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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1972
Page
16
Deaths include Daniel George Macintyre 48 of 1274 Wales Dr. in High Point died at High Point Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Other notices: Joseph Earl Collins 59 of Thomasville died in Community General Hospital. Agnes Dodson 67 of Mebane. Freddie Dean Ledford 11 of High Point. Details cover births, families, affiliations, and funeral arrangements.
Velma Walton Sappington 62 of 124 Park Circle Lexington died in Forsyth Hospital Winston-Salem. Survived by husband Odys Sappington three daughters two sons mother sister and two brothers. Body sent to Maley Funeral Home Covington Tenn. Swaim Sr. 71 of Rt 3 Randleman died in Randolph Hospital. Survived by four daughters three sons and a brother. Funeral 3 p m Saturday at Midway Wesleyan Church Randolph Memorial Park burial. Body at Pugh Funeral Home. Family at home tonight 7.
Funeral services set for Hattie Elizabeth Childers Shoaf 66 widow of James N. Shoaf at Bethany United Church of Christ with burial in church cemetery. Also announced are services for Walter Newell Punk Smothers 72 a retired N C State Highway Department employee. Both services to be held Saturday at 2 p m with details of visitation and arrangements provided by local funeral homes.
Titus E Barringer 79 of 1476 Hilltop St died in Stanly County Hospital. Born in Stanly County, he was a retired farmer and carpenter. Survived by wife Carrie Parker Barringer and children including Zeb Barringer and Mrs Roy Hill, along with many grandchildren. Funeral 4 p.m. Saturday at Bethel United Church of Christ, burial in church cemetery. Body to remain at Hartsell Funeral Home until 30 minutes before services.
Nine High Point churches form the Greater High Point Youth Directors Fellowship to share resources, sponsor events, and connect leaders. Founding members include Hal Shoemaker Emerywood Baptist Steven Austin English Road Baptist Clyde Hall First Baptist Jim Temple Green Street Baptist Jim McBryde North Main Baptist Ford Ewaldson Emmanuel Lutheran Tom Duncan First United Methodist Barry Osborne Wesley Memorial United Methodist and Bill Favor First Presbyterian. Nido Qubein of Nido Qubein and Associates will assist as resource, officers not yet elected, open to full time youth directors in the area. Meetings are noon the first Wednesday each month at Brinwood Restaurant.
Reginald Lee Frazier a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in North Carolina can keep his auto license tag. A hearing officer ruled insurance coverage on his 1971 Jaguar means the tag may remain with the vehicle despite earlier department records. Frazier transferred the plate from a 1969 Lincoln after trading it in Maryland.
Police arrested several suspects on charges including marijuana possession, breaking and entering, larceny, and firing into an occupied dwelling. Individuals named include 18 year old Larry Hines, 27 year old Albert Jones, 19 year old Gene Dildine, and others with reports of thefts, drun ken driving, and related offenses.
Davidson County Elections reports 22.13 per cent of under-21 residents registered for the May 6 balloting. Registrars will visit eight high schools and Davidson County Community College on March 9 15 and 29 with sessions 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Two visits per site target 18-to-21-year-olds. By March 7 census shows 4 237 residents ages 18-20. 47 under 21 registered. 6 are 17. Eligible 18-year-olds may register now.
Don F. Keil of the High Point Housing Development Corp. told the Rotary Club that about 30 percent of the city’s 20 000 dwellings are on the edge of housing code standards, higher than the national 20 percent. He cited overcrowding, limited new housing, and a 1 800 name waiting list for 965 public housing units as key issues.
A new family planning center in High Point is expected to open by Monday at an Elm Street site. The High Point office will move from Montlieu Avenue to near High Point Memorial Hospital to consolidate clinics and offices with eight staff members. Services are free and open to any woman of child bearing age in Guilford County.
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