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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1959
Page
4
The 1958 census estimates show Washington with 387000 white and 438000 nonwhite residents, 47 percent white and 53 percent nonwhite. The piece urges deliberate action to curb urban segregation through affordable housing, public housing in suburbs, slum clearance, and improved transit to disperse low income families.
A Charlotte Observer reader with forty years of loyalty throws a challenge after a long phone call. Staff acknowledges, traces a past editorial from April 29, 1956, and mails a clipping to the subscriber for a senator to read. The note underscores a broader view that time makes people unpredictable and life less than a total loss.
The General Electric plant in Bloomfield New Jersey ends manufacturing of industrial air conditioning equipment after 400 workers faced layoffs. A two week early closing followed a protest by 15 union officials and employees who chained themselves in the plant. The move deepens local economic strain and tones down future industry prospects in the town.
The piece contrasts age of world leaders from Chiang Kai-shek and De Gaulle to Khrushchev and Mao with a note that Egyptian leader Nasser is only 41, implying the world is run by the elderly while younger figures emerge in the region.
The High Point Enterprise describes itself as an independent North Carolina newspaper and AP news distributor. It lists pricing for mail and carrier delivery per year and names the Ward-Griffith Company as a National Advertising partner.
Essay outlines a fourfold diversion pattern in Soviet tactics Berlin Iraq Tibet and Cuba. It notes Berlin’s May 27 ultimatum and Geneva talks, Iraq’s oil leverage and shifting alliances, Tibet’s border clash affecting India, and Cuba’s linkage to global Communism threatening US interests in the Caribbean.
An observant column notes rest room inadequacies on Assembly trips to Charlotte and New Bern, criticizing facilities for large crowds. It also reports probation figures since 1937, showing 36 940 total cases with 14 678 from inferior courts, highlighting their impact on petty crime and first offenses.
Sen Wills Hancock proposes a bill to let county commissioners select secondary roads for state addition or priority while preserving state standards and funding. The measure increases county-state coordination, keeps primary highways under state control, and trims no existing obligations.
The piece recalls youth in High Point with friends and mentors, including drives in a Kissel, clothing tastes at Cannon Fetzer, and pranks around Matton’s and drugstores. It mentions family business at High Point Bottling Ice and Wood, rabbit farming, and a 1908 itch epidemic among mill aristocracy, ending with Carolina Virginia game festivities and a bootlegger anecdote.
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