High Point Notes On Gardening, Jails and Circuses
Braxton Yeager notes rising home gardening interest and the impact of prices and taxes on spring plantings. A visit to Randolph County Jail is described, along with traffic worries on Highway 220. The writer recalls the old circus days, the Ringling show, and Harlem Globetrotters at Greensboro Coliseum with vivid remarks on players’ ball handling.
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High Point
Fred Yoder
Randolph County
Asheboro
Greensboro Coliseum
Harlem Globetrotters
Stolen Alameda County Transit Bus Recovered in Richmond
A grey, green and silver Alameda Contra Costa transit district bus was found four miles from its Richmond stop after a driver left it unattended for coffee. Two witnesses said a man left the bus, and Don Potter, the district’s general superintendent, expressed relief at its recovery after it had just been repainted.
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Richmond
Calif
Alameda- Contra Costa
Sth
McDonald Streets
Don Potter
Davidson County's First Church Found In Brush Arbor Past
Palatinate German emigrants in Davidson County chose a brush arbor three miles from Leonard's Creek for the area’s first church meetinghouse. The scene reflects early settlement and religious life in Thomasville shown as a God favored worship site.
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Thomasville
Davidson County
Palatinate
Germany
Leonard's Creek
Geodetic Markers and Colonial Graves across North Carolina
The Raleigh Longitude Station granite slabs on Capitol Square mark early geodesy work by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. North Carolina moved in 1959 to create a Geodetic Survey Division to expand markers and bench marks used for state maps and projects. The Pilgrim Reformed Lutheran Church Cemetery nearby preserves German inscriptions and graves of Val entin Leonhardt and Wooldrich Fritz, Revolutionary era figures buried with marble monuments and soapstone markers.
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Capitol Square
Fred A. Olds
State Hall of History
Capitol Hill
Goodesy
General Assembly
Raleigh
North Carolina
Coast and Geodetic Survey
U. S. Department of Commerce
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Doran
Valentine Leonhardt
Leonhardt
Fritz
Valentin Leonhardt
Wooldrich
Davidson County
Pilgrim Reformed Lutheran Church Cemetery
Cinks
Fritzs
Longs
Everhardts
Everharts
Conrad
Shoaf
USA
Where Is A Smoke As Good
Winston-Salem AP report on rolling own cigarettes fading from use as oldtimers cling to craft. Horace Jones 55 recalls vintage skills, laments disappearing knowhow, and demonstrates hand rolling at Faraway Farms while noting prices and desirability.
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Bill Connelly
Winston-Salem
N.C
Bull Durham
Horace Jones
Jones
Faraway Farms
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Braxton
Jim Bulla
Jim
Ruth
Ringling Bros
Davidson County's
Old Cemetery
Bonnie Moore
Enterprise
Teutonic
Dan
Ers
Department of Conservation and Development
Philip C. Doran
Geodetic Survey Division
Pilgrim Reformed Lutheran Church
Abbotts Creek
Brush Arbor
John G. Barrier
Wooddrich Fritz
Leonard
Katzenbach
America
Lutheran Church
Samuel Luther
General Greene
Cornwallis
Guilford Courthouse
Peter Hetrick
Christ
North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development
Wilbur C. Fuller
Mark H. Hinkle
W. Green Street
OLD Pilgrim Reformed Lutheran Church
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