High Point coach Tom Quinn profiles in North Carolina
Enterprise staff writer Bill Hodges details Tom Quinn the High Point College basketball coach whose career shifted from journalism to coaching. Born 1981 in Beckley West Virginia he built a track and field and football background before earning degrees at Marshall and Florida. He led Newberry to NAIA success and in 1962 63 joined High Point guiding a 19 2 team in conference play with potential for another trip to Kansas. He married Doris Smith of Polkton and remains a devoted family man and supporter at home games.
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Bill Hodges
Tom Quinn
High Point College
Quinn
Newberry
Kansas City
High Point
HPC
Lenoir Rhyne
Hickory
Carolinas
Kansas Iy
Beckley
W. Va
Tom
Charlene Quinn
Shady Springs High
Air Force
Marshall College
Huntington
Marshall
University of Florida
Cocoa (Fla
Doris Smith
Polkton
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Camp Pla-Mor
Windy Hill Beach
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Profitless Payrolls and featherbedding critique
The piece argues against forcing employers to hire workers whose wages exceed their value, citing A H Raskin’s featherbedding critique. It contends such policies raise costs, distort competition, and harm efficiency, suggesting automation, shorter work weeks, and public works as alternatives while warning of broader economic trouble if many sectors must sustain unneeded labor.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Saturday Evening Post
New York Times
A. H. Raskin
Raskin
General Motors
United States
Baskin
Grateful American Letters to the Editor
A reader from Thomasville North Carolina expresses gratitude for soldiers far from home and asks how better to thank them. He recalls families left behind, urges that readers remember these men and boys fighting for freedom, and pledges personal thanks if possible.
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Enterprise
Thomasville, N. C
Perpetuation Versus Loss in Republican Debate
Audy M. Evans laments politicians crying over losses and urges Republicans to stop black-ballting dissenters. He argues disagreements should not collapse a party into a funeral home, urging leaders to uphold life over perpetual funerals.
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Audy M. Evans
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Republican Party
Where Do They Stand On Little Federal Plan
A Raleigh reader from 1965 notes North Carolina voters backed the Little Federal Amendment in the Piedmont. The piece questions why only one Democratic gubernatorial candidate, L Richardson Preyer, stated his position against the amendment and asks why Moore and Lake did not respond. It critiques party infighting and includes a quip about heart attack recovery and golf.
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Little Federal Plan
the Enterprise
North Carolina
Piedmont
L. Richardson Preyer
Raleigh
Moore
Lake
Clara B. Willis
Manicers Witt TucuGnts
United States
Preyor
Andy Kilgariff
Urban renewal in High Point explained by local leaders
The High Point Redevelopment Commission oversees urban renewal with council oversight and checks by Planning and Zoning. It aims to address blight in East Central, where North Main Street to Green Drive marks a 508 acre area with dilapidated housing. Evictions follow a detailed procedure. relocation housing is provided. Judge Gwyn urged residents to inspect the East Central Area.
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High Point
P. Hunter Dalton Jr
Paul Ingle
Fred Alexander
J. H. Millis
C. E. Yokely
Planning and Zoning Commission
East Central Area
S Main Street
E. Green Drive
Allen Gwyn
Superior Court
Memorial for Dr Milton Block highlights Davidson County service
Obituary notes the death of Dr Milton E Block a longtime Davidson County coroner and medical examiner who joined the North Carolina bar on July 1 after years of service. He earned praise for duty with a two way radio linking him to the sheriff. honorary pallbearers were sheriff's deputies. The column also recalls Harvey Head and shares insurance claim quirks, plus local streetspeed enforcement using cables near WTNC halting drivers.
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Block
Davidson County
Sheriff’s Department
Sheriff's Department
Homer Lee Cox
Pepper the pipe loving pup brings smiles to Wombles
In Arbordale, Earl and Charlotte Womble delight in Pepper a four month old wire-haired terrier adopted for daughter Vonnie a college Miss High Point. Pepper treats visitors as family sits with the TV drinks coffee at breakfast and now toys with a pipe in her mouth prompting jokes about pets taking up the habit.
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Arbordale
Earl Wombles
Earl
Charlotte
Vonnie
Wear Carolina College
Pepper
Womble
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Harvey Head
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Ken Huffman
Salem Street
WTNC
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Chum
Randleman
Guil-Rand
Vic
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