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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1953
Page
7
Hollywood reports Dinah Shore remains a rising star as Chevrolet sponsors her TV show and she moves into radio. She rejects halos and embraces a middle ground between Marilyn Monroe and Marjorie Main. She notes fans’ letters from stenographers and avoids giving public advice.
Hollywood star Ann Sothern announces a bold move into television with Private Secretary and related projects. The shift signals a major career pivot as film fame blends with small screen opportunities, reflecting industry trends toward TV prominence for established actors.
Budapest reports Hungary tightens pro natalist policy with an added tax on childless couples and penalties for abortion. Pregnant women gain job protections and 12 weeks leave, mothers receive extra daily feeding time, and new borns get a 400 forint layette. State covers birth costs if health scheme contributions exist. Family allowances rise for larger families and extend to agricultural coop members and farm workers.
Prairie du Chien, Wis. Ken Bloyer, 24, an amateur card player, claimed two perfect cribbage hands within nine days. He posted both decks on a tavern wall for others to marvel at his feats, sending odds-makers to the record books.
A historian recalls the 100-year battle for maritime speed between nations as steam powered sailing ships. Reese Wolfe profiles the era in Yankee Ships from Bobbs Merrill, condensed from the chapter It’s Time for Us to Leave Her.
The American Collins Line fights to outrun Cunard with four sidewheel steamers Atlantic Pacific Arctic and Baltic built at high cost. Despite engine overhauls and keeled design flaws the Collins ships average 11 days 10 hours crossing while Cunard trails at 12 days 19 hours as subsidies rise and rivals respond.
In Wooster Ohio the Wayne County bounty on dead foxes creates issues as owners have two whole foxes but seek to keep their bodies. The sheriff’s office resists credit and disposal of heads and paws proves tricky as furnace disposal is gone and odor complicates storage. County law requires proof of paws then heads for payout.
In 1942 researchers report aluminum ore deposits unearthed in Jaramaica West Indies with an estimated output of 320 million tons. The piece notes the ancient Japanese samurai sword as a sacred item requiring ritual purification by smiths who forged it.
Buffalo inventor J Hiram Greenery unveils an Automatic Monorail Rapid Transit System. A small car seats four, travels on a single elevated track, uses inverted U supports and rubber wheels. Automatic controls remove the driver, coins are deposited to choose destinations. power source kept secret. patent status not yet granted.
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