Honesty Demands North Carolina Sales Tax Repeal
The Enterprise urges the North Carolina General Assembly to abolish the general sales tax now, arguing honesty requires keeping the promised repeal when a $30 million surplus exists. It notes the tax was an emergency measure and insists the state should replace it with new funding to honor taxpayers and creditors alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
General Assembly of
Democratic Party
Boy Scouts
B. W. Hackney
Editorial urges intelligent OPA policy and sharp administration
The piece argues Washington should run agencies efficiently and abandon excuses about hardships. It contrasts global famine with American comfort to demand decisive war measures, while urging state bird selection opinions and inviting public views on a hawk or hummingbird as symbols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Baltimore Evening Sun
Senate
Prentiss Brown
OPA
China
Greece
Britain
Brown
Florida
Christmas Fire Tale From White House Press Room
The report recalls a White House Christmas Eve fire during Herbert Hoover’s presidency. AP White House correspondent Bob Pickens, then decorating a tree and now in the army, answered a call from the AP office as reporters grappled with faulty extinguishers and foam splashing a reporter’s suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Herbert Hoover
Associated Press
Bob Pickens
Bob
School of
Point rationing brings change as OPA plans rollout
The piece explains upcoming point rationing with a No 2 book, noting expected initial confusion yet eventual clarity. It contrasts housewife freedom with shortages and defends the system while calling for calm and comprehension. It cites American workmen's ingenuity and includes Ehrenberg on Russian nationalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Hitler
Mussolini
Hirchito
Rationing talk and wartime notes cross High Point scenes
Community voices from High Point discuss labor shortages, youth work, and rationing effects. Local figures including AFL director Joe Boyd and welfare workers comment on wartime jobs, bread slicing debates, gas rules, and civil defense roles with scouts and auxiliary firemen highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Joe Boyd
AFL
Islands In The Bahamas Inhabited Count
A survey notes 29 islands in the Bahamas with 20 inhabited. The rest are unpopulated and lack permanent settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bahamas
Winchell On Broadway The Lonely Hearts Eisenhower Left Behind
Walter Winchell reflects on American correspondents in London during World War II. He notes Ike Eisenhower’s influence on assignments, reporters seeking transport to Africa, and a panorama of wartime figures from Churchill to Debrett’s. The column closes with Winchell resuming his syndicated notes.
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Ilya Ehrenberg
Russia
Red Star
Ehrenberg
New York Times
London
Savoy
Eisenhower
Tunisia
Africia
Morocco
Ike Eisenhower
Dunkirk
U. S
Gene Raymond
Diana Wynyard
West London Court
George Arliss
Regent St
Laurence Olivier
Demi Paradise
Abe Lastfogel
William Morris
N. Y
Hollywood
USO
North Africa
Lisbon
Africa
France
Churchill
Cherub
Harrow
Raleigh
Debrett
Debrett's
Tommy
Vatican
Holy See
England
Myron Taylor
New York
Barcelona
Rome
Taylor
St. Peter's
Treasury
Morgenthau
Downing Street
Margaret
H. G. Wells
Hitler
Reich
Lise Bon
Berlin
Stooges
Laval
Paris
Mussolini
da Vinci
Eire
Dick Watts, Jr
OWT
America
Ireland
Watts
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High Point Enterprise
R. B. Terry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
J. P. Rawley
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
N C
John Budd
Lexington Ave. N
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
United States
Burton Heath
Pickens
Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina
Bess Prince
J. F. Jones
E. B. Dennis
Bessie Tesh
J. V. Thompson
Red Cross
Efort
Thomas Sullivan
Juneau
James Marshall
E. C. Cridlebaugh
Roosevelt
Tom Hamilton
Navy Physical Fitness
Finland
Wyoming
State
Winchell
Broadway
the Lonely
Burnet Hershey
Walter Winchell
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