Gilbert Marsh of High Point A Civic Leader Profile
Gilbert Marsh, High Point civic leader and beautification committee chair, played a central role in the annual clean-up drive. He praises city works crews and residents for a successful effort and cites 100 hours of committee work this year.
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Gilbert Marsh
High Point
City Sanitation
City Ward
Marsh
Qaaker
Archdale Friends Meeting
Annie Aldridge
Archdale
Archdale Friends
High Point Friends Meeting
Quaker Lane
High Point Kiwanis Club
Boys Home
Lake Waccamaw
Emerywood Country Club
Embassy Club
Shoenahey
Rotary
Gilbert Marsh Jr
The
Bird Roofing Co
Shreveport
The Tree Farmers
Longview Washington editor’s notebook argues land must be cultivated not mined. It highlights forest management by firms like Weyerhaeuser with massive seedling planting, selective cutting, and fire control to grow sustainable timber and improve air quality for future generations.
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Longview
Wash
America
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minesota
Chey
Pacific Ocean
Teddy Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co
Washington
Suburbia Transforms American Political Landscape
The 1970 census shows suburbs hold the decisive vote in state and national elections, shifting power to largely white suburbanites. Urban areas face rising costs and welfare rolls while suburbs push for low taxes, reshaping congressional districts and reinforcing suburban influence on presidential campaigns.
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Washington
Suburbia
USA
Oe Ae
U.S. House
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Census Bureau
Kennedy name fails to transfer to allies in 1960s and 1972
The piece notes repeated defeats of Kennedy associates from Sorensen to Salinger, O Donnell, and Shriver, showing voters resist campaign coattails. It argues the Kennedy magic did not guarantee victories and ponders the Democratic Party’s reliance on the Kennedy name for future elections.
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Kennedy
New York State
Theodore Sorensen
Democrat Party
Senate
Pierre Salinger
California
George Murphy
Kenneth O'Donnell
Massachusetts
Sargent Shriver
Maryland
Sorensen
New York
Sorensen-Kennedy Association
Eisenhower
Nixon
Kenedy
Downtown parking meters spark renewed debate in Thomasville
Thomasville merchants push to remove downtown meters citing broader issues of blight narrow streets and poor storefronts. City workers resignations and communication gaps at City Hall worsen tensions as officials urge downtown renewal including off street parking and better merchandising. Miss Pride notes a preference for family size pizza with a free straw.
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Thomasville
Labor Backing Democrats Tied to Penn Central Loan Fallout
The 200 million Penn Central loan sparked a major shift as AFL-CIO leaders rally labor to support Democratic senators in the coming fall elections. Hard hats cheered Nixon while labor chiefs push a tougher foreign policy, yet domestic and fiscal issues drive the decisive backing for Democrats at the factory gates.
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Washington
Penn Central
Chiefs of Organized Labor
Afl-Cio
Nixon
Moscow
New York
Labor
Penn
Organized Labor
Hubert Humphrey
Wallace
Federal Reserve
Main Street
Senate
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Robert Marks
Enterprise
Eugene and
Emma Welborn Marsh
Marsh Furniture Co
Trinity High School
Beeson Hardware Co
Beeson Hardware
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Weyerhaeuser
the Capital
House of Representatives
Davidson
By Bob Burchette
Ernest Cuneo
North American Newspaper Alliance
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