High Point Doctor Parham Named Chief of Staff at Memorial Hospital
Dr. Asa Parham elected chief of staff at High Point Memorial Hospital and plans a public fund drive for a new addition. A Henderson native, he brings 12 years on the hospital staff since arriving in 1948, with prior service in the Army Medical Corps and training at Harvard and Penn. He is active in local clubs and banks and lives with his wife and two daughters in High Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Parham
High Point Memorial Hospital
Parham
Dr. Parham
Woodrow W. Tyson
High Point
Emerywood Country Club
Willow Creek Golf Club
First Union National Bank, Sports and Recreation Inc
High Point Medical Center
Quaker Lane
Henderson
University of Pennsylvania
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Boston
Army Medical Corps
69Th Infantry Division
Europe
Amos R. Kearns
Della
Mt. Vernon
Washington
Anne
Salem Academy
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Stewards
College of Surgeons
American Board of Surgeons
Tough All Over By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
A sweeping, year 966 meditation depicts a world in turmoil as Viking threats, papal intrigues, and empires clash. The piece links medieval peril to a universal sense of decline, ending with a fervent rush toward the looming year 1000 and the feared Millennium.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Eadgar
Jaris
Swein
Galen
Hippocrates
Spain
Alfonzo the Wise
War rhetoric and crossing light delay mourns lives at Christmas
Letter writer Raymond McDowell laments a Christmas Eve railroad crossing tragedy and criticizes lack of crossing lights. He questions risking life for lights and condemns wartime rhetoric about liberators while urging accountability for deaths and local officials. The piece blends antiwar sentiment with safety concerns.
The Old and the New 1966 Reflections on a Changed Year
A Sunday Accent column reflects on 1965 ending and 1966 beginning. It notes war in Viet Nam, famine in India, poverty in Africa, Selma and Watts in the United States, and progress toward the moon. It discusses local hopes for bond measures, a new reservoir, City Hall, and reapportionment, plus memory pills and a general year of change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viet Nam
India
Africa
United States
Selma
Montgomery
Watts
N. Main Street
Robert Coles
Morning Glory Corp shifts gears with Skeenburgers sign confusion
Thomasville report notes a High Point branch of Morning Glory Corp making Sheenburgers while misprint leaves missing letter in Skeenburgers sign. Owners Harry Morris and George Coble silent on the gaffe as they expand. A public lake forecast warns of possible water drawdown at High Rock Lake in 66 days. March of Dimes in Davidson set an $8,000 goal with planning at Claude’s Restaurant. Thomasville eyes jail reform moving to Sheriff's Dept and a new county facility next to City Hall on Guilford Street to house multiple agencies.
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City of
High Point
Southern Railroad
Southern Railway
Prospect
Davidson County
Claude's
Lexington
W. A
Thomasville
Sheriff's Department
City Hall
W. Guilford Street
City Police Department
Highway Patrol
Hoss the parking lot dog wins Sears workers’ hearts
A small brown dog named Hoss, abandoned in a Sears parking lot, has been cared for by Don Andrews Jim Wright and other Sears employees. She now roams the lot and nearby garage, accepted by a few trusted individuals while wary of strangers. She is about 10 months old and reputedly can tell time by break periods.
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Hoss
Cartwright
Don Andrews
Sears, Roebuck
Don
Hossanna
Jim Wright
Sears
Wright
Andrews
Oren Martin
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Asa Parham
By Robert Marks
Enterprise
Eeily
Virginia Military Tate
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Arthur Tracy Cabot
Harvard Medical School
Choice
North Carolina
High
DR. Asa Parham Hospital
Art Richardson
Rhine
God
Verdun
Holy See
John XIII
Benedict V
Leo VIII
Lealy
Chao Kuang-yin
China
Vienna
Japan
Chac
Castro
Cuba
Juan Real H
Raymond McDowell
State Senate
House
Morning Glory Corp
Sheenburgers
Ean Oint
North Main Street
Skeenburgers
Harry Morris
George Coble
High Rock Lake
Braxton
Elmer Horton
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