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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1937
Page
10
Puzzle clues list features across and down entries about film star and related terms. The grid references Star From Canada and several intersecting words point to a themed puzzle recalling famous screen performers and descriptors.
The article describes evenings in lumber camps where workers play cards sing and tell Paul Bunyan stories. It recounts Bunyan lore a giant in northern Ontario with Babe the Big Blue Ox and a ballad about Guy Read who dies heroically freeing a log jam on a river.
The piece notes Andrew Jackson named Old Hickory for his fearsome leadership, his 1814 New Orleans triumph against 20 000 British and a navy squadron with 8 000 American troops, and his later Seminole campaign. It also mentions his 1828 presidency, retirement in 1837, death in 1845, and a new two cent Army stamp showing Jackson beside Gen. Winfield Scott.
The piece recalls log rafts on the Mississippi into 1915 and they later moved to the Ottawa and St. Lawrence with sea tugs for long ocean trips. Ocean rafts reach hundreds of feet and thousands of tons, showing how woodland products traveled by water.
Eastern North Carolina endures 36 days of wet weather with Roanoke River forecast to 11 feet above flood stage. Cale donia dyke in Halifax County at risk as mud threatens dam integrity. In South Carolina, Catawba and Wateree river banks overflow as U S routes near Columbia and Cheraw face closures. Rivers continue to rise with no immediate relief.
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