Schools Get Their Answers Poll Reveals Parental Views on Education
A fall poll of Public School parents and participants in High Point shows most want better education and more benefits without higher costs. The survey finds 53.7 percent blame the child and parents for poor achievement, about 24 percent blame the child alone, with few blaming teachers or schools. The results, seen as guidance for the Board of Education and new superintendent Dr. Edwin West, stress greater use of school facilities and more effort to unlock gymnasiums and libraries.
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Senator Morgan Attacks FBI as Rotten to the Core
North Carolina Senator Robert Morgan labels the FBI rotten and a top national security threat. After a 60 minute meeting with FBI Director Clarence Kelley the senator stands by his remarks while calling for outside checks and balances on FBI operations.
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Primary season opens with New Hampshire vote
The 1976 presidential primary season launches early with New Hampshire's direct preference vote next Tuesday. The process, begun to empower voters over party bosses, spread across states and the District of Columbia, shaping nominee selections and testing candidate strength amid a busy year for campaigns and reporters.
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Primaries Test Presidential Nomination Power
The history shows primaries rarely decide nominations. By 1940 Willkie won without a primary, 1944 Wisconsin showed primary veto power, and 1948 Oregon helped Dewey. Roosevelt Taft 1912 illustrates primaries identify losers. outcomes remain uncertain.
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Cuming
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Stasten
Oregon
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Roosevelt
Ohio
William E. Borah
Idaho
Dewey
High Point News Notes on Books Tours and Valentine Florists
Community voices urge help for a two volume High Point history on local people and early civic life tied to a Cancer Society project in Charlotte. A Presbyterian tour outlined spans London Paris Venice Istanbul with stops in Crete and Dubrovnik before Rome. Reports honor local figures and Valentine flower sales surge as shops close early due to high demand.
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Foggy Bottom aims to curb drug smuggling via coordination
Washington sources say State Department delays hamper narcotics controls as heroin cocaine and marijuana flood U S borders from Asia Latin America and the Middle East. Initiatives under Operation Cocina and aerial surveys face bureaucratic roadblocks despite pressure from Rep Lester Wolff and others.
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Motives Count In Capl Viewpoint On Bonded Secrets
A CAPITOL VIEWPOINT critique notes the novel Saving the Queen by William L. Buckley uses a CIA agent's musings on lying to advance a higher goal. The piece argues motives count, distinguishing right from wrong even when end goals seem noble, while questioning how fictional plots reflect real moral choices in security leaks and clandestine actions.
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