Red Cross head ready to start fall activities
Shirley Carroll, executive director of the High Point-Thomasville Red Cross, kicks off the fall volunteer drive after a summer lull. The profile covers her background with UCS, the six major local Red Cross services, CPR demonstrations, and funding ties to United Way campaigns.
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Red Cross
Shirley Carroll
United Way
High Point
Thomasville
American Red Cross
Carroll
Rt. 3
Trinity
Red
American National Red Cross
International Red Cross
Zoning Board approves seven acre C-4 rezoning in Thomasville
Thomasville Planning and Zoning Board voted to rezone nine acres next to THA apartments from R-3 to C-4 prompting opposition from THA residents and Central United Methodist Church members who fear increased traffic noise and pollution. Wayne Cashatt plans to sell to Aldridge Morgan who intends a two acre furniture store. seven acres remain slated for commercial use, raising questions about future development and community impact.
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Thomasville
Wayne Cashatt
Aldridge Morgan
Morgan
THA
Central United Methodist Church
Methodist Conference
Planning and Zoning Board
Jim Reece
Reece
Housing Authority
Erwin Heights
National Whirligig Congress Regained Power Across Branches
An analysis traces power shifts since 1967 from the presidency to Congress, noting a long arc of expansion and contraction of executive authority. It argues Watergate marked the Waterloo of unchecked presidential power, leaving a weakened presidency underظل Congress and bureaucracy.
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Alliance
Washington
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam
Capitol Hill
Founding Fathers
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Republic
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Old Hickory
Abraham Lincoln
South
Lincoln
Baltimore
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
U. S
Curtiss Wright
United States
U.S
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
LBJ
Nixon
Richard Nixon
Executive Department
Gerald Ford
James Carter
White House
Editor's Outlook on the Black Death in 1665
An introductory column by Jenkin Lloyd Jones from the Los Angeles Times discusses the spring 1665 outbreak of the Black Death, noting its sweeping mortality and impact on populations as the era's severe plague recurs across Europe.
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By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Los Angeles Times
So Many Things Taken For Granted
A long reflection on human progress and fear, tracing past plagues and modern optimism and pessimism. The piece notes London's 1665 plague and 1976 US cases, critiques freedom and tyranny, and examines Herman Kahn’s forecasts of wealth and population through 2176. It argues humans may learn slowly from history and adjust course.
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America
Mao
Herman Kahn
Hudson Institute
Emerson
Ship of Humanity
Roaming the Piedmont A Virginia Peaks of Otter vacation
A traveler recalls a Virginia mountains getaway on the Peaks of Otter along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The trip featured quiet days, a memorable sunset over a lake, distant valley views, and reflections on travel history including a canal lock display under the parkway.
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Virginia
Otter
Blue Ridge Parkway
Parkway
National Park Service
the James
Park Service
United States
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