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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1949
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise lists key personnel including R. B. Terry as President, D. A. Rawley as Secretary and Treasurer, Charles B. Lo and Robert L. Thompson as editors, and W. Patterson Jr. as Advertising Director, Circulation Manager.
A High Point hosiery executive hails the 75 cent minimum wage as a boon for the city saying it will push up pay and attract more manufacturers. Local mills now struggle with short time work while higher regional wages threaten price competition.
Merchants in High Point prepare for Dollar Day with fall stock clearance and strong salesmanship. The event promises a buyers market where a dollar buys more and shoppers should inspect revived and revalued paper dollar offers.
The Parker brothers draw attention as they switch roles with Charles J. Parker leaving the governor’s private secretary post for state press agent duties while another Parker accepts the pastorate at First Baptist Church of New Bern. The governor’s pick for the state post bypassed local church selection.
Senator Flanders warns that if Lustron fails the mass production housing concept may be discredited. The Columbus based factory home venture backed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has $3 million in support but loses about $500,000 monthly. Output is cut while demand for higher volumes and dealer credit falters. In coming months the RFC must decide on further funds to sustain the project and test whether factory built steel houses can ever break even.
The Atomic Energy Commission reports the United States now produces atom bombs on a factory basis. The statement aims to reassure Americans worried about Soviet progress, noting our industrial know how enables large scale production.
A F Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen warns that if the Taft amendments to the Taft Hartley repealer pass, the nation moves toward what he calls Hitlerian government. He frames the proposal as a peril to democracy and labor rights.
Washington report outlines Guy Gabrielson of New Jersey taking the GOP helm as national chairman while the party faces financial strain and foreclosure threats on its base. Critics note Scott’s legacy of debt and weak platform, with Axel Beck emerging as a potential ally to unite the factions ahead of the Sioux City meeting.
A reader notes Goethe birth and death dates, discusses newspaper errors, and laments misinterpretations. The column then reports Bing Crosby and Bob Hope profiting from a Texas oil well delivering about 2400 barrels daily, with each partner around 2000 dollars daily, and references a Railway Dispatch piece urging truck owners to pay more for highway costs as governors push overweight loads policy.
Raleigh report states Governor Scott pressed the SBI to investigate irregularities linked to a state advertising contract with the board of conservation and development. Experts note such an appropriation can be quickly exhausted by photography travel and a handful of display ads in national magazines.
A humorous survey of social talk across professions. The piece argues authors and actors have dull chatter while genuine spark comes from children, photographers, musicians, and wild animal trainers who remain fresh and lively in conversation.
An engineer envisions a durable highway for modern motor traffic using six inch steel plate. The Atlanta Journal notes states regulate truck loads but enforcement is weak. Georgia restricts rear axle loads to 18000 pounds, yet not enforced. A Chicago columnist quips about tax collectors being the hardest hitter in Joe Louis’s career.
The note surveys multiple facts from transportation to biology and agriculture. It cites ice needs for rail cars, natural gas flow rates, female worker bees, farm accident losses in 1948, urban traffic volume on city streets, the origin of pretzels in 610 A.D., plant species risk if bees disappear, Louisiana fur production and muskrat pelts, and the population of American Indian residents on New Mexico reservations.
Broadway gossip from August observes Saratoga as a gambling hub with horse rooms and craps games past 7 pm, casinos by the lake, and Luciano linked operations. It notes closed Arrowhead and Lan sky in Italy, wild nightlife, shifting fortunes, celebrity visits, and a new Park sign banning commercial traffic at Lovers Lane.
A collection of statements by figures such as Msgr Fulton Sheen Harold Stassen Edward Condon Louis Johnson Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin reflecting on religion communism housing postwar challenges and wartime diplomacy. The remarks touch on unity among faiths defense waste and personal diplomacy between leaders and states.
The entry lists a word puzzle with clues for birds, plants, numbers, and common terms. It includes items like pratincola as a scientific name, Irish sea god, and various short definitions. themes mix animals, objects, and archaic terms across a single grid.
A compilation of clue solutions including affirmative capable presage edging sun god goddess of winglike parts seaport harvest hang as if area measure balanced mineral rock international dress not stending oriental port language rectifies oleam ridicu le man s name pair
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