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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1945
Page
4
A High Point citizen warns of poison whisky sold as white mule mixing denatured alcohol lye and shoe polish. Eleven Black residents have died from drinking alleged white ale. Police and health officials urged action while cautioning that wood alcohol and denatured spirits can be lethal.
City officials face a critical need to inventory capital assets and assess modernization costs before launching a long term budget and postwar development plan. Questions remain about water and electric systems and future funding sources beyond existing surplus and reserves.
North Carolina newspapers report national park officials may spend time in both states as plans for a regional visit unfold. The itinerary centers on North Carolina stops while TVA and tourism interests weigh cross border traffic and economic ties with Tennessee.
Lynn Nisbet notes the Blue Ridge Parkway’s completion would connect Shenandoah Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains on the Carolina side, boosting park benefits. State highway officials and agencies must push for earlier completion to avoid Tennessee gaining all advantages. Senators at Capitol Square express mixed views after Hendersonville meeting, with D L Libby Ward stating he is literally on the fence. Quiet Capitol activity continues as Attorney General McMullan declines comment on Davidson County election fraud report pending public release considerations.
Washington notes Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley will assume VA leadership in August. The agency, sparked by postwar demand, must expand to serve about 15,000,000 veterans. Veterans groups and lawmakers stress modernization. General Eisenhower lauded Bradley as the army’s brains.
By Jack Stinnett, the profile portrays a 52 year old executive directing operations for three armies totaling about a million men. He is described as tireless, simple in tastes, quick to reward merit, and largely free of army politics as he reorganizes the VA, aiming for a new major campaign success.
A letter from E W Brockenborough of the Fats Oils and Dairy Products Branch critiques consumer choices under the wartime ration plan. It argues households should budget points like money and notes butter rationing depends on individual purchasing behavior, reflecting post New Deal tensions.
George Sokolsky cites Brock Enbrough on rationing in wartime America. He argues housewives lack real choice in butter and beef as OPA quotas and point values control purchases, while black market customers enjoy true freedom. The piece criticizes storekeepers and grocers for constrained supply and calls out false assurances of customer needs.
Washington opinion column questions the Woodrum committee report on universal military training amid 16 to 0 voting in favor. It notes widespread opposition from educational and labor groups and says the document disguises support for the war department program while favoring a general policy of youth military service.
Paul Mallon surveys postwar draft ideas as VFW argues for a nondraft national training plan. He notes Senate and House lack support for youth conscription, while some retired officers push a nine nine thirteen thirteen eight week training sequence with a larger regular force and National Guard.
Winchell critiques Hitler and Mussolini, laments missed chances to stop them, and critiques Franco and Francoist Spain. He notes American sympathy for Hitler’s cruelty masks a broader fear of dictatorship and mocks fringe editors and imitators of Mencken.
The piece portrays Goebbels as a brilliant propagandist whose power came from a tamed press and a controlled radio. It claims editors faced consequences for resisting and notes that dissenters faced family punishment, arguing that many in the country were duped by him just as by other phonies.
The piece reflects on wartime figures including Laval and Hess, noting Laval’s betrayal of France, his capture in Spain, and his sentence. It contrasts neutral reactions to Hitler’s death with the broader reckoning of collaboration and treachery across Europe and the fates of traitors.
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