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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1974
Page
20
The 14th annual Family Camping Weekend at City Lake Park opened Friday with campers arriving early. Sponsored by High Point Parks and Recreation Dept, families from North Carolina and six other states join demonstrations on camping topics, tours of local museums, and a Sunday close after noon.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt warned that a hard fought run-off in the Senate race could hurt the Democrats, citing lessons from 1972 and urging renewed faith and unity. He spoke at a Rotary conference and urged better education health care and housing as keys to improvement. Separate note: magistrate William Marshall, also an artist, will showcase work in an outdoor Pennywood exhibit this weekend.
Leonard Jesse Watkins 21 and Joyce Ann Watkins, both of Damascus Virginia, were slightly injured Friday afternoon when their car collided with a truck driven by Clifford D. Sechrest of Archdale. Sechrest was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. A second crash on Albertson Road near Old Thomasville Road injured Jamestown resident Jeanette Cline in a car driven by Michael Woosley Waggoner of Greensboro. The truck driver James M Haney Jr. faced drunken driving charges.
A three judge federal court in Charleston South Carolina ordered striking Pilot Freight Carriers employees at Kernersville near Winston Salem to return to work. The Teamsters union strike supporting Pilot's Florida operations has affected 20 Pilot terminals along the East Coast and left about 1000 workers out of work since it began earlier this year.
Four High Point chapter members of the International Management Council will represent locally at the IMC annual meeting in Chicago next week. Tommy Gordon of Silver Knit Industries Welton Hall of Adams-Millis Otis Harris of Davis Furniture Co and Robert A Rule of the YMCA lead the local delegation Rule serves as executive director of both the YMCA and the IMC.
A humor piece imagines a 1994 interview with Richard Nixon on his 81st birthday. The mock dialogue riffs on Watergate tapes, subpoena battles, and political legacies, with sly references to Nixon’s real estate ventures and presidential aides.
Guilford County Commissioners plan to hear three fund requests at the first meeting of the month from the United Arts Council of Greensboro Youth Care Inc and a rural recreation group. The board also to discuss fire district tax rates and zoning near Battleground Park and to convene as Board of Equalization and Review for tax valuations through July 1.
Edwin Deckard, named to head North Carolina’s new office of intergovernmental relations, rejects chasing dollars as the sole aim. He emphasizes local input, coordination, and cutting red tape as federal funds exceed 40 billion annually, with a three-division office to connect Raleigh, Washington, and local governments.
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