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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1949
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise lists advertising director and editor names, and shows postal and carrier subscription prices for three, six, and twelve months. Rates include By Mail and By Carrier options with weekly and annual costs.
Confidential memo advises the new Pointer editor at High Point High to write on topics of real importance and reader interest. It urges a balance of serious and light pieces, to resist censorship by teachers, and to develop independent judgment while maintaining good taste and newspaper policy.
The column defends a Pope Field pickup team with two Negro players that played High Point College at Albion Millis stadium, noting the incident caused little controversy. It cites the schedule as a mistake and urges restraint while praising progress toward racial tolerance in the South.
A collage of idle chatter features Sherman Minton’s lore of early court credentials, Paul Porter’s color television quips, Sabath and Brown nature talk, Brannan’s dried egg surplus woes, and Madame Pandit’s blue tinted hair as color TV fever spreads and politicians swap wry remarks.
A light column blends sports and social quips noting the Yankees and Dodgers pennants, the Red Sox and Cardinals as runners up, misadventures of a Supreme Court justice and a prison composer, plus jokes about Porter and a Vermont farmer and a waiter’s flood remark.
A public statement by Gov. Frank Lausche of Ohio asserts that enforcement of law and order transcends local concerns and underpins government. it is a matter of broad public interest and national significance.
Norwegian citizens funded a new statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt to be unveiled in Oslo next summer. Sculp tor Stinius Fredriksen crafts the granite monument, reflecting U S leadership and wartime memory.
Paul Truitt, president of the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers, advocates ending legal discrimination against margarine and promoting market merit free of bias.
The text argues Paul Robeson holds pro Communist and pro Soviet Russia positions, citing interviews and a long history with Communist front movements. It portrays him as a consistent anti fascist aligned with Soviet Russia, highlighting public statements and a 1949 Peekskill concert incident.
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