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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1946
Page
4
A fable recalls frontier rule making after a wave of cattle rustling and killings. Ranchers demand collective enforcement while insisting personal veto rights. The piece compares this to Cold War diplomacy and questions who governs arms and war rules.
A humorous column jokes about FCC assigning 450 megacycles to stoves and radar range gadgets. It questions interference between neighbors using similar waves for cooking and poses playful scenarios of morning breakfasts and domestic quirks in a light, tongue in cheek tone.
Max Payne who died in Greensboro was known for a great heart and lifelong devotion to boys. He founded the Carolinas junior golf tour and nurtured it for twenty years. plans are under way to establish the Max Payne memorial trophy for tour winners.
The wartime seniority law guaranteed returning servicemen their old jobs and rank. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who left to serve in the war and later won election, is not being granted his prior seniority by Senate Republicans. He did not request it, but the piece argues he should receive it as others.
In a debate over the Fair Labor Standards Act amendments, the piece argues unions seek doubled pay for nonworking time on company property and suggests triple or quadruple time could follow. The author warns such logic could bankrupt industry or raise prices, while labeling the stance a pure line of reasoning.
The retirement system debate spans state employees from professors to janitors, contrasting mutual contribution plans with flat security grants. Critics warn overemphasis on future security may hurt current service. The piece notes tensions among capitalists, officials, unions, and veterans in shaping policy.
By Lynn Nisbet the 52 20 club is criticized for abuse despite noble aims. Veterans received 20 a week for 52 weeks while civilians grumble over retirement deductions. taxpayers matched contributions doubling retirement benefits, turning what seems an expense into a saving.
Public meeting marking the 29th anniversary of the Russian revolution in the National Press Club drew about 300 attendees, split roughly 50 50 Black and white. A Negro leader pressed grievances on hiring, costs, and civil rights while critics noted the event aimed to mobilize Black support for revolutionary aims.
Paul Mallon recalls a CP national committee member from New York delivering a persuasive socialist-leaning talk. She contrasted Russia with the Soviet Union and forecast socialism in the United States, while the crowd funded the meeting with mostly small bills, totaling around 500 dollars.
Washington notes that with hostilities ended the main farm issue is how to handle price-support guarantees through 1949 for 20 major crops. Potatoes in 1946 offer a cautionary tale of overproduction and large purchase costs, prompting calls for early farm policy revisions and potential CCC renewal, wool and cotton reforms, rural health and housing measures, and organizational changes within REA and federal agencies.
A newspaper passage contrasts 1947 as a year of hope and restored responsibility with 1946 seen as one of history’s worst, arguing for moral standards and the progress of Western civilization toward brotherhood and a sense of shared obligation, noting humanity’s struggle to move forward.
The piece laments 1946 as a year of retreat from national ideals and social decay. It credits the 1947 election with restoring independence against bureaucratic autocracy and left wing influence, urging American morality and practicality to return for peace and common sense.
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