Grants To Address Executives Club Meets Nov 14
Grant and his wife Kathryn will speak at the High Point Executives Club meeting in Thomasville on November 14 at the Woman's Club Building. Grant, a Baptist missionary to Japan since 1950, will discuss The Battle for Men's Minds in Asia Today and is vice president of Jordan Press. Mrs. Grant presents A Pearl is Born. they reside at 533 Gatewood Ave in High Point.
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Worth Grant
Kathryn
High Point Executives Club
Thomasville
Woman's Club
Elliot Drive
Executive Club
Japan
Grant
Asia
High Point
Jordan Press
Baptist Publishing
Abbeville
S. C
Grants
Gatewood Ave
I'm A Drunk But No Crook
Durham reporter recalls Joe B. Driver a 60 year old alcoholic whose 1965 4th Circuit ruling recognized alcoholism as a sickness and spared him prison for public drunkenness. Driver described decades on drink and his desire to quit while detailing his arrests and life on the streets.
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Durham
Supreme Court
High Court
Joe B. Driver
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Driver
Anthony Brannon
J. Milton Read Jr
Joe
Joel
Nixon Johnson clash over Viet Nam questions continues
President Johnson and Richard Nixon traded barbs on Viet Nam questions with Johnson calling Nixon temperamental and Nixon replying with praise for Johnson as a hard working president. Eisenhower then defended Nixon noting he was kept informed of major U.S. problems during his administration.
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Nixon
Johnson
Viet Nam
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
United States
Two Named Marshals at High Point College
Shelby Jean Wilkes and Steve Hanes Riggs of High Point are selected by High Point College faculty as junior marshals for showing strong scholarship leadership and activity. Shelby Jean, daughter of John T. Wilkes, hails from Daniel Brooks Apartments and studies biology while earning Dean's List honors. Steve Riggs, son of J H Riggs, comes from 324 Phil Ave and majors in his wy.
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Shelby Jean Wilkes
Steve Hanes Riggs
High Point
High Point College
Shelby Jean
John T. Wilkes
Daniel Brooks Apartments
William Penn High School
Steve
J. H. Riggs
Phil. Ave
Cental High School
Atlanta Mart Expanding to 2 Million Square Feet of Show Space
Atlanta Merchandise Mart in downtown Atlanta will double in size with a multi million dollar addition. Construction starts within 60 days and completes by early 1968. The expansion adds 22 acres across 11 floors with new lines in contract furnishings housewares appliances electronics toys textiles and shoes. A fashion theater ballroom and rooftop conference rooms will complement a built in trade show center serving 35 annual market events.
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Atlanta
Theargest Mart
Atlanta Merchandise Mart
Peachtree Center
Peachtree
Spring Street
Harris Street
Atlanta Mart
Mart
Stouffer's
McNamara Says Draft Cuts Planned For 1967 Transition to Peace
Robert McNamara announced major draft policy changes saying cutbacks will occur and the war's transition to peace will shape the economy. He forecast 1967 draft calls lower than 1966 with four month totals maybe half of 161,000 August through November.
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McNamara
Davidson Democrats Republicans Poised For Decision
Davidson County gears up for Tuesday elections with Democrats defending a 16 year rule and Republicans aiming to sweep them out. Over 40 000 registered voters, about half D, will decide posts from state House seats to county offices amid a spirited but clean campaign.
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Bob Burchette
Lexington
Davidson County
District Court
Charles Kivett
Greensboro
Davidson
Russell van Landingham
Thomasville
Hubert Olive Jr
Joe Hege Jr
Wayne Whicker
Midway
Senate
James Tussey
Silver Hill Township
Trosper N. Combs
Scotland County
Vant Gilmore
Southern Pines
J. F. Allen
Biscoe
Horace Kornegay
Burlington
Richard Barnwell
Central High Student Wins Youth of the Month
Mary Greene of 517 West Parkway, daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Greene, is named Youth of the Month by the High Point Youth Council. A Central High senior active in Beta Club Student Council Masque and Gavel Rainbow for Girls and Keyettes, she was maid of honor at Homecoming and is nominated for the DAR Good Citizen Award.
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Mary Greene
High Point Central High School
High Point Youth Council
J. H. Greene
W. Parkway
Mary
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Youth Fellowship
Central High
Beta Club
Masque and Gavel
Order of Rainbow
Keyettes
Guilford County Commission Sets Bid Openings Morning Session
Guilford County Commissioners will open four bids at 10 a.m. after department head reports. The morning agenda includes the annual audit around 11 a.m. and two major planning reports at noon. Afternoon items cover rural zoning requests and business from County Manager Carl Johnson and County Attorney N. D. McNairy.
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Greensboro
Guilford
Carl Johnson
N. D. McNairy
High Pointers Honored With Scout Silver Antelope Awards
Two men earned Region Six Silver Antelope Awards for exceptional service to youth in Boy Scouts. J Harriss Covington received the honor at the Region Six annual meeting in Charlotte, while Rev. Thomas S Haggai was honored in Chicago at Region Seven events. Other Region Six recipients included R M Hanckel of Charleston Edwin R Perkins III of Tryon and Lamar Swift of Atlanta.
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J. Harriss Covington
Rev
Thomas S. Haggai
Boy Scouts of America
Atlanta
North Carolina
Covington
Harriss and Covington Hosiery Mills Inc
Charlotte
Haggai
Chicago
R. M. Hanckel
Charleston
S. C
Edwin R. Perkins III
Tryon
Lamar Swift
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Kathryn, Worth Grant
Charles Barbour
The
Nash County
Pact
Repblicans
Washington
Ocrats
Bill Boyles
Bruce Smith
E. M. Hunt
R. W. Zimmerman
Carl Hanes
Wilmer Mizell
Bill Everhart
Shott Hartman
Robert C. Huss
Robert C. Carroll
Fred C. Sink
Homer Lee Cox
Baren Craven
W. E. Tomlinson
Register of Deeds
Wil
Lie Everhart
Elmer Everhart
Reynolds Shoaf
Joel Leonard
B. Everett Jordan
Alamance County
U. S. Senate
John Shallcross
High Point Dry
English Motors
New York
Gar
College of
Ducati
Advertising Council
Council For Financial Aid To Education
International Newspaper Advertising Executives
Jamestown
Guilford County Board of Commissioners
Henry Millis
Civil Service
Suc
County Board of Commissioners
Henry A. Millis
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