The High Point Enterprise from High Point, North Carolina • Page 9

Ralphie And Friends Ralphie the horse at the Richard Finch Farm can presumably not only converse in fluent horse talk, but also in people and dog talk. Right, he gets his message across to Devon Finch, 6, of 2804 N. Centennial and, above, to Barnaby dog. Move over, Mr. Ed! (Photo by Sonny Hedgecock) Grand Jury Deliberates I The Davidson County Grand Jury was deliberating here this morning and was expected to return two bills of indictment against former Lexington police officer Jimmy Myers.

No indictments were expected to be returned against the second police officer involved in the Herman Clayton Middleton drug case, Thomas Gibson, according to District Attorney H. W. Zimmerman. Indictments, if returned, will probably charge Myers with perjury involving a court order to reveal the identity of an informant who supposedly provided infor- a i a i Middleton's arrest March 8. Middleton was charged with possession of drugs after illegal narcotics were found in his truck, reportedly on information provided by Marvin Foster of the Cow Palace area.

On May 8, Superior Court judge ordered the officers in Investment Earnings For County Decrease GREENSBORO Lower interest rates brought Guilford County's earnings from investments for the year down below the level for the previous year, according to figures released by Thomas Cashwell, county finance director. Cashwell said the county's investments over the 1974-75 year which closes June 30 will bring $902,122.26 in revenue. The compares with an income of $1,093,760 for the 1973-74 fiscal year when interest rates were the highest in recent years. Cashwell said interest rates for investments the county makes "took a dramatic plunge'? during the year. He said rates during the 1973-74 year averaged 9.8 per cent and that they climbed as Filing Period Shorter ASHEBORO --Those Randolph candidates who plan to.

run in the Nov. 4 municipal elections have a shorter filing period following action by the General Assembly, and county officials in charge of elections urge interested citizens to take note. Under the new refuUUons, announced by the State Board of Elections and foe Randolph County Board of Etocttoos, the deadline for filiag was formerly Oct. II has been morsd bade to Oct. J.

high as 12 per cent in August of 1973. Interest rates have averaged five to six per cent this year. Cashwell said rates have held the five to six per cent level for some time and this is the level he is investing at now. While interest rates dropped, the amount of money the county had for investment increased. Cashwell said that during the 1973-74 year the county had an average of $11,133,000 each month for investment.

The first 11 months of this year, however, the county had an average of about $14 million a month for investment, he said. Guilford County has been 'steadily budgeting larger amounts of income expected from earnings from interest. Iniu ion On Massage Law By FORREST GATES City Editor Operators of the two massage parlors in High Point were to go to court today to try to head off enforcement of the city's new massage parlor ordinance. They have made application for a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the ordinance, adopted June 2 by the City Council. A hearing was.

scheduled for this afternoon Superior Court Judge Robert Collier in High Point Mayor Paul Clapp, City Manager Harold Cheek, Police Chief'Donald Roseman and City Collector Lee Wilson are named as defendants in the action brought Friday. The plaintiffs are Peacock Massage Salon Inc. and James J. Worrell as operator of Kivett Drive Massage Salon. The 20 days required after adoption for the ordinance to become effective were up today.

Earlier, police officials had promised strict enforcement of the ordinance, which was admittedly aimed at stopping the massage a operations. The City of Durham has a similar ordinance, and it is under challenge from operators.iri federaTcourt. The complaint filed by the local operators 'with motion for a preliminary injunction charges that the ordinance is'unconstitutional. The operators said- they will be "unable to, and are not a and constitutionally required to, comply with all of the requirements for training, licensing, qualifications and operating procedures specified by the ordinance." They said that if the law is enforced, they will be forced out of business. The ordinance requires masseurs and masseuses to have 500 hours of training and sets, opening and closing times for the establishments.

It further prohibits the touching of genital organs of patients by the masseuses and masseurs. "The (ordinance) violates the rights of plaintiffs under the Constitution of the United States and the State of North the complaint states. It continues: "The term 'massage' as defined by the ordinance is so over broad that it commits to control a great variety of common and ordinary occupations without any reasonable relationship to the police powers of the municipality. "The ordinance undertakes to regulate an area of con- duct that has been preempted by state statutes and is within the exclusive province of the General Assembly. "The requirements for study and training specified by the ordinance operate to deprive persons 'of their rights to carry on ordinary occupations." On the subject of hours, the operators state: "The hours 6f operation prescribed by the ordinance deny plaintiffs the equal protection of the laws, and constitute a restriction on a trade or business which is riot within the police powers The action of the Council in adopting the ordinance may serve to help the operators in obtaining an injunction.

Three of the nine members dissented in the vote on the ordinance, arguing that it is probably unconstitutional. THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE Monday Afternoon, June 23,1975... SECTION City Area After Four Years Prison Labor Returns ToN.C. Roads Shortly the case to reveal the identity of the informant. The prejury investigation involves alleged attempts by the officers to protect the real identity of their informer.

Foster had testified that he was not the informant and that officers had intimidated him into helping them buttress the case against Middleton. If -the grand jury returns the indictment, a warrant will be issued for Myers' arrest. Myers resigned from the police force about 10 days ago. Charges, meanwhile, have been dropped against Middleton. Zimmerman said the investigation is progressing and that indictments against Gibson could be forthcoming later.

A I Carolina highways should take on a neater appearance next month as prison inmates return to the roads. Around 3,000 minimum- custody prisoners will be available immediately for work along the highways as the little-heralded shift in state law takes effect July 1. Prisoners have been kept off the roads for the last four years since the General Assembly moved to end the traditional pattern of prison- garbed inmates laboring under the guns of guards. The "chain-gang" image was bad both for the state and for the men. The new system will guard against the image to some extent.

"The motorist will hardly notice that the prisoners are out there," says State Rep. Graham Bell, D-Gaston, who sponsored the measure to put inmates back to work on the roads. Both chambers of the General Assembly have endorsed the measure. "Inmates will be picked up from the prison camps by Dept. of Transportation vehicles and taken to the areas in which the work is to be performed.

A guard will accompany the work crew, but specially marked clothing, restraints and alert guards standing by with shotguns will be missing from the scene. The inmates will be assigned routine tasks such as cleaning drain pipes and By BILL NOBLITT Association of Afternoon Dailies ditches, cutting weeds and grass, picking up litter and cleaning roadside signs. Highway a employes will supervise the work crews while the guard will be on hand simply as a standby security measure. In years gone by, road gangs included a number of hard cases; the limitation now to minimum security inmates only will relieve the need for strong security. Prisoners assigned to road work will be paid by the state up to a maximum of $1 daily.

Funds of $700,000 yearly be put up for the use of the Corrections Dept. to pay the men, and Bell says the average pay per inmate will run between 60 cents and 80 cents daily cigarette and Coke money for the men. Bell said the move will accomplish several goals: it will save the highway division some money for routine maintenance, and will allow a number of neglected jobs to be performed; and will save money for signs which are now lasting only half as long as they should because they are not cleaned regularly. "But most of all, it will be providing some work for the prisoners," Bell said. "Inmates I've talked with, prison officials and the people back home are all in favor of this program.

With hot weather here and the prison system overcrowded they want to work. "Inmates tell me they w.ant something to do their-time. They're going crazy sitting around in those camps with nothing to do and just beg for a job." By limiting the prison work to routine maintenance and cleanup details, the state will be able to bypass federal regulations banning use of prison labor on federal Drivers see such signs a i I a highways occasionally noting a i a is prohibited. "But the inmates can cut grass and pick up so long as they don't get involved in actual construction work or pavement repairs," Bell said. There has been some rumblings of discontent with return to using prison labor from sources inside the highway division of the Dept.

of Transportation. Veteran highway crewmen insist the prison labor will not perform the work willingly or carefully and may cause more problems rather than helping. Six Die In Accidents On N.C. Highways By The Associated Press Six persons died in traffic, accidents in North Carolina over the weekend. The victims included four pedestrians, 'three of them children and the other an old man.

The toll for the year rose to 608, which is 84 fewer than at the corresponding time last year. The pedestrians were Angela Carol Pender, 5, of Selma; Harvey C. Kanott, 2, of Rt. 7, Franklin; Aaron a Carson, 3, of Mooresville; and Leaman Talton, 78, of Lucama in Wilson County. Donald Cecil Bowes, 18, was killed when his car overturned nine miles south of his hometown of Roxboro.

Another 18-year-old youth, David Lee Roseman of Salisbury, died after his motorcycle collided with a car 12 i of Salisbury. Summer Enrollment Breaks DCCC Record Summer school enrollment at Davidson County Community College has broken all past records with a near 100 per cent increase over the previous high enrollment. Presently students' are enrolled in curriculum programs, day and night, as compared to a previous high of 586 last summer. Of the students enrolled, 384 are full time while the remaining 747 are parttime. Almost 54 per cent of the students are working full time and 184 (16 per cent) are employed part time.

Of the enrollment, 658 are day students while 446 are ed in evening classes. Seventy per cent of toe, students are male. In the college transfer division, 231 are enrolled either parttime or fulttime. Another lit are in special 947 are enrolled in tbt If i a a Criminal justice, with 160 students, has the largest department enrollment. Business administration has 101.

The total enrolled in business programs is 271. In the vocational division, 133 are enrolled with electronic servicing with radio and TV having the largest class, 33. Since enrollment varies in the a education programs, no enrollment figures are available now. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 adults will be enrolled during the summer a however. A second session of summer school is scheduled to begin July 11.

present session will end July 9. EoraUimnts are now being accepted for tbc fall quarter to btfta Sept 4. A record-breaking enrollment is expected, college officials said. A A FOR SPECIAL ELECTION HELD IN THE CITY OF ARCHDALE, NORTH CAROLINA 2 4 1 9 7 5 (1) To Vote "FOR" or "AGAINST" The Voter Should Make A Cross (X) Mark In The Appropriate Square Appearing Below. (2) If You Tear Or Deface Or Wrongly Merk This Ballot Return It And Get Another.

FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL STORES AGAINST ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL STORES ortucTwm Busy Day In Archdale Liquor, Sewer, Budget Get Limelight Tuesday By DON WRENN Enterprise Staff Writer ARCHDALE While most interest will center on the city's ABC election on Tuesday, the Archdale City Council will meet that night in its regular June session and will have some' important discussions set on a proposed sewer system for the city. That same night, the Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed 1975-76 budget which retains the same tax rate as the 1974-75 fiscal year, and it will also hold a second public hearing on a proposed assessment 'roll for residents of Loflgview Drive from Lunar Drive to the Guilford County line. The most interesting item of the night, other than the results of the ABC balloting will be the report from Leonard Bloxam, city on tot status of the sewer program for toe city. City Manager Dalton Fulcher said Friday that Phases I and II have now been completed and work on Phase III is underway. He said the city along with the other members of the region involved, Archdale, East High Point, Jamestown and a portion of Randolph County, will now file for federal and state assistance in planning.

He said now in such programs the federal government is paying 75 per cent.of the planning with the state and local areas putting up 12.5 per cent each. He said for the collection lines, funds may be available from the following sources: the state, 25 per cent; the Farmers Home Administration an equal amount; and the city, the remaining 50 per cent. Fulcher said it will take to the end of the year, more than likely, just to get the necessary request forms completed and filetS with the proper He said next year the city will probably have a bond referendum to pay for the city's portion of the project. It is expected sewer service for Archdale, if everything goes properly, will be three to four years in coming. Robert Gray, city building and plumbing inspector, is expected to report to the Council that approximately 45 per cent of the water lines have been installed to date.

The Council will be asked approve a resolution setting up a comprehensive and cooperative transpora- tion planning program between Archdale, Thomasville, Jamestown and High Point. A group health insurance program for city employes is also expected to be taken up by the Council. The tentative budget includes funds for this purpose if the Council sees fit to offer such a program..