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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1970
Page
9
High Point's new city lake remains unflooded as a road project, Aberdeen Road, holds up dam closure. City Manager Harold Cheek said part of the road must be raised above water, delaying filling and extending the lake's construction timeline.
City delays in Aberdeen Road and Tanyard Road work affect a new lake project. Cheek warns of flood risks raising lake levels during construction. The contract is worth 347793 dollars after a September bid fallout. Officials now anticipate lake filling to take four to twelve months, delaying recreational opening past next summer.
Police report a weekend burglary at Paul I Fine residence on Wimbledon Place. Detectives say attackers forced a back door and emptied drawers and cabinets. Missing items include cash, appliances, a Merantz stereo, cameras, watches, two antique statues, and more with total value still being tallied. Also reported were vandalism at Emma Blair School and thefts from a doctor’s clinic.
High Point officials push to include Albion Millis Stadium in a 12.5 million bond referendum to fund streets sewers water and school facilities. Schools Superintendent Dr Dean B Pruette backs the stadium as part of the northern High Point complex near the N Main Street by pass citing access and parking needs.
Police pursue three gunmen after a Monday early morning break in at the K mart on N Main Street. Two Winston-Salem workers tied and locked in a bathroom describe masked robbers who opened two safes, with cash estimated at forty to sixty thousand dollars.
Beulah Kinsler McCoy, 41, of W Green Drive, was charged Monday with assault after she struck Oak Hill School teacher Betty C. Massey across the face with a pocketbook at the doorway following a dispute over her niece. She was freed on a $100 bond.
High Point Board of Education moves toward adopting a Model Cities kindergarten program to serve about 350 students in six city schools Parkview Village Leonard Street Emma Blair Fairview Street Cloverdale and Brentwood. Eight teachers 16 aides a social worker a director a secretary a bookkeeper and a bus driver will be hired amid pay and qualification plans.
Special to the enterprise reports on six men and a dog in Combat Tracker Teams in Chu Lai Americal Division. Melvin Rogers, 20, of High Point North Carolina, coordinates a dog Labrador tracker to locate Viet Cong trails while three covermen and a Kit Carson Scout guard and follow. Monsoon rains hamper scent tracking, but leaders predict renewed pressure when the rain ends.
Thomasville city lawmakers adopted an ordinance making it illegal to drink beer wine or other alcoholic beverages in any public place. The measure bans in cars on public streets and in parking lots taunting police and leaving cans on the curb. Councilman Charles R. Eanes cited the dry city gains from reduced bottles headaches and missed tax revenue.
Howard Gaile announced the appointment of Sandra Sasser as a health educator in the High Point area of Guilford County. Sasser, formerly a teacher at Southeast City College in Whiteville, will inform residents about local health programs.
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