High Point Amateur Theatre Leader Aims for Growth
Mrs Arnie Hale leads the High Point Community Theatre as president while addressing finances and audience turnout. The group has produced three full three act productions and two children’s plays with support from the High Point Arts Council and Blair Park Clubhouse.
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High Point
Ife
High Point Central High School
Hale
Pat Duke
Grand Rapids
Mich
Hoke S. Duke
The
Lilly Co
Duke Refining Corp
Crestview Drive
Letter to the Editor on Speaker Ban and international dialogue
Elizabeth Bowne Wall argues in favor of open communication across nations. She cites astronauts and scientists as examples of shared creative hope that transcend political divisions, opposing Speaker Ban laws that would sever dialogue.
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France
North Carolina
McDivitt
U. S
Sepulcre
Elizabeth Bowne
Wall Greenway Drive
The Salty People Give Historic Nova Scotia Tales
An editor’s outlook recalls Nova Scotia seafaring history and hardy characters. From a 1735 brigantine discovery and a Boston voyage to Halifax’s 1917 explosion aftermath, the text highlights salt life, shipwrecks, rescue deeds, and enduring coastal legends through vivid vignettes of captains, families, and a self denying Seal Island life.
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Nova Scotia
West Virginia
New York
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Nova
Halifax
Medway
Samuel Davis
Cardiff
New
Richard Hichens
Seal Island
Barrington
Mary Crowell
Spelling Change Question on Hillsboro Street and Universities
A fragmented note mentions Hillsboro Street in Hillsborough and campuses of Marys College North State University and Meredith. It references the Raleigh Bell and notes traffic on two major highways U S 1 and U S 64.
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Hillsboro Street
Hillsborough
Mary's College
North State University
Meredith
Raleigh Bell
U. S
U. S. 64
Johnson Kennedy power clash roils 1968 Democratic scene
Washington reports rising tension between Johnson and Kennedy camps over the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Supposed brokered deals and ally shifts fuel warnings of a floor fight for vice president. Also notes local Carolina flood aftermath and a Ramseur fire station project.
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Washington
Bobby Kennedy
New York
Kennedy
Johnson
Phillip Graham
Theodore H. ’S
Graham
Eisenhower
Mariner 4 Signals Mars While Alley Oop Echoes Reach
A Sunday Accent discusses Mariner 4’s 134 million mile Mars transmissions and early findings of a thin nitrogen dominated atmosphere and high surface radioactivity. No life detected yet, but scientists do not rule out unknown life forms. The piece links the science with Alley Oop comic strip parody.
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Mariner 4
Mars
Humanity's Reach Beyond Earth and Mars
A speculative piece on Martian contact, Mariner 4 results, and the coming lunar voyage. It ponders what life on other planets may be like, whether we can communicate, and how humanity should relate to unknown intelligent beings.
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Dr. Womag
Earth
Mars
Thomasville Scene Highlights Local Industry and Public Safety
The Thomasville Scene reports on a potential $1 million industry boost for Davidson County and notes uncertainty about future job types. Alton Deberry, fire chief of the Fair Grove Volunteer Fire Department, sustained injuries battling a Silver Valley house fire on N. C. Highway 109. Paul Clifford Westmoreland Jr., 27, is named as Thomasville’s new police officer, with a brief past as a guitar-picking motorcyclist and service member. Bruce receives congratulations from Davidson County Community College, and Bobby Gene Manning is hired as a full-time business instructor at the Community College starting August 1.
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Alton Deberry
Fair Grove
N. C. Highway 109
Silver Valley
Paul Clifford Westmoreland Jr
Carolina Avenue
Paul
California
Bobby Gene Manning
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Johnson-Kennedy
By Leslie Carpenter
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Oone
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Dr. Womug
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Davidson County
Bruce
Davidson County Community College
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