Worth and Kathryn Grant Return to High Point Missionaries
The High Point natives, Worth and Kathryn Grant, return from over two decades in Japan on leave. They praise the city’s cleanliness and low food costs while noting Japan’s higher prices for frozen foods. Grant discusses U.S. Japanese trade quotas and cultural shifts, and details his family, ministry career, and recent post as translator. They plan to move to Washington, D.C., where he will join Wycliffe Bible Translators and she will lead the Women’s Missionary Union in the Baptist Convention.
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Japan
High Point
Grants
Tokyo
Grant
United States
Congress
Roy
Sibley Memorial Hospital
Washington, D.C
Truett
3M Co
Ray DeLapp
Raleigh
Hilliard Memorial Baptist Church
Furman University
Greenville
S.C
Southern Baptist Seminary
Louisville
China
Hong Kong
Pacific
Navy
Weldon
Foreign Mission Service
Jordon Press
Japan Baptist Convention
Ridgecrest
Abbeville
Donna
Lawrence Graham
Angela
Bernd Goepner
Deborah
Duke University
Stephana
Northeast Junior High
Eaton Place
Washington
The
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc
Women’s Missionary Union
Baptist Convention
The Trouble With Liberals Edit Notes on Freedom and Society
An editor's notebook criticizes liberals for not being liberal enough arguing for balance between authority and permissiveness to secure freedoms while preventing crime. It attacks court liberalism, public housing failures, and double standards in political criticism, noting how harsh treatment of dissent appears in debates over policing and public policy.
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Manson
America
Congress Grips on Foreign Policy Waning Says Column
Washington considers whether Congress will retain influence over foreign policy as presidents increasingly act first. The piece notes the Tonkin and Cambodia decisions show Congress as afterthefact jurors, with the Senate and House debating war powers, while three presidential hopefuls seek seats on the Foreign Relations Committee to gain real clout.
Tar Heel Pair In New York Elections Footnote
North Carolina connected candidates Barry Farber and Allard Lowenstein ran for Congress in New York area districts on Nov. 3. Farber, Greensboro native and radio host, sought a Lower Manhattan seat. Lowenstein, Chapel Hill alumnus and Democrat, faced defeat amid district realignment but left with strong vote totals and plans to return in 1972.
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North Carolina
House of Representatives
New York City
Barry Farber
Allard K. Lowenstein
Farber
Greensboro
University of North Carolina At Chapel
Congress
Lower Manhattan
Chinatown
Lowenstein
New York
Carolina
Frank Porter Graham
President Johnson
Eugene McCarthy
Robert Kennedy
Children’s Crusade
Nassau County
The
New Yorker
Hanoi
Black Panthers
al Lowenstein
Chapel Hill
Davidson dateline grand shuffle brings jail moves in county
In Thomasville a new District Court system shifts jailing to Lexington with one weekly court in Thomasville and two in Lexington. Thomasville police face more outside duties, possible reduced local jailing, and need for more magistrates. Benefits and burdens of the system are debated as officials seek fixes.
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Thomasville
Fire Department
Lexington
Davidson County
Denton
Raleigh
The American Theatre Ends An Era In High Point
In High Point the iconic Municipal Building theater known as the American, later the Paramount, closes ending an era that once hosted vaudeville and road show stars. The author recalls childhood theatergoing, local memories, and a failed first musical debut at the American, a landmark that shaped the city’s cultural life.
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Paramount Theatre
High Point
A. B. Huff
Orpheum
Huff
Will Rogers
Furniture City
Paramount
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Robert Marks
Enterprise
Lon L. and
Elsie Mae Grant
J. Marie Grant
Biblical Recorder
Hirotatsu Fujiwara
MR. and
Mrs. Worth Grant
Art Richardson
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Middle Park Avenue
Nob Hill
Spiro Agnew
Howard K. Smith
Washington Post
Nixon
Agnew
Harry Truman
New York Times
Charles Goodell
Christine Jorgensen
the Times
James Ackley
Nightriders
Reat
By Leslie Carpenter
Gulf of Tonkin
Cambodia
Middle East
Greece
Spain
Southeast Asia
U. S
Dante B. Fascell
Dfla
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Roman C. Pucinski
D-Ill
Rep. Fascell
House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Senate
Hubert Humphrey
Ed Muskie
George McGovern
Davidson
New City Hospital
Piedmont
Andy Butler
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