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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1975
Page
8
In a recent Grand Rapids tournament Cy Dennen opened with a Jacoby burst to invite slam. Jim Jacoby held a strong hand and, after Cy showed one king, Cy gambled on grand slam by bidding seven after weighing the spade and heart controls.
Thomasville City Council approved a $4.2 million budget with a public hearing. The school supplement was not restored to a half cent, despite the school system's request. Property valuations rose from $176 million to $181 million, allowing a tax rate drop from $1.06 to $1 per $100 while expenditures stayed the same.
Hugh A. Moran Jr., a High Point native, is named dean of students at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. Moran earned an A.B. from High Point College in 1969. his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Moran Sr., live at 3019 Kivett Drive.
One call answered by High Point firefighters at 6 20 p m from Hedrick Carr Streets intersection was logged as a malicious false alarm.
Twenty Italian furniture manufacturers and officials from Italy arrive in High Point for a two day visit. Sponsored by the Italian Foreign Trade Dept, the group tours the United States visiting New York Chicago San Francisco and Los Angeles. The High Point stop follows a tour to major cities as they seek two way trade ideas with local manufacturers importers and department store officials.
Robert Aylmer, 22, of Dixie Club Road in Welcome was killed when struck from the rear by a car on N C 150 near Welcome around 9 10 p m Monday night The driver James Kenneth Pate 38 of Rt 4 Winston Salem was charged with hit and run driving public drunkenness and drunken driving by the State Highway Patrol
A scrambled word puzzle text lists clues and numeric tags like 43 Lower, 3 Uncocked, 72 Guide's high mother, and many scattered items such as Babylonian, Lyricist, Javelin down, Expert flyer. The fragment reads as a wordplay key with mixed definitions and cross references, including terms like Nobleman, Shield bearing, and Greek letter, interspersed with stray punctuation and incomplete phrases.
A playful jumble lists items such as eight English streams eight irritate and a Gaelic term. Clues reference a war god Greak, soft masass, pillars back of neck jumper and other terms. A curious scavenger of meanings challenges readers to map synonyms and crosswords.
In Thomasville a group of Black residents aims to hold a protest march Wednesday despite police threats of arrest. A 100-person gathering at Carver Park led by Rev. W E Banks formed an SCLC chapter with Minnie Ray as president and George Booker leading the social action committee. The group seeks parade permits and defends civil rights amid a city ordinance restricting marchers to those 16 and older.
Robert Kenneth Kennedy son of Mr and Mrs John C Kennedy Rt 6 Thomasville has earned the B A degree in management from Golden Gate University San Francisco California He is a member of the Air Force and is stationed at the USAF Regional Hospital Shaw AFB South Carolina
Michael Charles Tuggle, a 1975 honor graduate of Western Carolina University and son of Mr and Mrs Clayton C Tuggle of Route 3, has been awarded a University Fellowship at Wake Forest University. The fellowship worth 3600 dollars will back his graduate study in English.
Oakview Lions captured the district’s best club award among 65 clubs at the Lions International District 31-D banquet in Asheboro High Point also earned top Group C recognitions. Oakview’s group A honors included best club activities 100 per cent club and secretary awards plus multiple citations to Vernon E. Jones Max C. Robinson John Howell and Harry Savvas. Yancey Cecil led Group C with a White Cane chairmanship citation.
Marine Pvt. Michael Parham, son of Ruth Parham of 513 Ashburn St, reported for duty at MCAS Yuma Arizona after graduating in 1974 from T Wingate Andrews High School. Marine Pvt. Eric L Smarr, son of Samuel B Smarr of 507 Underhill St, reported for duty at MCAS Cherry Point, having joined the Marines in November 1974. Marine Pfc. Hector McCullum Jr., son of Mattie M McCullum of 1475 D West St, promoted while with the 2d Marine Division at Camp Lejeune NC. a 1971 graduate of High Point Central High School.
High Point firefighters reported several minor calls over the weekend including an alarm at 4 17 p m Sunday to a building at West Point Avenue and Courtesy Road. A bale of waste material caught fire possibly from spontaneous ignition and a separate car fire was noted at 1 sees.
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