Churches plan youth focused events as students depart
Church Notebook details area efforts to connect High Point College students with local congregations. Methodist groups, First Presbyterian, Emmanuel Lutheran and Green Street Baptist organize outreach, welcome letters, campus classes, and revival youth nights. A planning retreat in Blowing Rock and an all day Wesley Memorial Youth Council session set annual goals.
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High Point
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
High Point College
Wesley Memorial
First Presbyterian Church
George Staples
Davidson College
Carlton Hughes
Avenue Church
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Green Street Baptist Church
Green Street
First Methodist Church
Methodist
Grady Whicker
First Baptist Church
Kener Pharr
Charlotte
T. R. Zimmerman
Methodist Meet Opens Ninth Session
The Methodist meeting opened its ninth session this week, with officials outlining agenda items and anticipated discussions. Many attendees gathered at the central hall as sessions began, promising a productive period ahead for church affairs.
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Methodist Meet
Mansfield School Board opts legal path after desegregation riot
In Mansfield Texas a mob barred Negroes from enrolling at Mansfield High School prompting a noon closure and a request for legal remedies. Gov Shivers sent Texas Rangers to aid order and consideration of transfers to avoid violence. The 5th Circuit denied a stay of the integration order and the board weighs petitions to the Supreme Court.
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Allan Shivers
Shivers
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U.S. 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Houston
Mansfield School Board
Dist
Joe E. Estes
Dallas
Circuit
Mansfield’ School
J. A. Gooch
U.S. Supreme Court
U.s.supreme Court
Gooch
L. Clifford Davis
U.S. Atty
Herbert Brownell
Washington
Justice Department
Sunday Enterprise preview highlights local education and family topics
Staff writer Robert Marks profiles a deaf girl headed to the North Carolina School For the Deaf Morganton. Interviews with fathers explore college education meaning for future homemakers. Also tips on lawn care September carpet advice and first grade readiness for parents in Guilford Davidson region.
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Robert Marks
North Carolina School
Legant
Tom Alston
Forrest Cates
Labor Day traffic toll climbs with weekend deaths
By 9 am EST 28 motor vehicle fatalities had been recorded with drownings and other deaths bringing the toll to 35. The National Safety Council estimates up to 480 could die in holiday traffic from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight, far above earlier AP counts.
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Associated Press
Refugees Denied Admittance To Hong Kong
Hong Kong halted new refugee admissions amid overcrowding as influx from Red China strains water, medical, and educational services. The government appealed to Beijing to stop the exodus but reports say the Reds maintain the need for population transfers.
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Death perceptions linked to behavior say psychologist
Dr Herman Feifel of Los Angeles argues that attitudes toward death shape human behavior more than hopes and fears and should be studied. He cites tentative findings from VA groups of World War I veterans Korean War veterans and professionals noting death viewed as natural end of life by most but Koreans over 70 fearing death most while younger groups see it as a definite possibility.
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Frank Carey
Chicago
California
Herman Feifel
Veterans Administration
Los Angeles
American Psychological Assn
Zac Feifel
Dea’ Co Ae
Reds U S Skirt Harsh Words On Plane Downing
Washington reports two nations avoiding strong language over the August 22 shootdown of an American P4M Mercator. Sixteen crewmen believed killed. U S blames Red China while noting a possible navigational error.
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Washington
United States
Red
State Dulles
Duck Island
Lake Ontario
Red China
White House hints at formal foreign affairs offer
Washington reports the White House plans a formal offer on foreign affairs. President Eisenhower is expected to make the offer next week, Hagerty told reporters. Stevenson had said he would welcome such an arrangement to avoid partisan conflict and ensure continuity if a new administration takes over.
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Buford Lewailen
Ohio
Michigan
Saito
Glad Woodward
Oak Ridge
Smite
Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Aderty
Hagerty
Stevenson
Chicago
Myth fading fast says Adlai in campaign tour
Adlai Stevenson and Len Estes Kefauver wrap five regional meetings with Democratic leaders from 34 states as Stevenson criticizes Republican complacency and highlights administration blunders in foreign policy. GOP figures attack Stevenson proposals on H bomb tests while praising Nixon as a capable vice president amid partisan politics.
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Eisenhower
Stevenson
Len Estes Kefauver
Chicago
James Finnegan
Midwest
Knowland
United States
Richard Simpson
R-Pa
Americans For Democratic Action
Ada
Stevenson-Kefauver
Nixon
Troopship Sails For Algeria Amid Suez Talks
Thousands of French ships and troops move toward the Mediterranean as Egypt readies for talks with a five nation committee led by Australia’s Robert G. Menzies. The Pasteur sailed from Marseilles with 4300 men bound for Algeria as Cyprus bases are considered.
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Australia
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London
Suez
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U. S. State Department
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Middle East
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Gaza Strip
el Auja
al Akhbar
James Swinburn
Charles Pittuck
James Zarb
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