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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1949
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise listing its president D A Rawley secretary treasurer Charles B L and editor Robert L Thompson with advertising director W Patterson Jr and circulation rates. Subscription rates shown: 1 week 30 cents, 6 months 7.80, 12 months 15.00.
A political essay argues wartime subsidies distort peacetime farming by keeping peanut prices high. It cites peanuts as a southern cash crop, notes demand fell postwar, and criticizes government price supports that prolong wartime economics. The piece urges free market adjustments over continued subsidies.
The piece argues that doubling the Reconstruction Finance Corp lending power to five billion and extending loan terms risks long term government equity in private firms. It denounces social control over credit, predicts cushy political jobs, and calls for tax reform to boost private capital and limit government interference. It singles out bureaucratic influence and warns against the North Atlantic Pact as destabilizing.
The piece argues the Taft Hartley Act must stand unless Congress or the Supreme Court alters it. President Truman's plan to bypass via a three member fact finding committee risks delaying lawful processes. It warns of potential wage and dollar depreciation, and weighs the ability to pay against rising living costs.
Mark Goodson and Bill Todman explain selecting contestants for CBS network quiz shows. They favor pleasant extraverts over screwballs and note baldness with flashing ties harms chances while housewives, southern contestants, and young fathers with supportive wives improve appeal.
New findings trace steel from iron over millennia with scarce early use. An iron blade estimated at about 3,900 years old was discovered in an Egyptian pyramid, highlighting ancient metalwork.
The piece notes veterans from World War II in the South Pacific recall stifling heat, insects, decay, and snakes from ruined terrain. It contrasts their memories with John Milton’s Comus, and mentions Daisy Smith doubting a future peace with fears of another holocaust sparked by Russia.
D. Smith questions Western faith in Soviet Russia after 29 days at the Paris Four Power conference yield only in principle agreements. He argues Moscow stalls for time, anticipates an imminent economic crisis, and predicts the Kremlin will wait for favorable conditions before moving. The piece frames the Cold War as a dramatic, spiritually influenced saga.
A Wall Street Journal August 3 item notes a British invention using dual moving belts a dining table and eater to regulate eating time. It warns against excessive efficiency at mealtimes, arguing pace should remain comfortable and social rather than mechanical.
A southern preacher visiting a member encounters Mrs Smith on her porch smoking a pipe. He asks what St Peter will think of her in heaven with tobacco on her breath. She retorts that she does not plan to take her breath with her.
A practical guide lists affordable beef cuts for thrifty cooks including pot roast shoulder roast shoulder steak flank steak boneless chuck pot roast boiling beef short ribs boneless rolled neck beef bricket shank meat and hamburger.
Hollywood gossip and social notes sweep in a column about Saratoga’s slim season, crime tales, and high society. It covers a New Jersey lottery tax case, Mary Collins and Miss New York contract woes, custody disputes, literary and film plans, and a sensational yacht seizure at the Battery. The piece blends entertainment intrigues with legal and crime snippets, reflecting a vivid postwar celebrity panorama.
Crossword style clues list musical instrument and related words across and down with various definitions and hints. The grid mentions items such as Goddess of infatuation and heavy blows among others, indicating a themed puzzle with multiple intersecting entries and wordplay.
Pope Pius XII warns that materialism corrupts life and society while education for democracy risks becoming mere slogans. Rev. Laurence J. McGinley notes the danger of substituting thought with slogans. Ernest Bevin observes hypocritical talk of peace from those preparing for war.
A collection of quotations critiquing gender independence and economic systems. Billie Burke laments women's independence, Herbert Morrison champions social democracy, while David Lilienthal urges sense over sensationalism and Taft criticizes perceived class-based regulation of ambition. The remarks include comments attributed to John L. Lewis.
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