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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1961
Page
2
AP TV Radio writer Cynthia Lowry notes the Dave Garroway Today Show marks a decade on NBC with a mixed format of news weather interviews and light lectures. Garroway compares a show to a plant evolving through changes and admits the current phase is narrow with too many business topics.
The piece notes that Christmas was not merry in colonial America. Pilgrims viewed Christmas as a day for labor rather than celebration and even Sunday feasts were discouraged. Those who infringed faced a five shilling fine.
Labor Department notes 24 million women workers now and predicts 30 million by 1970. The on the go female reader surveys show women look to daily papers for what and where to buy. Readership studies place advertising as the top section for women readers.
South Carolina legislators signaled support for consolidation of state education functions while resisting centralization that would erode local school control. Gov Hollings seeks to merge seven agencies into one department and shift superintendent and board selection methods. Neither chamber held statewide session. lawmakers began committee work after the State of the State address.
Mrs. Gardner Barnard from Oceanside California misplaced a $5,000 diamond ring set on her bed. An extensive search proved futile until X rays revealed the ring in the Basset hound’s stomach.
Roger Babson counsels safety with the new administration. He recommends a diversified mix of bonds over stocks, favoring U.S. government, tax-exempt municipals, and corporate mortgage bonds, plus patient, long term planning and steady income.
Dr. Robert C. Griggs of Metropolitan General Hospital plans a Yugoslav trip to study a long standing kidney disease in villages along the Sava River Valley west of Belgrade. The illness is usually fatal if untreated and may be linked to lead poisoning from milled grain.
Mrs. C. E. Partlowe of Miami reports a light bulb that has been in near continuous service since November 1939. Recovered from an attic trash box, the bulb reportedly burned 24 hours a day for much of its life in a hallway.
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