Home Extension News Highlights Work on Dressmaking and Midlife Studies
Thirteen Home Demonstration club women with Miss Florence Rann and Ruth Mellway learned dress construction using rayons nylons and silks. They plan April 27 28 at the Methodist Church to finish garments costing 391 to 824 dollars, with finished items valued 12 to 25 dollars elsewhere. Michigan State College will host a symposium April 18–20 on enabling fuller lives for women after family space, featuring Agnes Meyer Dr Catherine Macfarlane Dr Pearl Swanson Dr Harry August and Dr Lawrence K Frank. A pineapple freezing study from MSU recommends thin sliced or small cubes, 80 percent syrup packaging, tested with grapefruit and ascorbic acid.
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Florence Rann
Michigan State College
Ruth Mellway
Rann
McKnay
School of Home Economics
Agnes E. Meyer
Eugene Meyer
The
Washington Post
Catherine Macfarlane
Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
Pearl Swanson
Iowa State College
Harry August
State Mental ‘Health Commission of Michigan
Lawrence K. Frank
Caroline Zachry
Michigan
Pauline—Baul
Elva ‘Sween
Department of Foods
Stump Capping Ceremony in Queensland Churches
In rural Queensland a stump capping ceremony marks church foundations. Stumps, often wooden or concrete, are capped with metal tops to aid inspection and deter white ants. The dedicator places the first cap and asks a blessing, followed by other distinguished visitors capping the remaining stumps.
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Queensland
Australia
Methodist Youth Build Refugee Village in Dornbreite
American college students will construct a new building at Dornbreite, a refugee village northeast of Hamburg. The European Work Camp, run by the Methodist Student Movement with the Virginia Annual Conference, plans 20 students to undertake travel seminars and hands on housing work benefiting the Bishop Sommer Settlement.
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Germany
Hamburg
Board of Missions of the
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Sinia
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Wesleystrasse
Nuelsenstrasse
Melleweg
Nuelsen
Melle
Bishop Sommer
Rehoboam and the split of Israel in biblical history
R e v R o b e r t H Harper notes April 17 teaching on first and second chronicles and James. He explains Solomon’s attempt to preserve tax revenues led to a revolt by ten tribes, splitting Israel into Northern and Southern kingdoms with Judah retaining Jerusalem and the temple. He urges Christians to unite against evil.
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Rehoboam
Judah
Solomon
Israel
Benjamin
Jerusalem
David
Churches face radical re planning as aging and youth rise
A study led by Rev. D Richard E Lentz warns Americans 64 plus will exceed 20 million in twenty years while under five children outpace all groups. Churches must rethink programs to serve growing older and younger le isure time groups, raising financial strain as middle income families decline. Many city churches run 80 percent adult memberships, many retired with time on their hands.
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D. Richard E. Lentz
Chicago
National Council of Churches
Department of Family Life
Leniz
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