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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1943
Page
6
Busy week of meetings and socials across Emerywood venues. Legion Auxiliary, Women’s groups, garden clubs, and bridge luncheons fill afternoons and evenings at the Red Cross Central Rooms Elks Club and local homes with speakers, slides, and dinners announced by organizers and hostesses.
The Council of Jewish Women will hold a meeting Wednesday at nine o'clock at Mrs Edward Leyton's home on Woodrow Avenue. Guest speaker Miss Dessa Cox from High Point High School will discuss the topic India.
Mrs. H. P. Morrison, president, announced the January meeting of the Burbank Garden Club is cancelled. The session had been scheduled for Wednesday January 20.
Mrs. Robert Montgomery and helpers hosted a farewell party at the YWCA for four WAAC selectees leaving Wednesday and a WAAC heading to her station Sunday. Guests enjoyed games, a flag decor, and refreshments. each honoree received a leather portafold, toothbrush, and soap.
Emerywood Country Club holds its annual membership meeting Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the club house. All members urged to attend as there is to be an election of new directors. The meeting will include the reading of the yearly financial report and other business items.
Emerywood Country Club members abandon cars due to new OPA rule and walk to the club for bridge. Mrs. W. E. Outen notes no violations and reports eight tables set as thirty two members cruise in on foot, using cars only for meals as permitted.
In Greensboro, sociology students from Woman's College staff the new Travelers' Aid desk at the city bus station with a volunteer corps of 26 from three to 12 hours weekly. Miss Mereb Mossman directs efforts, assisted by faculty and Guilford public welfare caseworkers, expanding volunteers to the railroad station and the army camp housing bureau.
The Business and Professional Women's Club will meet Wednesday at 7 30 pm at the Elwood Hotel for a business session. President Mrs Margaret Farley will preside. This will not be the usual dinner meeting.
Miss Juanita I Brittain of 106 Oakwood Court has been officially enrolled in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. She was accepted January 16 according to Florabeth H Ferri third officer WAAC and assistant recruiting officer.
Pvt and Mrs H W Wagner announce the birth of Beverly Sloope on January 17 at Guilford General Hospital. Mr and Mrs S D Dunlap report twins a boy and a girl born January 17 at Guilford General Hospital. Pvt and Mrs J B Vaughan announce a daughter born January 17 at Guilford General Hospital. Mr and Mrs Oscar Lee Cook announce a daughter Brenda Joyce born January 17 at Guilford General Hospital. Prior to marriage Mrs Cook was Miss Dot Greene.
Yesterday Emery wood section filled with groups on foot and neighbors at bus stops in fine dress. Cars were shunned by the crowd and a no pleasure driving edict did not curb outings as families marched in walking shoes.
Washington reports meat rationing may not start the day War Ration Book No. 2 arrives but will follow canned goods rationing closely. The new book includes two coupon sets for canned goods and meat, with guidance to study the point system extender options and alternate foods.
The final session of the national open pair championship narrowed to eight points among the leaders before Tobias Stone and Al Roth surged to a 23 point lead over Waldemar von Zedtwitz and Harry J. Fishbein. Stone, 23, in the Signal Corps Reserve, demonstrates a promising style with decisive play in the closing rounds.
The Sunday lesson sermon focused on Life and eternal life through Jesus Christ. Golden Text from Romans 6 23 urges the gift of God life through Christ. Proverb passages stress obedience to law for length of days peace and long life. The Science and Health excerpts affirm Life as God Spirit strengthening trust in immortality and healing disease.
Special to The Enterprise notes multiple local marriage announcements from late December and January. Miss Doris Gwendolyn Ingram wed Staff Sergeant Ernest Gruner II of Camp Polk at Dallas Texas with Rev. W W Stragener officiating. The couple will reside in Leesville Louisiana after a visit to Asheboro.
Miss Hettie Craven and Joseph Mottern wed at the bride’s mother home on Asheboro Route One in a simple Methodist ring ceremony. Mottern, a Southern Railway employee based in Asheville, hails from Tennessee. The couple will reside in Asheville. Also wed on January 8, Miss Daisy Lee Moore and Isaac Junius Routh, with a Methodist ring ceremony at Rev. H L Isley’s Burlington Route One home. Moore teaches home economics at Gray’s Chapel School. the pair will live in the Grays Chapel community.
Ruth Millett notes nursing schools struggle to fill 1942 43 quotas as war work pulls applicants. The National Nursing Council for War Service promotes nursing as a permanent career with future opportunities and claims nurses make good wives. Millett argues young women seek marriage and money, influencing career choices.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Routh and Miss Alice Chilton visit Mrs. Routh's brother, Clarence Lance, in Detroit Michigan. Lance serves with the U S Army Air Corps stationed at Detroit during this period.
A Baptist church in Walnut Cove was destroyed by fire early yesterday. Officials could not determine the fire's origin and said the cause remains undetermined.
North Carolina gardeners are advised to plant roses in February or early March to outpace stem canker. Prepare soil with cow manure and bone meal, prune plants before planting, and space varieties as Hybrid Teas 2 1 2 to 3 feet apart while Polyanthas fit 18 to 24 inches.
Thomasville police report Delma Leona Hicks an 18 year old of Taylor Street missing since 7pm Saturday. She is five feet five inches, 126 pounds, last seen in a blue sailor dress socks and a grey tweed coat.
Arthur Bugs Baer notes U S Marines as the best diplomats the nation ever had while British Air Force pilots shout tallyho as they dive at the enemy in a colorful contrast of wartime morale.
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