United Fund drive aims to build a better High Point
Citizens will canvass workplaces and neighborhoods Tuesday to support a united fundraising drive. The goal is 184 740 dollars to back agencies including Scouts Y and YWCA, Red Cross, and pledge to cover social welfare needs with a once for all appeal.
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United Fund
George
High Point
Milk Fund
Red Cross
Light and Darkness as Moral and Cosmic Forces
The essay explores light as knowledge and spiritual truth versus darkness as evil and ignorance. It contrasts biblical and literary images, argues free will to choose goodness, and cites scriptures and poets to affirm that divine light endures despite opposition.
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Jesus
Shakespeare
Man of
Nazareth
God
Christ Jesus
Trieste Episode Reveals U.S. Leadership Dilemmas
George Sokolsky argues that nationalism drives Europe and Asia while American internationalism holds real public support. Trieste’s status reveals competing claims by Italy and Yugoslavia, with Tito’s Balkan federation plans and Italy’s EDC prospects shaping U.S. leverage and costs.
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Europe
Asia
United States
Trieste
Vespasian
Venice
Italy
Yugoslavia
Uncle Sam and the curse of temporary agencies
A satirical look at how permanent wartime and disaster relief bodies linger. It cites the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration created in 1928 and renamed after and the War Claims Commission from 1950, noting their lengthy existences and delays in liquidation and term expiration.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Halley
Puerto Rico
Congress
PRRA
Interior
Douglas McKay
War Claims Commission
Quotes and quotes and more quotes from leaders and public figures
A collage of remarks from President Eisenhower Vice President Nixon and other officials touches on mood in agriculture health and politics. Notable notes include James Patton National Farmers Union secretary denial of rumors and Dr Christopher Andrewes on cold cures. Boni Buehler discusses injury and resilience. Speaker Joseph W Martin Jr remarks on presidential foundations.
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James Patton
National Farmers Union
House Speaker Promises Tax Cuts Despite Grumbling
The Speaker of the House says taxes are too high and declares an intent to cut them. He asserts that the plan will reduce the tax burden for voters and shift focus to relief measures.
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House
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Saunders
Adlai Stevenson in Nationwide Broadcast on Liberty
In a nationwide broadcast Adlai Stevenson confronts fears of purges, book burning and repression that threaten the land of the free and home of the brave, urging courage and vigilance.
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Land of the Free
Home of the Brave
Adlai Stevenson
Clarence Saunders the rubber man of chain stores dies at 67
Clarence Saunders founder of Piggly Wiggly and innovator of self service grocery died at 67. The Memphis pioneer hailed for supermarket ideas including Keedoozle and Foodelectric faced financial ups and downs after building a real estate legacy known as the Pink Palace.
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Clarence Saunders
Saunders
Wall Street
Clarence
Memphis
University Club
Memphis Museum and Little Theater
Bill Terry
Chickasaw Gardens
Joe Commode and His Four Flushers in the Kremlin
Eddy Gilmore recounts organizing a Soviet era band with shifting names from Kremlin Krows to Purged Pigeons and finally Joe Commode and His Four Flushers. He riffs on official blundering and the crowd laughing as he calls Frank Lloyd Wright the world’s greatest architect in a Fort Lauderdale Rotary Club tale.
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Eddy Gilmore
Eddy
Kremlin Krows
Kremlin
Joe Commode
Four Flushers
Henry Kamphoefner
School of Design
N. C. State College
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ladd Spivey
Wright
Lakeland Southern College
Florida
Spivey
Rotary Club
Fort Lauderdale
Roosevelt
Ancestry Seekers and Desk Innovations Highlight Local Notices
In Sherman Texas readers note requests for ancestry lines of Jesse Wheeler and Rulany Johnson from 1827 while other items report on high point college class of 1952 couples and a Hamilton Alma Desk Company's TV desk with RCA collaboration designed to streamline banking records.
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United Fund
Chamber of Commerce
Frank Sizemore
Margaret Wheeler
Travis Street
Sherman
Texas
Jesse Wheeler
Rulany
Lorany) Johnson
Jimmy Barbee
Enterprise
Pensacola
Tommy Langley
High Point
LaVaughn
High Point College
Riggs National Bank
Washington
Hamilton Desk Company
N. C
Charles E. Hayworth
Alma Desk Company
Alma
Hamilton
Charlie
American Bankers Association
RCA
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Eve
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Fiume
Rijeka
Paris
Tito
Balkan
Greece
Turkey
Bulgaria
Romania
Albania
Georgi Dimitrov
Third International
Great Britain
de Gasperi
Italian Communist Party
Giuseppe Pella
European Defense Community
E.D.C
Pella
Russia
George Dixon
Eisenhower
Nixon
Aeng
Secretary of Agriculture
Leo E. “Allen
Til
Christopher Andrewes
Salisbury
Eny
Boni Buehler
U. S
Holt McPherson
Joe
Mr. Wright