Portia Club Founders Day Lunches and Local Society Events
A busy social schedule lists Portia Club and Twentieth Century Club gatherings at several homes, with church, educational and charity groups meeting through the week. Recitals, sew projects, and a Jay Dee Jaynes craft drive to Atlanta are described alongside PTA and club notices.
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Portia Club
Castle
Twentieth Century Club
Mra
M. Fitzpatrick
Alk Decker
Trinity Lutheran Church
Mias
Retta Seetz
Local home demonstration groups schedule April meetings
The Lone Star and Kaw Valley Home Demonstration Units plan gatherings with lessons on meal preparation and time savers. Mrs Bradford Powell and Mrs John Metsker lead the sessions at 2 p m and 12 30 p m respectively. A wedding for Ruth Elaine Tatham and Marion Strickland is announced. The KU Faculty Club will host a dessert bridge at 7 30 p m with local hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Star Home Demonstration Unit
Bradford Powell
Powell
John Metsker
James R.tatham
Ruth Elaine
Marion C. Strickland
Wayne E. Strickland
Gardner, Kas
Miss Tatham
Department of Buildings and Grounds
University of Kansas
Strickland
K.U
Kaw Valley Home Demonstration Unit
A. T. Hodges
Eastath St
Rose Grant
John Schleicher
Carl Pond
John Mace
Ruth Elaine Tatham
Marlon C. Strickland
Gardner
James R. Tatham
Easter Weekend Socials Span Cities and Visits
Personal notices list guests and travels across Kansas City Liberal Star City Ark Detroit Honolulu Lawrence Abilene and Bethany College. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs E C Quigley Parke Carroll Mr and Mrs E D Kinney and others visiting relatives, attending recitals and the Messiah performance while touring Eisenhower sites en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Quigley
Kansas City
Parke Carroll
E. D. Kinney
Robert Larrabee
Liberal
Henry Holtzclaw
Kappa Kappa Gammaland
Jane
Yes
Fort Worth
Ray. Wright
Donald L. Jarrett
Childrs
Monti Nichols
Star City
Ark
M. W. McKone
Mike
Detroit
R. S. Filkin
Dr. Fox
Punahou School
Honolulu
Rotary Club
Lawrence
Faye Woodward
Ruth Spicer
Martha Rayhill
Mildred Newman
Lindsborg
Blanche Threborn
Messiah
Bethany College
Eisenhower
Abilene
Girl Scout Council Board to Meet Wednesday Morning
The Girl Scout Council board of directors will meet Wednesday at 9:30 in the Girl Scout office. A bridge luncheon yesterday afternoon at Mrs. L. B. Hammer’s home entertained 24 guests with prizes won by Mrs. Jack Maxwell and others. The Joseph A Wahl Camp and Auxiliary to the United Spanish War Veterans will meet Thursday at 6:30 PM at the Municipal Building for a monthly covered dish dinner marking the Auxiliary’s 30th anniversary.
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Jay Dee Jaynes
Mary Lou Lengel
Emerald Rd
Atlanta
Kansas
the First. Baptist Church
Dorcas Group
Barr Gorrill
Sunset Drive
Walter Wagner
Lydia Group
A. H. Sluss
Miss. St
Fontaine Schooling
Martha Group
W. M. McConnell
Conn
E. N. Taylor
Priscilla
Girl Scout Council
Girl Scout Office
L. B. Hammer
Norman Stuewe
Jack Maxwell
John Harris
Max Dresden
Slipper Willams
Artolf
Joseph A. Wahl
United Spanish War Veterans
A. I. Decker
Roy Wilkins Named Executive Secretary of NAACP
Roy Wilkins age 53 is appointed executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He has served as chief aide since 1931 to Walter White who died in March 1941.
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New York
Roy Wilkins
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Walter White
Ruth Shipley retires as passport division matriarch
Ruth G. Shipley, head of the State Department passport division since 1928, announces retirement after 57 years in government service. She built a reputation for fairness and firmness in approving or denying permits to travel, facing criticism but earning respect from politicians and peers alike.
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Washington
NEA
Ruth G. Shipley
State Department
U.S
Sen
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Mrs. Shipley
Dean Acheson
Pat McCarran
Newsuade Congress
Europe
Red Cross
Openings Listed by Lawrence Job Office
The Lawrence office of the Kansas State Employment Service lists thirty job openings this week including two bookkeepers an accounting clerk two sales clerks two stenographers four typists two maids seven waitresses two car hops and two laundry laborers for women. Men’s jobs include a tractor operator an electrical repairman three farm hands and a model. Twenty people were placed in jobs last week including two men and eighteen women.
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Lawrence
Kansas State Employment Service
National Secretaries Association Meeting in Kansas
The Kansas Chapters of the National Secretaries Association will hold their regular annual meeting at the University of Kansas on Saturday and at the Eldridge Hotel on Sunday morning. Attendees include state and local officers and representatives from multiple Kansas cities along with national officers Kitty Cote Helen Boyle Irene Gadlemann Velda Harness and others.
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Kansas
National Secretaries Association
University of Kansas
Eldridge Hotel
Alberta Combest
Jayhawk
Arkansas City
Coffeyville
Junction City
Emporia
Dodge City
Manhattan
Topeka
Wichita
Kitty Cote
Helen Boyle
Kansas City
National Secretaries Association International
Irene Gadlemann
Ottawa
Velda Harness
Margaret Hroeker
Lloyd Webster
Francea Alley
Roberta Bowen
Lena Altenbernd
Lawrence
Eight Die As Saratoga Fire Levels Apartment
A mother and father and six children died when a downtown business and apartment building burned in Saratoga Springs New York. More than 50 residents were in the three story frame structure. many fled onto the street in night clothes. one man was hospitalized with burns. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Abeel their children and Garry La Rue were trapped as flames swept through the building. The Abeel children ranged up to 11 years old and William Selby, 43, suffered facial and back burns.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Gilbert Abeel
Garry la Rue
Abeel
William Selby
TV Used For Principals Tests In New York
Television was used to test candidates for elementary school principalships yesterday in New York. About 270 watched a third grade teacher conduct a class and then wrote supervisory reports on teaching technique and performance.
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New York
Full Department Suffers When Hook Ladder Rider Goes Out
Oakland fire department chaos ensued when tillerman John Cox left the hook and ladder rig to fetch aspirin. An alarm sounded, the truck rolled away with no operator, smashed a car and gear, and was disabled before being towed back. Chief Burke ordered an inquiry.
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Oakland
Calif
John Cox
Cox
James Burke
Tillerman
Word to Come Early For State Wheat Allotments
Kansas wheat growers will learn acreage allotments and marketing quotas earlier this year. Ben C. Kiefer, chairman of the State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, says the announcement must come by May 15, a shift from last year when notices appeared in July. The law requires yearly proclamation for the next wheat crop.
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Manhattan
Kas
Kansas
Ben C. Kiefer
State Agricultural Stabilization and
Medici claimed descent from Perseus in Italian lore
The Medici family of Italy is said to have believed it descended from Perseus. The note frames this as a traditional lineage claim within Renaissance lore.
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Medici
Italy
Perseus
Wheat Marketing Quotas Tied to Emergency Condition Rules
Government sets provisional marketing quotas for wheat under emergency conditions. Quotas are proclaimed when the supply exceeds normal levels by at least 20 percent. The measure aims to manage surpluses and stabilize markets during shortages or excess.
Wichita Woman Killed In Tennessee Car Crash
Miss Margaret Coleman 68 of Wichita Kansas was killed when her car left highway 70N and dropped into a 40 foot ravine. The incident occurred yesterday near Cookeville Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cookeville, Tenn
Margaret Coleman
Wichita
Kas
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Alpha Zeta
Epsilon Sigma Alpha
University Club
Enterprise Home Demonstration Unit
Jeff Roberts
The
Cancer Fund
Glen Schwartz
Charles Hubbard Sr
Delbert Harris
P.E.O
A. L. Kirchhoff
Galen Gorrill
0. T. Black
Harry Brown Jr
Maurice Lungren
Albert R. Bock
Davison
Mich
Belinda Jane
Flint
Barbara Jo
Beverly Jan
Bock
General Motors
Mildred Hack
T. H. Hack
AlSo
Ie LeRoy Alexander
Elms
William Yates
Lawrence Country Club
John W. Unger
Carol Jean
George Gantz
Fred Gantz
Williamstown
Miss Unger
Kansas State Teachers College
Stony Point School
Gantz
Germany
Mary Lee
Stitch and Chatter Club
West 8Th St
Harold Krueger
Ralph Krone
D. Ling
Wilam Adams
E. E. Hazlett
Emerson Hazlett
L. Robinson
Dick Kramer
Hugh Tenfel Jr
Bob Miller
S. Saliba
Alpha Omicron Pi
W. O. Brownlee
Congregational Church
George Jenks
Hillview Rd
Betty Charlton
Abel Helcom
Helecom’s Grove
Oliver Brown
Art Helcom
Paul
Pat) Holcom
Donald .Tobler
McLouth
Woodrow Sturdy
Mary Sturdy
M. Holcom
Vinland
H.B. Axe
Casey
Carol Jean Unger
Mr. Gantz
Fre Gantz
Parke Woodard
T.B
Douglas County” Tuberculosis and Health Association
Castle Tea Room
NAACP
Farouk
Irma
Irma Capece Minutolo
Ruth Shipley
Lawrence Job Office
Boggs Hat Shop
Vermont
Coats
Episcopal Church
Trinity Episcopal
Church 10Th
Norris Bros
New Hampshire
Coffeyville, Kas
James Hull
Independence
David Dean Hull
Lansing
Sale! Decorator
Bedspreads
Weaver's Home Furnishings Shop
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