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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1976
Page
9
Citizens urged city action on ABC liquor referendums, theater funding, and utility billing merges. The Oakview forum drew about 50 residents with calls to fund a fulltime theater director, replace fixed facility fees with ticket-based rents, and scrutinize CD funded programs before underwrite.
The American Federation of Teachers clashed with High Point Board of Education over restrictions on soliciting and selling in public schools. National AFT representative Jerry Byrum and local AFT chief Willam McInnis argued the board minutes and policy limit teacher outreach, while Supt. Edwin West and board members defend the new daytime solicitation ban to protect teachers from harassment. The board voted previously to uphold the policy, leaving the Thursday dispute unresolved.
County commissioners reviewed a study showing about 79 percent of Guilford County's 1975 76 budget funds mandated programs and services under state or federal law leaving 21 percent or 10 5 million for optional services. The report details mandated areas such as health, public safety and education and optional items including libraries the National Guard youth programs and arts councils. Also noted were flexible mandations like the Emergency Transportation Service and areas where staff are not mandated but needed. Commissioners took no action but will study the report further and consider it again.
Furniture retailers from several states visited the High Point Winter Market, with attendees mainly from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Registration lists show buyers from as far as Maine and Rhode Island, plus many Southeast and mid Atlantic states. Overall attendance rose from January 1975, and retailers mostly looked rather than bought, awaiting a positive first quarter 1976 outlook. The next market opens April 22, with fall shows in October expected to draw national and international buyers.
The House of Prayer executive board introduced two new members Southerland and William O. Rube, replacing David Dowdy Jr. and Louis J. Fisher Jr. D. Nanier led as new board president. Blair Reed reported ten men staying at the House and thanked the board for Christmas food and gifts.
Thomasville police association members led by Harold Austin and David Murphy delivered a list of ideas covering equipment pay and working conditions to Police Chief Paul Shore in an early morning meeting. The chiefs reaction was described as amiable and the statements noted the list is for consideration not demands. If unsatisfied, the group may escalate to the City Manager and City Council while noting a recent state association formation with other area departments.
The High Point Board of Education approved raising elementary lunch prices from 50 to 35 cents effective Monday, unifying prices systemwide while junior and senior high lunches remain at 55 cents. About 1,500 elementary students are affected. 216 pay reduced 20 cents and 2,720 receive free lunches. The board also discussed policy changes to raise eligibility income for reduced-price lunches and urged teachers to promote the program.
North Carolina Secretary of State Thad Eure told the Rotary Club in High Point that the economy is at its best since he took office forty years ago. He cited a surge in new chartered corporations with about 700 in 1936 versus over 7,000 new business corporations, 2,000 nonprofits and 1,900 farm corporations chartered last year.
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