Elizabeth Ingram becomes High Point's first woman full service bank head
Elizabeth A. Ingram began her role as manager of Wachovia Bank Westchester Mall office in High Point making history as the first woman to lead a full service bank here. She supervises six staff members and balances family life with her banking career and Appaloosa horse interests.
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Robert Marks
Elizabeth A. Ingram
Westchester Mall
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
High Point
Ingram
North Carolina
Wachovia
Westchester Drive
J. C. Penney
Thalhimer
N. Main St
Bank
Trinity High School
Trinity
Mrs. Ingram
W. R. Andrews
Andrews
Jamestown
Gregory
Cheryl
Laura
King
North
Millard Fillmore Day and the American Presidency
An editor notes the 170th birthday of Millard Fillmore and the value of a president’s performance over time. He contrasts Fillmore with other leaders, praises presidents like Arthur Truman and Eisenhower for resilience, and questions how to judge greatness across 37 U.S. leaders. The piece ends with a cheer for the presidency’s enduring merit.
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Millard Fillmore
Harry Truman
Kansas City
Truman
Franklin
LBJ
Nixon faces shift in Senate and House chairmanships
If Republicans win control in 1970, committee chairs would move to conservative figures. Milton Young would lead Appropriations, Wallace Bennett Finance, John Tower Banking and Currency, Roman Hruska Judiciary, Karl Mundt Government Operations, Gordon Allott Interior, with George Aiken heading Foreign Relations and Margaret Chase Smith chairing Armed Services, reshaping legislative power ahead of 1972.
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Senate
House
Nixon
Congress
Washington
White House
North Dakota
Milton R. Young
Appropriations Committee
Young
Mother Hubbard
Utah
Wallace F. Bennett
Finance Committee
Bennett
Texas
John Tower
Barry Goldwater
Judiciary Committee
Roman L. Hruska
Nebraska
South Dakota
Karl Mundt
Joe McCarthy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Interior and Insular Affairs
Colorado
Gordon Allott
GOP
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vermont
George D. Aiken
Vietnam
Aiken
Arkansas
J. William Fulbright
Senate Armed Services Committee
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Birthday protest in Thomasville turns into humorous rant
A Davidson dateline feature humorously protests birthdays with a Jack Benny toast and coconut denture jokes. It also notes Denton water plans and possible Davidson County sheriff speculation, plus a kindergarten scuffle report from Miss Pride.
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Thomasville
Davidson County
The Character Of Winter In North Carolina
The essay contrasts Carolina winters with mountain winters and recalls volatile temps in Jacksonville and High Point. It notes 11 degrees last Friday versus 73 degrees a year earlier, laments the fickle climate, and recalls German winter conditions while highlighting the Old Farmer's Almanac forecast of an atrocious, unpredictable season.
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North Carolina
Jacksonville
Germany
Piedmont
Carolina
Breakfast Table Talk and a North Carolina Peanut Record
Roaming notes cover friendly breakfast gossip about wardrobes and ice fishing expectations. The column also notes widespread bridge postponements due to snow and reports E W Evans Jr of Hertford County setting a U S record with 6 057 pounds of peanuts per acre, plus other growers above 5 000 pounds. 1969 crop praised for quality and high price.
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North Carolina
E. W. Evans Jr
Hertford County
U.S
Extension
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Millard Filmore Society
Millard
New York
Zachary Taylor
Fillmore
U. S
Whig Party
Hrin
Milard Fillmore
United States
England
Henry I
Ting
Britain
William Henry Harrison
Taylor
Garfield
Buchanan
Grant
Harding
Ohio
Teapot Dome
Chester A. Arthur
Arthur
Chet
The
the Capital
Davidson
By Bob Burchette
Jack Benny
Ole’ Jack
Mother Dear
Denton
Lexington
East-Central
Edward Weisner
Weisner
Miss Pride
Johnny
Bryan
Winter
Blue Ridge
By Braxton Younts
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