Welfare Mother Speaks on Welfare Rights in Norwalk
Elvira Brainard, a welfare recipient with seven children, explains how she learned welfare rules about buying appliances and urges a Norwalk welfare rights committee. She details finances, housing, health care, alimony, and social perceptions while advocating job training and fair credit access for welfare families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Kellogg
Norwalk
Elvira Brainard
Welfare Department
Brainard
Benedict
County Health Department
Mrs. Brainard
County Welfare Department
Dressing In A Bread Loaf Method For Thanksgiving
Dear readers share quick home hacks from cooking dressing in a hollowed bread loaf to DIY ironing closet bars for kids coats and simple fixes like a rubber band eraser on a pencil. Other tips include seam facings taped, necklace wearing in front, and a humorous T bone fish mishap at a dinner party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heloise
Calendar Tonight and Monday Events and Fashion Note
Tonight features Capital University Choir Norwalk High School at 8 VFW Dance at VFW Hall 10. Monday lists Brownie Troop 50 meeting at 3 15 p.m. Cub Scout 218 Fellowship Hall 7 p.m. Wesleyan Circle Mrs. Lewis Alcott 8 p.m. Firelands Coin Club 8 p.m. Norwalk Trim Down TOPS Club 8 p.m. Phi Eta Sigma Beta Sigma Phi Karen Libbee Lauren Study Club Mrs. Rudolph Smith 8 p.m. Welcome Wagon Make and Bake auction Columbia Gas 8 p.m. Jewelry designer Stanley Hagler notes glitter headbands in demand signaling Indian influence on fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
Columbia Gas Company
Women’s Missionary Society meeting highlights Turning the World Upside Down
The Women’s Missionary Society of First Baptist Church hosted guest John R. Gerken Jr. from the Mayor’s Committee on Human Relations who spoke on committee duties and local issues in Norwalk. Activities included solos, a Thanksgiving story, an XI Alpha Eta chapter tour on the Far East, origami crafts, donations to the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce and Tuberculosis Association, and plans for the December Christmas banquet at Ramada Inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Missionary Society
First Baptist Church
John R. Gerken Jr
Committee On Human Relations
Gerken
Norwalk
Albert Hruska
Iver Johnson
James Tracht
Erwin Elbrecht
XI Alpha Eta
Beta Sigma Phi
Far East
Lewis McLaughlin
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Jackie
Julia G
Dottie
C.E. Walter
Georgia McKain
Sue May
Peggy Mesenberg
Nora Murphay
Pat Smith
Monroeville
Firelands
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green
Capital University
Norwalk High School
VFW Hall
Stanley Hagler
W. Main ST
Clarksfield
Larry Booth
White Joe
Kroger Store
A Sagan Gauging
Good Sun
U.S. Gov't
AK Axa
AK Aanak
AAA
Mery
Birdseye
Whip Quarr
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