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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1975
Page
2
C. H. Lockwood serves as vice president while Joe Brown handles editor duties for the Sunday issue dated September 14, 1975. Local newspaper leadership details appear in the masthead listing.
Two leaders who served with valor face voters in November as Jamestown mayor Tom Ragsdale and Archdale mayor Henry York retire from their posts. Ragsdale led Jamestown for over 25 years, bringing urbanized progress with minimal disputes, while York steered Archdale through growth pains and political crises amid later incorporation. Both communities acknowledge their effective leadership and express gratitude.
A week after a riot at Craggy Prison in Asheville the piece notes overcrowding as the underlying cause. The facility once built for 150 holds 225 with dormitory space for 25 inmates, 49 in that dorm. State officials warn of darker days ahead and urge funding for modern prison capacity to prevent further unrest. Public funds are scarce and contentious, delaying improvements and leaving the system strapped. The author calls for decisive action from Raleigh to address explosive public life and recurring incidents.
The piece argues that Congress and the White House are gridlocked over petroleum controls. With price hikes imminent across manufactured goods, industry insists prices would rise only modestly if controls end, while others warn of sharp immediate jumps fueling inflation and recession fears. A local cynic notes gasoline prices already feel intolerably high.
In New York AP reports the Unification Church led by Rev Sung Myung Moon is expanding rapidly with about 30 000 members in the United States. Moon is described as a spiritual father and potential messiah, with critics accusing the movement of domination and mind control while officials defend its structured communal life and intense commitment. The U S officer Neil Salonen notes annual income around 10 million dollars from street sales and properties including training centers in Tarrytown Barrytown and a Manhattan club bought for 1.2 million, plus ranches and 120 communal houses nationwide.
State Treasurer Edwin Gill urges Tar Heel business leaders to buy and donate an 18th century oval Benjamin Franklin portrait by Joseph Siffred Deplessis to the State Art Museum. The loan from the National Gallery of Art highlights free enterprise values and signals strong local support for keeping the piece in Raleigh. The piece, long linked to stamps and U.S. independence, is praised as a bargain and a beacon for Tar Heel business confidence in Americanism.
The public education dispute centers on Dr. Craig Phillips, state superintendent, and W. Dallas Herring with the state Board of Education. They clash over methods and guiding principles, revealing tensions that go beyond routine policy fights and touch on broader school governance.
The National Crime Information Center computer, meant to aid law enforcement, was used to flag more than 4,700 noncriminals. The misuse prompted questions from Sen. Tunney about potential privacy violations and whether Congressmen were monitored. FBI and DOJ defend the system as under control and limited to FBI jurisdiction with a 26 member board.
National analysis by Ernest Cuneo notes Democratic fragmentation and a 33 primary schedule. The piece warns of costly, carnival like contests harming allies, predicts a crowded field with Jackson Wallace Kennedy McGovern Humphrey Muskie Bentsen, and forecasts a convulsive 1976 convention with no immediate relief in sight.
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