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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1955
Page
21
Local chatter links Mayor Carl Wilson and Councilman Baren Craven in possible pacts as Thomasville eyes a city hall overhaul. Talk centers on a new plainclothes police bureau, budget time backing, and potential ward representation changes after May elections.
A Lincoln Museum display recounts Abraham Lincoln as an improvised inventor. It notes his whittled wagon model with front wheels, a patent later filed for a device to lift over shoals, and a boat model drawn in his own hand. The piece links these ideas to his New Orleans slave market sight and early career.
W B Stronach Jr director of High Point parks and recreation analyzes employment and income in a city recreation section. He cites a Sales Management survey showing rising professional employment and leisure demand as industries expand. He notes vacations with pay boost recreation and warns against industrial blight while stressing preserving small-city living in the Piedmont area.
Whitaker, editor of the New Yorker and longtime New Haven Register subject, has ridden trains for pleasure since the early 1900s. He hit his millionth mileage on Oct 23 and recalls escapes, crashes, and travels from New Haven to Mexico and beyond, living in New York City and chasing trains rather than women.
City officials show reluctance to push the expansion program, signaling little or no action unless petitions surface from areas seeking incorporation into the city. A lawmaker notes the city is not actively pursuing business but remains available if communities request inclusion.
Duke University scientists including A W Naylor and Arthur Naylor will present studies on respiration in diseased plant tissue and growth responses to temperature and light at the Louisville regional meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists February 7 to 9. Other Duke botanists, Paul J. Kramer and Robert Canning, discuss salt accumulation in roots and zinc effects on amino acid content in Bermuda grass.
Fragmented ad like copy discusses stomach ulcer pain relief and consumer concerns about remedies. It references fear and health claims with shifting phrases and mentions money and relief in a historical health ad style.
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