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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1953
Page
7
Raleigh hosts a party at Mr. and Mrs. David B. Boyles Jr honoring bride elect Joyce Kearns and fiancé Kenneth Ingram. About 30 guests visited as Kearns received a pink rosebud corsage and a dogwood linen luncheon set. Mrs Boyles sister of Kearns will be matron of honor in the upcoming wedding.
A reader shares Ruth Millett guidance on turning a clutter problem into a joke. By draping chairs with coats and dresses, a wife made her husband laugh and cooperate, illustrating how light humor can shift behavior without nagging.
A columnist argues that scolding boys for male ambitions harms families and leads to absentee fathers. The piece links Victor and other boys to mothers and relatives, claiming societal envy of male power suppresses masculine drive and harms future marriages. It cites Karl Menninger on masculinity and marriage as context.
Learn to sew two pretty junior yoked sundresses from Pattern No. 8950 in sizes 11 through 18. Requires about 3% yards of fabric for size 12 with 39 inch width and 30 cents for mail order. Also new Basic Fashion for 53 spring and summer sells for 25 cents.
In Morehead Kentucky police cleaned up roaming stray dogs after citizens complained they prowled streets like wolves. Three day drive warned owners to contain pets while boys admitted they rounded up strays fed them three days then released them, creating nocturnal packs once more.
A group of Clevelanders forms the Fun for Funds Foundation to stage a June 8 street party in the amusement district. City approval allows closing a street. Proceeds go to health and charitable agencies by attendee indicated percentages with ticket space for writing a favored charity.
The American Public Works Association reports a new crossing sign with spaced bar stripes offers greater visibility than current signs. Tests show it can be seen from three blocks away, versus a half block for signs with thin strips and button rows. Research from College Station and Bryan, Texas supported improved pedestrian observance of traffic regulations.
During a state parking debate, State Senator Charles McKew joked that he sometimes cheats and parks in the Park of the Elks Home, though he says he is not an Elk. The remark highlights tensions over parking rules and access for public officials.
Spokane report quotes Paul Raver of the Bonneville Power Administration warning no new heavy industry can enter the Pacific Northwest for at least five years due to power shortages. The EPA, under contract with private utilities, will not accept new industrial loads until 500 million kilowatts of firm power are added, not expected before 1957 at the earliest.
Ohio officials plan to issue license plates bearing car owners initials. They hope the two owners with the letters ZIG and ZAG never drive side by side on public roads.
In Jackson Michigan police rushed to a reported disturbance after a telephone tip. At the county jail deputies learned the complainant was Orlan Kirk, who was soon jailed on an existing contempt of court attachment for failure to pay alimony.
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