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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1943
Page
6
A schedule of activities for the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs and affiliated groups. Highlights include reports on the Charlotte conference, dinners, conventions at Wesley Memorial Church, the Sheraton Hotel, and the Masonic Temple, plus receptions and study club gatherings through Wednesday and Friday with several named speakers and hostesses.
Miss Mary Ruth Woollen and Corporal Archie McLaurin Newton united in a late afternoon Easter Monday wedding at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. The ceremony featured simple decor, musical selections by Mrs. Thomas R. Pitts and soloists, and a formal escort of Miss Nancy Woollen. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Woollen, wore powder blue with navy accessories, and will stay with her parents as Corporal Newton returns soon to Fort Jackson.
High Point College hosts a May Day festival at 4 pm Saturday directed by Miss Joe Chan. The program features spring dances and Allied nation dances under the theme Springtime Around the World. The queen and maids of honor will be crowned after a senior processional, with Max Westerband and his orchestra providing music for the gym dance that closes the event.
Mrs J F Hayden president of the High Point Woman's Club hosted a dinner for the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs executive committee at the Sheraton Hotel Blue Room. Dinner followed by a regular session in Mrs Rankin's suite as preparations for the convention began.
Mrs. J. F. Hayden, president of the High Point Woman's Club, asks all members to attend a reception tonight at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in honor of general and state officers of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. The convention opens at 8 PM with a public session, followed by a reception at the Sheraton Hotel around 10 PM. dress is optional.
The Pentagon Club will meet at the Y W C A this evening to prepare surgical dressings. The event is announced for 5 30 o clock.
Miss Ellen Jensen will report on the North and South Carolina States Conference at the Y W C A meeting tonight at 6 15 at the Y. She was High Point's representative at Charlotte for the weekend of the seventeenth and spoke on post war Europe and Y W C A plans. The talk covers youth20 rebuilding Europe business girls and leadership training with Winston Salem August clinic plans and inter state council chairmanship for 1943 44.
Stephens Bible Class will meet tomorrow at 3 PM at the home of Mrs. C. S. Gray son 1009 North Main Street. Mrs. L. L. Grant will lead.
The Royal Ambassadors of Green Street Baptist Church will gather Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock at the church. China shipped 1,900,000 pounds of raw silk to the United States in the first half of this year.
A pages dinner to precede the convention program is planned at six thirty this evening at Wesley Memorial Church. Attending are Mrs. A. H. Whitley Jr and assistant, plus convention pages from Greensboro Raleigh Wilminton Winston-Salem and others with invited guests including district and past presidents. The district presidents meet at Wesley Memorial Church and past presidents dine at the Sheraton Hotel Grill at the same hour.
The April business session of the High Point Altrusa Club is set for tonight at 6 30 in the Sheraton Room of the Sheraton Hotel. Members are asked to arrive promptly. Local celebration of the Altrusa birthday occurred April 13 with regional clubs joining High Point at the Sheraton banquet. Mrs. Mabel Burnett will preside, with Mrs. Mary Lou Rothrock and Mrs. Mary Ballard in charge.
C Jackson of 1600 North Hamilton Street has returned home following an operation for a par at Greenville General Hospital in Greenville South Carolina. He is reported to be recuperating satisfactorily. Mrs Homer H Leonard has been moved to Guilford General Hospital after a week of illness and is able to receive visitors.
Mr and Mrs L C Chiles of Corryton Tennessee announce a son born April 25 in Knoxville Tennessee former Route 3 High Point resident. Pvt and Mrs Lonnie M Long announce a son Lonnie M Jr born April 26 at Guilford General Hospital. Pvt Raymond F Austin and wife Vergie Shoemake announce a daughter Myrtle Elizabeth born April 16 at Guilford General Hospital. Austin is stationed at Camp Haan California.
Police Officer H. F. Richardson, amateur magician, entertained the Greek community at their Easter party with feats of magic. Bessie Arvanitis of Manchester, N H, won a prize table cloth in a contest. Uruguay plans theater funding via taxing movies. India increases American lumber use.
Mrs John L Whitehurst of Baltimore Maryland president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs arrived early this morning for the state convention of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs Mrs P R Rankin of Mount Gilead state president arrived late yesterday afternoon for the convention Other distinguished guests are arriving today and tomorrow morning
Mrs. F. S. Wall will host the Gamma Zeta Bridge Club at Emerywood Country Club tomorrow morning at 10 30. Two tables will be in play for luncheon with visitor Mrs. Grady Stroupe filling in for an absent member.
Miss Irma Shore Shceloff, rising senior at Woman's College of UNC, Greensboro, is appointed to the institution's Judicial Board by board head Miss Nancy Kirby. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Ciceloff of 1009 Johnson Street, she is noted for an outstanding school record.
Ruth Millet argues American girls must share wartime duty with boys, urging parents and educators to raise nursing as a primary goal. She says nursing help is vital for soldiers and civilians, and that girls gain purpose and curb moral compromise by serving in nursing, making war needs their top priority.
Three Duke University roommates Miss Jacqueline Barthin Miss Barbara Jane Mayhew and Mildred Maddox spent Easter at Miss Maddox’s home in Thomasville North Carolina The report lists their hometowns River’s Edge New Jersey Coral Gables Florida and Thomasville appendix mentions broader news: Argentina exceeded wool shipments to the United States in the previous year and Greenland bought two American land planes.
Mrs J L Blair Bucky of Richmond Va a leading visitor at the convention is endorsed for first vice presidency. She is noted as the first Richmond woman Dollar Year Woman for War Savings work and the second Virginia woman to receive the appointment. Domestic refrigerators have caught on in the Straits Segments and sales are booming.
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