Darrell Pierce Named Lion Club President and Furniture Exec
Darrell Pierce, production manager at Silver Craft Furniture, will become the 42nd president of the High Point Lions Club for the 1972-73 term. A High Point native, he has served the club for 10 years and leads a 100 plus member group known for sight conservation projects funded by broom sales and fundraisers.
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Darrell Pierce
Silver Craft Furniture Co
High Point Lions Club
Pierce
Lions Club
YMCA
Red Cross
United Appeal
First United Methodist Church
Silver Craft
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
Margaret Lawson
Bencini Wyatt Early & Harris
Paul G. Lawson
Skeet Club Road
Pierces
Mark
High Point Central High School
Phil
North Carolina State University
The Smoke-Filled Room and the Primary Dilemma
An editor’s meditation on 1920 Chicago party bosses and the rise of Warren G. Harding through a smoky room deal. He critiques state primaries, party finance, and the spectacle of national campaigns, arguing open conventions may tempt fate but offer clearer picks.
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Chicago
Hiram Johnson
Frank Lowden
Gen
Leonard Wood
Warren G. Harding
NEA launches long term push for multi ethnic textbooks
The National Education Association endorses a panel report to replace racist school texts with materials reflecting diverse backgrounds. It calls for national guidelines on multi ethnic content, involvement of communities and students, and potential economic pressure on publishers. The plan targets state adoption procedures and seeks legal remedies to protect students access to unbiased materials.
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Benjamin Fine
North American Newspaper Alliance
New York
National Education Assn
NEA
Perpetual War in Indochina Draws Quaker Opposition
The American Friends Service Committee denounces U.S. Indochina policy as a perpetual war. AFSC notes vast civilian toll, displaced people, and environmental damage while urging immediate U.S. withdrawal and a ending of involvement.
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Indochina
Nixon
White House
American Friends Service Committee
AFSC
High Point
Friends Meeting
Whittier
Calif
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
United States
New England
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Moscow
Europe
Arab Middle East
Indian Ocean
U.S
Roaming the Piedmont Brightens With Humorous Anecdotes
A reader recounts repainting a car only to damage it again and notes a humorous misperception at a theater in Greensboro. The column also praises the Sound of Music performance and reports a smooth highway repair on 29A 70A. It closes with a field day for small grain growers at the Piedmont Research Station in Salisbury with Hodges outlining the agenda.
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Greensboro
War Memorial Auditorium
Gate City
Lyric Theater
von Trapp
Piedmont Research Station
Salisbury
North Carolina State University
S. J. Hodges
Hodges
Thomasville considers air conditioning for new junior high
Davidson Dateline Thomasville Board of Education weighs whether to install cooling in the $1.9 million new junior high, noting many NC schools lack AC. The piece discusses year round calendars, older facilities, and a Burlington Broadview model with advanced temperature control as a benchmark.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Board of Education
North Carolina
Derwood Honeycutt
Winston- Salem-Forsyth County
Moore
Wiley School
Winston- Salem
Thomasville Senior High
Board of Education
Broadview Junior High
Burlington
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John Lindsay
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Jackson
Wisconsin
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