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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1953
Page
4
The council refused to raise police salaries due to a tight budget and lagging tax revenues. Fire Chief Canady and others warn the pay gaps impede attracting qualified staff. A High Point rule blocks midyear changes, and without excess revenue the city must study wages before next year's budget.
The city aims to improve school area traffic safety led by Mayor Covington. The plan involves the city planner, police traffic division, schools, parents, and the community to reduce hazards near Junior and Senior high schools and the Tomlinson elementary school.
Housewives in Kimberly lead a nylon hosiery boycott prompting a campaign to educate South African women on selecting and caring for nylon stockings. Johannesburg Capetown and Durban groups join, urging imports ban until standards meet the South African Bureau of Standards. Despite the protests, demand for 12 and 15 denier stockings remains steady as shoppers complain yet buy.
The Army's official Korea report cites 29,815 murdered or tortured including 6,113 American soldiers. It links mass prisoner killings to wartime mobility and expediency, arguing that deterrence hinges on victory and strong military forces to uphold peace against a lawless enemy.
A reader debunks a 60 page British Colonial Report praising the Solomon Islands as an ideal paradise with perfect climate and economy. The piece contrasts colonial fiction with harsher memories of wartime hardship, jungle life and distrust, noting misfits between myth and local realities.
Ex Governor Kerr Scott mingled with Alamance unit members at the State Farm Bureau Federation convention. He campaigns for the U S Senate while signaling no formal entry before February. Attendees show divided opinions, with farm bureau crowds leaning toward Scott though other events suggest mixed support.
Report from Raleigh notes six months to primary with Lennon facing six weeks more. Scott and Lennon active in campaign travel and public talks. Congressmen Barden and Cooley expect committee chairs in 1954 while Truman White House views split voters. mixed reactions to Truman speech reflect local political tensions.
Washington sources describe how Harry Dexter White, a Treasury monetary expert, allegedly provided a 1937 Soviet currency reform plan to the Communist network via Whittaker Chambers. The plan's fate remains unknown, and Chambers portrays White as a minor contributor while questioning White’s motives and the value of his material.
W A Bivins describes country meetings, church life, and dinner on the grounds. He recalls Sunday sermons, hymn singing, and the hypnotic effect of long services, plus village life in Piedmont with tales of romance and small-town routines. He notes a science item about a 750 million-year-old spider added to New York's American Museum of Natural History.
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