High Pointer of the Week Richard D Meisky
Richard D Meisky, long active in the Rotary Club and House of Prayer for Alcoholics, has deep ties to High Point. Born in Denver Pennsylvania, he has lived here since youth and served in the Army, later guiding YMCA projects and later banking. He and Marjorie Barker married in 1939 and reside on Florham Inn with three children.
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House of Prayer For Alcoholics
Meisky
House of Prayer
Rotarians
Blair Reed
Reed
Greensboro
Jack Southerland
Rotary Club
N. Main Street
Jack Burris
Burris
Rotary
Club
House
Pennsylvania
Denver
Richard David Meisky
High Point
Robert S. Meisky
Stehli Silk Mills
W. Green
Emma Blair
Central
Charleston
S.C
Palmetto
Raleigh
Presbyterian
High Pointer
States
Command and General Staff
Fort Leavenworth, Kaw
YMCA
Knoxville
Tenn
Hood System Industrial Bank
Central Savings Bank
Thomasville
Denton
Prospect Street
Letters to the Editor Critiques and quips on elections
The writer ridicules political campaigns and calls for bans on voting and politics. They propose stopping elections, toy with metaphor of razorback pigs, threaten voter apathy, and reference past figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger. The letter is signed by W. B. Gober of 2211 Palmer St. PS: I voted for a Promise I still have it.
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Pretty Boy Floyd
John Dillinger
W. B. Gober
Palmer St
Home Farm Safety News Notes
State Board of Health
San di
Editor's Outlook on Talent and The Art of the Gimmick
An editor links the Cherry sisters of Marion Iowa and a string of showbiz misfires to a larger truth about art. He contrasts mediocrity and clever staging with genuine talent, noting how misused voices and gimmicks often win audience attention while true craft struggles. The piece ends asserting the age favors caricature over quality.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Cherry Sisters
Marion
Iowa
Green
Cedar Rapids
Addie
Effie
Daddy
Mama
Jessie
Air Columbia
Chicago
Conservatory of Music
Borge
Inspection law not cure-all slows highway deaths
The Enterprise notes a new auto inspection law but warns it will not curb traffic fatalities. Many drivers ignore speed limits 55 and 50 mph zones, and enforcement would require more patrols and funding before any sizable drop in deaths occurs.
War talk and praise echo in varied public voices
West German Chancellor Erhard condemns treating Ulbricht as a sovereign head amid German division. Harry Reeb, father of slain minister James Reeb, is cited by supporters. Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson commends Girl Scouts as she acknowledges public figures and events.
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Ulbricht
Erhard
Egypt
Jim
Harry Reeb
James Reeb
Lane
Ala
Lyndon B. Johnson
April Rememberance and the South in 1865
In Harper's April issue British historian D W Brogan contemplates the South's Civil War memory. He notes Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia's 1865 retreat to Appomattox and argues world events overshadow memory of military glory. He questions whether postwar recollections should overshadow more recent suffering elsewhere.
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Robert E. Lee
Northern Virginia
Petersburg
Richmond
Virginia
Appomattox
D. W. Brogan
Harper’s Magazine
Brogan
South
Berlin
Rotterdam
London
Columbia
Atlanta
Charleston
Leningrad
Vicksburg
Hitler
Red Army
Sherman
Remembrance Accent Questions South Redemption After Alabama Violence
The piece recalls deaths during Alabama voter registration clashes including James Lee Jackson Rev James Reed and Viola Liuzzo. It challenges Southern complicity and urges internal participation in salvation and reflection on Appomattox as April memory guiding toward responsibility and regeneration.
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Alabama
Boston
Detroit
Selma
Montgomery
James Lee Jackson
James Reed
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Saul
Tarsus
Paul
Rome
Paul Carlson
California
Stanleyville
South
Africa
Asia
Crowded Follies Highlight Thomasville Community Spirit
The Thomasville scene reports over 2,700 attendees across three nights of the Fair Grove Follies, praising local talent. It notes railway crossing safety discussions, plans for a Pilot Lions Horse Show, and Roger Malcolm Price winning the Charles Erlanger Scholarship at Lexington Senior High School. Thomasville recorded its first traffic fatality in three and a half years late Friday.
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Thomasville
Fair Grove
Denton
Prospect Street
Lions Club
Show Grounds
U. S. Highway 29-70
Pilot Volunteer Fire Department
Charles Erlanger
Roger Malcolm Price
Lexington Senior High School
Price
North Carolina State
Conrad Hinson
Erlanger Mill
Mill
Roaming the Piedmont and Pleasant Guil-Rand Notes
A pieced column surveys Randolph countryside spring hints including a robin and willows, cites the old bridge preservation sign, warns about skateboarding hazards, praises local fire chief Clyde Wilkerson and Roy Pless for tempering ribbing, and notes community life in Abbotts Creek Township.
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Randolph
Flint Hill
Old North
Clyde Wilkerson
Guil Rand Fire Department
Guil-Rand
Roy Pless
Roy
Isaak Waltons
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Richard D. Meisky
Enterprise
Colt
Oew College
Clinton
Richard D. Meisey
Emerywood Studio
the Enterprise
Bob Cameron
Bunny
Helen Kane
Ieee
Simy Votaries
Gertrude Stein
Thornton Wilder
Miss Stein
Melbourne
Australian Intelligensia
Apomattox
Robert
Highway Patrol
Hpt&d
Carrick
Geet Bodenheimer
Davidson
Abbotts Creek
Florida
Geet
Braxton
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