It's High Time U S Study Plight Of Its Older People
A Washington conference on aging highlights persistent poverty among Americans with little or no assets. Many families live on under 2000 dollars yearly, with millions below 1000, while farm poverty remains widespread. A national program aims advancement over relief, focusing on self-improvement and broader prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
United States
National Conference On Problems of the
Washington
High Point Merchants Association
Sunshine
Flack
Sunshine Biscuits, Inc
Long Island
America
Sherman Aycoth
CPSU
Tito
Yugoslavia
Ussr
Russia
New
Soviet Union
Stevenson Leads In Home Stretch
Adlai Stevenson moves into the final 60 days of the Democratic presidential campaign in a strong position to win the nomination in Chicago. Bruce Brossat analyzes the race noting Stevenson looks headed that way unless other factors shift the outlook. Eisenhower’s health sporadically fuels Democratic hopes, but the race remains unsettled with Stevenson favored if Ike falters.
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Adlai Stevenson
Chicago
Bruce Brossat
Stevenson
New York
Averell Harriman
Eisenhower
Ike
Learn to swim push after drowning tragedies prompts action
The Enterprise cites two boy drownings in a pond during crawfish hunting and promotes Learn-to-Swim programs run with the YMCA YWCA and City Recreation Department. It notes water safety training reduces deaths and highlights Red Cross life-saving coursework in High Point and calls for practical use of Jamestown sanatorium facilities to aid older or disabled residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YMCA
YWCA
City Recreation Department
Red Cross
City Lake Pool
High Point
A. B. C. Knudsen
Guilford
Jamestown
Knudsen
Gastonia
Eugene Pfaff
Woman's College
Bill Collins
High Point College
Bill
Main Street Methodist Church
Wilson Weldon
Collinses
Bill Williams
Winston-Salem
Betty
Thursday Is Flag Day Observed Across the United States
Flag Day commemorates the June 14, 1777 designation of the Star Spangled Banner as the U S flag. Betsy Ross is credited with sewing the first flag at Washington’s direction, and troops saw it at Brandywine. The Third Maryland Regiment flag from Cowpens 1781 remains the oldest.
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United States
Betsy Ross
George Washington
Washington
Brandywine
Maryland
Cowpens
S. C
Elks
Are You Sensitive A Sunday sermon on conscience and sin
The speaker warns that modern life lacks feeling for evil and urges constant moral alertness. He cites Jeremiah and Jesus to illustrate calloused hearts, notes juvenile court indifference, and compares spiritual decline to a sensitive plant that withers from touch. He urges public stand against wrong and emulates reformers in bold moral resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremiah
Thomas Carlyle
Jesus
Pius
Christ
House of Prayer
High Point Economizes Meals Across a Day
A writer details surviving on a thrifty High Point diet by visiting about a dozen eateries and documenting breakfast, lunch, and dinner costs. He spends between 94 cents and 1.87 dollars for meals, with extras like cigarettes and a soft drink totaling about 1.99 dollars. The piece blends local scenes with light social commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booth
Lincoln
High Point
High Point Enterprise Masthead and Editorial Notes
The fragment shows a historic High Point newspaper masthead with address 307 North Main and names such as A. Rawley and R. B. Terry. It lists editorial and business management roles, dated March 8 1878, indicating printing and administrative details from that era.
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North Main High Point
A. Rawley
R. B. Terry
Carter
B. G. Wade
Act of March
Prodigal Return and Tito’s Complex Yugoslav Drift
A reflective essay contrasts Tito with Mikhailovich highlighting Yugoslavia's split from Soviet control. It traces Tito's rise and the 1948 Cominform expulsion, noting Soviet pressure to turn Yugoslavia into a satellite and Tito’s resistance against both Nazi and Communist coercion.
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Tito
Mikhailovich
United States
Great Britain
Hitler
Yugoslavian
Josip Broz Tito
Third International
Kremlin
Yugoslavia
Molotov
Marshal Bulganin
CPSU
Japanese Textile Competition Threatens U.S. Mills
For months this newspaper has warned of Japanese textile competition and its impact on American mills. It reports two plants closing and Springs Mill at Lancaster, South Carolina cutting operations and abandoning enlargement plans, underscoring mounting danger with a chart on growing ruinous competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Springs
Lancaster
S. C
U.S. Import Bias Hurting American Textile Jobs
The article argues Japan’s mills pay far less for cotton and hourly wages compared to U.S. plants, making American textiles uncompetitive. It claims administration neglects textiles as an expendable industry and warns workers and related interests of growing harm.
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U.S
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Robbins Tilden
North State Telephone Company
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George Sokolsky
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