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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1971
Page
13
The U S Postal Service announces 1979 rates including 1 for first class 2 for air mail and 50 cents for magazines and newspapers. Postmaster Elwood Carruthers touts speed gains and introduces stagecoach and horse mail as future equipment to cut delivery times.
Brunswick County commissioners official value Bald Head Island at 1.2 million despite prior 5.5 million tentative figure. Carolina Cape Fear Corp faces higher taxes but plans a luxury resort while Gov. Bob Scott and conservationists push for preservation of the semitropical island.
Raleigh reports a shift in interest toward Council of State offices as potential launching pads for higher office. Voters expect serious bids for Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor, and other posts, with names like Governor candidates and party veterans circulating. Incumbents face challenges, notably Thad Eure and Edwin Gill, while prospects draw attention to female and Black candidates and a possible Republican surge.
High Point councilman Jim Pearce advocates a statewide blue law and says he will move to repeal the city ordinance if the state measure fails. He argues for equity as Greensboro has no blue law while nearby towns allow Sunday shopping. Local merchants say repeal faces opposition from several council members.
The Greensboro High Point Airport Authority formally accepts a 2.15 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin a long planned development of the northwest quadrant. The grant covers half of the 4.3 million funding with the rest from operating income and revenue bonds. Two fixed base operators are approved for leases, Greensboro High Point Air Service Inc. and Atlantic Aero Inc., to provide sale, maintenance and repair of private aircraft with annual land rent at four percent per square foot. Construction is set to start June 1 and expected to complete October 1, with broader relocations and new weather and traffic control facilities planned for the quadrant.
Police arrest 22 year old Phil lip Parrish of James Road on charges of attempted breaking and entering connected to an attempted break-in at Blair Park Golf Course pro shop early today.
A six year old Pfafftown boy, Curtis Wesley Sattenfield, died Sunday after falling from a boat towing a water skier and being caught in the propellers on High Rock Lake. Davidson County deputies described the fatal accident and noted the child's parents were Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Sattenfield.
Three persons were sentenced Monday in district court. Larry Wesley Duncan, 16, Clara Cox Apartments, six months for breaking into a coin operated machine. Leon Curtis Goins, 21, Kent Street, six months for assault causing serious bodily injury plus 30 days for disturbing the peace. Jesse Dunlap received 30 days to six months for multiple public drunkenness. Jessie Tutterow, 17, Sophia, and Mike Moore, 17, Clara Cox, were found guilty of non felonious breaking and entering. Tutterow received a 12 month suspended sentence with probation, Moore two 12 month terms on probation. Thomas Scott Grooms, 24, Walton Street, bound over to Superior Court for forging a $45 check. Jerry McDowell, 17, Vernon Street, six months suspended, $100 fine and costs for false fire alarm. second charge not pressed with leave. Not pressed with leave also in cases of Robert Bynum and Judy Whitley for assault with a deadly weapon and larceny respectively.
Police Chief Paul M. Shore said Capt. Frank Walker is on vacation, stressing his absence does not imply involvement in the Gerald Morgan Insurance and Realty investigation by the North Carolina Insurance Commission. Walker heads the records division. the commission investigates alleged irregularities at the Morgan agency.
A wave of vacancies on High Point boards and commissions tests the new city council. Key posts expiring include five on the Human Relations Commission, school board seat of Thomas Wood, Civil Service Commission terms for Jay Bodenheimer and James Burnley III, and seats on Parks and Recreation, Planning and Zoning, all requiring Democratic and Republican balance. The council must act by June and July.
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