High Point Fair Leader T. C. Potts Honored For Lifelong Work
T. C. Potts, managing force behind the High Point Agricultural Fair, has shaped the event since 1933 and grows it into one of North Carolina’s top small fairs. Born May 22 1897 in Jefferson Georgia he later moved to High Point after early work with Commerce Telephone. The fair’s 1933 start marks Potts lifelong commitment to farming displays and community impact.
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Robert Marks
Enterprise
High Point
T. C. Potts
Oser
High Point Agricultural Fair Assa, Inc
High Point Fair
North Carolina
Potts
Atlantic States
Jefferson
Crawford W. Long
Dr. Long
Martin Institute
Commerce Telephone Co
Southern Bell
United States
Europe
402Nd Telegraph Battalion
Editor's Outlook Childrens Wasteland
An American editor contrasts U S and Soviet television aimed at children, noting Soviet programs promote state values such as honesty and bravery while American shows push entertainment and consumerism. The piece questions rating-driven programming and its impact on national survival and child education.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
America
Peter Levathes
Twentieth Century-Fox Television
Russia
Charles van Doren
WCTU
Natasha
Miss Kitty
Clanton Boys
Okay Corral
Stalingrad
Bugs Moran
al Capone
Davy Crockett
Paladin
Marshal Dillon
Delay in Urban Renewal Sparks High Point Letters
Letters to the editor denounce delays in the High Point Urban Renewal project and warn of costs to grants and city credit. The writer urges opponents to withdraw complaints and cites hearings, court rulings, and past grants while contrasting with other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Enterprise
High Point
Griffin
Washington Terrace Park
Griffin Junior High
Emma Blair
Norfolk
New York City
Boston
Chicago
The South Church Faces New Society The South's culture tests Protestantism
Dr. Samuel S. Hill Jr. argues the Southern church rooted in frontier life must adapt to urbanization and immigration shaping modern America. He says emphasis on emotion and conversion has limited reflective thought and institution-wide reform. The church must engage broader social life and minister to all that affects God's children.
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South
Samuel S. Hill Jr
Department of Religion
University of North Carolina
Christian Century
Dr. Hill
America
Hill
God
Recreation for Teen-Agers in Thomasville City
A local column advocates a dedicated teen recreation program every night to give youths a safe place to go meet and play. It argues the Civic Center may not appeal to high schoolers and suggests a modernized, supervised space that welcomes youths from nearby areas while linking support to city tax dollars and local merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Archie Hardy
Hardy
Civic Center
Recreation Commission
High Point
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Lexington
Fair Grove
Pilot
The Fuse at Berlin How Much More Pressure
A SID MOODY analysis on Berlin during the cold war describes how a separate peace treaty with East Germany could threaten Western access and trigger a crisis. It links past Allied rights, the 1961 wall, and rising tensions with East Germany to the risk of a clash that could break the alliance.
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Leningrad
Russia
Styopa
Catherine Edmonston
N. C
Alery Ga
East Germany
Berlin
Yalta
Tain
Khrushchev
West Berlin
United States
Berlin Wall
West Germany
East Berlin
U. S
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North Carolina Supreme Court
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Park
Ation
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Jordan
Sid Moody
AP News
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East
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