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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1940
Page
6
A nautical picnic party plan with outdoor locations and shipboard games. Invitations feature candy lifesavers and passport-style photos. Activities include Up the Gangplank, Man Overboard, Shipwreck Race, Through the Porthole, and pinset tosses with lifesavers. Pineapple ships atop lemonade and doughnut life savers add edible flair.
Chet Pomeroy, star hitter for Washington High, faces a prom dilemma as he contemplates taking Elsie his plain sister or one of the popular girls Ben Callender or Connie Reeves. After a tense family showdown Elsie breaks down and Chet proposes a deal to decide the prom date.
Chet agrees to take Elsie to the prom under conditions including secrecy about the escort and his guidance on dancing and appearance. He coaches her at home with a two week plan, approves the gown, and predicts she will be a whiz by the night of the event. Ben Callender and Connie Reeves watch with interest as Elsie progresses.
A word square hides four instruments while a cross puzzle lists instruments, counts, and clues. Obedient puns appear with across and down hints, including reed and stringed items, plus a joke exchange about turtle soup.
Walter King introduces a wooden catapult game using A a four by six inch block with an elastic, B a long board, D a three inch leg, and C an oatmeal carton as the mailbox. Players shoot paper pellets or beans to score up to 21, with points for hitting the large parcel opening, small letter square and knocking over the mailbox, while penalties apply for missing.
A recipe presents a cake like dessert requiring cake flour cocoa baking powder salt egg whites yolks water vanilla and sugar. The directions describe whisking folding and baking in an 8 by 10 inch pan at 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes then rolling and filling the cooled cake for storage in refrigerator. The note mentions Theo Hodson receiving a prize at her home in Clearfield Utah.
Recipe notes describe peppermint filling using 1 cup whipped cream and 14 cup crushed peppermint candies. Candy should be soft enough to crush with a fork. Whip the cream, fold in crushed patties, and spread over the roll.
In a curious note, items include a rising tile height and a court ship. An umbrella and a snowman appear as symbolic clues. A figure is sent out at night and returns by morning, hinting at a routine or puzzle.
Horace Mitchell argues against vilifying dog catchers noting they enforce laws that protect communities. He recalls historic dog packs and garbage disposal, then explains dog ownership responsibility and how license fees fund compensation for damaged property when dogs are unidentified.
Five readers send riddles to the Riddle Man care of this newspaper. Readers Martha Way Afrs Ruth Greene Verna Mae Fults Calbert Cottrell Donis Son nier Harold R. Mann ing provide questions about sun voyages chimneys and watchdogs. Submit your riddle for print.
Advice against seeking revenge after being teased or harmed. The piece argues revenge is bitter, lowers character, and yields no lasting benefit. It urges standing up for rights when justified, but warns petty revenge brings more unhappiness.
The mound in baseball is the pitcher’s raised circle on the field. A jackknife refers to a twisting move in diving or figure skating contexts. A mount in polo is a horse ridden by a player. AB on a baseball scorecard stands for at bats. An ace in tennis is a serve that lands in play and is not touched by the opponent. A putter is used in golf. A water polo team fields seven players. A medley relay in track involves four athletes each swimming a different stroke.
The list pairs prompts with sports terms. It includes Pitcher's box matching pitching area, Diving a sport, a horse ridden by a player as a polo reference, at bats in baseball, an unreturnable serve in tennis, Golf as a sport, seven as a count, and an eight eight relay with varied distances in a race.
Fourteen year old Madelyn Micky Pinzone of 650 Koscuesko St Brooklyn NY runs a home beauty parlor with a chair and small table in a corner of her house. She makes shampoo by melting olive oil soap and charges ten cents for shampoos facials tweezing manicuring and oil treatments. She often earns a dollar a week when her sisters work.
A teacher scolds a student for poor history work and asks why lesson times were not written. The student cites struggles with arithmetic and references a puzzle solution list from last week. The text lists puzzle answers including words like crow and robin among others.
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