Taxpayers Victimized by Paradoxical Tax Shifts
Lynn Nisbet notes a pendulum swing away from federal and state responsibility in welfare and public services. Counties raise taxes to cover higher welfare costs as federal funding falls, making taxpayers both burdened and misled about benefit. Guilford County may avoid rate hikes due to rising valuations, yet overall costs rise as state duties shift to counties and municipalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Nisbet
Guilford
Institute of Government
Washington
NLRB backs firing over gossip and union activity
NLRB general counsel says a plant could dismiss a shop steward for spreading rumors to prevent disruption, not for union activities. The piece notes workers’ complaints, the gossip problem, and cites Gene Tunney urging Rocky Marciano to retire, with Tunney arguing retirement benefits Marciano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Fund for the Republic Faces Prolonged Probe
Editorial note says the House Committee on Un-American Activities will not abandon its inquiry into the Fund for the Republic though public hearings are postponed. Chairman Francis E. Walter cites slow staff work and election timing. observers expect hearings to resume next year. Hutchins defends the group describing work on Independence and the Constitution. The Ford Foundation grant totals 15 million dollars with 5.4 million spent and 528 thousand on five studies of Communism, plus over a third of funds used for race relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House On American Activities Committee
Fund For the Republic
Francis E. Walter
D-Pa
American Legion
Robert M. Hutchins
Paul G. Hoffman
Hutchins
Ford Foundation
United States
Walter
Fund Under Fire in Controversy Over Exempt Foundation
Walter charged in June that the Fund finances activities arousing criticism from Congress members and prominent figures including Henry Ford II. A 1954 Reece committee report accused the Fund of investigating congressional investigations and questioned its purpose and leadership. Hutchins defended Fund finfacts citing loyalty-security studies and school segregation research, while critics labeled the Fund as doing evil work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter
Congress
Henry Ford II
House
B. Carroll Reece
R-Tenn
Reece
Hoffman
Ite
Clifford P. Case
New Jersey
American Legion
J. Addington Wagner
Legion
Seaborn P. Collins
Fund For the Republic
Earl Browder
Senate
Hutchins
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Edward R. Murrow
Association of the Bar of
New York City
New York
N. Y
High Point Enterprise masthead and staff lines
The fragment shows masthead details for the High Point Enterprise including publisher and officer titles. It lacks a readable article, event, or names beyond the listed positions.
Budget Commission Studies Revenue and Projections for 1957 59
The advisory budget commission tours state institutions to assess operating needs for the next biennium and to gather data on potential requirements. They estimate revenue, propose tax levies, and prepare allocations for July 1, 1957, to June 30, 1959, aiming for a balanced budget amid rising costs and farm and textile pressures.
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Raleigh
Advisory Budget Commission
General Assembly
Where Are Yesterdays Foes of Dictatorship in 1955
A reader letter reflects on editorials from St Louis Post Dispatch and other papers in 1955. It contrasts pro peace stances with appeasement language once directed at Fascists. The piece notes Molotovs UN speech and calls for Western disarmament moves and withdrawal of troops.
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United States
Russia
Evening Post
Anthony Bonscaren
Marnette University
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Milwaukee Journal
Washington Post
New York Post
Soviet Union
Mao Tse-tung
Kai-shek
Nnt
Mid-west
China
Germany
Hitler
Mussolini
League of Nations
France
Britain
Peel
the Daily
Molotov
San Francisco
St. Louis
Joachim von Ribbentop
von Ribbentop
Janar
Hawaii
Wake
Guam
Post-Dispatch
Elm St. High Point
Notes on the News by Charles Pearson
A partial letter page item discusses segregation debates in the Deep South, biblical references to race and separation, and cites Deuteronomy verses on avoiding mixed marriages. It frames segregation as preserving racial stock and cites Ham lineage as justification. A reader, Thomas Calvin Swanson, praises local commentary in the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deaw
The
Enterprise
Deep South
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Esau
Red Cross Kiwanis Dinner Highlights Caroline Corpuscle Tale
A colorful Red Cross Kiwanis testimonial honors Taylor M. Simpson. The write up previews Charlie Corpuscle’s upcoming transformation into Caroline and mocks postwar blood program icons. It also notes Florida pioneer Charlee G. Rodes planning a large reunion flight and reviews Cross Currents, an anti‑defamation league book on anti‑Semitism as political weaponry.
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Red Cross and Kiwanis Club
Taylor M. Simpson
Kiwanis
National Red Cross
Charlie Corpuscle
Birmingham
Simpson
Red Cross
St. Louis
Charlie
Christine Jorgenson
Caroline Corpuscle
Carolinas
Caroline
Eve
Birmingham Red Cross
Ned
Florida
Fort Lauderdale
Charlee G. Rodes
Rodes
America
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B'rith
Eisenhower
Kefauver
Stevenson
Arnold Aronson
Israel
Congresswoman Iris Blitch Earns Rapturous Praise in Essay Lede
A partisan ode extols Iris Blitch as a vivid, self-effacing speaker who opposed a foreign aid amendment. The piece lauds her literary flair and public charisma, noting her defeat of the amendment 192 to 112 as the crowd lauds her performance.
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Washington
Iris Blitch
Georgia
Congress
Capitol Hill
Mae West
Blitch Aga
Benvenuto Cellini
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North Carolina
George Eliot
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Shakespeare
Rocky Marciano
the Rock
Tunney
Rocky
Marciano
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High Point Enterprise
D. A. Rawley
R. B. Terry
Pam
Adie Pureator Oa
Lees Roatter
Seccia c Poss
Ihe Sie
Capitol Square
Luther Medlin
Greensboro
Civitan International
Boston
John Stickley
Charlotte
Lions International
Miami
Charlie Armstrong
Salisbury
Kiwanis International
Luther Hodges
Rotary International
Rotary
Hubert Potent
Wake Forest
Shrine
Sheldon Roper
Lincolnton
Knights of Pythias
Gurney P. Hood
Western Carolina College
Cullowhee
Paul Reid
Madeline Falk Reid
Mississippi
Okie
Eri
Charles Pearson
Daily Smith
MR. Swanson
Edie
Thomas Calvin Swanson
Stalin
Holt McPherson
George Dixon
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