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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1970
Page
17
The High Point Enterprise reports on events from Friday afternoon November 20, 1970. This brief item notes local happenings and community concerns in the High Point area with focus on civic matters and public notices.
Art Buchwald recalls Al Capp at a $150 plate Republican dinner honoring Vice President Spiro Agnew. Buchwald mocks the endless fundraising circuit, calls for saving Agnew’s liver, and jokes about White House pressures and press figures aiding the VP’s plight.
The High Point Board approves a Model Cities kindergarten for about 350 five year olds and ties it to salary boosts for aides at $357 a month. Critics warn of mass walkouts by secretaries, cafeteria workers and janitors unless all salaries rise. A study committee will examine pay inequities as federal approval is expected and full start may come in January.
Susan Dee Thomas, 10, daughter of H. E. and Mrs. Thomas of 1711 Norwood Ct, won a World Globe for a question she sent to Ask Andy. She is a Parkview Village School fifth grader who studies ballet, tap, jazz, plus skating and swimming. Her inquiry asked where watermelons originated. Andy answered with a history of watermelons from Africa to Egypt and Europe.
Five teens and one man are held on kidnapping and related robbery charges after allegedly forcing a victim to drive to remote locations, with a knife threat and an armed confrontation at a service station. A preliminary hearing is expected next week, and bonds are set low or denied.
J. E. Bassett Sr., Virginia furniture magnate and Bassett Furniture Industries chairman, received the James T. Ryan Award at the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association annual meeting in Atlanta. The accolade honors significant contributions to the Southern furniture industry, citing Bassett as “a giant of a man” and noting his leadership roles across Bassett Veneer Co., Bassett Mirror Co., and other boards. David J. Brown received a Distinguished Service Award for work with the Home Furnishings Council.
Education agreed to reimburse Bennett Advertising Co. for out of pocket expenses tied to the preschool public relations work. Bennett’s total costs reached about $16,050, funded under a loose agreement with the school board to support a community relations program linked to desegregation efforts and the United Schools Committee.
High Point model flying groups the Exchange Club and the Spinners Club face eviction from the city dump by January 1. The City Council asked the parks department to help relocate the facility, weighing landfill needs against a valued youth activity amid neighbor complaints and noise concerns.
Two James town Jaycees representatives Jim Foster and Jack Perdue attend the North Carolina Jaycee convention in Wilmington with about 1200 Jaycees from across the state. Gordon Thomas national Jaycee president will speak tonight and Gov. Robert Scott will speak Saturday.
Richard M. Simmons Jr. of American of Martinsville Va. elected SFMA president for one year at Atlanta meeting. Spilman of Bassett Furniture becomes SFMA board chair. Joseph T. Frye Jr. Athens Red Co. named vice president with Stevens re-elected. two new one year directors chosen.
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