Love Of Children Inspires 43 Years In Education
Georgia Thayer, longtime Montlieu Avenue School principal, retires after 43 years in education in High Point. She recalls starting in 1934 with minimal supplies, guiding a 20 year school history, witnessing integration, television’s impact, and a shift toward structured progress. She believes each child has potential and praises persistent parental involvement.
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Carol Wilson Utley
Montlieu Avenue School
Thayer
High Point City
Marshville
Union County
Wingate Junior College
Lanes Creek School
Wake Forest
Unc-Chapel Hill
Columbia
Unc-Greensboro
Lloyd Thayer
High Point
Oak Hill
Montlieu
Georgia Thayer
Montlieu Avenue
Davidson County Tackles Trash Dumpers With Boxes
Davidson County officials report ongoing trash dumping near roads despite new garbage boxes. County Manager Jim Phillips cites incidents around High Rock Lake and Old Linwood Road where dumpers faced residents with shotguns and handguns. Officials urge citizen vigilance and Sheriff Department reports as a practical response. a local anti litter ordinance is deemed hard to enforce due to budget constraints.
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Jim Phillips
Phillips
High Rock Lake
Linwood Road
Jim Mack
Davidson County
Mack
Sheriff's Dept
Highway Patrol
Roaming the Piedmont Inside a Cardinal Nest Rescue
A narrator watches a cardinal pair care for three nestlings outside a window then rescues a wandering chick twice. The event ends with the smallest chick dead, and the observer reflecting on birds trusting humans and a failed gardening effort with two tomato plants awaiting fruit.
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Poppa
Relatives Remember Saipan Mass Death At Two Sites
An eyewitness column recalls Saipan’s mass deaths at Banzai Cliff and death by own action sites. The writer contrasts remnants of Japanese defenders with survivors, notes bone and urn remains, and reflects on war's costs and postwar attitudes toward Japan.
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Saipan
Marianas
Garapan
Hoshitsuge Saito
U.S
Suicide Cliff
Banzai Cliff
Japan
Truk Lagoon
Peleliu
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Honolulu
Guam
Taipei
Hong Kong
Bloody Nose Ridge
Solly
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Podgorny Ouster Clears Path for Brezhnev Rule
The dismissal of Nikolai Podgorny from the Soviet politburo signals a shift toward Brezhnev dominance. Podgorny loses real power, while Brezhnev moves to consolidate control, potentially reshaping presidency and party leadership in a poised push toward his cult of personality and new constitution.
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NEA
London Economist Service
Soviet Union
Politburo
Nikolai Podgorny
Leonid Brezhnev
Alexei Kosygin
Mikhail Suslov
Podgorny
Russia
Tito
Yugoslavia
Pravda
Khrushchev
Moscow
Brezhnev
Vozhd
Fuhrer
Stalin
Supreme Soviet
Kosygin
Communist Party
Konstantin Rusakov
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Davidson
Lexington
Curtiss Helldivers
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Senator Soaper
Socrates
Washington
Civil Service
Shotgun Schultz
West Germany
Ethiopia
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