Summer Camp Offerings for Youth and Families Across Groups
A variety of summer programs are listed including Camp Cheerio open to boys and girls with two week sessions in August and family camping weekends. YWCA runs Learn to Swim for girls eight and older and a Day Camp for 7-12. Boy and Girl Scout activities extend through June to August with multiple camp sessions and a Camporee. Salvation Army Red Shield Boys Club offers baseball, swimming, and camping with Jack Hinkle directing. Youth groups meet for crafts and films at the Salvation Army Citadel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheerio
YWCA
Wca
Oakview Grange
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Uwharrie
Cub Scouts
Gun Scouts
Camp Keysuwee
Sophia
N. C
Colonial Country Club
Thomasville
Salvation Army
Red Shield
North
South Carolina
Jack Hinkle
Young People’s Legion
Junior Legion
Girl Guards
Sunbeams
Salvation Army Citadel
Local Girl Wins Awards At Western Carolina College
Phyllis Wright, a Western Carolina College sophomore, received a gold cup for top player in girls intramural sports at WCC awards night. She also earned table tennis, bowling, badminton, and shuffleboard doubles prizes with Betty Westmoreland of McDowell County as her partner in the last two events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis Wright
Western Carolina College
WCC
Tewannah Bradly
Phyllis
Betty Westmoreland
McDowell County
W. J. Wright
Rotary
Drive In Book Depository Installed at Local Library
A drive in depository in front of the public library on S Main Street allows patrons to return books without leaving their car. Librarian Neal Austin notes it aids family schedules and Sundays closures. The unit uses a side handle and chute system, with access limited to library staff.
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S. Main Street
Neal Austin
Austin
Senior High High Points and Upcoming Exercises
The Rev Harry D Hawthorne will deliver the commencement sermon next Sunday June 5 with invocation by Dr C C Herbert Jr and presiding by D P Whitley. A Cappella choir to provide music. Weather permitting HPHS Brass Band and Concert Choir plan an outdoor concert at 3 PM this afternoon on the school lawn. indoors if bad weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry D. Hawthorne
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
C. C. Herbert Jr
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
D. P. Whitley
HPHS
Thomasville High set for graduation and exams schedule
Seniors prepare for graduation at Thomasville High School as exams conclude this week. Baccalaureate Service tonight in the cafeteria precedes in school awards Friday morning. Graduation is June 8 at Memorial Park Stadium with rain backup in the Junior High auditorium. National Honor Society officers lead clubs with Bobby Jordan as president and Nell Hoyle as VP.
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Iancouay
Memorial Park
Bobby Jordan
Nell Hoyle
George Ann Batten
Virginia Yarborough
Jane Young
Marriage Notices From Trinity and Nearby Families
A list of individuals including Frances Walker Trinity and Sandra Judy Warren along with Patricia Ann White Bren da Fay Younger and others appears in a society column. The notice names many men such as Donald Albertson Jimmy Allred Ronald Eugene Allred Richard Carlton Boggs and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Walker
Sandra Judy Warren
Patricia Ann White
Brenda Fay Younger
Mary Alice Zimmerman
Phyllis Elaine Sheen
Linda Weston Marsh
Donald Albertson
Jimmy Allred
Ronald Eugene Allred
Richard Carlton Boggs
Charles Kenneth Cannon
James Henry Bryant
Timothy Gail Cook
Jerry Lee Dawson
Leroy Clark Dunn
Curtis Wayne Fields
Kenneth Anthony Frazier
Joseph Franklin Goforth Jr
Bruce Hamilton
Hedgecock
Leonard Larry Hill
Howard Delbert Hinshaw
Jerry Clark Holden
Charles David Johnson
Jerry David Kennnedy
Jerry Eugene Lambeth
Gene Austin Martz
Benny Lawrence Miller
Thomas Samuel McIntyre
Ronald Keith Nelson
Thomas William Orr
Phillip Asther Ridge
Douglas Smith Riddick
Roy Elwood Scarboro
Kenneth Lee Shean
Walter Gather Sink
Charles Windle Southards
Sherman Frazier Staton
George Wood Sumner
Jerry Jonathon Tucker
Randall Gray Tucker
Douglas Haley Warner
Robert Wesley Voncannon
Union Appeals Supreme Court Review of Strike Case
Attorneys for eight Textile Workers Union officials and members seek Supreme Court review of conspiracy convictions tied to the Harriet Henderson mill strike in Henderson North Carolina. The brief argues sentences punish union activity and claim the trial was conducted under martial law with aim to convict at any cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
North Carolina
Supreme Court
Harriet-Henderson
Henderson
N.C
Boyd E. Payton
Carolinas
Kinney Reunion Set for June at Lexington City Lake
Mrs. Marion Sowers announces the Kinney reunion Sunday June 5 at Lexington City Lake. If rain, the event moves to the Welcome Community Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Kinney
Lexington City Lake
Marion Sowers
Welcome
Dead Lafayette flyer to attend reunion in Asheville
Col. Harold B. Willis of Boston is listed as dead by French authorities but survived World War I service with the French Foreign Legion and later served in World War II. He is scheduled to attend the Escadre Lafayette reunion in Asheville June 3 to 6, with survivors affirming his alive status. Willis escaped four German POW camps, swimming the Rhine to Switzerland after three failed escapes.
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Asheville
Escadville
Lafayette
Harold B. Willis
Boston
Mass
Reunion
Willis
French Foreign Legion
Rhine
Switzerland
Fair Grove Graduation Set for 48 Seniors Monday
Thomasville county schools superintendent Law son Brown will deliver the commencement address at Fair Grove High School as 48 seniors receive diplomas. Principal Kearns lists baccalaureate by Rev C D Pyatt and awards day for Tuesday with honors announced at events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville — County
FE. Lawson Brown
Fair Grove High School
FE. T. Kearns Jr
C.D. Pyatt
Fair Grove Methodist Church
Fair Grove
Kearns
Guilford College to confer degrees on 97 graduates
Guilford College will confer degrees on 97 students at commencement Monday. Dr Landrum Bolling of Earlham College will deliver the address at 10 30 a m on the central campus lawn. The baccalaureate sermon will be given at 11 a m by Keith W Irwin. The class is largely North Carolinians with 71 from the state and 23 from 12 other states and three foreign countries. The first MA degree will go to John Moses Pipkin of White Plains. Notable graduates include William Wyeburg Burton Margaret Yarnall Davis Wesley Groome Fulton Jr Marjorie Nell Haworth Paul Douglas Kerr and Joseph Brown Beck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford College
Landrum Bolling
Earlham College
Clyde A. Milner
Keith W Irwin
Commission — On Higher Education
National Council of Churchees of Christ
The
U.S.A
Hubert C. Noble
Europe
Quaker College
John Moses Pipkin
White Plains
William Wyeburg Burton
Margaret Yarnall Davis
Wesley Groome Fulton Jr
Majorie Nell Haworth
Paul Douglas Kerr
Paul James Skiver
David Qualey Wood
Lester Eugene Zimmerman
High High Point
Joseph Brown Beck
Thomasville
Carol Frances Smith
Denston
William Tryon Baldwin Jr
Jane Lanier Gallimore
Asheboro
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Charles Lindbergh
Paris
Public Library
Janet Teague
High Point High School
Woman's Club
Frances Haywood
D. P. Whit
Ley
Civitan
Bausch and Lamb
Dean B. Pruette
High Corner
Evelyn Long
TSHS
Myra Daily
Judy Armentrout
Detra Carter
Sally Howard
Diane Beck
Virginia Pennington
Linda Jones
Louvre
John the Good
King John
London
E. Lawson Brown
Guilford
Newt
Merita Bakery
Les
Furniture Market
Talnut
Marigold
Warner's Wayside Furniture
Greensboro Road
Sedgefield
Carpet Center
State Distributing CO
State Dist. CO
DuPont
DuPont Heatset
Warner's
Wayside Furniture
Greensboro RD
Greensboro
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