High Point planner A Scott Parker Jr. named chairman
A. Scott Parker Jr. becomes chairman of High Point Planning and Zoning Commission after twelve years on the panel. He balances owner rights with community needs and voices humor about zoning gray areas. Parker also leads Perpetual Savings and Loan and has deep local ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Marks
Enterprise
A. Scott Parker Jr
High Point
Planning and Zoning Commission
Planning Commission
Parker
Commission
Westchester
Perpetual Savings and Loan Assn
Guilford County
Alvin S. Parker
Snow Lumber Co
Perpetual
the Savings and Loan Association
Reading Reform Foundation vs Progressive Education
An editorial criticizes the Reading Reform Foundation and the progressive education movement. It argues that look and guess teaching and the look looking method hinder literacy, promotes limited vocabularies, and dulls students with repetitive primers. The piece cites Dr. Arthur Trace Jr. and laments loss of literary curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
John
John Dewey
Reading Reform Foundation
New York
Arthur Trace, Jr
John Carroll University
Cleveland
Doctor Trace
America
Moscow's Soft Sell In Europe
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan analyzes how Soviet diplomacy aims at easing Western Europe’s fear and weakening NATO unity. The piece traces crises from Berlin to Cuba and Suez, notes European faith in peace and US retrenchment pressure, and weighs Viet Nam as Moscow’s calculus for strategic restraint and influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Ryan
Moscow
Europe
Kremlin
Berlin
Cuba
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Viet Nam
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Central Treaty Organization
NATO
Middle East
Washington
U.S
France
Charles de Gaulle
United States
Gerhard Schroeder
West Germany
Red China
Schroeder
Britain
Egypt
Suez
Khrushchev
Berlin Wall
Checkpoint Charlie
Western
U. S
Tobacco in North Carolina A Regional Overview and History
North Carolina grows and markets tobacco across five belts from Border to Burley. High Point and Durham anchor major markets with Winston-Salem Greensboro and Danville nearby. The industry reshaped after Civil War growth, leading to flue cured dominance and 60 percent of U.S. cigarettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Piedmont
Tennessee
South Carolina
Virginia
Middle Belt
Burley Belt
High Point
Old Belt
Durham
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Reidsville
Danville
Durham Station
John Ruffin Green
Bull Durham
United States
Roaming the Piedmont The coffee shop chat and quick takes
A column notes everyday life and light humor from patrons and staff. The piece jokes about restaurant pricing the value of thicker gravy and mentions nickels and half dollars in circulation, Diet talk, and a local school tax district vote with anticipated educational benefits for 1967-68.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Archdale-Trinity
Washington Vice President Humphrey offers son Robert 5 000 and a ladder
The father of the groom in the next high ranking national wedding Vice President Hubert Humphrey offered Robert 5 000 and a ladder for marriage to Donna Erickson, but the groom shows no interest. The piece also recalls Luci Johnson’s wedding and hints at Humphrey family anecdotes. The Interior Department plans drought relief for Washington and cites Potomac river issues. Postmaster General O'Brien faces criticism over mail delivery efficiency from Vermont to Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hubert Humphrey
Robert
Luci Johnson
Pat Nugent
Humphrey
Interior Department
Army Engineers
Congress
Interior
Lawrence F. O’brien
Vermont
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Iness Firms
Deborah Tomlinson
Tomlinson’s of
Parker Was
Asheville
Guilford College
Glenn Brown
Parker- Brown Lumber Co
Brown
Army
E. E. Younts Inc
Time
Luna Daile Bradford
Burgaw
University of North Carolina
W. Parkway
Elizabeth
Bonwit Teller
New York City
A. Scott Parker III
Charles
Veterans Administration
Frank
Jacksonville
Fla
Allen J
North Carolina National Bank
High Point Friends Meeting
Commission Chairman
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
W. 44Th St
Watson Washburn
Raymond Rubicam
Scottsdale, Ariz
Mark Twain
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dickens
Golden Weed
North
Carolina
Walter Raleigh
England
Abisha Slade
Caswell
Aberdeen
Thomasville
Braxton
By Leslie Carpenter
Donna Erickson
Muriel
Humphreys
Huron
S. C
Minneapolis
Duluth
Minn
Lake Superior
Het
Eere
Potomac
Shaftsbury
New Bedford
Mass
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