Winston-Sal
V /I High Point
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VOLUME 1, NO. 32 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1974
15 CENTS
PRESS RUN 6000
BURGLARIES TOP CRIME LIST
FOR 1973 IN HIGH POINT
Public Library-
GTI To Sponsor
Tax Course
BY BOB BURCHETTE
Daily news hibii point Bureau
HIGH POINT - A drastic in
crease in burglaries was the
main reasori High Point showed
a 3 0 per cent increase in its
crime rate during tlie first nine
months of 1973, a police depart
ment spokesman said Friday,
Figures released by the FBI,
which were provided by the
High Point Police DepartinenI,
showed the department had 1,825
serious crimes during the peri
od, compared with 1,394 for the
same period in 1972.
Sgt. Reed Goff of the depart
ment's records divison said that
burglaries were up 55.2 per cent,
from 587 to 911. “We don’t
separate tihe bunglaries into resi
dential and non-residential for
the FBI report, but the big in
crease has been in residential
burglaries,” Goff said.
For instance, he noted, during
Sejitember — the last month of
the report — there were 168 bur
glaries in Higih Point and 100 of
these invoH'^ home break-ins.
He added that 64 of the residen
tial break-ins were during day
hours,
"This is one of the big prob
lems,” Goff sad. ”Sn many
places are getting broken into
du’ring the day w4ien you nor
mally wouldn't think things
would he botiiered.”
Of the 68 non-residental bur
glaries, .59 took place at night.
Goff said it apparently is easy
for a person to go up to a house
during the day under some pre
tense and break into the
HIGH POINT - Repeat
ing a successful joint
venture of a year ago. High
Point Public Library and
Guilford Technical Institute
adult education department
will again coTsponsor a
course at the library in
Individual Income Tax
Preparation.
The course will be held
every Monday night for 12
weeks, beginning Jan. 7, in
{he library community room
from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Hugh C. Bennett Jr.,
High Point attorney, will
again be the instructor.
The aim of the course,
which is open to adults
aged 18 and over, is to help
individuals learn how to
prepare their own income
tax returns.
Problem-solving meth
ods will be used to cover all
income tax details, includ
ing taxable and nontaxable
income, the purchase and'
sale of capital assets,
including depreciation.
Course materials are
provided free of charge by
G.T.I. adult education
department.
Applicants should call
the adult education office at
G.T.I. in order to register
for the course at the public
library.
Bennett has taught
other tax courses for G.T.I.
and is experienced in tax
work, and in business and
tax law. He has a master’s
degree in business admi
nistration from North
Carolina State University,
Raleigh, and his juris
doctor from the University
of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. A native of High
Point, he opened , a law
office here two years ago.
Ii o m e without being noticed.
‘‘There are too many people who
don’t want to get involved even
if they see something. Then, too,
a lot of them are so busy
aroimd their homes that they
don’t notice what is going on.”
He said there is a need for res
idents to work together by help
ing watch one another’s homes.
“They should look for strange
cars and strange people going
liouse to house, and call the po
lice and have them checked out.
Tliat is wtiat the'police are for.”
High Point’s crime rate took a
dip in 1972 over 1971, fie said,
and "that is another thong that
made our increase this year look
so big.”
The crime index for the city
during the nine-montji period
showed homicides down 8,3 per
cent, wth 12 murders after 11
tile previous period. Rape stood
at the same podnt, with six dur
ing each perod. There was an
increase in robberies from 43 to
45, up 4.7 per cent.
Aggravated assaults aiso were
up, going from 39 to 48, for a 23,1
per cent jump. Larcenies in
creased 14.2 per cent from 586 to
669, wfliile auto larcenies also
were up from 121 to 135 for an
11.6 increase.
NAACP Files Suit
Cleveland Schools
Still Segregated
CLEVELAND-In a com
prehensive frontal attack on a
system of public education in
the City of Cleveland, which
restricts 91 per cent of Negro
students to attend schools more
than 90 per cent black, the
The NAACP General Counsel
cited total elementary school
enrollment figures of 76,190 of
which more than half (56.12 per
cent) are black. Of the 133
elementary schools, 67 have a
black majority including
National Association for the which are 100 per cent black
Advancement of Colored People attended by 35 per cent of the
has called upon the United
States District Court here to
order state and city school
officials “to develop and im-
total Negro elementary school
population.
SIXTY-SIX of the schools
are predominantly white,
'When You Sing You Are Praising God'
New Frot
At A&T Taps 16
Pope Paul VI greets members of the Stars of Faith of Black
Nativity, American singers on tour, during his recent audience at
the Vatican in Rome. Speaking in English, the Pope told the visiting
singers: “Your Negro spirituals and Gospel songs give pleasure to
many people and they are surely equally pleasing to our Lord.
When you sing you are praising God.”
GREENSBORO. N.C. -
Sixteen A and T State Uni-
v e r s i t y students were
recently installed as char
ter members of a new
chapter of Alpha Tau Alpha
National Professional Hon
orary -.Agricultural Educa
tion Fraternity,
Participatin® in the cere
mony were Dr. Martin B.
McMillion, a Virginia Pol
ytechnic Institute staffer
and national secretary. Dr.
A.P. Bell, chapter adviser
and Connie D. Baggett,
chapter president,
Ohter char'er members
nxe Lmy Barnes, Elm
City: Blannie E, Bowen.
Riegelwood; Charles F.
Brown, Council: John V/.
Durham. Robersonville;
Lloyd E. Inman,
Chadbourn; Cedril K.
Jones, Elizabethtown: Leon
H. Lucas, Wilson: Harold
L. Martin. Mt. Olive;
WilUam E. Olive j(nd Ray
Felton, Clinton; Lareo R.
Riddick. Williamston; Hen
ry Revtill Sr., Greensboro;
Dr. Issan Rogers, Winston-
Salem; Clifton C. Spauld
ing Cla.rkton; and Kenneth
Mills Winterville.
Other officers are Clifton
Spaulding, vice president;
Blannie Bowen, secretary;
and Leon Lucas, treasur«r.
Tour
Begins
March 15
NEW YORK—The NAACP
National Department of Tours
has announced its second 15-day
escorted tour to India, depar
ting New York on March 15,
1974. The tour will visit Delhi,
Agra, Fatehpur, Sikri, Jaipur
and Bombay. Cost of the trip is
$699 plus 10 per cent tax.
Full information may be
secured frpm the NAACP
National Department of Tours,
1790 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
10019. Phone\212) 245-2100.
N.C. TAXPAYERS
CAN SAVE TIME
plementa sptem-wide plan o in.,uding 33 which are 100 per
desegregation which wil cent non-black and 25 which are
provide for the elimination o 92 to 99.88 non-black. More than
the pattern of racial 86 per cent of the total non-black
segregation in Clei^land at the population attended schools 92
beginnmg of the 1974-75 school joo p^^ cent non-black.
, The student segregation
Commentuig on the filing 0 (,5 throughout the
the suit here NAACP General reflected
Counsel Nathaniel R. Jones jn the segregation of faculty and
noted that 19 years after the
historic Brown decision, the ..Although 49.32 per cent of
NAACP, through its Cleveland elementary faculty
Branch, has found It necessary NAACP
to bring suit m Federal court on complaint points out, “almost
80 per cent of the faculty in
schools of 100 per cent black
behalf of the black children of
Cleveland.
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Greensboro -- North
Carolina taxpayers will find
a number of time-saving
improvements on 1973
individual income tax
returns as well as shorten
ed and simplified instruc
tions, North Carolina Dis
trict Director of Internal
Revenue Charles DeWitt
said this week.
Describing the long Form
1040 and the short Form
1040A, which are now
being printed, DeWitt
estimated that over 1.8
million individual returns
would be filed in North
Carolina for 1973.
Steps taken by the IRS to
improve tax forms, DeWitI
said "should enable many
taxpayers to complete their
returns with less difficulty
and in less time than last
year.”
So that taxpayers can file
early and receive refunds in
less time than those filing
closer to the April 15 due
date, DeWitt urged em-
received, DeWitt said. more taxpayers than before
The major improvements prepare their own
in the 1973 tax forms are:
--elimination of the
requirement to list contri-
tutions for which the
taxpayer has cancelled
checks or receipts;
-elimination of Schedule
B for reporting details of
dividends and interest;
--elimination of the
requirement to list names
and dates for claiming
payments to doctors, den
tists and hospitals;
--reduction in the num
ber of revenue-sharing
questions to a single
item;and
-elimination of income
limitations for filing the
1040A short form.
Taxpayers will also find
two lines on their returns
relating to the 1976
returns.
DeWitt also said
taxpayers will receive their
1974 tax packages in the
mail by the early part of
most January 1974.
••THE SEGREGATION o enrollment were black and 75
black children in the schoo s of ^ent of the faculty in schools
this city IS so extreme, he ^gnt black
continued, that m our view enrollment were black.”
the invocation of the powers of complaint further
the Federal courMs needed to and
declare and vmdicate he ^^^f^ipal authorities “have
cons 1 u lonal rights of _the
plaintiffs -14 black children ^^cessary steps to correct the
any ^r^n
tices and customs and usages
and parents and
similarly situated,
Cleveland NAACP.
0^1'^ Men AkcI Wo-meK 9n
Sandra Gainey
SAN ANTONIO - Air-
lan Sandra J. Gainey,
Presidential Election Cam- daughter of Mrs. Esther L.
paign Fund checkoff: one Gainey, 310 Cedar St.,
line permitting Iheni lo Point, has been
check off for 1973, the other assigned to Sheppard AFB,
providing a second oppor- Tex., after completing Air
ployers to distribute W-2 tunity for those who failed Force basic training,
withholding forms as soon to check off on their 1972 During her six weeks at
as possible. W-2's for 1973, returns and now wish to do the Air Training Com-
generally, must be distri- so.
buted by January 31, 1974. In discussing the instruc-
Most taxpayers who file lions for 1973 returns,
in January receive their DeWitt said the IRS has not
refunds in four to five only shortened the instruc-
weeks, while later filers tions but has rewritten
may have to wait as long as much of the material in
eight weeks, because of the easier-to-understand lan-
greater volume of returns guage. This should enable
mand’s Lackland AFB,
Tex., she studied the Air
Force mission, organization
and customs and received
special instruction in hu
man relations.
The airman has been
assigned to the Technical
Training Center at Shep
pard for specialized train
ing in aircraft maintenance.
Airman Gainey is a 1971
gr^iduate of T. Wingaie
Andrews High School.
Lee Carter
SAN ANTONIA -Airman
Lee M. Carter, nephew of
Mr. and Mrs. Eliatt
Edwards of 508 S. Booker
St., Greensboro, has com
pleted Air Force basic
training at Lackland AFB,
Tex. Watson of 2416 Green Way
During his six weeks Ave,, Winston-Salem, has
training, he studied the Air been assigned to Lowry
Force mission, organization AFB, Colo., after complet-
and customs and received ing Air Force basic
special instruction in hu- training,
man relations. During her six weeks at
The airman is remaining the Air Training Com
at the Air Training mand’s Lackland AFB,
Command base for specia- Tex., she studied the Air
lized training in the Force mission, organization
security police field. and customs and received
Airman Carter is a 1973 special instruction in hu-
graduate of Grimsley Sen- man relations.
High School, Kernesville,
received her A.A. degree in
1973 from Chowan Junior
College. Her father, Olin E.
Watson, resides at 3530
Prospect Drive, Winston-
Salem.
Victor Crenshaw
SAN ANTONIO -Airman
Victor Crenshaw, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hershey,
1610 E. Washington St.,
Greensboro, has completed
Air Force basic training at
Lackland AFB, Tex.
Airman Crenshaw is
remaining at the Air
Training Command base
for specialized training as a
security policeman.
ior High School.
Sandra Watson
SAN ANTONIO -Airman
Sandra K. Watson, daugh
ter of Mrs. Minnie B.
The airman has been
assigned to the Technical
Training Center at Lowry
for specialized training in
the supply field.
Airman Watson, a 1971
graduate of East Forsyth
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