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June 25 1977 High Point Enterprise notes page 2A presents short items from the city area. Brief items cover community notices and local happenings with concise details for residents.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1977
Page
2
June 25 1977 High Point Enterprise notes page 2A presents short items from the city area. Brief items cover community notices and local happenings with concise details for residents.
Friends and associates praise 20 years of service by Judge Byron Haworth in High Point during a special session of District Court led by Judge Edward Washington. Mayor Roy Culler proclaims July 24 Byron Haworth Day and Louis Fisher and Rossie Gardner present a plaque and leather briefcase as Haworth prepares to retire at 70.
Davidson County Council on Aging by laws aimed at dismissing Connie Davis and staff were rejected 67 to 42 by COA corporation members. The measure would have split Davidson into seven districts and reset all COA employees.
Davidson County may hire a psychiatrist for its Mental Health Center staff and establish a mental health care unit at Community General Hospital. County Commissioners Chairman Robert Hedrick said funds are in the 1977 78 budget contingency to pay a psychiatrist. Mental Health Center employee Bill Alston said the county lacks facilities and personnel for extended psychiatric observation. He cited a woman who attempted suicide by drug overdose and was rushed to Community General Hospital.
Four persons were injured in Friday night wrecks but treated and released from High Point Memorial Hospital. On W Kivett Drive at Grimes Avenue at 8 48 p m a collision involved a car driven by Donna Smith McCombs and another driven by Wanda Jane Billings with Billings charged with a safe movement violation. Earlier at 8 04 p m on W Fairfield Road near S Main Street a clash between a car driven by Francis Eller Edwards and another by Lisa Joanne Morrison left Edwards injured.
The Davidson County Sheriff’s Dept. launches a new fiberglass patrol boat named Pablo to aid crime control and safety efforts at High Rock Lake. The $5,000 craft was approved in the 1976 77 budget and will operate daily from 8 a.m. to midnight.
The Summer Food Service Program in High Point serves 1300 youngsters daily with hot meals one week and cold meals the next. The program operates at 13 sites citywide through August 5 and may add two more sites pending state approval.
State House Rep Harold Brubaker announced a bill allowing medium custody prisoners to work on state roads. The measure, folded into the Appropriations bill, shifts 500000 to corrections for road labor, aiming for up to 1 million annually. He argues work reduces prison costs and lowers unrest by providing constructive activity.
Guilford County Commissioner Bert Hall warns the Piedmont Triad Park project lacks planning funds needed to develop a 2000 acre wilderness area between Guilford and Forsyth counties. Officials seek 2 million state funds to hold land while seeking federal support, but funding remains unsettled with no planning committee in place.
Kernersville pivots to the Economic Development Administration after the FDAA denied disaster funds. The town plans a $2 million project to build a permanent water supply pipeline from Winston-Salem, citing EPA cleanup and a temporary line for immediate needs.
Greensboro plans early July testing of a new ambulance telemetry system to transmit heart images from the scene to Two hospitals. James Rickards says the UHF setup should be in place by June 3 with full operation by mid July and tests to locate areas of poor transmission.
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