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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1945
Page
4
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Raleigh observers say the General Assembly may adjourn by March 10, or next week, unless Governor Cherry signals a priority for adjournment over administration measures. Passage hinges on administration support for a four year UNC medical school plan, a four year hospital program, and a state police expansion, with lawmakers wary of amending poorly drafted bills.
From New York headquarters the Association of Casualty and Surety Executives cites a proposed measure requiring auto owners to prove financial responsibility or insure. It notes insurers prefer a choice and argues rates must stay affordable. current North Carolina rate controls and gasoline costs are discussed amid broader reflections on crime writing and reader endurance.
The 19145 General Assembly faced varied pressures from nontraditional lobbyists including school teachers and state employees seeking raises and influence. Medical professionals resisted expanded control over mental hospital finances and optometry groups fought scope expansions. Lawmakers defended self regulation to protect veterans while opposing barriers to entry for trades and professions.
Observers note waning liquor lobbying while judges seek a $950 raise as battles over pay roll on. A hospital lobby backs a four year medical college with hospital in Chapel Hill and targets Governor Cherry. A surplus in the general fund tempers calls for tax changes and prompts agencies to push for larger shares.
Washington reports educators warn colleges may struggle in coming years without government aid as the GI Bill expands benefits for veterans. VA notes nearly 000 veterans attend school, about 10,000 in colleges and universities, with others in trades and high schools.
A wide array of writers actors composers and artists signed an Open Letter to Congress urging breaking diplomatic relations with Franco Spain and discontinuing assistance to the republican forces. Signers include Olin Downes Ira Gershwin Miriam Hopkins Lillian Hellman William Shirer and Elmer Rice among others led by Rep John M Coffee of Tacoma Washington.
A government official recalls a discussion among leaders on looming communism and postwar reform. He argues the threat comes from internal folly, not Stalin, and urges decisive action to restore values, finance, medicine, religion, and national resolve amid widespread doubt.
The piece urges a broad rise of sound leadership across classes to curb class warfare and greed, promote national teamwork, and restore postwar reconversion. It notes ex Justice Byrnes gaining favor and calls workers clergy Negroes bankers and doctors to speak up to defeat the gangster idealism and hatred.
New York City faces a midnight to four a m curfew tightening where Broadway’s vast cabaret district leads the impact. Writers note losses for club owners and workers while servicemen and public weigh the sacrifice and war needs against nightlife profits.
The article examines 1940 U S population figures to test the claim of 60 million jobs. It recomputes available workers by age and gender, noting only a portion of the population could realistically join the labor force under existing laws and conditions.
The piece critiques Henry Wallace's wartime job projections using rough 1940 demographics and likely postwar constraints. It argues the maximum working population tallies around 53 to 54 million, opposing Wallace's 60 million and any inflated statistics while insisting the author’s estimates, though uncertain, show Wallace overstates labor availability.
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