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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1952
Page
4
A column argues water shortages underline need for long range highway planning. It urges toll roads and pay-as-you-ride funding to build modern, capacity ahead, avoid patchwork fixes, and avoid expanding three-lane designs. Author L. B. urges forward funding.
The article urges High Point to revive local investment and internal expansion to attract industry. Postmaster Steve Clark advocates recalling local history, supporting nearby businesses, and reinvesting surplus cash in the community rather than chasing stock-market bets. The piece emphasizes faith in local entrepreneurs and a return to risk on hometown ventures.
An Associated Press dispatch from the United Nations reports Western Europe shows signs of a depression in 1952 with Britons, French, Germans, Scandinavians, the Low Countries, and Swiss buying less and consuming less. It notes stalled trade revival and considers implications for America amid high military costs and calls for World Bank loans and industrial expansion.
In a Boston sermon at the Protestant Episcopal General Convention Admiral Alan G. Kirk, former ambassador to Russia, argued the Communist Party’s main battle is to stay in power and urged mobilizing Christian forces. He stressed sympathy for Russian people and favored a peaceful revolution over war.
Washington editors pursue a mock fishing expedition into Internal Revenue Service files opened for press inspection. Reporters chase sensational names like Costello and Adonis while officials limit access, leaving many cases undisclosed. Senator Kerr defends his stance amid tax bureau closures and fringe benefits debate.
A rambly mixed-page column riffs on lipstick volumes, alcohol tolerance myths, and witty asides about TV consultants and vintage slang. It recalls advertising quirks, newsroom humor, and old-time editorial voice with notes on Moran and Mack, radio milestones, and superstitions about the doctor finger.
The record lists varied remarks from figures including Andrei Gromyko on Korea, Adm. William Fechteler on naval matters, Gen. Douglas MacArthur on resignation rhetoric, Rep. Emanuel Celler on leadership, Mervin Good on Bob Hope, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg on saucers, Paul G Hoffman on taxes and expenses, and Arthur Sherry on gambling tax stamps.
Washington reports a shift in the Justice Department from cautious prosecutions to active trials. Attorney General James McGranery plans sweeping reviews of cases, disclosures of officials’ private gain, and tighter rules to curb conflicts of interest, with reorganized practices to end past secrecy.
Dr Frederick R Taylor dissents from a polio virus claim in a recent Enterprise piece. He clarifies his views on immunity carriers and antibiotics and cites Cecil's Text Book of Medicine and Yale expert John Rodman Paul.
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