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J Record Expected County Voter Books Active By JIM HAWKINS Enterprise Staff Writer GREENSBOHO - Voter registration has been active throughout Guilford County, according to Mrs. Dorothy Welch, executive secretary for the Guilford County Board of Elections. Mrs. Welch said the activity is especially “brisk” so early in the season prior to the na tional elections in November, and that she expects the flow of new registrants to increase as the registration deadline approaches. Not only are the Board of Election offices in Greensboro and High Point receiving calls and registering new voters, but registrars in precincts scattered about the county are reporting activity, Mrs. Welch said. Slie said that, although some of the recent registrants are registering as members of the new American Independent Party (about 60 at the end of last week), most are regis tering as Democrats o r Republicans, with the Demo crats in tlie majority. The outlook, Mrs. Welch indicated, is for the total voter registration in Guilford County for tile Nov. 5 election to reacli approximately 92,000, a Thursday Luncheon Gov. Moore Is To Speak Here A panel discussion built around the theme “The Role of Handicapped Workers in Today’s Labor Market” will be one of the highlights of the annual meeting of the Gover nor’s Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped in High Point tomorrow. The event which is expected to bring people interested in employment of handicapped workers from communities throughout the state will also feature an address by Gov. Dan K. Moore. Gov. Moore will speak at a luncheon session scheduled for 12:30 p. m. at the Top of the Mart area in the Southern Furniture Exposition Building. He will present a number of “meritorious awards” for work by individuals and firms in the field of securing jobs for handicapped persons. The visitors will b e welcomed to High Point by Frank Wood, president of the local Chamber of Commerce, who will represent Mayor Itobert Davis. 'Die mayor is scheduled to preside over a City Council meeting while the morning session of the handi capped committee is under way. Plans call tor the session to open at 10 a. m. in the Top of the Mart area, with Stephen H. Van Every, chairman of the Governor’s Committee on Employment of the Handi capped, presiding. The panel discussion will fol low the invocation by Rev. Philip Shore, Jr., superinten dent, High Point District of the United Methodist Church and the welcome by Wood. Panel members and their subjects are H. Paul Mess- mer, deputy assistant execu tive secretary of the Presi dent’s Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped, who will speak on Employment Techniques in Employment of the Handicapped; Ralph Gur ley, vice president of adminis trative and industrial relations lor Heritage Manufacturing new record. She said, “I’m al most sure, in view of the num ber of registrations we have not yet filed and those to come, that we’ll set a new rec ord.” She said that mucli of the time of those in her office “is spent answering telephoned questions and in helping at the front counter” in the building located on West Market Street near the courthouse. “We’re a little behind,” she added. Residents have until 6:30 p. m. Oct, 14 to get their names on the voter registration books in order to be able to vote in the general election Nov. 5. Mrs. Welch said that this year special provisions for lliose people who have lived in the state more than 60 days but not a year when they will meet standard residence re quirements will go into effect to allow the recent arrivals to vote in the presidential con test. She urged that those interested in this provision contact her office. Plans now call for assignment of 50 of the coun ty’s new voting machines to Greensboro and rural pre cincts and for use of the remaining 10 machines in the High Point area. The recently arrived machines are now be ing prepared with interlock units so that all machines in the county will be alike. The addition of the new vot ing machines brought tlie number owned by the county to 121. Guilford County had 61 machines in use in 26 rural precincts. In addition, Greensboro has 78 machines for use in 29 pre cincts, and High Point has 35 machines for use in 20 pre cincts. Besides the races for politi cal offices, the machines on Nov. 5 will also carry two is sues involving possible amend ments to the Constitution of North Carolina. Governor Moore Co., who will speak on “The Employment of the Handi capped.” Claude A. Myer, state direc tor of the North Carolini V 0 c a t ional Rehabilitation Agency, will speak o n “Innovations in R e h a b i 1 i- tation;” Dr. Thomas A. Stein, professor of Curriculum of Recreation and Education at Hie University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill, will speak on “Architectural Barriers,” and Robert Davis, a Salisbury attorney and past state com mander of the American Legion, will speak on “Em ployer Responsibility for the Returning Disabled Veteran.” The luneheon will follow tlie panel discussion. Van Every will preside at this event which will be featured by Gov. Moore's address and by presentation of awards. Also on the agenda is a talk by James Massenburg of Raleigh, executive secretary of the Governor’s Committee. The event is being sponsored by the High Point Mayor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the Employment Security Commission. THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE Wednesday Afternoon, Sept. 18, 1968 . . . SECTION C City Board Of Education Integration Issue Agenda By RAY HUBBARD Enterprise Staff Writer The High Point Board of Ed ucation is expected tomorrow to begin discussions which could lead eventually to the elimination of the four remaining all-Negro schools here. The geographical boundaries which presently determine the attendance areas for the city schools will be taken up at tomorrow’s regular board meeting at 2 p.m. at the Administration Building on Engli.sh Road. The board agreed in July to act as a committee of the whole to study the school integration problem after a local attorney brought up the matter. Sammie Chess Jr., the attorney who represented the Negro children in the lawsuit which led to the integration of most city schools, said in July that he intended to reopen the matter in federal court, unless the school board took positive action to eliminate the tour all-Negro schools—Griffin Jun ior High and Leonard Street, Fairview Street and Parkview Village elementary schools. The matter was sidetracked in August when the school board learned that delays in construction of the new An drews High School threatened to disrupt the opening of school. Meanwhile, the High Point Human Relations Commission lias taken up the integration issue and has asked Chess and the .school attorney, Dan P. Whitley Jr., to appear at the next meeting of the commis sion to discuss the matter. In informal discussions, members of the school board apparently have decided to make an in depth study of the problem in order to find a workable solution. The lour all-Negro schools are located in all-Negro neighborhoods and to integrate them probably will mean pair ing of schools or busing stu dents. Thei'e has been some discus sion of redrawing the geographical boundaries for the various school districts in order to balance racially the student bodies at each school. Plans are being made by school board members to meet with the city planning depart ment to find out just where the Negro population lives and to establish population trends. 'Ibis information will be used to draw new school bound aries, if necessary. In other matters the board tomorrow: —Will discuss progress on completion on Andrews construction. Dr. Dean B. Pru- etle. superintendent, said today that the work “is mov ing along.” He said that it now appears that the general con tractor, J. R. Graham & Son, will be able to turn over the cafeteria about the end of September. It will take consid erably longer to complete the auditorium. —View preliminary plans for an addition to Leonard Street Elementary School. When completed the school will fiave about 26 classrooms. —View preliminary plans for new tejinis courts at Cen tral High School. —Consider a request from the Guilford County Board of Commissioners to transfer $510,000 from the High Point School funds to Guilford Technical Institute funds in order that GTI might take advantage of federal funds. The funds will be replaced in the High Point Schools fund at a later date. High Point Resident- Marine Is Recuperating From Wounds At Khe Sanh Only Slightly Garbage Problem Seems Improved Tommy Doing Well After His Surgery Duke Hospital physicians said today that they are “well pleased" with the condition of 3-year-old Tommy Jones who is recovering from open heart surgery performed Monday. Surgeons performed a 45- minute operation on the tot last night to remove two small blood clots from the area of the original operation. Tommy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jones of 1414 Cook St., underwent five hours of surgery Monday to correct a congenital deficiency of the heart. The great blood vessels leading from the heart were transposed. Doctors said today that they are "well pleased with his progress," but that he is still a "very sick little boy." He spoke to his mother to day for the first time since the operation. By RAY HUBBARD Enterprise Staff Writer Marine Lance Corporal Mike Welch sits on the front porch of his home at 1807 Brentwood St, these days and lets the warm rays of the autumn sun heal his body. Sometime in the near future he expects to receive in the mail a formal discharge from the United States Marine Corps, signifying a permanent end to his military career. As life-long mementoes of his little more tnan a year in the Marines he will have his discharge certificate, a Purple Heart and two badly battered limbs. He had intended to make the Marine Corps his career. Oct. 20, Mike will be 20. He hopes to spend his birthday at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Welch. Oct. 8, he goes back to the Veterans Hospital in Durham for treatment, but expects to be allowed to come home again in about a week. Ahead lor the next year or so will be more trips to Durham, long hours at home reading, sketching, figuritig out a future, getting whole again. Young Welch entered the Marine Corps in July of last year. On Jan. 5 of this year he arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division at Khe Sanh. Khe Sanh is the fortress in the north of S. Vietnam held “at all costs” lor several months last winter and then abandoned as having n o significant military value to Allied forces. On Jan. 20, Mike and three fellow Marines set out at dusk to establish an observation By FORREST CATES Enterprise Staff Writer “We’re working on it” was the answer to questions from city councilmen yesterday on progress in solving the city’s garbage dilemma. City Manager Harold Cheek noted a slight improvement in the manpower situation in the sanitation division. He offered no immediate prospect, however, of a return to two garbage pick-ups per week. Service was recently cur tailed to one pick-up a week. Officials said that the stop was necessary because they couldn’t find men to man the garbage collection crews. Discussing the problem yes terday, Mayor Robert Davis told councilmen that he had received few complaints from citizens concerning the re duced service. Other council- men, however, said they had a number of calls, “I feel that the manager and his staff are doing all they can to solve the problem,” com mented Councilman Fred Swartzberg. “Generally speak ing,” he added, “I think the citizenry understands that.” The councilmen turned to the subject of garbage collections while meeting as a committee- of-the-whole. During the session, council- me.i slated public hearings for Oct. 17 on the following re zoning proposals: — Property of Gladis Kivett on Kivett Drive near Hickory Chapel Road from residential to Limited Industrial. — Property of the R edevelopment Commission on E. Green Drive (proposed site for a new post office) from residential to Industrial 6, A hearing was set for Oct. 2 on proposed annexation of the property of High Point Indus tries, Inc., Corporation Drive. Tentative approval of the Council was given for employ ment of a firm to prepare new descriptions and classifica tions for city positions. \ \ X, LANCE CORPORAL MIKE WELCH post about 500 yards from tlie main Khe Sanh fortress. They never got there. When they were only about 150 yards outside the main de fenses, they were ambushed by an unknown number of Viet Cong. About 8 or 10 rounds of 82mm mortar rounds fell in their midst and then they came under heavy small arms fire. One of the four was killed, the other three wounded. Two bullets smashed into Welch's back, two in his buttocks and large mortar fragments tore through his Reflects Statewide Trend Chair City Unemployment Down By BOB BURCHETTE Enterprise Staff Writer THOMASVILLE - The un employment rate in Thomas- yille reflects a statewide trend and is the lowest it has been in several years, W. R. Eddinger said today. Eddinger, manager of the Employment Security Commission office here, said that statewide figures show unemployment to be the low - est since 1945. “Our figures in the Thomasville office do not go that far back,” he said, “but it is the lowest it has been here in a long time.” The active file of job seekers in Thomasville is now down to 374, he said, considerably lower than the 514 looking for jobs during Au gust, 1967. Usually, he said, there are at least 400 to 500 active job seekers during August, and in 1961 the figure jumped to 706, Another “high” unemployment month here was August, 1964, when 618 persons were looking for jobs. “We now have 130 unfilled job openings,” Eddinger said, “which is the highest we have had at this time in several years. This indicates that more people are working and not available tor jobs.” The unfilled job openings usually run in the 80s and 90s during August, he said, and in 1961 there were only 62 jobs un filled in August. There were 190 persons placed in occupa tions that month, he added. There are many jobs avail able in Thomasville, he said, with prospective employes able to “name their job in certain fields.” There are more clerical jobs available than in past years, although there still are not a great many of them, and furniture industries have a great de mand for workers. “You can find jobs in about any industrial group. Hosiery, furniture, retails, contruction and all are looking for people. The garment industry is in great need of workers, and we have a few jobs for truck driv ers and delivery men,” Unemployment compensation claims are down sharply, Eddinger said, from 1,161 weeks of unemployment last August to 502 this August. (The number of weeks of unemployment claimed in a month does not necessarily mean that many persons were unemployed during the month. A person may make a claim each week of the month that he or she is not employed. Generally, the number em ployed during the month would be one-fourth of the claims filed during the month.) In August, 1963, 1,437 unem ployment claims were filed; 1,318 in 1964; 920 in 1965 and 507 in 1966. Eddinger said. This marked tlie fifth con secutive month, he said, that industrial unemployment in the state has shown a drop. Eddinger said a state report shows that joblessness among workers covered by unemploy ment insurance was only 1.2 per cent in August, a 23-year low and an average of 14,670 persons each week. The improvement was attributed to a “continuing strong econ omy which has gained every month after a set back in 1966.” In August employment con ditions improved within every major Tarheel industry, he said. Furniture, metals and machinery, trade, and construction industries all had less than one per cent unem ployment. Textile workers were only one per cent unemployed. Tobacco processing workers, with an umemployment rate of around 20 per cent during the winter started being recalled to work last month by tobacco factories and this reduced the jobless rale among this group to 9.9 per cent. Lower unemployment in surance payments reflected good job conditions, also, reported the ESC. August pay ments to eligible jobless work ers totaled $1.5 million, $777,- 000 below the August, 1967, total. The average payment to a jobless worker in August was $28.53. The number of jobs found for applicants by Stale Flmployment offices during the month remained about the same as in July, as 9,676 non farm job applicants were placed through North Caro lina’s 54 public employment offices. Over 1,000 workers were placed with construction companies, about 1700 went to work in retail and wholesale trade jobs, and close to 2,000 persons were placed in all types of service jobs. For the first eight months of 1968, said the ESC, unem ployment insurance payments to jobless workers are $2.6 million less than paid during the same time in 1967. left arm and left leg. Within 15 minutes, the dead Marine and the three wounded were evacuated and taken by medical evacuation helicopfcrs to Da Nang. Welch remained at the hos pital there for two days, was taken to a Naval Hospital in Japan for a month and finally to the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. Since last March 1, he has been at the Durham VA Hos pital. He is home now on a 30- day convalescing leave. He ex pects the future periods of hospitalization will be short ones, mainly for rehabilitation therapy. He has some use of his left arm and his left leg and foot are healed to the extent that he can walk. His left foot and ankle are swollen to nearly twice the normal size but the wounds are no longer very painful. The damage is perma nent. but there will be im provement with time. Welch wants to go back to Central High School and get his diploma or take the high school equivalency test and then enroll in a commercial art course at Guilford Techni cal Institute. He is glad to be home. Ten Are Injured In Wrecks Here Ten people were injured in wrecks Tuesday, and although there was considerable dam age to property, none of the injured was believed to be ser iously hurt. Three wore hurt in a 4:25 p.m. wreck on Lexington Avenue. Injured were three passengers in a c?r driven by James Gibbons. 35, of Rt. 1. The hurt people were identi fied as Katie Gibbons of Rt. 1, Laura Johnson of W. Ridge Drive and Amy McLean of Rockspring Road. The other driver involved was listed as Deborah Clinard of Rockspring Road. She was charged with tailing to reduce speed. Damage was estimated at about $200. Another 4:25 p.m. wreck — on Sherrod Street — resulted in injury to two people, both passengers. They were listed as Debra Mays and Mary Mc Neill of Kent Street. They were passengers in a car driven by Fred Williams. 26, of Kent kreet. Rain Is Forecast Rain continues in the forecast for the High Point area, according to the weatherman at Friendship. Tonight is expected to be cloudy, with a 40 per cent chance of rain. Tonight's low should be near 60. Thursday's forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies, with occasional rain or showers. The chance of rain Thursday is at 60 per cent. The outlook for Friday is for the rain to end and cooler temperatures. Today's high was to be in the upper 70s. Thursday's predicted high is in the mid 70$, and last night's low was 5*. The car skidded off the road into a fence. It then left the scene. Police charged Wil liams with failing to report an accident. Damage was under $190. Two more injuries resulted from a pile-up at the inter section of Westwood and Locke streets. Both drivers were hurt. They were identi fied as David Miller, 17, of Valley Ridge Drive and Sharon Blake of Hedrick Street. Miller was charged with a slop sign violation. His car was a total loss. Total damage was set at $1,200. Edgar Griffin, 35, of Gaines Avenue, a passenger in a car driven by Frances Griffin of the same address, was hurt in a 10 a.m. wreck on Fairfield Hoad at Baker Road. The other driver involved, John Jones, 63, of Asheboro, was charged with failing to yield right-of-way. Damage was estimated at $1,400, A 7 a.m, wreck on the in tersection 0 f Westchester Drive and Ward Street re sulted in injury to Clyde Conner, 54, of Elgin Avenue, a passenger in a car driven by Paul Hill, 60, of Kernersvillc. The other driver involved, John Branson, 18, of Route 2 was charged with failing to yield right-of-way. Police estimated damages at over $200. An 8 a.m. wreck Tuesday in volved injury to a 15-ycar-old pedestrian, Gaither Eads Jr., of Kelly Street. Police said the youth darted into the path of a car driven by Howard Hiatt, 48. of Lassiter Street. No charges were filed. The boy was not thought to be seriously hurt. '.Tv
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