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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1954
Page
4
The President's Action Committee for Traffic Safety promotes Safer Driving Tomorrow as part of a national effort with many organizations. Eisenhower notes 38,000 annual highway deaths making road safety a top national problem and urges motorists to be responsible, cautious, and attentive every day, not just tomorrow.
Directors of the High Point Chamber of Commerce pass a formal resolution praising the 1954 United Fund drive. The campaign unified social and charitable agencies, raised a record total, and allowed agencies to focus on service rather than fundraising. Appreciation is extended to Clarence M. Allred, Ralph Rochelle, and all volunteers.
Opinion notes recounts as a tool in Poland where 11 communities order voters to reballot to show stronger support for the Communist slate. The piece reflects on the plausibility of tampering and mocks the idea of repeated polling as a game.
Austin Brown, longtime general manager of the Hi-Toms, resigns to take a job with the Milwaukee Braves after the new year. The Enterprise commends his year of leadership at Finch Field and wishes him success with the major league organization.
The Portsmouth Star urges controlling rumors by keeping employees informed. It cites a firm losing 25 workers to a false move rumor and notes that rumors thrive where communications are weak. The National Industrial Conference Board promotes openness and small group meetings to analyze and correct rumors and to feed the grapevine with truth.
Analysis notes that Comintern dogma outlines a world revolution led by a unified Communist state. It argues the Marxist aim seeks to replace capitalism worldwide, with dictatorship of the proletariat as ongoing warfare and construction across nations.
The piece details how Wake County taxes allocate funds to public schools and road debt, noting state funding does not cover all road costs. It explains local ad valorem taxes fund schools and welfare, with varying county shares and an average exceeding half of each tax dollar. It also mentions prior road bond obligations before state takeover in 1931.
The article explains ad valorem taxation on real and personal property with state and local shares, highlighting school and road funding from county ad valorem receipts. It then previews North Carolina legislative leadership for the Senate and House, naming likely top posts and sergeant at arms candidates, noting pay and prestige of these posts.
The column reflects on George Washington’s death date and tribute, notes deadly storms in North Carolina and Europe, and reports UN Secretary General Hammarskjold urging direct talks with Red China. It covers Fulbright’s view on bipartisanship, scrutiny of Soviet writers, and a Sun‑shine tribute to Bosman and two women memorialized before Christmas.
President Eisenhower seeks to rehabilitate the term progressive as a positive label for a moderate Republican approach. He says liberal and progressive words are misunderstood and aims to build a party of “progressive moderates” while declining to engage in intra‑party feuds.
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