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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1974
Page
1
Mrs. Cheryl Newnam and Mrs. Dina Hunsucker lead Brentwood School third graders in living history as Arabs and Pilgrims. Students Tony Green Lisa Jessup Andre Robinson and Ricky Fuller study papers while a venison meal stored since last fall is shared in class, with a blessing at the long table.
Jamestown Alcoholic Education Center will open a satellite office at 118 West Russell Ave High Point in a 2300 square foot building. The move will transfer many evening programs, aided by a $12,908 nickel a bottle fund and a $24,000 Hughes Bill grant, boosting the center’s budget to about $95,000. The site will host two new workers, boosting staff to six, and expand capacity to 60 to 70 per session. The center aims to reach 400 more people and improve intake and detox services in cooperation with halfway houses and police referrals.
High Point firemen trained today by burning an old frame house on Eastchester Drive near Kirkwood Street. The drills began at 9 a.m. after a passerby reported a blanket burning at 500 W Ward Ave, which was removed and left only a small porch burn. Earlier, a stove fire at 901 Newell St. caused a pot to catch fire at 5:31 p.m. Friday.
State Highway Patrol confirms multiple troopers fired into the car of Darrell Ward of Flint Hill Road, mistaken for a fugitive wanted for wounding a deputy sheriff. The incident occurred about 4 a.m. April 27 as officers pursued Paul Myers. Three troopers were in the pursuing car. Ward was uninjured seriously, though struck by shrapnel, and was treated by a High Point doctor. The SBI and State Attorney General are reviewing, with the local report naming W. T. Evans, T. J. Evelyn, and R. &. Taylor. Evelyn on duty, Evans on vacation, and Taylor in the rear seat.
Mrs Zuckert struggles as her husband, a former VP, applies corporate fixes to household tasks. He drafts budgets, inventory rules, and performance charts, even threatening to cut funds and demand a triple check of shopping lists. She contemplates resigning to reclaim freedom.
Winston-Salem men received 60 day active sentences for larceny. Floyd L. Walters 19 and Ronald V. Smith were also placed on two years probation after suspended terms. Ronnie L. Smith 21 faced conspiracy charges with not pros with leave. Two Thomasville women had prayer for judgment continued for one year. Betty Smith and Tony Townsend were cited for assault by pointing a gun with 30 days suspended and taxed costs. Townsend was fined 25. George Shoemake was fined 100 for drunken driving. John Anthony had assault with a deadly weapon dismissed.
An early morning car fire in front of 408 Fire St. destroyed the ignition and wiring of a 1966 Pontiac owned by Mrs. Mary Marlowe of Lexington. Firemen extinguished the blaze around 8 a.m. The fire apparently started from gasoline backfiring through the carburetor as ignition was attempted.
Penny per pound cash redeemed Saturdays starting May 18 at the Owens-Illinois Glass Plant collection station on U.S. 52 ten miles south of Winston-Salem. Open 8 30 a.m. to 2 30 p.m. No returnable bottles accepted. Mervyn Jenkins says all non returnables empty and clean are redeemed regardless of size or product carried.
A Greensboro Guilford Superior Court issued a temporary injunction against K Mart at 2300 N. Main St High Point trading as Allied Super Markets Inc The state Milk Commission claims the store sold milk below wholesale price from April 22 to May 9 at 1.29 per gallon when cost was 1.3090 and seven cents marketing expense The writ by Judge Charles Kivett sets a 10 am May 20 deadline to show cause for permanence This is the second recent action by the commission against a High Point milk seller and Mother Hubbard's Cupboard Inc 3710 N Main St faces a similar case
The May criminal Superior Court session begins Monday at 10 a.m. with Judge Harvey A. Lupton presiding. Defendants include John Roberts for murder, James Grainger for rape, James Morrison for first degree burglary and related charges, and others facing armed robbery, assault, manslaughter, drug violations, and breaking and entering as the four day docket proceeds.
Four injuries from Friday traffic incidents in High Point include three pedestrians and a bicycle rider. William A. Goodwin, 39, was slightly hurt on Kivett Drive near Grimes Avenue after a car driven by Charles Edward Royal, 23, collided with another vehicle. Royal was charged with improper turn. A second driver Kay Wright Flowers, 33, hit a parked car, injuring Brenda Joyce Dockery, with Dockery not seriously hurt. Flowers faced drunken driving charges.
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