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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1962
Page
8
A reader asks where to find a piano to ease loneliness at age 56 after widowhood. The writer urges using music for emotional relief, suggesting church groups, YWCA involvement, and renting or using a piano to form social bonds.
An ad touts a new alkaline dental product promising quicker relief and longer lasting comfort with honey and joyer plate coatings. It asserts no gritty taste or sour odor, claiming a smoother experience and fast refreshment available at drug counters nationwide.
Junior League debutantes start the holiday season with practice dances and dinners hosted by Bea and John Hancock and by Betty Bulfum and daughter Debra in honor of Emily Willse. Golf outings keep a sunny streak for Margaret and Bill Wallace, while local trips include Guadalajara and Las Vegas. Fran Cavaliere leads a four day hospital gift sale at St Marys Hospital, and Elk's Club guests travel to Indian Wells for a weekend of golf. Lynn and Pete Davis baptize daughter Julie Ane at Stanford chapel with family attending.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Lofgren celebrated 50 years of marriage with a afternoon open house at their son’s home in Long Beach. Attendees included daughters and sons in law Maurice R. Heise Richard T. Reid Dennis G. Lofgren and granddaughter William G. Moses along with ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The couple recently moved to Long Beach from Stromsburg Nebraska and Mr. Lofgren is employed by Douglas Aircraft Company.
A Christmas bazaar sponsored by the Alamitos Bay Garden Club ways and means committee replaces the usual program. Mrs. Don Gillespie hosts at her oceanfront home 6915 E Seaside Walk Thursday morning. Under Mrs. Mary Lyon the committee features handmade items by Mmes. T S Davis Bernard Fowle Fred A Koester Blanche Lamb Robert M Mills. Items range from fruit cakes to mistletoe kissing rings. Three decorative pieces by Charlotte Thomson will be auctioned at sale end: a cookie house Santa Claus and his reindeer, and a cookie tree.
A reflective piece discusses how people admit aging status, noting 60 percent of seniors in a study described themselves as middle aged and many avoided calling themselves old. It also presents sobering statistics on mental retardation, stating about 5 million Americans are retarded and the condition affects children most.
Australian physicians urge discounting phenacetin from over the counter use citing multiple cases of kidney impairment linked to long term intake. Drs McCutcheon Ross warn chronic phenacetin may cause nephritis with several autopsy reports supporting the concern as FDA probes the medicine.
Render's Digest reports new findings on birth-control pills for women, claiming higher dosage can eliminate monthly “bad days” and that pills may also affect fertility in certain cases. December issue promised for readers.
Patricia Whitney wed Robert W. Hutcherson in an evening ceremony at Westminster Presbyterian Church attended by immediate family. Bride’s mother Myrtle Anderson of Long Beach and A O Whitney of Longmont Colo. groom’s parents J R Hutcherson. Janice Hutcherson was maid of honor and Arthur Whitney served as best man. Both graduates of Polytechnic High School and Long Beach City College attendees.
Blue Star Mothers of America Chapter 1 hosts luncheon and card party in the Garden Room at Alamitos Avenue and Third Street Wednesday noon. Reservations by Mrs. Fred Weltz. Chapter secretary Mrs. Harold Ludwig elected national president of the Dig Dipper group in Washington. D. C. Mrs. Herbert Jonsten Jr. of Wilmington, past national president, will be national chaplain.
The Ellis-Orpheus male chorus presents a concert December 4 at 8 pm in the Wilshire Ebell Theater Los Angeles. It marks the chorus 75th anniversary with selections from the last decade under conductor Frederick Navis John Moe will accompany.
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