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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1948
Page
4
Critics argue Governor Kerr Scott campaign over promised road improvements misled audiences and that backers like Capus Waynick exaggerated the scope of highway needs. They note U S 21 funding is half federal, with state matching, and emphasize factual road project context over rhetoric.
The Enterprise notes a North Carolina Press Association committee push for American Council on Education accreditation for UNC journalism. A recent council list excludes North Carolina’s Chapel Hill school, prompting scrutiny of the accreditation criteria and standards.
The piece argues the Soviet Union alternates soft diplomacy with force in Berlin, using talks and blockades to pressure Western powers. It notes arrests, kidnappings, and harassment in the western sectors, warns such tactics risk war, and recalls World War I as a cautionary parallel.
In error a column misrepresented Calvin Clark as intemperate. his daughter confirms he was religious, never beggared, a skilled violinist and good worker who lost sight years ago. The piece also recalls an American Machinist note on campaign buttons and plastics, plus a history of Democrat fortunes and a study on salesmen and happiness in early adulthood.
Hugh D. Scott Jr comments on cabinet members campaigning for Truman while Einstein argues for a supra national body to control advanced weapons. The quotes reflect U S political strategy and a call for international authority to prevent war.
Washington column notes dull summer period with Congress away and public relations staff keeping Ship of State afloat. It highlights Smithsonian research on albino fish and frogs, polar spectrum sun damage tests, mockingbird range study, and new insecticide aviation device. Also cites Army draftee gear improvements and a Government inventory project.
The article surveys compulsory general education, state aid growth, and NYC funding. It notes 1.647 million children in New York schools with 744,850 in NYC, rising expenditures from 1826-27 to 1947-48, and state aid climbing from 55 million to 155 million. It highlights teacher salaries, fiscal burdens on taxpayers, and calls for objective study balancing child interests and teaching tenure.
George Dixon describes a fifteen day train swing by President Truman and about 150 reporters traveling 8500 miles to the Pacific coast. The Ferdinand Magellan car includes a private barber, four bedrooms, lounge, dining room and a speaker rostrum with microphones.
New York report details teacher Marie Mortis Rushing who faced quitting over low pay and burnout. A classroom crisis centered on Polly the crippled guinea pig revealing the pupils’ longing for esteem and collective effort. Polly’s courage spurred the class to rally, transforming discipline into cooperation as she learned to walk with student support.
A word puzzle blocks cabinet member clues with cross terms for Secretary of Agriculture and allied terms. Across hints cover agricultural, nautical, and legal terms while vertical clues present a mixed set from spoiled child to cerium symbol.
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