High Point’s 33-year-old Jaycee leader earns top honor
Edward N. Post, 33, named High Pointer of the Week and All-America City finalist maker as Jaycee president, reshapes High Point with civic projects. He pushed for a civic auditorium and led the All-America bid after forming a Jaycees committee and mailing the entry last October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward N. Post
Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Post
High Point
National Assn. of Municipalities
Look Magazine
Washington
High
New Idea
The
Jay
Cees
East Carolina College
DSA
Baloney Courses and the Education Shuffle
An editor criticizes college courses he labels baloney teaching little real content. He cites classes in news editing and geography as examples, notes grade labeling and pointless catalog blurbs, and jokes that Omega marks the end of such curricula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Portugal
Europe
Sorbonne
Teachers College
Swinburne
Omega
Pastor Robbins Restates Opposition To Liquor
Letters to the editor recount Pastor Robbins urging High Point residents to oppose alcohol sales. He links liquor to moral decline, divorce and juvenile delinquency, cites 1955 divorce figures, and argues the alcohol industry harms families and society. He questions the 40 young men leading the campaign and presses for moral action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pastor Robbins
High Point
United States Public Health Service
Albion Roy King
Baptists Weigh Hill Article On Southern Church Future
High Point ministers react to Dr. Samuel S. Hill Jr.’s Christian Century piece on what's ahead for the Southern Baptist Convention. They plan to study the article, debate its call for self criticism and broader interpretation, and consider potential shifts in doctrine and authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Samuel S. Hill Jr
Dr. Hill
Woodrow W. Robbins
Lexington Avenue Baptist Church
Southern Baptist Convention
Christian Century
Hill
Department of Religion
University of North Carolina
Southern Baptist Church
America
New South
Southern Baptists
High Point Baptists
Realizing The Truth In A Thomasville Column
A reflective column questions murder mysteries and unknowns in life and society. The writer ponders why events occur and how people react to violence hunting and everyday decisions. The piece ends with a candid confession that the truth remains elusive.
Roaming the Piedmont lighthearted column pieces
A humorous Piedmont column recounts a California car lot slogan about experienced cars and a mule anecdote. It then shifts to church humor with Dr. Herbert Peterson, discusses home care for the chronically ill and the future need for home health visits, and ends with local talk on barbecue slaw preferences and a Guilford County fire awards night at Guilford High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Electric Co
Winston-Salem
R. J. Reynolds
Guilford College
Wake Forest School of Law
Lee Stackhouse
Guilford
Guilford County Firemen
Guilford High School
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Frank Warren
Dr. Jenkins
Edward Neal Post
Jersey City
N.J
Edward Randolph Post
Ethel Elizabeth Turner Post
Smith
North Carolina
University of North Carolina Law School
Stackhouse
Carolina
Ed Post
NBA
Greensboro
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Northern University
Enterprise
ABC
Drys
Baptists and
Robbins
Thomasville
Sheriff's Department
Willie Wardlaw
Kennedy Hill
Sam McKinney
Highway Patrol
Herbert Peterson
Piedmont
Hubby
Braxton
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