Elaine Carter Receives Silver Beaver for Scouting Service
Elaine Carter, a reading resource teacher at Fairview Street Elementary, is the first woman to win the Boy Scouts Silver Beaver in the Uwharrie Council. She has long chaired cub scouting in High Point and leads school reading initiatives, including a sustained reading program to involve the whole campus.
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Ting
Uwharrie Coun
Mac Gaskins
Uwharrie Council
Fairview Street
Fairview Pta
Carter
Joseph
Cub Scouts
High Point
Wilson
N.C
Fayetteville State University
Columbia University
New York City
Fairview
Forsyth
Guilford
Davidson
Randolph Counties
Sunday Accent: Words Become Stumbling Blocks To Presidential Candidates
EGBERT MARKS notes the shift away from labeling in campaigns as candidates drop liberal or conservative tags. Udall Harris Carter and Jackson show varied self descriptors while Humphrey warns of big government rhetoric, outlining definitional risks for both liberal and conservative labels.
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Ford
Morris Udall
Arizona
Fred Harris
Oklahoma
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Sen
Henry Jackson
Washington
Florida
Massachusetts
Sen. Jackson
New York
New York City
Lane Kirkland
Afl-Cio
Jackson
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Humphrey
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Carter
Sen. Humphrey
Community debate grows over pornography bans in North Carolina towns
In Thomasville and High Point, council meetings spur discussion on ordinances to restrict pornography and massage parlor activities. Local pastors push antipornography laws while officials stress parental control rather than restricting adult access. The piece weighs legal and moral arguments, noting adults’ rights to choose readings.
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Thomasville
High Point
Dalton Myers
Somme Craue
Editor’s Outlook on Glowering Billboards and Youth Ads
An editor laments grim billboard models selling brands not fitting youth self image. He recalls postwar excesses, Vietnam era discontent, and how America educated and coddled its youth, urging future campaigns to feature grateful, smiling young Americans. He closes by admitting his past habit of smoking and now would buy ads showing thanks to America.
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Vietnam
Tmne
America
Navy Band Concert Delights Young Audiences At High Point
A matinee U S Navy Band performance at High Point Theatre charmed a crowd of teens and adults with playful humor and precise music. The ensemble earned standing ovations amid clowning by a big boy on stage and a drummer’s energetic routine, while a later newsroom anecdote recalls a tiger cub and a curious child roaming a mall, ending with hopes for good weather to favor golf events.
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U.S. Navy
High Point Theatre
Navy Horncopters
Navy
Living Daylights
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Elaine Carter
John Lowe
Boy Scouts of America
Gilbert Carter
Mary
Margaret
Robert
Martin
Nub
High Point Enterprise
Egbert Marks
Enterprise
Dumeny Carter
Myers
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Los Angles Times
Southeast Asia
Big Boy
Ol’ Tige
Pussycat
Clarence Herndon
Stith’s
Stith's
Clarence
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