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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1955
Page
6
Rainbow Girls in Middletown join adults for a Friday 7 30 p m ceremony at the Manchester Hotel Junior Ballroom. George N Dagd Clark supreme deputy of Ohio Rainbow for Girls will confer the Grand Cross of Color on nine Rainbow girls and 14 adults for outstanding service. Clark arrives from Cleveland for an open meeting with families Masons Eastern Star and guests.
Mrs Charles Wall and Mrs Isa bel Yost showed plug in meal preparations at Opti Mrs Club at Holiday Center. Small appliances cooked foods and recipes were shared. A social hour ended the evening. La Sertoma and Sertoma clubs met at Manchester Hotel for a combined dinner. Mrs Ed Land reviewed Kon Tiki. After dinner both groups held brief business sessions and planned a December 13 Christmas party.
A Middletown Dictionettes and Toastmistress Club meeting at the EUB Church is recapped. Guest Night on December 5 invites anyone interested, with info from Mrs. Ernest Rains. Christmas party on December 19 is set at Mrs. Akerman’s Marshall Road home, with co chairmen Mrs. John Akerman and Mrs. Clayton Ashcraft Jr.
Delta Sigma chapter Beta Sigma Phi held a YMCA gathering where Walter W. Ross, founder, spoke to new pledges. Mrs. Richard Monroe and Mrs. Darrell Hatton led the program. Plans for hospital cookies and a Christmas party were announced.
Monroe Elementary Mothers Club schedules a benefit card party for December 6 at 8 p.m. in Seven Dolors Church recreation hall with prizes and refreshments. Reservations available from Mrs. Harold Carter or Mrs. William Ihlendorf. tickets from members or at the December 1 Christmas meeting at Monroe School.
A pre nuptial shower for Miss Marilyn McCutcheon bride elect of Charles E Morgan was hosted by Mrs Carl Lubberger on Marshall Road. The wagon and star theme plus pink and white decor highlighted the event with many local guests. The couple plans to wed at 7 30 p m Saturday at the First Christian Church.
The production This Thing Called Love with Faser is cancelled at the Shubert theater Cincinnati. The next Shubert presentation will be Tea and Sympathy starring Maria Riva, beginning a week long engagement December 4.
Assistant Superintendent Howard R. Cromwell urged the Wilson PTO to expand parent teacher contacts with grade level meetings. He stressed parents understand class goals to aid student progress and noted his year long effort to recruit 80 new Middletown teachers. A Christmas party was planned for Dec 21 and the next meeting set for Jan 24 with Supt John D Blackford as speaker.
A miscellaneous shower honoring Miss Barbara Louise Klame bride elect of Clifford Downard Jr. was given Monday night by Mrs. Clifford Downard at her Harrison home. Forty guests attended. Other showers were hosted by Miss Joyce Klamo in Trenton and by co workers at Miami Cabinet Division Philip Carey Manufacturing. The couple will marry Dec. 3 in Hamilton.
Vital statistics note multiple births: Arthur Richardson couple in Franklin Rt 2 welcome a girl yesterday. John Hudson couple 107 Shafer St adds a girl today. Robert Neal couple 12 Malvern St have twin boys today. Roy Barton couple 1732 Eldora Dr welcome a girl today. Out of town entries list William Wolf of Cincinnati at Cincinnati Jewish Hospital with a boy on Wednesday plus maternal grandparents Benno Mende of Shafer St and Charles Gus Clickner couple for twins at Princeton Hospital yesterday with maternal grandmother Lillian Baer of Milwaukee and paternal grandmother Otha Lawson of E Central Ave.
In The Hospnital Mrs. Edward Wenzel of Dix RA Mrs. Asa Barker of Sherman Ave. Ovy Hatton of West Middletown Randall Baker, son of Mr. and cll Bradley Baker of Woodlawn ve. Mrs. Charles Tuttle of Morgan Lloyd Rossman of Central Ave. Charles E. Graft of Grand Ave. Ben Flack, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Flack of Morgan St. Linda Bradford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bradford of Car olina St. Randi Tutt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Tutt of Central Ave. Mrs. Clay Ferguson of Arling ton Ave. DISMISSED Mrs. James Faulkner of West Middletown Rt. 1. Mrs. Vernon Fields of Plymouth Mrs. Clarence Gingrich of Pop lar St. Joy Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laban Johnson of 15th Ave. Mrs. William Pardonner of Yan kee Rd Miss Betty Reams of S. Main St. eons Juanita Richter of Hamil et Roby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Roby of Yankee Rd. Lawrence White of Elwood St. Mrs. William Wright of Marietta, Jo. Ann DeVoe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack DeVoe of 2nd Ave.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Hannah hosted a rehearsal dinner for the wedding attendants of son Wilbur A and Miss Nancy Lee Adams at First Methodist Church. Tonight at 7 30 p m the couple will marry. The buffet table featured bronze yellow and white mums and silver candelholders. Attendants and immediate family members attended and gifts were exchanged.
Travel notes report Mrs G D Childers and son G D Jr and Mrs Lewis Cooper and daughter Sylvia have returned to Owensboro Kentucky from Monroe after attending the wedding of Miss Bonnie Bee Egelston and Ronald Eichorn. Mr and Mrs H H Piper and son Dick will visit Mrs Piper's parents over the holiday weekend on Eaton Drive.
Ohio Congressman Bow reports Basra Iraq U S consulate is infested with vermin and termites with roped off second floor rooms due to danger. He also labels Vientiane Laos embassy housing as very bad and notes USIA library wasteful rent and dusted encyclopedias while German readers seek American books at a West Berlin exhibit.
A North Pole tour of Santa's Workshop shows modernization with assembly lines and robotic help replacing gnomes. Toys include diesel fueling stations, ice platforms, a radio-equipped bicycle, and a plastic toy accordion as staff test musical toys. The gnome welcomes progress but jokes about elves.
Yvonne Burgher, who will marry Robert M. Finney at Meadwelawn Church of God, was honored at a kitchen shower. Mrs. Robert D. Ogles, Mrs. Ronald Longworth, and Mrs. Curtis C. Brown hosted at Holiday House with 16 guests. Prizes went to Ruth Buchanan, Dean Chenault, and Eugene Hawthorne. Additional miscellaneous showers followed hosted by Shirley Burgher, Tom Smith, and Jean Hampton.
Delaware Ohio report says at Ohio Wesleyan University women average 2.77 GPA while men average 2.49 overall, highlighting gender gaps in campus statistics.
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