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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1947
Page
8
A reader column contrasts secretary temptations with wives at home arguing secretaries may be more faithful than assumed. Advice from Dorothy Dix advises wives to avoid blaming secretaries and to temper family tensions during a husband’s Navy leave to preserve harmony.
A reader asks how a bed patient can occupy time and earn a small income. Dorothy Dix suggests consulting the hospital administration about occupational therapy departments now common in large hospitals and using the hospital’s resources to stay constructive during recovery.
English MP Leah Manning says Britain has copied American schooling under the Butler Act. Free secondary education now lasts to age 15 with no tuition, replacing prewar limits and prompting debate over equal access versus gifted-student segregation. Manning highlights Dewey influence and a shift from heavy arithmetic to citizenship and character training.
Mrs. C L Thompson presided at Buchanan Street Methodist Church Ladies Friendship Class in Mrs Lucy Saunders home 206 North Buchanan. A devotional on Temperance was given by Mrs C C Crist. The class voted a donation to the missionary fund and postponed officer installation to October. Members mended sheets for the Preventorium. refreshments served to several ladies and guests. Next meeting slated for Oct 17 at 2 o clock in Mrs G W Fly’s home 3806 Tyler.
Auxiliary ketes Member Auxiliary ketes Member Ladies Auxiliary 180 of the United Brotherhood of Carpentry and Joiners of America met at Mrs. R. C. Sisk home at 703 Tennessee for a social. They honored Mrs. R. C. Munger with a pink and blue gift shower in a yard setting with dahlias. Guests included E. J. Winningham, R. Z. Kelly, A. J. Lill, J. N. Stauffer, W. A. Smith, Karl Degenhardt, Guy Lee, E. O. Graves, John Urton, Edwin Urton, W. W. Finch, I. O. Moore, George Knochs, T. E. Keasler, Joe Greer, T. H. Holland, Sr., E. S. Goodrich and R. C. Munger. Gifts were sent by Mrs. Edwin Johnson and Miss Peggy Jo Holland.
Nu Phi Mu Sorority held its first fall meeting at the Herring Hotel led by president Burlen Schwaller. Members recited the opening ritual and discussed rush plans with chairmen named for Social Lorraine Drexler, ways and means Dorothy Jones, program LaRue Beeler, and service Clayeden Foster. Attendees included Schwaller, Ferrell, Drexler, Beeler, Grounds, Latta, Morrow, Read, Jones, Laxson, Ballard, Priest.
Miss Katherine Hill bride elect of Ben McClendon was honored at a miscellaneous shower hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Joan Weeks at 1222 Crockett. The refreshment table featured white asters and blue tapers while Miss Caroline Jones presided at the punch bowl as about thirty guests called during the event.
Mrs J W Carver hosted the Sixty Six Home Demonstration Club at 3615 East Sixteenth with president Mrs L F Lynn presiding. Members present included Mrs J M Bridges Paul Johnson George Brunson S F Benge Jicha and others. Next meeting set for Oct 3 at 2 PM with Mrs E W Jicha. The Notre Dame laboratory cornerstone holds sealed tubes of viruses and vitamins to be opened in 2147.
The speaker on tour said England will raise 100 million pounds more in the next five years to expand agricultural output. She cited backward rural housing, plumbing, roads, and schools as barriers and called to double the countryside housing program.
The Women's Missionary Union of Temple Baptist Church elected officers for the coming year at a meeting hosted by Mrs. Lois Brasher at 211 West Fortieth. Mrs. W. C. Bryant led the devotional as Mesdames Roberts Roberson Hill McCool Bryant Clark Jannis Carlson Gilley Ellis and the hostess attended. The note adds a separate zoological fact about the skunk being related to the weasel and mink.
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