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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1951
Page
4
The High Point centennial celebration gains momentum with rapid progress in plans and public enthusiasm for the July 8 to 14 event. Centennial Chairman W. C. Sheloft leads crews, but civic participation is essential to ensure a successful affair as the bandwagon rolls forward.
Telegraph Editor Joe Brown of The High Point Enterprise is credited by Cartaret County News-Times with saving a mother and child from drowning at Atlantic Beach. The report says his act risked his own life and earned him full credit for two lives saved.
A doctor testifying before the Senate Crime Committee on the dope epidemic argues that a dealer who supplies to youths deserves lifelong prison or electro shock. He refrains from endorsing the harsher punishment but asks who is the worse criminal, the robber killer or the man who starts a child on the dope habit to create a customer.
A Washington dispatch notes that price controls were lifted on Christmas wrapping materials, labels and stickers by the Office of Price Stabilization. The report mocks the OPS advisory committees and recalls Kefauver era satire at the National Press Club while mixing humorous anecdotes about social lists and elevator quips in the Capitol.
The editorial praises Governor Scott for appointing new members to the State Board of Conservation and Development. It regrets losing Eric Rogers and Oscar Breece but supports the governor's political and philosophical choices. Hugh Morton’s appointment is hailed as a positive turn toward North Carolina’s tourist industry.
A St Louis radio scoop states President Harold Stassen of the University of Pennsylvania is an active candidate for the Republican nomination. Senator Robert Taft is another. The piece notes the party faces too many candidates while Democrats fear Truman’s renomination, but warns you cannot beat someone with nobody.
The Democrats of the United States Senate scrapped plans for a summer vacation and chose to work through fall due to world turmoil, Congress lagging, and Americans fighting in Korea, deeming it disgraceful to leave work undone.
Iran warned the World Court that the Anglo-Iranian Oil issue is none of its business, while remaining a court signer bound by its jurisdiction. Observers note Tehran’s extremist rhetoric may harm its future standing with international bodies like the Court or the United Nations.
The piece recalls November 21 1948 when Far Eastern experts argued in the New York Star about China. Edgar Snow Owen Lattimore John Fairbank Annalee Jacoby Nathaniel Peffer Christopher Rand and others offered non intervention positions urging restraint large scale aid and maintaining contact with both Nationalists and Communists while warning against Soviet proxy conquest and political smear as China’s fate unfolded.
Senator James H. Duff criticizes Russia for threatening global conflict over Korea while noting US soldiers and civilians face shortages. Dr. Roy E. Morse argues the average American diet remains inadequate despite meat and staple prices.
A crowded page notes Father Divine represented in boxing terms as Saint Jackson alongside show world gossip. It covers marriages, divorces, and romances among actors, producers, and society figures, plus industry shakeups, legal actions, and international political chatter with multiple named people and entities.
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