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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1944
Page
14
Wartime card buying accelerated as Oct 15 postal deadlines prompted early purchases. Service member cards sold quickly while homefront greetings stayed sentimental. Variety limited by paper shortages. two Mexican scene and Liberty Statue cards stood out among remaining selections.
Ben Daniels auxiliary No. 3 and Ben Daniels camp No 2 USWY will host a joint social at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the VFW hall at 121 East Broadway. Members and visiting comrades and sisters are invited to attend.
Roosevelt school hosted its annual Christmas party and program on Friday December 15. Principal Miss Winnie Wheeler welcomed guests as Girl Scouts leader Mrs. Virginia Brooks presented badges to Roosevelt Brownie troop members. Leaders Mrs. H Danielson and Mrs. Vera Pierce organized the event and plan a Brownie party for December 21.
The document lists Liouellen Linda Martinez Ronald Mercer Florancia Rodriguez Stephen Slavin Claudia Faye Win field and Tony Villa for record purposes.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service at the First Methodist church will hold its monthly meeting at 10 a.m. with a prayer service in Hedrick chapel followed by a program and business session in the church parlors at 10 30. Mrs Willi White leads devotions and a Wesleyan Service guild presents a playlet On the Table. Alice Vail and Mrs ton Webster perform a Christmas story and solo before installations for next year.
Christmas offerings air Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 30 p m over KVOA by University Methodist and First Baptist churches. Soloists include Martha Salzman Earlene Boyd Gene Whitaker and others with readings from The Christmas Story by Mrs J Grant Howard.
The American Legion auxiliary of Arizona hosts its annual Christmas party for hospital patients on Tuesday December 26. The group reported sales of 159075 dollars in the sixth war loan and aided the Legion at a bonds sale during an infantry display at the university stadium. The Phoenix conference December 12 13 featured speakers including Mrs. Harry Owen Holt T O Kraabel Col W T Hardaway and R D Deer with notes on rehabilitation and Aleutian experiences.
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity conducted initiation rites Sunday with new initiates William Howse William Steadman Bruce Bryant William McGinnis Robert Wheaton and Bernard Simons. Miss Helen Johnson of Los Angeles arrived Saturday to visit Mrs. Jack Quigley at 530 East Fourth Street for the holidays.
The program lists traditional pieces and works by Richards and Kra mer with soloist Mrs. G. C. Wilson. It includes Joy to the World, Christmas Bell, Before the Paling of the Stars, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, and a Christina Rossetti text setting.
A 7:30 p.m. audition in the recital hall of the Temple of Music and Art for the Tucson Little Theatre production of G B Shaw's Canida. There will be a discussion of set costumes the play and theatre matters. The Amphitheatre Homemakers' Christmas dinner is set for Thursday at the Church of God Mohave Fontana. Call about labor arbitration law and constitutional considerations. Debates by local teams will be announced later with dates and venues.
St Gertrude Sentinels of the Blessed Sacrament will gather at the Benedictine Sanctuary of Perpetual Adoration for their monthly conference tonight. Rev Paul Lawrence will deliver the conference after the 7 30 p m benediction. A business meeting follows and members are urged to attend. The USEttes will initiate tomorrow at 7 30 p m in All Saints church with Rev A F Gramer conducting the ritual service following which a Christmas party will be held in the social hall. Miss Pat Cosgrove and Miss Florence Guzman oversee arrangements.
Two debates will be held on the University of Arizona campus Thursday January 4 1945 announced by Prof. W Arthur Cable director of forensics. Visiting squad includes Emmett Long and Lloyd Settle of Pepperdine University Los Angeles. The question: Resolved that the fed-
The government of Free China extends financing to 24 essential sectors including electric power, smelting and refining, cement, cotton textiles, silk reeling and weaving, salt, flour milling, rice threshing, sugar, rubber, machine making, alcohol and substitute gasoline distilling to spur economic growth.
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