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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1950
Page
3
City juveniles in state institutions will receive gift boxes from the Youth Bureau as part of the Community Christmas party. Volunteers wrap sweaters jackets scarves candy toothbrushes and more for 28 boys and girls. merchants contributed to fund boxes valued at six to seven dollars each.
Post office official W H Farlow warns against using 1 1 2 cent stamps on unsealed Christmas cards as rates changed to two cents for third class mail. Mails to APO and FPO must pay first class three cents per ounce. Air parcel post now available. Citizens mailing bulk Christmas cards urged to use the Inquiry window and bundle local and distant destinations separately to speed local mail.
La Jolla California reports a vast undersea mountain system mapped by a U S Navy University of California expedition. The ridge runs 1000 miles from Wake Island to Necker Island, 100 miles wide and 14000 feet high. Coral dredged from 6000 feet suggests the tops were once above water.
In Fisher Branch, a trio a collies named Shep and Bounce and a 17 year old horse Rock lead a relaxed life. The piece references Elinor Scott who died there and notes the 1707 Act of Union joining England and Scotland.
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