Local Chapter Serves Community By Red Cross Volunteers
High Point area Red Cross unit reflects a long history since 1917 with 500 volunteers and 3 300 pints of blood yearly. Gray Lady volunteers staff High Point Memorial Hospital and the Presbyterian Home while Bloodmobile sessions and first aid training reach dozens of institutions and thousands of residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn Leach
Red Cross
Gatewood Avenue
YWCA
Red
Claudia
High Point Township
Archdale
Trinity
High Point
Red Cross Blood
High Point Memorial Hospital
Presbyterian Home
Blood Program
Annex
Colfax
Salisbury VA
Red Cross Chapter
Len
D. Ennis
Robert B. Rankin
Robert Hutchens
Dick Swaim
Red Cross Faces Century Milestones And Peacemaking Debate
The International Red Cross marks its second century amid debate over peacemaking versus Dunant's wartime mission. The ICRC supported UN requests to inspect ships for arms during the Cuban crisis, while critics warn peacemaking could overstep Red Cross competence. The article traces Dunant's founding, the Geneva conventions, and the varied peacetime roles of national societies worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Henshaw
New York
International Red Cross
Henri Dunant
International Committee of the Red Cross
ICRC
United Nations
Red Cross
Cuba
Alfred M. Gruenther
Europe
American National Red Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
Henri Tion
Treat Dunant
Italy
Solferino
France
Austria
Dunant
League of Red Cross Societies
Red Cross, Red Crescent
Red Lion and Sun
Iran
U.S. Army
East Ger
Winston Accepts urban renewal plan for East Winston
City officials and economic consultants support urban renewal as the logical method to redevelop downtown Winston-Salem. Public hearings in 1959 drew strong realtor opposition who labeled renewal socialistic and a property seizure scheme. The Board of Aldermen approved the East Winston plan and sought federal funds for a 67.5 acre project amid ongoing constitutional challenges on tax funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coliseum
City Hall
Redevelopment Commission
Board of Aldermen
East Winston
Greensboro
State Supreme Court
Crows and News in a Romanian Prison Journal
In 1955 at Jilava Fortress prisoners used crow nests as a makeshift newswire. They extracted papers and relayed world events from editorials to resignations, while guards blocked formal news. The ritual sustained morale amid harsh censoring and mass deportations across Eastern Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jilava
Crew Journal
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Miami
Congress
United Appeal
The
Public Welfare Society of
Wurttemberg
West Germany
L.P. Amidee Appia
Little
United States
Michigan
American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Gen. Gruenther
America
Thailand
U.S
United States Army
Unitedates Department of State
State Department
Gruenther
Communist
China
Samuel Krakow
National Red Cross
Krakow
Nassau County
N.Y
Wazinski-Johnson
Veterans Administration
Florida
California
Ruth Red
VA Promond
Yonkers
Michael P. Johnson
Erans
Hugh
Washington
Johnson
National
Red Cross _socie
Iron Curtain
St. Petersburg
Fla
St. Peters
Russian Alliance of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Aders
Olga Valeryevna Vazinskaya
Mikhail Popinovich Vazinski
Butseny
Moldavia
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Army Records Center
St. Louis
Freeport
Winston
Ston - Salem
Aiud
Malenkov
Winston Churchill
Eden
Berne
Cain
Crow
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