High Point Enterprise ad rates and staff list 1950
The High Point Enterprise dated Saturday March 11 1950 lists office staff including R B Terry president Robert L Thompson and D A Rawley secretary and treasurer along with circulation manager C W Patterson Jr and editor. Advertising rates show mail subscriptions three months three dollars twenty five cents six months six fifty and twelve months thirteen dollars. Carrier rates include weekly thirty cents six months seven eighty and twelve months fifteen dollars.
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R. B. Terry
Robert L. Thompson
D. A. Rawley
C. W. Patterson, JR
Charles .B. Loflin
Girding our loins is not defense assurance
Critics say the Johnson defense plan underdelivers with outdated planes and lagging aircraft replacement. The article urges concrete facts over grand promises, noting reports by the Finletter commission and aviation board and calling for specifics on military strength and readiness.
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Louis Johnson
United States
Joint Congressional Aviation Board
Johnson
Pentagon
Heroic Bulgarian translator stood up to Communist torture
Michael Shipkov, a Bulgarian employee at the American legation in Sofia, resisted a staged communist confession. Arrested last August and subjected to hours of coercion, he eventually provided a truthful account to American authorities. Despite renewed pressure, he exposed the fake trials and was jailed for 15 years, his courage rescuing truth from fear.
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Michael Shipkov
Sofia
Bulgaria
Shipkov
Legation
U. S
State Department
Statehood for Alaska Faces Senate Hurdles This Year
House approves Alaska statehood as observers doubt Senate action soon. Proponents cite national defense and political equality, while critics question granting two Senate seats to a sparsely populated territory. Opponents argue it challenges the Senate equal representation principle.
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Alaska
House
Senate
Russia
Nevada
Quotes on Union and world stewardship from Stevenson and Anderson
A fragmented quote attributes to Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and Sen. Clifton P. Anderson of New Mexico a discussion on broader national and global issues. It mentions preserving the Union, the world, and controlling crop subsidies for potatoes as an example of policy challenges.
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Clifton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Washington Notes on Politics and Diplomacy
In Washington on March 11 Rep. Paul Shafer urges President Truman to appoint John L. Lewis as secretary of agriculture to cut farm surpluses. Senator Owen Brewster hosts a dry dinner for Jose Felix Lequerica, Spain’s ambassador-at-large, with no liquor served. A later hospital visit follows the ambassador’s party while society figures here ignore national events.
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Washington
Paul Shafer
Michigan
G.O.P
Shafer
Truman
John L. Lewis
Baldy Brannan
Owen Brewster
Maine
Franco
Spain
Jose Felix Lequerica
Brewster
George A. Garrett
Ireland
Vaughan
William
Barkley
Senate
Paul Johnson
Congress
Leslie Biffle
Veep
The Youth of Today and the Moral Renaissance
A writer notes young readers ask what they truly know about man as they face a future, cites Milton Eisenhower and historical shifts from medieval to modern learning, and recalls a Washington anecdote about entertainment for a ambassador. The piece frames education as balancing spiritual and practical knowledge amid societal change.
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Milton Eisenhower
Pennsylvania Manufacturers’s Association
Penn State
Klaus Fuchs
Mars
Jupiter
Europe
Greece
Rome
Asia
Boethius
Gregory the Great
Isidore of Seville
Bede
Abelard
Ibn Gabirol
Averroes
Maimonides
Bologna
Paris
Avicenna
Cordova
Thomas Acuinas
Albertus Magnus
University of Paris
Washington
Garrett
Ireland
Macree
Morton Downey
Phil Regan
Investigative Probes and Political Echoes Across Washington
A column recalls congressional probes from 1948 to 1949 on espionage laws lobbyists and real estate the Arabian oil industry and Franco's Spain. It critiques slow action and hidden records while urging readers to write to their congressman as a vote of public opinion.
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Truman
Sclons
Nyet
Barbs About a New York Boy and Aims at Modern Labor
A New York boy risks losing friends after a fire he put out in a schoolhouse. The piece argues for stricter labor laws to spare parents from overwork and mocks overly optimistic figures. It notes the theft of an Ohio minister's sterling silver tableware and ends with a quip about medicine spoons.
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New York
Quote Fragments and Political Snips From War Era Remarks
A compilation of quoted lines from wartime discourse includes Yale Professor Leo W. Simmons praising resilience under stress, Broadway star Carol Channing on women’s rights, Charles Truman on price support for agriculture, and a remark on Chinese class structure stating the army’s security versus the people’s deprivation.
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Leo W. Simmons
Yale University
Carol Channing
Ivy and Her Pigeon in Retrospect Card
A casual weekly column reflects on events and politics of the week including Britain’s socialist labor government and a controversial trial. It also features Ivy Ancote from Stanton by Bridge England and her homing pigeon that repeatedly accompanies her to school.
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Ivy
Dad
Britain
Hermann N. Sander
Notty
Allentown
Harold Mohr
Walter
Senator McCarthy
R-Wis
Sarah Josepha Hale
Mary
Ivy Ancote
Stanton By Bridge
England
Berowne
Boyet
Mairzy Coats
Christian Science Monitor
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