High Point Parks Chief Kisiah Drives Vital Summer Programs
Ray Kisiah, director of High Point parks and recreation, oversees a record summer with 38 482 park visitors in June and a 10 000 strong Fourth of July crowd at City Lake and Washington Terrace. He emphasizes neighborhood outreach and broad program development through groups like Community Theatre and a planned community orchestra and chorus. Kisiah, a native of Charlotte who studied at UNC and Chapel Hill, stresses post program analysis and staff development while pursuing a wide range of recreation activities for families and youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Marks
Ray Kisiah
High Point
Kisiah
City
City Lake Park
Washington Terrace Park
Jesse L. Taylor
Nathan Hunt Drive
Marine Corps
Parris Island
China
Charlotte
Furman University
South Carolina
University At
Chapel Hill
Recreation Department
Worms-Eye View of Gettysburg and Vicksburg Turning Points
The editor reflects on the Civil War turning points at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, contrasting worm's-eye and bird's-eye views. It recalls a Wisconsin guns crew diary, loss and memory, and the human cost beyond dates and numbers.
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Gettysburg
Pickett
Cemetery Ridge
Army of Virginia
Longstreet
Ewell
A. P. Hill
Vicksburg
Miss
Pemberton
Columbia
Mississippi
Lee
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Alvah B. Page
Memphis
Letters to the Editor praise Vatican and critique of colonial empires
Bishop Waters lauds The Enterprise editorials on Pope John XXIII and Papal succession and prays for blessings. Alexander V. Berkis argues Russia as a colonial empire oppressing peoples from Estonia to Hungary, urging self determination and criticizing Khrushchev.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waters
John Xx‘ii
John XXIII
Vincent S. Waters
Raleigh
Hungary
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Germany
Berlin
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Bulgaria
Albania
Soviet Russia
United Nations
Khrushchev
Russia
Alexander V. Berkis
Farmville
Virginia
Quotes on Friendship War Politics and Economy
A collection of historical quotes from Khrushchev Freeman Toynbee Brotzman Seltzer and von Braun. The remarks touch on friendship and contention in international affairs the Army’s core symbol the limits of deficit spending and the value of basic research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nikita Khrushchev
Navy
Air Force
Paul L. Freeman Jr
U. S. Army
Europe
America
de Gaulle
Canada
Arnold J. Toynbee
Donald G. Brotzman
Rcolo
Louis B. Seltzer
Cleveland Press
Dees Named to Board of Higher Education and Political Notes
Goldsboro News-Argus reports William A. Dees Jr. and Joseph W. Grier Jr. were named to eight year terms on the North Carolina Board of Higher Education starting Aug 1, with Dees likely to become chairman. Gov. Terry Sanford appointed both lawyers, succeeding John Kennedy Jr. and Maj. L. P. McLendon, who retires as chairman. The piece also notes Sanford may delay a special session on redistricting, White Jr. derides a long list of duties, and Republicans face gubernatorial hopefuls Badgley and potential Jonas decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Goldsboro
Greensboro
McLendon
Board of Higher Education
Dees
Governor’s Commission On Education
General Assembly
High Point Annexation 1960 Doubles City Size and Population
A city planning study recalls High Point's 1960 annexation of 19.67 square miles adding 15,000 residents, marking the largest growth step since incorporation in 1859. Earlier expansions in 1922 and postwar suburban growth shaped its route to a 30.38 square mile, 62,063 population by 1960.
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High Point
City Planning Department
Old Plank Road
North Carolina Railroad
Emerywood
Blair Park
High Point College
Southern Railway
Tombstone’s Ghosts on the Hill of Silver
John Wilder tours Tombstone Arizona focusing on historic sites. He recalls Loma de Plata the Hill of Silver, the Bird Cage Theater and OK Corral, then visits Boothill Cemetery noting grave markers and stories of Broncho Charlie Red River Tom and Ormsby.
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Tombstone
Arizona
Cochise
Crystal Palace
Loma de Plata
OK Corral
Earp Brothers
Broncho Charlie
Doc Holliday
Old Boothill Cemetery
Johnny Blair
Cowboy
George Johnson
Ormsby
Red River
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University of North Carolina
University
Martha Alexander
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Cashtown
Fords of the Potomac
Appomattox
Robert E. Lee
West Point
Ike Eisenhower
Winston Churchhill
Warren
Little Round Top
Meade
My’s
Gunner Page
Joe Johnston
William A. Shires
Raleigh — Political Notebook
Gov. Sanford
Sanford
Senate
Sen
Thomas J. White Jr
Lenoir
White
Advisory Budget Commission
Senate Appropriations
Legislative Council
Legislative Building Governing Commission
Commission On Interstate Cooperation
Congress
Herbert C. Bonner
Walter Jones
Roger Jackson Jr
Harrellsville
Bonner
Badgley
Donald Badgley
Charles R. Jonas
Jonas
Guilford
Republican Party
Oak Hill
Mechanicsville
Highland
Robert
BY John Wilder
City of
Silver
Luke Short
Charlie Storms
Wyatt Earp
Johnny - Behind-The-Deuce
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