High Point Enterprise Section B item
A readable fragment from High Point Enterprise Section B dated Monday afternoon June 8 1970 outlines a local item. The available text provides limited details and references no explicit names or events.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1970
Page
13
A readable fragment from High Point Enterprise Section B dated Monday afternoon June 8 1970 outlines a local item. The available text provides limited details and references no explicit names or events.
Art Buchwald reports that Vice President Spiro Agnew uses lectures at Republican fundraisers to target the press. Fundraisers pay for raw meat remarks aimed at CBS NBC ABC and major papers to raise money, with anger directed at named outlets and columnists.
A Thomasville North Carolina woman and her Greensboro brother were killed when their stalled car on railroad tracks south of Danville was struck by a train. The driver Floyd Lovelace escaped injury along with another passenger Myrtle London. A seven year old Nathan London was treated for minor injuries. Lovelace faced manslaughter charges with bond set at 2500 dollars.
Greensboro officials consider a sharply higher Social Services Department budget for 1970-71 to cover Medicaid, aid to families with dependent children, administration and child care. Director L M Thompson says more staff are needed as Medicaid usage grows and current funds may fall short. Board to review with health representatives involved in an interagency plan.
City Manager Harold Cheek says most road improvements near Johnson Street and Griffin schools cannot be finished before fall. Plans include paving Sherrod Street, Dayton Avenue segments, and a Main Street to Johnson Street route, with two projects labeled public necessity and one as a school-area focus.
Weekend police reports include a Direct Oil Co. stabbing on South Main Street with 150 stitches after a knife attack by a 5'7" unknown man, a second knife assault on Billy Moser in Dobson, and a public drunkenness arrest for Ralph Wood. Also noted are a car break in at Sechrest Funeral Home, two women jailed for assault with a deadly weapon, larceny and multiple liquor charges, and several other assault and drunkenness charges with various bonds.
Jim Spence, chair of the High Point Township Democratic Party, decried poor turnout at Saturday precinct meetings held for biennial elections. Young voters under 21 and many adults failed to attend, with Nos. 8 and 11 notably disorganized. A second organizing attempt is planned for June 13.
Four persons were injured slightly in a two car collision at E Russell Avenue and Park Street shortly before 11 p m Sunday. Injured were Richard Lee Kleiman 15 of English Road Domious Odell Rice 18 of Tate Street Earl Dean Dawkins 3 of Sharon Street and Clarence Hartley 21 of Sharon Street.
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