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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1946
Page
4
A letter condemns a Georgia mob that killed four Black people and blames white Southerners for fostering racial hatred. It argues sympathy belongs with whites who seek fair treatment and urges responsibility for preventing such violence, contrasting progress of Black Americans with the mob’s brutality.
A preacher reflects on First Peter’s message to the Dispersion in Galatia Asia and Bithynia. Believers endure trials to prove faith and inherit salvation. The sermon recalls Jesus apostleship Thomas’s blessing faith unseen, and historic figures who found faith beyond reason.
J F Jones head of the rent control office commends High Point realtors for holding line on rents during interim period and notes most agencies urged customers not to raise rents. Fire Chief FB K Ingram, with thirty years service, criticizes past spoils system and opposes its return.
City accountant H L Crowe argues government officials in Washington may have known of the Pearl Harbor risk. FE Yokely studies in Chicago notes garbage removal troubles at High Point and compares to the Enterprise. Susan Uhl, Miss North Carolina hopeful, praised for cooperation in a junior chamber beauty contest. Elm Street extension urged to improve city planning as Willowbrook bridge redirects traffic toward Elm Street.
Postwar Washington remembers Henrietta Nesbitt, 13 years as the nation’s top housekeeper and White House custodian since 1933, who supervised menus and state dinners at 1600 Pennsylvanian Avenue. Her husband Henry Nesbitt died in 1938 and she took over his duties while continuing her own.
Jane Ends notes Mrs Roosevelt oversaw wash and wax of oak panels and chandeliers before state dinners. She assigned Mrs Nesbitt to modernize kitchens, added pantries and dumbwaiters, and supplied a large ice cream pack and griddle. War rationing limited meat and butter, with coffee restricted to one cup daily for visitors.
Washington revisits the Billy Mitchell debate as Bikini Atoll tests prompt renewed claims that atomic bombs could shift naval strategy. Proponents say bunkers of armor and ship design would need overhaul while opponents note limited damage yet warn of radiation and operational challenges ahead.
Walter Winchell’s column to resume Sept 1, with Jack Lait taking over daily. The piece lists Hollywood figures, political chatter, romance rumors, and a Harlem crime case involving Detective Ed Clancy and Carl ton Powell, plus society notices and showbiz updates.
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