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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1964
Page
3
The piece extols newspapers as reliable educational voices while acknowledging errors. It urges readers to accept scrutiny from politicians and notes the First Amendment protects press and speech freedoms. warnings follow about dictators eroding those rights. It ends with a reflection on political convention rhetoric against the press.
The Times Of London notes that August quiets dawn songs as birds settle. Blackbirds and other songsters give way to sparrow chatter in early hours, while city heat and plane noise test the waking resident. Sparrows, rarely alone, can be tiresome with massed morning cries, but August offers them a chirp vacation.
A Beaconfield magistrate in Buckinghamshire imposed a minor penalty on Frank Klingenspor, Viscount Portman’s head gardener, after he admitted to spanking Lady Portman and ejecting her from a greenhouse while defending flowers. He claimed no malice, aiming to protect Lord Portman's plants, and the judge favored leniency during the growing season.
The Greenville Piedmont notes President Johnson used phone and arm twisting to win acquiescence for programs. He tapped LeRoy Collins, then NAB president, as federal conciliator with the Civil Rights Commission and allegedly asked NAB leaders to pay $60,000 severance. Collins’ new post pays $22,500 while NAB paid him $75,000. Senator Williams says this shows risky favoritism and invites scrutiny.
The Graham Texas Scandal Sheet argues the United States is in worse shape than any nation, citing political and economic troubles from food surpluses, traffic, high income, long holidays, and obesity as signs of a decadent, prosperous society.
The High Point Enterprise provides subscription rates by mail and carrier in North Carolina with annual, semiannual, quarterly, monthly, and Sunday options. It notes AP joint news use, second class status, and that carriers are independent contractors with payment responsibility falling on subscribers.
Washington correspondent describes a Special Forces outpost on the Mekong near Cambodia. Marines and Vietnamese patrol the marshy border by boat, baiting Viet Cong incursions while fearing mortar and sniper fire. The unit trains local Vietnamese into guerrilla detachments but lacks manpower.
In 1956 Chicago, Adlai Stevenson faced a split Democratic convention as Estes Kefauver led but John F. Kennedy surged. Johnson then moved to consolidate control, pushing Kennedy aside while weighing Humphrey McCarthy Kerr Wagner as running mate options. The White House signals multiple possibilities remain.
A GA Ferman Cheer house scrapbook item assembles brief excerpts and quotes from sources inclining toward faith and everyday wisdom. It presents short anecdotes by actors and writers, a Kentucky roadside reflection, and a Lord Northcliffe quip on fame, framed as a nostalgic family read.
The fragmented OCR fragment mentions Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California as a leading contender. It notes he remains a strong vote-getter with substantial campaign strength, and references a national race with McCarthy as a notable figure, all amid a 40 electoral vote context.
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