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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1975
Page
5
The High Point Enterprise lists Randall B. Terry as president and co publisher D A Rawley and David A Rawley Jr as co publishers with Mrs C H Lockwood as vice president. Joseph P Rawley serves as general manager and Joe Brown is editor.
North Carolina voices urge Washington to nominate Chief Justice Susie Sharp to the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Douglas’s resignation. The piece argues for merit over gender or politics, noting Sharp’s qualifications and wide support from NC lawmakers, while describing White House and Senate dynamics and the possibility of a Michigan or political ally appointment.
Dozens of longtime civil rights outfits struggle with deficits and shrinking donations. NAACP faces over $250,000 shortfall, Urban League cuts half a million, PUSH close to $400,000 deficit. SCLC CORE SNCC also weakened as recession and waning support shift tactics and anger grows in cities.
A study notes Canadians attend church more than sports on Sundays but sports receive more media space. It explains Jewish views on immortality as souls continuing after death. A mendicant order is a Catholic religious group relying on alms, with Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinian Hermits as examples.
The article discusses the two-writer theory for Isaiah with Deutero-Isaiah referecing chapters 40 to 55, and the debated authorship of Isaiah's 66 chapters. It also notes the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America forming in January 1672 at Newport Rhode Island, from the Newport Baptist Church, with Stephen Mumford pivotal in 1672.
Readers critique High Point leadership after a split ticket, noting low turnout and questions about progress over two years. A Greensboro comparison looms as a call for clearer governance and a future-focused Bicentennial involvement.
A letter argues 55 mph is a safety measure, not revenue. It cites past equivalence in citations under 65 or 70 mph, defends highway patrol, explains fines fund court costs and county schools, and urges citizens to slow down and obey laws to avoid penalties and danger.
Chinese communists fear Soviet expansion and warn against trusting Moscow while praising U S strength. Kissinger’s Pekin visit underscores Beijing’s concern over detente and potential world war. They cite China’s preparations to deter a Soviet attack as proof detente is fragile and urge U S resolve. Hospital costs in North Carolina rank lower then those of other states.
A sprawling OCR mix covers taxes and Keogh plans, political chatter about George Wallace, hospital cost increases led by Alaska and Nevada, the Armfield murder near S Main Street and ongoing police hunts, a foreign buyers furniture market program, postal rate changes, glaucoma clinic at Wesley Memorial Church, High Point Arts Council activities, United Fund results, and NC State alumnus Robert Fountain and his wife touring Russia with an NC State group.
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