High Pointer of the Week Mrs Robert Hauser
Mrs Robert E Hauser becomes president of the Association for Retarded Children in 1964 and leads growth across High Point Greensboro and state programs. The couple raise three children including daughter Jane diagnosed as mentally retarded and advocate for inclusive services and residential camping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Marks
The
Point Assn
Robert E. Hauser
Hauser
Greensboro Assn
Department of Mental Health
High Point Association
Greensboro
High Point
First Methodist Church
Camp Pamlico
Washington
Association
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Assn
Jane
Degrees Of Madness Editor's Outlook on Graduate Fever
The editor critiques the rush to graduate study, noting endless funding, dean scrutiny, and six advisers stalling theses. He cites a Texas student frustrated by a frustrating thesis index and a Wisconsin delay to free up studio lab use, highlighting systemic pressure to pursue advanced degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
America
East Texas
Wisconsin
Uate
Stuas
New York State
North Carolina notes on Klan filings and local officials
State official Thad Eure seeks Klan incorporation as a corporation with a president and agents named for United Klans of America. The piece also profiles leaders and officials including Fred Baxley in Hope Mills and John J. Powers, a Greensboro plant president touring employees. Burlington adds blue police lights to all patrol cars following a 1965 act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Shires
Raleigh
North Carolina
Ku Klux Klan
Klan
Thad Eure
Eure
Robert Shelton
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Shelton
The
United Klans of America
John J. Powers
Greensboro
Powers
Burlington
Budget Surges Trim Davidson County Tax Rates
Davidson County Commissioners cut the tax rate by 43 cents per 100 value despite a 26 percent rise in property values for the coming year. County taxes apply to 60 percent of property value. Thomasville’s City Council finance committee aims to shave cents from the city’s planned 1.84 rate while last year’s was 1.83 city and 1.38 county. Property values rose across Lexington and Davidson County. Tentative rates show 95 cents for Davidson County, 75 cents for Lexington, and 1.84 for Thomasville.
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Thomasville
Davidson County
Lexington
Denton
Roaming the Piedmont Skys and Fields Across Davidson County
A village column describes a self trained road crossing dog and observes locals laboring in Abbotts Creek area. Wilson Hedgecock harvests wheat while crops suffer from weather and pests. Clyde Motsinger notes his farming pace. a low flying plane crows about worm control. The Barn Dinner Theater previews the Rainmaker as Western North Carolina ministers relocate for conference moves.
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Abbotts Creek
Davidson County
Wilson Hedgecock
Clyde Motsinger
Dis
Magna Carta and Waterloo Highlight British History Anniversaries
A Sunday Accent essay celebrates major British milestones: the 1215 Magna Carta signed at Runnymeade with nobles witnessing, the 1815 Waterloo victory by Wellington and Blucher, and the Dunkirk evacuation 25 years ago. The piece notes lasting liberty from Magna Carta and enduring resolve at Waterloo.
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Waterloo
Beaces
Dunkerque
Runnymede
John
End of Napoleon and Dunkerque evacuation in 1940
The text recalls Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and links it to the 1940 Dunkerque evacuation. It notes Britain saved 338,226 troops across the Channel in late May to early June, leaving a nucleus for Allied victory five years later.
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Blucher
Napoleon
Waterloo
Europe
Flanders Fields
Dunkerque
Nazi Germany
Channel
England
France
Rhine
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Robert Hauser
C. Green
J. C. Green and Sons Funeral Home
Chair City
Myrtle Co
Duke University
Dixon, Hauser & Odom
E. Westwood
Mks
Art Richardson
Ivy Lea
Viet Nam
Cornell
Life Magazine
Vertising
Dallas Morning News
Bure
KKK Grand Dragon
Robert Jones
Granite Quarry
Fred Baxley
Hope Mills
Cumberland County
Polson
Hunt
Pine View
Pine Log
Pinetown
Piney Green Hall
Pine Hill
Piney Grove
Blu
Piney Creek
Plame
Pilot Lions Club
Cranford
Fes
Grady Kaney
Lions Club
City Memorial Hospital
U.S. Highway 29
Roland Beck
Beck
No. 2
Safe Haven
Clyde
Barn Dinner Theater
Western
Methodist Church
Philip L. Shore Jr
Shore
Timothy
Elba
Paris
Belgium
Wellington
Brussels
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