Guidry Retirement Reception Held
Over 100 people attended a retirement reception for Katie Guidry, Calhoun County tax assessor‑collector, at the Courthouse Annex community room from 2 to 5 p.m. A separate VFW Post 403 and Ladies Auxiliary Christmas party drew more than 140 guests at the Post home. Santa distributed gifts to children under 12, with decor including red velvet cloths, lace table settings, and a red peppermint carnation arrangement from Aluminum Company of America. Guidry received a diamond pendant and luggage from Courthouse employees.
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Katie Guidry
Calhoun County
VFW Post
Post Home
Santa Claus
Aluminum Company of America
Guidry
County Tax Office
Dear Ann Landers Letters On Legs And Nuisance
Readers seek help with self image and leg concerns plus an irritating friend and a dubious contest. Ann Landers notes minimal fixes for thin legs, suggests pantsuits, urges perspective after hospital rehab exposure, and advises bluntly addressing talkative acquaintances while addressing contest skepticism with caution.
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Ann
Dear Heloise Christmas decorating ideas and clever gifts
A column of reader tips offers practical holiday hacks. Suggestions include threading Christmas balls onto ribbon to create easy to assemble decorations, filling jars with candy as stocking gifts, using a baster to water tightly stood trees, and repurposing a TV stand into a wheeled planter for houseplants.
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Heloise
New Year Open House Cookies and Punch Recip
A retro recipe page offers a New Year open house menu with a strawberry punch and two cookie ideas. The punch blends thawed strawberries with Hawaiian Punch, chablis, apricot brandy and ice. The cookies use walnuts and a nut ball method baked at 275 degrees for about 20 minutes, rolled in confectioners sugar.
Mrs. EF F Sanders Weekend Guest at Ganado Home
Mrs. EF F Sanders spent the weekend as a guest at the home of Mrs. Bill Fleeman in Ganado, sharing informal time and conversation with local neighbors.
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EF. F. Sanders
Bill Fleeman
Ganado
Gifts and Games Trend in Home Decor and Appliances
The feature notes a surge in decorative adult games and compact healthful kitchen devices. Brooklyn broker Bob Reiss, Harvard Business School graduate, cites rapid demand for eye catching plastic and wood games like tri tac toe and cobweb, plus fashion conscious backgammon variants. Also highlighted are yogurt makers, pasta machines, automatic crepe makers, electric cheese graters, bread and dough devices, a multifunction food processor, a peanut butter maker, a diet computer, and small seal freezer bags. Stores report these gifts as popular for the elderly and in general gift lists.
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Vivian Brown
UP News
Bob Reiss
Harvard Business School
Sam
Middle America
Reiss
Breakfast with Santa called a success by Junior Woman's Club
The Junior Woman's Club hosted Breakfast with Santa praised as one of the most successful ever. About 9 children and adults attended a morning of scrambled eggs, bacon, juice, milk, coffee, doughnuts, carols, and a Santa visit. Each child spoke with St Nick, received a stocking, a personal gift, and a decorated tree door prize was awarded. Co chairs were Mrs. Mallette and Mrs. Gaines with multiple sponsors and supporters listed.
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Junior Woman's Club
Santa
Wave Lengths and Christmas Hair Brings Laughter
The Wave Lengths column reports Pete Wright plans a moustache as a Christmas gift to fight inflation while disguising as the Frito Bandito. Oma Whitaker learns a safety lesson about three legged stools. Six weeks in a full arm cast teaches caution. Mrs. G A Jennings awaits February for her first grandchild by Lynn and Mike Pheifer. Susan Miller shares a happy ending. Dropped billfold in a Austin booth was found intact at the store manager's desk.
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Pete Wright
Pete
Oma Whitaker
G.A. Jennings
Lynn
Mike Pheifer
Long Mott
Susan Miller
Anita
Bud Miller
Austin
Santa Joins Christmas Party for Ritual of Jewels Children
Santa Claus attended as a special guest at the annual Christmas party for the children of Beta Sigma Phi Ritual of Jewels Chapter members. The event, hosted by Mrs. Lamar Marshall Jr at her home, featured gifts for honorees, a gift exchange, and refreshments during a fellowship hour hosted by the Beta Sigma Phi Council comprising Seadrift Port Lavaca chapters and the Port Lavaca Exemplar Chapter at the First National Bank.
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Santa Claus
Beta Sigma Phi
Lamar Marshall Jr
Beta Sigma Phi Council
Jewel
Seadrift
Port Lavaca
First National Bank
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Letisia Garcia
Raul Garcia
Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church
Our Lady of the Gulf
Yale Party
VFW
Ann Landers
T.M.D
Mrs. Barnes
M. Smith
Patty Jenner
Mrs
Sadie Bellina
Betty Ford
White House
Cecily Brownstone
AP Food Editor
League
Optimist Club
Greenhouse
Calhoun Co
Carnation Milk of
Victoria
Gary Fuller
Jiffy Mart
Delvige and Sons Egg Co
Yoakum
Coles Dept Store
Viking Mall
First State Bank and Trust
Fapacs
Aurora
Watie's Nursery
Val
Maylo Nursery
Tommye Johnson
Wave Women’s Editor
S Ley Gdar
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