National Library Week a call to reading and growth
National Library Week 1964 emphasizes reading as a gateway to new worlds and knowledge. It urges lifelong reading, library use, and investment in resources, noting libraries' central role in society and the need for improved access nationwide.
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National Library Week
The
National Book Committee Inc
American Library Assn
John F. Kennedy
High Point
United States
Central School
High Point Public Library Marks Ten Years in New Building
The city library celebrates a decade in the S Main Street building with an open house from 2 to 3 pm. Cecil Eakins exhibits art in the AV room, and High Point groups provide refreshments and flower displays. The library reports growth in loans, acquisitions, cardholders, and hours since 1954, with a Bookmobile schedule and Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award presentation by Neal Austin during National Library Week.
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High Point
Public Library
S. Main St
Cecil Eakins
Eakins
Ringling School of Art
Sarasota
Fla
Woman's Club
Woman's Club Council
High Point Garden Club
City Hall
Main and
Comerce Streets
S. Main Street
Sheraton Hotel
N. Main Street
College Village
Washington and
Fourth Streets
Library Board of Trustees
W. E. Rogers
Tomlinson School
Horace Haworth
Leo Heer
Carson Burns
Collier Ellis
Robert Rankin
Wendell M. Patton
C. M. Pegram
Neal Austin
North Carolina National Library Week
Southport
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
National Library Week
Knox Bridge
Main Street
Artist Holding His First Showing Here in High Point
Cecil Eakins, 21, a North Carolina born artist, presents his first High Point exhibit today at the library open house for National Library Week. He has shown at Wrightsville Beach and Sarasota, attended Ringling School of Art, lives with wife at 3910 N. Main, and recently studied at Mars Hill College. His works include landscapes wildlife caricatures and abstracts.
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Cecil Eakins
High Point
Wrightsville Beach
Wilmington
Sarasota
Fla
Ringling School of Art
High Point Public Library
Eakins
Art
Bell-Holderby Associates
Main Street
Willington
Atkins High School
New Hanover County
Mars Hill College
Asheville
Libraries Early Feature Of North Carolina Life
A study of colonial North Carolina shows early emphasis on books and libraries. Private libraries were common among planters and clergy, with public libraries such as Bath's free library around 1700 valued at 100 pounds and housing about 1,000 volumes. Notable collectors included Edward Moseley and John Eustace, while figures like James Iredell and Hugh McAden illustrate regional diversity. The largest early library, Hayes at Edenton, exceeded 1,000 volumes, reflecting a culture of learning that embraced theology, law, history, medicine, and classical languages.
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North Carolina
George Durant
Bath
Thomas Bray
Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
Church of England
Joseph Blount Cheshire
Edward Moseley
Edenton
James Innis
Wilmington
John Eustace
James Reed
James Miler
Hayes
Stephen B. Weeks
Carolina
James Iredell
United States Supreme Court
William Hooper
Masonboro
Hillsboro
Willie Jones
Halifax
John Paul Jones
John Burgwyn
Piedmont
Hugh McAden
Alexander Martin
United States
James Hall
Joseph Graham
Waighstill Avery
Ovid
Horace
Shakespeare
Blackstone
Milton
Pope
Bacon
Voltaire
Locke
Swift
Addison
Steele
The
Spectator
Tatler
Arnival Register
Reluctant prisoner sparks chase in briar thicket tale
Don Follmer Enterprise staffer and a police officer chase a slipperily escaping prisoner after a chaotic beer joint brawl. The fugitive slips into a briar patch. Follmer commands him out, voice cracking to a falsetto, until a rescue squad arrives. An urban renewal gag follows about name confusion at the renewal office.
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Enterprise
Don Follmer
Follmer
Darrell
Briar
Irvin Manure
Automaton in Johns Hopkins Lab Demonstrates Self Charging Robot
A Johns Hopkins laboratory robot uses a computer brain and electric touch to seek power, recharge from wall outlets, and navigate obstacles. Leroy Robbins, a Maryland designer now with Fidelity Division Singer Co, helped shape its mechanicals and predicts no immediate threat to humans. The device may gain an electric eye to detect plugs and monitor researchers as it evolves into more complex models.
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Don Follmer
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Leroy Robbins
Moffitt Dr
High Point
Robbins
Maryland
Fidelity Division-Singer Co
George Orwell
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Elmer Hor
Blackwell Robinson
Gabriel Johnston
Samuel Johnston
High Point Enterprise
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