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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1976
Page
5
Davidson dateline reports on a poultry plant’s holiday gift of chickens to meat inspectors, sparking ethics concerns. A government meat inspector and colleagues rejected the gifts, citing public trust, while a department meeting criticized conduct deemed harmful to the office.
A collection of satirical observations on prisons housing politicians, wartime truth, and presidential finances. The snippets reference Senator Soaper, prison escapes, hotel occupancy, wardens, Abraham Lincoln, today’s presidents, and Nelson Rockefeller urging frugal government.
The Enterprise profiles J W Bill Brewer winner in High Point City Council race noting his self description as radical beyond party lines. He advocates performance based pay, merit wage increases and eliminating nonperformers while stressing council transparency with residents and the press. Brewer, a LDS member, is a longtime resident with a cleaning business and local family roots, and works on finance and utilities committees alongside City Manager Harold Cheek.
A retrospective on North Carolina agriculture traces the rise of state agricultural experiment stations, highlighted by the influence of founders Samuel Johnson and Eugene Hilgard, the role of fertilizer testing, and NC contributions to beachgrass erosion control. Reflections include 19th century farming shifts, coastal dune work, peanut harvesters, blueberries, and cucumber harvesters, with a personal reminiscence of a cold morning car scene.
The outlook notes growing horror at rising illiteracy among U.S. youths in 1974. It praises declines in complacency about public education and cites labor laws and truancy enforcement as keeping only the least motivated in school. It cautions that scholastic aptitude declines cannot be solely blamed on comparatives to 50 years ago.
A critique of American education argues that tests and standardization are weakening literacy and reasoning. It notes declines in verbal and mathematical scores, rising illiteracy, and calls for stricter standards, with concerns about new math, reading methods, and TV as impediments. It warns that poor literacy threatens future governance and freedoms for all.
Ronald Reagan proposes shifting welfare and other programs back to the states to cut $90 billion from the federal budget. The idea, sparked amid New Hampshire primary coverage, parallels calls by George Wallace and echoes a broader push for reduced federal involvement in local affairs, but experts warn of regulatory fallout and uneven standards across states.
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