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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1977
Page
3
North Carolina sees a near normal high in the 50s with cloudier conditions in the northwest mountains. South Carolina remains mostly sunny and cool with highs in the 50s to around 60 and tonight’s low in the mid 20s to 30. An extended warming trend is expected midweek, with a chance of showers Friday.
A mother Judy M. Shaw 27 and her two daughters Kathy Shaw 5 Judy Kay Shaw 3 drowned when their car plunged into a private pond in Brunswick County. Divers spent about an hour recovering the vehicle. Seven North Carolina traffic deaths occurred that weekend, raising the yearly toll to 162.
The Albemarle Sound Bridge on NC 32 near Edenton reopened at 8 a.m. after a monthlong ice damage shutdown. Forty eight pilings were replaced with steel at about $300000 in cost. A Thomasville man, Larry K. Shulller, 19, died Friday night when his car left the road and he was thrown from the vehicle on a rural road 22 miles north of Thomasville in Davidson County.
Ida Hays, now 16, returns to La Grande Oregon after another operation at New York University Hospital to move her right eye closer to her nose. Surgeons led by Dr. John Marquis Converse had previously shifted her eye sockets and removed skull bone to reduce headaches and misalignment. She c plans rehabilitation work and possible future surgeries at Seattle and NYU to address jaw deformities and a droopy eyelid.
A UNC survey of driver license applicants used oral tests to measure reading ability. It found 8.3 percent of adults illiterate with higher rates in eastern counties and among non whites. Senator Smith proposes a reading requirement tied to driving licenses, while researchers caution against abrupt measures without support programs.
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