Scouts Plant Trees For Furniture Industry Winter Markets
Scouts of Troop 32 plant trees to mark the start of the winter furniture markets. The event shows youths with their leaders and mothers cleaning the landfills as they work, with Marvin Comer Jay Christensen Verne White and Danny Hutchins among the scouts observed by Terry Glascoe.
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My Jones
Marvin Comer
Jay Christensen
Verne White
Danny Hutchins
Terry Glascoe
Cub
Edith Briles Named Randolph County Media Director
Edith Briles, a Thomasville native, will take duty as Randolph County School System Director of Instructional Media on Monday. She replaces Nancy Yow and joins a background including librarian roles in Asheboro and UNC Greensboro materials leadership.
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Asheboro
Edith Briles
Thomasville
Randolph County School System
University of North Carolina At Greensboro
University of North Carolina At Charlotte
Book Lovers And Furniture Markets In A Shifting Winter
A feature blends a colorful aside on men and books with industry data. Readers learn about varied book devotion and 1971 furniture market trends with rising orders, shipments, and backlogs for case goods and upholstered furniture amid talks of new market patterns and dual markets in Chicago and North Carolina.
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Case Goods
Gospel Spectacular Concert In Thomasville Civic Center
A gospel singing spectacular will be held Friday at 8 p m in the Civic Center sponsored by the Thomasville Rescue Squad. Featured groups include the Thrasher Brothers from Birmingham the Singing Americans of North Carolina and the Florida Boys of Pensacola. Tickets are sold locally at Tex Auto Parts Winn-Dixie Sears Roebuck Rex Oil Co in High Point at S Main Texaco and WNOS Radio in Winston Salem Karen s Music Center and Kernersville at the Tasty Diner. Debates over markets continue with larger national manufacturers favoring regional markets while area focused producers push regional options.
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Thomasville
Civic Center
Thomasville Rescue Squad
Thrasher Brothers
Birmingham
Ala
Singing Americans
North Carolina
Florida Boys
Pensacola
Fla
Tex Auto Parts
Winn-Dixie
Sears, Roebuck and
Rex Oi! Co
High Point
S. Main
Texaco
Wnos Radio
Winston-Salem
Karen's Music
Furniture Awards Set For High Point Winter Show Dinner
The Virginia Carolina Home Furnishings Representatives Assn schedules a dinner and officer installation during the regional Winter furniture show in High Point. Thomas A. Fanjoy Jr. will preside as president at the January 17 awards dinner, with Ross L. Farlow and Morris Kiel installed January 16. Six Furniture South Awards of Merit will be presented to top dealers from Virginia and the Carolinas.
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Virginia-Carolinas Home Furnishings Representatives Assn
High Point
Ross L. Farlow
Morris Kiel
Southern Furniture Exposition
Farlow
North Carolina
Thomas A. Fanjoy Jr
Statesville
Furniture South
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Exposition Building
Association
Ed Vosberg
Ab Fanjoy
Vosberg
Fanjoy
Association Board of Directors
Guilford County to buy land for eastern high school
Guilford County Board of Education approved buying about 61.3 acres on Bethel Church Road between McLeansville and Gibsonville for 1 000 per acre to build a new eastern high school. Architects are designing plans, with construction estimated at 1.8 million dollars and a two year timeline.
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Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Guilford
Guilford High School
Union
Gibsonville
Rottman
Board of Education
Board of Commissioners
Sanitary Container Company, Inc
Proposed Heliport Plans Stir Greensboro Discussion
Greensboro Guilford officials discussed a National Guard heliport proposed near a school bus storage site. Critics warned of noise and security impacts on the school system with $500000 invested in Franklin Boulevard facilities and up to $2 million in buses parked there. A 400 foot landing strip and 18 aircraft, plus a maintenance facility, were described, with most activity expected on weekends. No board action was taken, though the issue may return before the county commissioners.
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Greensboro
Guilford County Board of Education
National Guard
E. P. Pearce
Franklin Boulevard
Guilford County
North Carolina National Guard
Pearce
George Rottman
Rottman
Seymour Johnson Air Base
Howard Carr
Board of Commissioners
The 10 O Clock Day Plan for a 10 a.m Start
A narrator advocates a 10 o'clock start to the day proposing a 32 hour week headed by later wake times. He cites families, schools, and workplaces starting later as a path to cheerfulness and health while acknowledging resistance and the loss of the coffee break. He predicts conflict with employers and tradition.
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Presidential Council On Physical Fitness
GTI Snow Ski Course Offered in Jamestown Area
Guilford Technical Institute announces a snow skiing course through the French Swiss Ski College at Appalachian Ski Mountain Blowing Rock. Registration 7:30 p.m. Monday Jan 10 in Health Science Building Room 002. Adult enrichment program includes equipment, slope lift fees and insurance with lessons, movies, slides and demonstrations.
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Jamestown
Guilford Technical Institute
Health Science
Appalachian Ski Mountain
Blowing Rock
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Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
SFMA
Furniture Factories Marketing Assn
South
FFMAS
Home Furnishings Marketing Council
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Henredon
Manufac
Furniture
High Point Mart
North Carolina School Boards Assn
Trinity High School
Randolph County
Union Hill School
By Faye Marks
GTI
High Point Enterprise
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