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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1961
Page
2
Washington will not sign the U S Soviet air route with Moscow citing the tense international scene. Kennedy administration says signing may occur later when relations improve. Moscow political leverage and propaganda concerns noted as factors in the delay.
The funeral of Lieutenant Governor Cloud Philpott drew remarks from former Governor Hodges and Governor Sanford. A spectator quoted that only the future is dead, praising Philpott's statemanship and his impact on Lexington and the state, noting his civic decency, education support, and legal respect.
A 1961 editorial cites looming US freshwater shortages by 1975 and the Saline Water Act of 1952. It highlights industrial water use, early shipboard desalination, and costly conversion challenges. It notes corporate and university efforts from Inco to UC engineers and calls for unlimited funding to demonstrate five desalination plants.
The High Point Enterprise lists leadership and staff roles including D. A. Rawley as president Mrs. R. B. Terry as secretary treasurer, Bolt Ber Lason as badttor, Joe Brown as managing tdnor on Patterson, advertising director W. W. Idol, J, business manager Charles B. Loflin, and circulation manager.
Cheryl Wharton a 13 year old junior high girl starts a lawn mowing service after learning that being a girl hurts initial call volume. A grocer advisor suggests advertising under the name Chucky to win calls and show she can mow as well as a boy. She confirms her gender to clients and plans to save for clothes and a trombone.
The obituary notes Cloyd Philpott's quiet strength and faith guiding NC Democratic power. It lauds his role as ballast between labor and business, his loyalty to Christianity and democracy, and warns of the vacancy created in both state government and party leadership following his death.
Washington AP reports that amid Berlin tensions the core question is Khrushchev’s motive. Some blame Kremlin or East German pressure, but the simpler view is a strategic aim to seal off West Berlin from the West as the time to act seems right.
In New York, prominent Episcopal minister Sidney Lanier criticizes Hollywood Bible pictures as blasphemous, arguing they trivialize miracles and misrepresent gospel origins. Clergy group fears films distort Christ’s inner struggle and treat the Gospels as on the spot reports. Meanwhile Tar Heel journalist Shipp, famed for Yarns and Notions, dies at 57 in Cleveland County after a noted PR career with Selznick.
The article argues that West Berlin, with 12 500 Allied troops and a 2.3 million anti communist population, stands as a vital Western outpost in a surrounding Communist sea. It contends Khrushchev will seek to seize the city without war, preferring a gradual takeover over time to avoid devastating global conflict.
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