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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1972
Page
2
A satirical dialogue in the Oval Office mocks defoliation and bombing tactics in South Vietnam. Henry Kissinger explains map colors as war aims while the President contemplates a cynical plan to carpet South Vietnam with artificial turf after a ceasefire.
Trustees of the Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina approve expansion at the Broyhill Home in Jones Cove, Western North Carolina. Plans include extending a road and water line, and building a dam for a lake to serve two new cottages for 24 more children, with completion aimed before December 1, 1972. The project total is under a million, funded by the Founders and Builders Program, as part of a $300,000 capital campaign.
Historical newspaper page fragment dated May 20 1972 from High Point Enterprise. Includes standard daily notices, brief local items, odds and ends typical of a Saturday edition.
Guilford County Economic Opportunity Council residents may see at least two candidate slates for the officer election Tuesday at 7 30 p m Windsor Center Greensboro The meeting moves from High Point with Rev B Elton Cox proposing opposition and potential petitions to reform the agency and reinstate the youth program. Auditors from the regional Office of Economic Opportunity were in Greensboro amid claims of mismanagement and dissension.
Youth Council in High Point announces the election of Sara Beth Terrell as chairman. Teresa Wrenn is named vice chairman, Melena Wood secretary, and Lee Watkins publicity chairman, with the group highlighting these new officers.
UNC law dean urges replacing judge elections with appointment to improve a unified court system. He notes hearings in Raleigh June 2 3 9 10 and 16 17 to gather views for the General Assembly. The council backs mandatory retirements and a conduct censure panel, while Missouri Plan style appointment faced earlier resistance.
Building inspections issued permits totaling 221694 with six dwellings at 157500 and four business improvements at 35674. Ten dwelling improvements 11500 eight dwelling repairs 10250 roofing 6630 fencing 140. Other permits include 1250 for a temporary office on Chestnut Drive and 15000 alterations to a Westchester Drive building. Several new dwellings listed for Don Setliff Inc, R A Phipps, Henry Shavitz, B E Vaughn, J C Thompson and Jncluded Hendrix Street complex.
James Cole dean of men at Campbell College will address the Campbell Alumni Association of the High Point Lexington chapter at its annual meeting on Monday at 7 30 p.m. The gathering, at the First Baptist Church ladies parlor in Lexington, will include a social hour and guests. Attending from the college are Dave McGirt and Jim Turner alongside the speaker.
High Point Chamber of Commerce Coffee Club members will tour the Mister Apparel Fraley Road warehouse at 10 45 a m. The visit starts with coffee and briefing at the chamber building on N Main Street before buses take attendees to the facility. Floyd D Mehan’s firm employs 39 in 1959 and now 1600, with expansions to 2100.
Cleveland Lyles age 45 of Elizabeth Street was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill after a knife fight with Eugene Wideman of N Centennial Avenue. Wideman suffered facial, throat and hand wounds needing 115 stitches and hospital discharge. Floyd Wideman was also struck during the incident.
Seven High Point area women earned bachelor’s degrees at Meredith College in Raleigh this week. Among them were Karen Voelker and Shelley Womack from High Point, Margaret Holbrook and Linda Vaughn from Raleigh, and Alice Salem Peggy Williamson Wiggins Priscilla Beane from nearby towns. The piece lists their majors and parental details while noting other area graduates and local arrests.
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