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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1949
Page
4
The article lists the paper’s leadership including R. B. Terry as president and Robert L. Thompson as editor along with D. A. Rawley as secretary treasurer C. W. Patterson Jr as advertising director and Charles B. Loflin as circulation manager.
Judge Susie Sharp, North Carolina’s first female superior court judge, sentences a man to death in a High Point rape trial. The piece praises her calm, capable handling of the case, noting her performance challenges stereotypes about women in law and politics and urging equal rights and pay.
The period October 2 to 8 marks National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week with High Point highlighted as a model city. Employers are urged to hire physically handicapped workers, who are portrayed as loyal, productive, and capable, with Ralph Miller leading successful job placements for disabled veterans and others.
The United States Senate approved renewal of the reciprocal trade agreements program, defeating eight amendments aimed at curbing tariffs in exchange for foreign concessions. The vote protected the program for another two years while noting narrow margins on related oil import limits.
Washington column recalls a hospital visit by Henry Griffin after a Kansas City trip to photograph Truman. It notes Mrs Virginia Hayes undergoing treatment and comments on John Sherman Cooper’s UN plans and Joe Martin’s vacation outreach. Senator Homer Ferguson keeps a cigarett box deep freeze reminder on desk.
A critique of public relations in Charles Yale Harrison's Nobody's Fool noting how government propaganda blurred lines between dictators and democrats. It depicts chiefs of PR shaping the so called common man to sway opinion and influence leaders from the president to the public.
The papers show Andrei Vishinsky with a quizzical smile while President Truman appears grim, suggesting defense anxieties as the atomic blast in Russia informs a wary mood. Prophets of doom argue war with Russia is inevitable, but preparedness remains prudent whether or not war is certain.
A condensed wartime digest notes fears of a deadly poisonous gas and its global implications, recalls mustard gas in World War I, then profiles Dr. W A Lambeth and his North Carolina ministry, and surveys Bible society plans for distributing scriptures amid postwar recovery and faith-promoting messages.
Winchell reports on Blackouts running long at 46th Street and Touch and Go with George Abbott, South Pacific crowds, and Benny Goodman’s band at the Roxy. He jokes about Pat Munsel, Pat Terry, Kath ry n Grayson, Mario Lanza, and a flood of musical plans, with digressions on publishers and a Boise UP man.
The column notes Fredric March as a guest on Ford T V on October 7 with the top video date price reaching five thousand dollars. Stop the Music is slated to be given away tonight at eight. Opposition in Amsterdam shifts to Ed Wynn and Olsen and Johnson as Phil Baker’s Open Letter nears debut. Fibber McGee’s program not yet heard. United American airs a strong bit on prejudice using a role-reversal device. Editorials debate radio versus TV profits and military strategy.
Puzzle list appears to map clues to terms across varied entries. The readable fragments show a word association grid with numbers and terms such as Boy Deserve Mineral, Pronoun, Gibbon Improper, Nostril Time period, and Show Me State. The text resembles a cryptic or cross reference page.
A compact set of crossword clues listing multiple abbreviated hints and wordplay prompts across numbers 33 to 54, covering topics from medicine to navigation and poultry terms, reflecting a themed puzzle entry with shorthand answers and cross references.
A fragment recalls John Howard Payne influenced by departure of a group. It contrasts patience for inheritance with Uncle Sam. A sports line notes no hits or runs and no arraignment. A quip about marriage and thrift follows a fisherman metaphor and a fallen great man.
The text links a pangram sentence to varied facts noting a famous sentence about packing and alphabet coverage, claims about Elizabeth and the world’s largest liner, a quarter million labor figure, soil erosion, Idaho’s 109 certified airports, and a remark on baby eels unable to swim for weeks after hatching.
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