High Pointer of the Week William Ervin
William Ervin, army veteran and High Point civic leader, served as a PE instructor at Fort Jackson and Fort Bragg after college. He later taught and coached at Sumner High School before moving into banking and insurance careers. Active Civitan official, he chairs committees and supports the Duke Civitan Research Center with local and state fundraising efforts. He and wife Stella Redding reside in High Point with their son William Gaston Jr. and remain engaged in multiple community groups.
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Fort Jackson
S.C
Fort Bragg
Ervin
Sumner High School
W. Bank and Trust Co
High Point Civitan Club
Civitan
High Pointer
Civitans
North Carolina
Civitan Research Center
Tar Heel Civitans
Duke
High Point
Twilight Ae
Stella Redding
Sophia
Furniture City
Tabor Street
Ervins
William Gaston, Jr
YMCA
Cut-Rate Christianity by Jenkin Lloyd Jones
A June day ride lands the narrator in a small town where a young preacher decries charity without Christian baptism and attacks secular aid as self serving. The sermon condemns ecumenism yet hints at interfaith common ground against a shared enemy. The observer rejects ritual, declines communion, and leaves unsettled.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Lowell
Earth
Eddie Guest
Christ
Sanity in Government Calls For Less Washington Authority
Letter writers urge restraint on federal power and bemoan edicts from Washington. They criticize a Congress viewed as a puppet and warn of burdens on taxpayers from perceived overreach and new laws. They oppose revenue from a local liquor store.
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Washington
Eng
Congress
Quotes on civil rights efforts and fearless ventures
Calvin Kytle of the Communications Relations Service speaks on efforts to smooth civil rights issues. Virginia Brown, the sole woman member of the Commerce Commission, notes increasing bravery while envisioning heights and Everest climbs in her reflections.
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Calvin Kytle
Com- Relations Service
Virginia Brown
The
Commerce Commis
Johnson picks McKee to head FAA amid supersonic plans
In Washington the choice of Gen William F McKee to lead the FAA signals a push for a fast, large postwar airliner to fly coast to coast in under two hours. McKee, a retired Air Force general, replaces a civil aviation post amid civil military tensions and a push for a new aerospace era.
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Johnson
Air Force
Federal Aviation Agency
LBJ
William F. McKee
FAA
McKee
Roaming the Piedmont and Guil-Rand Gazette
A regional column recounts a Blue Ridge Parkway trip amid blooming mountain laurel and climbing vines on an Arcade building wall. It notes a fisherman in formal wear at a National Labor Relations Board hearing and Guil-Rand Fire Department adding heat resistant space-like gear. It also reports June rainfall of about 4.9 inches, above the 3.47-inch norm, with forecasts for drier weather to come.
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Louisiana
National Labor Relations Board
Guil-Rand Fire Department
Seven year old seeks blood donors in Thomasville area
A blood donor call for Richard Lee Shiveley at Duke University Medical Center drew widespread response from Thomasville residents. The community offered help while local officials debate tax notices on vacant city lots and a hospital stamp machine proposal to speed transfusions.
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Thomasville
Estes
Chestnut
Peter F. Lydens
City Memorial Hospital
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William Ervin
Braxton Younts Enterprise
High Point Assn
Jaycees Committee
First Methodist Church
Civitan Club
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Horace Haworth
William G. Ervin
Rock Island
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John XXIII
Paul
Mexiican
the Enterprise
Jamestown
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Leslie Carpenter
Treasury
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New York
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Eugene
Nassau County
Leonard Hall
Nickerson
Hal “E
Ireland
Italy
Israel
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Ray Bliss
Ohio
Bliss
William L. White
OP Gu
Massey
Tee
Blue Ridge Parkway
First Baptist Church
Braxton
Davidson County
City Hall
Wachovia Bank
Salem Street
Thomasville Furniture Industries
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