Guilford County FARE Program Aims to Cut Highway Deaths
Guilford County troopers implement the Fatal Accident Reduction Enforcement plan to lower traffic fatalities from 87 in 1972 to fewer deaths. District 2 teams work six days a week focusing on high accident zones with around the clock coverage. Early results show fewer July deaths and increased selective enforcement as officers target areas with prior high crash rates.
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Braxton Younts
North Carolina
Boykin
Guilford
Guilford College-Jamestown
Firearms Stolen in Center Street Break-In in Thomasville
Thomasville police investigate a break-in at 212 Center St where six firearms were stolen, including three rifles two shotguns and a .32 pistol valued at 470 dollars. Son of the owner, Jack Murphy, reported Friday afternoon theft after leaving at 1 p.m. and returning at 4 p.m. Also vandalism on Turner Street with bottles and a bullet damaging two vehicles. Davidson County deputies arrested Lacy David Fowler 19 of High Point for breaking into S and H Garage on Trinity Street and stealing auto parts valued at 656 dollars. Each incident outlines property damage and arrests linked to the regional metro area.
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Thomasville
Center St
Jack Murphy
Turner Street
Stanford Johnson
High Point
Kenneth Brinkley
Route 6
Davidson County Sheriff's Deputies
Lacy David Fowler
Rt. 2
Ruth Lawson
W. Green Drive
Jo Ann Jenkins
Clara Cox Apts
George Campbell
Ennis Street
Dellene Evans
Gordon Road
Wallace Wilson
Redding Street
Willis Lee Crouch
Cassell Street
Crouch
William Edward Johnson
W. Lexington Avenue
Harold Dean Gillin
Montlieu Avenue
David L. Cox
Bolton Street
Marion Howard Hughes
Dorris Street
Larry Wayne Kelley
Indian Hills
S.C
James Marion Moss
Burwell Named To Head DCCC Trustee Board
Thomas H. Burwell of Thomasville elected chairman of the Davidson County Community College board of trustees replacing Felix O. Gee of Lexington whose term expired this week Burwell has served as vice chairman since 1967 and is manager of Duke Power Co in the Chair City B E Mendenhall Jr was elected vice chairman and other officers named including Mrs Carl Brinkley secretary and L M Grimes Jr treasurer The board also welcomed Harvey A Carpenter and Cliff A Erickson to its executive committee Gee helped establish the center which became a community college in 1965 and was honored in 1972 with the Felix O Gee Building
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Lexington
Thomas H. Burwell
Thomasville
Davidson County Community College Board of Trustees
Felix O. Gee
Burwell
Duke Power Co
Gee
Davidson County Industrial Education Center
Carl Brinkley
Welcome
L. M. Grimes Jr
Harvey A. Carpenter
Cliff A. Erickson
Lexington Chamber of Commerce
Davidson College
Dacotah Cotton Mill
DCCC
Davidson County
HPC To Share In Kenan Grant
High Point College is among 26 North Carolina schools to share a $100 000 Kenan grant the third installment of a 1971 gift from the William B Kenan Jr Charitable Trust to the North Carolina Foundation of Church Related Colleges The funds will buy books for college libraries Sixty percent will be split equally among the schools and forty percent allocated by student counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point College
North Carolina
William B. Kenan Jr
Guilford County Launches Fatal Accident Reduction Effort
The FARE program begins in Guilford County to lower highway crashes and fatalities after Guilford led North Carolina with 87 deaths in 1972. Trooper Jim Hundley is shown stopping a driver and handing a caution card to urge safer driving. Public cooperation is sought for the statewide effort.
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North Carolina
Guilford County
Jim Hundley
Hundley
Guilford
North Carolina Traffic Fatalities Targeted in Federal Drive
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol joins a federally supported plan to reduce traffic deaths through intensified enforcement and public information. Officers will work six days weekly, focusing on high fatal-crash areas from the past three years to urge compliance and enhance safety statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Police Seek Suspect In First Degree Burglary
High Point police investigate a 5 am burglary at Clara Cox Apts after a resident Bertha Boatwright awoke to an intruder in her bedroom through a kitchen window. No injuries reported as officers review warrants and ongoing cases.
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High Point
Clara Cox
Bertha Boatwright
Tate Street
Vernie Leach
Tate
Ernest Warren
Six Convicted Of Drunken Driving In District Court
Six defendants received 60 days suspended and $100 fines plus costs for drunken driving. Names include Gary Griffin 22 Cedrow Ave and Ralph Hoover 37 Richland St. Separate rulings: John Stiles 38 Rt. 2 Jamestown 60 days suspended and $200 costs. Other cases included auto larceny pending against Joseph Rogers 25 Eugene St and assault with deadly weapon against Charlie Taylor 23 E Russell Ave. Bennett 34 Redding St taxed costs for concealed weapon. Monks case prayer for judgement continued on costs for harassing telephone use.
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Gary Wayne Griffin
Cedrow Avenue
Fred Eugene Platt
Forest Hill Drive
Joseph Quick Jr
Jamestown
Lewis Scott
Garrison Street
Clifford Wade Freeman
Wheeler Street
Ralph Junior Hoover
Richland Street
John Hardie Stiles
Rt. 2
Joseph Dougan Rogers
Eugene Street
Charlie Taylor
E. Russell Avenue
Helen C. Bennett
Redding Street
Melvin Monk
English Road
I-85 Crash Fatal to Davidson County Nursing Student
A two car crash Friday at the Old Greensboro Road intersection with I-85 near Davidson County Community College killed Ronnie Malachi Wilson Jr. 31, a first year nursing student from Greensboro. He died after being taken to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Police say Wilson pulled into the path of Glenn Wright 19 of Burlington, who was southbound on I-85. Damage: Wilson’s car $1100, Wright’s car $250.
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Thomasville
Ronnie Malachi Wilson Jr
Greensboro
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
State Highway Patrol
Wilson
Glenn Wright
Burlington
Wright
Guilford County Permits Hit Nearly 5 Million in June
Guilford County Inspections Dept reports June permit value at 4.93 million with 110 permits for new single family homes totaling 2.61 million and two multi family permits at 40 thousand. Non residential permits totaling 1.87 million include a 76 thousand restaurant and three business projects 1.75 million. Location of 18 mobile homes also issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Guilford County
James Prillaman
Prillaman
Watergate recap and key claims from 1973 LA Times
A concise digest of Watergate facts and quotes from the era. Highlights include costs of aides and travel, who knew what and when, actions by Ehrlichman Hunt Dean Colson Gray and Baker, secrecy and audits, and Martha Mitchell’s disputed remarks.
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U.S
Sgt. Boykin
Murphy
B. E. Mendenhall Jr
L. E. Andrews
E. Lawson Brown
Aaron B. Crouse
Denton
Joe L. Berrier
Russell F. van Landingham
City Lake
Astor Dowdy Complex
E. Green Drive
High Point Parks and Recreation Dept
High Point Enterprise
High Point Enterprise, Inc
Church Avenue
N.C
Associated Press
Ward-Griffith Company
National Advertising Representatives
HPC
Kenan Grant
Barbara Sloan
Maple Street
Howard Russell
Pershing Street
Terry Edwards
Drew Street
Larry Logan
West Avenue
Daniel Brooks
J. C. Penney
Watergate
Washington
White House
American Airlines
Herbert Kalmbach
New York
John Mitchell
Nixon
Julie Eisenhower
G. Gordon Liddy
Democratic Party
Committee
Sen
Joseph Montoya
United States
John Ehrlichman
E. Howard Hunt
John Dean
CIA
Mexico
L. Patrick Gray
FBI
Charles Colson
IRS
H.R. Haldeman
Howard Baker
Ervin Committee
Pentagon
White Houses
Martha Mitchell
Los Angeles Times
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