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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1968
Page
3
Virginia right to work law shields workers from being forced to join or stay in unions or to pay dues as a condition of employment. Radford plant employees challenge check-off deductions after resigning from AFL-CIO, seeking return of withheld dues.
Charles A. Lindbergh told the National Institute of Social Sciences that aviation and rockets have widened distances between people and threaten civilization. He urged returning to basic ethics and simplicity, arguing science alone cannot save humanity and could ruin it if misused.
The Foxfire quarterly from Rabun Gap School in northeast Georgia gains attention for its balanced reporting. Editor Judy Brown, 17, leads student contributors who researched mountain arts from signs to sorghum and documented methods to hide or find a still after five months visiting hill residents and interviewing former sheriffs.
The Providence Journal critiques a This Week feature proposing large mirrors to flood Earth with daylight. It questions practicality and safety while noting NASA says lunar-operations fit weather and communication uses. The piece mocks daylight plans and laments loss of nocturnal wildlife sounds.
In Boston the Arlington Street Church cannot obtain new coverage for its 1.4 million dollar property after American Employers pulled protection for hosting draft-evaders. Providence’s Church of the Mediator faced similar obstacles but found coverage after canvassing five companies. Pastor Albert Q. Perry calls cancellation by Westchester Fire a direct reprisal for antiwar activity while warning of legal risk over preaching.
Readable OCR fragment lists roles and names for newspaper staff including business manager Arles B. I. circulation manager G. W. Patterson and advertising director with partial titles and initials.
Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson report ghost voting by Rep. Robert Wilson and Rep. Richard Schweiker, urging voting machines. Wallington outlines Life magazine’s unreleased oil shale expose by Chris Wells, detailing oil companies’ control of shale lands, Interior pressure, and potential shale oil wealth amid political maneuvering.
Bill Vaughan notes Dick Nixon aides are described as generalists though caution urged about overgeneralizing. Electoral college members convene to name the president, with hope they resist a wild collegiate prank and keep focus on the vote.
Editor notes the late Dr. Clarence Poe sent inspiring writings each Christmas. Drawing on William D. Poe’s 1950s Progressive Farmer piece What The Church Means to Me, the message aims to lift readers in 1968 with cheer courage and a sense of usefulness.
An essay praising the church as moral force in cynical times. It extols faith as sustenance and love as core, cites quotes from Bible and thinkers, and argues churches shape values, foster unity, and drive public service in business, government, and rural life. It urges living faith through deeds and service.
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