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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1975
Page
2
A compact meditation contrasts Galatians virtues with modern fear of kindness and mercy. Lin Yutang laments loss of old values and its impact on the world, urging reflection on goodness patience gentleness and faithfulness. The pair of quotes frames moral guidance and cultural critique.
North Carolina faces a fierce insurance dispute involving John Ingram and St Paul Insurance. Memorial Hospital halted admissions and surgeries except emergencies, prompting debate over who bears responsibility. The public interest lingers as insurers retreat and costs rise.
Dr Bernard Boyd, James A Gray Professor of Religion at UNC Chapel Hill, known for his integral Bible teaching and demanding standards, died at 64 after a heart attack in Charlotte following a church sermon. He lectured for over 25 years, shaping thousands of students and church audiences.
Mecklenburg County Sheriff Don Stahl, noted for inmate tensions, started playing the organ. He recorded himself performing Alley Cat and brought the tape to the office to share the music, hoping to calm the inmates.
The U S wine market faces overproduction after a 1960s 70s boom with California grape expansion doubling grape acreage 1970 to 1974 and wine distribution rising to 360 million gallons in 1974 Cabernet Sauvignon output surging from 760 000 to 2 million cases and expected 6 6 million in 1977 New York growers fear processors will switch to cheaper California product sparking a potential wine war between regions.
A 1974 harvest and falling per capita intake created a 2.6 billion gallon surplus across the nine Common Market countries with cheap Italian red wine flooding into France. French protests led to border taxes struck down by the Commission, which instead offered subsidies to move surplus wine abroad. Future surpluses loom as Europe expects another bumper harvest while American growers face overcapacity and seek relief through storage, aging, and market expansion.
Dwight Davis of the Thomasville Times recounts Rube Eldridge a famed High Point pitcher who thrilled fans at Welch Field with pinpoint control and playful antics. The piece recalls his surprise football help for a High Point High School trip, a lime barrel sideline moment, and a Kings Mountain Shelby ringer controversy, illustrating Eldridge’s enduring local mystique.
A portrait of Rube Eldridge dubbed the Duke of Spero, famed High Point pitcher with a wild John Barleycorn fadeaway, his age shrouded in mystery yet mocked as a Western outlaw. The piece notes Mayor’s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped pushing Help the Handicapped Week October 5 11 and argues hiring the handicapped benefits business by supplying loyal workers. It also surveys a medical school boom bust cycle with rising costs and possible closures across states and institutions including Temple University.
A reader letters discusses the 1975 1976 Secondary Road Improvement Program for Davidson County. The author defends the rating method used by the Highway Commission and Secondary Roads Council to allocate funds, notes traffic counting challenges, and commends councilman Loflin. He argues county needs and cooperation should guide road work across the county.
A reader rebukes Rev Woodrow W Robbins for criticizing the press and claims editors are not servants of the public when their views oppose church doctrine. The writer cites Johnson Nixon and Wall Street as examples of majority power and warns against church censorship of the media across Archdale Thomasville High Point Greensboro Jamestown communities.
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