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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1955
Page
3
A national Safe Driving Day is observed to promote safety on roads. The President's Committee on Traffic Safety urges obeying rules, avoiding alcohol, limiting speed, planning ahead, signaling at intersections, maintaining vehicle condition, and driving with constant alertness to reduce fatalities.
The piece argues peace and foreign policy dominate voters and notes bipartisan roots. It cites President Truman and Adlai Stevenson criticizing Republican diplomacy while praising bipartisan effort and warning against politicizing foreign policy. The author asserts peace, not party gain, should guide policy.
George Sokolsky analyzes New York Jet Set society from Four Hundred snobbery to Cafe Society, noting divorce, publicity, and public figures like Igor Cassini. He warns that fun without meaning leads to ruin, with some jet setters turning to liberalism or communism and funding harmful causes.
The piece lampoons a U.S. plan to curb agricultural surpluses by encouraging bartenders to create surplus-reducing beverages. It suggests absurd concoctions using olives onions cherries lemon peel and other foods with tongue in cheek jabs at Secretary Benson wasting warehouse space on surpluses and hints at promotional drink ideas and prizes for bartenders. The column humorously imagines seasonal drinks from egg nog to cheese whisky while noting current surpluses and a State Department spokesman's remarks.
A briefing cites a forthcoming U S conference with Russia Japan and Canada on protecting Pacific seal herds. Sinclair Weeks comments on surplus animals and carrier price competition while criticizing extreme proposals and urging safer saving ideas for the public.
Editor Robert Marks recalls W A Bivins, longtime The Enterprise journalist and teacher, as a deeply religious, compassionate man devoted to truth and service. He worked nearly 20 years, arrived daily, read widely, and faced illness with quiet dignity. He died after a heart attack at Memorial Hospital.
The Memphis Press Scimitar notes Dr Robert Hutchins president of the Fund for the Republic says he would hire a qualified Communist, while questioning the Fund's stance and linking communism to espionage and crime. The piece questions whether the fund's aims to preserve the Constitution align with such views.
The High Point Enterprise lists its staff roles with D A Rawley Mrs R B Terry as secretary treasurer and notes positions for editor advertising director and business circulation manager at its High Point North Carolina headquarters.
A collection of quotations covers Eisenhower delaying a nomination, Taft about conservatives, Oliva Dionne on her convent return, Alfred Gruenther on NATO, Stevenson as top Democratic choice, Keeffe, Mansfield, and a centenarian Jolie Potter from Clifton City Missouri noting trust in the Lord.
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