City Council moves to end Civil Service in High Point
The High Point City Council pushes to replace Civil Service with a new 22 page personnel ordinance. Critics say the move risks secrecy and erodes open public proceedings, urging full public hearings and adherence to open government principles.
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High Point
General Assembly
Civil Service Commission
Fred Yoder
Council
Career Service Advisory Commission
Civil Service
Star Chamber
Tax burden in North Carolina compared with other states
The Tax Foundation compares state and local taxes in 1975 showing North Carolina's per capita tax burden at 485 dollars, well below New York and California. It notes NC ranks mid-pack in tax share of income and has improved since a decade earlier, while many states taxed more heavily.
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The
Tax Foundation, Inc
Alabama
South Carolina
Mississippi
Tennessee
Oklahoma
North Carolina
Raleigh
Lincoln worship and Bible Q&A in The Churchman column
In The Churchman column Dr. Carlyle Adams recalls Lincoln's church attendance at New York Avenue Presbyterian and private Thursday prayer in Rev. Gurley's study. It notes Lincoln staff comments on daily private prayer and answers Bible questions including authorship of versions, I Timothy 6 4, Tolstoy's faith, Anchorage archbishop, and Leviticus meaning.
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Abraham Lincoln
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
White House
Phineas D. Gurley
Lincoln
Joseph T. Ryan
Anchorage
Alaska
U. S
Francis T. Hurley
Terence J. Cooke
Ryan
First Avenue
New York
N. Y
Cooke
Adams
History of St Valentine Day From Ancient Times to 1977
The piece traces St Valentine’s Day origins from Roman lotteries to modern cards. It notes the holiday's evolution through influences like Cupid imagery, 18th century English verse, Esther Howland’s 1847 Valentine shop, and shifting customs. It also mentions current post office rejections and a 1977 emphasis on thoughtful gestures.
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Milan
Pius II
Cupid
Velasquez
Venus
Valentine
Shakespeare
England
Chicago
Lincoln Warned Us About The Demagogue
In the Lyceum address Lincoln warned that danger comes from domestic despots not foreign tyrants. The piece traces demagogues from Thaddeus Stevens and Tom Watson to Ben Tillman and Bilbo, then MacArthur Patton McCarthy Dodd Forrestal Thomas and Thomas while noting their ultra-right martyrdom and the fringe’s hero worship.
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Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Lyceum
Lincoln
Thaddeus Stevens
Georgia
Tom Watson
Ben Tillman
Pitchfork Ben
South Carolina
Mississippi
Theodore Bilbo
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
George Patton
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
Billy Boy, Don’t Sell Your Soul for Fame and Money
A plea from a working American to Billy to resist signing with a Nashville agent and becoming a packaged media star. The letter warns that endorsements and publicity will corrode his image, milk a dairy spinoff, and strip away his freedom, humor, and connection with ordinary people.
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Nashville
Tennessee
America
Billy
Billy Boy
New South
Washington
Jimmy
Top Billing, Inc
William Morris Agency
Mark Spitz
Joe Namath
Plains
O. J. Simpson
Hertz
Reader's Digest
FBI
God
Ladies’ Home Journal
Family Circle
Raquel Welch
Ann-Margret
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Carlyle Adams
American Bible Society
Broadway
N.Y
I Timothy
Leo Tolstoy
Jerusalem
Germany
Henry Walton
Edmund Spenser
Valentin
Esther A. Howland
Worcester
Mass
Anita
Holt McPherson
C Phew
Jack Anderson
Joe
Thomas Dodd
James Forrestal
Jonathan Daniels
J. Parnell Thomas
House UN- American Activities Committee
Billy Carter Plains
Buchwald
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