Thomasville Year in Review Reflects School Debates and Law News
A year of clashes over the Thomasville Fair Grove Pilot school consolidation led by a petition with over 4,000 signers, while Pilot and Fair Grove merged and annexation talks aimed to place a consolidated high school within city limits. The Moose Lodge faced raids, fines, and trial evidence of gambling gear, and city projects advanced including paving, hospital expansion proposals, and civil defense funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnie Moore
Thonaevelle
Thomasville
Fair Grove-Pilot
Pilot
Fair Grove
Moose Lodge
Paul Harris
Bill Rice
Recorder's Court
Willis Hooper
Lodge
Rice
Jodge
Bill Green
Liberty Drive
Trinity
Blair Streets
Green
City Memorial Hospital
Thomasville Community Foundation
Tom A. Finch
Thomasville Chair Co
Chamber of Commerce
William Smith
Smith
Lexington
Denton
Holiday hospital chaos and police calls in Thomasville
The holiday morning at Thomasville Hospital brings a choking woman rescued by an on call doctor and a drunken driver with injuries. A man complains of stomach trouble while arguing with a nurse and a hospital office, and police handle a domestic beating case and a frightened woman seeking a warrant as the holiday wears on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Plummer
B. C. (Buck) Young
Clarence S. Grant
Lexington
Massachusetts
Florida
Joseph Vaillancourt Jr
Bonnie Moore
Thomasville — Hospital
Philpotts Resolve to Keep Home Life Calm in 1961
North Carolina's incoming Lt Governor H Cloyd Philpott and wife plan no major changes to family life in 1961. He will be in Raleigh for sessions while Mrs Philpott attends social duties, with weekends at home in Lexington. The household includes daughter Betty Jo, granddaughter Kathleen, son Cloyd, Lois the cook, and Lois’s family routines continue amid public duties and jokes from the future state leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora Dolley Raleigh
North Carolina
H. Cloyd Philpott
Lexington
Philpott
Raleigh
White House
Betty Jo
Kathleen
Harry Anderson Jr
W.e
High Rock Lake
Lake
Philpotts
Not Peewee Skunk Wanderer Confuses Idaho Town
Peewee the skunk of Larry Bell wandered off in Salmon Idaho last week. Ray Woods alerted KSRA after a skunk entered his back door, drawing Bell and his wife Linda to the house. They fled as a stranger skunk, 80 friendly but not Peewee, returned to the woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salmon
Idaho
Larry Bell
KSRA
Ray Woods
Woods
Bell
Linda
Primary colors in color television differ from old standard
The article notes that color television uses red blue and green as its primary colors, instead of the conventional red blue and yellow. This shift marks a key change in early color display technology and explains how full color images are generated from these three primaries.
Freeman's Fitness Is Questioned in Farm Policy Debate
Washington AP report notes leaders of the American Farm Bureau Federation question Freeman's focus as secretary of agriculture. President Kennedy is urged to leave policy to Congress, with Freeman carrying out laws after enactment. The piece traces Wallace Brannan and Benson as prior influences on farm policy and discusses their roles in New Deal legislation and postwar programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Henry A. Wallace
Charles F. Brannan
Ezra Taft Benson
Kennedy
American Farm Bureau Federation
Denver
Charles B. Shuman
Freeman
Agriculture Department
Shuman
Congress
House
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Farm Bureau
Rural Electrification Administration
Farmers’ Home Administration
Brannan
Harry S. Truman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomasvilles
J. W. Griffis
Kenneth Lanning
Harris
The
Salem Street
Main Street
Civic Center
Recreation Commission
Community Foundation
R. L. Starrett
Jacksonville
Fla
Vaillancourt
Grant
Central Prison
Frances Cornelius
Randolph
Jerry Lowder
Rt. 2
Lowder
Field's
Navy
State
Washington St
Luxair
Luxaire Furnaces
Bedford Sales CO
Peewee
Davis
Patrol & Watchman Service
Jack S. Davis
College Street
Piedmont
West Washington St
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