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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1944
Page
6
The Jolly Y Club installed its new officers with Miss Gen Polston presiding as retiring president and Miss Maxine Kennedy installed as president. A dinner at Asia Restaurant preceded the installation at the YWCA clubrooms, followed by an informal dance with about fifteen guests.
Members of the Y stay-at home camp were entertained with a ghost story session and a watermelon feast. Miss Ruth Ferguson showed three film reels as part of the program. The City Lake picnic was postponed to next Tuesday. Campers meet at the YWCA at 10 a.m. for the outing.
Tonight at 7 30 Emerywood Country Club hosts a large evening bridge event in the clubhouse. The dessert bridge features Mr and Mrs J S Welborn as hosts. Last night about 150 members guests attended a family dinner with dinner served six thirty to eight in the main lounge.
A Greensboro luncheon at Summit Avenue honored Miss Judy Primm who departs Monday for a War Department post in Washington. Guests included Miss Primm and sixteen friends from Burlington Winston-Salem and Greensboro, with Mrs. D T Caney hosting a four course meal featuring gladiolas and pink white decor. Caracas Venezuela population noted as 378000.
Mrs Edward Maxwell Crawford spouse of Edward Crawford receives a Friday reception at her mother in law’s Asheboro home after her June 24 marriage at Chatham Virginia. About 125 guests attended with Mrs Joyner and Mrs Lillie Lewallen greeting.
The Women of the Moose held a regular meeting last evening at the Moose Hall with Senior Regent Frances Lopp presiding. A thank you note from USO representative Mrs. G M Haley was read for donated food. Tickets will be distributed to 25 service men via USO on Saturday night July 22 1944 for a 7:00 supper at Moose Hall. The Mooseheart Endowment Fund was noted and the meeting adjourned to August 3.
The USO hosts an informal dance this Saturday at 8 30 p m in the YMCA gym with senior hostesses whose last names begin with M and N serving. Miss Carolyn Ward will sing during intermission and Mrs G M Haley accompanies at the piano. A Sunday night garden supper at Mrs J F Hayden 400 East Washington Street is planned if weather permits, otherwise at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church basement, five to seven.
The W. M. A. circle two prayer band of Southside Baptist church will hold a prayer meeting Saturday evening at 7 30 at the home of Mrs Chamblin 917 Redding street Miss Daisy Shaw will serve as prayer band leader and the public is invited to attend.
Mr and Mrs John Almond announce a son Thomas Lyle born July 19 at Boulevard High Point Memorial Hospital. Sgt and Mrs Leo D Nichols announce a son Marvin Lynn born July 16 at Boulevard Unit HP Memorial Hospital. Sgt Nichols is stationed in France. Mrs Nichols formerly Miss Mary Castelyn.
In a bridge example South saves against a small slam then gambles on a grand slam. West doubted his heart king and saved against six hearts but East-West continued to the grand slam. Declarer finessed the king and won, exposing West's flawed strategy. The article argues saving against the grand slam is prudent if the odds justify it.
At an English Bomber Station two Women’s Army Corps sergeants decorate clubs and mess halls. Sgt Doris L. Ogden, art major from the University of New Mexico, designs colors and paints murals while Sgt Valeria F. Brinegar sketches gremlins and parachutes. Both are daughters of American families from New Mexico and Pennsylvania.
About 25 workers, many new to the task, produced 1 825 surgical dressings last night at the Kivett Drive Red Cross Rooms in Union Hill school. This followed a 1 125 total on opening night. Rooms will be open Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays 7 to 9 PM for war work supervised by Mrs. A L Stevens.
A home recipe feature contrasts rice with potatoes and suggests rice as a substitute. It details cooking rice to keep grains separate, cooking macaroni similarly, and offers a carrot turnip lettuce salad. Also notes Bolivia and Mexico lead in antimony output and colonial land ownership in the Netherlands East Indies.
Elsie Robinson urges readers to stop living in the past or future and to use past mistakes as soil for growth. She warns against chronic regret, praising reflection, amends, and then moving forward with courage and purpose.
Mrs. Lee Sherrill and her son Johnny arrived for a visit with her mother Mrs. S. Coe on Hillcrest Drive after spending the past year at Camp Chaffee Arkansas and Fort Knox Kentucky with LA. Sherrill. Cpl. Joseph D. Carr Jr. and family plan several days visit. Cpl. Carr is on leave from Maxwell Field Alabama. Mozelle Armentrout recuperates at High Point Memorial Hospital after an operation. Mrs. Billy E. Morris of Shreveport Louisiana visits her in laws on Commerce Street. Grand Coulee Dam houses enough concrete for a highway from New York to Seattle and back via Los Angeles. Maryland honored Henrietta Maria of England.
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