High Pointer of the Week James H. Millis
James H. Millis, head of Adams-Millis, leads High Point industrial growth and backs civic projects. He promotes the Senior Women nationals swimming meet, expansion plans for MAC Panel Co., and active service with Chamber of Commerce United Fund Boy Scouts YMCA Rotary and several local institutions. He is 40, a family man, and 1956 High Point Young Man of the Year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise
James Henry Millis
Jimmy Millis
McCallie School
Chattanooga
J. E. Millis
High Point
Adams-Millis
MAC Panel Co
National Aeronautics and Space Administratiion
E. M
Millis
Detroit
Raleigh Dingman
Chamber of Commerce
United Fund
High Point College
High Point Memorial Hospital
UNC Business Foundation
Uwharrie Council
YMCA
National Basketball Committee
Building Fund
National Amateur Athletic Union
N. C. State College Engineering School
National Assn. of Hosiery
High Point Redevelopment Commission
Rotary Club
PTA
Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital
Greensboro
Young Presidents Organization
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Stewards
Public Library
Emerywood Country Club
Boy Scout Organization
Newcomen Society
String and Splinter Club
Hatteras Marlin Club
Hatteras Yacht Co
Hatteras Realty & Supply Co
Editor's Outlook Measurement Reform
An editorial advocates adopting the metric system in the United States, arguing a three year NBS study should gauge impacts. It contrasts inch, foot, and gallon measures with metric equivalents, cites international adoption, and notes practical shifts in daily life from clothing sizes to fuel and foods.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
George P. Miller
Dcal
National Bureau of Standards
America
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Europe
Latin America
Asia
Africa
Rights and responsibilities in a troubled era
A reader disputes E Lendon on Negro rights noting ignorance fuels prejudice. The letter cites crime statistics in Washington DC and discusses James Meredith, responsibility with freedom, and social ills including 75 000 troubled children in Georgia and retarded citizens in South Carolina.
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New York
Chicago
Washington
Edgar E. Scott
District of Columbia
James Meredith
Meredith
Ole Miss
Adam Clayton Powell
Australia
Andrew J. Talbert
South Carolina
General Assembly
S. C
Georgia
Atlanta Constitution
Sanders
North Carolina
Pick Up Service For Hikers In Thomasville Weekend
Green Funeral Home offers free ambulance service to two patrolmen planning a 50 mile weekend hike. Patrolman Buck Berrier would charge $1 per mile to return them home, while Patrolman Conrad and Police Chief Paul Shore propose long distance walks with a golf game twist. Sheriff Cox recovers at Baptist Hospital as county murder probe continues slowly. Pete Lydens and others discuss funding for a new sewage plant depending on required effluent lines. A haze over Thomasville mirrors the long standing city smoke from local stacks.
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Thomasville
Green Funeral Home
Buck Berrier
Conrad
Washington
D. C
Paul Shore
Pete Lydens
Raleigh
Lydens
Kyle Williams
Ford Myers
Rural Firemen Earn Praise At Guilford County Meeting
Report on Guilford County Fire Protective Assn meeting highlights Fire Marshal Bob Grant’s 1962 annual review noting 679 runs by rural departments 130 dwelling fires and explorations of other incidents including lost children. Observations contrast city and rural volunteers and urge safer driving amid rain and flu concerns.
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Guilford County Fire Protective Assn
Guilford
Bob Grant
Piedmont
Our Bob Reynolds From The Mountains Of Western North Carolina
The obituary recalls Thomas Wolfe and Zebulon Vance as towering NC figures and profiles Robert Rice Reynolds. A flamboyant North Carolina senator for 12 years, he used showmanship, distrusted party machines, and opposed foreign aid, Point Four, and the Marshall Plan. Reynolds ended in 1950 in a third place Senate primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Thomas Wolfe
Zebulon B. Vance
Robert Rice Reynolds
Reynolds
Josepheus Daniels
Walter Hines Page
Washington
Sen
Furnifold Simmons
Senate
Europe
U. S. Senate
The
Vindicators
U. S
Truman
Bob
Cameron Morrison
Germany
Frank P. Graham
Willis Smith
Also Mentioned on This Page
James H. Millis
India
Edward E. LeClair Jr
Cornell University
Rankhandi
Himalayas
Bumpville
Kayems
Appalachians
Frankfurt
E. Lendon
Carolinas
Sheriff's Department
Homer Lee Cox
Baptist Hospital
Jordan
Braxton
Asheville
Robert
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