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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1969
Page
2
Sandra Dunlap and Alice Christian showcase student projects. Fourth grader James Wright Jr explains a primitive electric motor built from tin foil copper wire spools pencil and scrap boards that actually runs. Third grader Johnny also contributed a project.
Guilford County commissioners will set the annual period for the board of equalization and review hearings for taxpayers to contest property assessments. Hearings will be available in High Point and Greensboro after filings by letter. The session also covers a regional park bond referendum and a county sales tax discussion with cities.
Police cleared a number of break ins late Friday with two men, William Coy Moore aged 19 and Gary Wayne Fox aged 21, charged with larceny by breaking and entering for stealing three record players and a tape recorder from Northwood School valued at 266. Both held on bond for preliminary hearings. Two 14 year old juveniles were detained for breaking into Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church and First Presbyterian Church plus three schools earlier this month. They remain in juvenile custody. An unsolved grand larceny at Scott Garten Buick involved a money bag with 200 cash. A theft of 10 dollars of cigarettes and groceries occurred at East Side Grocery via rear window entry.
Burlington North Carolina AP reports police say a 2 ton crane was driven off a construction site by Christopher Co, who is noted as not Italian but from a Spanish Jewish family that settled in Genoa. The crane cable attached to a beam halted the high voltage line, and the arm was stopped just short of an electrical wire.
The U S Weather Bureau at Friendship Airport predicts mostly fair skies for today tonight and Sunday with near zero precipitation. Temperatures should be slightly cooler today and tonight then warmer on Sunday with highs near 60 today and upper 60s tomorrow.
High Point ranked fourth among 18 North Carolina cities in building permit values for February, with $2,800,300. Charlotte led with over $19 million, Greensboro at $3,197,200, and Durham at $2,891,000. The statewide total for 18 cities was $41,671,500, up from $31,047,300 a year earlier.
Randolph County seeks inclusion in the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments with approval from Guilford Forsyth High Point and Greensboro. A March 27 meeting at the Albert Pick Motel will consider the application while Winston-Salem’s signoff is awaited. Officials also discuss regional health studies and a $20,000 consultant-led four month plan to shape the Council’s future work.
Whitsett area resident J B McBane was fined 50 dollars and costs after violating Guilford County Subdivision Ordinance. Attorneys announced plans to challenge the ordinance’s constitutionality in Guilford Superior Court, noting the plan had preliminary approval but two lots lacked public access. Judge Herman Enochs denied a constitutional hearing, stating he would rule only on the warrant charge.
An employee of the String and Splinter Club in Greenshorn was charged after alcohol was found stored in individual lockers off Main Street. Patterson, 57, was accused of acting as an agent in procuring liquor for exchange among members. A $25 cash bond was posted, and the trial was set for April 2 in District Court.
Workers at Garlock Inc precision seal division voted 133 for union representation and 154 against, with two challenged ballots. The National Labor Relations Board conducted the referendum in Gastonia.
High Point firefighters answered 111 fire calls in February, well below 138 a year earlier, with 78 fires (down from 110). Grass fires fell from 27 to 10, while building and other fires varied. Losses were $23,630, less than $45,175 last year. Patrols logged 134 fire prevention inspections and 70 burning permits, plus four babysitter courses for 94 students.
Asheboro Randolph County tax supervisor J E Rains reports few residents attended revaluation hearings after mailing notices to an estimated 16 000 toward Randleman Asheboro and Grant hearings run March 31 to April 4 Trinity Archdale notices already sent and hearings set for next week. He notes many taxpayers expect value increases after eight years and suggests this reduced turnout.
City Council candidate Frank Smith was left out of the Democratic list in an Enterprise report. Smith, who announced Tuesday he will seek another term, joins three other Democrats and two Republicans in the nine seat race for High Point council.
University releases the dean's list for the semester at UNC Chapel Hill. Notable names from High Point include Gary Lee Zachary Jane Brandon Bennet James Willard Eldridge David Hedgecock Eugene Bennett Hill Jr. Jane Florence Hudson Ramon a Wood Kerr Kenneth Wayne McAllister Gordon Wesley Price Kathryn Carter Scearce Donald George Arnold William Howard Bradner Jr. Samuel Leon Bridgers I Felix Alvin Carroll Jr Allan and others noted on page 3B.
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