YMCA To Use Armory In Thomasville Agreement
Thomasville Family YMCA and the North Carolina National Guard formalized a lease allowing YMCA use of the Culbreth Avenue armory as a temporary home. Johnny Thomason and Capt. Benjamin A. Roney signed the contract as Y officials outlined a two day planning workshop and a February membership push ahead of National YMCA Week.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Family Ymca
North Carolina National Guard
YMCA
Culbreth Avenue
Johnny Thomason
Ymca Board of Directors
Benjamin A. Roney
Raleigh
Country Art Exhibition Planned
The Fourth Annual Guilford County Arts Competition and Exhibition will be held at Friendly Center Auditorium February 5 to 20. Sponsored by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and the Greensboro Artists League, with a $500 Julius Gray Purchase Award. Juror Victor Huggins of Virginia Tech selects works. open to Guilford residents and county students.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
Friendly Center Auditorium
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
Greensboro Artists League
Julius Gray
Victor Huggins
College of Architecture
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg
Huggins
Chapel Hill
Chevrolet Dealers Sons' School Graduate Named
George W. Lyles III of Lyles Chevrolet completed the 76th session at Chevrolet's school of merchandising and management in Warren Michigan near Detroit. The five week program, run by Chevrolet sales executives, taught modern methods for running an efficient profitable automotive retail business.
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George W. Lyles III
Lyles Chevrolet
Chevrolet Dealers Sons
Chevrolet
Warren
Mich
Detroit
Miss High Point Contestants Shine At Saturday Pageant
The Miss High Point Pageant features 21 contestants including Lauren Wall 17 daughter of James R Wall of 1241 Dovershire Pl a senior at High Point Central High School and Sub Junior Women's Club member Susan Sparks 20 daughter of W A Sparks of 3339 Longview Dr a Catawba College sophomore majoring in speech and drama and named best supporting actress for Lion in the Winter 1971 and Kathleen Valentine 20 daughter of Lester L Valentine of 416 Greenwood Dr a Central High School graduate and senior nursing student at High Point Memorial Hospital.
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Lauren Wall
Susan Sparks
Kathy Valentine
I R
Miss Wall
James R. Wall
Dovershire
High Point Central High School
Miss Sparks
W. A. Sparks
Longview
Catawba College
Miss Valentine
Lester L. Valentine
Greenwood
Central High School
High Point Memorial Hospital
Officer Ralph Farlow Named High Point Officer of the Year
High Point Police selects patrolman Ralph Wade Farlow for 1971 Officer of the Year for service over the past year. He and Officer J E Tobin also receive the Departmental Merit Bar for rescue and aid after a Hilltop Street fire on Oct 22 1971 that killed four of five victims. Farlow was injured next day in a wreck on Interstate 85 and has not yet returned to work.
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High Point
Ralph Wade Farlow
Lakewood Street
Farlow
J. E. Tobin
Hilltop Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
David Burkett
Pearl Burkett
Robert Lee Hill
Timothy Johnson
Bruce Johnson
Montlieu Avenue PTA Hosts Valentine Themed Luncheon
The Montlieu Avenue PTA held its annual teachers luncheon Friday in the school cafetorium. About 40 teachers and staff attended as Dr. Deen B. Pruette served as special guest along with Mrs. Carolyn Rouse, the new school secretary, at the buffet table with a Valentine theme.
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Montlieu Avenue
PTA
Deen B. Pruette
Carolyn Rouse
HPC Drama Trio Set For Tuesday Night Show
The Fine Arts Department at High Point College presents a three act program on Tuesday at 8 pm in Memorial Auditorium with no admission. Acts include a child puppet show The Bear That Couldn't Hug a marionette piece A Shade Darker and a mime They Shoot Horse Dont They featuring live actors and aimed at all ages.
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Fine Arts Department
High Point College
Memorial Auditorium
Sandra Epperson
Market scheduling in doubt for Southern furniture shows
Southern furniture groups weigh one market per year as SFMA proposes a spring introduction at a major market. High Point hosts February and April and October markets are set by FFMAS in the South. No FFMAS board meeting scheduled. May annual meeting could delay final action on April and October market dates through 1975.
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High Point
The
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
Furniture Factories Assn
South
SFMA
North Carolina
Furniture Factories Marketing Assn
FFMAS
Deer Hunter Humor and Silent Deer Conversation
A humorous, column style piece laments the quiet after deer season and pokes fun at hunting practices. It explains the blind hunting method, notes rules to protect deer, and wryly observes deer behavior and hunter quirks with playful banter.
YMCA Membership Drive Set By High Point YMCA
Sonny Scruggs named general chairman of the 49th annual High Point YMCA campaign starting February 7. The drive aims to renew existing memberships and recruit new ones with a goal of about $65 000 in fees for the year.
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Sonny Scruggs
High Point Bank and Trust Co
High Point Ymca
Max Cooke
YMCA
Scruggs
Cousins to Speak at High Point Executives Dinner
Norman Cousins former editor of the Saturday Review will address the High Point Executives Club at a Feb 1 dinner at the Top of the Mart starting 7 p m Reservations are due by noon Jan 29. He recently left the Saturday Review after a policy dispute and plans a new magazine.
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Norman Cousins
Saturday Review
High Point Executives Club
Cousins
Time Magazine
United Nations
Russia
Far East
South Africa
Middle East
Europe
India
Ethiopia
National Educational Television
Brown Heads Afternoon Newspapers in North Carolina
Joe Brown, editor of The High Point Enterprise, was elected president of the North Carolina Association of Afternoon Dailies at the Midwinter Institution meeting. Ben Bowers, Jack Sharp and Carl Worsley were elected to top posts with several directors named from across the state.
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Chapel Hill
Joe Brown
High Point Enterprise
North Carolina Association of
North Carolina Press Assn
Ben Bowers
Greensboro Record
Jack Sharp
Lumberton Robesonian
Carl Worsley
Rocky Mount Telegram
Jerry Rusband
Shelby
Stanley Moore
Morganton
Don Hall
Roanoke Rapids
Kenneth Milholland
Hickory
Luther Thigpen
Asheville
John Scott
Wilson
W. E. Horner Jr
Sanford
Jack Whichard
Greenville
Go Forth Exterminators official elected NC Pest Control Sec Treasurer
Gets Post Fletcher L. Spillman of Go Forth Exterminators in High Point was elected secretary treasurer of the North Carolina Pest Control Association during the winter meeting in Raleigh.
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Fletcher L. Spillman
Go- Forth Exterminators
High Point
North Carolina Pest Control Assn
Raleigh
Prison Reform Push Eyes News Access for Inmates
An advisory committee proposes allowing inmates to talk to newsmen with minimal restrictions, subject to safety limits. The plan, likely to reach the North Carolina Correction Commission next Wednesday, is part of broader reforms praised by supporters of Gov. Scott and the corrections department.
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North Carolina
North Carolina Correction Commission
Lee Bounds
Bounds
Committee
Department of Correction
Scott
Fred Morrison
Thomasville
Jaycees
North
Prather Resigns As UA Executive
Hardy Prather has submitted his resignation as executive director of United Community Services of Greater High Point. In a memo to the board of directors he states he will depart after a transition period.
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Hardy Prather
United Community Services of
Greater High Point
United Community Services
Prather
High Point Ucs
United Appeal
James Marsh
UCS
Marsh
High Point
Civilisation and Disney films slated for High Point week
The High Point Public Library schedules Civilisation The Hero as Artist for Monday at 4 pm with art historian Kenneth Clark detailing Renaissance Italy and Julius II era Rome. Disney Islands of the Sea shows Tuesday at 12 15 pm in the audio visual room with lunch options for viewers.
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High Point
Kenneth Clark
Italy
Rome
Pope Julius II
Michelangelo
Raphael and
Bramante
Cinema Cafe
Retired Persons Group To Meet On Wednesday
The High Point Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons will meet on Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Astor Dowdy Towers, 701 E. Green Dr. Anthony Casaline, AARP insurance consultant, will explain the insurance program and answer member questions.
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High Point
American Assn. of Retired Persons
Astor Dowdy Towers
E. Green Dr
Anthony Casaline
AARP
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Low
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HPC
Lew Lewis
Sonny
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Jack Hawks
Ed Wheeless
Dave Leonard
Leon Saffit
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Stewart Hartley
Jack Salway
Ken Brewer
Jerry Hughes
Charles Stephenson
Tom Wood
Helen Cooke
Gaye Johnson
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Okly
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