High Point Sears sets stage for new store opening and growth
A. B. Clement Sears High Point manager outlines six months of preparations for mid February opening of a large new Sears store on the Magic Block. The single story facility will offer 550 free parking spaces a shrubbery department a snackbar an expanded home furnishings department and an automotive center with gasoline service. Clement’s team will grow from 125 to about 300 employees with new department heads and in house fixture installation. He notes the Charlotte store is the only Sears larger in the state. Clement’s career with Sears began in Danville in 1937 and includes service in WWII and management posts in Rome Chattanooga Augusta Selma and High Point. He and his wife Priscilla have three children and attend Wesley Memorial Methodist Church.
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Sears
A. B
Clem) Clement
High Point
Clement
Selma
Ala
Priscilla
Ann
Auburn University
Allen
High Point Central High
Ginger
Ferndale Junior High
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
The Beefsteak Age and the Food War Ahead
The piece argues that U S grain aid to India and a global overpopulation crisis signal the end of an era. It warns hunger will rise without hard currency food aid and advocates balanced birthrates, warning of cannibalism as a grim option. It laments American optimism and favors shifting from beefsteak abundance to efficient food use.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
U. S
Orville Freeman
New Delhi
India
Freeman
America
Japan
Kuwait
South Africa
Quebec
West Virginia
Nasser
Nile
Ceylon
China
Southeast Asia
Harrison Brown
Calcutta
Cairo
The Pound's Fight To Hold Britain's Global Role
Amid a financial crisis Britain faced a threat to the pound as Kuwait's oil deposits in London loomed large. The article traces the pound's rise and decline from empire currency to postwar banker for the world, detailing devaluations, sterling bloc dynamics, and dwindling Commonwealth business as London struggles to attract capital and finance global trade.
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London
Britain
Kuwait
India
England
Wall Street
New York
John Maynard Keynes
Ramsay MacDonald
Australia
Zanzibar
British Commonwealth
United States
U.S
France
Commonwealth
New York City
Roaming the Piedmont and Weather Notes
A casual street scene shows a young couple walking as the girl talks animatedly while the boy, head down, listens. The piece laments frequent rain shortages and notes Sgt. Pennington’s remark that rain would help children see it rain after a long dry spell. It also critiques newcomers who mock Southern speech and urges returning to their origins.
Phyllis Winslow Shapes Voyager Inn Decor Ahead of Time
Norfolk interior designer Phyllis Winslow plans Voyager Inn rooms to fit area style and a year ahead. She visits High Point for furniture trends and returns to Norfolk to oversee 175 room Voyager Inn decor across the South East and Midwest.
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Winston-Salem
Phyllis Winslow
High Point
Phyllis
Norfolk
East
Midwest
Canada braces for Vietnam role amid Hanoi talks
Canada views U S policy in Vietnam through a cautious lens. Ottawa seeks to keep the 1954 Geneva truce commission channel open, with envoy Chester Ronning twice to Hanoi and calls for negotiated settlement supported by U Thant. Canada funds Saigon economically and weighs future aid if a ceasefire emerges.
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United States
Viet Nam
Paul Martin
Martin
Canada
India-Poland
United Nations
U Thant
Chester Ronning
Hanoi
Ottawa
U.S. State Department
Ronning
Malaya
Truce Commission
Korea
Pearson
Indochina
Saigon
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Columbus
A. B. Clement Sears
Art Richardson
Ernoon
Frank Pennington
Thomasville
Tress
Voyager Inn
Voyager Out of
AP World Spotlight
White House
North
International Truce Supervisory Commission
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Louis St. Laurent
John Diefenbaker
Lester B. Pearson
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