Circle of the First Methodist Church Meeting Notes
Society events list shows Diane Helms and Mrs Virgil Keeley as planned hosts for a January 16 meeting at 7 30 p m with Grover Thompson as co chairs. Attendees advised. several school and PTA gatherings are scheduled January 14 to 19 including Emmet P T A at 3 15 a m and Patmos P T A at 4 80 p m, all in school auditoriums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamna Ot Mra
Virgil Keeley i
Grover Thompson
Mary Louise
Copeland
Hinton Davis
Emmet P. T. A
J. A. Cole
P. A. Escarre
Frances Bailey
Wayne Eley
Russell Moberg
J. W. Grimes
Jeff Livingston
Methodist Church
Emmet
Coming and Going in Dallas Visits by Two Couples
Mr and Mrs Henry Taylor and Mr and Mrs Jack Christenson spend the weekend in Dallas visiting relatives. They travel for a brief respite and family homecoming, staying with kin and enjoying time together in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Taylor
Jack Christenson
Dallas
Victory Home Demonstration Club Elects 1058 Year Leaders
The January meeting at Mrs. C. J. Rowe’s home selected leaders for each division including Garden H B Ames Poultry Jack Sumpter Clothing C J Rowe Foods and Nutrition Dalton Smith and others. Mrs. Roy Seewald led minutes and treasurer reports, with Mrs. Joel Willett elected reporter. The club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Willett in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory
Victory Home Demonstration Club
C. J. Rowe
H. B. Ames
Jack Sumpter
Dalton Smith
Haller McCorkle
A. K. McGrew
Bill Burke
Hallar McCorkle
Jack Snumpter
William Schooley
Roy Leewald
Robert Cash
Cash
Roy Seewald
Joel Willett
Willett
Hopewell Demonstration Club Sets Goals and Appoints Leaders
Hopewell Hopewell Hope Demonstration Club met with Mrs. Cecil Bittle January 5 to plan progress and sponsor aid to tuberculosis patients in Booneville. A telephone committee was chosen and home gardening, plant care, and county health actions were discussed. Leadership for the 1856 club year named Ernest Graham as president and Lester Huckabee among others, with a social reception for members and guests to close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopewell Hope Demonstration Club
Cecil Bittle
Ernest Graham
Hew
Booneville
Betty Atkins
Graham
R. M. Harrison
Lester Huckabee
Hope
Theo Long
Lester Honeycutt
Claude Byrd
C. B. Hodnett
QO. B. Hodnett
Ned Purtle
Harge Vines, Jr
Clauat Byrd
John Keck
Leland Wilson
J. H. Taylors
Cold Plagues Hit Texas and Florida Crops Hard
Florida endures an eighth day of harsh cold as $25,000,000 in crops is destroyed and six people die in cold-related fires. Texas suffers seven-year drought amid forecasts of no rain through January, prompting calls for a special legislative session. Weather systems and high pressure drive widespread cold, with Mexico City recording historic lows and livestock losses inland across the northern states.
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United Press
Florida
Texas
Miami
Roston
Southland
Baton Rouge
Atlanta
Jimmy Phillips
Atlantic
Pacific
U.S. Weather Bureau
Plains
Rockies
New Mexico
Missonr
Iowa
Mexico City
States
Frail Woman to Fight for Her Children
A weary Vera Black returned to Short Creek with seven of her eight children in state custody after refusing to sign an affidavit not to teach or practice polygamy. Welfare officials seek foster placements while the three youngest endure illness, as the family remains tied to a fundamentalist polygamy sect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Short ‘Creek
Utsh Wi
Vaughn
Vera Black
State ‘Welfare
Prava Yester
State Welfare Commission
Arizona
Toyo State Settlement
Vern
Utah
Lalieves
Shoemaker
Short Creek
Wilford
Organ
Litlian
Spencer
Elsie
Orson
Provo
Aiken Seeks Soil Bank Plan Amid Surplus Concerns
Senator Aiken expresses confidence that a soil bank plan can be agreed upon as Senator Ellender prioritizes it in writing a new farm law. The proposal would pay farmers subsidies up to 400 million dollars this year to halt production and retire land, storing fertility for future need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Students Compete for Scholarships in National Exam
Four thousand seventy high school seniors will take a second examination to select 2,500 finalists for college scholarships next fall. Tests are nationwide with stations, most students travel under 190 miles. A judges board will assess records and activities, plus plans for college, with 445 to 400 four year awards and cost of living allowances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
College Moint
Moevi Scholarship Corp
Italian Actress Rejects Leg Art in Hollywood
Miss Rosanna Podesta, in Hollywood two months, opposes cheesecake style photo poses. She says she dislikes leg art and photo posing, preferring substantial pictures. Podesta notes Italian tastes shifting away from sexy revues toward quality films, amid family disagreement.
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Hollywood
Rosanna Podesta
Ualy
Rome
Tiber
Italy
Gina Lollobrigida
Sophia
Loren
Miss Podesta
Scholarship program boosted by Ford Foundation grant
The scholarship program was made possible largely by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Nine major corporations subsequently announced plans to cooperate and increase the number of such scholarships. Results will be known in about five weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Foundation
Prescott News Club Hostesses Share Busy December
Mrs. George Christopher hosted the 37 Contract Club with yellow chrysanthemum decor and a dessert course. The high score went to Al Williams, a guest, as members and guests mingled among a list of named attendees. Other notes cover Wesleyan Service Guild meetings, B and P W Club dinner, Methodist Men fish supper, Rotary Club program, and local visits and meetings across Prescott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Christopher
al Williams
Ralphi Gordon
C. D. McSwain
Art Regnier
Archie Johnson
Frank Gilbert
J. R. Bemis
C. G. Hirst
Mark Sustiss
Jack Harrell
D. L. McRae Jr
Tor Bemis
Methodist Men's Fellowship Club
Broadway Hotel
Bill Oates
Russell Moberg
G A. Johnson
Moberg
Carrol Bratton
Dorothy Dix Advice Columns on Houseguest Parasite and Boundaries
A reader asks how to handle a lazy houseguest living in with a neighbor family. Dorothy Dix advises setting firm boundaries, ending the arrangement politely, and avoiding hurt feelings by clearly stating the decision to leave the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mise Dix
Jury rejected for immediate Hoxie inquiry in 48 days
Judge Andrew Ponder refused an immediate grand jury session to probe Hoxie School District funds amid a long running controversy over desegregation and finances. Lawrence County Grand Jury will convene in March. pro segregationists led by Herbert Brewer seek scrutiny of K E Vance and school board finances repaid after an audit.
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Viewport
Andrew Ponder
Grand ‘Jury
Hoxie
Lawrence County
Grand Jury
Herbert Brewer
K. E. Vance
Vance
School Board
Brewer
Hoxie Selico Board
TV Presents Something for Everybody
TV listings by Charles Merger detail a week of programs across NBC CBS and ABC. Highlights include Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit with Bacall Colbert and Mildred Natwick as a ghostly Madame Arcati, Marcel Duchamp interview on Art on NBC, and Mozart’s The Magic Flute in a new English libretto on NBC Opera Theater. Also covers The Great Forgery crime story on CBS Omnibus and ABCs Brush films debut with The Lady Vanishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Merger
New York
Noel Coward
Lauren Bacall
Claudette Colbert
Mil
Natwick
Charles Candomine Coward
Ruth
Miss Colbert
Miss Bacall
Miss ‘Natwick
Madame Arcatl
Ford Star Jubilee
CHSTV
Marcel Duchamp
Herh
Duchamp
Nbc-Tv
Mozart
W. H. Auden
Chester Kallman
CBS
Abc-Tv
Lopener
Michael Redgrave
Margaret, Lockwood
Paul Lukas
ABCTV
Former Airman Kills Girls and Is Captured
In Superior Wisconsin a discharged airman killed his girlfriend then terrorized a family before kidnapping the father and was captured nearby after a roadblock. Duane Lattimer, 21, Wentworth Wis., led authorities to believe he might have shot others. The murdered girl Mildred Pederson, 14, of South Range, Wis., was found shot in the temple on a road near Superior. A second item mentions a judge sentencing Leon Perch to 1,000 strokes for gasoline theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior
Wis
Duane Patrick Lattimer
Wentworth
Lattimer
Marshfield
Walter Wohlfahrt
Wohlfahrt
United Press
Peterson
Superior Sheriff's Deputies
Mildred Pederson
South Range
Eisenhower Entry Planned in New Hampshire Primary
President Eisenhower will have his name formally entered in New Hampshire's presidential primary next week. Lane Dwinell plans to file the 100 signatures Monday, with a White House spokesman confirming the move and GOP leaders already told of his approval.
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Concord
N. H
Eisenhower
Niger
Hampshire
Associated Press
Lane Dwinell
Dwinell
White House
Washington
Moretary
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Sas
Illinois
Frictionless engine claim sparks jet age compare
A British scientist and financier claim a frictionless automobile engine runs 200,000 miles without overhaul using floating double-ended pistons between gases. George Bradshaw says it can run on liquid fuel, scale to 1000 horsepower, and promises a potential motoring revolution akin to the jet engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Admiralty
Rand
Bond Mini Iear Co
Corviction of Lightfoot Upheld
The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld Claude H. Lightfoot’s five year prison term and $5,000 fine for belonging to the Communist party while knowing it advocates violent overthrow. Judge F. Ryan Duffy wrote the decision, joined by Judges Walter C. Lindley and H. Nathan Swain. The opinion praised Lightfoot as an intelligent and dedicated crusading Communist with growing influence nationally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.S. Court of Appeals
Claude H. Lightfoot
U.S
Lightfoot
Tinsis Communist Party
F. Ryan Duffy
Walter C. Lindley
H. Nathan Swain
Midwest
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Diane Helms
Nora
Needay
Patmos P.T. A
Esse
Irgina
Mayo
Ta Farrar Pearl OF Time
Hopewell
Ward & Son
Xy's Grocery & Market
West 3Rd
Friends
Ind
Ernest Rixel
Aiken
By Bob Thomas
Prescott News
Wesleyan Service Guild
Gist
J. W. Gist
Julia Gam
L. C. Lee
District Guild
Methodhist
Texarkana
Marguerite Avery
Charles Thomas
J. At Engle
Kenneth Ledbetter
Juanita Taylor
Margerie Avery
Herbert Hawley
N. R. Nelson
L. C. Lex
Yael Chamberlain
Allen Erskine Jr
Ernest Bolton Jr
Miss Haze
Mat Hock
B. and P. W. Club
J. T. Adams Jr
Prescott Business and Professional Woman's Club
Rawson
Little Rock
Googyeilow
Chamber of Commerce
Mig. Lela Hayes
Shirley Hamilton
Flora Pearce
Elzabeth Francisco
Game and Fish Commission
A. W. Hudson
Prescntt
Rotary ‘Club
Joe Sheffield
Arkansas Game’ Fish Commission
Nelson Cox
Commission
Sheffield
Game Commission
Cox
Phies Orren
George Dews
Arkadelphia
Jim Nelson
Dudley Gee
Bobby
Hot Springs
WH. D. Bratccher
Jennie Barger
Duncanville
R. E. Landers
H. Li
Thomas Dewoody
Dave Hale
Harold Wells
Becky
Jeff
Madisonville, Texas
Don Mitchell
Naf
Floyd Wren
Dorothy DIX
Miss Dix
Norma
IBEA
Mexico
Chee
J Samir
Marilyn Monroe
Empire State Building
Ince
Hammond
Leon Perch
N. Hampshire
Around the
Monorovia
Siberia
Moscow
Russia
Liberia
Vatican City
Pius
Tokyo
CUPI
Tokyo Women Employees Union
Buenos ‘Aires
Argentina
Raul Prebisch
United States
TASC
Robert Mertin
Hope Star
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