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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1944
Page
6
The Woman's Club sponsors a canning demonstration at the YWCA at 9 this morning led by Mrs. W. K. Whitesell for the city home demonstration agent. It covers squash beets beans and a new method for canning berries plus a display of pam pala a Chinese vegetable. Remarks note beer made from barley in Babylon.
USO week end events featured a Saturday dance with humorous skits by Set Leon Fields of ORD Greensboro and Sunday musical program by Miss Dorothy Hoskins. Special guests included ex ecutive board spouses at a YWCA supper. Open air suppers planned at Mrs. J F Hayden garden. City Lake picnic for 150 air cadets tonight. Junior hostesses coordinate events and ice cream is served later.
The article lauds the Women Army Corps as they fill critical hospital jobs lip-reading Braille aiding blind soldiers lab work pharmacy psychiatry ambulance driving air traffic control strategy mapping and communications. It portrays them shaping a new American wartime history through indispensable service and sacrifice.
Norma Ballard married Flight Officer Guy A. Anderson on June 10 at a D C church home. The couple, formerly Asheboro residents, honeymooned then returned to Mt. Gilead and Laurinburg Maxton base. The Enterprise notes a flurry of social events including church activities, a ninth anniversary dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Vance Kivett, VFW auxiliary meetings, and multiple bridge parties and gatherings across Asheboro.
Calendar lists USO supper for cadets leaving High Point College Detachment at the city lake, alumnae meeting, Emerywood Country Club bridge, Altrusa annual meeting, American Legion June meeting, Miss Hoffman and Lieut Scofield cake cutting, Miss Hoffman and Scofield wedding at Wesleyan Church, West Emerywood Garden Club final meeting, East High Woman's Union, family night dinners at Emerywood, weekly gin party at the country club, YMCA gym activities, and YWCA summer buffet supper partnership.
Miss Dorothy Joines and Marshall E Bagwell United States Coast Guard were married at First Presbyterian Church Wilmington North Carolina on Saturday June 3 at 11 oclock. Rev William Crowe officiated in a double ring ceremony. The couple planned a Wilmington home after a wedding trip to Atlanta Ga. The bride previously lived with her sister Mrs William Gurley 706 Morris Street and has worked at the U S O club Wrightsville Beach. The groom is the son of Mrs E LePhilpot of Atlanta.
Mrs Charles McMurray of First Presbyterian church will be guest speaker at the Brentwood Womans Auxiliary tonight at 8 oclock at Brentwood Presbyterian church. Elizabeth Albright class meets Tuesday at 7 15 pm at Ward Street Methodist church and will roll bandages at the Red Cross surgical rooms. Oak Hill Friends Christian Endeavor met Sunday afternoon with devotionals by Miss Frances Burton and prayer led by Miss Vivian Robbins. The topic was Hobbies Can Be Profitable with several members participating.
Miss Charlene Richardson was the honoree at a Friday evening party hosted by her mother Mrs J L L Richardson on Coleridge road. Miss Kate Hammer attended as guest. Games were played on the lawn and refreshments were served.
In a private ceremony at First Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon Mildred Free and Marine Sergeant Charles H. Brown were united in marriage officiated by Rev. Wilson Weldon. Only relatives and close friends attended as an improvised fern altar formed a backdrop and Mrs. Earl Caldwell played a piano prelude.
North opens sixNT endgames after a safe heart lead. South rebuts with three hearts hoping to deter six notrump, but North’s strength and the 4-3 heart break seal the slam. South cashes hearts and leads fourth round, freezing the game.
Interest centers on a traveling art show sponsored by the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs to be displayed at Elm Street School on June 27 from 3 to 6 and 8 to 10 p m. Kenneth Whitesett praises Emil Holzhauer's Sawmill noting its fresh direct style and Van Gogh like vigor.
Elsie Robins admonishes readers to face truth within themselves. She argues lying to oneself damages life and urges candor about faults, cowardice, and cruelty. She contrasts self-deception with survival, citing past monsters that passed only by confronting truth.
Researchers note more than 56 waterfalls spill over cliffs in a single region and over 1,000 asteroids orbit the sun, prompting discussions on geological activity and celestial mechanics.
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