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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1945
Page
4
The column argues German propaganda targets youths from age six to seventeen to shape attitudes toward Germany and the next war. It cautions that schools churches and media are used as tools, citing past postwar shifts and urging vigilance against a pacified mindset.
The piece argues that Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin shaped the San Francisco conference but criticizes Stalin for appointing a inexperienced ambassador and reveals a plan to alter voting rules. It notes protests over equal vs weighted voting and suggests the conference may be postponed, accusing American optimism of overselling.
High Point sold 3 355 000 dollars in municipal refunding bonds at an average rate of 1.6641 percent. The issue will save taxpayers over a million in interest and has strengthened the city’s reputation as a sound borrower ahead of postwar industrial growth.
In post session talks Capitol Square leaders urge curbing the expanding social service program or revert to ad valorem taxes. Lieut. Gov Ballentine told the Raleigh Kiwanis the new programs will push state tax needs. Sen John Aiken echoed that an adequate hospitalization plan requires property taxes as current revenues cannot cover the load.
Lynn Nisbet favors a state ad valorem levy while Catawba lawmakers push counties and municipalities to bear the cost. The Greensboro based wildlife association passed a resolution criticizing Department of Conservation and Development for advertising hunting and fishing facilities, a practice the department has largely abandoned for years. The state news bureau answers out of state hunting and fishing inquiries as a courtesy. Ocean and sound fishing has been advertised, though deep sea fishing is migratory and not in danger of extinction. Migratory waterfowl remain a major state draw under federal oversight.
The National Aeronautics Association board says new speed and duration marks await suitable conditions. Mustang P-51s set la st year’s records, while a B-29 derived C-97 transport flew coast to coast in 6 hours 4 minutes, not a formal record. Record-keeping and equipment modernization progress as war work expands.
New York sets a speed course at the request of a carrier hoping to set a record when conditions allow. War service planes like the C-97 and Lockheed C-69 move toward contest attempts. Makers such as Lockheed Republic andChance V. should field Lightning Thunderbolt and Corsair fighters, with turbojet planes in the background.
Collier's magazine offers a $10,000 prize to the member of the senate and the member of the house who best serve their country during the year. A committee led by Owen D. Young and a panel of professors will judge, with Sidney Hillman heading the PAC involved.
By George Sokolsky critics describe campaign finance links between labor unions and PACs. Sidney Hillman would head a 1945 board to award a $10,000 prize for favorable senators and representatives with national ads ahead of the 1946 campaign, while opponents Brownell and Hannegan are urged as alternative judges.
The piece explains Eisenhower’s view that Nazi forces are whipped but not erased. It notes northern Ruhr focus, slow Allied advance, and Russian pushes toward Vienna, with speculation on broader Allied offensives and a shift toward Japan via island seizures and China coast bases.
The analysis suggests the United States could establish air and sea bases on the China coast without a full invasion of China. A limited landing force and fleet would support such a move while Japan operations remain a major undertaking. Cleanup in the Philippines nears completion as Arthur's troops may be redeployed. Japanese resistance persists on Cebu Panay and Luzon fronts.
A theatrical and literary roundup surveys Katherine Winsor's research claims for Forever Amber, stage returns of Loretta Taylor in The Glass Menagerie, and Agnes Miller's return in Too Hot for Maneuvers. It also covers radio and press commentary, Beulah in service, Katharine Cornell, Lady in Danger, and reviews of The Hall of Fame and You Can't Take It with You.
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