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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1949
Page
2
In Vatican City Palm Sunday rites drew over 40 000 Roman Catholics to St Peter’s Basilica marking the start of Holy Week. Monsignor Fernando Prosperini led the ceremonies honoring the crucifixion and resurrection.
Palm Sunday reports from Jerusalem describe ordinary workday activity amid religious processions in Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives. Vatican Holy Week rites proceed with Easter communion and rites from Holy Thursday to Good Friday led by Cardinal Tedeschini. Famed composer Hara Beneš dies in Vienna at age 52 after composing 17 operettas and 56 film scores.
Senator Connally urged that Western Europe re-arming proposals be coordinated with general foreign economic and domestic defense programs. He declined to predict savings in recovery outlay or military costs and noted plans to send arms aid as a separate item to Congress.
German leaders react as the 48 hour mark passes with protests from the Berlin Sozialdemokrat over allied control of science and trade. The statute gives Germany independence in internal matters while three western powers retain disarmament, foreign affairs, and Ruhr control. Allies promise civil rights protections and a review after one year.
Budget bureau members said the plan would eliminate 24 hospitals and alter 15 others in the year’s construction program. Total cost is about 822 million dollars with 202 million already appropriated. Atomic Energy Commission share totals 1.090 billion dollars, including 702.93 million cash and 387.19 million in contract authority. The president sought 740 million cash and 427 million in contract authority.
Godwin called the vote a protest against the administration for denying student government power. He noted several conferences with officials on strengthening government have yielded little progress.
Rescue workers cutting into the iron well found Kathy Fiscus lying upright below the pipe after a long digging effort. Authorities noted the San Marino branch manager and his wife had urged a law to cap old wells days before the incident. In Tokyo, a cherry blossom day ended with hundreds reporting burglaries.
Uncompromising views from assemblymen versus governor Scott spark talk of a purge to align next general assembly. Absenteeism grows as session lengthens, while optimists and pessimists debate budgets. Georgia tax defeat shifts North Carolina road bond attitudes.
Undereweight readers are urged to try Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for appetite and digestion support. The ad claims the medicine stimulates hunger and helps absorb food, turning it into added flesh with tablets priced 50 cents or one dollar.
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