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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1943
Page
6
The Woman's Auxiliary of Christ Episcopal Church meets Monday at 3 30 PM. Mrs Melvin Green will speak on Post War Peace and the Churches Opportunity. An officer election will be held and new O A rules will be explained.
Last night a Christmas dinner and dance at the Trianon honored about fifty C. and P. Telegraph Co. employees including Berryville Boyce and Stephens City exchanges. Notables included district traffic manager John deButts and Lynchburg district head Ray Eppling. Songbird Philomena Laren performed several selections.
Mrs. Robert T. Barton left last week for Washington D C to spend the winter with her brother Dr and Mrs Robert Baker She plans to spend Christmas in Richmond with Mrs Robert T Barton Jr
Evendale Homemakers Club held its December meeting at the president Mrs C B Solenberger’s home with fourteen members present and Miss Ruth McNeil the new home agent in attendance. A meat substitutes demonstration delighted members as they planned January meetings.
Fort Loudoun Chapter hosts a December program featuring young carolers and a classic and revived repertoire. Donations fund Ellis Island therapeutic work and tuberculosis resistance, with care for historic records and Good Citizen awards at local high schools.
Rev J P Derrick and Mrs Derrick and Mrs Wayne Bowers of Woodstock attended the Fort Loudoun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting at the Golden Glow Coffee Shoppe. Lieut Hazel M Johnson and Sgt Gene Lacko of the local WAC left at noon to attend a conference in Baltimore today and Sunday.
An official of a major Canadian distilling firm said both United States and Canadian distillers have government permission to produce whisky during intervals when they catch up with wartime alcohol demand. Canadian output has been small and the U S plant lacks wheat needed for beverage alcohol.
Mrs. John Jump a 25 year old bride of three weeks is held on murder charges in Fort Valley Georgia after allegedly killing her 44 year old husband with an axe and beheading him. She told a coroner inquest he threatened her with a pistol and knife before the attack and then moved body parts toward railroad tracks to fake an accident.
Lieut Loring Kenneth Himelright appointed assistant professor in Civil Engineering at The Citadel. Born 1919 in Moorefield West Virginia, he earned a Duke University BS in Civil Engineering in 1940 and did UVA summers 1939 1940. Previously Civil Engineer at Charleston Navy Yard Public Works for two years. Married Catherine Amme of Charleston in 1942. recently welcomed a baby boy.
Aviation cadet John Thomas Kline serves at Sheppard Field Texas and is a Middletown Virginia native. Pvt Joseph Moore in North Africa spent a furlough here before overseas duty. Virginia and Maryland servicemen, Navy gunnery graduates in Jacksonville, and others from Gore Stephens City Winchester and Seymour Johnson Field are noted with training, arrivals, and dispatches.
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio speaks at the Pennsylvania Society of New York annual meeting in New York City. About 1000 attendees, with PA party leaders and Gov Edward Martin present. Martin will lead Pennsylvania’s 70-member delegation to the Republican nominating convention.
Charles P. McVicar city commissioner of revenue will teach the Golden Rule Bible Class at 9 45 tomorrow at Braddock Street Methodist Church. Members are urged to be present and visitors will be cordially welcomed.
Two girls aged 11 and seven visited police headquarters claiming they had no way home. They admitted returning visitors and being part of a north Minneapolis group that routinely used police cars for transport, aided by streetcar tokens.
The Open Door Bible Class of the Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church meets Sunday at 9.40 in the assembly room. Rev. Joseph S. Duckwall will teach at 10 o'clock. Members are urged to attend and visitors will be welcomed.
Anyone having claims against the estate of Mrs. Mary E. Cole, please see D. A. Cole and Mary Morrison, Exors.
An Eagle Scout award was presented to Ned Hopper of Luray Virginia at the Shawnee District Court of Honor held at Christ Episcopal Church Chapel. The ceremony, led by Rev. Robert B. Nelson with Col. Boyer Browne presenting the Eagle.
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