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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1953
Page
3
Hollywood star June Haver, 27, who left a $3,500 weekly film career for life in a convent, arrived from Kansas City with severe migraines and low metabolism. She plans to resume religious life and complete two-year novitiate, hoping for a temporary health rest before permanent vows.
Glenn Whitley faced ribbing for arriving late to a staff party. He explained, I have one car and one daughter and one wife and one bathroom. I am lucky to be here at all.
Livingston Tenn. conservation officers holding an outdoor school to learn how to catch violators captured a squirrel hunter who wandered onto the course scene. Sixty one officers participated in the incident.
Ansel E. Fowler of the North Carolina Merchants Association named a seven man committee to work with the Department of Conservation and Development. The group will help shape plans to attract more industries and payrolls to the state, with members from Raleigh Winston Salem Chapel Hill and Asheville.
L R Fisher former motor vehicles commissioner is named safety director for the Highway Commission in Raleigh. He will start October 15 and earn about 5700 dollars annually, down from 8000 in his prior post. Fisher, 51, a Mecklenburg County native, was an original State Highway Patrol member and later headed highway safety and ABC divisions.
North Carolina to host first time prizes including Roanoke Chowan poetry prize R D W Connor award for best student article in North Carolina Historical Review and AAUW award for juvenile books. Established prizes include Mayflower non fiction Dr D T Smithwick local history and Sir Walter Raleigh fiction prize. Dr Crittenden invites eligible Tar Heel authors to contact him.
Three Wilmington residents Merrick J E 32 Taylor H 43 and Mirae Cates 31 were found guilty in Recorder’s Court of possessing lottery materials. Merrick and Taylor were fined and imprisoned while Cates had a suspended sentence. The trio plotted to smuggle nearly two million dollars in Irish Sweepstakes tickets into the United States from an Irish ship docked at Wilmington.
Advertises Pinkham's Compound Tablets and new Lydia E Pinkham's tablets claiming relief from menstrual pains jitters and irregular cycles. Promotes added iron version and benefits for hot flashes and functional distress. Encourages women to try the product for period relief and to quiet uterine contractions.
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