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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1951
Page
10
A Bronx woman writes Santa Claus asking for a good trained obedient elf to help with household chores and office tasks. She imagines an elf managing morning alarms, errands, and even a vegetarian diet while enjoying paid vacations and social security. She doubts how long an elf could endure Manhattan life.
The hand features West opening three hearts with high risk but strong safeguards. South doubles and later bids five clubs to seek a grand slam. North supports with a cue bid and West’s singleton king drops on clubs, enabling South to cash the ace and seal a six spade contract with a favorable endgame.
Sheriff credits Jimmy Jones of LA Canada with aiding the capture of James Monroe Rudolph a wounded suspect linked to the General Bandit operations in Reno Las Vegas and Sacramento Rudolph wearing a green scarf entered the Jones home forced a drive to a supermarket where Jimmy hid called the sheriff and helped officers arrest the fleeing robber after a brief pursuit.
High Point Southern Railway station joined Norlina and Seaboard Raleigh as the three North Carolina stations earning perfect inspection scores announced by the state utilities commission last month.
Whiteville reports Sheriff H Hugh Nance says the latest flogging case is not linked to prior attacks. Woodrow Johnson described being lured from his home, driven in a blue two door Ford, blindfolded, and flogged for nearly 45 minutes as police watched. The FBI joined the Gore case due to cross state crossing.
Old Belt tobacco markets opened their fifth week of sales with prices mostly steady to down by one or two dollars per hundred pounds. Gains of one to two dollars occurred on several grades as quality improved with more smokable leaf and a decline in wounded script. A Sunday lawn-mowing ban in New York City is cited as law. A 75 mph wind is a hurricane per meteorologists. Latin authors used Montana to denote mountainous Europe long ago.
The widow of Raymond Gilmore, 19, a Korean War hero from Oakwood Virginia, recalls his sacrifice after he saved comrades. Gilmore, who enlisted at 16 to help his poverty-stricken family, died on the Korean front when a grenade exploded as he turned away a hand, earning a posthumous Distinguished Service Cross. His burial with full military honors is planned in Richlands Virginia.
United Press reports health and social costs of alcoholism in the United States as researchers and public agencies push for treatment. About four million drink to excess, with one million alcoholics, while Alcoholics Anonymous grows to over 4 283 chapters worldwide.
A first century Roman idea that cows fed legume hay yield richer milk has been confirmed by United States Department of Agriculture experiments.
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