Faith In Action Profiles Mrs. W. S. McLeod Leader
Mrs. W. S. McLeod leads Church Women United as the first Black president in the local group. She highlights faith-driven service, ecumenical work with Jewish women, Mobile Meals sponsorship, YWCA swim programs, and World Day of Prayer plans. She holds degrees from Morgan State and Columbia, taught in High Point schools, and supports Bennett College and Urban Ministry. She reflects on family life, the home’s role, and women’s potential amid changing times.
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Reallze
W. S. McLeod
Church Women United
Methodist
United Methodist Women
Pfeiffer College
Council of Jewish Women
YWCA
CWU
St. Paul United Presbyterian Church
Fourth St
First Baptist Church
N. Main
NorLeod
High Point City
Griffin
Northeast
McLeod
Morgan State College
Baltimore
Columbia University
New York
Yale University
UNC
Chapel Hill
N. Co. of the Arts
Maryland
High Point
St. Mark's
Torus
Oneetal
Cnnes
Winston-Salem
N. C
Memorial Methodist
Cedrow Avenue
Bennett College
Greensboro
Mary Bethune Ywca
Weather and Dairy Notes From Piedmont Winters Past
The piece discusses milder Piedmont winter weather with selective snow in High Point and surrounding areas, cites a 1972 NOAA climatological summary on mountain barriers shaping temperatures and rainfall, and offers a broad, opinionated look at dairy farming history from cows’ diet to mechanization and efficiency.
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High Point
Blue Ridge
Piedmont
Appalachian Range
Plains States
Guilford
Forsyth
Where Do They Go Davidson Dateline Mystery
In Thomasville a Daily World reporter chronicles officials vanishing for comment amid a police department shakeup. Dark Bent recalls the chief’s unexpected disappearance after a speech on prunes, with staff unable to locate him or the meeting venue.
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Thomasville
Dark Bent
The
Daily World
Bent
Red
A. Pyle Bill
Pyle
The Candidates And Their Wives In Politics And Show Business
Sunday Accent features Robert Marks on how wives influence presidential campaigns. It cites Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, and Nancy Reagan as examples, contrasts fresh faces with long political runs, and notes Mrs Reagan’s breakfast event in High Point while defending her influence on her husband.
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Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Mrs. Hissar
America
Franklin Roosevelt
Eleanor
Jackie
Camelot
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Pat
Nelson Rockefeller
Mares Happy
George Wallace
Gerald Ford
Ford
60 Minutes
Tronald
General Electric Theatre
North Carolina
New Hampshire
Florida
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Hubert Humphrey
Edward Kennedy
Henry Jackson
Sargent Shriver
Morris Udall
Fred Harris
Terry Sanford
Jimmy Carter
Congress
Ivor To
The Great Wall and River Basin of South America
An editor’s outlook by Jenkin Lloyd Jones from Los Angeles Times describes 1920s and postwar air travel over the Andes, the Amazon headwaters at Iquitos, and the vast basin’s geography. It notes the wall’s height, the Amazon’s reach, and regional projects like a proposed pipeline and new highway toward the Venezuelan border. It mentions Machu Picchu, the Maranon, and endangered Jungle Indians amid economic ambitions in Peru and Brazil.
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Actopera Fokker
Lima
Andes Wall
Himalayas
Caribbean
Venezuela
Antarctic
Tierra del Fuego
Iquitos
Peru
Amazon
Panama
America
Pucallpa
Urubamba
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Point Enterprise
U. S. Dept. of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Environmental Data Service
Haw
Yadkin River
Dan River
Roanoke
United Dairy Industry Association
U.S
Davidson
Robert Marks
Enterprise
Vietnam
Watergate
Betty Ford
Mrs. Reagan
Great Wall
Great River Basin
South America
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Los Angeles Times
Manaus
Brazil
Faucatt
Cordillera
Maranon
Oklahoma State
Gaits
Rio Negro
Solimoes
Mississippi
Memphis
Equator
California
Oregon
Washington
Letleia
Colombia
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