Randolph Eagle Scouts Church Award Ceremony
G Ed Miller presented awards to Reynolds and Dumont at the Presbyterian Church. Alex Ball awarded honors to Scott at the Church of the Good Shepherd.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1969
Page
12
G Ed Miller presented awards to Reynolds and Dumont at the Presbyterian Church. Alex Ball awarded honors to Scott at the Church of the Good Shepherd.
Winston-Salem AP report notes the formation urged of Black Parents for Negro Justice after R J Reynolds High School suspended 73 pupils for five days for refusing to report to classes. Principal Robert Deaton cited prior suspensions for disrespect. Louise Wilson urged mobilization, speaking as a mother and antipoverty advocate.
Tom Brown of Millis Road Elementary School will participate Saturday in the City County Marbles Tournament at Summit Peak Center in Greensboro. The 9:30 a.m. event is the third in a series to select salfuori mons or 00. the city county champion will advance to the National Marbles Tournament on June 15 in Wildwood-by-the-Sea.
North Asheboro Central Falls Planning Committee reported a telephonic poll showing 465 voters favor merger with Asheboro, 171 oppose, and 216 undecided. The merger referendum is set for August 12, with ongoing door to door and newspaper advertising campaigns. Final date approval rests with Randolph County Board of Commissioners.
Practice teacher Paul Thompson Williams of High Point is among 140 Campbell College student teachers from Buies Creek in classroom practice for public school certification. He teaches social studies at Reid Ross High School in Fayetteville and is a Campbell German Club member plus Student National Educational Association. He has appeared on the school's dean's list.
Democrat James Clontz vacates on July 1 and may be reap pointed to the Civil Service Commission. The council must keep fixed party balance and will hold a 9:30 am Monday public hearing on the Center urban renewal project. Regular meetings begin first and third Thursdays, with committee meetings the preceding Monday.
Parents of sixth graders entering Northeast Junior High next fall will gather Monday evening after a brief P.T.A. meeting for a special orientation. Throughout the week sixth graders from Johnson Street Northwood Kirkman Park Oak View and Montlieu elementary schools visited to familiarize themselves with the new school.
Thomasville region reports a theft at Ledford High School on North Carolina 109. A typewriter and an adding machine were stolen after the building was broken into by breaking a door glass. Davidson County Sheriff's Department investigated the incident.
RALEIGH AP The dirty movies bill is dead for this session. The Senate Finance Committee killed the tax proposal by an 11-5 vote. Sponsored by Sen. Geraldine Nielson Forsyth the bill would have imposed a per ticket tax from a nickel to 50 cents based on the MPAA rating.
Virginia 62 with Stuart Grizzie Richmond 60 T Gregory Morton Wake County 64 Kelly Jones Charlotte 59 plus Beverly Deal McCabe 58 director alumni affairs Dr Edwin L Allman 51 past president Louise Adams 29 ex officio W Lawson Allen VP public affairs ex officio Brian Ditzler senior class president Michael Carle president student government assgn non voting members on executive committee
Unity Street widening toward the Randolph County line is held in abeyance by a State Highway Commission official. Five property owners refuse to grant rights of way or accept compensation, with appraisals totaling about 4000 dollars. Twenty parcels have been acquired at no cost to the Commission, while the plan sought to widen the road from 18 to 24 feet.
Police investigate a strong-arm robbery on Russell Street after Norman E. Plantz reports five men seized him at 11:30 p.m. Thursday and stole about $1 from his pockets. The incident involved a vehicle and a request for a "Tight." Nearby, a $2.50 billfold with about $25 was reported stolen from Mrs. Cannary Yow while shopping on South Main Street.
Wrightsville Beach AP report says Paul Kincaid Sr. of Carlton Yarn Mills in Cherryville was elected chairman of the fiber buyers division during the opening session of the North Carolina Textile Manufacturers Association two day convention held Thursday.
Randleman officials approved purchasing 16 acres on Stout Street to establish a city park and recreational facilities. The plan, funded from the Recreational Fund, may include a future municipal swimming pool. federal funds were hoped for but are uncertain as the outgoing board has been replaced on June 3. The new board will decide on final park development and pool funding with local civic groups invited to help raise construction money.
THOMASVILLE The City Council will replace James C. Dorety on the school board at Monday’s session. A public hearing on Lloyd Manns’s request to rezone Fisher Ferry Street property from R-4 to R-5 for a larger mobile home park is also on the agenda, opposed by neighbors after planning board denial. Terms of two other board members expire in June. Elmo Jackson and Aldeen Robbins. Robert Powell and Paul Mills remain for another year.
Two automobile fires occurred Thursday afternoon in Thomasville. A 1959 car on West Main Street burned in the engine compartment due to a carburetor backfire, with extensive damage. A second vehicle, a 1956 model near Connell's Store on East Main Street, was fire damaged and the blaze was fought on arrival.
A local proposal seeks to establish a park that would occupy a stretch of Stout Street, overlapping with the current golf course area. The plan aims to balance green space with existing municipal facilities, pending formal decisions by city authorities.
Lynn Curlee, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. J Curlee of 503 Oakview Rd, has won a four year fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to study History of Arts. A 1965 graduate of High Point Central High School, he attended the North Carolina Governor's School and spent two years at the College of William and Mary. He will graduate Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in June.
Georgia Negro legislator Julian Bond will speak tonight at Johnson C Smith University in Charlotte. Bond, a prominent leader, was once mentioned as a potential Democratic vice presidential candidate and drew national attention after Georgia legislators challenged his seating due to opposition to the Vietnam War.
Three High Point doctors Dr. A B Croom Dr John L Brockmann and Dr Robert K Arthur Jr lead a Guilford County nine member delegation to the 115th annual North Carolina Medical Society meeting at Pinehurst from Sunday to Wednesday. Dr George T Wood Jr of High Point is an alternate. About 180 delegates will join 1000 members at the event.
A collage of legal notices and public records including divorce filings, estate administration, creditor notices, zoning hearings, and a bank consolidated report from High Point Guilford County. Documents reference Betty H. Campbell as clerk, Raymond Herein Jr, Karen McAdams, and Coley Shackelford estates, with notices of sale, hearings, and administrative actions across 1960s era North Carolina records.
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