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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1974
Page
2
Forrest Dates recalls a pushy mare in a Hicksville barnyard that fixates on photographer Art Richardson while he shoots houses. The narrator frets over a fence and barb wire, jokes about horses, Marines, and photographers, and laments losing favor to Art as the horse pursues him.
Howard Hayes reports four people died in fires in 1973, matching 1972 figures. Mrs. Johnne Helen Small Lane, 43, was found dead Dec 28 in her Guilford Ave home with minor fire damage and smoke elsewhere. Firefighters numbered 15 injuries, 14 civilians injured, 1,444 calls answered, and total property loss $528,470.
Mrs Tommie Cook, 55, undergoes two weekly dialysis sessions at High Point Memorial Hospital, previously traveling to Duke University Hospital. The hospital offers dialysis to expand care as staff train, aided by federal coverage since July 1973. The $4,000 machine cleans blood via a 20 foot circuit, allowing continued life with transplant as a future option.
Wake Environment and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction sponsor a statewide poster contest for public and approved nonpublic junior and senior high students. First prize is 250 dollars with several secondary awards, plus a 10 day seminar at Atlantic Christian College. Entries must be postmarked by February 22, 1974 for Raleigh judging.
A seventh grade home economics memory of hating sewing and loving cooking. The writer recalls a war torn doll, a sewing mishap, and a teacher’s quip about watchfulness. Years later cooking becomes joyful while sewing remains limited to simple mends. The piece ends with witty lines about Eliza Doolittle and a nod to cultural sayings.
UNC School of Nursing in Chapel Hill offers a March 11 15 short course Practical Approaches to Diabetic Care covering management teaching and trends. A follow up May 17 with a diabetic nurse specialist is available. Assisting staff include Pat Lawrence Jerome Feldman Catherine Wason Margaret Gebhardt Clara Lewis Sandra Regenie. James M Johnston awards aid NC nurses. application deadline March 4.
Police say a man found dead in a burning car on Interstate 40 near Asheville was shot four times with a .22 caliber weapon. Identified as James W. Mattingly, 36, a Ky native with no fixed address, he had reportedly lived in eight states recently. The body was placed inside the vehicle after the fatal shootings.
CHARLOTTE High Point Memorial Hospital joins 89 North and South Carolina hospitals in a group purchasing program to trim costs. Officials expect 10 to 12 percent yearly savings, over $50 per bed, once fully operative. The CHHS division will coordinate the shared services for subscribing hospitals. Also involved are Lexington Memorial Hospital and Randolph Hospital.
AP reports police killed three rioters during ongoing protests over food shortages and rising prices. Two died in Ahmedabad, the capital of Central Gujarat, and one in Cambay, raising the three week riot death toll to 38.
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