Lester Hamilton profiles quiet leader shaping High Point
Robert Marks profiles Lester Hamilton executive director of the Family Service Bureau in High Point and Thomasville noting a 137 percent rise in demand since 1961 and Hamilton’s patient approach to helping families with marital financial and emotional problems. The article highlights his background in Mississippi and Arkansas and the bureau’s confidential counseling service supported by the United Appeal with staff including Fannye Cohen and Maria Watkins.
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Robert Marks
Lester Hamilton
Hamilton
Family Service Bureau
United Appeal
High Point
Thomasville
Gatewood Avenue
Fannye Cohen
Maria Watkins
The Runaway Adolescent Ego and Wisconsin Colleges
An editor reflects on a May riot at the University of Wisconsin and longer trends in higher education. He contrasts past student life with today’s permissive culture, cites Whitewater censorship protests, and argues for firmer university leadership and accountability.
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University of Wisconsin
Madison
Little Italy
Alky
Wisconsin
Whitewater State University
Embassies Looted by Communists and 1968 GOP Primary Moves
The piece notes looting of American embassies and consulates in the Middle East, cites U S actions to protect officials, and mentions Romney campaign efforts in New Hampshire for the 1968 GOP primary. It also covers VOA pay figures and ABC considering convention coverage changes.
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Leslie Carpenter
Washington
Middle East
U. S
U.S
Prague
John Foster Dulles
USIA
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Japan
James Hagerty
Tokyo
State Department
Romney
New Hampshire
Richard Nixon
Boston
Campaign Consultants Inc
David B. Goldberg
New England
Michigan
George Romney
Goldberg
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Dartmouth
Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Marine
Margaret Chase Smith
ABC
Jaycees face Miss High Point pageant gap in city
Sunday Accent reports the High Point Jaycees sponsored Miss High Point pageant struggles as no local contestant appeared in Miss North Carolina. Vicki Morgan Miss Winston Salem Collis Hill Miss Thomasville and Sarah Elizabeth Stedman Miss Randolph County are highlighted as successes from nearby areas while High Point awaits a winner.
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North Carolina
Charlotte
Wake Forest College
Vicki Morgan
Lester Morgan
Winston-Salem
Thomasville
Collis Hill
Randolph County
Sarah Elizabeth Stedman
Guilford College
Jaycees
High Point Jaycees
Pam Culler
High Point
Greensboro
Pam
Winston- Salem
County hospital vote likely delayed until 1968
In Lexington Davidson County officials expect to delay a county hospital election until the next general election in November 1968. They question support, foresee higher operating costs, and note federal funds may be scarcer, while Thomasville could gain hospital funding sooner. Also reported are a tree cutter's misfortune and Miss North Carolina pageant congratulations for Miss Collis Hill.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Commission
Wilmer Mizell
Thomasville
Thomasville Hospital
Roaming the Piedmont An Enterprising Twin Clean-Up
A High Point note recalls two boys Ronald Johnson and Mike Haynes who cleaned two homes in five minutes to sell church toothbrushes. The Enterprise reports the stunt after school closures and connects it to a Virginia military school memory and a local garden advice note from the Davidson County Agricultural Agents urging late summer and fall planning and fertilization for vegetables like beans tomatoes and corn.
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Voice of America
Daly
John Chancellor
NBC
VOA
Chancellor
Congress
Davidson
Question
By Bob Burchette
By Braxton Younts
Ronald Johnson
Mike Haynes
W. Burton Street
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