Printing Week Highlights Power and People Behind Books
The High Point Printing Industry observes national Printing Week with exhibits in a store window near Center Theatre and at the High Point Public Library. The feature traces the history of writing from cave drawings to movable type and notes Gutenberg as a key innovator. It profiles Franklin and the growth of mass production in presses, inks, and paper, and emphasizes the printing industry as a major, wage-earning part of American manufacturing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braxton Younts
Center Theatre
High Point Public Library
S. Main Street
Nile
Johann Gutenberg
Gutenberg
United States
Franklin
America
Farm Bloc Divided On Issue In Washington Meeting
Farmers and ranchers from major groups will meet January 26 at the Agriculture Department to discuss Kennedy administration farm programs. President-elect Kennedy and Agriculture Secretary-designate Orville Freeman arranged the session, with leaders split over likely agreement on farm policy.
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Washington
Congress
Agriculture Department
John F. Kennedy
Orville L. Freeman
New York
Freeman
Minnesota
The
National Farmers Union
National Grange
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Chapel Hill Doctor Aids MEDICO Missions Abroad
Dr E Archer Dillard Jr after UNC training volunteered with MEDICO the international medical charity. He helped establish operating rooms in Peru at the Amazon headwaters and later set up a surgery department in Jeremie Haiti, working with local doctors amid infrastructural challenges and transport limits. He plans private practice in Durham once timelines permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Bartholomew
Chapel Hill
N. C. Memorial Hospital
University of North Carolina
Amazon River
Peru
E. Archer Dillard Jr
Dillard
Ruth Dillard
UNC School of Medicine
Medico
Laos
Kenya
Cambodia
Viet Nam
Haiti
Afghanistan
Saigon
Dr. Dillard
Durham
Charlotte
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Miami
Fla
Florida
Jeremie
Shaw Letters Gifted to UNC Library by Archibald Henderson
The University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill received about 120 Bernard Shaw letters, notes, and postcards from Dr. Archibald Henderson in December. The gift augments the Henderson Collection and covers Shaw's correspondence with Constable and Co. and other publishers, illustrating his publishing tactics, rights claims, and close project supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Osler Bailey
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Library
Archibald Henderson
George Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw
Henderson
Shaw
Constables
Constable and Co. of
London
The
University
Department of
Mathematics
George Ber
Nard Shaw
Dr. Henderson
G.B.S
Otto Kullmann
Constable and Co
Kullmann
Kyllmann
Kyllman
Sidney Cockerell and
Clarke
Edinburgh
Neighborly Study Students Visit Canada from High Point College
Eight HPC students led by Dr. Harold Conrad traveled to Toronto for a week visiting the University of Toronto. They described Canadian attitudes toward Americans, differences in higher education funding, and observations on U S Canadian relations. They noted Canadian fashion, and overall gained insight into Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point College
Canada
Harold Conrad
Conrad
Toronto
University of Toronto
High Point
Hugh Cameron
Roanoke Rapids
U. S
Cana
Dian
Cameron
Cuba
Karen Sutton
Jacksonville
Fla
HPC
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Benjamin Franklin
Kermit Metheny
Dai Bayles
Oe Casal
Horace Shaver
Paul Shaver
UNC Library
Blazes
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