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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1954
Page
4
Guilford and Yadkin officials met with legislators to push creating a Central Carolina Water Authority. They urged countywide harmony to secure support in the legislature while agreeing on protecting the new superhighway from commercial encroachment and other issues with broad consensus.
The final voter results reveal the Third Amendment failed by 52 848 votes with 147 588 for and 200 436 against. Smaller counties pushed it, but Guilford and Mecklenburg counties led the opposition, denouncing the measure as unfair and urging adherence to the current constitution and senatorial reapportionment after the census.
The article reports Moscow wooing Yugoslav leader Tito with a proposed neutral Danube island meet arranged by Premier Malenkov. Tito shows cautious openness but prefers not to travel to Russia, fearing manipulation, and Moscow aims to bring the session to him.
An Associated Press report from Houston notes a brokerage offering 10 dollars for 1000 Confederate States cotton bonds due 1883. The piece reflects on past bond failures and states the Confederacy did not redeem obligations because it did not survive, not due to bad faith.
Eugene Lyons argues in Human Events that wealthy backers of anti Communist causes may self destruct by supporting movements aimed at their destruction. He notes class origins of early Bolsheviks and asks why rich individuals and groups fund anti Communism while some oppose it, with commentary on knowledge gaps and hypocrisy among professionals.
George Dixon reports from Guatemala City on President Carlos Castillo Armas greeting U.S. journalists and public visitors in a palace-office setting. He affirms Communist removal, outlines plans to improve natives’ land rights, technology, productivity, and roads while noting light entertainment and oddly relaxed security.
Editor Leroy Gore urges Senator Joseph McCarthy to resign as McCarthy faces censure. Other notes praise Nehru, Tito, and Utah Governor J Bracken Lee while Parliament leaders discuss Germany's sovereignty and cautions against appeasement following Munich.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina publicly challenged Sen. McCarthy's methods in the Senate, urging censure discussion while defending civil service due process and opposing mass loyalty zeal. He warned the nation needs manhood to stand against red-baiting actions. The piece also notes U.S. actions toward peaceful nuclear applications and Toynbee’s visit, with remarks on interpreting history from a mountaintop perspective.
Washington Veterans Day rallying figure Rabbi Benjamin Schultz of New York, head of the American Jewish League Against Communism, promotes anti Communist campaigns and a Cohn supporter network. He cites anti anti Communist labels, names Owen Lattimore, Admiral Strauss, Nixon and McClellan as targets.
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