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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1971
Page
5
A column satirizes football television culture and the shift to visual signaling and sign language as fans and wives adapt to broadcast heavy seasons. It jokes about Howard Cosell masks and mentions looming pre season, midweek games, and the potential future of sewing shows on prime time.
Several local residents face illness or recovery. Daniel Bolin undergoes surgery, Gretchen Salley plans hospital admission, and Mrs. WB Walker is recovering. Quitman Dunbar shows daily improvement while Starnes, based in Greenville, visits Salley weekends with daughter Ronda. Rita G V and family plan trips to Myrtle Beach and Murrels Inlet to visit Betty Ann and others.
The Pine Cone Garden Club of New Ellenton opened its year with a meeting at Mrs. Henry Huff’s home. Mrs. C H Shaw presided, devotional given, new year books dedicated to charter members including Mrs. Herman Jones and Mrs. Rebecca Thames who remain active.
Abigail Van Buren recaps reader questions about a grown daughter living at home and freeloading, a man worried about onions and garlic as germs, a long married flirt, and a generous wedding note inspiring a divorced reader to rethink life. The column preserves humor and moral tone with multiple readers’ letters and responses.
A sequence of pre wedding events for Roseanna Lynn Waller and Robert Louis Spano includes a tea by Miss Sally Caver of Summerall Court who presented an orchid and creamer and sugar bowl. An August coffee at Mrs Ralph Gosline’s Walker Avenue home followed by a miscellaneous shower in the Heritage Room of the Farmers and Merchants Bank.
Born to Mr and Mrs Jimmy L Jones Dalton Georgia a son Richard Lee weighs 7 lbs 4 ozs The Jones family ties include Patricia Stone Thea and grandparents Mr Mrs Ceek Tien Jackson Hansel Jones Dalton Hospitalized relatives listed and measles illness mentioned Sympathy extended to Mrs Pou and family and to Mrs Kenneth Lenderman The May comments cover deaths in Augusta Norfolk and Epperson plus military service of Airman Larry Baxter in Viet Nam with visiting relatives in Jackson
Miss Derrick and James Alvin Derrick announce the engagement of daughter Margaret Lillian to Joon Lee Bender of Rock Hill. Bender, son of Thomas Cari Bender and the late Mrs Bender, is an electronics technician at Winthrop College. Margaret, granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Elijah M Derrick and Mrs Cambron, graduates Ridge Spring Monetta High and will earn a home economics degree from Winthrop. Wedding planned January 29 at Calvary Lutheran Johnston.
The first Cereus Gardeners meeting at Mrs. J. E. Bump's home discussed landscape design and noted Mrs. Robert Walker's talk on bread and beauty. Clemson offers Course I Series IV in Greenville Oct 18 20. Cereus members are urged to enter the Aiken Jaycees fall flower show in October and continue garden therapy with the local mental health clinic.
Mr and Mrs Richard Steven Stokes announce the birth of a baby girl Amanda Frances born Sept 4 at Aiken County Hospital. Maternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs E R Dukes of Aiken and paternal grandparents are Mrs Jerry James and Mr C R Stokes of Aiken. This is the Stokes first child.
Kathy Diane Palmer, daughter of Mrs Dewey Palmer and the late Mr Palmer, is engaged to Douglas Shawn, son of Mr and Mrs Perry Shawn of Aiken. Dr Richard Shawn and the Anderson Oral Arts Dental Laboratory are connected to the groom. The couple plans a November 20 wedding at First Baptist Church in Pendleton.
Senior citizens will hear Mrs Br Fowler play and sing folk songs tonight at the Crosland Park clubhouse. She will also show wall hangings she made. Mrs Nada Elerie will show slides of her Portugal trip on Oct 1 instead of this evening. Meeting starts at 7 30.
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