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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1961
Page
4
President Kennedy urges a long, steady effort to combat poverty, disease, and war. He asks Americans to serve the nation, not seek personal gain, and pledges aid to allies and new nations while warning the struggle will be long.
A Sunday sermon argues life exceeds mere sustenance. It blends Jesus teachings with art and nature, urging daily beauty through music poetry prayer and noble acts. The speaker cites scripture Darwin and social workers to claim true living combines truth beauty and goodness.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth dismisses the National Cultural Center plans, dooming the Committee of 100 on the Federal City. The proposed Teddy Roosevelt and FDR memorials face design troubles and public ridicule, with costs pegged at five million dollars.
Western Electric scientists at Burlington used a general purpose computer to specify a missile tracking device by a system of equations. The computer designed the second machine, telling humans how to assemble it, marking a milestone in automated design and foreshadowing further advances.
An editorial condemns the sinking of the Atlantic radar tower 70 miles south of Long Island. It calls for swift inquiries by the Air Defense Command and Senate, assigns blame to decisions keeping the tower manned in unsafe condition, and notes 28 deaths and 14 repairmen aboard. It argues alternatives existed and criticizes military inflexibility.
North Carolina wakes to history as a cash asset with private funding driving restoration at Tryon Place Old Salem Bath and Halifax. State programs support Fort Macon Old Brunswick Town Town Creek Indian Mound Aycock and Vance Birthplaces with small fees and free public access.
The 25th annual Baptist State Convention report shows North Carolina reaching 3,369 churches with 913,176 members, up 33 churches and 19,497 members from the prior year. Baptisms totalled 30,337, while total church offerings reached 46,788,109 with per capita gifts rising.
A collage of quotes from figures like Juscelino Kubitschek Everett Dirksen Karl Menninger Henry Ford II Edward J. O'Donnell Jean Paul Geity Nelson Rockefeller James A Farley Rodrigo Parajon and Carl Sandburg. The passage contrasts views on war leadership democracy business and personal belief.
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