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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1950
Page
10
Ruth Millett lists signs of aging in men as they approach middle age. Bright neckties or bow ties appear, hair care intensifies, hair turns tonic, complaints about younger colleagues rise, mirror checks reveal receding hair, views of his son shift, future plans fade, desserts persist, weight concerns grow, suit feels looser, calls for exercise rise, and self-doubt increases as he shifts the middle-aged line ten years forward.
Civitan Club and Civinettes held a traditional barn dance at Trinity Grange. Winnie Yow won best dressed woman, Harry Brockmann best dressed man, Horace and Frances Haworth best dressed couple, Roscoe Peters least appropriately dressed. Dinner by Trinity Grange ladies, followed by skits and a square dance. Ben Witherington and wife welcomed as new members. Wilson Rogers MC and Leroy Briggs distributed cigars.
A compact notice lists weekly Y W C A events including business and professional club at 5 45 theater party at 6 30 bridge class at 7 30 parliamentary procedure class at 8 00 Wednesday 3 45 Pickett Y Teens meeting house Thursday 1 00 Modernettes 4 00 11th and 1th grade Y Teens at Y 6 30 Jolly Y dinner meeting 8 00 International affairs Friday 10 00 Double M board meeting 10 00 Senior High Y Teens after football game Saturday 10 00 Art class for Y Teens by Mrs James Boyd
Pattern No. 5757 offers iron transfer for chair back and two arm pieces with material lists stitch diagrams and embroidery directions. Send 20 cents plus name and address to Anne Cabot High Point Enterprise New York for pattern 5757. Also Anne Cabot's Big Album features dozens of new designs gifts and decorations plus four gift patterns for 25 cents.
Sue Burnett presents pattern No 8656 a perforated sew-rite pattern for sizes 6 months 1 2 and 3 years dress romper and underwear trims with lace or ric rac. Sent 25 cents coins with name address size and pattern number to Sue Burnett High Ready for you now the new Fall and Winter issue of FASHION 48 pages and free pattern printed inside 23 cents for your copy.
The strong man meets crisis with practical tools at hand even if not the best options. Availability matters more than perfection, and action beats inaction. Raymond Clapper?
Washington October 31 The new excise tax on television sets becomes effective tomorrow but does not apply to sets already in wholesalers and retailers hands. The Internal Revenue Service says the 10 percent manufacturer tax won t affect sets sold or shipped by midnight tonight creating pricing confusion for wholesalers and retailers. Manufacturers may add the tax to selling price boosting future purchases by the wholesaler and retailer. On future sets retailers must pass the extra cost to consumers or reduce margins. Retailers with current stock may keep old prices while noting possible future price alignment.
RALEIGH Oct 31 The federal state market news service reports average prices expected to stay steady to slightly lower as flue cured tobacco markets resume in North Carolina and Virginia. Eastern and old belts show steady prices with heavy volume. middle belt sees declines of $1 to $2 and some grades at season lows.
Raleigh Speller a 48 year old man from Bertie county who was to die in the gas chamber Friday was granted a stay of execution until at least November 10. Federal Judge Don Gilliam issued the order, served on Central Prison Warden Crawford, to allow a habeas corpus hearing on November 10 after three Bertie superior court rape convictions and two new trial grants on technical errors.
Four Negroes from North Carolina College Durham have appealed Judge Johnson J. Hayes’s ruling that UNC law school facilities were equal or better than those at the University. The group Floyd McKissick Sol Revis James Lassiter and J Kenneth Lee seek relief from the Oct. 9 judgment in the Fourth Circuit U S Court of Appeals.
A testimonial praises Kellogg's All-Bran for relief from constipation after other medicines failed. The letter by Sam Plesky from Cleveland urges daily use of All-Bran with water and offers a double money back guarantee if not satisfied after ten days.
CHICAGO Oct 31 The National Safety Council says the 1950 traffic deaths likely reach about 35,000, the highest toll since 1941. Nine months into the year fatalities total 724,580, up 11 percent from 1949, with September at 3,100 up five percent. The council cites surging auto production, with over 45 million vehicles in operation, as a major factor. Ned H Dearborn, council president, warns the safety line cannot cope with the production boom. Also noted is a chemical development, toxaphene, made by reacting camphene from turpentine with chlorine, as a promising insecticide agent.
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