Guilford County Faces Bond Plan For School Growth
A Greensboro county meeting tomorrow could approve up to 6 million dollars in bonds to fund immediate school construction. The plan, backed by County Manager Harry Weatherly, proposes bond anticipation notes and a ten year payoff with a small tax increase. The High Point and Greensboro allocations raise concern from the local school board over funding fairness and projected needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Guilford County
County Commission
High Point
W. A.tomlinson
Commission
Lloyd Amos
Harry Weatherly
Pruette
Courage For The New Year Foreword
A 1955 New Year sermon urges readiness and courage based on Ecclesiastes and Proverbs. It emphasizes guarding the heart, pursuing virtue, and a disciplined Christian life. Jesus’ call to weightier matters and self-denial is highlighted as the path to spiritual progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecclesiastes
Harvey
William Harvey
Jesus
Peter
Gehenna
Combs Builds Choo Choo Fame In Greensboro Christmas
Mark Combs once a High Point radio announcer now a Greensboro TV Barker received an electric train for Christmas. His wife Rachel recalls his constant wish for a Choo-Choo, and the gift kept him busy all Christmas morning as local merchants report postholiday wrap profit losses and the upcoming Furniture Market tests mild yearlong optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Combs
High Point Radio
Greensboro
Combs
Rachel
Mark
France Should Partner With Germany Not Battle It
The piece argues France is internally weak and must choose sides in Europe. It praises Mendes France for lifting France to parity with West Germany and warns neutrality risks, urging partnership with Germany and NATO to deter Soviet influence and avoid revanchist outcomes.
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France
Europe
James Hagerty
Augusta
M. Bidault
Mendes-France
United States
Soviet Russia
Britain
United Nations
Talleyrand
West Germany
Herriot
Germany
M. Herriot
God
Nehru
Peking
Hitler
NATO
Morgenthau
Reader letters and public notices mix in 1955 Enterprise page
A reader seeks a New Year hobby aiding handicapped and shut ins and asks for organizations. The page contains editorials railing at foundations and Red fronts, censure of liquor and gambling revenues, a Raleigh legislature cautionary piece on taxes and social costs, and a call for peace in 1955 with questions on German reunification and arms reduction.
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W. S. Hasty
Raleigh
Moscow
Germany
Robert S. Field
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Fece
Chapell
Santa Claus
Steve
Santa
University of North Carolina
Duke
Kenan Stadium
Brooklyn
Texas
Daffy Dodger
Pop
Junior
Knox Bridge
Main Street
Exposition Building
Minnesota
Hervie Williard
High Point Savings and Trust
Future Farmer
Future Farmers of America
van Frye
Trinity
Young Frye
Anvil
George Sokolsky
Hasty
Enterprise
Reece Committee
Duke Foundation
Thomas Calvin Swanson
New York
Massachusetts
California
Commonwealth
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