Thomasville Cafeteria Program Seen Working Well
The new federal feeding program in Thomasville schools shows high participation and few complaints since September. Dr. W. T. Bird reports one school with 97 percent of students eating in the cafeteria and discusses possible junior high changes including language program strengthening and a move to seven periods. The board also notes a new physical education building and above average achievement tests, plus Freddie Morrison as the new school board attorney succeeding Russell Van Landingham.
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Thomasville
Board of Education
Par
W. T. Bird
Freddie Morrison
Russell van Landingham
Chair City Dimes Drive Under Way
THOMASVILLE The March of Dimes fund raising campaign started with Rainbow girls and DeMolay members handing out collection cannisters. Campaign Chairman David Smith cites delayed supplies from Jan 1 as the reason. Appeals to merchants will go out Jan 20, with road blocks by Jaycees and Lions on Jan 30. A wrestling match between Senior High and Troutman is planned for Feb 4, followed by the March of Mothers chaired by Frances Childers and Dot Scoggins. The campaign aims to raise 5000 dollars.
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Thomasville
March of Dimes
Rainbow Girls
David Smith
Thomasville Jaycees
Fair Grove Lions
Hasty Lions
Senior High
Troutman
Senior Monogram Club
Frances Childers
Dot Scoggins
Firehouse relics dismantled in Louisville
In Louisville the old firehouse gang vanished as bells outside stations gave early warnings for horse drawn wagons. Horns replaced bells and Maj. Robert C. Catlett, the department property officer, ordered the remaining relics dismantled.
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Louisville
Robert C. Catlett
Incompetent Man Accused of Abduction in Sanford Case
James Edward Rogers of Thom asville, charged with kidnapping Robert Wesley Cole on Sept 19, has been ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial by psychiatrists at Dorothea Dix State Hospital. Committed since November, Rogers detailed a planned ceremony with the Mark of the Beast and a shroud like costume, to be performed by candlelight. Cole escaped during a stop in Ramseur before Rogers was arrested at a Thomasville hospital after allegedly swallowing rat poison. Rogers had listed Cole among others in a notebook and blamed him most for the affair.
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Asheboro
Thomasville
Randolph County
Lee County
James Edward Rogers
Sanford
Robert Wesley Cole
Rt. 4
Dorothea Dix State Hospital
Rogers
Cole
Davidson County
Mark
Ramseur
Woman Faces Abandonment Charges in Recorder Court
Patsy Oneil De Weese, 24, is to appear in Recorder's Court in Thomasville tomorrow on a charge of abandoning four minor children. Arrested in Newland by Avery County deputies, she was returned to Thomasville by local police. De Weese is named by Robert DeWeese as the mother who left the children. She remained jailed today. A separate case lists Roger Parks Owens, 23, of Lexington, charged with violating prohibition laws for allegedly transporting 13 gallons of untaxed liquor near Thomasville.
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Thomasville
Recorder's Court
Patsy Oneil DeWeese
Newland
Avery County
Randolph GOP Dinner Postponed in Asheboro
The Randolph County Republican Party postpones its annual Lincoln Day dinner from February 12 to a later date in February. Officials had planned to use the local armory on Feb. 12, but the hall was already leased for that date.
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Asheborg
Randolph County
Republican Party
Crash On Bridge Injures 5 Persons
A head on collision on U S Highway 62 at the Deep River Bridge left five injured. James D Honeycutt 25 was charged with drunken driving and driving on the wrong side. Victims included Felton Naylor Lloyd Warner Tim Harville and James Elliott Honeycutt. The accident occurred at 5 45 a m and blocked the road for over an hour.
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N. C
Deep River Bridge
Highway Patrol
James Decosta Honeycutt
Rt. 1
Salemburg
Parkside Drive
High Point
Honeycutt
Felton Naylor
Rt. 2
Roseboro
James Elliott Honeycutt
Naylor
Melvin Asberry Luther
Franklinville
Luther
Lloyd Warner
Rt. 3
Climax
Tim Harville
Jine
Luther Auto
Loyal flyer R G Wilson bids farewell after 16 years
AP reports R G Wilson retired after 16 years of weekly commutes between Louisville and New York. He began flying when transferred to New York and kept traveling weekly to care for his ill wife. The airline held a goodbye party on his final flight.
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Louisville
R. G. Wilson
New York
Willson
Rex Harrison to direct film with Bardot and Finney
AP reports Rex Harrison preparing to direct his first movie starring Brigitte Bardot and Albert Finney. The project adapts Julian More's novel Don't Go Away I Might Fall Down with Harrison as director.
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Harrison London
Rex Harrison
Brigitte Bardot
Britain
Albert Finney
Julian More
Police use talks to curb New Zealand youth theft
AP report notes Auckland police find dialogue beats force in juvenile crime. The juvenile crime prevention unit visited city and suburban schools to lecture children, aiming to reduce shoplifting. After 50 visits, the effort shows initial signs of impact.
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ST Auckland
Poalice
New Zealand
Police
Illinois engineers test odor removing hog house system
University of Illinois engineers plan experiments with an aerobic aeration treatment plant to cut odors from hog houses. An experimental hog house uses slotted floors as an oxidation ditch, a paddle wheel adds oxygen, and bacteria break down organic matter to carbon dioxide, water and stabilized sludge.
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Urbana, Ill
University of Illinois Engineers
County Officials Attend Confab at Washington
Guilford County Commission members attended the Vice President's Conference for County Officials in Washington at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Chairman Dale Montgomery of High Point and Commissioner Percy Sears of Greensboro joined Vice President Hubert Humphrey as principal speaker for officials from counties over 100000.
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Greensboro
Guilford County Commission
Washington, D. C
Washington Hilton Hotel
Dale Montgomery
High Point
Percy Sears
Hubert Humphrey
National Assn
Two Rate Brothers Retire After Long Public Works Service
Albany officials note Warren Rate retire after 43 years and William Rate leaves with 52 years at the State Department of Public Works. Their nephew Donald Stahlman, employed five years, remains on the job to carry on the family legacy.
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Albany
N.Y
Warren Rate
State Department of Public Works
Warren
Department
William Rate
Rate
Donald Stahlman
Mandrake Casting Sought for Tessari Film in England
AP reports director Ducio Tessari will travel to England to scout an actor to play Mandrake in his film based on the comic strip magician. Tessari wrote the script himself and aims to start production soon.
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Rome
Duccio Tessari
England
Mandrake
Tessari
Hope Special Great Show In Color From Vietnam Tour
AP Television writer Cynthia Lowry notes Bob Hope’s NBC Christmas special, filmed in color, following a 22 stop tour from Vietnam to the South China Sea. The program features soldiers at shows and hospital visits, strong photography with some sound blurs, and ends with Roger Miller’s musical interlude and jokes.
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New York
Bob Hope
New Hope
NBC
Hope Junket
Viet Nam
Cambodia
Thailand
South China Sea
Hope
Roger Miller
Miller
the Baron
ABC
Capes and Capers on Screen and TV Listings
Capsule Views 2 features The Munsters Batman Gilligan's Island Gidget My Three Sons The Double Life of Henry Phyfe Laredo Movie Tonight War Lover Bewitched Peyton Place The Baron and Dean Martin guests with a mix of plot hints and cast notes across syndicated TV offerings and upcoming film showings.
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Amos & Andy
Walter Cronkite
Huntley-Brink
Gidget
Henry Phyfe
Lawman
Ole Lawman
Opry
Daniel Boone
Laredo
Mona McClusky
Ford wage history shows shift from five dollar days to 76 cents an hour
In 1914 Henry Ford announced a five dollar per day minimum wage for workers. By 1996 Detroit auto wages had fallen to roughly 76 cents per hour, even as the auto industry modernized and decentralized. Detroit still produces about half of the nation's cars.
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Henry Ford
Detroit
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