High Point Eyes Airplane Plant for City Growth
The Enterprise argues for diversifying industry by securing an airplane assembly plant in High Point. A wartime shift could shift furniture output toward needed war parts, with workers retrained for aviation. The piece asserts progress requires growth and ties to aviation as a catalyst for the town’s postwar prosperity.
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Crisis Awakens Faith and Call to Action
A reflective sermon links Romans crisis to modern times from Saint Paul to the Reformation and Munich peace. It urges Christians to awake, apply Jesus ethics to politics, seek independence for India, question Hong Kong, and press toward a freer world with Christian patriotism. It ends with a quip about insurance rates tied to perceived age.
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Thoughts of Others and Labor Notes Across War Era Industries
A collage of remarks from postwar era editorials and letters highlights job offers refused over prayer meetings, volatile furniture labor patterns amid war contracts, and ongoing labor shifts. Fire chiefs, chamber insights, and women workers adapting to production tasks are noted alongside analyses of new industry gains, tax impacts, and wartime resilience.
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High Point
Lenoir
Flying Jenny memory and wartime reflections from old school
Memoir recounts a homemade flying jenny ride from boyhood, a near‑fall who became a hero, and nostalgia for postwar days. It links wartime training, Cuban and Spanish American War memory, and hopes for peace after victory. Includes a 1919 camp meal scene and a soldier’s India letter about Turkey Day fare.
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Young Point hopefuls play at war toys raise concerns
Last Christmas many youths at High Point received toy guns tanks jeeps and soldiers fueling play warfare. A psychologist weighs in on the line between pretend battles and real danger as children imitate elder conflict.
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Broadway and Elsewhere by Jack Lait
George Jessel sends American beauty roses to Ilona Massy. Lt. Taplinger favors the Stork Club with Anne St. George present. The Daily Worker spurned by networks for an Earl Browder show. Lee Trent replaces Gertrude Niesen in pop chatter as Moscow winds and wartime shifts spread. Winchell returns. many Hollywood figures amid marriages splits and legal notices populate the scene.
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