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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1952
Page
5
Oswald Jacoby reviews a hand featuring Bill Root of Miami at a National Tournament in Miami. Root wins a trick with clubs then keeps losers small by ruffing and discarding hearts, illustrating safe endings even against aggressive overruffing.
A New York Commerce Department survey shows 44 percent forest cover in urban New York with 2.4 million acres preserved and 1 million acres of merchantable timber remaining. The state leads in paper manufacture and ranks high in wood furniture, with advances in chemistry enabling plywood alloys rayon acetate fibers and cellulose plastics.
Justice of the Peace M A Rodriguez dismissed an odd complaint about a neighbor's parrot using profanity due to lack of evidence. A group of experts and Rodriguez visited the home, but the bird did not utter a word.
messengers at the 122nd North Carolina Baptist Convention in Winston-Salem planned to elect officers for the coming year after reports from Relief and Annuity Seminaries and other boards. A Wake Forest College gift timing extension to Dec 31 1953 was announced along with a state missions report. President Grover H. Jones authorized a telegram to President elect Eisenhower on church state separation after concerns raised about Vatican ambassadors.
The North Carolina Disciples of Christ 108th annual convention opened with about 800 ministers and lay leaders, with attendance expected to rise to 1250 tonight. Reports planned on the NC Council of Churches NA B, and Goldsboro Christian Institute alongside a missionary luncheon for 300 women.
More than 150 recreation directors and youth leaders gathered in Asheville for the eighth annual North Carolina Recreation Conference. The banquet was set for tonight after a day of radio and television sessions with Kenneth Treadwell Cecil Hoskins and Kermit Edney among participants. Dr. R W Hobson spoke to Negro delegates and Miss Mildred Formyduval led sessions on dramatic and nature lore and a folk festival.
Fairbury Jaycees and the historical society marked Pony Express sites at Steele City and near Rock Creek to honor the transport route that ran through Jefferson County in 1860 and 1861.
A United Press report profiles Manhattan doormen who earn tips but often profit more from their social stance than customers. It notes class divisions among doormen, a West Side culture at Twenty One and Toots Shor's, and a notable apprentice doorman training under a senior mentor.
Australians drank 17 gallons of beer per person in 1949, up from 11 gallons in 1939, according to the Medical Journal of Australia.
Mrs M Uebelucker of Mt Vernon New York says she no longer suffers hot flashes or nervousness after using Lydia Pinkham's Compound and Tablets. The promotion claims 63 and 80 percent relief in relevant cases and touts the medicines as modern for mid life distress and functional pains related to monthly periods.
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