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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1972
Page
9
A spoof in the style of Nixon Brezhnev talks imagines a Moscow kitchen debate with an electric stove. The piece contrasts free press in the United States with Soviet control, including imagined coercive measures for critics and strict state censorship.
Mail and poll forms are examined by city clerk Mrs. Catherine Harrington as Jaycees publish a blue law survey in The Enterprise. Forms will be collected today and tallied by a certified public accounting firm contracted by the Jaycees.
In Greensboro a 24 year old federal prisoner Roger Dean Spears found hanged by belt in cell block No. 3 of Guilford County jail. Deputy medical examiner Dr Ronald Joyner ruled death a suicide. Spears left a note for his wife and mother. Funeral planned in Virginia with burial at his church cemetery.
Andrews High School Band received 1215 in gifts during a Monday night concert. Directors J. Y. Bell gained contributions from civic groups and sororities to support the Olympics program in Germany. The event featured performances of The Music Man Oliver and other numbers.
D A Rawley longtime president since 1955 will retire from daily duties at The High Point Enterprise Inc Rendell B Terry Jr to succeed him as president Rawley 62 will remain co publisher with Terry and continue in other company roles He started with the Enterprise as a paperboy at age 12 and served 50 years in all duties plus civic leadership roles. Trinity High School class of 1947 holds 25th reunion Sunday at 2 pm in the Trinity Senior High School cafeteria.
Deputy Richard Hughes arrested Mickey Franklin Sykes 32 of 135 Columbus Ave about 1 am for shooting incidents around Archdale park. Police say Sykes not linked to two prior park incidents. Damages at the park total about 3500 dollars since last summer. Sykes resides in Jamestown at 509 Mendenhall Road.
In Oakview Estates, Guilford County contemplates sewer service via High Point policy to share water and sewer outside city lines. County and city officials note no movement to install water lines yet, while High Point hesitates to approve outsider service and recalls past involuntary annexation issues.
The theft investigation into the police department extends with another resignation bringing total resignations to 12 since Friday. Police Chief Laurie Pritchett identifies patrolman C. L. Hendrix of Gaines Court and says no criminal action is planned against him. Six officers face criminal charges. four resignations followed, including Lt. L. J. Boyd and six others. Five dismissals occurred last Friday with further charges, as about $5,000 worth of merchandise recovered so far from Jarrett and Pilkenton at N Main Street.
North Carolina Democratic Chairman John T. Church pledges to keep delegates bound to the primary winners on the first ballot for the 1972 Democratic convention. He says 37 votes for George Wallace and 27 for Terry Sanford, with no first ballot support for other candidates, and warns against any move to ignore the primary results.
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