Benny Braica Jr profile highlights a Christmas Cheer Fund leader
Benny Braica Jr. spearheaded High Point’s Christmas Cheer Fund, raising over $9,000 to aid 1,058 families, including 997 girls and 1,028 boys under 12. He coordinates with the welfare department, secures food certificates, and funds toys, aided by Furnitureland Kiwanis Club. Braica, a long-time resident and builder, leads Suburban Homes Inc. and serves in local civic groups. The fund’s 1958 peak reflects High Point’s community spirit and neighborliness.
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Santa Claus
Benny Braica Jr
Braica
Welfare Department
Big Bear
Cheer Fund
John Davis
Davis
Furnitureland Kiwanis Club
King’s County
New York City
Long Island
High Point
United States Air Force
High Point College
Mary
National Assn. of Home Builders
Jaycees
Crestwood Presbyterian Church
The Push-Out War in Calcutta and Kankakee Reflections
An editor notes the India Pakistan conflict and mass refugee exodus, contrasting Calcutta's dire poverty with Kankakee's Christmas cheer. He argues root causes lie beyond religion, urging population pressures, governance, and humanitarian limits as war drives mass displacement.
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Kankakee
Calcutta
Howrah
Hooghly
The Cabinet Shuffle As Nixon weighs a big 1972 team
Nixon eyes a reshaped cabinet with Melvin Laird to depart the Pentagon Nelson Rockefeller eyed for a top post Albany and Washington reports clash over whether defense or state is best for the New York governor Attorney General John Mitchell’s future in the campaign is debated while John Connally may take Treasury Maurice Stans may resign to lead Republican finances and a bid to head the World Bank is hinted Scranton as possible Attorney General successor fits into the Pennsylvania tilt toward the 1972 race
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Defense
Melvin Laird
Pentagon
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Albany
Washington Post
New York State
Gov. Rockefeller
Bill Rogers
United States
D.C
Nixon
California
John Connally
Texas
Treasury
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
New Jersey
Florida
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Gov
Rockefeller
Sun Valley
Rockfeller
Wheelhorsing
Maurice H. Stans
Robert MacNamara
World Bank
Secretary of Commerce
State Defense
William Scranton
Mitchell
Scranton
Keystone
Year of Change Shapes Nixon Era in 1971 Review
Sunday Accent assesses 1971 as a frustrated year for Americans. The piece notes steady Nixon polls, public cynicism, cautious youth and parents, and a shift from antiwar slogans to vague hopes. It highlights inflation era wage and price controls, evolving state capitalism, ongoing Indochina war, and a surprise opening to China amid looming 1972 elections.
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Nixon
Indochina
Asia
United States
Russia
Indian Ocean
Bus Ministry Expands Outreach From First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church in the Piedmont area expands its bus outreach with five buses, a sixth upcoming, to shuttle unchurched families to services and Sunday school. Each bus crew includes a minister, co minister, driver, and three teen helpers. The program now serves well over 200 riders weekly across diverse socio economic and racial groups. An offshoot involves midweek visits by volunteers to families and youth for Wednesday programs. The piece also notes the death of Bill Wilson, admired for his humor and teaching.
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Clyde Hall
First Baptist
Calvin Miller
James Pharr
Florida
Miller
Hall
Jesus Christ
Christmas Column Wraps City Council Holiday Humor
In Thomasville a holiday council meeting mixed levity with business as City employees received service awards and a 1 percent holiday bonus. Mayor Carl Wilson noted gifts and holidays for city staff, while a light mood surrounded the Dec 23 27 31 holiday resolutions before year end.
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Thomasville
Saint Nicholas
Clement Moore
Carl Wilson
Wilson
Brad Hunsucker
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By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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West Bengal
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Assam
Arkansas
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Richard D. Kleindienst
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Persian Gulf
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Peking
the Bus Ministry
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Bill Wilson
Bill
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Ven Carver
Bob Scott
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