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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1947
Page
4
Police report cites faulty brakes steering and other mechanical faults in the car that killed a child in High Point yesterday. The officer notes the condition may have contributed to the tragedy. A new North Carolina law requires vehicle inspections and repairs but full coverage will take a year two inspections annually thereafter.
Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall confirms he will not run, leaving North Carolina Democratic primary dynamics to Johnson Ballentine and others. Observers expect Ballentine to challenge Johnson with a more liberal, people focused campaign, while Johnson maintains financial and organizational supremacy.
The commentary questions Averill Harriman’s call for meat rationing and a wartime price and wage freeze as inflation lingers after six years. It notes Baruch’s earlier wartime proposal and reflects on policymakers’ fear and shifting stances since December 1941.
In a defense of film censorship and moral standards the author argues that while motion pictures are private enterprise they affect families. He praises the industry for self regulation, cites Going My Way and The Bells of St Mary’s as proof of decency, and notes Communist infiltration and industry responses including Screen Writers Guild votes and Waldorf Astoria meeting actions. He emphasizes rights to disagree with and avoid films promoting leftist views.
The text notes nitrogen's use in protecting special steels and metals during high temperature furnace work. It mentions acetylene's discovery in 1856 and later commercial production. It also references Narvik Norway's ice free harbor due to Gulf Stream influence, 1860 taxes on various items in North Carolina, gender distribution in New Zealand populations, and U S consumer spending rising from 39 to 165 million dollars, plus milk processing shares.
Washington muses on Senator Wayne Morse seat request in the Senate chair after a soft cushion install. Nostalgic notes recount Harlan Kentucky election violence and CIO miner battles, ending with a Commerce report on Russian fur trade boosting a nearly eleven million dollar U.S. trade surplus.
Disappointment spread as the West Jefferson barley tobacco market failed to open with government graders and buyers despite early hope. The piece traces municipal rivalry and political maneuvering with Boone and Ashe county interests shaping the centralization debate and local farm mobility.
Washington dispatch from Edson describes Pan American Union meetings among 21 republics shaping a possible Latin American economic and security framework. Debates center on a Bogota pact, World Bank financing, and mutual government backing to foster two way trade while avoiding past loan abuses.
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