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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1963
Page
9
A chaotic reader letter page mixes advice requests and personal stories. The piece includes reflections on stock gifts after a brother’s death, dating boundaries, and a 15 year old seeking cooking guidance. The tone mimics the Dear Abby column with multiple snippets.
A columnist answers what social events a bereaved person may attend and whether to use social cards for business calls. It states avoiding isolation is outmoded, and light socializing like small gatherings and theater is acceptable, with personal discretion. It also warns against mixing social cards with business calls as bad taste.
Advertises a slimming overblouse pattern for shorter figures in cotton crepe or linen. Describes half sizes Ws and fabric yardage of 3 yards 3S inches. Price listed as 1444 cents with 15 cents first class mailing. Mail to Anne Adams at Winchester Evening Star Pattern Dept New York address.
Mrs. C. P. Wilson of Richmond spoke at the Winchester Presbytery District Conference of Women at Sunnyside Church with about 100 attending. Luncheon speaker Rev. Andrew Gullick of Shepherdstown spoke on the Covenant Life curriculum and was introduced by Mrs. Carl Thompson of Front Royal.
Phoenix officers questioned a 3 year old boy who insisted his name was Baloney. A caller later sought help to find her lost son and the boy again replied Baloney. Mrs Fred Daley said the boy is Fred Deley Jr but everyone calls him Baloney.
The Cacapon Farm Woman's Club met with Mrs Vernon Whitacre on the 23rd with nine members and one guest Mrs Roy Conners. They voted to hold an auction at the next meeting and to donate to the Heart fund. The next meeting is the fourth Tuesday in May. The Timber Ridge Christian Church Women’s Fellowship will host a Bake Sale on May A. Drug Fair in Winches returned from a 10 day family vacation in North Carolina. Lawrence at tain with Mr and Mrs Melvin Joho.
Mrs. R. E. Myers served as guest speaker for the Beta Sigma Phi chapter meeting at Mrs. Harry Stewart’s Apple Pie Ridge home. Dorothy Rice installed officers for the coming year. Founder's Day Banquet is set for May 18 at 6 30 p.m. at the Winchester Golf Club.
Donna Lynne Garrett and Charlie M lred of Toms Brooke are designated escorts for the Pi Phi Zeta International Queen Donna Lynne. They will ride on Monroe College’s float in Winchester Apple Blossom Festival parade Friday. Both are members of the Kapa Yau Chapter of Monroe. Heishman and Sweeney, sons of local families, are 1962 Strasburg High School graduates.
Marilyn Michell of San Diego Calif won the Mrs. America title after a week of contests in Miami Beach. The 35-year-old mother of three surpassed 50 competitors in categories from poise to congeniality. Runner up was Virginia Firnschild of Rochester Minnesota and third place went to Margaret Luther Price of Stroudsburg Pennsylvania.
In Berkeley 1909 note, a girl bought a cream pitcher at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Mrs Beulah Tarleton now owns a vast collection with pitchers aged from 259 years to modern and sizes from a fraction of an inch to nine inches.
Son Mrs Sherwood Cillette of Long Island will attend the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester with her mother Mrs Charles Hall of Timber Ridge.
Nancy Gray Larrick, known author and educator from Quakertown, spoke in the Kirn Memorial Library on Your Child and Reading. The event, sponsored by the Norfolk Branch of the Association of University Women, drew hundreds and included library and school officials.
The Rev. L. G. Lyon of Teen Age Evangelism will speak at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at First Assembly of God Church 455 N Cameron St. The program promotes Teen Age Evangelism in cities as a new ministry of the Assemblies of God National Home Missions. A film The Devil's Pit shows teen drug use and gang activity with a focus on a new cure for adolescent narcotics. No admission charge.
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