Personality Profile Laurie Pritchett
Laurie Pritchett rose from a Griffin patrolman to central Chief of High Point Police in a career shaped by a law enforcement family and World War II service. He guided Griffin and Newnan early, then Albany as chief during nonviolent Civil Rights era demonstrations. Time Magazine hailed him as fair yet firm while he projected a more professional, expansive future for High Point policing and crime prevention. He notes policing demands personal sacrifice and anticipates broader use of manpower, equipment, and science to curb rising crime.
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Don Follmer
Georgia
Griffin
High Point
Laurie Pritchett
Pritchett
Auburn University
Griffin Police Department
Newnan
Washington
National Crime Commission
Laurie
Editor's Notebook on Reverse Bias in Michigan
The piece argues that civil rights laws aimed at equal opportunity have not fully transformed habit and warns against reverse racism. It notes a University of Michigan bulletin pressuring affirmative action style recruitment and admission standards, potentially privileging one race over another and threatening equal treatment.
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America
Congress
Core
Snick
Whitey
Adam Clayton Powell
Jesus
Department of Defense
Birth control pills and the national sex ratio debate
Washington experts warn of a possible shift in birth sex ratios with a rise in girl births though no proof links pills to sex. The report notes geographic fluctuation and stresses caution while detailing other HEW concerns and a separate IRS tax mistake briefing.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
North Carolina court reform leader J Spencer Bell remembered
North Carolina moves toward a unified court system by 1970 guided by J Spencer Bell. The reform effort spans from justices of the peace to the Supreme Court, with Bell’s 300 year study grounding constitutional amendments and the Court Study Commission actions. Bell, Charlotte native and longtime lawyer, chaired the court improvement committee and later served on the U.S. Court of Appeals before his death last month.
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Justices of the Peace
Superior Courts
North Carolina Supreme Court
General Assembly
North Carolina
State Senate
Bell
Court Study Commission
Court Improvement Committee
Charlotte
Duke University
University of North Carolina Law School
Mecklenburg County
Memorial Hospital
Social Planning Council
Char
Lotte
North Carolina Bar Assn
Albert Coates
School of Law
University of North Carolina
Coates
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Cramped Ride Ends Vacation for Four Hargrave Cadets
Four Hargrave Military Academy cadets ride back to campus with worried parents after a crowded front-rear seating arrangement on Easter Monday. The five youths travel from Chatham Virginia to High Point and back, sharing a cramped rear compartment and noting the discomfort.
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High Point
Hargrave Military Academy
Chatham, Va
Mama
Papa
Son
Ladies Lose To Old Ladies In Easter Softball Clash
Davidson dateline piece recounts a humorous Easter story of a mixed-age softball game where the old men beat the old ladies, then injuries marred the victory and a neighborly triumph turned comic. It also notes local youth employment figures with 71 under age 22 applying in March and February and 32 of 94 jobs secured by that group.
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Thomasville
The
Employment Security Commission
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Becom
Michigan
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
University Record
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
Walter Greene
Defense Department
Detroit
Lower Peninsula
Wayne Dispatch
Hamilton Vanzetti
NAACP
Eaglin
Ypsilanti
Mr. Green
the Capital
New York
Department of Housing and Urban Development
E. 5Th St
Lower East Side
HUD
Robert Weaver
Lindsay
North Carolinas
J. Spencer Bell
By Braxton Younts
Mama and Papa
Brooklyn Bridge
Davidson
By Bob Burchette
Larry Palmer
Palmer
Uncle Sam
Vietnam
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