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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1975
Page
3
City crews remove trees on Westchester Drive near Main Street to clear space for utility poles as the four lane widening proceeds. Construction slated to start after Christmas, according to Mark Austin.
The Employment Security Commission reports the October unemployment rate in North Carolina dropped from September's 7.3 percent to 11.7 percent. Despite seasonal factors, the state shows a positive trend since March with 177,200 job seekers, down from 183,800 in September and 298,600 last March, while manufacturing and nonmanufacturing sectors saw higher activity.
High Point police hunted a 19 year old black man found hiding in the back seat of a car in Westchester Mall parking lot. A warrant names James Edward Brown for felonious auto breaking and entering with intent to commit secret assault. The man fled but was captured after a pursuit. items including gloves wire and a knife sheath were found on him. Other local thefts and damages were reported including gas missing from a Union 76 station and multiple car break ins and burglaries. Arrests included Gwinn Hedrick, 19, of Jamestown.
High Point police Chief Donald Roseman is to be released from Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem today after admission earlier in the week for tests to determine the cause of shortness of breath.
The High Point Enterprise notes advertising and delivery details including mail rates and local carrier information. It lists contact and payment terms for subscriptions and carriers, and acknowledges Associated Press news distribution and reproduction rights.
District Court Judge Byron Haworth Friday sentenced Dennis Albertson, 16, of Carey Street to 55 hours in jail on a charge of public use of a fire hydrant. Six teens were arrested July 20 after allegedly turning on about 30 hydrants in the city. Prayer for judgment was continued to October to allow 8 hours of civic work. Albertson failed to complete 80 hours, activating the jail term.
Santa Claus schedules multiple events in High Point starting Monday at Westchester Mall with a giant space sleigh for free rides over three days. He will visit Sears downtown on a fire ladder truck and host breakfast at High Point Mall at 9:30 a.m. Friday before appearing in the Christmas Parade on Main Street at 9 p.m. Thanksgiving Day.
State auditor Henry L. Bridges reports several agencies and institutions are generally slow in paying bills, harming cash discounts and raising supplier costs. He cites three university campuses a state hospital a community college and two agencies on a delinquent list while urging faster procedures amid ongoing treasurer office confusion.
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners allocated funds for a new High Point county center to house health and welfare services plus a 20 acre tract near the Presbyterian Home for a boarding home and county center. They also set aside 914,906 for a sanitary landfill pulverizer program and 282,239 for courthouse renovations. Other unused last year funds supported Evergreens nursing homes and various planning costs as bond and budget figures trace back to a 1974-75 appropriation.
District Court bound over several defendants after preliminary hearings. Winton E Rogers of Rt 1 Mt Airy faced armed robbery and kidnapping charges for the Sept 19 Peacock Massage Parlor incident, allegedly threatening two employees with a hunting knife. Frank Witherspoon, 33, was bound over on assault on a minor with intent to commit tape and received concurrent two year terms for contributing to delinquency of minors. Larry T Middlebrooks, 21, bound over for armed robbery at Elder Drug Co. on Nov 11 with $168 stolen by pistol threat. Four defendants, Jackie M Byers, William C Hiatt, William R Smith, and Jimmy Mabe, were bound over on felony drug counts. Byers also received a six month suspended sentence and a $50 fine for marijuana misdemeanor. Joan Smith’s preliminary hearing found no probable cause for felonious possession of marihuana.
George Cofield Armstrong 27 of Rt. 3 Trinity was injured at 1 12 a m when his car left Burton Avenue near Royal Oak Avenue and struck a utility pole. He faced a speeding charge after claiming a front tire blew out. Damages: $1000 to a 1967 model car and $400 to the pole.
ASHEBORO An Archdale man Claude H Milan Jr charged with running a red light and speeding after his car collided with two others at N Fayetteville and Presnell Streets Police say Milan was taking his mother in law to the hospital Two cars demolished a third damaged The injured include Milan s wife and two people in another car Peter W Preimats and his wife both of Asheboro None believed to be seriously hurt.
Angela Dawn Jordan, 21, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Garland Jordan, captured Miss Thomasville 1976 and Miss Congeniality honors at Civic Auditorium. She, a Greensboro law firm employee and Thomasville High graduate, wore a tangerine gown with ostrich feather trim and performed the Charleston to Little Cake Walk. Contestants were judged on stage presence talent and swimsuit with top prizes totaling 980 plus a Miss Congeniality bond. Jordan advances to Miss North Carolina in Winston-Salem in June.
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