Dr C W Lewis to retire after 46 years in medicine
Dr C W Lewis, long time obstetrician gynecologist in High Point, retires after 46 years in practice. He served 30 years in the Navy during World War II and delivered thousands of babies. He plans to devote time to fishing, gardening, and reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
High Point
Navy
Dr. Lewis
Clifford Whitfield Lewis
Beaufort
North Carolina
Warden Whitfield Lewis
University of North Carolina At
Chapel Hill
Medical College of Virginia
City Memorial Hospital
Winston-Salem
Band
Pacific
Philippines
Saipan
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
American Cancer Society
Tuberculosis Assn
Easter Eggs, Steam trains, and hog market notes
A nostalgic column recalls Easter egg games and a favorite boiled egg habit tied to family tradition, then shifts to a High Point railroad memory involving the Best Friend replica and a loud steam pop valve. It ends with a North Carolina State University release noting 1976 pork production increases and NC hog numbers, prices, and trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
High Point
N. C State University
School of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Conomists
North Carolina State University
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Davidson County Photo Incident Highlights Political Mania
A Davidson County Linwood farm tour featuring Russell Train of the EPA and Jim Graham ends with Graham interrupting Train during a TV interview. Reporters note the awkward moment as an example of campaign season publicity, warning such tactics erode public dignity and offer no substantive value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Davidson County
Linwood
Jim Graham
Train
Graham
Ike
South views gains from school desegregation
In Charlotte and nationwide, the Supreme Court ruling on busing has produced stability and progress in public schools. Officials like William Poe and attorney Julius Chambers see mixed areas of weakness but overall improvement, with increased curricula, student and parent involvement, and a larger aim of racial balance. The South’s desegregation progress contrasts with national resistance, but Egerton and surveys indicate desegregation has improved education and reduced black student removal from schools, urging the nation to catch up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Supreme Court
William Poe
Julius Chambers
Poe
Chambers
John Egerton
Southern Regional Council
Atlanta
Charlotte- Mecklenburg
Egerton
South
Mecklenburg County
Burg
The Proud Trains Still There Editor Outlook
An editor lament notes a nostalgia epidemic among transportation buffs as ConRail forms from seven bankrupt lines. It recalls Penn Central and Erie Lackawanna mergers, praising the old Pennsylvania Railroad as a historic giant while lamenting modern shifts in rail travel and branding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ConRail
Northeastern
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Penn Central
Austria-Hungary
Lackawanna
Erie
Roll In The Memories of Defunct Trains and Railroads
The piece recalls the Pennsy’s long dividend era and prideful decline as aging tracks and equipment went unfixed. It contrasts the New York Central, Twentieth Century Limited, and Broadway with other lines, celebrating the Lehigh Valley Black Diamond and Er ie and Lackawanna Limited while noting their faded glamor and soot filled days. It honors railroading personalities and color schemes of vanished services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central
Commodore Vanderbilt
Pennsy
Twentieth Century Limited
Great Western Flyers
Galt
New York
Chicago
Lehigh Valley
Susquehanna
Erie Limited
Lackawanna Limited
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C. W. Lewis
Women’s Liberation Movement
Washington
Cleveland
Garfield Memorial Hospital
Jane Bristol
Rochester
N.Y
Horse
Hus
N Main Street
Locke and Perndale
Quaker Lane
Tme
USDA
Omaha
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Davidson
Tobaccoville
Senator Soaper
Robert Marks
Enterprise
The
Charlotte-Mecklen
Institute For Social Research
Florida State Unversity
Charles Dickens
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Mark Twain
Alleghenies
Erie Canal
Philadelphia
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Amtrak
Reading
Central
New Jersey
Lehigh and Hudson
Ann Arbor
America
Hudson
Missouri Pacific
North Western
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