Mrs Katherine Nibbelink Retires After A Decade With Jaycees
Profile of Katherine Nibbelink longtime executive secretary for the High Point Jaycees since 1960. She helped build programs, led the group to All American City 1962 praise, and will remain secretary for the High Point Fair Association after retirement. Her career spans community projects and leadership roles locally. She and husband Ray have two children, Jan and Dinah.
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Katherine Nibbelink
Nibbelink
High Point Jaycees
Jaycees
The
Fair Association
Cooleemee
Davie County
George L
Emma Murr
Frank Mur
Thomasville
Morris
Hickory
T. C
Rachel) Johnson
High Point
High Point College
Davenport College
Lenoir
Greensboro College
City Hall
Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church
High Point Council of Garden Clubs
PTA
Harriss Covington Hosiery Mill
Southern Furniture Exposition
Seventeen Mile Grade Ride Through a Vanishing Railroad Era
An editor recalls riding the Seventeen Mile Grade from Keyser to Cumberland, lamenting B and O passenger services ending after 141 years. He paints the Lord Baltimore engine memory, Braddock’s route battles, and the iron spine that formed a growing nation.
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Keyser
West Virginia
Potomac
North Branch
Lord Baltimore
National Limited
Uncle Sam
Balti
Washington
B&o
National
St. Louis
Onceeat Capitol Limited
Railpax
America
Mills as a Democratic presidential prospect in a TV driven era
The piece argues Wilbur Mills of Arkansas could be a leading Democratic nominee given his power as House Ways and Means chair and national prominence. It contrasts past nominating logic with TV influence, noting Mills faces limited support among urban voters and minorities while outlining historical party dynamics and the unpredictable nature of political fate.
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Washington
Wilbur Mills
Mills
Arkansas
House
Congressional Relations
Sam Rayburn
Senate
Arkansans
Mason-Dixon
Nothingness
Massachusetts
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Muskie
Bayh
Humphrey
Kennedy
Hughes
McGovern
America
Lincoln
Bryan
Nixon
Ohio
Robert Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
Capitol Hill
Adlai Stevenson
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dixie
The End of the Line for American Passenger Trains
A farewell to the once vast passenger rail network as Amtrak opens and absorbs routes, ending many historic trains. The shift reflects broader U.S. dependence on cars, with major lines like the Wabash Cannonball and City of Los Angeles discontinued and Cleveland losing service.
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National Railroad Passenger Corp
Amtrak
Congress
America
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Buffalo
Chicago
San Francisco
Wyoming
Colorado
United States
Europe
Japan
Thomas Wolfe
Roaming the Piedmont and the Grass Cutting Tale
A fragmented column blends a grassy mishap and a humorous complaint about a malfated mower eye injury with a wry note on traffic flaggers near roadworks. It then shifts to a North Carolina strawberry advisory from Raleigh, detailing harvest timelines, regional peaks, irrigation needs, and the rise of pick your own farms across the state.
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Raleigh
Joe Brooks
N. C. State University
Brooks
North Carolina
Working Together in Guilford County Improves Community Aid
Nine High Point area agencies cooperate to locate and share furniture for families hit by fire or eviction. Led by Milton Stallings they cut paperwork and pool private and public funds to provide basics, aiming for ongoing support and faster relief. Community leaders urge continued cooperation for countywide improvements and voter understanding before the June 8 election.
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High Point Area
High Point
Milton Stallings
Conl
Chamber of Commerce
Piedmont Triad Council of Governments
Guilford County
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Mrs
Robert Marks
Enterprise
Jonny Hedgecock
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Harper's Ferry
Martinsburg
Hancock
Cumberland
B.&c
Navy
Ohio River
General Braddock
Youghiogheny
Monogahela
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Piedmont
Altamont
Cheat River
Wheeling
Albert Fink
Kingwood
the Capital
By Leslie Carpenter
By Braxton Younts
Police Department
Jim Hawkins
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