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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1943
Page
4
The fifth and final editorial urges High Point to appoint a broad planning council with volunteer citizens from many walks of life. It details committee work on re employment, industry expansion, zoning, public health, schools, and a new hospital, to draft concrete plans for postwar growth.
Bennett Fishler publisher of a New Jersey weekly visits High Point and calls it the pop corn capital of the country noting soaring popcorn sales and butter shortages due to wartime. Mrs Lane comments on wartime marriages and doubts lasting changes after the war.
A 1940s High Point roundup quotes ministers, veterans, and citizens urging wartime effort. Speakers discuss religious courage, Peter and John, and the need to support the third war loan. Local leaders urge duty, unity, and sacrifice for victory.
After a 90 day recess, war agencies signal a shift toward working with Congress. Prentiss Brown bars new rationing without congressional approval, OPA reorganizes under Chester Bowles, and War Food Administrator Marvin Jones seeks a workable production plan. Congress faces a test of leadership and postwar planning with broad proposals on labor, draft, international relief, and UN machinery.
The fragment cites a Bible line about counsel and a Horace quip on recalling spoken words, then states America’s purchasing power rose from 48 billion dollars in 1932 to an estimated 140 billion in 1943, implying a wartime economic expansion.
The article recounts the first all girl orchestras in America and Europe, notes famous women musicians and composers, and shares anecdotes about relationships in music. It profiles Maria Theresa von Paradies, Fanny Mendelssohn, Mrs. H. H. Beach, Elizabeth Stirling, and Carrie Jacobs Bond, plus Haydn, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky and Clara Schumann. The guide outlines selection criteria for Eve lyn of magic violin fame and mentions a long tour noting auditions and costs.
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