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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1968
Page
5
This column argues that culturally deprived children lag in reading and math despite Head Start and early programs. It urges patient parents, tutors, and reading clinics to boost progress, offering free home aid booklets by sending a stamped envelope to the newspaper. It also asks about ungrateful teens, blaming parental overaccommodation.
Letter writer praises Heloise advice to delay adding bleach until the washer fills with water. She notes extra trouble when using coin operated machines at a washateria, where an out of order unit wastes money and soap with bleach already added.
A 12-cake apricot dessert recipe with yeast based batter and apricot syrup is shared along with homemaking tips. Readers Rosie Willrich and Heloise provide money saver ideas on coin machines, laundry, sewing, and household hacks, including towel and sheet hem reuse and fixing a vacuum hose.
Susan Jewett of 29 Graham Drive Athens hosts gourmet dinners with eight couples, each contributing a dish and alternating menus. An avid reader, she belongs to the Athens Book Club meeting biweekly. Wife of John Jewett Ohio University chemistry professor, she is a Wheelock College alumna with a master's in education from Ohio University. Her daughter Elizabeth, 14 months, keeps her busiest.
Florence praises the 770 page Columbia Cook Book from 1895 owned by Mrs. Don Davis. It covers Flower Culture Medical and Toilet Recipes Table Etiquette Bills of Fare for every month and Facts Worth Knowing with home remedies and recipes. It notes practical hints from keeping lamp chimneys to ammonia uses and urges frugality and sensible cooking.
Fairfield Garden Club of Lancaster schedules a Christmas tour of homes on Wednesday December 4 with open house times 1 to 4 and 7 to 9 p m at Carl Uhrmann Edward R Ray Mrs A H Mollenkamp Robert Schwyn and James Cherry tea at First Presbyterian N Broad Mulberry Tickets sold at homes or church Greater New York raised one third of the national goal of six point five million dollars for the United Negro College Fund.
A county-wide herb and spice cookery meeting will be held on November 13 at 1 30 p m in the Columbia Gas meeting room 18 West State St Betty Newton Rita Oberhol zer will present Bouquet of Flavor to discuss spices and herbs that pair with meats and vegetables and how to elevate meals.
A reader complains about Wall Street floor show modesty and potential risk. Another asks how to handle friends who exclude them after introducing two couples. A parent laments daughter’s cold note on bills and seeks advice, Abby suggests developing a tougher hide and notes not all children show thoughtfulness.
An evening gown described as the million dollar look at a modest price. A floor length dinner skirt and beige white basket weave tweed vest in espresso brown velvet belt and espresso braid. The vest is lined with rhinestones in brown frames, marketed as Holiday Espresso with local availability.
Miss Joyce Grigsby of Athens Route 1 received a scholarship to attend the 1968 All-American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus at the Ohio Exposition Center, October 31 to November 3. She is a senior at Alexander High School and active in Bit and Spur 4-H, Vinton County Riding Club, and the Ohio Valley Horse Show Association, with multiple high point trophies in horse classes.
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