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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1967
Page
6
Reader tips and responses from Dear Heloise on managing restless urges during housework. Advice includes using fidgets at night to avoid sleeplessness, tackling small chores to ease guilt, sharing encouragement among wives, and practical hacks like using nylon hose for stuffing and a handmade oven tool to protect fingers.
A letter describes a pumpkin cookie recipe from Mrs. Charles Chaffee of Reedsville with suggested frosting and baking method. Readers are invited to share cookies for office coffee breaks. Also notes Shade Junior High hosts a square dance 9 to 12 Saturday with the Green Valley Boys providing music.
A reader asks who should feel ashamed in a spouse’s affair and two more letters seek dating money concerns and anxiety about a wife while Abby offers blunt counsel. A professional man confesses irrational fears about his wife and Abby directs medical help and communication tips.
Gesell Guild in Ohio hosts John Patterson as co host and notes 23 parolees under Athens District supervision with about 24 returns to prison monthly. Parolees must have a sponsor, employment, and agree to 17 regulations. they may be paroled anywhere in the nation. Dessert for 12 members and two guests, plus Sheltering Arms Hospital fundraising. Phi Delta Theta Auxiliary reports on sales and Mothers Weekend plans. Sunny East Homemakers group meets with 12 members and one guest. program on family living. Richland Methodist Youth Fellowship to honor parents at Sunday party. Mary Romine new YF advisor.
A child specialist notes how young children react when a parent enters hospital for an operation. A 6 year old girl sobbed quietly at church and in Sunday school after learning her mother’s hospital stay, kept secret, was due to a minor operation. The tale illustrates hidden stress in 4 to 10 year olds facing parental hospitalization.
A family story shows a father comforting two children who worry about their mother in hospital. The specialist recommends parents prepare kids in advance about hospital visiting rules to curb fears, and to inform them early and often about such policies. A segue notes teatime muffins with lemon butter.
Stella Marshall, the churchs oldest member at 93 on Feb 8, was feted at a pot luck dinner on Feb 5. She entertained guests by harmonica selections and a reading. Guests included her son W H Marshall of Columbus, granddaughters J Richard Storer and Ronald Ridenour, and great granddaughters Kathy and Ded Ridenour, all of Athens.
More than 1,000 Ohio University ROTC cadets and guests are expected at the 1967 Military Ball in Baker Center. Cadet Maj William J Culp chairs the event open to Army and Air Force ROTC cadets with a 7 p.m receiving line and 7:15 p.m dancing to Don Club Combo. The queen will be chosen from 24 coeds representing campus sororities and housing units, with listed candidates from Sigma Kappa, Jefferson, Crook, Bid die, Tiffin, Alpha Delta Pi, Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Xi Delta, Shively, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu, Lindley, Chi Omega, Pi Beta Phi, Bryan, Pickering, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Howard, Soda Social Club, and Alpha Gamma Delta.
Mr and Mrs Philip Baedecker of Lexington Kentucky visit his parents in Fairview as he prepares to begin post doctoral study at MIT in Cambridge Mass. Also noted are Mr and Mrs Hayden McCaskill of May Avenue Wichita visiting Denver relatives and Myron E Dewey spending winter in Florida with his grandson as he turns 84 on February 18. A cooking tip suggests adding candied or syrup preserved ginger to ham raisin sauce.
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