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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1952
Page
2
On Wednesday morning the Tri Delts honored girls heading to college with a Bayou DeSiard Country Club coffee. Decor featured summer flowers and a back to school theme. Mrs. Scott Hamilton welcomed guests while Mrs. Ralph Smith managed the guest book.
A luggage shaped name tag and a coffee table display with a silver mortar board and diplomas tied in gold and blue ribbons framed the scene. Mrs. Ray Junod and others served coffee as Pan Hellenic representatives and college girls from Bastrop and various towns attended the gathering.
Mrs. Minnie Mangham, pictured in New Orleans papers, is president of the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary. She and the late W. B. Mangham married in 1898 at the outbreak of the Spanish American War. She will lead a Louisiana delegation to the national convention starting Saturday in Louisville Kentucky.
Spencer Louisiana announces the engagement of Dell Thomas daughter of Mr and Mrs J C Thomas to Rufus Ray Morgan from Sterlington. Morgan is son of the late Mr and Mrs James Morgan of Shreveport.
In Britain the automobile glove compartment is nicknamed a cubby locker, a term reflecting regional language for a small storage space in cars. This usage highlights British vocabulary differences in everyday objects.
Jean Lea returns from a visit to relatives at Ft Benning Ga. Fred Seaman and family report vacation along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans. Howard Griffiths and family travel Great Lakes Ontario with a stop to see son Arthur at a Wis camp where he plays Prince in The Beauty and the Beast. Bettie Leckie leaves Riverside Sanitarium for home.
A large family gathering at Mr. and Mrs. Charles Green’s home in Forest honored 87 year old D. M. Green. More than a hundred relatives attended including Mary Britt Dan Britt W H Mayes R B Green Johnny Thurman Bud Hayden Melvin Green Hugh Green Parks Bill Walker Earl Green Graham and Bilbo Davis among others. Dinner was served under oak trees in the yard.
Miss Beba Ray Dixon hosted a Saturday afternoon shower for Mrs W A Greer nee Palizade Gates of Dixon Community. Guests, greetings at the door by Miss Dixon and others, enjoyed games and opened gifts. Refreshments were served by the hostess and assisting sisters, with attendees listed.
Margaret Kalil entertained Bayou DeSiard Country Club members on Sunday at the regular buffet supper hour. The New York visitor, accompanied by Mrs. Melba Liner at the piano, sang light opera and contemporary musical numbers before preparing to sail for Italy to continue voice studies.
The National Cotton Council met Monday in Memphis with officers of the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute and delegates to the international cotton textile conference in England next September. Dr. D. N. Amacker of Lake Providence represented the Louisiana Delta Council and spoke for producers seeking full domestic and export markets and higher prices to sustain world markets and world peace and prosperity. The group urged international currency standards, property and contract sanctity, and political openness to curb communism risks.
Wednesday Delta Kappa Phi hosts Miss Pat Weems at 2. The Monroe Literary Club meets 10 30 a m at Mrs J E Baugh 1107 North Third. Catholic Newcomers host Coke Party 10 am at Mrs Tim McCarthy 116 Smith St reservations 3 1697. Thursday Navy Mothers Club meets 3 pm at Knights of Columbus Hall 206 Hart. Kappa Kappa Gamma hosts barbecue for college girls at Mrs Tom Fortenberry Jr Filhiol Ave. AA SW Dinner meeting at Rendezvous 7 45 pm. Insurance Womens Club barbecue at Mrs Layton Lamkin's 6 30 pm. Friday Gordon Avenue Methodist Youth benefits homemade ice cream supper 7 00 9 00 pm 2900 Gordon Ave. W S C S Brownville Methodist Church weekly meeting 7 30 pm all welcome.
The annual Louisiana Episcopal laymen conference met at Camp Hardiner from August 8 to 10. Tallulah and St Joseph representatives served on key committees. Notable talks came from Dr Edward McCready and Albert B Roberts Jr. Attendance reached 126 laymen from 36 parishes and missions statewide.
Miss Upton graduates from Centr High School in Franklin Parish in 1951 and enrolls in the Complete Gene Business Course at BMI. She maintains a straight A average, accepts a secretary job with Southern Equipment Company in Monroe, and thanks BMI for the training and encouragement. Day School training at BMI can begin anytime as the school reopens in September.
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