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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1943
Page
6
The Duplicate Bridge Club will gather at the Emery Wood Club Saturday at 2 p.m. for its weekly bridge play session.
The wedding of Miss Helen Brown of Asheboro and Corporal Samuel Lewis Coble of Camp Wheeler Georgia will be a formal church ceremony on Sunday June 20 at Brower Chapel Methodist Church in Asheboro. The service will be conducted by Dean P. Lindley, with Miss Ethel Johnson and Mrs Oberia 1 as soloist.
The June recital by Mrs. J. Leslie Ann as pupils drew an appreciative audience at the First Methodist Church assembly room. Prizes for practice were awarded to Ann Smith and Barbara Steele in the beginners group. Jean Weekly won the ice prize and the prize for greatest improvement. Robin Garwood presented the prizes for Mrs. Andrews class, which includes Mary Lou Culler Ann Smith Jimmy Lovelace and others.
The Young Women’s Christian Association Girl Reserve Department closes its junior and senior counselor led day camp with a Saturday party. Junior counselors include Carolyn Ward Lyda Meredith Corelli Isenhour Helen Ehshler Nancy White and Gloria Hayworth. Readied teams rotate duties while craft shop displays and a radio script are featured. Community Day Camps for Negro girls will be held in July under Miss Louise Surratt.
Mrs. Charles F. Finch hosted the Ace of Clubs Bridge Club dessert meeting with two tables in play. top score won pillow cases and runner-up towels. The Thomasville Garden Club, Brierfield Chapter UDC, and local social circle held sessions with guests and programs, while other residents and guests announced engagements and visits.
Plans are set for the wedding of Miss Dorothy Leigh Culler of Thomasville Route 1 and Roy L. Grant USNR formerly of this city now stationed at Charleston. The 8 30 p m ceremony will be at Hayworth Memorial Wesleyan Methodist Church with family and friends in attendance.
Mrs Angie Pitts returns home from Scott Field Illinois after visiting son Thomas R Pitts stationed there for radio training. She travels with daughter in law Mrs Thomas R Pitts who will live at Belleville Indiana near Scott Field. Mr and Mrs J Harmon Linville have been at Fort Benning training while visiting Mrs Linville's parents Dr and Mrs W R McCain. Mrs Kathleen P Marley former resident now in Burlington returns after short stay with daughter Mrs Vernon Idol Jr. Miss Arriwona Shoat of Lexington visits Redmye and Mrs J Knox Harrington. Miss Harriet Ann Shelton returns home after ton silectomy at Burrus Clinic and is improving. Mrs Carl Nelson and Mrs W J Craver in Wichita Texas visiting husbands in Air Corps and plan two week trip.
Pattern 4284 offers overalls a play suit and a sun frock with matching bonnet in children sizes 2 4 6 8 and 10. Size 6 requires specific yardage and ric rac along with 11/8 yards ruffling. order via The High Point Enterprise Pattern Department 243 West 17th St New York.
Buffalo welfare workers warn that a growing number of women in war work are divorcing. They fear independence and earnings will tempt wives to quit marriages, risking regrets as jobs fade after the war and remarriage proves harder.
Wpb orders extend through December 31 the manufacture of leather goods in cattle hide leather including gloves purses watch straps harnesses and tobacco cases to use inventory and avoid waste. War production board also notes embroidery patterns restricted and sewing machines to be allocated while maintaining civilian supply. Synthetic rubber advances may lower postwar prices and girdles swimsuits and athletic gear are expected to see demand. Swordfish supplies rise with three million pounds expected. copra imports assure soap oil for manufacturers.
The Eastern States mixed team of four champions in New York won the Wilbur C. Whitehead Memorial Trophy for charity. Mrs. Noel and partners from New York East Orange and Brooklyn triumphed in a board a match event with a key part score by Mrs. Noel that secured the match and the championship.
The Emerywood Club hosts a dessert bridge evening with reservations filling fast. Last night’s Family Night Dinner served about 120 guests, with many turned away for lack of space after six thirty to eight o clock serving hours.
Fashion notes describe knitted pullover shirts for women and older girls for gardening and sport, plus men and boys in tees and pullovers. Diagonal bold stripes and denim pairing are highlighted, with easy care and affordable price ranges.
The music recital by Miss Beulah Moton’s students at the First Methodist Church drew a large audience. The program featured solo and duet pieces with pupils earning top daily lesson averages: Frances Herman, Jewell Myers, Barbara Lowe, Donald Chamblee, Jean Montgomery, Joyce Linthicum, Patsy Gadd. Honorable mentions went to Marvin Williams, Peggy Tobias, Doris Lee, Charles Sawyer, Peggy Sue Brower, Barbara Bartsch, plus special recognitions for Betty Allman, Barbara Tobias, Betty Lou Hodges, Ramona Pons, Clyde Conner, Charlotte Ziammerman, Nancy Haltom, Ann Dowd, Patsy Auman.
The article notes 1300 man hours required to deliver the first Mariner patrol bomber to the Navy. It explains that if one engineer worked a 40 hour week alone, the task would have started in the year 1317, illustrating the vast scale of the project.
The Philathea Class of Rankin Memorial Methodist Church will hold its June meeting this evening at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. W. C. Newby 613 Chandler Street. Associate hostesses are Mrs. C. M. Queen and Mrs. Ray Rouse with Mrs. Newby.
Before the first Marauder was delivered to the Army Air Forces, 485000 man hours of engineering were required and an additional 440000 hours have been added to implement changes recommended by combat experience.
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