High Point Police Weigh IACP Findings and Controversy
The IACP report on High Point police lists strong progress under Chief Laurie Pritchett but cites serious deficiencies in administration, operations, and leadership. It notes excessive favoritism, poor chain of command, weak supervision, and low morale due to pay scales while preserving the department’s potential for improvement.
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High Point
International Assn. of Chiefs of Police
IACP
Laurie Pritchett
Civil Service Commission
Pritchett
Department of
Police Department
Freely Received Not Self Made, A Sermon Reflection
A speaker argues that no man is truly self made, crediting God, family, and others for every life path. He credits parents, providers, and a universal divine plan for sustaining a person from birth through growth, noting the countless others shaping a life.
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Christ
Debts We All Owe to the Many Helping Each Life
The piece argues that learning, churches, teachers, libraries, and faith shape a person from birth to death. It cites Lincoln borrowing books and notes that even the self made myth rests on others’ aid, from cradle to grave, including care in aging and death.
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Recruiters Push Through Draft Exemptions in Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Selective Service survey shows 75 new enlistees since December 1 1972 passed despite physical or mental disqualifications. Reports allege recruiters ran "dumb dumb" test refreshers in Milwaukee YMCA rooms to boost numbers, with some offenders missing trigger fingers or having heart disease epilepsy and psychiatric issues.
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Washington
Wisconsin
U. S. Army
Hampton
Robert Levine
Wisconsin Selective Service
John Lavine
Chippewa Falls
Portage
Baraboo
Wis
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Selective Service
Levine
Milwaukee
Roundup of political notes on recruitment fraud and nonlethal tech
The column cites a probe into possible fraudulent recruiting practices tied to volunteer drives and government figures. It notes Defense Secretary Richard son’s statements, Nixon’s private Sunrise at Campobello gesture to Wallace, and a Pentagon study of a nonlethal riot-control sound beam. It also covers Rep Rooney’s drug ignorance admission and ex Rep Kee keeping license tags past term.
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Defense
Elliot Richardson
Nixon
Congress
Alabama
George Wallace
Campobello
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pentagon
Onions Jump in Price and Watergate Flood Remains Issue
The piece notes onions rising fastest in price while Tilly, after inspecting her flooded basement, wishes someone would fix the problem. It combines market quips with a personal anecdote about Watergate knowledge and a home flood scenario.
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Tilly
Post Office Site and civic plans highlighted in regional note
A Greensboro regional memo confirms bids for a new East Green Street Post Office will be invited before month end. Crissman plans retirement by June end despite push from allies to delay. Other items include hospital fire alarm issues, High Point College history project, McDonald’s expansion, YWCA Boston trip for couples, and local civic grants and appointments.
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J. J. Wise
Greensboro
Ivan Crissman
East Green
Green Street Baptist Church
SFEB
High Point Memorial Hospital
Ned Clark
McDonald’s
N. Main
McDonald
Ralph Nunez
United Community Services of
High Point
Community Welfare Council
Springfield
Ohio
Marie Campion
Maryfield
England
W. P. Ragan
West High
Tomlinson
Cancer Crusade
Katherine Leach
American Red Cross Chapter
Dorothy Cress
Leach
Elmore Alexander
First Union Bank
Mabe Realty Organization
Tom Haggai
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Matthew
Grafeith
Merry
By Jack Anderson
Rooney
John Rooney
D-N. Y
Brooklyn
House
Sebastian Leone
James Kee
D-W. Va
Kee
Senator Soaper
Postmaster Crissman
W. R. Locke
High Point College
Nat Yarborough
Vera Idol
Herman Coble
Robert Rankin
Dennis Cooke
Charleston
YWCA
Julia Sherrill
Boston
Cape Cod
Massachusetts
New York City
Dennis Carrol
Richard Clough
William Hendrix
Shirley Y. Rawley
James Nelson
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