Bob Lee to Step Down as High Point Jaycees President
Bob Lee will resign April 29 as president of the High Point Jaycees while remaining active as an ex officio board member. Beginning in May he becomes Area A vice president in the West Central Region for North Carolina, after being elected at the Mocksville regional meeting. The High Point native has held multiple Jaycee roles, including assistant treasurer, treasurer, secretary, and director, and led the Boys Home basketball game fundraiser. He is a Hickory Springs supervisor and longtime community volunteer, with a Navy service background and a long-time High Point residence.
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Bob Lee
High Point Jaycees
Jaycee
Jaycees
Area A
North Carolina Jaycees
Lee
Mocksville
Hickory Springs Manufacturing Corp
Jesus People on Denver Street Spark Wide Debate
An editor notes a encounter with Jesus people in downtown Denver, contrasting their clerical outfits and street evangelism with a nearby hippie scene. He questions whether the Jesus movement signals a genuine revival or a transient counterculture trend, citing Will Herberg and historical reform movements while warning of youth “kickaholism.”
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Denver
U.S. News and World Report
Will Herberg
Teachers Into Politics in 1972 Campaigns
National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers plan major political action in 1972. AFT will endorse presidential candidates for the first time, funded by a planned national fund and state drives. NEA develops a nonpartisan NEA-PAC to support pro education candidates, with convention decisions due in June.
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North American Newspaper Alliance
New York
National Education
AFT
Afl-Cio
Nixon
Robert Porter
Afl-Cio Committee On
United States
DuPonts
Fields
Fords
Harrimans
Lehmans
Mellons
Olins
Pews
Rockefellers
Vanderbilts
Whitneys
COPE
NEA
Friends of Education
Nea-Pac
Representative Assembly
Donald Morrison
Great Revolutionary Sermon Stirs Easter Reflections
Dr. Tom Skinner’s talk to Methodist ministers in High Point reframes Easter by portraying Jesus as a radical revolutionary. The piece argues the church often departs from Jesus’s questions and justice toward salvation in the afterlife, urging a direct confrontation with life’s problems.
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Tom Skinner
Jesus
Jerusalem
Dr. Skinner
North Carolina
Christ
Kingdom of God
Decline of Guilford Farms Highlight Census Data
Census figures show Guilford County lost 62 farms between 1964 and 1969, dropping to 2,240. Fewer farms sold 2500 plus dollars, but total farm sales rose to 14.29 million while crop sales fell from 9.73 to 8.58 million. Livestock revenue climbed to 5.61 million. Eight large-seller farms incorporated.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Guilford County
Guilford
Touch of Spring Fever in Thomasville Chronicle
Thomasville reports spring arrived March 20 at 7 21 a m with 70 degree weather and a sunny week. Citizens resume routines as schools, libraries and radio celebrate the new season while the City Council holds a perfunctory meeting amid a pleasant mood and open windows.
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Rogers and Hart
Tony Bennett
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