High Pointer Ed Thrower Elected to Thomasville Furniture Board
Ed K Thrower of Pleasant Garden and resident of Sedgefield was elected to the Thomasville Furniture Industries board to replace Ralph Stockton who resigned after 43 years with the company. Founders Furniture, a division of Thomasville Furniture, operates with its own management and sales force and shows, expanding its Pleasant Garden plant under Thrower's leadership. He joined Founders April 1 1947 after leaving Heritage Furniture and later helped launch PG Novelty Works in Pleasant Garden.
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Thrower
Thomasville Furniture
Founders
Southern Furniture Exposition
High Point
Heritage Furniture Co
Elliott Wood
Johnny Miller
Greensboro
PG Novelty Works
Pleasant Garden
W. J. Sloane
New York
Robert Thrower
Lumberton
Kay Manufacturing Co
Wood
Heritage Furniture
High Point Jaycees
First Methodist Church
North Carolina National Bank
W. G
Founders Furniture
Editor's Outlook on Smut Publishers and Judicial Taste
An editor notes federal cases in Rapids and Sioux City involving smut publishers. He cites sentences for Wallace Maxey and defense of works titled Lesbian Sin Song and Two Women in Portance while arguing on what judges deem dirty. He recalls exhibitions seen by prosecutors and judges and jokes about what counts as moral literature.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Rapids, Mich
Los Angeles
Ids
Sioux City
Letters to the Editor mock political indoctrination and hypocrisy
The letter mocks intellectuals and social satire as it laments propaganda, protests, and perceived liberal influence. It attacks draft card burnings, atheism, and academic freedom, claiming decline in leadership and faith, and laments public figures on talk shows. It ends with a note of frustration over societal confusion.
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Karl Marx
Nathan Hales
Eve
Jeremy Taylor
Roaming the Piedmont Agony in Checkout Line
A lunch hour shopping scene in a large store ends with a tense checkout wait as a couple debate cart handling and lines. A reader recalls a humorous misadventure in a store queue and a related tale of grocery math miscalculations.
Clash over draft policy tests free speech during war
The column links Cassius Clay's draft status flap and public dissent to historic debates on criticism in wartime. It argues freedom of speech must endure even as Americans fight in South Vietnam, urging due process and protection of individual rights amid national security pressures.
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Chicago
Cassius Clay
Ernie Terrell
Louisville
Clay
Illinois
Athletic Commission
Julian Bond
Atlanta
Georgia
United States
Viet Nam
Michigan
America
George
Mexico
New England
Polk
Lincoln
North
South
Davidson County Politics Heat Up In Slow Start
In Davidson County politics a re election bid by clerk Willie Everhart surprises some while register of deeds sits quiet. Commissioner W C Boyles weighs re election as rising business and family duties guide his choice. The piece notes a repaint at City Hall and a campus beauty queen from Lenoir Rhyne who led a Carolinas Conference Basketball Tournament but the winner remains unknown.
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Thomasville
Davidson County
Willie Everhart
Willie
Register of Deeds
E. M. Hunt
W. C. Boyles
Bill
Lexington
Vicki Lynn Crane
Lenoir Rhyne College
Miss Crane
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Ed K. Thrower
By Robert Marks
Polly White
Siveg
E. K. Thrower Furniture Executive
Elmer Horton
Cone Ae
Sam Ha
Champ
Pete Ae Tees
South Viet Nam
Baltimore
Congress
Roosevelt
Davidson
City Hall
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