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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1966
Page
5
Randolph County Board of Education plans nine public meetings starting January 10 at Randleman Elementary and ending February 7 at Farmer School to seek resident views on county school improvements. A secret ballot may gauge support for bonds or a special tax levy.
Joseph B. O'Shields announced expansion of recruiting and training duties in NCNB's personnel department. James D. Wordsworth Jr, promoted to training officer and transferred to Charlotte, will take over that portion of Robert L. Kirby's duties. Kirby assumes full time responsibility for the bank's broad recruitment program.
Two people were injured in a crash at the North Main Street and Westwood Avenue intersection. Richard D. Shuler, Pauline Teague, and Palmigia Prive were involved. Shuler was cited for failure to yield. Damages were about $450 total. A second accident at Gatewood Avenue and Lindsay Street left Williams and Leach with minor damages. Williams cited for failure to yield.
Local draft board sent 24 men to Charville for induction into the US Army. Seven had already enlisted in other services. This month’s quota was seven higher than December’s 23, while November called 31. Inductees include Peter Daniel Poteat and Edward Gurley Jr among others.
ASHBO R-O County school children will take part in a new TB testing program. County Health Director Dr W C Whims told the Randolph County Board of Commissioners that tests will be given to children in the fourth and seventh grades. He cited 92 percent of current TB cases traced to contact from years ago and noted many carriers may never develop the disease. Those with positive results would receive TB serum. The county TB association has spent about 300 on equipment and seeks more health inspectors to handle growth linked to septic tank installs. He urged issuance of signed home builder statements on septic tank compliance and noted wells and surface waters may relate to rising typhoid cases.
Ramseur furniture store owner Tracy Brady thwarted a robbery when two men entered on Monday, asked for a lazy susan, then sought a rug. Brady retrieved an item from the rear and heard a noise at the front, finding the pair attempting to access his safe.
Latta Smith of Raleigh, 46, bound over to Superior Court for trial on breaking and entering and attempted safe cracking at Snow Lumber Co. Bond set at 8000 by Judge Byron Haworth. Mayd Neal Davis, 9, bound over for participation in Saturday break-in and larceny at Southern Seating Co. on Ward Street with bond of 9006 allowed to stand. Municipal Court sentences: Clifford Entaminger, 60 days for public drunkenness. David Morgan Lester, 4, six months on roads for multiple drunkenness. Robert James Bishop, 34, 90 days on escape to begin after current sentence. Ibo
In Salt Lake City Mary Eleanor McKay, a middle aged woman, runs Utah’s only federally certified parachute and is the state’s sole master parachute rigger. Trained at Hill Air Force Base in World War I she has packed chutes for state flying schools the Civil Air Patrol sky divers and drag racers who install parachutes on vehicles to aid braking.
Four men grabbed a knife and fled the store in a car with Maryland plates and Baltimore tags. They reportedly stopped at a town outskirts gas station to fill up the car before authorities issued a seek for the four suspects.
Randolph County commissioners debated keeping the rest home operation after ownership of the building and land near the prison camp. They weighed selling behind the facility to industry against retaining six to eight acres for bus parking or expansion as Medicare influence grows. No action taken, but support grew for keeping the rest home business and guiding industrial park land use, including a possible bonded warehouse if land suffices.
Firefighters report a second blaze in two weeks at a tobacco barn on Kirkwead Street owned by James Kirkwood of Ft Lauderdale Wa. The first blaze occurred Dec 20 with only minor damage. The latest fire caused heavy damage and investigators will probe the cause. An adjacent car fire at Tanyvard Road and Westfield Street caused about 125 dollars in damage to a vehicle owned by JW Williams.
The Civil War era locomotive General was pursued for about 100 miles between Atlanta and Chattanooga before capture by Confederate forces. Firefighters from Colfax and High Point responded to separate large alarms, with the Colfax fire under control upon arrival.
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