Piedmont Trade School Proposal Seeks Regional Support
The article notes a $500 000 General Assembly grant to found a trade school near Piedmont as part of a push to protect local industrial interests. It proposes converting the Jamestown TB sanatorium site into a year-round technical school serving students and adults, emphasizing regional need and industry concentration in Mecklenburg Gaston counties.
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Charlotte
General Assembly
Piedmont
Mecklenburg-Gaston
Ben Guilford
Jamestown
Rehabilitation proves prisoners can be trained for society
The Enterprise’s Family Weekly features two Iowa State Penitentiary inmates arguing inmates need training and government support to reduce crime. They cite an automotive school with 74 rehabilitated men, a radio repair program yielding 15 yearly reentrants, and call for widespread counseling and chaplains to meet psychological and spiritual needs.
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Enterprise
Iowa State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Town State Penitentiary
North Carolina
Iowa
Jaycees Leave Inter-Club Council Over Legal Threat
Jaycees decide to pull out of the Inter-Club Council rather than join potential litigation with the organization. The school board favors a federally funded feeding plan privately operated, citing merit and drawbacks. Both sides discussed options, but the board maintained its stance to avoid further conflict and litigation.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Senate Finance panel tightens grip on money policy
Editorial notes tight money moves as Senate Finance Committee begins a second round of hearings on fiscal policy. It cites Fed rediscount rate hikes since 1955 raising borrowing costs, Democrats’ criticisms, and a push for tighter fiscal restraint unless a downturn prompts easing. Senator Douglas backs the committee’s hard line.
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Senate Finance Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve
Fed
Wright Patman
Texas
Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
House Banking Committee
House
George M. Humphrey
Secretary of the Treasury
Congressional Economic Fiscal Policy Subcommittee
Federal Reserve System
Humphrey
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Sen
Paul H. Douglas
D-Tll
Advertising disclaimer on carriers and delivery rates
The High Point Enterprise disclaims responsibility for advance subscription payments to carriers dealers and distributors describing them as contractors. It advises contacting local carrier for home delivery rates and notes Ward Griffin Company as national advertising representatives.
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High Point Enterprise
National Advertising
Ward-Griffith Company
George Sokolsky on People s Capitalism and historical needs
The piece critiques the United States Information Agency and Advertising Council for promoting People s Capitalism as a symbol of shared benefits and material success. It argues propaganda fails to persuade Asia and Europe, noting people seek love, peace, and meaning over goods. It draws parallels to Jesus teachings and contrasts Communist emptiness with spiritual fulfillment.
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United States Information Agency
Thut
Counci
Council
Mankind
Paul, Mahomet
Karl Mart
Winston Churchill
Spme
Britain
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Europe
Asia
United States
Advertising Council
Regulators eye unified water control under 1957 plan
Dr Roy Norton says the 1957 General Assembly will cut duplicative duties among agencies regulating water resources. The plan clarifies roles of the Board of Health and the Stream Sanitation Committee while deferring final policy until all parties study proposals.
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Roy Norton
State Board of Health
General Assembly
Board of Health
Stream Sanitation Commission
Tweetsie Returns to North Carolina Heritage Line
The Tweetsie narrow gauge train, once moved to Virginia, returns to Blowing Rock area under Harold Bennett, Jake Froelich, and Grover Robbins Jr. The revived operation on the Roundhouse Mountain route aims to lure tourists with a steam locomotive, three cars, and a trestle bridge as it reopens at Tweetsie Station near Blowing Rock and Boone.
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Tweetsié
Roundhouse Mountain
Tweetsie Station
Blowing Rock
Boone
Grandfather Mountain
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad
Johnson City
Tennessee
Queen of the Tweetsie Railroad, Inc
Virginia
Hollywood
Gene Autry
Grover Robbins, Jr
North Carolina
Autry
California
Robbins
Lenoir
Deisel
Tweetsie
Blue Ridge Divide
Hickory
Carolina and Northwestern Railway
Shouns
Tweetsieville
Cranberry
Doe River
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company
Tennessee General Assembly
Tennessee and Virginia
Carter
Johnson
Elizabethton
Doe River Cove
Crab Orchard
Cranberry Iron Works
Anno Pardee
Philadelphia
Thomas E. Matson
Matson
Linville
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