Southern Stoneware by Vivian Brown
Nancy Patterson of Laurel Bloomery Tennessee built a stoneware business that blends craft and tourism. Her heat resistant nonporous dinnerware, shaped on wheels, supports 60 workers after starting with 400 applicants for 16 jobs, and last year’s sales rose 34 percent.
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Appalachia
Nancy Patterson
Laurel Bloomery
Tenn
Wins Friends ist as ceramic designer creates stoneware line
Albert King learns about Chinese glazes and high fired porcelain. Stoneware pieces vary in finish from shiny to matte and are touched 34 times during production. Eight patterns sell quickly with a brown and gold favorite. She also designed drinking vessels including a 14 ounce medieval goblet. Stoneware shrinks 15 percent unlike low fired earthwear and must balance to avoid design flaws. A coffee cup is tested for look when full or picked up, heat, and usability. Color choices favor off whites pale yellows dark browns blues and dark green. She opened a factory on Iron Mountain and married Joseph Lamb. Two years later at 42 she expanded into nursery production and now has three toddlers aged 4 3 and 2.
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Albert King
Iron Mountain
Joseph Lamb
New Jersey
Estevez Calls for Individual Look in Fashion Direction
New York designer Luis Estevez criticizes designers who copy trends and blurs in style. The Coty winner urges bold, original looks with lasting appeal and practical fantasy to engage discerning women. He notes shirtdresses as rare sanity amid a costume carnival past.
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New York
California
Luis Estevez
Los Angeles
Estevez
La Crosse clubs host dinners talks and safety sessions
The La Crosse area hosts a series of club events. The Business and Professional Women plan a 6 30 p m dinner March 19 in the Party House with Dorothy Wagner of the House of Bonsai speaking on decorating and new members being initiated. Extension Homemakers hold safety lectures led by state patrolman Gerald Schroeder on March 14 in Viroqua March 16 Westby March 21 Stoddard and March 23 Hillsboro. The Catholic Nurses meet Sunday March 18 at St Francis Hospital chapel for Mass with a subsequent dinner and business meeting. Rev Hugh Ulrich will speak. open to all nurses.
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la Crosse Business and Professional Women’s Club
Dorothy Wagner
House of Bonsai
Madonna Summer
Cording
Betty Brendel
Vernon County
Gerald Schroeder
Viroqua
Westby
Stoddard
Hillsboro
Harold Hanson
Extension Homemaker Safety Education
la Crosse
St. Francis Hospital
Hugh Ulrich
Mary Lorenz Observes Her Ninety-First Birthday
Mary Lorenz of 3011 S 23rd St celebrated her 91st birthday on Tuesday March 13. A lifelong La Crosse resident she and late husband Theodore Lorenz wed in January 1905 in Vernon County and raised seven sons and one adopted daughter. She has 18 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren and remains active with Asbury United Methodist Church enjoying knitting crocheting and embroidery while caring for her home.
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Mary Lorenz
S. 23Rd St
la Crosse
Theodore Lorenz
Vernon County
Mathilda Holt
Sheboygan
Elmer
Frank
Stoddard
Oscar
Redfield St
Alvin
Wesley
Rueben
Weston St
Edward Lorenz
Lorenz
Asbury United Methodist Church
Quik-Fix Denture Repair Kit Promises Fast Home Fix
Amazing new Quik-Fix denture repair kit fills cracks and replaces teeth at home in minutes. No tools needed. Two uses guarantee works every time or money back. Cheap, simple dental repair for broken plates.
Working Women Help Support Their Families
Washington AP report quotes W Scane Bowler of Pioneer Western Corp noting that about 31.6 million of 83.8 million workers in 1971 were women. Fewer than 23 percent were single, with most married or in two breadwinner households. Divorced women are the fastest growing group.
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Washington, D.C
W. Scane Bowler
Pioneer Western Corp
Ing
A Lovelier You The Scars Of Acne
A 22 year old seeks guidance on acne scar treatment. Dermabrasion is described as a safe option when infection is cleared, with local anesthesia and a two week healing period. Results show about 60 percent scar disappearance, with possible repetition in some cases.
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YWCA Plans Two Session Cheer Clinic For Girls
The YWCA will offer a two session cheerleading and pom pom clinic for junior and senior high school girls. Session I runs 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. March 24 and 31. Session II runs 4 to 6 p.m. March 26 to 29. Contact Holly Stampff at the YWCA for details.
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YWCA
Holly Stampff
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