Music and Party Feature Weekly USO Program
The USO weekly program at the YMCA dance featured Miss Betsy Saunders supervising an informal party. About 300 servicemen attended the Sunday supper at Wesley Memorial church basement due to rain.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1944
Page
6
The USO weekly program at the YMCA dance featured Miss Betsy Saunders supervising an informal party. About 300 servicemen attended the Sunday supper at Wesley Memorial church basement due to rain.
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty will meet tonight at 8 o clock at the hall on Commerce Street where officers will be installed. All members urged to attend.
Lt Wilbur G Robbins visiting his parents on Louise Avenue left Saturday for Jacksonville Beach Florida to join his wife. He was notified on leave he had been promoted to first lieutenant and is stationed at Childress Texas. Other notes mention visits and travels of local families including Pardue Conzens Hiatt Kemp Campbell Knight Saunders Brown Whittington and W t in Kernersville and Winston-Salem areas.
Elsie Robinson writes on bitterness growing after wartime strain. A once bright Mary and many friends show cold indifference and anger as grief and loss rise. The piece urges choosing hope and shared burden to save the soul from bitterness, noting wartime misery and a call to keep to a hopeful path.
Monty Fisher aged 14 son of Mrs. Alec Lindsay of Rome Georgia died suddenly Sunday after a head injury he had received recently. He and his grandmother Mrs. B R Montague of Rome Georgia visited here often.
Prominent Davidson county farmer Babe Bowers 82 of Route 2 died suddenly at home Sunday night He was born March 22 1862 the son of George and Margaret Sullivan Bowers He was a longtime member of Emmanuel Reformed church Survivors include wife Mary A Clodfelter Bowers one stepson C F Myers and two step grandchildren Funeral service Wednesday at 11 am from Emmanuel Reformed church the pastor Rev W C Lyerly will officiate Burial in the church cemetery.
In Ilwaco Washington George Esveldt a state fisheries oyster expert says oyster culture spread from Rome to France England and centuries later to the United States. He cites the year 272 as a reference point for the early spread of oyster culture.
Princess Rene de Bourbon Parme wife of a French captain and Danish royal cousin, works as a saleswoman in a 57th Street shop. The family fled Nazi Europe and now live in New York with her 16-year-old son Andre while her husband, Jacques, and other children serve in allied forces. She loves America but hopes to return to Paris after the war.
The Burrus Memorial Hospital Alumnae Association will entertain the present graduating class at the City Lake on Thursday July 13 at 7 o clock p m All members are invited Those planning to attend should call Mrs Lydia Reiger at the Burrus Clinic by Tuesday noon
Mrs. Eisenhower says morale is normal and women in the army are doing a man sized job worldwide. She notes General Eisenhower hears mail calls and that wartime life is disconcerting but the general’s wife sees women taking their rightful place in the armed forces.
FarL of Halifax London July 10 Lord Halifax British ambassador to the United States and war cabinet member has been granted the title Earl of Halifax. He was recently raised to an earldom but the specific designation had not been announced.
Mrs. Pauline Galardo of Pittsburgh seeks to void a proxy marriage she says was illegal. She claimed her brother Peter Kenovese acted as proxy for Alfred Mendola, jailed for breaking and entering, and the ceremony occurred in Cumberland, Maryland.
Rev. W R Kelly of Main Street Methodist preached at Emmanuel Lutheran in the sixth summer union service. He urged listeners to seek God’s guidance, embrace life as a continual becoming, and empower youth to become sons and daughters of the Lord through belief in His name.
New York reports the return of the long evening gown in the fall fashion scene. Designers showcase floor length silhouettes bouffant and slinky aimed at servicemen voters, with shorter glitter dresses labeled for cocktail wear. Fashion editors observe renewed elegance across collections.
A historical data line reports that only 14 million of about 34 million dwelling units in the United States have central heating. The statistic underscores a large share lacking central heating across the nation and hints at regional and economic disparities.
A reflective line urges believers to follow the example of Jesus who did good, sacrificed himself, and intercedes for humanity, emphasizing devotion and spiritual alignment with the divine model.
In a South dealer game with East-West vulnerable, West misled by a fourth best spade after North doubles three diamonds. Declarer erred by playing the nine from dummy, and the defenders cashed diamonds and spades to set the contract. If West had opened diamonds the defenders could not run the suit.
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