Jamestown Planner Douglas Carroll Named Guilford County Outstanding Employee
Dr. Douglas Carroll, assistant director of the Guilford County Planning Dept, is named Guilford County's outstanding employee for 1977. A Jamestown native and educator turned planner, Carroll emphasizes citizen input and environmental safeguards as key to a balanced growth plan for the county. He advocates open spaces to filter pollutants, coordinated zoning with High Point and Greensboro, and a comprehensive land use plan to guide future development. Carroll, born July 17, 1947 in Sampson County, holds degrees from Appalachian State and UNC Chapel Hill and remains active in teaching, church work, travel, and genealogy.
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Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
Jamestown
Douglas Carroll
Jamestown Junior High School
High Point College
Guilford County
Carroll
Appalachian State College
North Carolina
Board of Commissioners
High Point
Kermit and
Naomi Carroll
Sampson County
Midway High School
Appalachian
University of North Carolina At
Chapel Hill
Jamestown United Methodist Church
University of North Carolina
Roaming the Piedmont by Braxton Counts
The author notes a Monday trip up the Blue Ridge Parkway to Mabry's Mill from Winston-Salem. He describes favoring a relaxed drive along Highway 52 into Virginia, anticipating weekend traffic, and comments on the Parkway’s scenery and a few passing motorcyclists.
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Blue Ridge Parkway
Mabry’s Mill
Winston-Salem
Old North State
Virginia Line
Winston
Fancy Gap
Mountain rides and Mabry mill memories in a summer tone
A reflective piece recalls riding through hills on a loaded bicycle and enjoying motorcycle soundscapes. The Mabry mill site visit brings back childhood memories of a blacksmith’s forge, grist mill wheels, and practical jokes, contrasting past power sources with modern electric power. Wayne Mabe’s golf tale about a ball that kept moving due to a beetle on its underside ends the reminiscence.
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Mabry Mill
Mabry’s Mill
Wayne Mabe
Humphrey Honored on Capitol Hill by APSA as Fellow
Hubert Humphrey receives the American Political Science Association’s Honorary Congressional Fellow distinction on Capitol Hill. The event comes amid tributes to his career and concerns about his health after bladder cancer surgery. The essay contrasts Nixon and Humphrey as political foils over decades.
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Washington
Nea
Hubert Humphrey
Hubert
Capitol Hill
American Political Science Association
Humphrey
Legion
San Clemente
Richard Nix
Madness Or Method In Carter Foreign Policy
Ernest Cuneo argues the Carter administration mixes contradictory methods in foreign policy. He critiques President Carter and Ambassador Andrew Young for conflicting statements in London and elsewhere, labeling Young's remarks racist and endorsing Cuba's Angola invasion as stabilizing. The piece suggests a pro Soviet stance in Africa and pro NATO stance in Europe as the policy pattern.
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Washington
Nana
U.S
United Nations
London
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
Italy
Japan
Angola
Cuba
Zaire
Ethiopia
Young
State Dept
Havana
Carter
Africa
Europe
Our Cloying Paternalism in Micronesia
An editor's outlook criticizes U.S. trusteeship over Micronesia, detailing four colonial eras from Spanish to American. It argues Washington should curb welfare expansion, demand effort from islanders, and question future partnership options while noting economic figures and the need for frank talk.
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Ironesia
United Nations Trust
U.S. Congress
Micronesia
Washington
United States
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
U.S
Editor surveys government mail to the Tribune
Over a month the Tribune received 453 items from 86 agencies including 39 Minnesota offices 30 federal units and 17 local bodies. The Minnesota House led with 52 letters, followed by the University of Minnesota system and others. If each piece costs 13 cents, total expense would be 58.89 dollars.
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the Tribune
Tribune
Carter
Minnesota
Minnesota House of Representatives
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities
University of Minnesota At Duluth
University of Minnesota Agricultural Extension Agency
U.S. Senate
Minnesota Senate
U.S. House
U.S. Army
Uncle Sam
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Braxton Younts Enterprise
Martha Angle
Robert Walters
Nixon
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Ernest Cuneo
North American Newspaper Alliance
Andrew Young
Great Britain
Sweden
New York
Queens
Stockholm
Moscow
Koror
Palau
America
Maine
Babelthaup
Angaur
Peleliu
By Alzcon
Joint Economic Committee
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