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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1973
Page
3
Readers share practical tips from caring acts during illness and holiday decorating. Edie G describes friends who changed sheets and helped with care while recovering. Vikki Harrisberger suggests using a sheet as a tree skirt and emptying it immediately. Shep the dog asks for a warmer doorway orientation.
The Torchlighters, former BPW presidents, led the Christmas program for the Business and Professional Women's Club at Tioga Hotel. Mary Slater sang with Edna Petterson, Marie Gibson read poems by Helen Steiner Rice, Jean Gray reviewed Three Men by Elizabeth Goudge, and Adeline Fortney led carols. Thirty one members and four guests attended.
National Campers and Hikers Association chapter hosted an old fashioned Christmas dinner at Central Park Building with 61 members and four guests. Prizes for best dressed couple went to Mr and Mrs Junior Fritz. New officers installed included President Boyd Moon and Vice President Harold LaRue with Salome Harmon as treasurer.
At Grant Avenue Baptist Church Berean Class officers were elected with Mrs. Gene Webber as president, Mrs. Glen Eastburn vice president, Mrs. Paul Puckett secretary, Don Campbell treasurer, and pianists Mrs. Harold Neptune and Mrs. Ralph Toland. Warren Babcock and Paul Puckett teach. Twenty members decorated the church for Christmas and adopted a family for the holiday. Refreshments followed in the fellowship room.
Today's Mothers Club held its annual Christmas dinner at the Maple Leaf Tea Room. Table décor featured swan centerpiece and evergreen accents, with favors of eggs and red birds in gold nests. Roll call highlighted family traditions. Ruth Sparks read a Christmas poem.
A reader asks Ann Landers about the harm of premarital sex and how it hurts self respect. The column urges honesty and warns that sex without genuine care damages self image, urging readers to face the truth rather than justify casual behavior.
Mrs. Ed Manherz led devotions using The Priceless Gift of Christmas at the Midway YWCA with roll call answered by a deed of love. President Mrs. Dwight Olson read a poem as Judy Steffens offered a crafts lesson. committees were named for fun night and a YWCA banner, potluck refreshments shared.
Eleven Kansette Club members along with family members and three guests, David, Eileen and Julie Gibson, gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Cumings at 711 South Allen for a Christmas gift exchange after the meal Santa Claus and helpers distributed gifts to all attendees.
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