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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1953
Page
3
NEA correspondent Fred Sparks reports Masoku-ri Korea as a wounded district pivoting to reconstruction. He describes civilian tolls, shattered homes, and ongoing aid as 8th Army shifts from combat to engineering and medical relief, aided by locals and pro American sentiment.
In a bridge hand West leads clubs and East wins with the ace then returns the seven. South, by noting West's nonlead choices and implied holdings, plans a diamond and heart sequence to secure the contract. The winning line involves ruffing, hearts to dummy, then a diamond play to exhaust East.
San Diego California. Douglas Wied 7 endures a string of misfortunes after a stomach ache leads to an appendectomy at hospital. He contracts measles then mumps, and loses a tooth soon after returning home.
In Charleston, West Virginia, evidence in a bootlegging case stored in the basement of the Kanawha County jail exploded in a series of loud pops and breaking glass. Eight quarts of potent home brew perished in the blast amid scattered debris.
At all drug stores everywhere in High Point Mann's and Eckerd's are named as locations.
A three year old Eskimo boy named Markussie, born in Fort Chimo, Ungava Bay, Quebec, is recovering from meningitis in a Montreal hospital. He tolerates everything on the menu except ice cream, which he finds too cold. He has grown fond of nurses and bread, which is his butter substitute.
W Sterling Cole chairman of the Atomic Energy Committee told U S News & World Report the United States must plan defenses assuming Russia has developed an H bomb. He said there is no government confirmation of Malenkov’s claim and US detection instruments can distinguish an H bomb explosion from a standard A bomb.
Robert A. Vogeler said he was overjoyed that his friend Briton Edgar Sanders was freed after a 13 year espionage sentence in Hungary. Vogeler, who was jailed 17 months on spy charges, said Sanders would want rest and to adjust to being free.
Local comment captures tension as Yon Chong Won warns that Communist forces are 20 miles distant and could advance again, prompting fear and a wary nod of agreement from observers.
Comrades of Robert Levi Norbert Casteret and Dr Andre Mairey struggle to lower a steel cable into the 1254 foot deep cave in the Pyrenees to reach the three explorers trapped after debris blocked the mouth. Two daredevils descended to free the line as the Franco Spanish expedition battles the cave depths and last week’s near fatal accidents.
About 1 000 National Guard officers and men from the 252nd AAA Group and attached units left yesterday for Camp Stewart Georgia to undergo two weeks of field training. The 252nd Group headquartered at Wilmington includes three artillery battalions and six auxiliary units. Colonel Kenneth M. Corbett of Wilmington commands.
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