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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1952
Page
8
Social excerpts list guests and gatherings including the Baggerley and Lupton families. The Shiley family reunion and visits by Mrs. Glass and the Pamplins are noted. W S C S meetings and garden club circles with multiple leaders and addresses are listed along with trips and visits by residents around Fredericktown and Worthington.
Lions Club meets at the George Washington Hotel at 12 15 p m Exchange Club also at the George Washington Hotel at 12 15 p m American Legion Auxiliary meets at 7 30 p m Moose Club gathers at p m Rebekah at 3 p m Alcoholics Anonymous sessions begin at Friendship Fire Hall at 8 30 p m
Mr and Mrs William Orndorff entertained at a Sunday evening buffet supper. Guests included Mr and Mrs Floyd Ash Cpl and Mrs Henry Orndorf Mr and Mrs Richard Renner and son Mr and Mrs Herbert Russell and Mr James Russell Mr and Mrs Raymond Sandy and daughter called later in the evening.
A special called meeting of the Winchester Jayceesettes is set for 8 15 p m with Mrs George Wallace at 1442 Greystone Terrace. Kernstown Scouts plan a yard party to raise funds for the Scout Ship with proceeds benefiting Explorer 70 Scouts of America.
Cross Junction residents hosted and visited relatives from Martinsburg Winchester Arlington and nearby areas over several days. The town reports two more rabid foxes killed and local fishing trips on the Shenandoah River.
Cecily Brownstone presents a Sunday dinner menu featuring Tomato Vegetable Juice, Coller Curried Lamb Steamed Rice Bread and Butter Coconut Cake and a peach based dish. Ingredients include fresh peaches lemon juice butter brown sugar. Method guides peeling halving pitting peaches brushing with lemon juice and cream, broiling until hot for six servings.
Dr. William Schenck, out with illness, resumes dentistry for a limited period each day. In England, about one in 588 enroll in higher learning, versus one in 66 in the United States.
A 1920s etiquette piece by John Robert Powers reviews sun glasses as a fashion and social tool. It stresses coordinating frames with outfits, warns against loud or whimsical styles indoors, and urges genuine social focus rather than mere appearance to maintain appeal.
A reader asks if a donor can exchange an item for size or location details. The guide says the groom may give jewelry, and a girl may defer a suitor rather than refuse outright, such as delaying a dance.
A short English lesson by W L Gordon on commonly misused words and mispronunciations. It introduces the term deciduous defined as shedding seasonally and uses autumnal trees as examples.
Rites will be held Monday for Mrs Legge with burial in National Cemetery.
New York reports the Bureau of Customs has classified chlorophyll extracts at the higher duty rate as chemical compounds due to their deodorizing medicinal and therapeutic use. The new rate is 12.5 percent ad valorem, higher than the 7.5 percent that would apply if treated as an extract.
Self unloading lake vessels carrying coal discharge at about 2100 tons per hour, enabling rapid cargo transfer and improved port throughput.
The textile and apparel industries consume over seven million tons of bituminous coal per year, reflecting significant energy demand in production and processing activities.
The column reviews You For Me as breezy summer fare built on a string of pratfalls around Peter Lawford. It notes his wealth and playboy status while describing a comic scene in which a shot hits the seat of his pants during a duck hunt.
A West Berlin student faces potential death penalty charges tied to a plot to blow up canal locks and set fire to an Autobahn. Authorities allege the plan targeted critical infrastructure and high traffic routes, signaling severe intent and danger.
A short report notes a mutiny causing a small group to be cast adrift. It mentions a navigator linked to explorations and a few other men, with unclear details about purpose or fate.
Southern States Co op holds Stephens City meeting on August 22 at 8 p m in the enschool. Nelson Martin chairs. The session will include the report on local agency tions by Southern Contest with farm people in the Stephens City area expected to compete.
The text notes there are 30 or more coffee species but ends with unclear garbled words.
Jim Thorpe, 64, the famed athlete and Olympic star, is in Rose De Lima hospital in Nevada today for treatment of a heart ailment. Dr. J F Coogan said last night Thorpe came in weak but not critical.
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