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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1971
Page
2
In a 1971 Los Angeles Times piece, Art Buchwald humorously presents a father teaching his son about everyday adult items. The dialogue covers neckties, suits, shoes, socks, and the upcoming talk on razors, highlighting the awkward wit of growing up.
North Carolina House Speaker Phil Godwin plans to appoint a calendar committee next week signaling a push toward adjournment. Lt Gov Pat Taylor to appoint Senate calendar panel. The House sped up sessions by starting at 2 pm on Monday June 28 and approved measures for industrial finance authorities and pollution abatement bonds.
Two defendants were bound over to superior court. Donald Cress waived preliminary hearing on two counts of unlawful sale of stimulant drugs for allegedly selling amphetamine tablets at a service station. Henry Miller also waived hearing on an assault with a deadly weapon case. John Evans received an active sentence for public drunkenness. Other charges were dismissed or taxed costs.
Guilford County Economic Opportunity Council will install new board members at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church Curtis Street. The meeting will cover operations for the next year and include housing committee reports.
Police arrested three persons on assault charges William Frank Baker 23 of Habersham Road charged with assault and battery on a female and assault on a police officer Baker allegedly struck his wife and held an officer at bay with a butcher knife Charles L Harley 23 of Wendley Street charged with assault with a deadly weapon after a knife attack Cathryn Livingston said Harley attacked her Robert Lee Brogans 32 of Dartmouth Avenue charged with assault by pointing a gun others faced liquor and weapon charges at a local store and a reported burglary and vending machine vandalism nearby.
The Kresge Foundation of Birmingham Michigan grants High Point College fifty thousand dollars to help fund a 12 million campus center. The $1.2 million project, set to open fall 1972, will include lounges cafeteria post office bookstore and student government offices behind the current student center.
Connie Lerner of Asheville will crown a successor among 63 contestants in the Miss North Carolina pageant held in Charlotte. Semi finalists will be named, then finalists, leading to a winner who will advance to Miss America in Atlantic City in September.
Guilford County Commissioners have not decided on funding for the 1971 1972 budget. They have reviewed requests from general fund units welfare emergency transportation and health and will hear school board requests Monday afternoon. The panel aims to hold to an 84 cent tax rate and may use sales tax income for capital projects.
Thomasville deputies report a 7 am break-in at Ed's Grocery on Holly Grove Road with front window entry. About 230 dollars in merchandise including groceries tobacco and sundry items stolen.
High Point police investigated an early morning robbery at a service station on English Street where operator James Edwards said three men and two women in a black 1962 car mugged him. Other reports include a stolen tape player and siphoned gasoline from Harold E. Patricks car, plus shoe theft at Brittain's Shoe Store and a suit stolen from I B Dunn's car near the Elk's Club.
Horace M. Stephens was named Lion of the Year by the High Point Lions Club on Thursday night. The retired Henderson-Mooney Frames Manufacturing head, active in projects for the blind, lives with his wife Mary at 1311 Coventry Rd. The misprint photo in Friday's Enterprise was corrected once discovered.
Building permits issued last week totaled 600,524 with 14 houses valued at 207,650 and 9 business-improvement permits totaling 368,515. Roofing, fencing, residential improvements and repairs add 7,240 2 569 13 500 and 1 050 respectively. J B White Construction Co. received 208 600 for a 37 800 square foot one story manufacturing building on Fraley Road. High Point College obtained four permits for campus structures worth 6 945 on Montlieu Avenue. Additional permits include a 56 000 warehouse for E E Younts Inc on Bethel Drive and 76 000 apartment units for Security Development Co on Johnson Street Burlington Industries added 19 000 for boiler room work on Lincoln Drive. Don Barker roofing work on a South Hamilton Street building 2 000. Other housing permits listed for Ervin Co 12 houses on Briercliffe Drive Wayne Swaim 23 000 house Thorn Hill Avenue and Dr EB OCummings 8 000 house Parkwood Drive. Tommy Wolf added 50 000 for a 6 836 square foot addition on Main Street. Independent Construction Co eight new houses on Carolina Street and Beaucrest Street 9 300 12 500. Marvin C Austin 12 000 on Sales Street Grayson Spencer 12 600 on East Spring Garden Street Harrison and Dawkins 18 000 on Rolling Road and Thompson Enterprises 26 500 on Westfield Avenue.
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