Juvenile Charged in Four Burglaries in High Point
A 13 year old was taken into custody after allegedly breaking into four occupied homes Friday night and today on Cedrow Avenue Oberlin Drive O'Neill Street and through windows with a butcher knife. Police tied him to earlier burglaries including five others and a $50 cash theft from trousers. Meanwhile narcotics officers seized over an ounce of cocaine from three men in separate incidents on Greensboro Road and Kearns Avenue. Other arrests include a Trinity man and a E Kearns resident for marijuana and methaqualone, and a Thomasville man for illegal needle possession. A man reported home break in on Richardson Street losing a pistol and holster valued at 190 dollars. A storage shed at Top Deal Motors was broken into with tires gear shift parts and caps stolen. Police note the juvenile story continues on 3A.
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High Point
Tri House
Cedrow Avenue
Martin McMahan
Cedrow
Victor Nealey
Oberlin Drive
Jewel Cameron
O'Neill Street
Woody Ray Pitts
William Brax
Ter Morrow
Hickory
George Schley Pitts
Newport Beach
Calif
Greensboro Road
Kearns Avenue
Jimmy Ray Murray
Trinity
Allen Wayne Walden
E. Kearns
Walden
Kilby Don Henley
Thomasville
John Douglas
Richardson Street
Top Deal Motors
N. Main Street
Davidson Social Worker Honored Davidson County
Kathryn Dickens of Davidson County has been named employee of the year by the Division of Services for the Blind, North Carolina Department of Human Resources. She received the award at a Raleigh banquet tied to Light Conservation and Work for the Blind Month proclaimed by Gov. Holfhouser Jr. Dickens, who became blind as an adult after a career as a home economics teacher, was retrained and joined the division in 1946. She has trained many workers statewide and now supervises a large portion of the north central region.
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Davidson County
Kathryn Dickens
N.C
North Central
Miss North Carolina Heads To Miss America Finale
Atlantic City reports Miss North Carolina Susan Lawrence among 50 finalists for the Miss America pageant. A bus from Thomasville carried well wishers with a banner praising her. California won swimsuit, Montana the talent, while Lawrence faced judges in interviews amid pageant preparations.
GOP Sets Meetings in Guilford County on Sept 15
The GOP will hold biennial organizational meetings at polling places on September 15 at 7 30 p.m. Delegates to the county convention and precinct officials will be elected. High Point Township polling sites include Central High Gym Ferndale Junior High Kirkman Park School Emerywood Baptist Montleu William Penn City County Guilford County Brentwood Blair Park Oak Hill W F W Post Oakview Northeast Allen Jay Presbyterian Home Grange Hall Union Hill.
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Guilford County
High Point Township
Central High
Ferndale Junior High
Kirkman Park
Emerywood Baptist Church
Montleu
William Penn
Northwood
Johnson Street
Tomlinson
Brentwood School
Blair Park
Oak Hill School
W.F.W. Post
Oakview School
Northeast Junior High
Allen Jay High
Presbyterian Home
Grange Hall
Union Hill School
Susan Griffin Seeks Singing Career Through Miss America
Susan Lynn Griffin of High Point Miss North Carolina 1974 and a nonfinalist talent winner in last year’s Miss America pageant is in Atlantic City for the finals. She tours Europe with the USO, has a Nashville recording contract, nightclub bookings in Nevada, and an album titled Susan Sings in the works. Griffin says she has her foot in the door as she eyes a singer’s career, prefers singing to dancing, and plans to return to Europe for performances.
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Atlantic City
North Carolina
California
Janet Jay Carr
Montana
Diana Lynn Pacini
Miss North Carolina
Convention Hall
Colton Manor
Ben Maree
Thomasville
Robert Marks
N.J
Susan Lynn Griffin
High Point
George M. Cohan
Jim Wilkins
Phyllis George
Debbie Ward
Nashville
Nevada
Europe
USO
Susan
Miss Griffin
Ervin L. Griffin
Atlantic
Garbage Truck Goes Haywire
James Willie Glenn Jr., 50, of S Elm Street was injured Friday at 12 30 p m in an unusual traffic mishap on Fraley Road near Brevard. Glenn, driver of a city sanitation truck, pulled a lever to pack the trash but the top door opened striking overhead telephone wires and tipping the truck on its side. Damage to the truck was estimated at 1500 dollars.
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James Willie Glenn Jr
S. Elm Street
Fraley Road
Brevard Road
Glenn
Total Dips Permits Show Increase In House Construction
High Point Inspections Division issued 18 new dwelling permits in August valued at 426,950, down from May and July levels but still a rising share of 1975 housing activity. Total August permit value reached 738,883 while June led the year at 2,455,600. August 1975 also trails August 1974 in value. Nonresidential activity eased in July to four projects valued at 30,440.
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High Point
Freeman Hill
Still Teaching The Basics Education Fuss 'Just Politics'
Bill Noblitt examines the North Carolina education debate as Raleigh power struggles contrast with local work. Roanoke Rapids Superintendent Joseph W. Talley defends basics and local control while highlighting system milestones from kindergarten to career education and efforts for gifted programs.
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Roanoke Rapids
Raleigh
North Carolina
Craig Phillips
Joseph W. Talley
Sytem
Phillips
Chair City Is Picked For Meet
Davidson County commissioners plan their first Thomasville meeting in years in the Randolph Street library basement at 9 a.m. They may hold bimonthly sessions there if voter interest is strong. The agenda includes creating a women status study panel, animal control rules, noise limits, gun discharge rules, and massage parlors. A state sewer grant acceptance, joining a regional highway study group, and appointments to the county jury commission and board of adjustments are also on the docket.
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Thomasville
Davidson County
Randolph Street
County Board of Adjustments
Jamestown Town Council and Mayor Candidates Set
Filing for Jamestown mayor and four council seats closes with a full slate. Joseph P. Slade Jr joins candidates Linda Marsh Donald Logue W. Ray Long John W. Adams and incumbents Millard Firesheets Robert Green William E. King for nonpartisan two year terms. Slade, a Jamestown native and Town employee, seeks office for the first time.
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Jamestown
Jamestown Town
Joseph P. Slade, Jr
Mendenhall Road
Slade
Linda Marsh
Donald Logue
W. Ray Long
John W. Adams
Millard Firesheets
Robert Green
William E. King
Harold Hall
Ralph Wyrick
High Point College
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Bruce Robertson
High Point National
NBC
Susan Lawrence
Mount Royal Motor Hotel
S. Park Place
Pacific Avenue
King’s College
Charlotte
High Point Enterprise
GOP
Susan Griffin
Griffin
Hill
Bill Noblitt
Pues
Donda
Church Pub
Associated
Associated Press
AP News
High Point Enterprise, Inc
Ward-Griffith Company
National Advertising
Out of
General Assembly
State Board of Education
Talley
Halifax County
Weldon
Ihe
Chair
Meet
Charles Turner
Joseph Slade
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