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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1971
Page
11
A dramatic domestic scene unfolds during a football game as a couple argues over a car theft and family arrivals. The wife frets about safety and interruptions while the husband remains fixated on the TV, prompting a cascade of clashes about police action a home visit from their son and news of a grandchild amid ongoing game coverage.
Eight openings in High Point Parks and Recreation through the New Careers program invite low income residents 18 or older to apply. Males meeting poverty standards may train as recreational leaders or park caretakers with instruction at Guilford Technical Institute and on the job with the Parks and Recreation Department. Interviews will be in Greensboro after preliminary applications at Southside or Eastside centers.
John Edgar Williams, 32, of Old Mill Road, was in satisfactory condition in High Point Memorial Hospital after being shot by his father James Rufus Williams, 75, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. The elder Williams said the son threatened him twice and he fired after the second threat. Several unrelated crimes followed in the same report period, including car thefts, vandalism at Kirkman Park and Northeast Junior High, shoplifting incidents at K mart, and multiple DUI arrests.
The article discusses High Point voters possibly facing a third or fourth referendum on ABC liquor stores after November 6. Since 1955 referendums have occurred every three years, with votes in 1955 1965 and 1968 driven by citizens groups or Jaycees. No active coalition is pressing a fourth referendum, and the City Council would need 15 percent of registered voters on petitions to schedule an election.
Judge E D Kuykendall endorsed the 75000 dollar High Point counseling and guidance program to unlock frozen federal LEAA funds. Youth Unlimited will run pretrial evaluations probation support and preventive activities aiding 600 to 800 youths with police cooperation and court counseling services.
Guilford County continues road name sign installation in rural townships under a Board of Commissioners program. Planning Director Perttu Virtanen reports 11 of 15 townships completed with summer student crews placing white on black signs on metal poles. New official road names are being mapped and a county map updating system is under contract, due next two months.
An apartment fire in Belmont North Carolina on Saturday killed 5 year old Kelly Moses and hospitalized three family members along with four firefighters. Injured were her father Charles Moses two brothers Frankie 10 and Billy Wayne 3 and one firefighter with burns and three treated for smoke inhalation.
Gov. Bob Scott will address the University of North Carolina Faculty Club at the Carolina Inn on Oct. 5 at 12 30 p.m. He will discuss his proposal to dismantle the six campus UNC system and merge 16 state colleges into one under a single governing board with strong centralized authority.
Arch ie K. Davis of Winston-Salem says it will take time to fix the nation's economy and endorses Nixon's wage-price freeze as sound. He urges continuation of controls tied to production or consumer prices, cites rising unemployment and trade deficits, and notes Congress must cut spending or raise taxes. Davis calls Nixon phase one of a two part plan and sees advisers urging a tailored phase two.
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