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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1947
Page
4
High Point welcomes United Spanish War Veterans and auxiliary for their annual encampment. A. B. Frost earns thanks for bringing the convention. The piece honors Spanish-American War courage and notes price-control policy shifts postwar, criticizing OPA removal and its impact on living costs.
Former Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton lies in Duke Hospital with severe injuries after a nighttime accident between two cars near Chapel Hill and Pittsboro. Officials say Horton was not at fault and the crash involved another driver’s possible carelessness.
The article notes a 17 percent rise in the consumer price index from June 1946 to April 1947 with food up 29 percent and clothing 20 percent. Rent control lapsed and a new extension bill allows landlords to raise rents up to 15 percent with leases through 1948. Prices surged after Truman veto and rapid increases followed the OPA changes.
A commemoration notes the new generation bears mankind’s fate and should heed wise words from 1947 wisdom columns. Quotes from Bing Crosby, Alain Locke, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ellis Arnall, and Joe E. Brown urge world peace through cooperation, global outlook, education, and universal equality.
In 1939 New York a high stakes manhunt for Louis Lepke Buchalter ends when he yields to FBI chief J Edgar Hoover after a secret night ride arranged by Walter Winchell. The eventual handoff occurs at FBI headquarters after a tense sequence through Yonkers and Manhattan.
What becomes of 300 Russians in Italian camps who wish to avoid Soviet Russia and face potential execution if sent home is debated. The piece criticizes forced repatriation by American and British authorities, urges a peace conference, and argues for safeguarding national sovereignty through wider U.N. involvement.
W A Bivins recounts four copies of the Inverness based People's Journal with excerpts from December 22 1945 to July 13 1946. entries touch weather pockets English pennies defense humor Father's Day memories and aviation hopes linking Scotlands discourse to American reflections on progress and peace.
The piece debates the $12,000 campaign expenditure limit for governor and U S Senate races, noting real costs require multiple times that amount. It questions legality parallels, reports on exemptions, and cites political fundraising dynamics and the need for adequate financing to compete.
Readers solve a vertical horizontal crossword featuring clues for Harbinger Thoroughfare Anent Individual Protuberance Ruminant Swedish river Sheltered side Either Gives in Inundate Hebrew teacher Wise men Artificial language Meat drippings Mariners Grass leaf and more, with entries linked to film stars and period icons.
Aggregate list of clue prompts appears to be a compact crossword puzzle with definitions and enumerations. The items include Dutch to Ermine and oxid of thulium as wordplay hints, plus actions and objects like apprehend release behold burden and tavern with various noun clues. The sequence ends with butterfly as a final clue.
A compilation of quotes from political and cultural figures including Walter Ploeser Mervyn LeRoy King Paul I Eleanor Roosevelt Earl Warren Truman Arthur Capper and Philip Murray. The remarks cover socialism film entertainment political drafts gender politics labor relations and national welfare.
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