Ashford News highlights Christmas events and club notices
Community groups in Ashford held a series of Christmas program events at homes and clubs. The Es telle Manley Chapter U. D. C. hosted a meeting with papers on Alabama Day, while the American Legion Auxiliary planned a Christmas party. PTA Parents Night drew about 100 attendees as Mrs. H. C. Lambert oversaw raffles for classroom prizes. Additional church activities featured W M A Week of Prayer, Sunbeam and Guild gatherings, and a barber home demonstration club event with festive decorations and multiple speakers.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Club House
Joe Barrett
P T. A
H. C. Lambert
Frank Lashley
Walter Bruner
Lambert
Walter R. Robbinette
L. B. Greene
Aganford Methodist Church
Floyd Knight
Miss Pringle
Sanford Pate
Lurlene Dobbs
Evelyn Baxter
Joe Summerford
Wesleyan Guild
Methodist Church
Robert Meadows
Fdred
Sunbeam Band of the Baptist Church
Lotlie Moon
China
Stuart McArthur
Eskimo Land
Larry Jarsen
1947 left American women without security or clear work
The year brought worry over high prices and a looming war talk while women, who found purpose in wartime work, faced dull options. They chased cheaper living, adjusted hems for the "new look," and recalled wartime family hardships as costs rose.
Teachers with new diplomas shun elementary posts says official
Job placement director Dr. J. W. Carrington of Liners State Normal University reports a major shortage in elementary teaching. Of 194 graduates last year, only 45 entered teaching and none went to rural schools.
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Normal
Iiners State Normal University
J. W. Carrington
Right Time Place Picked For Accident
Os bore Kansas reports a curious accident scene at a church area where high school students Veda Thortburg and Deane Crawford fell from a pickup while treating a carpet outside Congregational Church. Paramedics responded with a stretcher and rapid medical attention noted as recorded in Osborne clinic notes.
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Osborne
Kan
Veda Thortburg
Deane Crawford
Osborne Phys
Greek Women Learn Homemaking From American Woman
American expert Mrs White visits Athens to train Greek women in homemaking and rural life support. She notes Greek mothers bear much child care and housework. improving farming methods could free time, enabling women to focus more on home duties. The effort aims to raise farmer income and reduce the need for women in fields.
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Athens
Prasani
F.dne
Merrill Pelwes School
Detroit
Agricultural Division
American Mission
Greece
Ate
Greeve
New Dark Shades Hosiery From Dye Techniques
Draping pale nylons in dark dyes transforms pale hosiery into fashionable stockings for the holidays. Instructions describe dyeing stockings in warm dye baths for 15 minutes then rinsing and drying. A note mentions the 142 year old Massachusetts prison as the oldest penal institution still in use in the U S.
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U. S
Massachusetts Prison
Boston
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