Congregation Welcomes New Pastor in High Point
The Rev Hoover E Smith was welcomed as the new pastor of Greenwood Hills Wesleyan Methodist Church in High Point. He arrives from Lincolnton where he led Long Shoals Wesleyan Methodist Church for three years and has served in several other North and South Carolina churches. He is married to Rose McDaniel of Kannapolis and they have two children. The Smith family is native to Kannapolis.
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Hoover E. Smith
Greenwood Hills Wesleyan Methodist Church
High Point
Mr. Smith
Norwood Drive
Lincolnton
Long Shoals Wesleyan Methodist Church
A S. C
Roxeboro
Rose Hill
Kings Mountain
The Troubles Of A Party Line In Thomasville
The column lampoons party line telephones with comic anecdotes about hearing neighbors, beans stirring, and emergency delays. It notes a Pilot area fire caused by line hogs and congratulates Chief Paul Shore on leading the North Carolina Police Executives Association. It also mentions hot weather and local water tank conditions, carp in the reservoir, and the nearing Moose Lodge on the bypass.
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Paul Shore
North Carolina Police Executives’ Association
North Carolina 4-H Scholars Award 11 Youths
Eleven North Carolina 4-H club members receive $5700 in scholarships to North Carolina State College School of Agriculture. Notables include Stephen Cobb Guilford County and Norman Nifong Davidson County with Esso awards and multiple 4-H scholarships ranging from 250 to 1000 dollars. Announcement made in Raleigh by L R Harrill with committee approval citing need merit and ability.
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Guilford County
Davidson County
North Carolina
North Carolina State College School of Agriculture
Stephen Cobb
Norman Nifong
Staleigh
L. R. Harrill
Joe Honeycutt
Stanley County
David Walker
Orange County
Reynolds Vowles
Iredell County
Jack Roberts
Caldwell County
William Martin
Zackie Harrell
Chownan County
Eddie Justice
Burke County
Anthony Schlegel
New Hanover County
Chris Holtzman
Warren County
State College
Harrill
School of Agriculture
Judge Orders Observation of Youth in Slaying Case
A Massachusetts teen, Albert Joseph Vaillancourt Jr., was ordered held for 60 days of mental observation after court officials cited an affidavit from his parents and the circumstances surrounding the July 28 slaying of Clarence South Grant, a 63 year old farmer from Mocksville. Grant was beaten to death with a cane in a Lexington area corn field. his body was found after Vaillancourt was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida on July 30. The father expressed mercy for the boy and described kindness from locals and police during visits to Mocksville and the jail.
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Lexington
N. C
Massachusetts
Albert Joseph Vaillancourt Jr
Superior Court
Hubert E. Olive
Clarence South Grant
Grant
Mocksville
Vaillancourt
Jacksonville
Fla
Albert Joseph Vaillancourt Sr
North Billerica
Mass
Davidson County
R. G. McGimsey
Richmond
John Willard
Winston-Salem
Vaillancourts
Prices Steady On Georgia Tobacco Markets Second Week
Georgia Florida flue cured tobacco markets show steady to slightly higher prices by grade in week two. Heavy offerings as growers finish harvest. gross sales for week one reach 52.93 million pounds at 56.99 dollars per hundred, seven day total 70.40 million at 56.51. Last year seven day sales 86.43 million at 58.79.
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Valdosta
Commodity Credit Corp
Joan
Stabilization Corp
Couple Adopts Triplets in One Sudden Move
LOS ANGELES AP reports longtime childless couple Mr. and Mrs. James E. Fornero adopted three boys Richard Robert and George in a single stroke. The trio arrived after 25 years of quiet life and now fill their home with diapers bottles and pajamas as the Forneros celebrate final court papers and a cloud nine life together.
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Los Angeles
James E. Fornero
Forneros
Assault Is Charged To Parole In Gastonia Case
Joe Waters a 43 year old parolee tied to an attempted bank robbery is charged with assault with a deadly weapon to kill after a 33 year old Ray Costner was struck with a steel bar in Gastonia North Carolina. Waters denies harming Costner and faces a preliminary hearing Monday in City Recorder's court. Waters previously served in Huntsville bank robbery case and was paroled last December after 26 months served.
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Gastonia
N.C
Joe Waters
Waters
Ray Costner
Costner
City Recorder
Huntersville
Queen Elisabeth Watches City As Congo Crisis Looms
In Brussels AP report 84 year old Queen Grandmother Elisabeth follows news from Elisabethville capital of Katanga province. She travels to the airport to comfort homecoming Congo refugees and reflects on the city named for her at its founding fifty years ago amid Belgium's colonial losses and rising African nationalism.
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Brussels
Congo
Elisabeth
Elisabethville
Katanga
Albert I
Leopoldville
Belgium
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Thomasville
Frank Warren
Enterprise
Sally
Pilot
Oa Department
Shore
Joe
Pine ST
Piedmont
West Washington St
Siamen
S. Main ST
College Village Shopping Center
Gerber
Gleem
Noxzema
Johnson’s
Remington
ALG
Lad Ha
Scotty
Kodak Films
Kodak Cine
Eckerd’s
Guilford, Davidson
Cobb
Georgia Tobacco
Tepare
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