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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1970
Page
3
Paul E Yergens publisher of House Beautiful will address a joint Rotary Club and Chamber Coffee Club at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church dining room Thursday. He will discuss home furnishings ahead of the Fall furniture show opening.
Guilford County Board of Commissioners will hear multiple rezoning requests in rural Guilford including Center Grove Township agricultural land changing to a new R-20MH mobile home district. Other items include water sewer contracts with High Point and routine business items from County Manager Witherspoon and County Attorney McNairy.
New York AP Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist party in the United States, says he will donate $500 he won in a New York state lottery to the Daily World, the party newspaper. Dorothy Robinson comments the gift goes to a good cause and notes Hall did not win the million-dollar drawing.
The Defense Department reports Marine S. Sgt. Theodore T. Rowley of Jacksonville North Carolina was killed in action during the Southeast Asia conflict.
Asheboro reports three men Paul Wayne Freedle 32 of Lawsonville Larry Mathews Boles 22 of High Point and Charles Ray Edwards 36 of High Point posted 300 appearance bonds for Nov 10 court appearance. They were caught Tuesday at a submarine style still near Sophia. A fourth man a lookout fled and remains unidentified.
Clifton Hardin McMahan son of Mr and Mrs Cliff McMahan of High Point elected vice president of the Wake Forest freshman class. He is a Ragsdale High School graduate and was senior class president.
The Carousel Theatre of High Point presents its first season with Gabriel Ghost at Memorial Auditorium High Point College. The Monday and Tuesday performances target elementary students and showcase the new theater program.
Radio and television soloist Bill Kirkpatrick will present a sacred concert at 10 a m Sunday at Holly Hill Wesleyan Church. The Rev Forbis Kivett says rally day boosts Sunday school attendance and nursery care will be available. More than 1800 season tickets were sold for Children’s Carousel Theatre across High Point with plans for annual productions. The Carousel Theatre is led by Mrs Frank Wood Jr with three plays planned for the first season and Maximillion Productions of New York City producing Gabriel Ghost.
Highway patrol detained Edward Murphy Jr. 19 East Spencer James Johnson 32 Salisbury and John Henry Johnson 52 Williams Street on drunken driving charges. Police charged Richard Jerome Davis with assaulting Phillip Greene with a knife.
Ronald V. Willard Abbotts Creek Township registrar will register unregistered voters for the November 3 election at Wallburg Fire Station. He will be present from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and next Saturday offering in person registration.
Esta Machine Corp a Gottlieb Eppinger subsidiary will open a High Point office on 329 N Main St to serve 20 000 machines sold in 60 countries. Miroslav Zejda will run the operation with his family moving to High Point. A private show of Gottlieb Eppinger seamless automatic machines runs November 24 26.
Firemen tackled two unusual alarms Friday. A Kayby Hosiery Mills false alarm came after a telephone repairman burned a wire. Later at the city dump a spark ignited cotton on the back of a 1963 truck owned by Southern Frame Co and operated by Raymond Wampler. Damage not believed extensive.
The statement notes a bill lowering costs as a major step for education and easing tensions toward racial harmony. It credits Preyer with keeping promises and guiding progress.
The Daily News & Record surveys the national race politics shift sparked by Senator Ribicoff and liberal critics. It highlights Rep. Richardson Preyer and Rep. Nick Galifianakis proposing a unitary school bill to calm the confusing desegregation debate and advance a practical national policy.
A public notice states that funds are paid for by the Preyer for Congress Committee, indicating campaign financing support for a congressional candidate.
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