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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1962
Page
5
Women’s organizations invited to use this column for notices of meetings. Contact Beckley Newspapers Woman’s Department by 10 am for same day use. Sunday announcements must arrive by 10 am. District No. 3 meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Terrace Room at Beckley-Winn Hotel.
Members of the Honey Deb Club at Beckley Junior High School sent a clothing outfit and toy to a four year old Hopemont Sanitarium patient for Christmas. They also collected food for a needy family at school. Names and advisors are listed.
West Virginia University Home Economics Specialists advise methods for treating common holiday stains on furniture and linens. Heat marks on varnished wood respond to camphor spirits, or oil and salt if needed. white water marks respond to polish and warm pressure, or paste made from oil and nonabrasive powder. Burn spots require removing char, sanding, staining, and lacquering with white shellac, then polishing. Candle wax on linens is removed by pressing with blotters and a warm iron, then using a grease solvent or a denatured alcohol solution for color stains. white cottons may be bleached.
Fairdale notes Wayne Franklin and his wife visiting her parents in Johnson City Tennessee. Marshall Chastain, employed in Elkton Maryland, is visiting his family at Glen Daniel.
A practical tip describes securing a baby's high chair with a screen door hook attached to the chair’s back and a screw eye driven into the woodwork in front, stabilizing the chair to prevent tipping. This method emphasizes simple, improvised restraint using common hardware.
Rural Acres Garden Club members provided a festive feast for birds on Saturday. They placed and decorated three small pine trees in the triangle at Rural Acres Drive and the 1921 Bypass. Mrs. William Falconer and Peggy, and Mrs. Kenneth Jennings with Rick trim the trees.
The Rural Acres Garden Club December meeting at Calloway Heights featured the theme Christmas Glory. Mrs. William J. Falconer hosted with co host Mrs. William Woods. Members planned a January 12 dinner for the Model A Club to raise funds for a community project building fund. They prepared bird friendly treats for Christmas trees and set up trees at Rural Acres Drive and the By Pass triangle. Gift packages were judged and awarded to Falconer Woods and Stover.
A列egion of holiday visits and hospital status items from Coal City Camden and surrounding towns list residents in observance or travel. Notes include W H McGinnis in satisfactory condition at Raleigh General Hospital after Friday admission, and numerous relatives visiting, traveling or hosting over the holidays across Virginia Delaware Ohio and Illinois.
A compact Raleigh Register feature of home tips. A reader finds a cat hair deterrent for mice, another suggests a shopping bag for kids, a looped elastic sleeve for children, bread in candy boxes for freshness, a sheet flap cover for electric blankets, tool storage in sand with oil to prevent rust, and invites readers to send ideas for Polly's Pointers with a silver dollar reward.
Miss Aurelia Cappellari and her mother hosted a kitchen and linen shower at their South Kanawha Street home for Miss Karen Burke, who will wed John William Amick at St. Francis de Sales Church. The event featured a pink and silver centerpiece, a Password game with prizes, and a large guest list from local families and Fayetteville. A preliminary party at the Ambrosiani home honored the couple, with a fall seasonal theme and many attendees. Tonight the rehearsal dinner for twenty wedding party members will be held at Town and Country Restaurant with the Amicks hosting.
Agricultural Marketing Service reports Idaho harvested 177 200 acres of potatoes in the prior year and plans to harvest 186 000 acres in 1958.
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