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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1949
Page
2
The piece argues against a witch hunt for new taxes and warns against overspending for nonessential projects. It stresses using accumulated funds from the recent high revenue era for school improvements and cautions about burdening future generations.
A Pender County resident defends his actions amid a dispute over new revenue. He says no witch hunt is involved and borrowing is needed for long term needs. He rebutted claims of targeted accusations and urged comprehensive review.
The ad touts GEO-MINERAL as cleansing waste from the bowels and kidneys with dramatic results. It cites medical records about mineral iron anemia and urges readers to watch urine for impurities while noting relief from fatigue and nervous symptoms as proof of value.
The piece describes growing party lines in the legislature as sponsors push for state involvement in school construction and funding, with debates over funding methods. It also reports Governor Scott considering utilities commission reforms, data gathering with Major McLendon, and the need for expanded staff to manage rural electrification and transportation services.
Ad promotes SSS Tonic and 888 Tonic for nutritional anemia and low blood strength. Claims time tested doctors approved relief, increased energy, appetite, and vitality. Encourages taking 58S Tank, warns against ineffective products, and urges purchase at any drug store.
Senate opposition grows to automatic U S armed response in a North Atlantic treaty. Connally urges explicit self defense clause while Acheson stresses clear commitment to collective defense and overwhelming force. Draft language remains secret but mirrors the principle of mutual defense.
Forrestal's annual report hints at an earth satellite vehicle under the central guided missiles program. All three services study research paths for an automatic crewless platform with potential future manned flights and non military uses in navigation and radar support.
The Herman Sipe Company of Conover won a contract to build a new one story rough end mill for Drexel Furniture in Drexel. It will provide 18 000 square feet of floor space. The project is part of a larger expansion program totaling about 1 000 000 dollars announced months earlier.
Considerable cloudiness and not so warm in the interior today with little temperature change tonight and Thursday. Rain over the western portions with scattered showers to the east today and occasional showers tonight. Thursday sunrise 7:95, sunset 16:03.
A full committee backed bills to exempt farm products stored under price support from ad valorem taxes and remove license tag requirements for tractors and trailers used on farms. Other measures would alter penalties and discounts on ad valorem taxes by counties and municipalities. The Senate Finance Committee also favored postponing quadrennial real property revaluation for 1949-50.
A state house judiciary committee gave a favorable report to a substitute measure amending divorce laws. It retained the requirement that a spouse must have been confined to an institution for 10 years and be incurably insane to grant a divorce. The panel also removed a provision allowing waiving of trial by jury in uncontested two year separation cases.
Readings topped in Florida and Texas as rain spread through the south and east. A broad belt stretched from New England through the Appalachians with rain in Alabama Georgia eastern Tennessee the Carolinas Virginia and Mississippi. Meridian Mississippi reported 1.19 inches in six hours. Haylift efforts paused in eastern Nevada but continued elsewhere in the blizzard region.
Senate labor committee Democrats search for a way to keep the stormy hearings on the administration’s labor bill from running late after a two week extension. The panel, with about 30 witnesses, heard only one of six yesterday while Willam Green of the AFL was recalled for further questioning.
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