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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1961
Page
13
An 11 year old boy admitted setting his parents two story home at 226 Woodbine St on fire last Thursday night in anger at a teacher who accused him of stealing. Firefighters arrived to a blaze that spread up the wall and into the second story. Juvenile authorities will handle the case.
Two High Point residents addressed the House Judiciary Committee against capital punishment in Raleigh. Activists and church leaders urged abolition, citing uneven enforcement and injustices toward the poor and minorities. The bill would end the death penalty except for certain prison crimes, but no vote was taken.
E Herman Burrows will swap his Guilford County deputy badge for a U S marshal badge in a 2 p m swearing in in Greensboro federal court. Judge Edwin Stanley administers the oath with remarks from Horace Kornegay Walter Crissman L Richardson Preyer and others.
William S. Ward Jr of Duke Power will address the High Point Rotary Club at lunch tomorrow about the Catawba River Development project. Ward is a former U S district attorney and UNC graduate with a Marine Corps background and is married with three daughters, living in Davidson.
High Point authorities hold Marie Norris, 52, on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after a 14 year old boy said he obtained liquor from her. The boy, found intoxicated in public, was placed with juvenile authorities and later at the city detention home. Bond for Norris was set at 300 dollars.
The High Point Tuberculosis Association holds its annual meeting at 7 30 p m in the B N A I Educational Center on N Hamilton Street. Officers will be elected and regional patient service coordinator Mrs Nancy Marley will discuss care at McCain Sanatorium.
A dull day is forecast with fair skies and not-as-cool air tonight dropping to 54 degrees. Tomorrow will bring increasing clouds and warmth with a high around 83, following today’s 78 and yesterday’s 74, with a chance of scattered showers Friday afternoon or evening.
Billy Black, 23, of Davis Street, held on an assault charge after a complaint by Creola Baker. Bond set at 100. Trial date is June. Separate cases involve Richard Hawood Hall and Phillip Eugene Taylor cited for beer and wine ordinance violations. bond 50 each. Dorothy Louise Routh and Ray John Higgins cited for disorderly conduct. trial June 19.
The Harvester's Quartet from Charlotte will headline a Gospel Sing at Lucy Ragdale High School Friday at 8 p.m. The Pinecroft Sedgefield Fire Department sponsors the event for their firemen's fund along with The Rangers Trio from Charlotte and The Carolinians from Albemarle.
Police logged five separate accidents from Monday night into Tuesday afternoon. Details include a 1955 Plymouth crash at Trinity Avenue and Prospect Street with minor injuries to Dallas Smith and a speeding charge, plus four more two car collisions near Tate Street and Green Street intersections with varying damages and citations. A Pontiac driven by Evelyn Tilley suffered a brake failure and pole impact, with witness aid provided and hospital transport.
The street renaming committee revises a large list of changes with public hearings on June 7 at 7 30 p m and June 12 by the planning and zoning commission. Most changes affect wards one and two with many streets renamed to Westchester Drive Eastchester Drive and other new designs subject to City Council approval. A later clean up session will address deferred proposals as the directory goes to press in July.
A 23 year old Fayetteville man Harold Ralph Beaston was sentenced in Superior Court to 3 5 years in state prison for the People s Loan Co armed robbery on February 17 in which $505 was taken. Beaston pleaded guilty and admitted driving the getaway car. Frances Yarborough, a clerk, testified he demanded cash and fled with a companion. Beaston was arrested the next day after a car seen near the scene matched the getaway vehicle. He showed where $214 of the money was hidden.
In Raleigh today Phil Clarke of the High Point Chamber stressed the 10 day Trade Fair in Charlotta October 12 to 21 as an international advertising campaign. W. R. Henderson presided as over 60 chamber executives heard Clarke note global buyer interest and North Carolina’s diversified industry. Promotional kits were to be distributed for local use during the fair.
City councilors postponed ruling on Westchester Drive zone changes for a shopping center until Thursday. The delay followed a committee meeting with several members absent and a required three fourths majority to approve the change. The council will reconvene at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
A prayer from Russell S. Hutchison of Muskingum College in New Concord Ohio asks Almighty God to comfort homes that lost loved ones in service to the country and to bless the world with peace, freedom, and sacrificial living for peace.
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