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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1955
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise lists its mail classification as second class matter at the High Point North Carolina post office. Editor Holt McPherson and Advertising Director W Patterson Jr oversee circulation management and operations.
President Gordon Gray told UNC trustees that the state faces a crisis in education due to declining income and rising needs. He urged maintaining momentum at the Greater University as the keystone of progress, urging dedication and public support to provide opportunities to keep North Carolina advancing.
In a North Carolina debate, Sen. Weeks derides redistricting as unconstitutional and ill advised until after the 1960 census. He argues the public misread last fall’s vote on a county Senate limit and warns changing districts now would be inequitable. The issue spurs a Wednesday public meeting. The piece also criticizes House committee chair Walter and Harvey Matusow, calling for accountability for alleged false testimony and its harm to innocent people.
George Sokols ky reflects on live theater evolution from Maude Adams era to modern Broadway. He laments vulgarities in current productions and calls for restoring late 19th and early 20th century standards, praising The Southwest Corner and Shakespearean and Shaw productions while urging a faithful Peter Pan revival.
The Tallahassee Democrat notes that despite small 5 to 9 cent hourly rises, AF of L staff economists report workers fared better on the wage front last year than any postwar year. Stable costs boosted purchasing power while Burns praises cash holdings as credit strength reflecting Eisenhower policy dividends.
Governor Luther Hodges and State Treasurer Edwin Sais attended a luncheon at a bank in New York during the North Carolina Society annual meeting. Dignitaries and industrialists including J Dewey Dorsett Duke Power American Enka Colgate Palmolive Colgate Palmolive Peet Company and Duke Endowment figures were present along with host John J. McCloy.
The North Carolina Society of New York held its fifty seventh annual dinner dance at the St. Regis Garden with about 166 guests. Governor Hodges spoke briefly, praising educational and business development and noting North Carolina’s growth and opportunities amid a growing population.
Disjointed remarks from figures including Jackie Robinson, Harvey Johnson, Charles Thomas, Senator George Bender, and Val Peterson touch on race honesty fear in public life and atomic age civil defense. The garbled OCR text presents a patchwork of opinions on race, courage, and political memory.
W A Bivins recalls transition periods from 1880s to 1890s in the Mauve Decade. He describes family, local life in Hometown, and a boy’s recollections of band music, fashion, and social changes shaping Southern history. He notes 1884 tariff talks and Cleveland’s 1884 election lifting Southern spirits.
Washington columnist notes Mardi Gras spirit follows readers home after visiting New Orleans for the Comus parade. He jokes about social grandstanding, Buzzy Hewes and the two party tradition, ending with a quip that recovery from Mardi Gras takes several days of Lent.
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