High Point Enterprise Seeks Readers on September 18 1971 Page
The Saturday edition highlights Page 2 A content and local notices for September 18 1971. Readers are invited to view sports, society, and community updates in the High Point Enterprise.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1971
Page
2
The Saturday edition highlights Page 2 A content and local notices for September 18 1971. Readers are invited to view sports, society, and community updates in the High Point Enterprise.
Guilford County commissioners face a tangled issue over whether to lift the Sunday beer and wine ban. Enterprise staff writer Jim Hawkins frames the dispute as a long-running local sticking point with no immediate resolution in sight.
Three teachers at Ragsdale High School in Jamestown were named as part time assistant principals. Robert Mills will handle transportation and driving training, A Payne Jr. will oversee attendance, and Michael Raybon will manage student activities and coaching duties. All will remain part time teachers.
Officers investigated two first degree burglaries reported around 7 a.m. at the Doug Goins residence on Montlieu Avenue and a home on Pershing Street. Items stolen included $460 cash and a watch. A license plate was taken from Mattie Mae Bostick's car. Arrests included Horace Bowman Jr. for theft and multiple traffic and weapon charges, Lucilla Wiley for a car battery theft, and several other arrests for disturbances and drunkenness.
Jamestown closed 1970-71 with bonded debt of 6000 and reserves of 680497. Revenue totaled 564491, with expenses at 278817, yielding a 285674 surplus and 65481 in property taxes plus prior-year collections. Auditors noted 467724 unencumbered funds and 212773 un appropriated surplus, with 660000 invested in CDs and plans for a new storage tank and shared street improvements.
Five persons received active terms in District Court on Friday. John Wesley Wright Jr. 31 Greensboro was found guilty on driving during permanent revocation improper registration no liability insurance trespassing and no driver license. Others received 20 days each for public drunkenness. Charles James Bizzell 55 Welborn Street got 40 days for public drunkenness. Mark Strain Hay Street drawn 90 day suspended sentence with 100 dollar fine for DUI. Susan C. Compton 22 Welborn Trailer Park placed on probation for forgery and uttering a forged check. Several charges were nol prossed or continued with leave, and other defendants faced varied outcomes.
The Lexington City School Board appointed William E. Niven as superintendent to replace resigned R. J. Davis. Niven, former Caswell County associate superintendent, will take over within 30 days. Theodore Leonard will revert to associate superintendent. Davis led a controversial junior high reform that was abandoned after its adoption.
Commissioners order final jail plans for a new nine level facility in Greensboro at Eugene and West Streets. The tower will house 260 to 275 prisoners with two unfinished levels for about 128 inmates, plus a parking level and sheriff offices and a heliport on the roof. A tunnel will link to the Guilford County Courts Building as part of the governmental center. Financing comes mainly from an approved bond issue with additional tax funds.
Seven divorces were granted this week during civil session of District Court. Cases include Dorothy G Cruthis versus Bobby Lee Cruthis Rebecca J Schwab versus Harold Milton Schwab Wilson Horace Gulledge versus Opal Echols Gulledge Gerald Michael Black versus Diane Irish Black Karl Thompson versus Martha Thompson Barbara H Austin versus Paul C Austin and Mary Church versus Chester Church.
One person sustained a slight injury in a Friday collision on English Road at Chestnut Street. Mildred Moore Leonard of W Main Street was hurt when her car collided with a vehicle driven by 22 year old Jerry Wayne Peebles of Lindsay Street. Peebles was charged with a safe movement violation.
Thomasville report states 17 year old Ludell Todd of Ward Street was charged with malicious damage to personal property after allegedly tossing a lit cigarette onto Roy Pittman’s auto front seat on September 16. Bond set at 100 dollars pending District Court trial September 30.
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