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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1949
Page
4
F J F argues Stalin timed a peace feeler with the US atomic report to shape global opinion. He claims newspapers aided a Soviet propaganda trick, presenting Russia as peaceseekers and the United States as preparing for war while both nations pursue core aims.
The city struggles with weak street lighting and erratic traffic signals that disrupt flow and endanger pedestrians. Drivers often ignore pedestrians rights, causing dangerous crossings and even fatalities. The piece urges coordinated lighting and traffic control plus public adherence to safety rules.
Forsyth County superintendant Ralph Brimley reports Guilford rural schools need more science equipment space janitorial help and maids across districts. Guilford principals will visit Forsyth schools to assess and compare strengths and plan future improvements including five year building expansions and enhanced library use.
Washington diary notes quote a humorous scene about a social secretary Mrs. Tabitha Talcott Pratt who brings a clipping about romance in industry in Czechoslovakia. The column catalogs mock poems and joking remarks from staffers about love in factories and a tongue in cheek critique of corporate life.
In New York, Geoffrey Crowther of the Economist is challenged for praising British socialism while ignoring its private enterprise costs. The discussion contrasts public and private services and notes Britain’s reliance on American funds, with a caution about democracy and welfare benefits.
A February dispatch describes Atlanta's winter knockout cold with sleet and snow while North Carolina readers recall mountain winds. A High Point reader laments race tensions in a supermarket and urges courtesy for all. The column includes a light classroom joke about inventions.
A Raleigh visitor notes livelier city life during legislative sessions and officials who claim to fulfill promises despite many bills. In High Point, a citizen discusses supermarket interactions and equal rights amid a brief exchange on local life.
Yellowstone National Park is the oldest and largest US park at about two and a half times Rhode Island. Some ancient yew trees in England are over 10 feet in diameter and estimated to be more than 1,200 years old. The article also notes that gray should not be worn by women with drab coloring or olive skin.
A collage of Westinghouse entertainment notes and political snips cover Broadway wit and postwar headlines. References swing from Bing Crosby to Time magazine disputes and a German court ruling on von Papen, while cultural gossip traces Royalties and romances amid Cold War chatter.
A crossword style list presents bird related terms across and down with clues ranging from songbird and extinct bird to ocean going steamship and electrical unit. Answers include common words and abbreviations used in puzzle entries.
Walter Fitzmaurice of Newsweek will be honored February 13 by Marquette University for his sound reporting of the Truman campaign. He is noted as a former Hearst star. Ex Secretary Stettinius is drafting memoirs in Florida with a Yalta perspective said to differ from others.
Eddie Cochran and Freddy Lightner, both USO entertainers, reconnected in Hollywood the other day. Cochran asks Lightner what he plans, and Lightner quips that he is “just between wars.”
A syndicated column mocks the repeated unveiling of the Un American Activities Committee findings on espionage and treason within the U S Communist Party. The piece notes the routine nature of such columns and parodies a Texas paper's gossip notice asking readers to reveal personal events for print.
A TV show featured a sensational chain letter gag claiming that sending a wife to a man named at the top of a list would flip the equation and return 15,625 women to the sender. The warning urged not to break the chain, recalling the last man who supposedly recovered his wife.
Charles E. Wilson blasts CIO program as nakedly socialistic while urging prosperity through American industry. Philip H. Willkie criticizes the proliferation of committees and calls for broad conference within regular organizations to allow ideas to be shared.
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