Thoughts for Today from Revelation and Grantland Rice
A devotional line cites Revelation 14 13 blessing the dead who die in the Lord and rest from their labors. It includes Grantland Rice’s famous line about the One Great Scorer who records how you played the game rather than wins or losses.
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Heneforth
Grantland Rice
North Carolina labor shakeup sparks questions on governance
The NC labor department replaces about a dozen workers with appointees of new labor commissioner T Avery Nye Jr., a move viewed as political. The piece questions how state and county administrations sustain momentum when posts turn over with party wins and losses, weighing civil service's safeguards against political staffing.
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North Carolina
T. Avery Nye Jr
W. C
Billy) Creel
GOP
Billy Creel
Labor Dept
Raleigh
Senator Morgan Faces Lunch Program Abuse Backlash
North Carolina's Sen Robert B Morgan, who helped override a presidential veto on school lunch funds, cites abuse of free lunches and improper eligibility. He bases claims on his 12 year old daughter Mary who says classmates are paying full price while others get reductions in Harnett County. Federal rules bar sharing such information among students.
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Gerald Ford
White House
North Carolina
Robert B. Morgan
Mary
Harnett County
Mary’s
Was Van Gogh a priest before fame as a painter
Vincent Van Gogh was not a priest before his art career. He was the son of a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church and pursued religious work in England and Belgium, attempting to train as a Methodist lay preacher and studying theology before turning to painting. His compassion for the poor stemmed from religious zeal, though his later years were clouded by mental illness.
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Vincent van Gogh
Netherlands
England
van Gogh
Belgium
Fact or fiction in a wartime Bible quiz panel
A reader asks about the origin of a wartime expression "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" attributed to Presbyterian Navy Chaplain Howell M. Forgy at Pearl Harbor. Other queries cover Greek popes before the Great Schism and the Hebrew meaning of Israel, with expert notes and editor guidance.
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Presbyterian Navy
Howell M. Forgy
Pearl Harbor
Chaplains’ Corps
Kentucky
Berkeley
Calif
Theodore I
John VI
John VII
St. Zacharias
Church of the East
Israel
God
Jacob
Religion and Press Day ties free press to faith a partnership
A Masses of notes emphasize church and newspaper partnership as vital to liberty. The piece recalls Bill of Rights guarantees and urges ongoing support for an informed public, praise for High Point Theatre, and local civic moves from health to education, including HPC trustees and a new city office site.
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Congress
America
Richard A. Short
American Association of Homes For the Aging
Washington
City Hall
Environmental Center
Kingsport
Tenn
Bays Mountain Park
Unsung Heroes of Watergate Revealed in Transcripts
Washington insiders recount the Watergate saga highlighting FBI agents and original prosecutors Earl Silbert Seymour Glanzer and Donald Campbell. They detail hidden transcripts, covert identities, White House pressures, and the pivotal moments that forced the coverup into the open.
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Washington
FBI
White House
Earl Silbert
Seymour Glanzer
Donald Campbell
Watergate
G. Gordon Liddy
E. Howard Hunt
George Leonard
Ed Warren
CIA
Hunt
Gray
Liddy
Kleindienst
John Dean
Dean
Henry Petersen
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