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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1951
Page
7
Expert notes discuss a bridge hand where a jump bid with a strong suit or overall power can be used to show fit and strength. The play details a sequence where West wins with jack of clubs, ruffs, and dummy entries to clear a suit, then declarer uses a heart to dispose of a weak suit, illustrating careful defense.
Hopi snake rite on the northern Arizona mesas at Walpi and Mishongnovi is a rain ritual believed to cause storms within days. Priests study sun and sky to set dates. spectators face searches for cameras to guard against spirits.
The narrator recalls summer cabbage harvesting, salting, and storing kraut in a corn crib to last through winter. The process included cutting remaining heads, salting, and barrel storage, with occasional freezing requiring fresh kraut portions. A closing remark compares marriage to choosing luck over fortune.
In New York a group of Broadway actors are trained as fast sales teams earning up to 1000 dollars weekly selling shingles and related items under a new system many call a racket. Gus Kahn’s life story evolves through titles from The Gus Kahn Story to I Had A Girl and Til See You In My Dreams. Two Broadway girls are in private sanitariums for treatment. Anne Jeffreys and Bob Sterling spent a weekend at Bill Pave Beate farm before California. Dad dy explains the nickname and a child inquiry ends with mystery.
A group of 1,946 U.S. Korea veterans arrived in San Francisco aboard the U.S.S. Telfair after duty in Korea. Among them is Cpl. George Cook of Asheboro and Sgt. Jackie R. Cook of Greensboro, returning to North Carolina via Asheboro.
Taylor Simpson chairing the High Point Chapter announces a five million flood relief drive for Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Illinois with local donations urged via the High Point Red Cross at 109 Thurston Street. W R Jefferson of Atlanta cites rising needs and lists affected statistics and shelter usage as President Truman endorses the relief effort.
In Bryson City a 15 year old high school student goes on trial for murder after confessing to shooting his father, 42 year old Dan Shuler, amid family tensions surrounding the mother’s divorce and remarriage. Denver Shuler admitted firing five bullets into his father’s body stating the elder man had threatened to hurt his mother.
North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners reports that 79 dentists, including Robert Lee Perdue of High Point, were licensed after examinations in Raleigh. A separate note mentions a 217 foot Empire State Building tower to aid television reception and a reference to legends about the nightjar bird.
A vintage ad extols BC tablets and powders for fast relief of headaches neuralgia and minor pains. It touts a blend of popular ingredients for quick action and urges buying tablet or powder forms including 10c 25c sizes and family bottles of 50 or 100.
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