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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1955
Page
4
North Carolina may breathe easier as Ione passes but worry grows for the northeastern path of this season’s storms. Meteorologists note the vast atmosphere is powered by solar energy, making storm movement hard to predict, though hints of a northward trough offer hope for better warnings and shifting impact away from the west’s densest populations.
A new oil painting of Odus M. Mull hangs in the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem unveiled Saturday. The portrait honors Mull as a Shelby statesman and churchman who helped attract the Baptist Hospital, the medical school and Wake Forest College, reflecting four decades of civic and educational work.
A three day Washington conference focuses on duties of U S citizenship rather than persuading aliens to become citizens. The piece notes historical immigration levels, current restrictive quotas for Europe Asia and Africa, the 1953 Emergency Relief Act aliens cap, and ongoing Puerto Rican migration impacting New York. The article calls for a broad view of the freedoms and responsibilities of citizenship.
The mystery of Soviet Premier Bulganin's indisposition traces to losing 46 pounds in 40 days. He says athletic activity caused the drop, not the Kremlin's new look. If the slimming is real the illness seems trivial, but a lean Bulganin is less reassuring than a corpulent one.
A Shelby Daily Star summary notes a British MP cites about 40,000 absent husbands in England, with UK taxpayers funding 10 million dollars yearly in aid. Critics urge public disclosure of missing names like murderers, while welfare warrants often sit unused as families remain dependent.
The High Point Enterprise lists its staff and management including D A Rawley Mrs R B Terry Holt McPherson Vaccnee Co W Patterson Jr Advertising Director W W Tool Circulation Manager and Charles B Loplin as editor and business manager for the North Carolina publication.
The piece argues Mamoru Shigemitsu’s 1945 U S visit and surrender on the Missouri improved Japan’s standing in the United States. It lauds his dignity, his daughter’s elegance, and the MacArthur meeting, noting the absence of a celebratory ticker tape parade as a genuine, non theatrical recognition of Japan’s fraught history and repentance.
Lynn Nisbet reports that North Carolina’s four state sanatorium hospitals treated more TB patients last year, with shorter stays and more discharges as cured. Census rose from 1,096 to 1,733. 2,374 admitted, 2,237 discharged. Beds to 2,100 planned. per capita costs ranged 4.94 to 11.14 dollars.
Commission changes reimbursements to McCain hospital for actual costs of treating tuberculous prisoners. Prison department now covers guards housing and patient expenses, aiming to lower per capita costs though rates may rise with higher care standards. Progress cites moves to centralized state aid and phasing out county sanatoria by 1960. Perquisites reform seeks equal pay and established housing/meal charges across all state facilities to reduce cost discrepancies.
An editorial notes learning as education's aim beyond democracy or equality, cites thrift and practical thinking, and praises Penney founder James Penney, Roosevelt, and Washington's spelling quirks. It discusses growth trends in Los Angeles and urban expansion toward a megacity, and ends with a short tale of a girl trading cloth for a kiss.
Washington rows over taxes with Korea as Rep. Frank Chelf and Dr. You Chan Yang trade charges. The Kentucky Democrat urges tough language while Yang defends Korean interests. Chelf recalls Chelf’s rags to riches rise from a Kentucky home to a legal career and Congress.
Comic Sam Levenson jokes about childhood allowances and a guaranteed annual wage. A U S representative Bentley criticizes the United Nations for failing to condemn British and French colonialism, noting lost friendships with Asian and African nations.
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