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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1970
Page
5
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The Women’s Society of Christian Service at St. John’s United Methodist Church hosts a turkey dinner from 5 30 to 8 pm on Thursday November 19 in the Fellowship Hall. Tickets 1 75 adults 1 00 children under 12 take out plates. A country store sale with white elephants antiques canned goods and old furniture runs alongside. Co chairs are Mrs H L Burdette and Mrs J B Barsh. Mrs Cecil J McFerrin is WSCS president. Elmore Fabric leads the store with ticket sales coordinated by Mrs Lee Swope and tickets available from WSCS members or by calling 9 4102 or 9 6097.
Three ABBE Regional Library staff members attended the Southeastern Library Association meeting in Atlanta. Carrie Gene Ashley, Mrs. Richard Murtha, and Mrs. James Lackey represented the area. The biennial conference includes librarians from six states and featured speakers Dr. Herbert Zim and Sonia Bleeker Zim, Dr. Daniel Fader, and Dr. Robert Downs.
The Henry Middleton Chapter DAR announces a contest deadline of November 15 for fifth to eighth grade students. Essays on the Constitution or its signers are eligible and must be mailed to Mrs. W. H. Johnson in Aiken South Carolina. Winners are announced in February.
Six pork chops browned in lard then simmered with drained peaches honey lemon juice cinnamon and ginger. Finish with peach slices heated through and a flour-thickened gravy poured over the chops for serving.
From Aiken, 20 Pilot Club of Aiken members and Mrs. Mary Lou Willis attended the Fall Council of the District at Hilton Head. Mrs. Willis is district governor of Pilot International. Key speaker was Mrs. Dorris Hall of Abbeville County. Martha Ellis of Aiken led an honorary luncheon for past district governors. Aiken officers included Esther Mobley district secretary Vivian Rash Eunice Sizemore Quinida Weeks Annie King.
Nila Beard of Jackson has been chosen for the 1970 Outstanding Young Women of America publication for achievements. She is a BA English student at Augusta College wife of W Curtis Beard of Kimberly Clark Corp and mother of Cheryl and Alisa.
Four Aiken music students received outstanding ratings at the district pre college piano auditions held Saturday at Mrs Norman Howards home. Dr Duane White of Bob Jones University was the adjudicator. Recipients include Donna Christine Debra Hawkins Allison Topp and Jimmy Ray with others entering elementary junior high and high school divisions. Outstanding rating winners perform at the SC Music Teachers Association convention November 2021 at Converse College Spartanburg.
A bridge and canasta party hosted by the Welcome Wagon Club will start at 7 30 p m Wednesday at the Virginia Acres Activity House 124 Whiskey Rd The club will hold its regular meeting at 10 a m Nov 18 at a coffee at South Carolina Electric and Gas Co 655 Kershaw NE Mrs Sherril Chewning will present a Christmas ideas program for home do it yourselfers All Welcome Wagon callers are invited to attend both events.
Test designers must show their methods accurately predict job performance under new guidelines from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The rules aim to curb bias claims by requiring validation of assessments and permitting tests with proven predictive value. Commerce Clearing House notes tests may continue with validation.
Members of the Wildwood Garden Club combine their plant and baked goods sale with a bazaar at the regular meeting on November 12 at Mrs. R. Attaways home 1436 Canterbury Court. A coffee hour at 9 45 a.m. precedes the business meeting with Mrs. H C Scott district hort iculture chair Garden Club of South Carolina as speaker.
American Legion to Meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at the USC on Laurens Street. Mrs. O. E. Powell is in charge of the program. Hostesses are Mrs. W. E. Vermont and Mrs. Pearl Timmerman.
Clay Hagewood of the University of South Carolina Aiken will critique and award ribbons at the Aiken Artist Guild Show in the Pine Room of the Commercial Hotel on November 13. The show runs 24 hours daily November 14 to 19, with many paintings offered for sale to local residents at relatively low prices.
Miss Catherine Dickerson and Isaac Lewis wed Nov. 5 at Mt. Anna Baptist Church. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. Salmon ONea with a church reception at Smith Hazel Center. The couple, residents of Aiken, will live on Lincoln Avenue. he is with the Aiken Police Department.
The Rev. William F. O Neal of Columbia will address the Women of St. Thaddeus at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the Parish House Pendleton Street. He will discuss inner city work at St Luke s Community Center and outline expansion plans. Mrs Robert McKellar invites Women of the Western District Deanery men and young people to attend.
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