Lieutenant McHenry Introduces Bride in Pocomoke Wedding
Betrothal and wedding notices fill the social calendar as Lt. R L McHenry Jr marries Miss Cary Thatcher of New Milford Conn The couple visited the McHenry home in this city after their ceremony in Annapolis and were joined by family for luncheons and a Lotus Club dinner The couple then planned a stay with relatives before returning to Pocomoke City
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon McHenry Jr
Daryl Thatcher
R. L. McHenry Jr
Leon Mc. Henry
Miss Cary] Thatcher
New Milford
Conn
McHenry
Leon McHenry
Patrick McHenry
William Nadler Jr
Marguerite McHenry
George Wright Jr
Lotus Club
A. G. McHenry
Army Wives Activities Schedule June Thirteen to Sixteen
Army wives activities run from Tuesday to Friday with events at American Legion Home Selman Field and Advanced Cadet Club. The schedule includes surgical dressing work, Officers Wives Club golf bowling tennis golf instruction and a ladies day, plus a Cadet Wives Club meeting at 208 South Grand Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Golf Course
Selman Field Bowling Alley
American Legion Home
Officers' Wives
Selman Field
Officers’ Wives Club
Officers’ Club
Cadet Wives’ Club
Advanced Cadet Club
South Grand Street
Freeman Family Tours Fort Worth Visitors
Mrs J S Freeman and daughters Marion and Katherine Jo visit her parents Mr and Mrs J G Griffin of this city in Fort Worth Texas. They will be joined later in the week by Mr Freeman. Junior Matrons League Cadet Wives Club changes meetings to Friday night inviting all cadet wives at Selman Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Freeman
Marion
Katherine Jo
Fort Worth
Tex
Cadet Wives’ Club
Selman Field
Center Calendar Highlights and Club Meetings
The calendar lists drama clubs at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. drama players, 4 p.m. W W G Club, 7 p.m. Gi-Bo Club Party, 10 a.m. Children's Theater, 4 p.m. Airplane Club, 7:30 p.m. private party all Thursday nights reserved for private parties. Saturday June 17 includes Save & Sew Club at 10 a.m. Girls eight to 13 invited, closed at noon, open again 7:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. 15-20 Club.
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Children’s Theater
Cherrie Club
USS Funship Club
Save & Sew Club
Local Society Notes and Upcoming Club Meetings
Wednesday events include the Logtown Home Demonstration Club at 2 P M with Mrs H B Todd and YoWo Ca Business Girls Club at 6 30 P M with Mrs W J Veazey. Also officers wives day Friday at Selman Field 2 P M and Junior Matrons League meeting 7 30 P M at Advanced Cadet Club. New arrivals invited to join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logtown
H. B. Todd
Wood Street
YoWo Ca
W. J. Veazey
Forsythe
Selman Field
League of Selman Field Cadet Club
Advanced Cadet Club
South Grand Street
Order of the Rainbow
Masonic Temple
Louisiana Tech to Hold June Graduation Exercises
Dr. Joseph Warren Barker dean of engineering at Columbia University and navy aide will speak at Louisiana Tech spring graduation ceremonies in Howard Auditorium on Wednesday June 21 at 10 30 a m. Seventy nine seniors are candidates for degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Warren Barker
College of Engineering
Columbia University
Secretary of the Navy
Louisiana Tech
Howard Auditorium
Red Cross Surgical Dressing Calendar Notice
Red Cross schedules weekly dressing sessions at headquarters on Monday 6 30 to 9 p m and Wednesday 1 to 5 p m and Thursday 1 to p m. Army unit at American Legion home 9 30 to 12 a m and 1 30 to 4 p m Tuesday. Sterlington Fairbanks unit American Legion home Sterling ton Wednesday 1 to 5 p m Thursday 1 to 4 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
American Legion Home
Sterlington-Fairbanks
American Legion
Sterlington
Regular Missouri Pacific Women’s Club meeting and social events
The Missouri Pacific Women's Club met at the clubhouse with Vice President Mrs. Howard Jones presiding. Thirteen members attended along with one new member and three guests. Officers were named for next year and a pot luck luncheon announced. A door prize went to Mrs. J. W. Reynolds and a music program followed. Societal visits and military family notes filled the remainder, including travel and furlough updates from several members. The School of Military Government was established in May 1942 at Charlottesville Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Pacific Women's Club
Howard Jones
W. E. Burke
F. H. Peterson
F. E. Lindsey
Mmes
J. W. Treadwell
M. R. Hausherr
O. M. Dowdy
S. W. Haile
T. T. Barnes
W. M. Graff
H. W. Menge
H. H. Cavaness
E. J. la Monica
Mrs. J. R. White
Laurent
Mrs. Faulkner
Charlottesville
Louisiana Tech Elects Offiers Of Sororities In June Rally
Fourteen new officers were announced for two national sororities at Louisiana Tech. Kappa Delta Alpha Chi Chapter elected Jean Young as president with Joy Brooks as vice president and a slate of officers from Ruston and surrounding towns. Sigma Kappa Beta Epsilon elected Mrs. Richard M. Lee as president, succeeding Dorothy Donald, with Iane Davis first vice president and other officers from Ruston, Minden, Shreveport, and Alexandria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruston
Louisiana Tech
Jean Young
Baton Rouge
Helen Bartlett
New Orleans
Kappa Delta
Alpha Chi
Joy Brooks
Kate White
Oak Ridge
Elizabeth Humble
Monroe
Betty Anne Linquist
Shreveport
Lilly Volk
Bastrop
Jerelyn Ju
Mary Louise Life
Minden
Rush
Captain Shell Stops in Monroe
Capt Garland Shell, a local young man now in special armed service, visited Monroe for several days. He is assigned 18 months to service in Boston and appears weekly on a radio program. He studies voice at the New England Conservatory of Music and trains under teachers who mentored Mrs Clyde Sanders in her college days. He paused in Monroe while on a return trip from leading a squad of inductees to Sheppard Field Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garland Shell
Monroe
Boston
Mass
New England Conservatory of Music
Clyde Sanders
New England Conservatory
Sheppard Field
Tex
Meeting of Monroe salespeople on War Bond drive
A Monroe meeting of all retail salespeople is set for 8 45 a m Thursday in the Paramount Theater to launch plans for selling Series E bonds in the Fifth War Loan drive. G L Holloway, chairman of the merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce, called the session at the request of War Bond Campaign co chairmen S J Rogers and C D Oakley. The briefing will run 12 minutes and all sales staff are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Paramount Theater
G. L. Holloway
Merchants’ Division
Chamber of Commerce
War Bond Campaign Committee
Permits Granted for Home Additions in Local Area
On Monday Alzenia Jordan received permission to remodel and add to a house at 611 Layton Street with a maximum cost of 75 dollars. E. J. Rich was authorized to add to a one story frame store at 1001 Mississippi Street using some second hand material with costs not to exceed 60 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alzenia Jordan
Layton Street
E. J. Rich
Mississippi Street
Navy seeks skilled labor pool for Pacific defense jobs
C E Thornhill urges shipfitters coppersmiths and machinists to apply at Room 302 Post Office Building Monroe Louisiana for jobs at west coast navy yards or Pearl Harbor. Navy wages match top defense industry pay with housing sickness leave vacation with pay retirement after years of service and transport paid by the government. Appointments follow War Manpower Commission rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
C. E. Thornhill
Civil Service
Monroe
West Coast
Navy Yards
Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
Thornhill
Pearl Harbor
War Manpower Commission
Wings Will Hold Important Business Meeting
The WINGS hostesses for Monroe U. S. C. will hold a business meeting at the club at 8 P M Tuesday night. Future social activities for the summer months will be the main topic, and several membership applications will be voted on. Miss Mary Mulhearn urges all members to attend. The text notes the Army officer strength grew from 93000 to 521000 during 1942 and 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINGS
Monroe U. S. C
Mary Mulhearn
The
Home Storage of Eggs Is Advised in Louisiana
War Food Administration official G. Chester Freeman says 25 million dozen eggs lack cold storage as commercial facilities are full. He urges families to store extra dozens at home to prevent spoilage and safeguard future supply, noting production decline and the reliance on household refrigerators. More than 50,000 U S doctors are engaged in war work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
G. Chester Freeman
War Food Administration
Office of Distribution
U. S
Air Medal Earned by S/Sgt James Richman in Pacific Service
S/Sgt James Richman 24 of Monroe is credited with destroying a Zero and has earned the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and the Purple Heart. As engineer and waist gunner of a Seventh AAF Mitchell bomber crew, he has flown 134 missions and survived extensive battle damage. Richman recounts a low level Marshalls atoll attack where five runs were required to drop bombs as enemy ships and fighters converged. He has been in the Central Pacific since October 1943 and his family in Monroe follows his exploits.
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Gentral Pacific
James
Richman
Monroe
Jap Flacy
A. A. F. Mitchell
Central Pacific
Marshalls
Mrs
Conrad
Winnsboro Road
Plac
Central
Pacific
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Introduces Bride
D. L. Davidson
New York
Mexsana
Idec
Army Wives
Dell’s Barber Shop
Miss Etta Duke
North Second St
Elmer Gardner Hinkle
Sara Frances
William Jerome Burchall Liles
United States Navy
Saint Stephen's Church
Seattle
Washington
Louisiana State University
University of Havana
John A. Thompson
Marguerite Calvert
Alice Frellson
Mary Edith Breard
William Lipson
Olga
Larry
Alvin
Philadelphia
Miss Lipson
Camp Saginaw
Joseph Boughton
Emma Hicks
West Monroe
K. P
Nian
Iverstein’s
R. M. Troy
George Snellings Jr
George Snellings
Bayou Road
F. D. Wilcox
Snellings
Philip A. White
Margaret Nell Wood
Riverside
Calif
Lieutenant White
March Field
Selman Field Officers’ Wives’ Club
Progressive Bridge
Earl L. Naiden
13Th Army Air Force
Huber Harmon
Naiden
Southwest Pacific Theater of War
Harold Engstrum
Patrick H. Ladner
Captain Ladner
Engstrom
Lake Arrowhead
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Simon Friedlander
Sam Strauss
Houston
City
Hyman Liebreich
Henry Haas
Louis Goldman
Friedlander
Paula Friedlander
Scherck Bogan
Memphis
Tenn
Army Medical
Mildred Keller
Gulf Coast
Meyer Greenwall
Anthony Carter
Bobby Garrett
Wichita Falls, Tex
Tech
Captain Shell
Pfc
Jim Clapper
Claiborne
St. Francis Sanitarium
W. C. Jones
Luzianne Avenue
Thomas Leonard
Saxophone
Adolph Sax
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
A. P
Signal Corps
United States Army
Roe A
America
James Richman
Ich
Ant
Isis
N. Third St
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