Week of deaths and notices fill Greensboro region
A sequence of obituaries and funeral notices from Winston-Salem and surrounding towns details the deaths of Clara Mae Melton Rice, Charles Truman Wall, Barney Delbert Simmons, Claude Lee Hicks, Eva Timmons Rankins, Mildred Perry Tillery, Gerald Van Beaver, and Joseph Trewfoot Harbin. Services are announced with locations in Springfield Friends Meeting, Vogler’s, Smith Memorial Chapel, Balfour Baptist Church, and Pugh Funeral Home among others, with burial plans and family/viewing details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Mae Melton Rice
Glenmore Dr
High Point Memorial Hospital
Rice
Yadkin County
Hensley B
Mary
Catherine Nelson Melton
High Point Area
Springfield
Charlie B. Rice
Chester R. Rice
Rt. 2
Trinity
C.otis Rice
Durham
Woody
Grace) Thomas
Abbie Avenue
Louis
Helen) Huff
Eastchester
Oscar
Iris) Ellington
Glenmore
Kent
Dorothy) Barneycastle
Rt. 5
High Point
Mealie Brown Medlin
Clara Cox
Springfield Friends
T. Wall
Winston-Salem
Charles Truman - Wall
Waldorf Circle
Fred Bieberdorf
Austin
Tex
Greensboro
Winston- Salem
Winston-Salem Truck and Tractor Co
Tru-Wall Steel Co
First Presbyterian, Church
Lion’s’ Club
Forsyth Country Club
Greater Greensboro
Lions Club
Jaycees Oldtimer’s Club
Maude Vickery
Pleasant Garden
Farmer
Shirley Wall
Randleman
Walter E
Falls River
Mass
Gene Hicks
Siler City
Hal Hicks
Fulton
Miss
Claude L. Hicks Jr
Hampton
James W. Hicks
Will Fuller
Asheboro
American Cancer Society
Balfour Baptist Church
Tom Patterson
T. W. Nelson
Neighbor's Grove Wesleyan Church
Ridge Funeral Home
Arthur Rankins
Eva Timmons Rankins
Larkin St
L. Richardson Hospital
Bass Chapel
Minnie Lee Summers
Washington
Mildred Miller
Lenora Pleasants
Annie Smith
Henry Timmons
Paul Timmons
Brooklyn
N.Y
Eddie Timmons
Levi Rankins
Lexie Bennett
Charlotte
Glennie Jackson
Monroe
Roenna Artis
Smith Memorial Chapel
Eugene Black
Maplewood Cemetery
Smith Funeral Home
Paul Tillery
Mildred Perry Tillery
Academy St
Tillery
Pittsboro
Jeter
Mamie Hamlet Perry
Scotland Neck
Don’s
Nella P. Wheaton
Wayland
Ohio
Jasper O. Perry
Florence
D.C
Gordon H. Perry
Burton Street
Milton E. Perry
Washington, DC
Brown's Chapel Methodist Church
Arthur Wesley
Charles Stafford
Floral Garden Park
Academy St. Charlotte
Brown’s Chapel Cemetery
G. V. Beaver
Gerald van Beaver
McMaster St
Randolph Hospital
Randolph County
Ernest Beaver
Gerald van Beaver Jr
Vanessa Beaver
Wayne
Homer Beaver
Brenda Faye Aldridge
Allene Hardison
New Bern
Fayetteville Street Baptist Church
Adrian Pugh
Randolph Memorial Park
Pugh
J.T. Harbin
North Carolina Peanuts Damaged by Frost Says Official
Joe Sugg executive secretary of the North Carolina Peanut Growers Association reports 8 to 10 percent of the Tar Heel peanut crop damaged by frost last week. He cautions that full damage assessment awaits harvest completion in two to three weeks and notes stolen peanuts will fetch about $100 per ton less than normal due to reduced quality.
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Raleigh
Joe
Sugg
North Carolina Peanut Growers Association
Cross Examination Sparks Tense Police Hearing
In High Point a council hearing features sharp exchanges as Mrs Gray and attorneys question Hussey and Wright about police gambling allegations. Cross examination of witnesses implicated in police wrongdoing proceeds under a court order, with deputies denying misconduct.
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Hussey
Koonce
Wright
John Haworth
Pritchett
ABC
Frank Dunbar
Haworth
Dunbar
Rac‘n Cue
George Leverett
W. L. Crisco
Council
Clapp Ties Shaw Cooke to Rac n Cue in Gamble Probe
High Point Mayor Paul Clapp allegedly told Sgt. Billy W. Rich that Lt. Shaw Cooke worked inside a Rac n Cue gambling club as a guard during a private 1972 conversa tion. Rich testified amid City Council probes into police gambling activities and linked Chief Laurie Pritchett to the Rac n Cue.
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Vencarver Enterprise
High Point
Paul Clapp
Shaw Cooke
High Point Police Dept
Rac ’N Cue
Billy W. Rich
Clapp
Cooke
Rich
Luke Wright
Roy Culler
Laurie Pritchett
Wright
Pritchett
Witness details alleged ABC improprieties and LE agency disputes
A witness recounts discussions of gambling investigations, claims of suppressed charges, and attempts by Perry Hatcher to offer a $200 gift. He describes ABC probes into liquor gambling and prostitution, a challenged beer license, and a home visit tied to a brown bagging permit. He also says he was fired as an ABC agent.
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Dunbar
Rac 'N Cne
Perry Hatcher
Hatcher
Sheraton
ABC
Avondale Drive
Secret secretary links chief with Rac n Cue owner
Testimony described strange telephone calls near the secretary’s home and disputes over personal calls paid for at headquarters. FBI background on Hatcher showed prior gambling and prostitution arrests with one gambling conviction. The Rac n Cue license case featured chief Pritchett’s defense of a “family-type” establishment. Wade faced demotion after demerits and tax issues.
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Jerry
Haas
Ray Hussey
al Boling
Hatcher
Lansdown Avenue
Myra Caudle
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gibson
Pritchett
Albany
Staley
Wright
FBI
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B. D. Simmons Ashebord
Barney Delbert Simmons
Ridge Funeral Chapel
J. B. Gibson
Cheek
N.C. Peanuts
Alcoholic Beverage
String & Splinter Club
Persian Room
Sheraton Hotel
Sgt
Lexington Ave
Alvintiet B. Drvetab and
Narional
Elizabeth Remfrey Jenking
Sechroal Chapel
Hina
Camby, Mortuary
Mildred P. Tillery
Tla.m. Brown's Chapel
United Methodist Church
Pimsboro
Mvamarlat
Clara M. Rice
Springiaid Friends Aapating
Cording
Rac
N Cue
N. Main Street
Rich Said
North Carolina
State Attorney General’s Office
Rachel Gray
Culler
Spain Hour
City Hall
Police Department
Wade
State Attorney General
J. C. Welch Motor Co
Mary Kitchen
Reape
Jash