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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1972
Page
2
A Los Angeles Times piece notes the medical hazard of campaign smiles as presidents to be may retain frozen grins from months of televised primaries. Plastic surgeon Cooke warns the effect could affect judgments with leaders smiling through funerals and high-stakes talks.
From June 11 to June 17 five rising high school seniors from High Point attend North Carolina Boys' State at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. Selected by schools and interviewed by American Legion Post 87, the sponsors aim to teach government concepts and citizenship. John Leonard and Bill Medlin attend Andrews High School while Don Kirkman, Ricky Blake and David Haworth study at Central High.
The Guilford County Economic Opportunity Council director of operations Rev. Ben Elton Cox resigns and calls for a court injunction to halt agency operations until it can manage nearly $3 million. He alleges racism, mismanagement, staff disputes, and illegal board activity, blaming newly named executive director Preston Wiley and urging reforms.
Raleigh AP Roy Sowers says he will not call for a runoff against Jim Hunt in the Democratic lieutenant governor race to preserve party harmony. He urges Pat Taylor and B Everett Jordan not to seek runoffs for governor and US Senate. Hunt leads with 44 percent. Sowers 23. others include Margaret Harper Allen Barbee and Reginald Lee Frazier. Bowles praised as future governor candidate.
High Point will present zoning plans to Forsyth, Davidson, and Randolph counties after a Piedmont Triad Council of Governments meeting. The session includes Guilford County officials and follows the council’s May meeting at the regional airport to gauge county support for zoning land around the city under a new state law.
Guilford County Commission will hear a proposed turnkey contract for a new east of High Point solid waste disposal unit. The daylong session includes zoning hearings, a water line extension proposal, and a fire prevention code discussion with the county and adjacent jurisdictions.
Brantley Kelly and Carol McNeil, first graders at Shadybrook Elementary, set up a sidewalk booth to sell drawings they made that morning since there was no school in the afternoon. Brantley is from 505 Greenwood Drive. Carol from 219 Pine Ridge Drive. photos by Mark Austin.
Voters in North Carolina backed incumbents in the 1973 General Assembly primaries. Several Democratic and Republican seats remained unchallenged, with mixed outcomes for women and minority candidates. Notable names include incumbents Futrell Reed Milgrom Jones and challengers in both chambers.
The High Point Enterprise announces pricing for subscriptions including daily and Sunday, Sunday only, and carrier rates. It lists mailing options, tax notes for North Carolina, and advertising representatives, with address 210 Church Avenue High Point NC 27261 and Ward-Griffith Company as national reps.
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