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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1955
Page
28
A High Point report by W B Stronach Jr outlines expanding municipal recreation to fill leisure time. It highlights a 390 billion hour national leisure reservoir and lists activities from swimming and junior baseball to square dancing and senior clubs.
The new president of the General Board of the Baptist State Convention is Rev. G. W. Bullard of Temple Baptist Church Raleigh. At the board’s first yearly meeting he faced motions and amendments adeptly and will learn more parliamentary terms during his term. The board, with vice president Rev. Fritz Hemphill and secretary M. M. Jones, meets thrice yearly and guides the convention between its November session.
An article traces street and courtship games from ancient Rome to 16th century Flanders and medieval Florence to 1955 America. It notes timeless play like tag and hide and seek, London Bridge customs, ritual counting games, and May Day processions, while highlighting parents' concerns and Puritan disapproval of football.
A prayer asks God to guide all young people toward wisdom, strength, meaningful work, enduring joy, and enduring love. The supplication, from Carl Heath Kopf of First Congregational Church in Washington, D. C., seeks character more than easy lives.
Japanese repatriates report NEW DESERT METROPOLIS MAIZURU expanding on the east edge of the Gobi. More than 40,000 pineers and laborers arrive monthly to the desert rail terminal from Peiping. Soviet technicians move in as iron ore and coal projects accelerate. A Paotow to Iberia railway is under construction. Population feverishly rises to about 500,000 since the Reds took over.
CHAPEL HILL Jan 3 The state meeting theme A Panorama of Adult Education in North Carolina will be held at UNC Carroll Hall on Feb 9 Sponsored by the North Carolina Adult Education Committee the event is open to all interested in adult education A special feature includes a dramatic sketch by UNC drama and Carolina Players Dr Paul Essert of Teachers College Columbia University will deliver a keynote from the National Adult Education Association A panel on local adult education activities and a general session follow the discussions Representatives from various counties will present developments and committee members from libraries state associations and education bodies are listed.
A Duke University press release notes the publication of The Duke University Legal Aid Clinic Handbook by John S. Bradway. The Duke Legal Aid Clinic, one of the first in the nation, was founded in 1931 to give law students practical experience serving clients who cannot afford legal services.
Practical driving tips emphasize controlling speed to handle emergencies. Slow down near curves and intersections, match speed to headlight range at night, reduce sway on sand gravel or wet roads, follow the vehicle ahead with ample distance, stop if tired or distracted, and ensure you can stop within a car length when children are nearby.
North Carolina Georgia Alabama Virginia and South Carolina Lutheran pastors attend a two day Knubel Miller Lecture Series in Columbia. Dr Ralph W Loew of Holy Trinity Buffalo will present five talks on The Church and the Amateur Adult at the Lutheran Church of the Ascension near the seminary campus. The Rev J Shelton Moose chairs the arrangements for Tuesday and Wednesday sessions.
In Miamsburg Ohio Irvin Egelus safety service director says a Silver Springs Kentucky man hired to remove pigeons from the business district plans to take the birds to his home town.
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