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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1955
Page
4
Guilford County continues debate over the Jamestown Tuberculosis Sanatorium as beds in state institutions loom. Citizens urge preserving the facility while exploring conversion to chest disease services or a convalescent hospital. Officials weigh budget, state funding, and practical plans to carry the institution’s legacy forward.
W A B reflects on Isaiah and Ezra teaching repentance and renewal after exile. Cyrus the Persian king aids Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple under divine providence, showing God guiding even distant rulers. The piece emphasizes faith as victory.
The Tulsa Tribune reflects on rising New York traffic congestion costs and parallels to Oklahoma. It notes motorists waste fuel amid snarls, adding to state gasoline taxes and suggesting continued jams could influence the fiscal budget.
TheHigh Point Enterprise publication details its staff and office, listing positions from president to circulation manager and noting the date August 28 1955. Returns the newspaper masthead with personnel names and roles.
Published daily and Sunday morning. Associated Press member with rights to local AP dispatches. Paper entered at High Point Post Office as second class matter. Carriers and distributors are independent contractors. Enterprise not responsible for advance payments. For home delivery rates contact local carrier or Ward Griffith Company.
The Enterprise prints reader letters criticizing a carnival poster misrepresenting itself as The Loins Club and urging support for the local Lions Club. It also notes rising costs from traffic accidents and recommends using a CSC formula estimating NC losses by fatalities times 95 000 dollars.
The article notes employment rising from 62 to 65 million and unemployment dropping from 3.3 to 2.4 million. Wages rose from $1.80 to $1.88 per hour, with typical raises around 15 cents, and major contracts in steel, aluminum, and meatpacking shaping a trend toward higher skilled wages and unemployment benefit funds. Michigan and Con vive approved related measures.
A collage of quotes touches on business and insurance mortality, party politics and reform, postwar peace and unity, Eden and British policy, a pitcher’s pride, and a Nashville missionary’s critique of religion abroad. The remarks blend humor, criticism, and global outlook with no single cohesive event.
Big Bear will open on North Main with a modern building in early 1956 as the city adds seven supermarkets in two years. Wake Forest golfer John Gerring visits. Trinity’s Joe Taylor to report from Alaska. Frank Lloyd Wright furniture drafts. Gary Davis resigns WHPE post and politics affect Mayor Covington race. Local theater, charity events, and notes on weather, jobs, and a Homecoming at Green Street Baptist.
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