Jim Haliburton to Lead National Jaycees Public Relations
Thomasville profile details Jim Haliburton who has served as Chamber of Commerce administrator for 3% years and will retire from active Jaycees membership at 35. He becomes public relations director for the national Jaycees in Tulsa, heading an eight member staff. Haliburton rose from Texas sharecropper roots to Wake Forest studies and pastoral work in Boonville. He shares a progressive stance and once roomed with a Black roommate during seminary, taping a sermon on social issues.
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VEN Carver Enterprise
Haliburton
Jaycees
Jaycee Organization
National Jaycee Organization
Tulsa
Oklo
Jaycee
The
Horatio Alger
Texas
Wake Forest University
North Carolina State University
University of North Carolina
Southeastern Theological Seminary
Wake Forest
Charity Baptist Church
Boonville
Chamber of Commerce
Haliburton's balanced faith and progressive views shape Thomasville leader
Thomasville figure Haliburton, a former Baptist minister and Tulsa Chamber of Commerce candidate, emphasizes loving Christian relationships over strict doctrine. He supports liquor taxes for revenue, favors temperance as personal choice, and highlights a nontraditional blend of faith and politics while estranged from his wife and three children.
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Haliburton
Chapel Hill
McDuffie Memorial Baptist Church
The
Baptist Church
ABC
Thomasville
Good News From America From an Editor’s Notebook
An editor’s notebook presents a Cold War era view praising American turmoil as favorable to socialist goals. It argues university firings, journalistic disclosures, religious dissent, and political unrest undermine U S prestige. It predicts staged riots and cultural decline to justify a collapse of Western liberal order.
The War as a new form of conflict in Vietnam
The piece argues the Vietnam war shifted from guerrilla fighting to a large scale conventional invasion by regular North Vietnamese forces. It draws parallels to Korea in 1950, noting similar aims to conquer the South and unite it under communism, and discusses Vietnamization and pacification as threatened by the invasion. It reflects on the six weeks since the Easter push and asks what outcomes have been achieved.
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Robert D. Heins JR
American Newspaper Alliance
Washington
South Vietnam
Clausewitz
NVA
Hue
Russia
Korea
Vietnam
China
Yalu
MacArthur
United States
United Nations
Inchon
Unrest in North Carolina high schools prompts study
The Citizens Committee on the Schools, appointed by Gov. Bob Scott, released an initial Raleigh report on school unrest. It cites lack of communications, authority challenges, and outside agitators as key causes and urges open lines among students, staff, parents, and the community plus leadership roles, media contact, and voter registration for 18 year olds.
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North Carolina
Citizens Committee On
Bob Scott
Raleigh
The Year Of The Locust And Other Piedmont Musings
A column muses on cicadas and katydids clarifying insect names and voices. The writer recalls Katzenjammer Kids slang Katzenjammer means hangover and describes a Burlington Airport fly-in and local biplane nostalgia amid weather hopes.
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Burlington
Piedmont
Downtown Thomasville mulls yearlong parking meter moratorium
Thomasville officials weigh a 12 month pause on meter collections to aid shoppers. Critics note downtown merchants' irregular hours and Tuesday closures hinder business, while a former Merchants Association president urges more evening hours and consistent store presence to attract customers. A city meeting highlights need for a unifying theme for redevelopment.
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Thomasville
Southgate
Fred Alexander
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J. Edgar Hoover
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