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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1946
Page
4
High Point men lacking wartime service will be drafted at a meeting to kick off a campaign to raise 150000 for a veterans center. Names drawn from a fish bowl mean duty to support the drive, with Congressman Carl Durham delivering the principal talk.
High Point should warmly welcome ten to twelve new citizen brides adapting to American life. The piece urges YWCA type events to ease isolation and counters hostile letters toward foreign spouses. It also highlights the CE O field development division work postwar reconversion, employment gains, and anticipated growth in manufacturing.
Paul G. Hoffman summarizes that the field development division of the Committee for Economic Development will be terminated while the research division continues. Local CED groups will stay active as independent bodies until their programs finish, as the postwar reconversion plan included targeted employer and community guidance.
The Carolina sports editors are urged to vote Frances Kenney, 17, a Woman’s College freshman, for the Teague trophy honoring outstanding amateur athletes in the Carolinas. Kenney has been a dominant senior women's swimming champion for three years, often defeating stronger rivals with smooth, graceful strokes.
After conflicting statements to the Pearl Harbor investigation panel and the Ed Pauley fitness inquiry, a concerned citizen back home says he cannot decide who to believe. He is sure, however, that there are many liars in Washington.
R C Hoffman of the Carolina Coach company responds to a newspaper note about new buses and a Chapel Hill bus station. He says preparations for a High Point station are under way, plans should be definite soon, but material shortages and steel delivery delays may affect timing. He promises a full report when ready.
Letters praise North Carolina hunting enthusiasm and warn against propaganda regarding ski and water wing attire. Local figures applaud polio campaign results and civic efforts. Phil Warner urges High Point residents to fund a veterans center, stressing broad citizen support and duty.
A broad, pointed portrait outlines rival navy factions battling over blame for Pearl Harbor. The clash pits pro Kimmel and Short advocates against hawks like Halsey Nimitz and Towers, with public hearings stirring applause and anger.
The piece argues the Anglo Russian dispute over Greece exposes a disease in the United Nations through veto power. It defines veto as forbidding action and notes Poland’s 1652 practice as a historical example. The author warns veto weakens majority rule and has led to nation partition in Poland’s history.
The piece argues for a two thirds congressional override of presidential vetoes and critiques postwar diplomacy. It links Yalta secrecy to Soviet aims in Greece and other regions, praising Ernest Bevin and Lloyd George figures while challenging Roosevelt Churchill policies and Bevin’s stance against Bolshevik influence.
Fifteen year old Ted Peters of Thomas WV caught octopi in Blackwater River troubling octopus fans. Paul Bartsch of the U S Natural History Museum offers insights while noting odd rumors of salt water squid inland. Octopus kin include oysters clams and freshwater mussels.
By Jack Stinnett. A brainy fellow remarks on octopus use in horror cinema and as a delicacy. Bartsch notes Greek and Roman classics praising it, recounting Philoxenus of Syracuse who ate the head after first feast left him sick, resigning to finish the meal.
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