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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1945
Page
6
Members of the Live Y er club at the local YWCA enjoyed a theater party at the Center to view a film and were later hosted by Misses Sarah Beth and Lella Smith on Montlieu avenue. Guests heard a broadcast of the Potsdam conference featuring President Truman.
An informal dance at the YWCA hosted by the Jolly club of the YWCA welcomed about forty guests from the Overseas Replacement Center Air Force Greensboro. Misses Ruby Brooks and Virginia Thompson served as hosts. the event replaced the group's weekly meeting with buffet refreshments, summer floral decor, and ping-pong entertainment.
Button originals with plastic backs arrive this spring in multiple colors and shapes. Studs range from frosted crystal discs to simulated jet, with options in transparent plastic and jewel tones. Some can serve as cuff buttons or paired cuff links, and matching pieces exist as earrings. These dress studs are among the first since metals went to war, letting wearers alter outfits by swapping studs.
Tomorrow evening the USO hosts another informal dance for service men at the Adams Memorial YWCA on North Main Street starting at 8 30. The event follows last week’s successful first night with about seventy servicemen at Mrs C W Cagle’s Filbert Street home. Mesdames C W Davis and H D Smith led arrangements with help from USO junior hostesses. hamburgers and foods were served outdoors.
Miss Marguerette Mills marries Edgar A. Clapp chief aviation officer in the United States Navy. The July 14 ceremony at Floyd Bennett Field chapel in Brooklyn was officiated by Father J. J. Conroy and followed by a reception. The bride is the daughter of Brooklyn residents, the groom son of High Point residents, and he is stationed at Floyd Bennett Field.
The Woodmen circle entertained forty members of the Woodmen of the World with a watermelon feast at the park on Wednesday evening. Guests from Tau Phi Lambda auxiliary attended. A business meeting is planned for fall to review the will and take ration for inspection.
In Asheboro on Aug 10 a dozen guests hosted by Mr and Mrs Ernest Kiesewetter honored Senator and Mrs Harley Kilgore of Washington DC. The visit included tours of Derwick Silk mill and Bossong hosiery. Also noted were several local social events and a birthday surprise for Mrs T M Daniels plus a welcome home supper for Pvt Odell Burns.
Mrs Edward A Morgan of Worthville recovers at home after four operations at High Point hospital and will stay with Mr and Mrs J T Morgan at 304 Springfield Ave until early next week. S/Sgt William Harold Wright back from 23 months with the 73rd troop carrier squadron visits Mr and Mrs J C Saunders. his Mount Gilead parents say he earned the Purple Heart. Miss Margaret Lane of Ramseur hosts Round Dozen Book Club. Mrs A W Craven presides and discusses the Suwanee and Cape Fear rivers. Mrs Al Bensing entertains niece Miss Gladys Bensing of Washington DC with bowling and refreshments.
In a no vulnerability 8 10 East dealer hand, South forestalled danger with a bold contract play. West led spades, East won A K then sparked a sequence that would have doomed the contract if East had chosen different lines. Declarer used a clever ruff and trump run to secure the contract.
The Highland Methodist church young ladies met Tuesday evenings to form the Wesleyan Service Guild with eleven attendees. Officers include Mrs. Little Joyce president and Mrs. Nan DeMarco vice president. Committees are led by Mrs. S. W. Johnson spiritual life and others. The group chose the name Wesley Guild in honor of Mrs. S. W. Johnson and set the third Tuesday monthly as meetings.
Thomas H. Elder city utilities official received Japanese propaganda dropped from B 29 bombers over Nippon by his son Sgt T H Elder Jr a crew member of one plane Young Elder with the 20th air force on Saipan sent a 10 yen note a Japanese copy of President Truman s ultimatum a surrender certificate and a color folder showing American dinner bill to appease the enemy.
Harness racing returns to the Roosevelt track in Westbury New York as the Old Country Stin g Association opens its fall meeting. Eight races are carded nightly at the seaside venue.
Youthful pattern Tone offering a mature style describes pattern 4729 with side front closure like a coat. Includes striped fabric option and tab collar. sizes 34 to 46 with yardage details for size 36. Also promotes Anne Adams Summer Pattern Book with free patterns and asks for pattern book order payments.
A specimen of the largest mosquitos known in the United States was found in a tree hole on the Moore General Hospital reservation. Lt. Andrew J. Barth reports the larva stage hatched this morning, measuring eight inches from proboscis tip to abdomen tip, and is brilliantly colored. The genus feeds on nectar and larvae of other insects and does not bite. It is most common in the southern U S states including Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee.
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