Call to City Council on Police Department Reform
A letter urges the city council to decide and publicly announce a course for the police department. It argues the chief may be replaced or supported, cites civil service questions, and notes pressure from the city manager and prosecutor. The writer insists decisive action must be initiated by the council and made known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowdermilk
Rehim
Walter Crissman
Braden
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Law
Department
Mr. Braden
Greatness Through Service In Christlike Servanthood
A sermon notes Jesus teaching that true greatness comes from serving others. James and John seek high positions, but Jesus calls for willingness to drink his cup of suffering and to endure as servants of all. The piece emphasizes living by example, doing good, and letting Christ live in believers to spread the Word.
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James
John
Zebedee
David
Israel
Jesus
James John
Galilee
Jesus Nazareth
God
Paul
Christ
Man
W.A.B
Plan to reduce Germany drives postwar peace aims
CC W Williams says the plan to strip Germany to farms and peaceful industries could work if the UN watches German imperial and military power until it matures. Mrs Brooks backs expanding the community chest to replace many drives with one large drive. Ralph Miller notes skilled and unskilled labor shortages in High Point for mills and transport. Reece Snyder supports funding medals for the City lake swimming meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
United Nations
CC. W. Williams
Enterprise
Mrs. A. ©. Brooks
High Point
Ralph E. Miller
U.S.E.S
City Lake
Reece Snyder
High Point Lake
Thoughts of Others in High Point Echo Varied Views
excerpts from High Point readers present opinions on pay in mills, a World War II film about Okinawa, secret price panels, butter shortages, local music plans, postwar Germany, veteran re-establishment, and a British bride meeting an American wife in High Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Clark
OPA
High Point
Liberal senators push 65 cent wage bill with 44 hour week
The measure by Mead Pepper Wagner Murray Guffey Kilgore Thomas Chavez Magnuson and Myers aims for a 65 cent hourly wage rising to 75 cents over years and a 44 hour week. The piece questions the value of wage dollars given inflation and changing currencies, warning labor to consider real purchasing power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
Messrs. Mead
Pepper
Wagner
Murray
Guffey
Kilgore
Thomas
Chavez
Magnuson
Myers
May 1945 cost of living and wage power debate
By George Sokolsky 1945 analysis notes food purchasing power fell 39 percent since 1935 39 and May 1945 cost of living up 28 percent. It argues take home pay matters not payroll figures and warns politicians inflate incomes via taxes and social security. It critiques wage effects on prices and tradeoffs with foreign competition and tariffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
United States
Army Attempts to Grow Forests in Barren Aleutians
In the Aleutian Islands harsh winds and heavy rain hinder plant growth while goats threaten young saplings. The U S Army supports a forest project despite past failures and a long growing season that could favor tree establishment in some locales. The Geographic Society notes historical plantings by Russians and Americans yielded limited success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Stinnett
Washington
Aleutian Islands
The
Geographic Society of New York
Army
Forests for Aleutians by Army Tree Planting Mission
By Jack Stinnett reports bulldozers clearing camps in the Aleutians as thousands of trees are imported from Alaska and the mainland. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. leads a program to plant white and Sitka spruce, mountain hemlock, cottonwood, balsam, poplar, aspen, alder and willow to establish forests. Botanists note uncertainty about past failures and future forest development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aleutians
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Alaska
Sitka
Winchell on Broadway and Hollywood Gossip Mayhem
Walter Winchell's column to be guest bylines this month as he is away. The piece traces Eisenhower era film deals, Sheehan's faded fortune, Eva Tanguay's aging, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski's makeover, Monte Proser's Beverly Hills club, and a starlet's dramatic hair color change in a fast paced Hollywood milieu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Winchell
Hollywood
General Eisenhower
Sam Goldwyn
Col
Bill Wyler
Bob Sherwood
Immortal’s
Ske
TNT
ETO
Winfield R. Sheehan
Jeritza
Sheehan
Captain Eddie
Eddie Rickenbacker
Fox Picture Empire
Schenck
Zanuck
Winnie Sheehan
New York
Chicago American
O. Henry
N. Y. World
Irvin Cobb
N. Y. Journal
Lad
Buffalo News
Sixth Ave
Evelyn Nesbit
Winnie
William Fox
N. Y
Evelyn
Fox
Kay Laurie
Ziegfeld
Innsbruck
Austria
Max Reinhardt
Hitler
Eva Tanguay
Eva
Sophie Tucker
Benny
Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski
Gloria
Pat di Cicco
Copacabana
Beverly-Wilshire
Beverly Hills
Monte
Also Mentioned on This Page
High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
D. A. Rawley
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
Robert L. Thompson
Associated Press
Maliona
Awdited Bureau OF Circulation
Prince of Glory
Russia
Poppa Stalin
W. H. Gibson
Center Theatre
Okinawa
Vance McGhee
Gerald Bryant
Arch McMullan
CC. B. Baxter
David Kestler
William Dilon
George Sokolsky
America
Kodiak Island
Unalaska
U. S. Army
Winchell
Broadway
Jack Last
E. Simms Campbell
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