Foliage design showcased at Yaupon Garden Club meeting
Mrs. Stephen Warren led a foliage design program at the Yaupon Garden Club last season’s final meeting and luncheon at Holiday Inn. She demonstrated arrangements using ivy, pittosporum, Sabal, euonymus, yucca, eleagaus, and other foliage. New officers were installed and 16 members with four guests shared a salad course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Warren
Yaupon Garden Club
Stephen Warren
Holiday Inn
Sorosis Club Installs Crosby President At Atascocita
Mrs. Bob Cunningham was installed Tuesday night as president of Crosby Sorosis Club during the annual initiation at Atascocita Country Club. Officers installed with her included Mrs. T T Ransom and Mrs. Horace Brazzel as vice presidents, Mrs. Dan Bynum secretary, Mrs. Herman Gregory treasurer, Mrs. Leslie Hinton parliamentarian, Mrs. Lee Campbell federation council chair, and Mrs. Alison Koonce historian. The ceremony featured Maypole table decor, invocation by Mr. Brazzel, vocal by Mary Ransom, a ham dinner, and a message stressing Sorosis service to the community.
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Bob Cunningham
Crosby Sorosis Club
Atascocita Country Club
R. B. Reynolds
Cunningham
T. T.ransom
Horace Brazzel
Dan Bynum
Herman Gregory
Leslie Hinton
Lee Campbell
Federation Council
Alison Koonce
Planters Box Wins Queen of the Show for Swathmore Rose
Mrs. D. D. Brown of 709 W Houston Highlands earned the Queen of the Show for her Swathmore hybrid tea rose at the Houston Rose Society flower show in Garden Center. The rose won a silver trophy and a gold medal from the American Rose Society as the most perfect blue ribbon entry. Brown also won a gold award for Pink Parfait, a grandiflora rose. Garden of the Month honors went to the J. A. Dinwiddie home at 807 W Lindenwood Graywood. mimosa blooms noted as East Harris County Federation for Garden Clubs committee members selected the landscaped property with selectors C. H. Bone, Henry Dismukes, and W. G. Metike.
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D. D. Brown
W. Houston
Highlands
Houston Rose Society
Garden Center
American Rose Society
J. A. Dinwiddie
Lindenwood
Graywood
East Harris County
Darrell Ratliff Dinner Honoree At Robert E. Lee HS
Darrell Ratliff a prospective graduate of Robert E. Lee High School was honored with a fix it yourself hamburger dinner. Hostesses Mrs L L Walker and daughter Mau dena of Houston presented a luggage gift. Guests included Mr and Mrs D B Ratliff Scotty Gail and others.
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Darrell Ratliff
Robert E. Lee High School
L. L. Walker
Maudena
Houston
D.B. Ratliff
Scotty Gail
Mary Schwartzkoph Complimented At Going Away Party
Mary Jean Schwartzkoph daughter of Mr and Mrs Dale Schwartzkoph was entertained Saturday with a going away party at the home of Mrs O L Underwood 290 Bayshore Drive Linda Underwood Gene Campbell and Bryan James were hosts for the water skiing and swimming party attended by 60 guests. Mary Jane and her family will be moving to Memorial area in Houston. Tuberculosis accounts for some 25000 deaths annually in the U S. SNERRI WAY Magee five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs John Magee was the winner of the Little Miss Swim Contest held recently at Elks Ladze swimming pool. She was presented a bouquet of Pink suretheert roses and a small umbrella compliments of the Elks Ladies.
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Mary Jean Schwartzkoph
Dale Schwartzkoph
O. L.underwood
Bayshore Drive
Linda Underwood
Gene Campbell
Bryan James
Mary Jane
Memorial Area
Houston
Snerri Way Magee
John Magee
Elks Ladze
Elks
Susan Marsh Gift Tea Held in Mont Belvieu
Miss Susan Marsh bride elect for George Henry was entertained at a Mont Belvieu gift tea hosted by Mrs. Temple Fitzgerald. About 55 guests attended as corsages were given to her mother Mrs. Paul Marsh and the prospective groom’s mother Mrs. Willis Henry.
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Susan Marsh
George Henry
Temple Fitzgerald
Mont Belvieu
Paul Marsh
Port Arthur
Willis Henry
W. C. Jndenwood
Edna McDaniel
M Langston
Joyce Halford Wins Bike With Safety Poem Card
Joyce Halford a fourth grader at Ashbet South Elementary earned a bicycle as a prize from the Safety Contest judges praised for her poem on bicycle safety. The Key Club of Robert E Lee High School donated the bicycle. The article notes contributors and related comments from several local residents and teachers.
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Joyce Halford
Doyce
Effie Linder
Ashbet South Elementary
Ross Halford
Autobiography of a Bicycle wins Safety Contest essay
Gene Lovering, a sixth grade student at San Jacinto Elementary, won a Baytown Safety Contest with An Autobiography of a Bicycle. The essay describes a careful rider who respects signals, stays on the curb, checks tires, lights, and reflectors, and treats the bicycle like a vehicle for safety.
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Gene Lovering
Baytown
Council
Gene
George Johnson
San Jacinto Elementary
Miz
Gene H. Lovering
Britton
Schwinn
Tornado
Dallas
Oty Master
Jovener
Mrs. J. L. Franklin Honored By League Coffee
Immediate past president of the League of Women Voters, Mrs. J. L. Franklin, was honored at a coffee hosted by Mrs. Abe Rosenzweig at 6916 Bayway Drive. About 55 league members attended as the Franklins plan to move to Houston Jones. E. F. Bewerithan and W. J. DePierri presided at the refreshment table.
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Amrs. J. L. Franklin
League of Women Voters
Abel Rosenzweig
Bayway Drive
Franklins
Houston Jones
League
E. F. Bewerithan
W. J. DePierri
Texas Farmers Award Winners for Land and Water Care
The Texas A and M Research Foundation awarded Hobtelle prizes to William K. Sherman of Lockey and Albert Roach of Deport. Each received 5060 dollars, a gold medal, and a scroll for soil and water conservation. Roach, 46, earned the Senior award for turning a 142 acre Lamar County blackland farm into a diversified unit. Sherman, 29, earned the Junior award for progressive management of a 12th street farm in Floyd County.
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Dallas
Tenasi Research Foundation
Hobltelle
Texas
William K. Shernan
Lockey
Albert
Roach
Deport
Lamarr County
Blackland
Sherman
Lone Star
Floyd County
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Garden Club
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C. M. Massey
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Wildwood Drive
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Dutch Hooks
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Lee Tilton
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Paris
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