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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1957
Page
4
A devotional note quotes Psalm 26 1 urging trust in the Lord over wealth or false friends. It warns that reliance on earthly aid leads to being deserted and defenseless while affirming faith in God as secure guidance.
Results from Tuesday's off year elections show dissatisfaction with national policy and signal shifts. Meyner won in New Jersey by 200,000 votes, taking control of the State Assembly for the first time in 20 years. Almond's victory in Virginia boosts massive resistance sentiment and Weaver's win in New York strengthens Democratic prospects. Harlem turnout favored Wagner four to one, while Johnson notes space satellite anxiety as a national mood driver.
Gov Hodges appointed Ben R Roberts bank commissioner to fill the term of the late W W Jones. Roberts, former president of the Durham Bank and Trust Company, brings long banking experience from loan work to leadership in state banking direction. He declined another public post due to nearing retirement, but remains active and influential in Durham's financial scene.
Dr. Roy Norton told the Asheville gathering that modernized sanitary practices by grocery and restaurant purveyors raise product appeal and cut communicable disease. He cited a large part of the decreased disease incidence as traceable to better food sanitation, praising the industry’s health impact.
Editorial argues sex education grows in American schools through family life education from elementary to high school. It traces origins with doctors, notes varied content, fears of parent backlash, and cites DC plan to start reproduction lessons early. It also highlights teacher preparation as key to expanding these programs.
The High Point Enterprise lists its core staff including President Mrs. R. B. Terry Secretary-Treasurer Holt McPherson and Director Joe Brown. The paper notes street address at 205-307 North Main Street High Point North Carolina and that carriers are independent contractors.
George Dixon laments the Washington protocol clash sparked by Deputy Chief Victor Purse and a Saudi car gift. He skewers Bureau chief Buchanan and public reactions, noting Ike’s comments on good taste amid a dock of improprieties in elite etiquette.
Twelve members of the North Carolina Textbook Commission were sworn in with Governor Hodges and State Superintendent Charles Carroll stressing responsibility and influence on school curricula. Five carryovers and seven newcomers join as critics analyze publishers. The panel weighs price and content before the State Board adopts texts for elementary and high schools.
Charles Pearson shares reflections on textbook adoptions and political neutrality, recalls Chief Justice Wallace Winborne’s 1898 memory, and examines the interstate highway plan from Great Lakes through West Virginia to Charlotte. The piece discusses limited access roads versus regular highways and the potential tourism impact on North Carolina including Gatlinburg and Smoky Mountains access.
Winchell column questions the Moscow 40th anniversary events in November 1957. It cites a massive display with tanks and missiles in Red Square and argues the celebration is a propaganda effort to push Soviet peace terms, mask past purges, and glorify leaders. The piece warns of looming world alignment shifts and recalls Stalinist terror, East German strikes, Polish riots, and Hungarian 1956 losses as outcomes to forget.
A column weighs Aneurin Bevan as future British foreign minister reviewing U S attitudes toward the Soviet Union and Red China. It contrasts Bevan’s idealism with American skepticism, noting Bevan’s haste to reshape alliance policy and the enduring pull of realism in U S public opinion.
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