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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1953
Page
5
Learn to plan room arrangement on graph paper before buying. List activities, designate zones, then draft scale cutouts to balance spaces. Pairing furniture creates formal balance. grouping yields informal. Plan for all pieces, avoid crowding, and observe door and window weight.
Hullman briefs note several visitors at the H Poteet home including Jeff Miller of Cloverleaf and Mr and Mrs Leroy Houston. The report mentions Mrs Miller as Poteet's sister and lists other local residents ill with influenza or mumps, with church activities and a Bible study.
The Wooster Garden Club will meet at the home of A. Jones at 206 Bayshore on Thursday. Airs Lo Perkins will conduct a corsage clinic and members are asked to bring flowers for corsage making.
Thursday events include Wooster Garden Club at 208 Bayshore Drive hosted by Mrs M A Jones at 7:30 a.m. Women's Society of Christian Service at St John’s Methodist educational building at 7:36 p.m. Julia Loi c You Methodist event at Haz 10 a.m. American Cancer Society Bandage Rolling Grill at San Jose jail at 3 a.m. meeting at Mrs Jesse Kirkpatrick home in Crystal Bay at 7:30 p.m.
Deanna Alleman is the new president of Girl Scout Troop 11. Other officers elected include Roma Gray vice president Rite Thomson reporter treasurer and secretary. About twenty members attended as the girls received their membership certificates. ST. JOHN'S WSCS The Women’s Society of Christian Service of St John’s Methodist church will meet at 7 pm Thursday in the church educational building. Mrs D D Fogers will continue with the current study Toward Understanding the te.
ONF announces the first birthday of Shirley Bishop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Bishop of Baytown. She is turning one on Wednesday, celebrated with help from her sister Linda and brother Gerald. Grandparents Mrs. F. M. Hamman and Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Bishop, all of Baytown, attend.
The Crosby Parent-Teachers Association will present a local version of Art Linkletter’s People Are Funny at 7:45 p.m. February 5 in the Crosby high school auditorium. Willig Dunks will portray Linkletter with a cast led by Mrs. L. Doss and Mrs. L. L. Anderson selling tickets at 75 cents reserved, 50 cents general for adults, 35 cents for students, 20 cents for grades one through six. Proceeds fund PTA activities.
Baytown Civil Defense public relations director Al Melinger spoke to the Pilot Club at Rebel Inn about how women's groups can support civil defense. He urged sponsoring first aid courses, enrolling women in instructors programs, monthly home nursing classes, recruiting nurses aides, and appointing a blood donations chairman. He noted one in seven women should have first aid training.
St Mark's WSCS will sponsor a book review at 8 p m Friday in the community room. Mrs Miller Stewart of Houston will review The Silver Chalice. Tickets are 50 cents at the door. Mrs CL Dickinson chairs the arrangements committee.
Baytown volunteers gear up for the Mothers March on Polio with about 400 participants. The event runs 7 to 8 pm Thursday as lanterns and candles are urged for window displays.
The Women's Missionary Union of Central Baptist Church plans a home missions week of prayer from March through March 13. The WMU held a business meeting at the church where a Royal Service program preceded it and members then shared lunch. They will fund two cars to send YWA girls to a Mary Hardin Baylor house party February 6 to 8 in Belton.
Thimble club to meet Tuesday at Mrs Joe Nelsons home 126 Forrest Place. Previous gathering hosted by Mrs XK B Lyons at 214 N Jones with seven members and one visitor Mrs Rar Forg. Lyons provided cold drinks tuna fish sandwiches and corn chips.
The Wooster Baptist Church Women’s Missionary Union met Tuesday in the educational building. Mrs. W. E. Hall led the session with prayers by Mrs. R. A. White and Mrs. Mary Oleson. Short committee meetings followed. Mrs. H. V. Cooke gave a Stewardship devotional.
Friendly Acres 4 H Club discussed plans for a county wide 4 H party to be held in Houston February 9. The meeting at Coady Baptist church featured a bound button held demonstration led by Mrs. Riley Rogers. A new leader, Mrs D A Pichot, was introduced, replacing Mrs J Norton who recently resigned.
Joyce Connally was elected president of Brownie Troop 52 on Tuesday at Mrs. Everett Turner’s home. She will be aided by Jane Case as vice president, Sue Hedger as secretary treasurer, and Joan Manis as sergeant at arms. The troop toured Matkrell’s art shop during a ceramics study. next meeting will be at Mrs. BE Creasy’s home in Humble.
Mrs EO Bishop hosted a Bear Facts club gathering at her Bob Smith road home Monday night. Helpers included Mrs James Jones Mrs W T Travis Miss Gladys Bishop and Miss Pansy Myers. Members set plans to finance sending Bear Facts sheets to Cedar Bayou servicemen and appointed Miss Bishop to reminders dues. A nominating committee of Mrs Ora Bowman Mrs M L Joanson and Mrs J E Brooks will nominate new officers. Bishop acted as Secretary in Lamar Jones absence. Next meeting scheduled Feb 23 at Mrs Sam Cashats home.
St Joseph's Altar Society held a party in the Community House on Tuesday night. Prizes were awarded for bridge and canasta with Mrs C F Kelly winning high in bridge and Mrs G V Carroll winning canasta. Johnny Savage scored 42. Hostesses were Mrs Louis Del Homme, Mrs Ray Robertson and Mrs John Donnelly. Pie, ice cream, coffee and tea were served to 43 guests.
DR A R Padghtt likely skips Bay town show this year after a Utah business trip snowbound for five hours en route to a Salt Lake City area town. The Padgett party toured Coloradio Nevada and California with relatives visiting in Waco and Wichita Falls. A Baylor student union death mourned as guest Mrs R L Mathis. Marilyn Padgett visits. Miss Janie Salinas bride elect of Frank Farris receives a Mexican hall shower with many Houston hosts and 350 tuna fish sandwiches. Edwin Dale Wotipka, age one, returns home from San Jacinto Hospital after bronchial pneumonia attack.
Aquarius Temple No 136 announces seven new initiates in a city ceremony Monday night. New members include Mrs Ruby Heflin Tom Heflin Mrs Evelyn Jennings Mrs Bonnie Stipe Mrs Hobbie Weatherspoon Bennie Dunn and Miss Joyce Thibodaux. Additional candidates to be inducted later.
The Wooster circle of St. Mark's Methodist church met at Mrs. H C Swain's home for the second chapter of its current study. Mrs. E J Offer led the program with Mrs. R C Read presiding. Ten members and one visitor attended. next week the meeting moves to Mrs. Read's home and a zone meeting is set for Feb 11 at St. Joseph's Methodist church with attendees asked to bring sack lunches.
Girl Scout Troop 24 members studied first aid kit requirements at Burnet Elementary School on Monday. They practiced safe hiking rules and voted five for a March of Contribution event.
Baytown AAUW members will hear Dr. David B. Vinson of Baylor discuss the feminine role at the February 4 meeting in Trinity Episcopal parish house. Vinson, who earned a PhD in London and studied at the Institute of Psychiatry, previously addressed the International Psychological Congress in Stockholm in 1951 before a Q&A session arranged by Mrs. Lynn’s.
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