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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1951
Page
7
Leslie Gould surveys AT&T annual stockholders meeting noting dull proceedings and procedural bloat. He cites long debates over limited meeting times, cumulative voting, and proxy rules while calling for sharper governance and fresh directors from younger industry leaders.
The 1951 North Carolina General Assembly proposed ten constitutional amendments and one to link federal tax limits to income. Vetted changes included vacancy appointments by county party committees, judge vacancy rules during elections, and raising the general fund tax limit from 15 to 20 cents per $100. Other measures died, such as lowering voting age to 18 and limiting executive terms. a two term limit for the U.S. president was ratified, with Truman exempted. The 1949 session had five of thirteen proposals approved.
Clarence E. McVey will not appeal to the state supreme court and will serve 20 more days in jail rather than pay a $150 contempt fine. He refused to obey a court order to remove his six year old child from first grade at Alexander Wilson school.
In Pittsburgh on April 21 the six high school seniors from Littlestown Pa led the Future Homemakers of America in a convention where 784 delegates, all girls, gathered. The all-male FHA unit from Littlestown financed travel by selling 45 gallons of chicken corn and numerous pies.
Emily Rieve general president of the CIO Textile Workers Union America offers to settle the Southern textile strike by submitting issues to the Wage Stabilization Board. Speaking before 7,000 striking workers in Durham, she said she would be available for reappointment to the board, though no official action had been taken. The proposal echoes a similar offer at Dan River mills in Danville. Mill officials questioned the board’s uncertain powers. Pickett mills at High Point report a new wage agreement potentially increasing pay by up to 10 percent, with retroactive effects if the board approves. Union hopes the plan gains local ratification tomorrow afternoon with 325 workers.
The article notes Dodsworth as a horse associated with Charles II and considered the first racehorse on record with an authentic pedigree. It frames Dodsworth as an early example in the development of pedigreed thoroughbreds.
Sixteen year old Marvin Gordon King sat in his jail cell during the funeral of his four year old half sister Doris Jean Daniels who was shot the previous Thursday. Sheriff Charles Dudley said the youth was not permitted to attend due to the notoriety of the case and his lack of remorse. King was to be arraigned in Vernon before Justice of the Peace Carl Alexander but the proceeding was postponed to allow legal counsel.
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