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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1957
Page
4
A brief devotional note urges renewal of right living amid the busyness of business profession and household duties. It emphasizes daily attention to pure conduct and suggests repeating the renewal often.
Guilford County commissioners and High Point City Council reached a joint understanding on a modern municipal county building. They will study similar projects, plan for future needs, and seek a shared financing basis, aiming for coordinated services and improved courthouse facilities.
Adlai Stevenson, back from Africa, commends French and British roles in Central Africa as responsible and advanced. He avoids sweeping generalizations, notes North Africa omissions, and urges careful hearing in world capitals to counter emotional anti colonizer sentiment. He argues Western efforts deserve scrutiny rather than blanket discredit.
Editorial notes a sickle shaped Muscat Oman coast risk to US Britain and Saudi ties. It recalls Eden's 1955 claim of British forces expelling Saudi troops from the Burami Oasis amid the Saudi Oman border dispute and Imam leadership unrest.
The article notes Britain’s stance in the Oman Yemen Saudi oil power struggle, citing Selwyn Lloyd and Dulles on outside arms, Sultanate claims, and treaties dating to 1793. It highlights Britain's aim to preserve influence via treaties with Trucial Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain amid regional tensions.
The High Point Enterprise publicizes itself as an independent newspaper founded in 1884. The page lists staff roles including secretary treasurer and editor and notes annual subscription rates and mailing details.
A reader letters the Enterprise demanding action at the East Farriss Avenue Brookside Drive and Forrest Avenue intersection where frequent floods flood streets, threaten homes, and damage heating and electrical systems. Citing prior coverage, residents accuse undersized culverts and call for drainage fixes rather than blaming acts of God.
The Raleigh government faces an estimated increase of three quarters of a million to a million dollars in administration costs this year from growth, higher prices, larger staffs, and reorganization acts of 1957. New departments and renamed posts add salaries and clerical needs while electronic accounting and fewer commissioners alter expenses.
A columnist recalls a long ban on revealing liquor ads and notes a Puerto Rico rum campaign featuring a bathing beauty. He cautions lawmakers and industry alike about marketing temptations, suggesting bold name changes and noting the political peril of anti advertising measures.
A proposed statewide arrangement among oil companies aims to end price wars and lower gasoline prices in North Carolina. The plan would simplify pricing, curb wide variances, and allow dealers to match lower rival prices with wholesalers accepting the adjusted charge, if legal under anti price fixing rules.
A Reading Pennsylvania hospital promotes a My Guest gift card allowing donors to prepay patient care days, easing costs and embarrassment. The idea spreads as fraternal, church and workplace groups adopt similar cards, improving cash flow for care. Community notes include local officials on efficiency, bank robbery discussions with FBI, and local figures honored or involved in union events.
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