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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1958
Page
14
The column explores how emanicpated women and shifting gender roles affect men. Psych experts discuss conflicts of power and self worth as women gain equality, while fathers retreat and mothers influence sons. A wedding brief for Linda Lee Bradley and Robert Gordon Bradley is included.
New York designers led by Hannah Troy present fall collections emphasizing feminine silhouettes. High waisted empire lines, fluttering ostrich fringe, and rich textures appear in adapted forms of the empire dress and unfitted coats. Designers including Paul Parnes and Dior Young Yves St Laurent feature wearable, youthful looks aimed to please men.
Long Beach veterans group prepares to announce awards for Arthur L. Pater and Mrs. Jesse Burckle as Unit 27 American Legion presents at the state convention and hospital event. Key reports from past department president Mrs. Max Filion include a second place honor for Ophelia Kipp’s window display. Described as a district gathering, activities feature Elsie Berdecheck and Horace E. Hissey with district leaders and guest appearances in Sacramento and Long Beach before a Jewel Club dessert card party at 124 West 14th Street.
Registration for the second summer term at the Long Beach YWCA 550 Pacific Ave runs 9 am to 9 pm on July 21 and 22. Programs include swimming from beginner to water ballet, tap and ballet, acrobatic ballet, baton and tennis plus a new social dancing class and private lessons. Teen and preteen programs offer outings, crafts, and activities with trips to Irvine Park and other venues.
Popular young Seal Head residents Sharon Kay Walder and Edwin Alan Fritts exch anged wedding vows in a Greenwich Wed ding Chapel ceremony officiated by Rev Jerry Yerian. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Walder, wore Chantilly lace and carried an orchid on a white Bible. The groom’s brother James Gordon Fritts served as best man. Chris Sexton was maid of honor. The couple plans a Northern California honeymoon and will reside in Seal Beach. Both graduates of Huntington Beach Union High School. the groom is in the Naval Reserve at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station.
The Alasthitos Bay Yacht Club will show vibrant color films of the 1956 Transpacific to Tahiti race at 8 p.m. Friday. Thomas F. Knight Jr. presides as program chairman with Commodore Theodore C. Matson leading a pre film business session. The Dragon Fleet hosts a social hour with Capt. Sidney T. Exley Jr. and Mrs. Exley as chairs, aided by Charles Kobber and S. Benton Thomes.
Adm. and Mrs. Thomas L. Becknell Jr. and daughter Penny of Washington, D. C., visited the harbor area and Long Beach, welcomed by local friends with a dinner at the Plush Horse in Redondo Beach. Becknell will depart with family for Honolulu to assume new duties with naval supplies in the South Pacific.
Registration for contract bridge lessons taught by Marshall Ketchum is open at Cone tract Bridge Center, 1105 Cedar Ave, with sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays afternoon starting July 22.
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