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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1936
Page
4
The excerpt discusses aligning religion with actions and warnings against hypocrisy. It cites Acts 2 39 and argues that true faith shows itself in deeds rather than words, warning that failing to live by creed equates to undoing oneself.
The Enterprise invites readers to visit its new home tomorrow marking a new epoch of usefulness. The note emphasizes community ownership, progress, and the paper’s role in reflecting local vigor and truth.
A look at a record of community achievement highlights how residents balance work and leisure while engaging with city history and development. The feature notes High Point and its surrounding area show a vibrant, evolving urban identity amid busy lives.
The article extols High Point's rich Indian lore and pioneering history, praising its educational religious and social growth alongside industrial progress. It credits civic effort and a forward looking citizenry for a vibrant, expanding city poised to become a leading Southern hub.
Federal agents captured Alvin Karpis in New Orleans and Harry Campbell in Toledo with no resistance. The arrests show criminals now respect gun equipped agents as justified homicides deter the era of rampant crime, while the G mans trigger finger matches the crook.
The Chamber of Commerce expresses best wishes for the Enterprise’s continued success and congratulates on the splendid new building. The two bodies have long aided High Point’s growth and hope their cooperative relations remain strong. the owners’ progressive spirit drives the newspaper’s development.
The High Point Merchants Association and Chamber of Commerce praise the city’s forward momentum and express confidence in community leadership. They commend The Enterprise for its new facilities and hope for continued collaboration to boost local development and the newspaper’s role in the town.
Letters discuss superintendent tax payments and favors, registration practices at the high school, and the impact of taxes on rents and factories. A call to fair elections and scrutiny of tax distribution appears, with residents urging no tax increases and urging registration this Saturday.
Inventor touts a new carburetor that could deliver 200 miles per gallon enabling motorists to refuel far less often. The claim envisions cars needing fuel less frequently and finding parking easier as a result.
A tribute to the High Point Enterprise and its enduring role in shaping community progress. The poem lauds enterprise across generations, highlighting the building of a grand structure as a symbol of ambition. It echoes pride in North Carolina and the values of foresight, artful craft, and public duty guiding society forward.
The article weighs the Roosevelt relief programs from CWA to WPA and RRA, criticizing the administration for failing to face economic facts. It denounces cost overruns, alleged graft, and boondoggling, calling the WPA the costliest Roosevelt failure and condemning redirected funds to dream cities and made work schemes.
The piece argues that the WPA has degraded relief and failed to improve morale, with insiders labeling it counterproductive. It claims Roosevelt and Hopkins avoid retreating before the election, defend the dole, and oppose shifting relief control to states while denouncing partial funding, portraying a costly political standoff.
New York commentary columns discuss film figures and writers, noting Tess Slessinger, Ben Atwell, and others amid WPA funding debates. It surveys cultural names from Walter Huston to Floyd Gibbons, with musings on careers, marriages, and publishing trends in a brisk, period voice.
Ten years ago on May 8, 1926 High Point township led Guilford County in real estate transfers while Morehead township pursued baseball prospects. If plans hold, High Point could join the Piedmont league next Friday at 4 pm with the Danville club possibly relocating for the rest of the season at a cost of about 3000 dollars. Frank Sizemore calls it the best proposition for High Point baseball.
More than 150 workers are to assemble at the high school tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock to conduct what is described as the most thorough religious survey in High Point.
Mother's Day services will be conducted at Wesley Memorial church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock by the laymen of the church. Arrangements for special music include solos by Mrs. Robert Amos and Miss Edith Moore. T Wingate Andrews will deliver the Mother's Day address. Rev. E K McLarty, the church pastor, attends the General Methodist conference in Memphis Tennessee.
From Washington the House program for the remainder of the session was outlined today by Representative Tilson a Connecticut Republican leader. It includes farm rivers and harbors coal veterans judiciary and civil service legislation.
From Birmingham Alabama at the close of the 28th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans May 18 to 21 a special train is planned to run to Atlanta so veterans may visit the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial.
Reports from Raleigh show ongoing drought and cool conditions harming farm progress across North Carolina. The Sand Hills peach crop is expected to fall short of the 2000 carloads produced last year due to the current weather.
Melvin A. Taylor of Chicago addresses the Durham banker's association arguing that agricultural mood is driven by inflation after the war rather than overproduction. He cites economic pressures affecting farmers and markets.
Sigmund Romberg was confined on the 17th floor of an apartment building when the elevator stopped. He was told to walk out if he wished to escape but could not descend beyond the eighth floor, and he returned nine floors to his apartment.
Rumors say George Horace Lorimer will hand The Saturday Evening Post to his son Graeme. Observers anticipate Graeme Lorimer will assume the helm, continuing the family line at the storied publication.
Brooklyn has long hosted amateur acts dating back to Bowery book nights with origins unclear. A high share of Major Bowes and touring programs recruit from across the bridge, with Brooklyn supplying many burlesque troopers in earlier days.
Emil Coleman led a long distance orchestra at a debutante party on Long Island playing from 10 30 p m to 8 30 a m with brief cigarette breaks. Eddy Duchin reportedly improvised on piano for five hours straight at a Casino party, the event reportedly valued at a thousand dollars.
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