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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1943
Page
7
The Magdalene Rebekah Lodge will hold its regular March business session tomorrow evening at seven thirty at the Lodge hall. Mrs. Hazel Wood, noble grand, will preside over the meeting and transact the business.
Mr and Mrs John C Yates Julius Welch and others visited Charles Yates first class seaman stationed at Norfolk over the weekend They were joined by Jack Wade Clifford Cagle and Comer Yates Thelma Ormand returned home from Baptist Hospital Winston Salem where she was a patient five days Her condition satisfactory Mr and Mrs Sherwood Forrest returned from Norfolk where his mother Mrs H B Forrest is improving though aged and still precarious
An oculist cautions against rubbing the eyes in a public notice style while a satirical tip urges readers to pinch themselves when the grocery bill arrives. The odd pairing signals a humorous juxtaposition rather than a medical alert.
Allied bombers blasted a Japanese convoy this week and killed as many enemy soldiers in two days as 15000 troops who perished in six months of Papua fighting. Gen Horii’s forces at Buna suffered the losses, matching MacArthur’s air assault figures.
Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, former U. S. envoy to Japan, arrives in Charlotte for two speeches. He is to speak this evening at a dinner of the Charlotte executives club and tomorrow night at a mass meeting sponsored by the Mecklenburg county civilian defense council.
The hand analysis views West after the bidding ends and the opening lead, comparing it to a surgeon starting without considering contingencies. It explores the planning required for West in the given deal from South’s perspective.
In a four heart contract North South use a cautious opening of the ten of spades. Declarer finesses hearts and wins with the queen, then leads diamonds hoping partner has the ace. Partner should refuse to win first diamond, allowing a diamond trump to defeat a late four heart contract.
With two kings and two jacks the king discard is safer since it pairs only with kings or forms a edge of a sequence, while the jack can join with jacks or appear at both ends or in the middle of a sequence. The text notes the passenger pigeon great auk heath hen paroquet and Labrador duck are extinct in America.
One hundred forty four overseas kit bags will serve abroad with the Thomasville Red Cross Chapter name embroidered inside. Mrs. Robert C. Rapp, local kit bag chair, says bags filled by Thomasville women include razors pencils books cigarettes and a sewing kit among other items. Cost per bag is one dollar with a total of 117 dollars raised and a 27 dollar deficit remaining. Donations are welcome at Red Cross rooms in the New Lambeth Building.
Stan Conrad, High Point radio announcer, spoke at the Thomasville Rotary club meeting. He described radio news gathering during war and warned of a long, tough road to victory, noting bullets not laughs may win a war. Charles Wall and Julius Green named to Pinehurst conference planning committee.
March 22 event drew visitors including Mrs. James E. Lambeth and Hal Harrison from the city, C. R. Wilcox of High Point, and Hank R. Culp of Philadelphia. March 24 noted in the recap.
The first contingent of aviation cadets arrived on the Davidson campus for training under the army's new college war training program.
The Friday evening prayer band led by Vance Hill will gather at Mrs. Crawford's home 596 Mallory Street this week at 7:30 PM.
A short musing notes that adjusting how we spend time can yield a clearer perspective on life. It urges intentional, prudent use of time to gain insight and improve everyday living.
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