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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1943
Page
8
The Ewing Studio of Dance Art will hold its first formal dance for the sub-debs Saturday night at eight. Parents and friends are invited to attend the classes on Wednesday Thursday and Friday. The studio closes after the dance until January 5th to celebrate Christmas.
A schedule lists events at the Winchester area organizations. Activities include Winchester Memorial Hospital Alumnae Association at Nurses Home at 7 15 p m, Elks Club at 8 p m, Victory Exchange Open 11 00 a m to 5 00 p m, Rotary Club luncheon at Sarah Zane Hall 1 00 p m, Quota Club at Golden Glow 6 00 p m, Northern Va Power Co turkey dinner at U B Church 7 p m, First Baptist Church society at 8 p m, and W O W at Odd Fellows Hall 8 p m.
Braddock Street Methodist Church presents a candle light carol service on Sunday December 19 at 7 30 p m. The combined choirs numbering over 100 voices will sing with Miss Helen Wooz as organist. The program includes Silent Night O Holy Night We Three Kings and Joy to the World among others with offertory and benediction. The roster lists senior altos tenors and basses and junior youth choirs plus many individual singers and chairpersons.
The Northern Virginia Power Company district workers including Winchester and nearby towns will attend a turkey dinner at seven on Friday night at the United Brethren. Toastmaster C. H. Bailey will lead, with Potomac Edison president R. Paul Smith in attendance. Also noted are visits by Holmes Wisecarver on leave, James R. DuShane’s return from Roanoke, Dr C. R. Anderson’s recovery, and local business visitors James M. Dawson and wife from Mt Jackson.
At the Wo mans Auxiliary of Christ Episcopal Church the last meeting elected officers including Mrs. Clark Cooper president and Miss Jacqueline Smith first vice president. Other posts named secretary treasurer and corresponding secretary. Reports were given, OP A rulings explained, and Red Cross use of church rooms praised. Community members were noted with hospital and operation updates in Winchester.
Cadets Bigelow Thomson and others from Augusta Military Academy arrive Friday at Ft. Defiance Va. to spend Christmas. Miss Reba Snarr from Marjorie Webster College and Miss Janney Lupton from George School join relatives in Clarke county during the holidays. Others from Vassar Hotchkiss Neigh borhood Playhouse and family houses plan visits to Winchester.
Miss Dorothy Hawthorne of UNC Chapel Hill arrives tonight amid the Christmas visit with her parents Dr. and Mrs. Allen T. Hawthorne on South Stewart street. She is a Pi Beta Phi member, Pan-Hellenic Council vice president, on the Annual and Yackety Yack staffs, and chosen for Yackety Yack beauty pages. Mr Ralph Harry undergoes appendectomy after acute attack. he was taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital for surgery at eight o'clock.
The Daughters of Wesley Sunday School Class of Stephens City Methodist Church will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday December 16 at the home of Mrs. Roy Wisecarver. All members are urged to attend.
Miss Anne Barton and Miss Brooke Harris of Berryville, pupils at St Margarets School in Tappahannock, Va, arrived Tuesday to spend the Christmas holidays with their parents Mr and Mrs Lewis Barton on South Stewart Street in the city and Mr and Mrs Joe Harris on Buckmarsh Street in Berryville.
Seaman Second Class Franklin Snapp will depart tomorrow for Great Lakes Illinois for training after spending nine days on leave with his parents Mr and Mrs J F Snapp. He and his parents visited relatives and friends in Washington last Saturday.
Mrs James M McDonald of Reliance underwent an operation Sunday at Winchester Memorial Hospital and is reported to be improving nicely.
Billy Pifer, student at Washington-Lee University in Lexington Virginia, is due in the city tonight to spend the Christmas holidays with his parents Dr and Mrs H S Pifer. Mr Stanley Hardesty of Charles Town West Virginia, a Memorial Hospital patient, remains quite ill.
In Baltimore on December 15, striking workers of Western Electric refuse to return, defying a War Labor Board ultimatum. Point Breeze Employees Association demands separate toilet facilities for white and Black workers. About half the night shift and up to 50 percent of the day shift stay away, with 8 000 to 9 000 workers involved. Police monitor area with no violence reported.
Virginia Health Department reported a 100 percent jump in influenza cases last week with 1,649 cases from physicians, up from 651. Acting director Dr. H. Henderson cautioned that many mild cases go unreported, but officials said the flu was not of serious nature.
Berryville residents and nearby visitors are noted in the social column. Miss Roberta Winter arrives for holidays from Agnes Scott College accompanied by family. many military and civilian family members are mentioned visiting, traveling, or returning to duty. The Clarke County Red Cross reports continued work and quotas. Berryville schools plan Christmas holidays and a pageant.
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