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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1952
Page
7
A neighborhood writer touts entrepreneurial kids ages seven to fourteen who operated lemonade stands, door to door flower seeds, beetle catching and yard work. The piece notes seasonal shifts as school resumes and ice cream vendors fade, with adults wary of door to door sales now.
A woman seeks air transport for her Great Dane weighing 125 pounds and asks an airline official in Omaha about the cost. The clerk quotes 3.45 dollars per pound but she declines, planning to join her husband instead.
In Centralia Illinois hunter Ross Bradley bagged a squirrel and brought it home before it escaped his coat. After attempting to clean the game the animal climbed a tree and evaded capture. Bradley shot it again, ending the pursuit.
Science unveils an invisible liquid paint that coats surfaces and kills roaches on contact within about three hours. The product claims to fight roaches, water bugs, silverfish, ants, and bedbugs without powders and is sold at Efird's Department Store.
Brick eight years old idolizes Si Lapham a high school quarterback. After a game Brick fears peers will question his future football dreams, but his mother teaches him that intentions protect his self worth, not others' judgments. The piece urges training children in self defense against motive misreadings.
Beautifully tailored classie pattern never out of fashion flattering to every figure. Sleeves and shoulders cut in one twin pockets optional. Pattern No 8780 sizes 14 16 18 20 40 42 44 46. Send 30c coins name address size and pattern number to Sue Burnett High Point East 1150 Ave Americas 36 N Y Read for now Basic FASHION 52.
Saigon Vietnam announces Elisabeth Nguyen Xuan Dung, a University of London diploma holder from Saigon, will be the first secretary at Vietnam’s embassy in Washington. Ambassador Tran Van Kha notes this reflects growing role of women in government affairs.
Tyler prepares for the fifteenth annual Texas rose festival on October 3 4 and 5 as a two mile parade of rose adorned floats bands drill teams and beauty queens unfolds. The east Texas city produces about 60 percent of the field grown roses in the United States within a 50 mile radius and ships 288 carloads to states and foreign countries. Al Hamel a local grower notes roses contain four times as much vitamin C as oranges and recalls wartime rose syrup made in Britain.
In Firth Nebraska Carl Kruger's hayrack, touching burning grass, caught fire. Firemen initial pump failure and a broken nozzle delayed water, but onlookers helped, and the crew finally got the hose working to save the hayrack.
The piece discusses the McCarran Committee’s Red Influence report in radio TV stage and screen due by the 24th, naming Alvin Hammer and others. It cites Betty Camden Adolph Green Judy Holliday Burl Ives Phil Loeb Allan Meltzer Ray Lev Herb Kay and Sam Levenson, noting ads linking Holliday and Levenson to Communist mentions. The report spans over 40 pages for Holliday and 18 for Loeb with claims of a Red tilt in performances and publicity. The author references Stevenson and Wake up Governor lines and notes an October 5 broadcast on ABC-TV and ABC-Radio with expanded publicity from the Post to Coast.
In Centralia Illinois Judge J E Mackin Jr sentenced nine youths to one hour in jail and ordered home confinement at night unless with parents, plus requirements to maintain school grades, keep good company and obey laws following a spree of thefts.
The article promotes washable school and play clothes for children, highlighting wrinkle resistant synthetics like acrylic fibers, pima blends, and nylon. It notes washable coats, cotton dresses with silk-like finishes, pleated skirts with permanent pleats, corduroy shirts and pants, and easy care knits and wools with shrink resistance.
Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, former Mayo Foundation specialist, told Northwestern executives in Evanston that nervousness stems from lack of sleep and stress, and advised more sleep and avoiding blowing their tops. He warned nerves can disrupt stomach function without heart disease.
A Seattle B-50 nicknamed bottle baby is refueled in midair to test the refueling system. It takes on 500 to 600 gallons each flight, then returns to Boeing Field with fuel siphoned to other aircraft. The aircraft has completed about 100 such flights since January.
Austro-Hungarian Princess Anna Schwarzenberg settled in Bethel Vermont after arriving in 1948 and began knitting sweaters. By 1950 she earned orders from a New York shop and now employs about 70 women knitting sweaters socks scarves dresses and shawls.
Peiping radio reports China’s plan to reclaim 2 500 000 acres of wasteland in Northeastern Hopeh. The six year project includes creating forests orchards pastures and farmland and building 250 000 small earth dams across 9 650 square miles.
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