Central High honors Miss Virginia Frank with concert tribute
Central High School honors the late Miss Virginia Frank with a 9 PM tribute by the concert orchestra on WMFR. The program features Bach Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light Luther A Mighty Fortress and Beethoven A Hymn To Joy. Junior Civitan month promotes Clean Up Fix Up Paint Up and school improvements.
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Central High
Miss Frank
E. Barry Ruth
WMFR
Johann Bach
God
Martin Luther
Ludwig Beethoven
Central
Thomasville High students auction prized school bell
Senior and sophomore classes held a lost and found auction sponsored by the Student Council. The original Thomasville school bell sold for nearly 500 dollars, to be engraved with the buyers’ names and displayed in the trophy case. Auctioneers Bobby Powell and Tommy Earnhart sold other curios as well. Three seniors earned scholarship milestones with strong NROTC, Phillips Petroleum, and Morehead competition updates. College Board scores show high achievement at TSHS, with 21 of 62 over 1000 and early college acceptances beginning to arrive.
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Thomasville
Bobby Powell
Tommy Earnhart
Cleopatra
California
Webb Langford
Roger Chance
North Carolina
Phillips Petroleum Co
College Board
TSHS
Ray Easter
Tory raid and William Trogdon’s death at Sandy Creek mill
In 1783 on the west bank of Sandy Creek Randolph County a Tory raid killed mill owner William Trogdon who defended his water powered mill. His grave lies between Patterson's Grove Church and Franklinville with a marker added in 1926. Local historian Cornelius Julian notes Trogdon’s Mill may have stood at the juncture of Highway 64 A and Sandy Creek near Ramseur.
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C. Henry King
Sandy Creek
Randolph County
William Trogdon
North Carolina
Patterson’s Grove Church
Franklinville
Trogdon
Capitan
David Fanning
Cornelius Julian
Julian
W. F. Trogdon
North Wilkesboro
America
W.F. Trogdon
Trogdons
Ma hogany Awards honor three furniture lines
Fourth annual Ma hogany Awards salutes Ameri can of Martinsville Piedmont Collection best of Class I, Davis Cabinet Co. Hardwicke Hall best of show, and Hickory Chair Co James River Collection best of class in tables and occasional pieces. Southern winter market will showcase the winners. The rest recalls colonial era figures and the Trogdon family grave near Sandy Creek with notes on misattributed lineage and local history.
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American of
Martinsville
Piedmont
Hardwicke Hall
Davis Cabinet Co
Duncan Phyfe
James River
Hickory Chair Co
Penn Tigers Triumph and Tragedy Mark Week at School
The week at William Penn High featured a 50 to 38 win by the Tigers over the Thomasville Green Hornets and a tough loss to Atkins High School Camels. The student council sold tiger emblem socks, the debating club planned a capital punishment topic, and alumna substitute Mrs. Reba Gripper Smith taught during a faculty absence. The community mourned the death of Dr. Murray B. Davis, praising his life saving care from birth through adulthood and his service to Pennites.
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High Point
Virginia Frank
Penn
Tigers
Thomasville Green Hornets
Pennites
Camels
Atkins High School
Winston-Salem
Reba Gripper Smith
Murray B. Davis
Dr. Davis
Institution of Learning
Hypnosis Opens Path To Recovery
Dr. David B. Cheek, a San Francisco gynecologist, advocates hypnosis as a recovery aid for patients when standard care fails. He describes ideomotor questioning to reveal subconscious beliefs, noting hypnosis can raise confidence, ease fears before surgery, and speed healing while cautioning it is not a universal cure.
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San Francisco
David B. Cheek
Cheek
Western Journal of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology
United States
Two Denominations Join National Association of Evangelicals
In Aurora Illinois two more denominations join the National Association of Evangelicals expanding the group to 40 members. Evangelical Congregational Church based in Reading Pennsylvania adds 30000 members and Pilgrim Holiness Church based in Indianapolis adds 32709 members.
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Aurora, Ill
National Association of Evangelicals
NAE
Evangelical Congregational Church
Reading
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Indianapolis
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Junior Civitans
Paign
Civitans
United Fund
Junior
Bob Cameron
Key Club
David Conrad
National Honor Society
Bobbi Ballow
N.H.S
Eugenia Monroe
Eugenia
Apmyndy Onsejoyos
High Corner
John Motley Morehead
Chapel Hill
Madison-Mayod
Concord
Thomasville High Library
OBY Award
Ezekiel
Samuel
Solomon
John
William Trogdon Jr
Patriot Trogdon
W. M. Trogdon
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Fanning
South Carolina
Florida
Herman Husband
Shubal Stearns
Samuel Walker
Andrew Hunter
Patriot William Trogdon
William Penn Notebook
Josephine Payne
Penn’s
William C. Harrison
Associated Press
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