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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1956
Page
4
The Christian Science Monitor reflects on John von Neumann's prediction that atomic energy could someday be harnessed to control the weather. The piece weighs risks of fall out and radiation against possible safe, large scale power use and wonders if new safety screens or even new power sources lie beyond the atom.
Uncle Sam faces peculiar troubles as he boasts vast wealth and borrowing. Congress holds historic debt, while Franklin’s thrift is invoked as a contrast. The piece playfully links debt to leadership and suggests paying debt might ease woes.
The Sermonette urges slowing pace to notice blessings and nature from Puget Sound sunrises to birdsong. It emphasizes greeting friends, weather, forests, and the divine in daily minutes, arguing that living slowly brings closer contact with God and a more ordered life.
The Tulsa Tribune opines that Detroit auto makers chase ever lower frames by 1960, ignoring human anatomy. It mocks cramped interiors, suggests redesigns like individual vistadomes or rubber cars, and calls for practical comfort over fashion.
A New York butcher, John A. Hechenblaickner, plowed into a airport arcade post then sped onto a LaGuardia runway as a United Airlines DC plane landed. The driver, already jailed for drunken driving, narrowly avoided a catastrophic collision with the aircraft.
The column argues against retiring acreage through a soil bank tactic replacing crop production with payments. It warns that retirement of farmers, via pensions or reeducation, reduces competition and distorts what is grown versus what people eat, urging reevaluation of farm relief policies.
The High Point Enterprise lists key newsroom roles with D A Rawley as secretary treasurer and Holt McPherson as president alongside W Patterson as editor and R B Terry as secretary treasurer in a partial masthead excerpt.
The snippet lists publication frequency as afternoon and Sunday morning, pricing for mall and carrier delivery per year, and credits the Associated Press for local and dispatch news. It notes entry as second class at the High Point N Y Post Office and mentions distribution interactions and contact with carriers and representatives.
Washington columnist George Dixon portrays the Egyptian embassy under Dr. Ahmed Hussein as tense and busy with no days off. Nasser phones nightly at 10 pm, disrupting sleep across staff while aid to Egypt is redirected to crisis work. The piece reflects on the embassy’s serious duties beyond social functions.
The State Board of Education told the Advisory Budget Commission that public schools in North Carolina would require about 332 million dollars for 1957-58 and 1956-59. The plan increases state funding per pupil to about 165 dollars a year, with notable raises for bus drivers and transportation for rural and urban students. The article notes equity gaps between rural and urban programs and critiques rural bus service versus city limits.
Education officials argued that pupils living three miles or more from school should not face transportation costs or discrimination in city schools. Oscar Richardson warned the current system is a sitting duck if challenged in court while John Pritchett urged faith in North Carolina’s future, urging larger sums for higher education mental health and social services.
Holt McPherson reviews The Better Worker from the Better Workers Institute at Booker T. Washington's birthplace in Virginia. The piece urges hard work, loyalty, patriotism, education, and team effort, arguing machines boost production and wages while stressing fair play and honest work. It cites surveys showing rising earnings, home ownership, cars, and War Bonds as signs of a thriving American worker.
Isolated items mix science and whimsy from Dr. Paul Aebersold to a wire free TV remote. A San Diego Union report notes the gadget’s prices, while quips touch on politics, fashioning a mosaic of midcentury curiosities and editorials.
The speaker praises traveling the country to shake hands with Estes Kefauver and contrasts it with past efforts against him. He notes noise about a still and federal agents, while moonshiner Lonnie Hastings is arrested in Miami. He also identifies as an architectural genius and reflects on aging architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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