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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
6
Woman's page editor Madeline Hoover directs content as the weekly paper lists department notes and telephone contact for readers.
Calendar notes for Thursday include a 4:30 p m business meeting of the Community Concert Association at the Sheraton Hotel private dining room. Emerywood Country Club hosts Family Night dinner 6:30 to 8 p m with noon reservations. A YWCA Young Women’s Club banquet at 7 p m features C A Trentman of Raleigh as speaker, followed by a 7:30 p m YWCA board meeting. Friday features Canterbury Club host Mrs Craven Page at 218 Hillcrest Drive with Mrs W B Hall presenting the program.
The Elm Street PTA held a regular session at the school with President Mrs. Ray Nance presiding. The program featured Victory Gardens as Grover Jones led the discussion and war stamp sales were reported. Parents visited classrooms after adjournment.
The High Point Woman's Club met at the Adams Memorial YWCA to hear Mrs Knox Wilson discuss the Red Cross and the war effort. Leaders named for knitting sewing nursing nutrition and other Red Cross activities outlined plans for the upcoming North Carolina Federation convention.
Good Will Garden Club met at Mrs. A G Marsh home on Ferndale Drive to view colored slides by C M Scott. Topics included High Point gardens, Orton Plantation near Wilmington, and a Middle West tour featuring Yellowstone and Pike’s Peak with club business and nominating committee chosen.
The High Point Graduate Nurses Club met at the YWCA with 22 members. Miss Mattie Idol presided as letters from ten nurses serving in the Navy and Army were read. Ensigns Mona Hudson, Anne Brewer, Martha Idol, and Lts Nettie Stafford, Eleanor Glyynn Bain, Anne Anderson, Ruth Barbee, Evelyn Wicke, Marjorie Cade, Nada Reitzel were honored. Some are overseas, others on duty domestically. The club voted to cancel a district meeting planned for spring.
The March meeting of the YWCA industrial committee was held at the Y building with Mrs. D R Parker as chairman. Plans for various activities were discussed.
The Oak View P T A will sponsor a Victory Garden program at the school this evening at 7 30. L M Boswell assistant farm agent and Miss Nell Kennett assistant home demonstration agent will show gardening as it applies to supplying and supplementing needed foods. Open to all interested in planting gardens.
Mrs Hamer Miller outlines the local YWCA structure with health education business industrial and Girl Reserve divisions. Mrs Parker details the industrial committee aims to study occupational and leisure issues for industrial young women. Miss Louise Surratt describes the five industrial clubs and the inter club council. Leadership Training Conference plans are set for the near future at the YWCA. Mrs Parker selects five assistants for the inter club council conference and a puppet show is announced for March 20 led by the Friday Lend A Hand club with appointed helpers.
The North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs set April 27 28 29 in High Point for its state convention and named chairmen for credentials cops decorations distinguished guests exhibits flags and banners hospitality information junior activities pages publicity radio social activities breakfasts luncheons and dinners banquet reception and tickets. The processions and timekeeper posts remain open to be filled later by state president Mrs Rankin.
The Business and Professional Girls club of the YWCA hosted its regular supper Tuesday at the YWCA. High Point College students performed with Nina Whitaker Zelma Parnell and Bill Gosard sang. Margaret Koonts accompanied on piano. Visitors included several club members and council representatives.
Delegates from High Point attended the North Carolina Society Daughters of the American Revolution state conference in Winston-Salem at the Robert E. Lee Hotel. Miss Arta Pearl Hiatt, sponsor for the Good Citizenship Award, received her certificate and pin.
An appeal urges women to lead Girl Scout and Campfire Groups as juvenile delinquency rises. Leaders can organize scrap drives, bake for troops, assist rationing boards, and teach baby care, freeing mothers for war work. The piece stresses wartime leadership is essential and urges women to volunteer.
Mr and Mrs Robert J Jine report their son Pvt Robert J Ellington Jr is missing in action in North Africa per official notice from the Department of the Army.
A World Day Of Prayer observance will be held Friday March 12 at 4 o clock at Emmanuel Lutheran Church North Main Street. Local churches join in a worldwide fellowship of prayer with services beginning in the Fiji Islands and ending near Alaska. The theme is Father I Pray That They May All Be One. Joint Lutheran Church choirs lead, juniors sing Dear Lord and Father Of All Mankind.
The Guilford County Classroom Teachers Association will convene Saturday March 13 from noon to 12:30 in the Curry auditorium at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina Greensberry for an important business session to elect new officers. Miss Julia McNairy presides over the County Classroom Teachers.
The Fingercraft Club will hold its regular meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. J. B. Wardell, 406 Kennedy Street.
Miss Clara Forster and Mrs Jessie Miller hosted a bridge club meeting at Mrs Bertha Shees home on East Green Street. Prizes were awarded after play and St Patrick s Day refreshments were served. Notables present included Peggy Bass Julia Faye Setliffe Dot Price and Pat Steed with guests Dotty Williams Mary Alice Mining Marjorie Dean and Evelyn Stafford.
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