Democracy and football fans weigh NC needs and strikes
A Chapel Hill crowd of over 44 000 voices views democracy, strikes, teacher pay, and health programs. They favor higher teacher salaries, a broad health program including a medical school, and rank schools above hospitals while seeking action from state and federal legislators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Yesu
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
North Carolina Education Association
Carolina
High Point Toy Drive Seeks Donated Discards for Children
Winifred Hinkle urges cooperation with the junior chamber of commerce and the Salvation Army in a toy drive to collect discarded toys for repair and delivery to underprivileged children at Christmas. Toys may be left at local fire stations. jaycees will collect Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for repair and painting at the Salvation Army workshop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Salvation Army
Winifred Hinkle
Jaycees
High Point Dealing With Stadium Proposal Idea
Virgl Yow, former High Point college coach, calls High Point the only town lacking an athletic stadium and urges civic clubs to back a stadium project. He frames a community effort as essential for local sports events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Virgl Yow
Evening crowds mark return with glowing lights and questions
Citizens debate the purpose of the wartime spectacle as vast crowds fill the streets under police guard. Announcer calls arrivals while a neon night dazzles. Local officials praise Christmas seals sales, college football players, and a proposed stadium project funded by ticket sales without personal cost.
Whose Whee-ee-ee? The Silent Parade of Celebrities
By George Sokolsky laments the media fueled crowd at a theater raid on a celebrity arrival. He contrasts calm performances by Elman and Ibsen with a late night street mob seeking a name while police guard children from riot like a public spectacle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George S. Patton, Jr
Notes of a Newspaper Man on Trade Unionism and CIO Policy
The writer argues for free trade unionism as a defense against fascism and criticizes the CIO and Mr. Murray over the Murray resolution. He portrays the resolution as a cover for communist influence, questions free speech within the CIO, and warns that the split could threaten democracy and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor
Murray
CIO
Mr. Murray
Communist Party
National Committee
Daily Worker
Cio-Pac
Abram Flaxer
Ben Gold
Mike Quill
John L. Lewis
Adolf Hitler
F.D.R
Justice Brandeis
Stalin
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Russia
Communist Youth Organization
U. S
United States
The Life Giving Power of Jesus Sermon Study
This sermon editorial summarizes John 11 on Jesus as resurrection and life. It notes Lazarus, Martha, and Nicodemus as contexts for spiritual rebirth and eternal life, urging belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the water of life for all who come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Jerusalem
John
Christ
God
Nain
Bethany
Lazarus
Martha
Resurrection
Jesus Christ
Nicodemus
Capitol Square Candidates Loom in 1948 Governor Race
Rumors place William Umstead and Charles M. Johnson as contenders for the 1948 North Carolina governorship amid resignations and private commitments. Oscar Pitts emerges as a rising influence in Western politics, shifting toward administration support after earlier opposition.
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William B. Umstead
Democratic Executive Committee
Charles M. Johnson
Umstead
Asheville
Capitol Square
Lower Mountain
West
Oscar Pitts
State
Pitts
J. M. Broughton
Monroe Redden
Zebulon Weaver
Gregg Cherry
Alignment hints Pitts Horton Doughton as 1948 lieutenant governor prospect
Lynn Nishet notes political alignment between Pitts Horton Doughton of Statesville and Ralph McDonald supporters. Oscar Pitts could become a 1948 lieutenant governor candidate with McDonald strength backing. Chairmanship details suggest eastern or western picks, with Blythe and Hodges named as possibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitts
Horton Doughton
Statesville
Bob Doughton
Ralph McDonald
Oscar Pitts
McDonald
Executive Committee
Cherry
Greensboro
Joe Blythe
Charlotte
Brandon Hodges
Asheville
Also Mentioned on This Page
High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
H. A. Cecil
D. A. Rawley
Robert L. Thompson
Associated Press and
Associated Press
N. C
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Nee Ene
Lexington Ave
N. Y. City
the High Point
N. Y
Enterprise
Federal Congress
S. S. Saunders
High Point Tuberculosis Association
PF. d. Sizemore
American Business Club
University of North Carolina
George Sokolsky
Carnegie Hell
Mischa Elman
Pinkerton
Margaret Webster
Eva le Gallienne
America
Ibsen
Borkman
Winchell
New York
By Lynn Nishet
E. Simms Campbell
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