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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1956
Page
8
A reader faces dissolution of marriage after a long affair with Lois and asks about his four children and possible orphanage. The columnist advises seeking counseling through Family and Children's Service and a wise listener, not direct mail guidance, with Mary Haworth noting she counsels by column.
A moral tale by Muriel Lawrence about Dot learning to value the act of trying over the outcome. It contrasts a child’s anxious focus on results with a parent’s guidance to emphasize effort, a lesson echoed by educators and scholars on youth ethics.
In 1956 a detainee writes from Albuquerque County Jail to report a change of address after being sentenced to the U S penitentiary at Leavenworth Kansas. The letter notes March 26 filing of income tax and asks acknowledgment of the new address.
In Salt Lake City Stanley Smedley found a two foot boa constrictor in a stalk of bananas. He and Nick Pott recalled the incident as they unloaded fruit. Local zoo curator Jerry De Bary identified the reptile.
Garden Club hosts an afternoon of flowers and food with Strawberry Cornucopias as a standout dessert. The recipe uses pancake mix pancakes filled with cream cheese and milk, rolled into cornucopias, topped with sliced strawberries, and served with iced coffee. Decorate glasses with daisies and ribbons to match the flowery theme.
Pamela Wilde, 28, wife of NBC host Dave Garroway, vows to cook breakfast for the TV commentator each morning at 4 am. The couple wed yesterday in New York City and plan to keep the promise amid Garroway’s 7 am Today show schedule. This is their second marriage for both.
Mix drained hot spinach with thick French dressing and mayonnaise, pack into custard cups and chill. Serve on lettuce as a fresh salad course.
Funeral services were held for Dallas resident Strong Hood a 107 year old man whose life traced back to slavery and the Civil War. Born in Alabama on a cotton plantation he was sold away from his family as a child and was buried today in Hearne Texas.
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