High Point Enterprise Page 2A Highlights September 13 1969
Brief items from the September 13 1969 edition covering local notices sports scores and community updates with concise headlines and short summaries.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1969
Page
16
Brief items from the September 13 1969 edition covering local notices sports scores and community updates with concise headlines and short summaries.
A slow warming trend is forecast in North Carolina this weekend with upper 70s today and low 80s Sunday. No rain expected and coastal cloudiness possible while mountain areas stay generally fair. Friday high 78 and morning low 52.
Four men were arrested in Greensboro after a Roxboro police check linked a stolen TV ring to Randolph County thefts. Sheriff Lloyd Brown said more than 80 sets were stolen from Randleman Asheboro Liberty and recovered items value over 4800 dollars with several sets still missing. Greensboro police hold two more suspects in the case.
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners will meet at 9 a m to hear requests for funds for new school buildings and utilities plus zoning measures. Proposals include rezoning watershed residential land to RA-40, a Board of Adjustments powers amendment, and hearings on mobile home location rules. Public hearings on water line extensions near U S 29A and Friendly Road are planned along with bids for GTI and Ragsdale High School related projects.
The High Point Fair ends with a giant square dance at 9 30 p m on the midway in front of the exhibit hall inside the Welch Fair grounds main gate. Music from the Old Music House Boys and caller John Blake are set to lead the event, sponsored by the Jaycees.
Mayor Robert Davis said the city must prove its case to thaw the freeze on new post offices. He noted a Washington visit with postal officials after the Post Office Department froze contracts nationwide under a Nixon administration cutback order.
Thomasville scene reports a High Point man, John Willie Jackson, 22, bound over to Davidson County Superior Court for trial after a Friday Recorder's Court hearing. The 36-year-old victim identified him. bond was refused and he remains jailed awaiting trial.
Three people were injured, none seriously, in a series of Friday accidents on city streets. Mrs. Pearl Hayes Cole said a tire blew, sending her car into a mailbox at Eastchester and Rivermeade Road. Artice Cole sustained minor injuries. Lester Spain and Wanda Fowler collided at S Main and Grimes Streets. Spain injured and Fowler accused of failing to yield. Another crash on English Street near Ward Street left Carl Harrison Branch with injuries. Arnold Reid Gates also involved.
Harold Quincy Leonard 63 of Lexington died at Baptist Hospital Winston-Salem from injuries after a three car crash on Interstate 85 near Lexington on August 25. Five others were injured including Mrs Luna Baker Ingram and six relatives survive. Funeral planned at Mount Tabor United Church of Christ with burial in the church cemetery.
Michael Lee Hudson age 21 of Asheville and Barbara Alice Hickey 16 of Greeneville Tenn married at the 6 684 foot Mount Mitchell observation tower after dark with the state forest service permission. The couple worked at Mount Mitchell State Park last summer and the ceremony occurred above the clouds and drizzle. Loyal Phillips of the Daily Advance highlights the Dismal Swamp as a wild, elusive region with legends of fire pits panthers snakes and ghosts. A tractor incident near Kannapolis leaves Chester D Bost 44 of Landis with multiple injuries but alive. North Carolina Turtle Festival slated Oct 24 at Lillington featuring turtle races and themed attire.
Guilford County Planning Board will hear proposals to create a new R-12M residential district for multi family use with parking rules and lot size standards at 7:30 p m in the administration building. Also on the agenda are rezoning requests for a Sandy Ridge Road restaurant, a NC 68 site for industrial development, Mt Hope Church Road banking, and Andrews Dairy Road residential project.
The Calvary Baptist Gospel Singers of Sanford will perform Sunday morning and evening at St Matthew Holiness Church on Meredith Street. Elder E Gaines will preach in a special service at St Matthew Sunday at 3 p m.
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