Mixed High Point election yields bipartisan council and strong turnout
Tuesday’s returns show a split council trend with Republicans strongest on the outer precincts and Democrats in the core. Incumbents and known names held sway, while newcomer Robert Wells earned votes on a smart campaign. The anti liquor vote and school board issue shaped key races, including Paul Clapp’s mayoral win and council victories.
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Dwight Eisenhower
GOP
Rachel Gray
Arnold Koonce
Robert Wells
Northwest
Joe Patterson
Roy Culler
General Assembly
Paul Clapp
Clapp
North Carolina GOP Names Bennett Chairman to Unite Holshouser
The North Carolina Republican Party elected Tom Bennett of Morehead City as state chairman to heal rifts with Gov. Holshouser. Bennett’s low key, unifying approach aims to end patronage tensions and align the party, letting the governor focus on governance. The Rouse faction remains influential, but Bennett’s leadership seeks peace and party cohesion.
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North Carolina
Republican Party
Jim Holfhouser
Tom Bennett
Holshouser
United House
Frank Rouse
Rouse
Jim Gardner
General Assembly
Holfhouser
Bennett
GOP
Morehead City
Gov. Holfhouser
Beer Hall Putsch Recalling Hitler's Early Munich Coup
In November 1923 Adolf Hitler led a failed coup in Munich at the Buergerbrau Keller as Bavarian premier Gustav von Kahr faced a political address. The uprising ended in a retreat and led to a shift that later helped propel Hitler to control of Germany.
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Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Weimar Republic
National Socialist German Workers
Nazi) Party
Bavaria
Munich
Buergerbrau Keller
Gustav von Kahr
Kahr
Hitler's Path from Putsch to Mein Kampf Rise
Hitler led a failed 1923 Munich putsch as 3,000 Nazis faced off police and army in a gun battle that left 16 dead. Though sentenced to five years, he served nine months and used the Landsberg confinement to write much of Mein Kampf.
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Munich
Hitler
Landsberg
Anvil Brand to close High Point plant shift operations
Anvil Brand will close its High Point sewing plant and consolidate production in remaining facilities due to a tight piece goods market. Some employees have been furloughed with no recall planned while negotiations proceed for occupancy of the High Point site. Headquarters remain in High Point and a lease is in place for Alderman Studios at 320 North Hamilton Street with renovations to start and occupancy expected in 30 to 60 days.
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Anvil Brand
High Point
Anvil Management
Anvil
Alderman Studios
North Hamilton Street
Tower
High Point College
Willard Thomas
Ruth Ellis
Mattie Idol
Presbyterian Home
Chapel Hill
Tom Broadwater
Thomson & McKinnon Auchincloss
Chamber of Commerce
Rougemont
Clarence Keever
Quail Roost
Floyd Decker
Jim Schell
Chamber of Commerce of
The
U.S
Jack Bundy
Durham
George Harrelson
High Point Housing Development Corporation
Joe Brown
Tax costs at San Clemente revealed
Nixon aides allegedly steered landscaping and payroll to bill taxpayers for White House villas in San Clemente and Key Biscayne. Yard work, housekeeper refusals, Coast Guard contracts, and amended plans boosted costs by thousands, prompting Rep. Brooks to unveil the scheme.
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San Clemente
Washington
Key Biscayne
Nixon
White House
General Services Administration
White Landscaping Company
GSA
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Haldeman
Secret Service
Brigido Damian) Garcia
Garcia
Kalmbach
Coast Guard
John F. Gallardi
Galuardi
Kenneth K. Kammeyer
White
Jack Brooks
D-Tex
House
Key’Biscayne
Bartlett Construction
Nixons
Robert Clark
James Perdue
Anatomy of Corruption Its Favorite Fuel Is Silence
After the Agnew affair the piece argues that silence enables a broad pattern of political fund raising in public construction. It cites architects and engineers as complicit through complicity and fear, noting the public tolerates corruption when salaries lag behind private sector pay, driving higher temptations in government.
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Agnew
Maryland
Justice Department
Baltimore
William Slayton
American Institute of Architecture
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Frank
Chip” Wood Jr
Robert H. Shaw
This City
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J. C. Bunn
Lacy T. High
Lacy
Dean and
Lee Marshall
N.C
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Marshalls
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Vero
Don Oakley
Newspaper Enterprise Association
New Orleans
Charles Colbert
Columbia School of Architecture
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