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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1953
Page
5
Experienced players know the hold-up play refuses an early winning card to exhaust an opponent’s suit. In the example South errs by refusing the first trick, allowing West to profit from a club shift and an eventual defeat of the contract.
A dense schedule fragment lists varied programs across radio and television channels including music shows news commentary dances and dramatic readings. Notable entries include James Crowle Orchestra Armbruster Music St Louis Show Eddy Arnold Gun Smoke Guy Lombardo and Superman alongside classic TV programs like Private Secretary Ford Theatre and Toast of the Town.
Air man Farris Rawley said nearly everything is canned. He opened a three pound can of strawberries and found a billfold with 34 dollars and 49 cents.
RALEIGH Average prices for flue cured tobacco showed little change on South Carolina and North Carolina Border Belt markets yesterday. Most leaf and logs off 1 to 2 per 100 pounds, prims and lower grades up modestly. heavy sales day with lower quality offerings and several markets reporting blocked sales. Thursday's sales were 9,339,736 pounds at $54.23 per 100 pounds. South Carolina moved 4,719,772 pounds at $54.90 and North Carolina 4,619,964 pounds at $53.55.
Only five of 23 Georgia Florida flue cured markets stay open as the 1953 auction season nears close. Through Friday cash receipts exceed 93 million dollars, about 5 percent above 1951's record. the season average stands near 51.44 per hundred, with Thursday's decline hinting at a final price record likely to be topped.
Two British trains collided on a viaduct 80 feet above the River Irk near Manchester. Ten passengers died and about fifty were hurt as a coach capsized into the river and a 30 foot section of the wall was torn out. emergency crews sought acetylene tools to reach several trapped passengers.
A word puzzle lists across and down clues including nations like Ireland and Zealand with entries for chairs, metals, animals, and terms. It references Wellington and cryptic hints such as compass points and ancient deities across a dense grid of definitions.
A collage of show business rumors features hired goons for $250 to rattle Lawrence Tierney's profile, Linda Darnell romances, Pev Marley going abroad, and Linda Danson rumored as a new beauty. Other items note Jennings Lang's tense celebrity attention, Keenan Wynn and Shirley Hudson hints, and Byron Price signaling UN shifts.
Ex Governor Kerr Scott avoids a definite yes on a bid for the U S Senate next year while Senator Alton Lennon positions as the leading candidate for the full term Lennon's sheriff counterparts note a drawn out contest and the final decision will not be made at the sheriffs banquet.
The armadillo lives in burrows that it digs quickly using its fore feet.
Lt. Cmdr. Jerry F. McDaniel of Gulfport Mississippi received a severe reprimand and forfeiture of pay after being found responsible for a lewd benefit show at the Key West Naval Air Station. Five enlisted men were convicted with sentences up to a year. charges against a sixth were dismissed. A general order to clear enlisted personnel is in the works. The reprimand will be filed in McDaniel's personnel records in Washington.
Police announced updated casualty figures from floods in Kyoto region. The revised totals list 143 dead 234 missing and 170 injured with 506 houses demolished and 444 damaged. Many homes washed away as floodwaters swept Ide village and surrounding areas. Torrential rains began overnight in Kyoto.
The United Nations Command lists three more North Carolina POWs freed on day 11 of the Korean armistice exchange. Named are James R. Hope Pfc Co E 5th RCT 24th Div of Belmont NC with father Elijah Hope. Fred L. Holden Cpl Ambulance Co 25th Med Bn 25th Div with mother Lillie Holden of Rosman. Jack Dowd Sft Co I 5th Div 1st Car Div with cousin S M Bunting of Albemarle.
The Weather Bureau issued a 30 day outlook for mid August to mid September forecasting temperatures to average below normal in the Southeast Northern Plains and Great Basin and above normal in the Northeast Southwest and Gulf coast. Rainfall is expected to exceed normal in the Northern Plains Upper Lakes Southern plateau and along the Atlantic coast.
Police warned 33 year old William Skipper after he tried to exact revenge on a Hollywood nightclub. He was ejected for allegedly breaking a mirror, then rammed his car into the club and crashed into a sidewalk canopy. A separate port project valued above nine million dollars is under way at Takoradi in Africa.
The Security Committee questions why Dean Acheson reversed his State Department's stance after it labeled a loyal board as a security risk. The incident highlights tensions between the executive and the department over national security concerns.
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