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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1974
Page
6
Obituaries announce the deaths of Mrs. Myrtie Ellen Renfrow Bissette 91 of High Point and Mrs Esther Hogan 70 of Liberty, with service details in Bailey, Asheboro and High Point area churches. Other notices include Sharyle Hussey 7 killed in Odessa Texas, Floyd Haithcock 60 Cedar Falls, Effie Brown Harris 87 Thomasville, Turner Willard Webster 68 High Point, and related funeral times, places, and burial listings.
Mrs Hattie Cassidy Wright 89 of Rt 1 Sophia died at 9 10 a m Monday at Maryfield Nursing Home after four months as a patient. Born November 6 1884 in Randolph County she was a daughter of William W and Henrietta Mason Cassidy. A High Point Randolph County resident she married Henry Franklin Wright on June 3 1903. he died September 3 1958. She was a member of Flint Hill Christian Church and former Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church. Surviving are three grandchildren Betty Council Jr of Charlotte Ann Levina of 619 W Lexington Ave and Wiley Wright of Jamestown, and one sister Beulah Litteral of Winston-Salem. Funeral services set for 11 a m Wednesday at Sechrest Chapel with Rev Howard Ward. burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Body to remain at Sechrest Funeral Home. Family at home of granddaughter Ann Levina 619 W Lexington Ave and at funeral home tonight 7 to 9.
Death notices for Golden Parker of High Point and Albert Metcalf formerly of Lexington both appear with services planned. Parker, 56, died at High Point Memorial Hospital. survivors include children and siblings. Metcalf, 62, of Lexington area, formerly of Athens Ga, died in Athens General Hospital. service Wednesday at Davidson Funeral Home. Burial in Pine Primitive Baptist Church. memorials to the American Cancer Society.
An 18 year old Williamsburg resident, Thomas Edward Redd, was charged with possession of a controlled substance after deputies searched his car in the Hidden Valley area near Downwood Trailer Court. Bond set at 5000 dollars. The warrant was issued by Justice of the Peace Barbara Harrison. Four bags of an unidentified substance were found under the driver seat.
Emery Lee Evans, 34, of Underhill Street faces charges of drunk driving reckless driving and public drunkenness after a one car crash on Underhill Monday at 633 PM. Police say Evans attempted to turn into a driveway struck a utility pole backed into a tree and was taken to High Point Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released.
Copper thieves stole tubing and fixtures worth 500 from a construction storage trailer belonging to Loflin Plumbing Co of Jamestown. The incident occurred at the Centennial Street Commerce Avenue intersection. A 16 year old claimed a strong arm robbery near Ragan Street, losing 5. A resident on Mobile Street chased and caught a juvenile after he fled a property. A glass break in at Avis Helen Cox’s Shady Lane home caused 10 in damages with no items taken. Other incidents included meat and cigarettes missing from Ed and Gene’s Red Dot, auto vandalism, a purse theft from Guilford County Social Services, a minibike theft, a TV taken from a YMCA room, and office machines stolen at Label Craft Co. An air compressor was removed from its storage. Ronald Craven Jr., 17, was arrested.
Greensboro High Point Airport Authority adopts 1974 75 budget projecting income of 2 037 000 and expenses of 561 300. Landing fee increases to 24 5 cents per 1000 pounds boost costs. Authority aims for self supporting operations and a $17 million capital program with half funded by the authority and the rest by state and federal grants. Debt service drops from last year to 1 475 700, with annual debt payments at 773 375.
Guilford County officials discuss Ross Strange Embassy Club zoning near Sedgefield for private member use. They disqualify a request to remove Commissioner Bodenheimer and approve purchases of reader printers and portable radios. A regional water pollution planning district lead agency is named Burlington. Food stamps sales at post offices begin July 1. Budget talks propose larger total with school system tax rate implications and per pupil requests, Greensboro seeking higher rates.
The Thomasville Garden Apartments were slated for demolition as a health and safety hazard with legal action expected soon from city attorney Saintsing. Downtown parking complaints arose as merchants blamed chalk mark erasures and missing meters for chaos while police cited the absence of meters. School board and zoning bodies welcomed new or returning members as Curry Regan Ottis Honeycutt join planning, and Brown Kaney Lewis Crawford Aubrey Burroughs Frank Tucker join board of adjustments, with Jim Ward and J. C. McLain renamed to the school board.
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