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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1951
Page
3
Thomasville readers recall a chaotic Christmas with a box containing a miniature filling station that proved disappointing. A tired merchant, amid tools and nog, laments the rough gift and lampoons toy makers while a whimsical tale of postholiday carols and single women at fire stations closes the piece.
Thomasville residents must list personal property taxes with the local tax office in January. To avoid penalties, file at City Hall before January 31. Listings start at 3 a.m. next Thursday. office hours are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays, with Saturday hours at least noon. Penalties apply after February 1. pay early to avoid rush.
High Point businesses and many public offices will observe New Year’s Day 1952 with a holiday schedule. Banks and federal offices close Tuesday. stores nearly all close with Wednesday reopenings. City and county workers lose the holiday. post office hours are limited. Industrial plants pace a gradual return, with some resuming before Jan 2. Vacation pay totaling nearly a quarter million dollars has been distributed. Travel volumes are not expected to spike.
In Livingston Montana Sept Edmond B Rogers warned destructive visitors are harming Yellowstone National Park. He cited Morning Glory pool once a famed beauty spot now near ruined as tourists dump trash into it after the 1951 summer season.
Captain James Cook, voyaging in Forres Strait between Australia and New Zealand, named four granite islands after the days of their discovery Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday. These islands are inhabited. Although yellow sweet corn is favored by many, color does not indicate quality and many white corns are high quality.
Philatelic notes cover Roentgen on a new Opfennig stamp marking 50 years since the Nobel Prize, San Marino and Italy flood relief overprints, France Red Cross issues, Peru Peru university airmails, Luxembourg charity stamps for Menager, Austria high denomination airmail, and a Master Global Stamp Album by Jacques Minkus with 1,256 pages and room for 56,000 stamps.
A Johore medical officer reports that the village of Rengi in Johore Bahru suffered a malaria epidemic starting last January, killing 134 residents and infecting as many as 80 percent at the peak. The outbreak was eventually stamped out.
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