High Point Leader Outlines Highway Priorities at DOT Hearing
High Point City Councilman Bob Wells listed city highway priorities at a North Carolina DOT public hearing on future state road projects. He named the Inner Loop links the U S 31 by pass East Belt Cucumber Road connector Westchester Drive to I-85 improvements on Lexington Avenue Ward Street and English Road segment to U S 221 near Thomasville. Transportation officials including Secretary S Perry Greene and board member Robert Vaughn attended the session, part of nine hearings statewide to shape the seven year program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Bob Wells
North Carolina
Thomasville
Dept. of Transportation
S Perry Greene
Transportation Board
Robert Vaughn
W. F. Caddell Jr
Asheville
N. Wilkesboro
Gastonia
Durham
Fayetteville
Southern Pines
Warsaw
Washington
Winston-Salem
Area Man Says Talking With Women Turned Fatal Drag
Donald Ray Lovette told High Point police he was dragged about 601 feet by a car after two women approached him in a parking lot. Carolyn Singleton and Sharon Wood Pegram were arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. Multiple car break ins and thefts are reported around High Point, with items recovered or damaged cars noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Ray Lovette
Brentwood Street
High Port
Lovette
High Point Memorial Hospital
Carolyn Singleton
Lamb Avenue
Sharon Wood Pegram
Glenn Hendrix
Oueray Avenue
Barbara Quick
Brackett Avenue
Local Briefs From High Point Area June 22 1978
A June 22 1978 High Point Enterprise page 2A item highlights city area happenings. The brief mentions community events and local notices with emphasis on June dates and locations within High Point and surrounding districts.
Welfare Fraud Trial Set in Guilford County Court
High Point resident Vermile Lytch faces six charges on welfare fraud alleged from false income statements and EF, Food Stamps and AFDC program use. The trial, set for June 16, marks the close of the local case phase with 26 convictions total and 2 acquittals so far in the county wide drive targeting improper welfare payments.
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Greensboro
High Point
Guilford County
Tom Foster
Foster
Vermile Lytch
Woodbury Street
Dept. of Social Services
Zoning Requests Before Greensboro Board of Adjustments
Albert Harris seeks a zoning exception to open a 60 bed nursing home on U S 158 north of Greensboro in Oak Ridge Township in an agricultural zone. Don Baysinger seeks a variance to move an advertising sign from two feet to 12 feet from the right of way, within a Sumner Township business district on U S 220.
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Greensboro
Guilord
Board of Adjustments
Albert Harris
U.S 158
Oak Ridge Township
Don Baysinger
Sumrall Case Closed Says Guilford County DA
Guilford County DA Ray Alexander on Friday declared the Haywood Earl Sumrall case closed noting Sumrall told multiple versions of the alleged bribe and testimony inducement related to the 1974 High Point Police hearings. Transcripted claims and differing accounts were aired as Sumrall faced probation revocation and a U.S. forgery sentence.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
Ray Alexander
Haywood Earl
Sonny” Sumrall
Sumrall
Laurie Pritchett
High Point
Jack Byerly
High Point Police Public Department
Alexander
State Bureau of Investigation
Rick Greeson
SBI
Jack Burns
Break-In Couple Given Jail Terms Colene Jamison and Jamison
Colene Jamison and her husband Michael Jamison were sentenced to 57 years in prison this week for a December 22 break in at Warner Warehouse Sales on Uwharrie Road. Michael was charged with conspiracy to break and enter. Colene with actual entry and forgery, receiving 24 months to run concurrent. Several other local cases included suspended sentences and probations for crimes ranging from theft to drugs and larceny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colene Jamison
Michael Jamison
Warner Warehouse Sales
Uwharrie Road
Superior Court
Thomas Seay Jr
Jamison
Ms Jamison
James Elbert
Hurley
Regan Street
Brentwood Presbyterian Church
Green Drive
Ricky Kheman
Chestnut Drive
Michael Ira Bryant
Countryside Drive
Grand Jury Tours Guilford Jail After NCCLU Request
Fifteen members of the Guilford County Grand Jury toured the Guilford County Law Enforcement Center jail in response to a request by the NCCLU citing complaints about living conditions. A jail inspection team led by Dr. Bob Rollins was to study conditions with a report due in about two weeks to a Superior Court judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Guilford County Grand Jury
Guilford County
Bob Rollins
John B. Umstead
Butner
Harry Craven
Craven
Local Bank Sues to Collect 43126 from Ohio Casualty
Central Savings Bank of High Point sues Ohio Casualty Insurance in Greensboro federal court to recover 43126 on a loan to Darrell D Blake. The bank claims a forged co signer signature by Mrs Doak Finch voids repayment and seeks bond coverage from Ohio Casualty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Entra! Savings
Bank of High Point
Ohio Casualty Insurance Co
Darrell D. Blake
Blake Inteners
Blake
Doak Finch
Central Savings Bank
Finch
North Carolina National Bank
NCNB
High Point Bank
US Middle District Court
Greensboro
Big Government critique grows in North Carolina cities and counties
Gov James E Holshouser and state officials pressed reform ideas at a forum on improving productivity in state and local government. He backed sunset laws and zero based budgeting while urging local focus to curb rising taxes driven by programs from Raleigh and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
James Eholshouser
Holfhouser
Washington
State versus business methods in government debate
Henry W. Lewis of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill contrasts government’s branch structure with corporate unity, warning that centralized power erodes democracy. He argues government must remain responsive to constituents and productive, despite constant demands from multiple superiors, and questions how bureaucrats can meet conflicting pressures without stifling initiative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Lewis
Institute of Government
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Lewis
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Trinity
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R. L Hill
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Wellington Street
Zayre Dept
Westchester Drive
Sandea Lee Willis
Juanita Street
Danny Preece
Highway 62
Archdale
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Tom Hagges
Bobby J McDuffie
James A. O'Neil
Christine Hardin
Eugene L Curtain
Obderlin Drive
Roy Shipman
Aghe Street
Rapier Mills Inc
Albertson Road
Carrie Pendergeass
Vail Avenue
Cary Lewis Waiton
Paul Street
Wylie Lee Sanders
South Carolina
Danny Thomas Stillwell
Tank Avenue
Kenneth Gene Sexton
Druid Street
Enterprise
Leak
Pritchett
Kansas
Luke Wright
Greeson
Byerly
John Hayworth
Law Building
E. Green Drive
League of Professional Police
John Benton Owen Jr
Bellevue Drive
Elizabeth Lou Hayes Namer
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Roger Dean Hurley
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