Restoration Of Cuts Ends A Sorry Chapter
Governor Hodges announced that enough funds exist to restore welfare grants to their original levels for old and disabled citizens, ending a dispute over cuts. An expected surplus in the Welfare Department allows restoration beginning June 1 through June 30, 1961, with continuation dependent on legislative appropriations. Playing politics with relief money is condemned as shoddy and marks a sad chapter in North Carolina governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodges
Sion
Corse
North Carolina
Airlines face bomb hoax toll and push for tougher penalties
An editorial condemns fake bomb scares delaying Northeast Airlines flights to Miami from Idlewild. It cites hundreds of hoaxes costing airlines and passengers time and money, recalls the Electra crash grief, and urges Congress to raise fines from 1000 to 5000 dollars and impose five years in prison to curb the acts.
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Idlewild
New York
Northeast Airlines
Miami
Indiana
Congress
Compromise Ends North Carolina State Art Museum Fight
Acting director James Byrnes will finish this year at the State Art Museum while a special committee seeks a successor. Governor Hodges engineered the agreement, urging Byrnes to step aside and calling for unity among all North Carolinians to support a qualified new head. The governor praised the resolution as a service that ends a months-long dispute without harming the museum’s mission.
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James Byrnes
Hodges
Byrnes
Editorial Research Changing Script and Hollywood Blacklist
The Changing Pattern of production brings independence to Hollywood as blacklisted writers return. Dalton Trumbo wrote Exodus, and Albert Maltz signs for The Execution of Pvt Slovik. Reports name Sam Spiegel hiring Michael Wilson for Lawrence of Arabia while industry leaders debate the Waldorf Manifesto and the future of the blacklist amid calls to end it.
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Otto Preminger
Dalton Trumbo
Hollywood Ten
Congress
Trumbo
Preminger
Frank Sinatra
Albert Maltz
Pvt. Slovik
Sam Spiegel
Michael Wilson
The
American Legion Magazine
Nedrick Young
Millard Lampell
Ben Bartman
Joseph Losey
Ing
Waldorf- Astoria
Robert Rich
Academy
Nathan E. Douglas
American Legion
Universal
United Artists
Paramount
Darryl F. Zanuck
20Th Century-Fox
Khrushchev
Zanuck
Harry Brandt
Independent Theatre Owners Association
Roman Catholic
Legion of Decency In Information
N.Y. Daily News
Hollywood
The Blacklist Meet Preview and Rising Prospects
The Blacklist brings together top competitors for a meet preview highlighting key entrants from leading programs, potential matchups, and the expected pace and scoring battles across sprint and field events. Officials emphasize pacing and safety protocols.
Scientists Explore Vaccines to Prevent Tooth Decay
NIH researchers Dr. Paul H. Keyes and Dr. Robert J. Fitzgerald pursue vaccines and antibiotics to halt cavities. Keyes shows antibiotic protection in hamsters with high sugar diets, suggesting chemical therapy could prevent human tooth decay. Fitzgerald aims to identify cavity bacteria for a vaccine, noting strains found in hamsters require human verification.
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Jerry Bennett
Enterprise
Asso
Bethesda
NEA
National Institutes of Health
Paul H. Keyes
Robert J. Fitzgerald
Institute of Dental Research
Keyes
Fitzgerald
Freedom of the press as lived experience in Khrushchev era
George Sokolsky argues for free press against Hearst’s influence. He recalls publishing in diverse papers and rejects censorship, noting editors’ constraints are limited. He recounts early revolution days in Petrograd, the Smolny circle, and the fate of his anti Bolshevik paper under Red Guards, ending with a critique of Stalin’s regime.
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Drew Pearson
Joseph Alsop
Walter Lippmann
Hearst
Bill Hearst
Will Hearst
Scripps- Monard
Roy Howard
News
Petrograd
Lenin
Trotsky
Zinoviev
Kollantai
Stalin
Smolny
Ukraine
Kerensky
Gatchina
Red Guards
Harbin
Russia
Notes on The News by Charles Pearson
Charles Pearson argues that balance is needed in public life citing Stalin. He discusses the right to know and government secrecy with tension between newspapers and officials. The military mood to curb disclosure is labeled foolish given widespread espionage and quick information.
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Charles Pearson
Stalin
George E. Sokolsky
Paris designers lead world fashion, US critics claim
Quotes from Jacques Heim and Earl Kintner remark on French influence in fashion and the impact of TV scandals. Muggeridge notes humor shrinking as mushroom cloud era quiets public wit.
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Paris
France
Jacques Heim
Malcolm Muggeridge
London
Bailey praised as prison director in High Point tribute
William F. Bailey, six years six months as North Carolina prisons director, was honored by colleagues and officials in the State College Student Union dining room before heading home to High Point with his wife Margaret. The tribute underscored his service from youth work to WWII leadership and praised his selfless state work. Africa letters note a shifting continent, urging enlightenment as new nations rise and old patterns shift. April Fool's Day traditions are reviewed, linking fish, gowks, and long-standing customs across Europe and America. Regional ties grow between New England furniture makers and Southern markets, with High Point cited as a key hub for October show space and national reach. General Capus M. Waynick is to attend a New York state dinner for Colombia’s president, Mooney named assistant city editor of The Enterprise, Armed Forces Day slated May 14–22, and Lt Col Edward J. Phibbs Jr named project officer for local observances. High Point Public Library lists Easter reading, while Thomasville Woman’s Club hosts April dinner and Mr Mystery event.
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High Point
William F. Bailey
Prisons
State College Student Union
Bailey
Margaret
Bill Bailey
North Carolina
Europe
India
France
England
America
Scotland
Hallowe'en
Capus M. Waynick
U.S
Bogota
Colombia
New York
John W. P. Mooney
Enterprise
Armed Forces
Edward J. Phibbs Jr
1St Howitzer Bn
282D Arty
Hcarng
Mr. Mystery
Executives Club
Thomasville’s Woman's Club
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High Point Enterprise
Mail Lyr
Tentise, Inc
D. A. Rawley
Bagteary
Loflin
Wey
George Sokolsky
Tovarish
Nikita Sergeivich Khrushchev
Hearst Corporation
Earl Kintner
Federal Trade Commission
Holt McPherson
Africa
United States
China
Spain
New England
Stanley Slom
Home Furnishings Daily
Chicago
Boston
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