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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1979
Page
3
Josephine Lowman promotes a Nine Day Bulge and Budget Beater Diet claiming five to ten pounds loss in nine days. The piece urges vacation readiness, lighter luggage and avoiding guilt with meals while detailing a sample breakfast lunch and dinner plan. A booklet of the complete diet can be requested for 0 cents.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stonequist of Wellsville welcomed a daughter named Jamie Marie born May 7 at Olathe Community Hospital. The newborn weighed seven pounds two ounces with grandparents Earl Dean Hunsaker and H E Stonequist and great grandparents Kenneth Hunsaker and Minnie Lankard noted in the family lines. Also reported are Elks Bridge Club results from Monday with pairs winning in north-south Katherine McClay with Dorothy Casey and Ike McMahon with Mary McMahon, and east-west Wanda Durbin with Dottie Miller and Alberta Gere with Norma Caleb.
Cancer strikes one American in four with one in three surviving long term. Two families out of three are affected by the disease over time. A contribution to the American Cancer Society can boost progress toward a better chance at beating cancer.
Seventy five women from fourteen Ottawa area churches attended the May Fellowship at First United Methodist Church with theme Our Children Our Promise. The day featured readings prayers and music including Bach meditation and litany for children plus a fellowship tea with Ottawa Junior High School performers.
Two area high schools represented at the 33rd annual Future Homemakers of America and Home Economics Related Occupations state meeting in Wichita Century II. Pomona High had four students and Central Heights had 13 with advisers. The May 1 event drew about 2000 delegates. Amy Nelson spoke. Central Heights earned an excellent rating for its display and produced 250 silk roses and 25 corsages for installations.
A dense list of weekly club meetings and church activities follows Tuesday through Thursday. Names include Minnie Shawver Chapter, Oasis Club, Westminster United Presbyterian Church, Trinity United Methodist Church, WCTU, Hazel Rebekah Lodge, Veterans of World War I, Zig Zagg ers, New Dimensions, First Christian Church sewing day, Sequ el Club, Rotary A.M.S., Skilton Music Club, Searchers, UMW Executive, Franklin County Nurses Association, Odd Fellows family night, Naomi Group, TOPS groups, White Shrine Soroptimist, Merry-Go-Round Club noting venues like Trinity United Methodist, Municipal Auditorium, and 531 Birch.
Lacey Breithaupt family details recorded. Ottawa Area Retired Teachers Association will install officers Mary Lee Harvey Florence Jordan Marie Armstrong and Grace Hocking at 6 30 pm Friday in the Ottawa University Student Union. The program includes OU Instrumental Ensemble and plans for the state convention at Great Bend June 14 15.
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