Ross Armsworthy A Central Figure In Southern Furniture Trade
Ross Armsworthy, a Virginia and East Tennessee territory salesman for Security Upholstery Co., balances travel and paper work in a three week cycle. He starts in Norfolk area, then Richmond, then western Virginia and East Tennessee, returning weekly to a hotel room. He tailors his sales approach to buyers and small-town store owners, with businesslike and personal touches respectively. Each Friday he goes home to 1426 Wiltshire Blvd., attends Main Street Methodist Church with his wife Virginia, and serves on church and High Point Furniture Club leadership roles. The High Point club, with about 100 salesmen, gears up for a July market and stronger promotions. A Thomasville native, Armsworthy has spent life in sales, with two deceased parents and sisters remaining.
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Robert Marks
Ross Armsworthy
Southern
Virginia
East Tennessee
Security Upholstery Co
High Point
Armsworthy
Norfolk- Portsmouth - Newport News
Tidewater
Richmond
Tennessee
Wiltshire Blvd
Main Street Methodist Church
Big Brother
High Point Furniture Club
National Wholesale Furniture Salesmen’s Assn
Virginia- Carolina
Thomasville
H. W. Armsworthy
Thomasville Furniture Industries
Affluence and the lure of danger in a hopeful era
An editor's notebook contrasts the affluent society with the urge for risk among youth. It notes Vietnam morale, warns against overprotective parenting, and argues struggle fuels identity and progress, citing Steinbeck era bums and modern escapism.
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Pacific
Vietnam
San Francisco
Johnson shifts focus to pass key domestic bills
President Johnson plans to push his legislative agenda after foreign policy work. He faces a hard-line Congress, with Mills delaying tax and Social Security measures while other priorities include consumer safeguards and foreign aid. Public television funding stalls over funding mechanics, with proposals from Ford and Carnegie hinging on permanent funding and a satellite approach.
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Leslie Carpenter
Washington
Guam
South America
Johnson
Capitol Hill
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
Mills
See Robert Scott Run for North Carolina Governorship
The piece portrays Robert Scott of Alamance County a lieutenant governor and Senate presider in an evolving state political scene. It notes factional tensions between Moore and Scott administrations and outlines Scott’s East Carolina College university status bid and 1968 gubernatorial ambitions.
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Robert Scott
Alamance County
North Carolina
United States
Robert
State Senate
Senate
Moore-Scott
Moore
East Carolina College
Chapel Hill
Raleigh
ECC
East
Scott
Gov. Moore
Hospital clash in Davidson County sparks county hospital idea
Davidson area debate over a proposed 3 million dollar Thomasville hospital shifts as a Davidson County doctor suggests converting Thomasville’s new hospital into the county facility. He notes access for border residents and current capacity differences with Lexington.
Roaming the Piedmont in a Corner of Randolph
A nostalgic portrait of the Blair family homestead on Flint Hill Road in Randolph. The piece traces six generations since 1750, detailing farm life, shifts with the railroad era, the Lane Drive store prelude to Ward's Grocery, and the Progress Post Office’s rise and 1924 closure.
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Robert Blair
Ward
Robert L. Blair Jr
Walter L. Ward
Blair
Progress
High Point
Frazier
Edgewood Farm
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ABC
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Thomasville — Conversations
Vidson County Hospital
Chair
Thomasville Hospital
Interstate 85
N. C. 109
By Bob Burchette
Lexington
Asheboro
Winston- Salem
Charlotte
Posal
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Randolph
Robert Blair Jr
Flint Hill
Ther
B. Franklin Blair
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B. F. Blair
Robert Blair III
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Frazier’s Siding
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Robert L. Blair Sr
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Greensboro
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