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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1942
Page
8
Betty Jerome lost 24 pounds in six weeks using massage and a balanced menu. The 35 year old former hat model, 5 feet 4 inches, weighed 149 1/2 pounds before slimming. She advises a physician check for medical needs and notes the beauty aid helped her shed weight.
Betty Jerome shows a diet and exercise plan with massaged weight loss and weekly menus. The plan blends restricted fruits and a two-day repeated meal system, plus at home exercise replacing massage. Readers are urged to join keep fit groups and follow similar regimens.
Mrs. E W Bingman hosted Mae Cenas Literary Club at 14 Raymond Drive Tuesday afternoon. Ralph Barker presided as business chair. Members voted to buy a uniform for a Girl Scout and sewed for Red Cross. Refreshments followed a program on The Declaration of War That United the Nations. Next meeting set for Feb 10 at Mrs Paul Tribe's home.
The Birthday Ball at the Athens Rollercade runs 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. with dancing not formal but guests in street length dresses and hats. Joe Marra's Campus Bobcats perform for the dancing and Dorothy Kishler Studio students provide an intermission floor show amid refreshments. Chairman L. B. McCune invites all to join in supporting the infantile paralysis fund.
Washington says women should knit only when absolutely needed by the armed forces and at officers' request. WPB textiles chief R P Guthrie warns against a broad wave of knitting that could divert wool from essential uses. Also guidance on safe handling of electrical cords cautions against overloading and wear.
Fifty three Mc Bee Company employees formed a roller skating club and held a skating party Wednesday night at the Athens Rollercade.
A playful home tip suggests painting each guest’s name on their glass with bright lollipop red to keep drinks separate and reduce mix ups during gatherings.
Miss American Business 1942 notes 18 to 25 year old business girls spend 20 percent of income on clothes to secure a husband and security. Elizabeth Adams of Charm Magazine calls them America’s hope and cites 6,000,000 such women. Also mentions Judy Schenz and Eddie Lawson as participants in a floor show at a President’s Ball.
Olga agrees to support the plan and keep Philip ignorant for now as the narrator prepares to meet Stephen Redfield. Olga and Olina wait while the narrator explains steps, ensuring family and business links stay quiet.
Madge Graham schemes a date for her niece Mary Veritren and Steve Redfield while her father Charles Spencer plots to expose Redfield’s foreign espionage links with captors holding Marion Morion. Olga, Olga’s husband, and a camouflaged apartment door play crucial roles as plans unfold. (Continued tomorrow)
Statement notes human mothers weigh about 20 times their newborns at birth. In contrast kangaroo mothers weigh roughly 3000 times their joeys, highlighting extreme differences in maternal size relative to offspring.
Glaciers in Mount Rainier National Park advance down the valley yet shorten overall due to greater melting at the lower ends than replenishment at upper levels.
Alexander Township solicitors led appeals at Red Cross headquarters with names listed from Waldo Buck in Rome and others. Rome schools reported 22.85 collected. Judy and Susan Sanders saved pennies for the drive, delivering 25 pennies. An Athens County woman offered a World War I era sweater knit as her contribution.
Past Matron's Auxiliary of O E S meets Friday at 6 PM in Ma sonic Temple for a potluck dinner before the initiation at 7 30 PM of a retiring matron. American Legion Auxiliary conducts a bake sale Saturday January 31 at Kerr's Hardware from 9 AM offering bread cakes pies cookies eggs and cottage cheese.
Sixteen met at the Hes ton home for the Metta S Glazier Bible Class monthly gathering. Devotions by Audrey Nagle, business vote to donate one dollar monthly to defense stamps, yarn donations for Red Cross blankets, and garment sewing projects noted. Next meeting set for Lucile Linscott home.
Mrs F W Reed of Columbia Avenue hosted a Tuesday afternoon gathering of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Vice president Mrs J J Crumley presided in the president's absence. guests included Mrs Charles McConnell of Kalamazoo Michigan and Mrs R B Eckles of this city.
The Holzer Hospital School of Nursing invites applications for an extra spring class to train more graduate nurses for national defense. Many opportunities in industry public health and Red Cross Service are noted. Contact Miss Hazel Richard Director of Nursing Education Gallipolis. Only Class A High School graduates eligible.
Athens residents discuss ahead of summer canning stock as rubber rings and hoses appear scarce. A man buys 50 feet of rubber hose while stores report varied availability and slow release until spring. A shopper eyed a large grocery basket and declines bags, preferring to carry bread wrapped in cellophane. Also, the Standard First Aid course graduates await list release and a Morris Avenue boy sells papers for $1.50 and buys six 25 cent defense stamps.
This spring guide encourages coordinating a new hat with a fresh face using cosmetics. It suggests trying greaseless lotions for oily skin or foundation creams for dry skin, and warns against matching powders too closely to skin tone, advocating pink or yellowish-beige tones as needed. Also notes two Columbus visitors, Mrs. W. H. Radford and Mrs. Herb J. Parker, staying with relatives.
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