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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1975
Page
1
Heat drives residents to the city lake as temperatures soar and crowds gather around the water. People arrive feet first or head first to cool off, enjoying a popular summertime retreat in the heat wave.
Statewide increases set in motion by the General Assembly affect District Court Division costs. A breakdown shows process fee two dollars and facilities fee rising to three, General Court of Justice fee up to seventeen, with jail costs increasing to five dollars per day for convicted defendants. Superior Court costs stay near forty dollars, and civil cases see facilities fees rise from five to six dollars.
Four High Point public housing projects will receive a 152000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for extraordinary improvements at Dowdy Towers and the Daniel Brooks Clara Cox and J C Morgan projects. The grant was announced by Congressman Richardson Prever's office after the Housing Authority request last month.
The High Point Enterprise lists independent contractor status for carriers with payment terms and reproduction rights noted by The Associated Press. The notice details compensation figures and states the company is not responsible for carrier obligations or related claims.
Greensboro official Gaston D. Faison told High Point Kiwanis Club that if the city backs a candidate, it could place a High Point representative on Guilford County Board of Commissioners. He described the board’s purse strings as powerful and outlined county spending and programs including 25 summer playgrounds and support for three school systems. He also noted the new Guilford County Alcoholic Commission and a recovery plan modeled after Duplin County.
Police are investigating the Friday theft of a safe from Modern Shoe Shop on English Road. Owner C C Hedrick said the safe was missing when he opened Friday. Marks on the floor suggest the box was rolled from the front of the building.
Budget cuts reshape North Carolina corrections aims with 38 million slashed from new prison builds and 10 million to rebuild Central Prison. Gov and advisory panel trim plans from 100 200 million, urging rehab and use of vacant state facilities. Jaycees burn center in Chapel Hill moves forward with 1.2 million from legislature and 800 thousand in pledges. Bridge safety funds earmarked after Yadkin River collapse. Local crime reports include a street assault and TV theft, with details continued on 3A.
In Raleigh AP report, Donald Rutschman pleads guilty to a reduced second degree murder charge for the Nov 19 killing of Craig Lyon, a NC State student. Lyon's father J.R. Lyon voices anger at the court and asserts the crime warrants more than second degree murder. Judge Brewer sentences Rutschman to 40 years and orders psychiatric treatment. Donna Leigh Byrd, Lyon's fiancé, cries in court.
High Point District Court disposed a wide range of cases before Judge Byron Haworth on Friday and Thursday. Rosa Titus faced no probable cause for an assault with a deadly weapon with intent to inflict serious injury after allegedly throwing boiling water on her husband, who suffered second degree burns over 25 percent of his body. Bachittar Singh Juneja of Arlington, Va was not prosecuted after offering a highway patrolman $10 to overlook a traffic stop. Two 16 year olds received eight month suspended sentences for larceny after breaking and entering, with restitution and three years probation. Multiple other defendants faced suspended sentences, fines, or costs for offenses including possession of various substances, assault, gambling, and drunken driving. Earlier hearings included waivers, bound overs to Superior Court, and dispositions on mis demeanor charges. A brown lung screening clinic was announced to be held by the Citizens Committee on Brown Lung and the Carolina Brown Lung Assn at Hopeview Presbyterian Church in Greensboro.
Farmers and warehouse men in Northwestern North Carolina oppose a plan to shift flue cured tobacco allotments between counties. At a three hour meeting with five Congressmen, they warned changes could raise prices and centralize farming among large growers, harming small farmers.
Greensboro scene near Royal Villa hosts Piedmont Spring Banquet as Labor Party pamphlets on Terry Sanford Jimmy Carter and Lloyd Bentsen are freely available. Public chatter centers on the Democratic presidential nomination for 1976 with elections primed for next year in Alabama.
Robert G. Vaughn a 51 year old real estate dealer from Birchwood Drive was charged with driving under the influence by High Point police. Records show the incident at the Russell Kat and Oak Street intersection at 10 p.m. Friday. He was freed on bond and is scheduled for a District Court trial on July 9.
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