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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1974
Page
2
A reflection cites Luke 23 35 about rulers scoffing at Jesus and derides dictators and opportunists. Ralph W Sockman notes that after those figures disappear the cross remains and signifies the real thing for believers.
The United Appeal campaign begins in High Point seeking 615000 to support 24 agencies in 1975. The drive emphasizes strict budgeting, accountability, and local responsibility as the key to a thriving community and reduced government intervention.
The passage cites Edward Gibbon’s five reasons for Rome’s decline as echoed today: divorce eroding the home, rising taxes funding bread and circuses, a mad craving for brutal sports, massive armaments while internal decadence grows, and religious faith fading into form.
President Johnson signed the Wilderness Act in 1964 and, ten years later, advocates note expansion of the National Wilderness Preservation System from nine million acres across 54 areas to additions totaling about two million acres. Proposals seek 43.47 million acres in Alaska and a smaller eastern forest addition. House action pending.
Ah Wilderness Audubon notes Alaska holds the last vast unspoiled area with less than one percent developed. It contrasts this with forecasts of rising outdoor recreation nationwide and potential access rationing to protect federally protected lands, while quoting Trudeau on Nixon and a Rutland VT student editorial criticizing alternative schooling.
President Ford weighs replacements for HEW and Defense chiefs Caspar Weinberger and James Schlesinger while eyeing also ousters at Agriculture Housing and Urban Affairs and the budget office. Possible HEW or Defense heads include Rep. Albert Quie and Don Rumsfeld as White House aides debate Saxbe staying on.
The piece reviews Labor Day as a marker of the business year, noting signs of easing high interest rates and potential recovery in the fall. It cites forecasts of gradual improvement, stock market signals, and plans for new businesses, including Steve Kimsey’s option on the old Southern station for a downtown lounge restaurant and various local community initiatives.
The East German regime tightens border control by doubling daily currency exchange for West visitors, halving westbound border crossings and prompting West Berlin to weigh political costs if concessions are asked. Observers see motives may mix economic pressure with ideological fear as crossborder escapes persist.
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