High Pointer of the Week Arnold J. Koonce
Arnold Jackson Koonce named chairman of the new High Point Human Relations Committee. A native High Pointer, he is a funeral director who built Koonce Funeral Home at 414 S. Main St. He has held leadership roles in the North Carolina Burial and Funeral Directors Assn and on church boards at First Methodist, Rankin Memorial, and First Evangelical and Reform. He contributes decades to Methodist Conference boards and served in national church gatherings.
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Braxton Younts Enterprise
Arnold Jackson Koonce
High Pointer
J. D. Koonce
Louella Snider Koonce
Davidson County
Denton
Shiloh-Beulah
Lexington
Davie County
Onslow
J. D
Arnold
Koonce
High Point
Tate Furniture Co
Winston-Salem
Lynchburg
Koonce Funeral Home
S. Main St
North Carolina Burial and Funeral Directors Assn
High Point College
North Union
North Carolina Annual Conference Board of Education
Methodist Protestant
Unity Conference
Uniting Conference of the Methodist Church
Kansas City
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal Churches
Methodist Church
The
Atlanta
First Methodist Church
Rankin Memorial Methodist
First Evangelical and Reformed Churches
Grandpa Got Out
An editor’s outlook recounts a Welsh family voyage from Llandyssul to Pren-Gwyn and on to America. The piece blends ancestral memory with immigrant themes, noting Great Grandpa’s move to Wisconsin, struggles with rent, land, and learning English, and the lasting idea that escape reshaped lives and nations.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Llandyssul
Wales
Pren-Gwyn
Goronwy Evans
Evans
D. Jacob Davies
Llanybyther
Grandpa
Allroydyn
Cwm Duad
Llandarog
Bolgoed
Swansea
America
Alltyrodyn
Rev. Davis
Labor hopeful as UK delegates gather for 62nd conference
British Labour seeks to unseat Prime Minister Macmillan as Harold Wilson leads a hopeful party amid a nationwide swing. The 62nd conference will shape policy, with aims of economic expansion, productivity gains, and closer science industry ties.
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Scarborough
England
Harold Wilson
Labor
Harold Macmillan
Wilson Himslf
Macmillan
Britain
Buckingham Palace
Ramsay MacDonald
Stafford Cripps
Aneurin Bevan
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Mao Tze-tung
Ernest Bevin
Europe
Clement
Lord) Attlee
House of Commons
Charles de Gaulle
Commonwealth
John Profumo
Christine Keeler
John Bull
Wilson
Neven
United States
Hugh Gaitskell
Veterans of 81st Division Gather for Wildcat Reunion
Sunday Accent recounts World War I service of the 81st Infantry Division known as the Wildcats. North Carolinians formed the Wildcats Veterans Assn after combat, highlighting Belleau Wood Meuse-Argonne and the Meuse-Argonne campaign. The piece notes American adaptability and heroism in France and references Laurence Stallings The Doughboys.
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Sheraton
Bist (Wildcat
America
81St
France
Lorraine
Neuse-Argonne
Verdun
North Carolina
Wildcats Veterans Assn
Wildcats
81St Division
Belleau Wood
Second Marne
St. Quentin Tunnel
Hindenburg Line
Meuse-Argonne
Laurence Stallings
Stallings
New York City
Tennessee Mountains
Alvin York
Bloodmobile Scare Sparks Police Drive And Bank Renovations
The Thomasville Scene describes a police officer led detour to the Bloodmobile for a blood donation, noting officer Tysinger and Harris guiding a reporter. It also mentions Moose Club clothing drives and a bank ribbon-cutting at Wachovia Bank site with Martha Hill, Miss Thomasville, presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Hill
Thomasville
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
High Point Echoes Change as Bryant Visits From Navy
A roaming look at High Point shows skyline and storefronts transformed in three years. Fred Bryant, now in Washington, returns yearly and notes the new shopping areas are impressive. Also mentions 73 shopping days till Christmas and local anecdotes on a shopkeeper’s after shave sample. County farm agents advise nematode control after tobacco harvest with plowing and drying tips. Hunters prepare for fall season with Oct. 15 opening dates.
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Davidson County
Bulletin
Abbotts Creek
Also Mentioned on This Page
Arnold J. Koonce
Lloyd Davis
Davises
Mrs. Davis
Ireland
Cork
New York
Wisconsin
Lincoln
Shiloh
Pren-Gwyn Church
Llandyssuls
Will Rogers
Greece
Cardinganshire
Robert
B. J. Tysinger
M. R
Big John
Harris
Tysinger
Paul M. Shore
Civic Center
Margaret
Boston
Record
Police Department
Moose Club
Marvin
Fred Bryant
Navy
Washington
Puget Sound
Fred
Tar Heelia
Naval Air Station
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