Urban renewal activist W E Stanton profiled in High Point
Ray Hubbard profiles W. E. Stanton a civic leader and head of Leonard Street School and Neighborhood Improvement Committees. Stanton urges concurrent rehabilitation of residents and notes successful East Central efforts including adult classes door to door mail delivery and block chairmen while praising community volunteers. He holds degrees from Elizabeth City State and has varsity letters in football and basketball.
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Ray Hubbard
W. E. Stanton
Leonard Streetlementary School
Fayetteville
High Point
Stanton
Ams
Maton
Cieal
Leonard Street
East Central
Canjon
Guilford Technical Institute
Tax results show Johnson gains cited in 1965 figures
The article notes 1965 tax collections reaching 49.329 billion, over 2 billion above 1964’s 47.133 billion, with New York seeking smoother ties to President Johnson and allied politicians. It mentions Kennedy’s recent cooperation with Johnson supporters and a President’s Club dinner in New York amid party debt.
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N.Y
Johnson
New York State
Kennedy
New York
Housing project announced by two Davidson church leaders
In Thomasville Rev. G A Brooks of St John s Lutheran and Rev W E Banks of First Baptist unveiled plans for 100 apartment units with $1 140 000 in federal funding. They say the project aims to ease a severe housing shortage though not limited to Negro residents.
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Thomasville
G. A. Brooks
St. John’s Lutheran Church
W. E. Banks
First Baptist Church
Church Street
Banks
Brooks
Brooks and Banks
North Carolina Travel Industry Grows With Record Attendance
North Carolina saw record travel participation in 1966 with over 32 million out of state visitors and more than $600 million in travel income. Great Smoky Mountains National Park topped attendance with 6,466,000 visits, Cape Hatteras Seashore 1,133,000, and Wright Memorial 370,931, while 13 state parks and nine historic sites posted gains amid rising tax receipts. The piece notes liquor availability as a potential factor and calls for a middle ground balancing private and public morality.
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North Carolina
Bill F. Hensley
The
Conservation Department
Hensley
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Kill Devil Hills
Fort Macon State Park
Morrow Mountain State Park
William B. Umstead State Park
ABC
Mommas Deliver The Papers In Wet Weekend Misadventure
Two women sit for coffee before delivering a son’s Sunday papers. In the rain they splash into a fish pond and later lose a shoe in a swampy mudhole. They cut through backyards to finish the route and end with coffee and tales of their misadventure. The boy learns his route is done and jokes about delaying his new thermal socks.
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Worthy
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Green
W. E. Stanton Leonard
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Lizzy
Beth
Bess
Ash
South Carolina Gazette
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Caroline
Live Oak
Elizabeth Ashley
Waxhaw
Don
Paris
Franklin
Virginia
James Mason
Patrick
Southern
Catherine of Russia
Shainie
Maryland McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Robert R. McCormick
Washington
Jack Brooks
Jacob Gilbert
Texas
Burleson
Ava
Gilbert
Davidson
By Bob Burchette
Tom Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
City Memorial Hospital
City
Lexington Avenue
By Robert Marks
Smoky Mountain National Park
Fort Fisher
Brunswick Town
Town Creek Indian Mound
Ly Braxton Younts
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