Personality profile of Dr. W. Kirk Allen Jr.
Dr. W Kirk Allen Jr begins his fourth year as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in High Point and his fourth year serving the wider community. He advocates church work beyond worship, leads social outreach, and supports day care efforts with Forest Hills and St. Paul’s churches while emphasizing personal, in pew sermons and unity of body and spirit.
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W. Kirk Allen Jr
First Presbyterian Church
High Point
Dr. Allen
Kingsport
Tenn
Christ
Paul
Presbyterian Church
Allen
Greenville
S.C
Charles Nabers
Nabers
A Danish View Defends America Against European Criticism
Minister Viggo Starcke argues in Berlingske Tidende that America’s role in guarding liberty and preventing a third world war is indispensable. He criticizes Danish Social Democrats for NATO reductions and warns that European anti Americanism risks neo isolationism as NATO weakens and Soviet power grows.
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Viggo Starcke
Denmark
Orholm
Lyngby
Copenhagen
Berlingske Tidende
United States
Starcke
America
Russia
NATO
Leningrad
Lubeck
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Russell
Western
China Talks Breakoff and UN Ambitions Under Nixon
The article notes Communist China ends talks with the U S in Warsaw as Nixon moves to Cambodia while signaling renewed trade openness and a potential UN admission. Peking eyes an ambassadorial presence, a broader world role, and a tour abroad, with oil sales to ships trading with China debated and a shift from Taipei expulsion toward compromise.
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Washington
U.S
Red China
China
Warsaw
Nixon
Cambodia
Peking
State Department
United Nations
U.N
Chou En-lai
Middle East
Africa
Europe
Richard M. Nixon
Senate
China Firsters
Chiang Kai-shek
General Motors
Perlini
Italy
Nixon & Co
Albania
Tobacco shifts as North Carolina farmers diversify crops
The piece notes NC farmers reduce tobacco growing while markets in Georgia and North Carolina open. Tobacco ire remains strong, but the industry diversifies from Winston-Salem’s RJ Reynolds into broader products. Cigar use grows, especially among women, yet health concerns rise for heavy smokers.
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North Carolina
Georgia
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem
R. J. Reynolds Industries Inc
United States
R.J. Reynolds Industries Inc
Cigar Institute
Beard Gone in Thomasville Photographer Turns Hair Long
Davidson County items note photographer Lewis Day shaving his beard and growing long hair after years of a crewcut and beard. County signs urge careful driving for 13 500 school children. Also coverage of Mizell campaign stop, a new daycare center for retarded children, East Central water talks, and Miss Pride's school alert.
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Thomasville
Lewis Day
Day
Davidson County
Patricia D. Frye
Lexington
Davidson County Assn
Diane Leonard
First Lutheran Church
Roaming the Piedmont on Money and Youth Influence
The piece argues that while under-45s control many purchases via voice, actual spending power lies with those over 45. It cites teen advertising, a family car example, and notes a small earthquake and heavy rains affecting the area, closing with a light anecdote about a rain-soaked sports car buff.
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Robert Marks
Enterprise
John Calvin
Geneva
John Knox
Scotland
Furman University
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
New York
Austin Presbyterian Seminary
Austin
Texas
Navy
Williamsburg
King College
Naval Reserve
Ronceverte
W. Va
Lufkin
Greenbrier College
Lewisburg
Rotary Club
Rotary
Japan
Dorothy
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Bertrand Russell
the Capital
Davidson
Wilmer PD
Mizell
Midway
Thomsville
East Central Water System
Denton
East Central
North Davidson
Miss Pride
Miss P
By Braxton Younts
Junior
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