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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1949
Page
4
By mail and carrier options listed. Three month rate is 3.25, six months 6.50, twelve months 13.00 by mail. By carrier weekly 30 cents, six months 7.80, twelve months 15.00.
The High Point fund raising campaign begins today and pools nine Red Feather agencies into a single drive. Donors may pledge how many payments to make and how often, giving to nine campaigns without nine separate solicitations.
The Raleigh News and Observer argues against Le land Olds reappointment as a federal power commissioner. It says opponents exploit his past anti American writings while he has pushed government ownership in key industries, labeling him a socialist and unfit for free enterprise. It criticizes supporters for aiding totalitarian rhetoric.
Miles Wolff returns to North Carolina to become executive editor of the Greens boro Daily News. He previously ran the Baltimore Evening Sun news desk and helped elevate its quality. The paper welcomes him and predicts similar improvement at the GDN.
Maude Reynolds writes for Business Women's Week about High Point’s transformation from a “mud-hole” to a thriving city with 50 000 residents. She highlights churches schools banks stores and factories, praising the BPW for civic service and affordable finance enabling home purchases and repairs, loans and banking services fueling further growth.
A reviewer praises Houston Harte for adapting the Bible into vivid narrative and art. Guy Rowe’s 31 biblical portraits, including Elisha, capture universal spiritual themes and timeless human figures, pairing journalism with art to present a lasting cultural contribution. The essay compares Rowe’s work to Renaissance biblical art and recommends the book as a Christmas gift.
Editorial from Business Week warns that banning industry wide bargaining may be essential to preserve competition as strikes in coal and steel reveal fragility in the enterprise system. The piece argues labor and management both lose in national strikes and urges firm action to protect economic freedom. It also reflects on national morale and defense readiness amid postwar tensions.
A Dodge News item reflects on Emily Post guidance as a standard for polite behavior. It notes a contrast between courteous and discourteous actions in daily life and hints at a clash between generations over social etiquette.
The fragment argues that future history of the Atomic Age hinges on money and influence not just warfare. It warns that being too good can dull interest and that personal networks limit surprises. It asserts peace cannot be won by winning or losing a war and uses bridge as a metaphor for deduction.
A jaded man quips about age in a playful exchange with a lawyer. The attorney asks if the divorce involves troublesome relations, and the respondent notes his own relations are fine while his partner's are terrible. The piece ends with a wry remark on changing tastes as one grows older.
U S Department of Agriculture plans to buy thousands of bushels of surplus apples for schools as part of the lunch program. The 1949 apple crop stands at about 129.5 million bushels, up from 88 million in 1948.
Grace Tully in F D R My Boss recounts Roosevelt’s remark that he wanted a fourth term to fire Mrs Nesbitt the White House housekeeper. The column also riffs on Cardinal Hayes and Wickersham Oklahoma City marine and fisheries work, plus anecdotes about George E Allen and Steve Early at Miami races.
The article notes lilies of the valley as fairy ladders and hyacinths once housed reddish purple hues. It states carnations were cultivated by the Greeks around 300 B.C. It then begins to report freight train car counts in the U S, noting a rise from 34.4 in 1918.
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