Fred Yoder Cultivates High Point Gardening Enterprise
Fred Yoder of High Point builds a gardening business since 1955 with projects across Guilford County and Greensboro. His work includes beds around Sears on S Wrenn Street and more than 150000 tulips transplanted to High Point College. He views gardening as self expression and a lifelong vocation born from challenging times.
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Robert Marks
Fred Yoder
Yoder
High Point
Guilford County
Greensboro
Sears
S. Wrenn Street
Carrick Memorial
High Point College
Carrick
Jamestown
Swift & Co
Grantham Drive
Julian
End of The Red Poppy Editor Notebook
In an editor notes piece from 1958 the writer recalls the Bolshoi ballet The Red Poppy with Tao Hoa and Boss in pre revolutionary China and Soviet Union heroism. He imagines road show revisions replacing Boss with Mao and Tao Hoa as a Russian nurse amid Cold War imagery and revisionism debate.
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Moscow Opera House
Nasser
Shepilov
China
Sidney Greenstreet
Tao Hoa
Boss
Volgograd
Russia
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
Mao
Chiang Ching
Peerage Cronease
Extremists Trumpet on Campuses Stir Public Officials
The essay argues that placard bearing protesters on college campuses intimidate high ranking public officials including UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. It notes many protesters do not vote, cites Census figures by age groups, and discusses youth turnout versus older voters and political impact on the 1968 Democratic convention.
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Leslie Carpenter
Washington
United Nations
Arthur Goldberg
Harvard
Defense
Robert McNamara
Saaletos
Hawaii
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Kennedy
Southern colleges push to meet national higher education standards
Southern officials and educators now compare regional colleges to national benchmarks. A Southern Regional Education Board report cites more doctorates, rising accreditation, and growing federal research funding, with master planning and broader fund distribution seen as key to closing the gap with national standards.
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South
Southern Regional Education Board
Atlanta
SREE
SREB
American Council On Education
ACE
Briggs Resigns Again as Davidson Elections Chief
Thurman Briggs steps aside as chairman of the Davidson County Elections Board amid questions over holding two offices. He previously resigned twice and was urged to return, but the latest controversy prompts another exit. Briggs praised for nonpaid service. City memorial notes hospital land purchase and future $3 million facility with county cooperation urged. State to consider three new truck weight stations on major highways including possible relocation on I 85 near Davidson County. Baptist Children's Homes near Thomasville may build cottages on Wallburg property for orphans.
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Lexington
Thurman Briggs
Davidson County Elections Board
Briggs
North Carolina Wildlife Commission
Elections Board
Davidson County
Spencer
Rowan County
Baptist Children’s Homes of
North Carolina
Thomasville
Wallburg
Reed wins Jaycees Brotherhood Award in Piedmont piece
The piece profiles Blair Reed and his humility as he accepts the Jaycees Brotherhood Award. It notes Reed’s impact on projects, the Jollies drive to recruit performers, and Future Farmers of America week with NC leaders David Sink and Billy Eagles. Gov Dan Moore praises FFA’s 32 000 NC members and vocational agriculture value.
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Reed
Hugh Vaughn
Jaycees
Jollies
Farmers of America
FFA
Strength of America
Lexington
David Sink
Billy Eagles
Crisp
Dan Moore
North Carolina
N. C. Ffa Assn
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Cances Wallace
Vienia
Southarolina
Georgia
Alabama
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Louisiana
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By Bob Burchette
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D. A. Long Jr
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