Crouch enters Jamestown council race as third candidate
Robert H U Crouch of Potter Drive becomes the third person to file for town council in Jamestown. A Jamestown High School graduate and 25 year resident, Crouch heads Crouch Machinery Sales Inc and is active in the Jaycees and Methodist Church. He attended Guilford College and is married to Peggy Keller with three children. Political activity also includes Charles C Hughes and William B Ragsdale seeking council seats while mayor Thomas C Ragsdale, in office 20 years, remains the only declared mayoral candidate. The four council seats may trigger a primary depending on filings.
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Jamestown
Robert HU. Crouch
Potter Drive
Jamestown High School
Crouch
Crouch Machinery Sales, Inc
Jamestown Jaycees
Jamestown Methodist Church
Guilford College
Peggy Keller
Charles C. Hughes
Forestdale Drive
William B. Ragsdale
Main Street
Thomas C. Ragsdale
Ragsdale
Harold Hall
Joseph Blair
Carl Smith
J. Roy Sullivan
Party Tickets Shaping but Still Have Holes
Aspirants for city hall control faced the filing deadline with both parties moving toward full slates for the City Council. Democrats filed Fletcher Waden and sitters Haizlip Craven Putman Huber, while Republicans pursued four council candidates with Roy Culler and Louis Haizlip noted as potential mayoral contenders. Filing ends next Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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Forrest Cates
Fletcher Waden
Robert Davis
Roy Culler
Louis Haizlip
Fletcher Wa
Rape Count Pending Abduction Case Leads to Jail
James Herbert Bryant alias Brown of Thomasville is jailed in High Point on $5,000 bond on abduction charges with rape anticipated from Randolph County. The seven year old victim, taken on Windley Street, was hospitalized in Anson County after being raped. Police, with Randolph and Anson deputies, tracked Bryant to Stanly County’s Norwood area where he was arrested. Anson hospital confirms the child’s treatment continues.
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James Herbert Bryant
Brown
Thomasville
High Point
Randolph County
Windley Street
Wadesboro
Anson County Hospital
Anson County
Stanly County
Bryant
Norwood
Kivett Drive
Work And Play Under The Sun During Easter Holiday
A long Easter weekend brought fleecy clouds and warm sun. Pleasure seekers fished and waded at the Lexington Thomasville Reservoir yesterday while R H Gildewell and Walker Erwin attempted to coax a bulky soil tiller into action for a garden turn today.
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Lexington-Thomasville
R. H. Gildewell
Walker Erwin
Davidson Co man found hanged in jail cell
A 40 year old Davidson County man Roger Byrne Jackson was found hanged in the Davidson County Jail. Authorities ruled death by own action. He was arrested for public drunkenness at 5 30 pm and found at 6 25 pm. The belt was used. The body lay at Piedmont Funeral Home and will be shipped to relatives in Connecticut.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Roger Byrne Jackson
Rt. 9
Winston-Salem
Jackson
Donald Moore
Piedmont Funeral Home
Connecticut
Warm spell to continue through midweek forecast
The Friendship area weather update says warm conditions continue for several days with variable cloudiness. Highs near 70 today, mid 70s Tuesday, and upper 50s tonight with a slight chance of scattered showers Tuesday night.
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Friendship Weatherman
Convicted Slayer Faces New Count
Randolph County man Victor Clay Allred, 27, recently ordered to serve 20 to 25 years for a murder, was jailed after allegedly threatening to shoot his wife. He had been free pending a Supreme Court appeal when deputies found him with a shotgun at his home and followed the wife there. She obtained a peace warrant. Allred was convicted in 1965 of the murder of Arthur Davis and is to begin serving the sentence in Raleigh state prison this week.
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Asheboro
Randolph County
Charlie Joyce
Victor Clay Allred
Randolph County Superior Court
Arthur Davis
Jack Lions
North Fayetteville Street
Joyce
Allred
North Carolina Supreme Court
Superior Court
Davis
Alfred
Raleigh
Easter weekend traffic toll tops North Carolina roads
The Associated Press reports at least 14 people died in auto crashes from Friday 6 p m to Sunday midnight raising the year toll to 30. Victims include Betty A. Brill of Biltmore Forest and 13 others across Buncombe Johnston Martin Wayne and surrounding counties with high speed blamed for many wrecks.
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North Carolina
State Highway Patrol
Buncombe County
Betty A. Brill
Biltmore Forest
Brill
Jesse Lee Fennell
Ahoskie
Joseph Grover Johnson
Goldsboro
U.S. 70
David L. Knowles
Clinton
Jesse Lewter
Apexate
Esta Kay Ingram
Rt. 3
Four Oaks
Benson
Johnston County
William S. Peele
Rt. 1
Jamesville
Martin County
Jerome Marshburn
Hampton
Jacksonville
Elizabeth Tate Massey
Four Arrested For Gambling In Asheboro Raid
A Randolph County deputy raid on a Rt. 5 Asheboro house Saturday night charged Fred Ronald Maness 24 with operating a gambling house and four others Helen Tucker 44 Breezehill Road James B. King Lexie Alexander Thomas and Leon Moore Route 5 Asheboro with gambling charges. Deputies found two decks of cards and 3.33 in change.
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Asheboro
Rt. 5
Randolph
Fred Ronald Maness
Helen Tucker
Breezehill Road
James B. King
Lexie Alexander Thomas
Leon Moore
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Waden
GOP
James Shelton
Den
Harold Craven
Coy Putman
Wal Huber
Council
Carson Stout
Fred
Honda Motorcycle Co
N. Main Street
Willard Street
Richard Robbins
Hilltop Street
Ernest Smith
Taylor Street
Theodore Stew
Art
Grayson Street
Fairview Street
Odell Couch
Cedrow Avenue
Leroy Aikens
Bondon Aikens
Grover Benton
James Boyd
Greensboro
Jerry Parrish
Billy Williamson
Greenville
U.S. 220
Williamson
Randolph Hospital
C. D. Scearce
THE
Associated Press
Carl M. Cherry
Windsor
N.C
Bertie County
John L. Carmrcke
Autryville
Sampson County
Harry Wright
Henderson
Leonard C. King
Brooklyn
N.Y
Statesville
Ford Kinlaw Jr
Lumberton
Bobby R. Stewart
Fuquay
Highway Patrol
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