Central High School clubs plan spring activities and honors
Central High highlighted spring plans across clubs including Civinettes Juniors Interact and Key Club with service projects fundraisers and a car wash. Eight students were selected for the Governor's School at Salem College and the orchestra will give a concert in Hickory featuring Night on Bald Mountain and American Salute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civinettes
High Point Arts Council
Interact
Aro
High Point Central
Salem College
Winston-Salem
James Burnley
Tom Hinds
Kerry French
Mollie Rogers
Judy Webster
Beth Goldston
Carol Clinard
Mike Morgan
E. Barry Ruth
Hickory
City Memorial Auditorium
Bald Mountain
Moussorgsky
Gould
London Symphony
Haydn
Thomasville High Corner Highlights A Season Ending Prom
The page notes Thomasville High School seniors near the end of the year with plans for finals, a state finals bid for track, and social events. Eric Hoyle, a senior, earned Harvard scholarship, while basketball and theater activities are mentioned along with an upcoming Junior-Senior Prom and athletic banquet.
Surrender House of Johnston Ends Civil War Echo
Durham scene recalls the meeting at James Bennett’s farm near Durham Station where Johnston’s 30,000 troops surrendered to Sherman. The April 17 18 terms included 10 days of rations and march to state capitals, shaping postwar policy and provoking Washington backlash led by Edwin Stanton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cletis Pride
Durham
William Tecumseh Sherman
Joseph E. Johnston
General Johnston
Confederate States of America
Sherman
James Bennett
Johnston
Raleigh
John Johnson
Duke University
Hillsboro
Bennett’s
Durham Station
North Carr RR
Lincoln
Washington
Edwin M. Stanton
Denton Forms Its Own Rescue Squad In City Effort
Denton residents form a local life saving squad under Bob Williams with 11 members led by Pelee John Sharpe and including Wallace Haltom Edward Leach Surratt Don Williams John Mitchell Bill Harris Herman Leach and David Hunt. The group completed a basic Red Cross life saving course March 17 and will operate weekly until a larger Davidson County Rescue Squad can reach Denton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Barts
Denton
Bob Williams
Williams
Davidson County Rescue
E-Ra
Pelee John Sharpe
Wallace Haltom
Edward Leach
Surratt
Don Williams
John Mitchell
Bill Harris
Herman Leach
David Hunt
Red Cross
Davidson County
Lexington
Davidson County Rescue Squad
Kennedy confronts voting rights clash with Johnson agenda
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy shifts to a major Senate battle over voting rights and poll taxes, challenging Johnson administration strategy with Dirksen’s GOP votes pivotal. Hart to manage the bill with liberal backers Javits Scott and Fung, while Kennedy navigates establishment resistance and political alliances. The piece notes the poll tax remains in four states and highlights other political maneuvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Carpenter
Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
White House
Capitol
Senate
Kennedy
Johnson
Everett Dirksen
Bill
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Ing
Dirksen
Nicolas Katzenbach
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Judiciary Committee
Jacob Javits
R-N. Y
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Hiram Fung
Hawaii
Young Turks
High Points UA Campaign Opens at Miami Beach Meet
More than 1 000 volunteer and professional United Fund leaders attend the Southeastern Conference of United Community Funds and Councils of America in Miami Beach Florida from today through Thursday April 29. The Carillon Hotel hosts the event with Arthur Jones senior vice president of North Carolina National Bank as the opening night speaker. Also speaking are Lyman S Ford Joseph H Davenport and John editor of The Nashville Tennessean. Paul Carter will present on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Fund
Southeastern Conference of
United Community Funds and Councils of America
Miami Beach
Fla
Miami
Carillon Hotel
Arthur Jones
North Carolina National Bank
Charlotte
Jones
Meeting High Point
United Community Services
Lyman S. Ford
United Community Funds and Councils
Joseph H. Davenport
Volunteer State Life Insurance Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
John
Nashville Tennessean
Paul Carter
Title VII Seminar Set For Greensboro Auditorium
James W. Hunt an attorney from the Labor Relations Department of the U S Chamber of Commerce will lead a Title VII seminar sponsored by the Greensboro Chamber Industrial Committee. The session for employers with 100 or more workers is at 2 p m May 18 in the Greensboro Public Library auditorium with admission by reservation. Hunt will interpret the law and discuss provisions on July 3. He is a West Virginia University Law School graduate and former N L R B attorney now living in Bethesda Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
James W. Hunt
Labor Relations Department
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Industrial Committee
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
Greensboro Public Library
W. O. Conrad
Hunt
Conrad
West Virginia University Law School
West Virginia
Supreme Court of the United States
National Labor Relations Board
Bethesda, Md
Roosevelt relatives and politics in midcentury America
The writer reflects on James Roosevelt's Los Angeles mayoral defeat and the political roles of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr Elliott and Ted Roosevelt. He weighs district safety in California politics and contrasts Kennedy era expectations with the Roosevelt political footprint while noting the evolving public image of the Roosevelt name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Roosevelt
Los Angeles
James
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt JR
Johnson
Elliot Roosevelt
Miami
Fla
Elliott
Zane Grey
John Roosevelt
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Poewette
Junor Civinettes
Future Teachers of America
Thomasville
High Corner
Longfellow
Chapel Hill
Aycock
Civic Center
Linda Hedrick
Martha
Sandy Lee
Abby
Frank Hedrick
Mortimer Brewster
Danny Jones
Jonathan Brewster
Ben Kennedy
Dr. Einstein
Grayson Covington
Teddy
Albemarle
Kannapolis
John O’quinn
Wake Forest
Ottawa Rough Riders
Canada
Eric Hoyle
Thomasville High School
Harvard University
Eric
Harvard
Hoyle
Nell Hoyle
Wake Forest College
Tar Heel
Wade Hampton
Mr. Bennett
Columbia
S.C
Atlanta
Stanton
Grant
Lee
Charles Brown Tompkins
Alexander Marshall, Jr
Charleston
Duke
Bennitt
Pilot
Ted Kennedy
Raffles
Texas
Mississippi
Alabama
Virginia
Democratic Party
Doloris
Bridges
Sen
Styles Bridges
Alfred Hitchcock
Lynda Bird Johnson
Look
Hubert H. Humphrey
Lousiana
John J. McKeithen
LSU
McKeithen
HHH
Louisiana
Humphrey
North Carolina
Dan K. Moore
High Point
Meet
John O’hara
Jimmy
Congressional
Heath
California
Jimmy Roosevelt
Samuel W. Yorty
Yorty
John F. Kennedy
Kennedys
Meenane Oly
Hall
John—F—Kennedy
Franklin
D—Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Ted
New York
al Smith
Ted Roosevelt
Kenya
Fdr
New York City
Wion
Omere
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