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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1954
Page
4
A New Year forecast stresses strength in alliances and a hydrogen age pledge to avoid war. It notes Eisenhower’s aim to prevent global conflict, while acknowledging Russia’s menace and the need for vigilance. Economic optimism and reduced fears of depression accompany a cautiously hopeful outlook.
Major Crown reprints a 1944 New Orleans States essay urging New Year resolutions to be friends of all mankind. It links peace to universal friendship, loyalty to communities and churches, and actions to aid the desperate, urging active kindness and defense of vulnerable people.
George Sokols ky offers guidance to aspiring reporters and columnists. He argues data and labor shape judgments, criticizes entitlement rhetoric, and outlines paths from cub reporter to editorial chair, noting the varied, demanding nature of journalism and the need for wide study before ambition.
Guest writer Jesse A. Helms endorses Lynn Nisbet as a top Raleigh reporter. He reflects on Nisbet’s influence in politics and state government, praising his broad readership and friendships with officials. Helms reveals his own limited banking knowledge before joining the North Carolina Bankers Association.
A column notes North Carolina now hosts 518 banks and branches, 46 national banks and 179 state banks with 429 and 89 units respectively. Total bank assets approach 2.9 billion dollars, with the NCBA led by Edwin Pate reporting full member banks and a strong civic role for bankers statewide.
The Austrian Supreme Court holds that a man kissing a girl is not punishable even if she resists, arguing the kiss is an institution of social life. It raises a paradox about whether not kissing someone who desires it could violate the laws.
A Philadelphia bride to be Edith Evans, 19, plans to wed Frank Coley near Oxford but leaves her trousseau on a Philadelphia street in haste. The piece also reflects on coroner duties, a wandering salesman, and neighbors who aid the lost, including a grateful note from Thayer Coggin.
Mrs. Ivy Priest, treasurer of the United States, received a question about placing famous American women on paper money. Her reply notes that although men already appear on currency, women are the ones who handle it in daily life.
A satirical Washington column recounts misadventures of 1954 politics and society. It jokes about senators spewing oratory, Kefauver campaigns, Kennedy's quip about filibuster, and ambassadors criticizing meals amid a surreal parade of headlines and personal asides. It notes Eisenhower naming Burgess as manpower chief and Benson upgrading milky machinery, with offbeat impressions of Congress and public life.
The passage records rapid-fire opinions from figures including Wayne Morse on communism and defense, Truman on women, Thomas P. Leonard in Toledo facing knife slaying charges, and James Hagerty endorsing Eisenhower for 1956. It reflects partisan debate and personal controversy of mid-century America.
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