Out-Of-Towner Promotes High Point Retail Drive
Greensboro businessman Charlie Wagner leads High Point Merchant's Assn in a major citywide advertising push to boost local shopping. The campaign starts October 31 with Sunday Enterprise ads and expands to radio and TV in November. Wagner notes 25 percent membership growth and aims to draw customers from Winston-Salem and Greensboro, highlighting convenience and personal service. He also praises the Checkfax system rolling out October 1 to cut bad checks, with stores bearing the cost based on checks reviewed. Wagner, long-time Thalhimer's manager in High Point, is married to LaVerne Decker Wagner and has three children.
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Charlie Wagner
High Point
Wagner
Greensboro
High Point Merchant's Assn
Furniture City
Danny M. Courtney
Thalhimer’s
Winston-Salem
Baton Rouge
North Carolina Piedmont
Tone
Checkfax
LaVerne Decker Wagner
Joyce
Charles’ Jr
Connie
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Soviets Ignore Helsinki Rights Pledge Says Commentator
A columnist accuses the Soviet authorities of failing to honor the Helsinki final declaration signed by Leonid Brezhnev on August 1, 1975. The piece claims they pretend progress while remaining static, criticizing their record over the past year.
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Leonid Brezhnev
Helsinki
Conference On Security
Helsinki promises fail to ease European rifts
The piece critiques Brezhnev and East European leaders for not meeting Helsinki CSCE commitments. It notes stalled exit permits, ongoing family separations, and tightened border controls. It cites reduced visa prices but harsher gift duties, restricted media access, and dismal civil rights progress. A dissident group led by Yuri Orlov reports no improvement and faces KGB threats.
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Cooperation In Europe
CSCE
Helsinki
Brezhnev
Europe
Bucharest
France
Rumania
East Germany
Moscow
Yuri Orlov
Las Vegas the Most Exciting City in the World
A vivid, biting portrait of Las Vegas as a glittering yet corrupting desert metropolis. The piece blends praise for lights, shows, and wealth with harsh notes on greed, crime, casinos, and the human cost of rapid expansion. It surveys hotels, gambling, entertainment, and the city’s paradoxes through sharp, era-specific imagery.
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Las Vegas
McCarran
Greyhound
la Vegas
Abortion clash prompts wider questions on humanity
An editor's outlook weighs pragmatics against the ethics of abortion. It argues the abortion debate rests on how humans are viewed, contrasts birth control and war as population tools, and questions if the fetus deserves moral protection beyond legal limits. The piece warns the issue could steer society toward a troubling future.
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Supreme Court
Albert Schweitzer
Qogoowee
Irony Flows In Davidson Planning Debate
Davidson county commissioners debated funding 4000 for land use planning to secure federal grants through the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments. Chairman Hedrick warned against urban chaos, while Commissioner Erickson derided government meddling yet voted for the study. His firm faced a state attorney general order over bid collusion with dairy suppliers to Thamasville City Schools.
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Denton
Davidson
Piedmont Triad Council of Governments
Robert Hedrick
Cliff Erickson
Hedrick
New York City
New Jersey
Erickson
Drole
Thamasville
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Sunday Enterprise
Winston Salem-Greensboro-High Point
Randolph
Davidson Counties
Thomasville
Charles Wagner
Soviets
NKA
Economist
Poland
Russia
KGB
Orlov
Dunes
New York
Los Angeles
Bimon
Horseshoe
Mgm Grand
Frontier
Sahara
Riviera
Caesars Palace
Western Union
Union Plaza
Hendersonville
America
Wayne Newton
Circus Circus
Criries
Vance
Jim
Democratic
Republican Platform
Senator Soaper
Washington
Shotgun Schultz
Gabon
Goya
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