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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1953
Page
3
HAL BOYLE reports whistling, once a lively professional craft, has faded from public stages. Television revival of old arts fails for whistlers as the craft dwindles to off stage noise. Whistling becomes a private pastime in bathrooms or country walks.
Stock prices in New York at 1 p m show big names with mixed gains and losses while a reflective essay argues the whistle’s role in history from trains to soldiers. The piece muses on wind in the city and the cultural shift away from whistling toward quieter signals.
In Detroit authorities impounded Merry Boy of Abdukir a Sealyham terrier owned by Princess Emma Tous soun of Washington DC for 10 days for rabies tests after the dog bit five year old Richard Rember on the nose and forehead at the Detroit Kennel Club show.
Hartwig N Baruch 84 brother of Bernard Baruch died at Coral Gables home. Private funeral planned for Tuesday or Wednesday. Baruch was a retired New York Stock Exchange member and longtime Lambs Club charter member. Survived by Hartwig Jr of Coral Gables, daughters Mrs Meyers and Mrs Banks of New York, and brothers Bernard Herman and Sailing Baruch.
In Washington Connecticut Reverend Frank Squires an amateur magician performed a perfect vanishing act for a Lions Club show but his car became stuck in the snow preventing his arrival. The odds and audience were kept in suspense as he vanished on stage.
The Atlanta Constitution criticizes Rep. David C. Jones and Sen. John D. Shepard for seeking to ban Youve Got To Be Taught in Georgia. It argues the legislators exaggerate racial propaganda claims and clamor risks to intermarriage, while defending the song as a protest against prejudice.
Troy North Carolina police conclude after three weeks of nightly vigils for a cloaked woman seen on Sut Creek bridge. Witnesses describe a black clad figure who vanishes before officers arrive. Officer Mont Green doubts she will return, citing publicity and a romantic interpretation rather than a ghost.
Three Brooklyn boys Lawrence Stanton 13 James Price 15 and William Godare 15 launched an unscheduled ocean crossing from a Staten Island dock on a rubber raft they borrowed. Blown three miles out to sea by strong winds they were rescued by a Coast Guard cutter after a helicopter location assist.
On American farms the number of tractors has risen by 25 percent since the end of World War I, while the counts of horses, mules, and resident farm workers have fallen by 25 percent.
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