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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1963
Page
8
A late 60s widow resists pressure from her daughter to change routines and move. She moves in with a cousin, facing new surroundings, new friends, and renewed family friction. The piece notes self-appointed advisers and questions why work is assumed necessary.
A fragment discusses a happiness cycle spanning about six weeks and suggests a self test. It advises noting daily misfortunes and odd events to observe mood shifts. the tone veers toward provocative guidance with a reference to a butcher figure offering cautions.
Instructions describe baking two eight inch cakes to form a chick to win as an Easter egg hunt prize. Detailed icing steps use yellow butter frosting red green Cake-Mate gels and plastic tubes with star tips to outline form wings grass eyes and a cross with Happy Easter. Decorative flowers created with gel squiggles complete the design.
A dense listing of club meetings and gatherings for the week. Includes Exhausters Auto Club at Rt 50, Bryarly School PTA, American Legion with Mrs Richard Griffith, McKinley Chapter Eastern Star at City Hall, VFW post, Duplicate Bridge at GW Hotel, Clearbrook Fire Co Directors, Lions Club at Washington Hotel, Exchange Club at George Washington Hotel, Century Club, Garden Club of Show, Henry Williams Evans Home Directors, Hiram Lodge AF and AM at Masonicle, Shawnee Kennel, Alcoholics Anonymous at Baptist Church, Rebekah Lodge, plus Boy Scout leaders, VFW Auxiliary Cancer Foundation Film, Bible Study Group, and Senior Citizens events.
The American Legion Auxiliary Conrad Hoover Unit 21 will hold a meeting tonight at 8 p.m. at the residence of Mrs. Ric E. Griffith on W. Clifford Street.
A childless middle aged widow complains of friends offering advice as she laments a dull life. Friends label her constant recitals of problems as interference and say her status quo will persist unless she changes.
Lift together flour baking powder baking soda and salt. Cream butter and sugar, mix in melted chocolate, beat in egg thoroughly then sour cream. Stir in dry ingredients chocolate pieces and nuts. Drop level tablespoons a few inches apart and bake at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes. Makes about three dozen.
Jewish observance starts today marking liberation from Egyptian slavery. The festival follows Palm Sunday and Holy Week leading to Easter significance for Christians.
Braddock Street Methodist Church announces circle meetings with details for Circle 2 Circle 7 Circle 8 Circle 9 and Circle 11. Locations include Mrs Gatewood Mrs Barr 316 W Cecil St and Mrs Crider 315 W Clifford St plus addresses 6 Well St 509 Van Fossen St. Times vary Tuesday to Thursday.
The text advises against turning on the TV for entertaining guests while ice breaking or during a card game. It emphasizes that such actions are not in good taste and suggests keeping conversations and games as the focal point.
The Stephenson Social Club will meet at Waay for a covered dish luncheon hosted by George Travers. Mrs. E. W. Grant will be the hostess and attendees are asked to bring a covered dish.
Hartford Conn. Edie Van Dore, 54, longtime women’s editor of the Hartford Times, died Saturday.
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