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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1949
Page
6
A large midwinter tea at the Lotus Club Wednesday from 3 to 5 honored Mrs. John Overton Banks of Beaumont Texas. Mrs B A Trousdale hosted amid abundant flowers including chrysanthemums camellias and red gladioli with about 250 guests.
A group of notable society figures includes N. G. Gaston Mrs. Henry Bernstein Jr Mrs. F. W. Allison Mrs. Wesley Saunders Mrs. Wharton Brown Miss Cherry Bernstein and Mrs. James Murphy.
Delta Rho Deltas designated funds for education to aid students in attending a college of their choice and established an emergency fund for use in case of need. Miss Dorothy Horton chaired the meeting held in the Mirror Room of Frances Hotel with reports by operating committees and praise for members. Plans include a March of Dimes drive and upcoming national convention in San Antonio November 11 12 13 with headquarters at the Plaza Hotel. Attending members listed.
The Current Literature Club met at a local restaurant with Mrs. George Reitze hosting. Mrs. Earl Stovall reviewed Robert Lewis Taylor's Biography of W. C. Fields while Mrs. Jack Wyatt led the business session and Mrs. E. A. Porter Jr. reviewed Hound Dog Man by Fred Gipson.
Mrs. Earl Chumney of Mexico City and her children Earl Jr and Thomas King are due next week to visit Mrs Chumney’s parents Mr and Mrs Guy P Stubbs. Mrs A D Tisdale and Mrs Elmer Slagle attended a regional voters school in New Orleans led by the League of Women Voters. Tisdale, state president, presided at the session. Mr and Mrs Robert E Foster Jr have returned from College Station Texas.
Mr and Mrs Henry Hartman welcomed 150 guests on Tuesday evening in an open house honoring Mr and Mrs Fred W Hartman of Chicago Illinois on their silver wedding anniversary. Guests signed a guest book while a committee assisted in hosting and service. The refreshment table featured silver bells white camellias and white tapers in silver holders.
Friday updates list church women meetings Y Teens gatherings and club events at O P H S Y W C A and local venues. Saturday includes Nomads Swami Santhas ceremonial turkey supper Y Teen Rally and various ceremonies at churches, temples, and clubs. Sunday features annual women’s programs church services and open house for Y-Teens. Monday covers Literary Guild Review Club Womans International Auxiliary and church circle meetings plus a Jaycee luncheon with speaker. Also notes a Christmas benevolence and a Mother Church lecture at Ouachita Parish High School auditorium.
In Chicago the National 4 H Club Congress honored Betty Sue Horn of Tallulah Louisiana and Betty Lee Skinner of Tiplersville Mississippi for winning homemade dresses. Other briefs cover a Seattle threat case, Alaska Christmas tree shipment, Rita Hayworth baby rumors in Lausanne, a lobsterman fined in Boston, and Ukraine livestock gains reported from Moscow.
United Gas Corpora tion of Shreveport Louisiana asks the securities exchange commission for permission to loan 3 million dollars to United Gas Pipeline Company also of Shreveport. The funds would finance construction, SEC was told.
Ouachita Parish librarians select titles for ages 11 to 13 focusing on mysteries and adventure. Included are The Green Ginger Jar, The Mysterious Caboose, Mystery In the Pirate Oak, The Adventures of Phillippe, Pilgrim Kate, The Squire of Ravensmark, Ranger a Dog of the Forest Service, and Red Fox of the Kinapoo. A Christmas party at the Alexandria hospital features Santa Claus, gifts, meals, and committee plans. A zoological note states one pair of houseflies can, in five months, produce enough descendants to cover the earth 47 feet deep.
Plans are underway for the Ladies Auxiliary to Rodney J. Hobbs Post 1809 VFW Christmas party Friday night at 7 30 in the VFW club room Sixth and Oak street. Attendees are asked to bring gifts for Veterans Administration Hospital patients in Alex. Suggested items include socks handker chiefs toilet articles games books candy cigarettes stationary and stamps.
The Bono Nostrum Club of Mangham met at Mrs. C. N. Underwood's home to study Music In America Today. Miss Kate Talbot spoke on women composers citing Carrie Jacobs Bons and Clara Edwards. Mrs. E. F. Lee led a discussion on Women Artists and Patronesses. Elaine Canady sang Just A Wearyin For You. Bessie Noble, fifth district president, addressed the group. Rheumatic fever is cited as taking twice as many children's lives as polio.
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