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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1957
Page
5
Card lore and game rules are discussed with Q A style. It covers the Joker’s first appearance around 1850 in Euchre as a high card and notes origins of the Joker as a nameplate or replacement card. It also details Pinochle meld counts and a Bridge origin story mentioning Leicestershire couples and a Bridge Whist name evolution.
TV star Art Carney, famed as Jackie Gleason's sidekick, heads to Broadway in The Rope Dancers with Siobhan McKenna. Rehearsals begin Sept 27. the drama set on New York's lower East Side early in the century. If the show runs, TV commitments may pause.
The Macy's department store on 34th Street employs ten Doberman Pinschers as night watch dogs, joining other outlets like Jordan Marsh and several Philadelphia warehouses using canines for security. Since adopting the dogs in 1952, Macy's reports earning no merchandise loss, with dogs trained in pairs to handle fire, smoke, or water. The article notes the dogs live in a penthouse kennel above the city and work after hours, escorting deliveries of furs and jewels, while security chief Francis X. Fay highlights the dogs' effectiveness and his prior federal security background. It also references reader letters about house dogs as show dogs and contains a separate note on the Stratford American Shakespeare Festival premiere of Much Ado About Nothing in Connecticut with Katherine Hepburn and Alfred Drake.
Weekend section highlights a family friendly reading slate titled Sunday Reading For The Whole Family. Includes recommendations for children and adults, with brief notes on authors and formats suitable for weekend leisure.
University of Texas scientists collaborate with federal authorities to study Haemagogus mosquitoes and the risk of yellow fever moving northward. The project, funded by the U.S. surgeon general, aims to map virus distribution, with officials warning that the disease could reappear in the United States if the spread continues.
Dorothy Funk surveys the idea of year round skiing using plastics, man made snow, and summer courses from Germany to New England. She notes glacier like hills of plastic waste turned into slopes near Nurnberg and a Newton Mass ski school using plastic crystals, plus Lake Placid and Mount Beacon experiments. Chile and other Southern Hemisphere regions bid for summer ski markets while manufacturers in America develop aluminum and plastic skis and hydraulic boots to combat wobbling. The column ends with humorous cautions about risky named slopes and the strange charm of cooling sport in hot weather.
Cast with garbled text, the report notes Pope Pius XII calling American communities to develop support for the physically handicapped. A Marietta, Ohio audience at the Ohio Writers Conference is mentioned in connection with a speech to physicians at Marietta College during the Seventh World Congress on Rehabilitation.
In Avon New York Lookover Stallion Station houses top former champions from turf and steeplechase racing. Notables Platter Fenelon Amphitheatre Rhodes Schelar Isolator and others reside in white fenced paddocks. Located on Route 39 south of the Livingston County village the valley offers rich hay and grain aiding breeding. State Commerce Commissioner Dickenson notes New York's history of producing fine thoroughbreds and calls Genesee Valley a fitting breeding site for the Jockey Club.
A summer spike in bank heists and failed attempts across North Carolina unfolds with events in Apex Angier Huntersville and other towns. FBI agents waited as crews fled with cash while authorities note a long-running pattern of unresolved cases and a 1964 $33,098 hold up remains the lone unsolved incident. A separate report from Buffalo describes a fast-response thermometer at Connell Aeronautical Laboratory that measures temperature changes in under a millionth of a second for aerospace testing.
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