Mrs. Melva Price Retires From Maryfield Board and Thomas Works
High Point business leader Mrs. Melva T. Price retires as Maryfield Nursing Home advisory board member and as treasurer of P. A. Thomas Car Works. A longtime community figure, she helped shape Maryfield since 1947 and remains active as a director at William Allen Inc. The Price family includes six children and numerous local affiliations.
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Robert Marks
Melva T. Price
Maryfield Nursing Home
P. A. Thomas Car Works
Thomas Car Works
High Point
Penny Road
Greensboro Road
Price
Maryfield
Blue Ladies Auxiliary
Canada
P. A. Thomas
Gaston County
William
W. O. Webb
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
St. Edward’s Guild
Immaculate Heart
High Point Historical Society
High Point Arts Council
High Point Pilot Club
P. A. Thomas Company
William Allen Inc
Pine Ridge Drive
The All Volunteer Army and the Draft Debate
An editor's notebook argues against rapid shift to an all volunteer force. It notes high enlistment pay, peacetime military discontent, and historic limits of American professional armies. It questions reliance on allies and warns of uncertain readiness in modern war.
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Congress
Vietnam
Pentagon
America
Philip Wylie
Wilson
Cantigny
Franklin Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Guadalcanal
Nixon Summit Plans Signal New Global Firsts
President Nixon moves toward brief rapid summit talks with four leaders France Britain Germany and Japan and with Canada PM Trudeau as groundwork for Peking and Moscow meetings experts call unique for speed and lack of weeks of preflight planning. The aim is to reassure allies and keep hopes tempered amid a new trade policy. The outcome remains uncertain with focused talks likely but no guaranteed breakthroughs.
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Washington
Nixon
Morris County
N. M
Boys Clubs of America
White House
France
Britain
Germany
Japan
Canada
Trudeau
Peking
Moscow
Woodrow Wilson
Versailles
United States
U. S
China
Russia
Voter Registration Drive At High Point College Lags
At High Point College on a Wednesday, Pi Kappa Alpha sponsors a voter registration effort. Registrars signed up 39 students out of over 200 eligible Guilford County youths, highlighting the uncertain impact of a new youthful electorate in upcoming primaries and the 1972 election.
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High Point College
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Guilford County
North Carolina
High Point
Record Tobacco Crop Sets a High 1971 Average
The December Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative News Letter reports the 1971 flue-cured crop as a record, averaging 77.17 dollars per hundredweight. Auctions ran at 94 centers with gross sales of 1 106 million pounds, and a 71.93 dollar per hundredweight average.
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Boston
Danville
Old Belt
Reforming the Judiciary in North Carolina
Davidson Rep. J Eugene Snyder helped shape a bipartisan 1963 courts commission amid reforms under discussion. Voters will decide in a November referendum on two measures: a 72 year retirement for judges and a Judicial Standards Committee to remove incompetent or unethical judges.
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Davidson
J. Eugene Snyder
General Assembly
Snyder
Courts Commission
Commission
C. E. Hinsdale
Institute of Government
Chapel Hill
Hinsdale
Superior and District Court
California
North Carolina
Nort Carolina
Judicial Standards Committee
State Supreme Court
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Volunteer Army Risk
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
By Robert Roth
North American Newspaper Alliance
Winston Churchill
Health
Pompidou
Brandt
Sato
By Robert Marks
Son
Papa
English Road
Ven Carver
Lexington
Luther Hod
Ges
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