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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1974
Page
6
Obituary notices list Elizabeth Ann Mills Forrest and several other local deaths. Included are dates, family survivors, church affiliations, and funeral arrangements across Thomasville, Mocksville, Lexington, and surrounding communities.
Rape charge bonds set at 250 each for Trieglaff and Jones as police probe weekend thefts. Items stolen from S H Kress Co front during business hours include two bicycles and four minibikes worth 400, chained but cut. Clock radio and jewelry taken from Vickie Hill’s James Avenue apartment Friday. Mrs Savanna Shoffner Fogleman, 85, dies in Chapel Hill hospital. mourners include daughter Mrs Towell and sons in CA and PA. Burial Tuesday at Macedonia Lutheran Church with Rev. Wallace and Rev. Bodle. Body at Rich and Thomp son Funeral Home with visiting tonight 7–9.
Loraine Singleterry McDamials of Willowood Drive and her two children Elizabeth and Judy McDanials were slightly injured Sunday when a single car left Willowood near Dogwood Circle, hit a tree after the driver looked away to keep a child from falling. Sybil Covington Marshall of Valleyridge Drive was slightly injured Saturday when her car ran off N Main Street near Northgate Avenue, slipping on the soft shoulder.
Mamie Byers of Grayson Street told police she was shot while on her front porch. The wound was not serious and she did not require hospitalization. She did not see the shooter. The report also details several thefts and break ins in the area including a stolen car later recovered, a knife threat, and multiple items taken from vehicles and homes. Detectives cited larceny charges against Stephen Parris and noted the involved vehicle owner.
Council members discussed a proposed merit system noting it may be invalid and said representatives in the General Assembly are delaying an appeals bill in the House awaiting reaction. If no word by Thursday noon the bill may advance, with one member pledging to seek renewed endorsement. The council also agreed to hear junior league and High Point Volunteers funding appeals for the 1974-75 city budget.
Thomasville Board of Education will determine how to make up two days missed in December snow at a meeting Wednesday. Supt. Derw Wood Honeycutt expects the year to be extended by two days. Other items include renovations planned with state bond money, progress on the new junior high, auditorium plans, kindergarten selection methods for 1974 75, and the calendar for the coming term.
Firemen say a child playing with a cigarette lighter started a blaze that heavily damaged the Shirley Harrington residence at 505 West Willis Avenue Sunday around 6 39 p m. No injuries were reported.
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