Social Roundabout Sparks Weekend Happenings in Warwick
Warwick readers catch a flurry of social notes as Sheila Doyle hosts a Saturday night party for 90 guests. Residents head to Brisbane, Stanthorpe, and the coast for holidays while nursing staff shifts and local appointments mark the busy social calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheila Doyle
J. Doyle
Willis Dent
Margaret Portley
Mater Hospital
Syd
Thompson
Warwick
J. B. Hing
Clayfield
Stanthorpe
J. J. O'Brien
Brise
Bert Noye
Catherine
Paula
Brisbane
Enid Crichton
M. Crichton
Surat
Leo Ryan
Clark Gable Objects to Wife Alimony Claim in Divorce
Clark Gable told the Divorce Court yesterday he should not pay alimony to his wife Sylvia Ashley since she is a millionaire. He answered her divorce petition and said earnings since their December 1949 marriage were spent or pledged to community debt. He did not deny the charge of mental cruelty and she did not seek alimony. Ashley inherited wealth from her second husband Douglas Fairbanks Sr. who died in 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Gable
Sylvia Ashley
Gable
Douglas Fairbanks
Chocolate Cake Recipe From Old Page
A compact recipe lists ingredients for chocolate cake including butter flour milk sugar egg cocoa cinnamon baking powder and soda. Instructions describe dissolving cocoa with soda in water creaming butter and sugar adding egg sifting dry ingredients and combining, then baking in two tins and cooling. It notes a unit error from a recent issue and ends with a humorous barber joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy
Swan Creek Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Miss Iris Flanders of Condamine spends a holiday with Mr and Mrs M G Keim. Mr J Keim of Dalby also plans a long weekend with his parents at Swan Creek. Nurse Maureen Hughes, recently at Miseri coréine Hospital Birkoane, holidays with her parents before moving to Adelaide to finish her nursing career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SWAN _CREES
Iris Flanders
Condamine
M. G. Keim
J. Keim
Dalby
Swan Creek
Maureen Hughes
Misericoréine Hospital
Birkoane
D. Hughes
Adelaide
Motor Cycles Greatest Killers on Roads
Canberra analysis by the Australian Road Safety Council finds motor cycles are the leading road dangers. In the year ended December 31, 1949, 424 motor cycles were killed versus 281 drivers of other vehicles. Fatalities in country districts surpassed metropolitan losses, and pedestrians were blamed for 408 deaths with injuries exceeding 5500. The council plans an intensified road safety campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canberra
Australian Road Safety Council
A.alys
Roa Acsident Pice Ems
Flynn of the Inland a tribute to John Flynn in Alice Springs
At Mount Gillen the community gathered to honor John Flynn founder of the Flying Doctor service. The editor Rev Frank Janiin and speakers recalled Flynn's work building hospitals and providing essential outreach in Central Australia. A wreath was dropped by a Flying Doctor plane as the service concluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Janiin
N.5.w. Presbyterian
Alice Springs
John Ery
Australia
Fiyma
Valley of Palms Road
Flynn
Qornadilla
Alice
Jack
Williams
Dr. Flynn
Mount Gillen
Australian Inland Mission Board
J. Gray Robertson
Kingsley Partridge
John Kyan
Gulf Country
Sumberleys
Esperance
John
John Flynn
Jon
Cenustralia
Chickeringa
Oodnadatta
Christ
Jf Flynn
Gillen
Outback
Weather shifts with coastal showers and high pressure presence
The Brisbane weather bureau reports a high pressure system over the east with a ridge breaking to a shallow trough off the Queensland and northern New South Wales coasts. Scattered showers linger along the coast while inland areas stay mostly fine, with rainfall along the coast peaking at Cape Moreton Point Lookout and Coolangatta. A depession moving toward Western Australia’s west coast will produce rain but is not yet affecting eastern states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brisbane
Weather Bureau
Tasman Sez
Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Cape Moreton
Point Lookout
Angatta
Downs
Western Australia
Combined Ambulance Benefit at Murray's Bridge
Loch Lomond and Murray's Bridge ambulance benefit raised £89 10s 3d from raffles sales and collections. net £69 8s 1d presented to the brigade. Superintendent G Lefranche and Mr Connolly praised the district’s residents and thanked committee secretary J Fanning and helpers. Doorkeeper J Boal and ticket seller R Milward noted. Monte Carlo won by J Jeffrey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray's Bridge
Loch Lomond and
G. Lefrancke
G. Connty
R. Milward
T. Gray
J. Jeffrey
Siamese Twin Girls Share One Heart Reported
Report from Iugrington notes the birth of Siamese twin girls joined at one heart. The twins were born to Mrs Robert Litchfield aged 20 by caesar delivery at Tallon Hospital, with their combined weight described in the early medical update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iugrington
Connselleut
Robert Litchfield
Caesardas O Tallon
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Palmerin Street
Lee
R. E. Wilkins
Grafton
Hans
Mattrese
Lotopans
ABEC
Carford Love
Clarence Street
Sydney
Trudy
Ballina
Ray O'Neill
Cairns
Rosemary Ferguson
Oakey
Dorothy Milward
Amy Jacobs
C.W.A. International
Harry Sterne
Glenbar
Bromley
Brissbane
Southport
Tom Collins
Somerset Dam
Ken Wigfall
Gwensth
Jeanette
Ashley
Evelyn
Posie Lippard
F. Devlin
South Australia
Adrian Slade
John Brody
Mary Armbruster
Brisane
Maryborough
Acultiel
Dulcie Jensen
Lismore
Sandy McDowell
John Apelt
L. Rayner
Alaruen
Gloria Foley
Queensland Land
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Aia
Flynn OF
the Inland
Ain
Housewives
Banaghers
Bores Ores
BCC
B.C.C
MIMS
Cage
Tapioca
Heins
Brookes
Asedenaus
Delicatessen
S.A
Windsor
Tom
Ian
Tin Cays
East
Cerevite A
CATS
Harpers
2Ib
Coffee Essence
Weustere
Ctra Puidie
Fez
Pia
Fersh
Tale Largreaves
Mks
Ty Tama Nene
Weet Bix
Smal
WES. Stacey & Son
Grafton Street
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