self Confidence at his home 1407 Lynwood Terrace. The class for beginners to advanced runs Wednesdays and Thursdays 7:30 to 9:30 pm starting mid March with afternoon hours to be announced. Students may work in acrylics or oils. Rucker has exhibited widely in North Carolina and the South.
About 200 Durham residents and Duke students marched to the Selective Service office to protest what they called the recent American escalation of the war into Laos. The march was peaceful and no incidents occurred. They then gathered for a rally in front of the Federal Building housing the draft board.
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