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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1949
Page
4
An Associated Press report from Winston Salem highlights white and Negro officers working together to avert a serious disturbance near a dance. The piece quotes the police chief praising both races and argues the presence of black officers persuades doubters of the value of the Negro police in maintaining law and order.
Fred Jones, a prospective Oklahoma governor candidate, scored a hole in one on a 176 yard three par while golfing with friends. Some say the ace foretells defeat, but others argue between a single par round and a governorship, many would choose golf over politics.
Joe Boyd chosen as High Point Lions club man of the year for his work on the committee on the blind and for broad civic and religious leadership. The article recalls his earlier move from labor organizing to personnel work and notes his consistent commitment to fair treatment as High Point grows in labor relations.
Bernard Baruch, 77, urged President Truman to adopt a swift total mobilization plan and criticized the lack of a ready framework to deliver resources to allies. He noted the unfilled head of the resources board and urged Congress and the administration to act quickly to build a mobilization program amidst a new era of atomic power and advanced missiles.
A critique of a Mickey Finn comic strip on investing and real estate. The author argues private investment and production drive prosperity, warns against socialist shifts, and advocates government bonds as sound but stresses production and real estate as healthier for the economy.
Debates on postwar Europe focus on a new West German state emerging from the Paris foreign ministers meeting. With 60 million Germans and 10 to 14 million refugees, power will hinge on Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, youth groups, and refugees, who may align with nationalist currents. Western powers may align with Democratic parties to back a European recovery, while containing nationalist and Communist influences.
In a dream Uncle Sam visits a household to urge vigilance of liberty and warn against tyranny and isolationism. The speech defends the Declaration of Independence, condemns communism, and urges courage, peace, and strong national resolve. A second item recalls a Georgia teacher who tames a rowdy class by eating lunches to keep order and jokes about a bull in a pasture.
York posits that events may be shaping up in Russia as revolt against Soviet intolerance grows. He argues that Russia is unlikely to abandon ambitions to conquer Western Europe, and suggests Moscow's Paris foreign ministers meeting may be an explanatory move to reopen drives toward Western Germany and the broader region.
Winchell reports on T. Bankhead’s quick decision delay tied to Tallulah’s product. Diana Barrymore stars in Philadelphia Story. Hildegarde headlines at Concord Hotel. Bill Callahan shines at Winter Garden. Arts, critiques, and industry chatter across Broadway, Hollywood, and radio.
Senator Joseph McCarthy warns that endorsing wartime abuses condemns US protests of totalitarian methods. Secretary Maurice Tobin argues true economic freedom requires limiting corporate control of essential goods and prices.
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