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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1941
Page
8
Local social column reports weddings engagements and visits. The Byrd family hosts in Upper Brandon and Millwood. Nancy Lee Clevenger and William Sager wed with plans to stay in Winchester and Kernstown. Various residents plan holidays with relatives in Richmond Baltimore Hagerstown and Waynesboro.
Miss Bertefia Rogers daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Rogers Martinsburg wed Kenneth Cather son of Mr and Mrs E W Cather of West Boscawen Street at 11 am Saturday in Hagerstown Rev Plummer United Brethren Church pastor performed ceremony at the parsonage Attendants were Mr and Mrs C S Kirby Martinsburg High School graduate Miss Cather and Mr Cather both connected to local schools and employers Also notes on a hunt breakfast hosted by Mr and Mrs Thomas Byrd and upcoming party by Dr and Mrs George Snarr with guests from local families and travelers over the holidays including Miss Nelia Beverley and Miss Virginia Mackie in Harrisonburg
Mr Allan D Richard son of New York and Mrs Lewis Hyde travel to West Boscawen to spend the holidays with Mrs Hyde. Mr Lewis Huntington Hyde will arrive from Newark for a several days visit starting Wednesday.
The column offers practical etiquette tips: how to handle a busy telephone interruption by offering a callback, how a stenographer should respond to a Christmas gift from an employer, and the correct ballroom greeting for asking for the next dance.
Miss Mary Lois Bean visits with Mr and Mrs Loring Bean of West Leicester Street while Mary Ellen Babb returns from Madison College to spend the holidays with her parents. Ruth Cuthbert joins Madison College classmates in Harrisonburg for Christmas with her family. Others include Pvt. David Headley attending army aviation school in California and Elizabeth Barr visiting Cathedral School for Girls in Orlando with her parents.
The Towerville community gathers for the annual Christmas Eve candlelight service at Christ Episcopal Church at 11 30 pm. Hundreds of taps will illuminate the church as Christmas carols lead the event directed by Miss Gwendolyn Haynes with Handel High School Glee Club and A Cappella Choir students contributing to the music.
An article describes back skin care including cleansing, scouring, and alcohol friction to remove pore plugs. It notes back massages and creams in beauty shops, plus posture tips to improve appearance, suggesting dietary changes for padding and an upright stance.
Haynes directs a Christmas service with Miss Charlotte DeHart accompanying the singers. The congregation will sing familiar carols including O Come All Ye Faithful and Silent Night. The Winchester Girl Scouts plan their annual Christmas carolinge on December 23, inviting residents to place a candle in front windows for caroling across the city.
Police search for the escort who accompanied 19 year old Kathryn Swantek to a Fairmont nightclub before she died of a skull fracture. Coroner says injury may be from a fall or during the route home. roommate says she had bled from the mouth after a tooth extraction.
Washington December 22. The economy bloc wins again as a proposal to add a 4500 executive assistant to every senator’s payroll is defeated. Senator Byrd criticizes the move as extravagance in tough times and urges saving non defense funds. Senator Glass voices concern that many may retire over pay raises.
The movement has been in power since the March on Rome on October 22, 1922, establishing fascist rule under Mussolini.
Social notes from Millwood Virginia list attendees at the Blue Ridge Hunt meet at Farmey and dinners and visits at neighboring homes. Several weddings and engagements are noted including Louise Whittemore marrying Ensign Bronson Shank in Norfolk, with many local families and guests mentioned. Cadets and visitors from Philadelphia, Washington, and Baltimore are recorded alongside Christmas plans and homecomings at Edgewood Annefield and Long Branch.
Domei the Japanese news agency told a London broadcast that since the Pacific war began Japan has sunk damaged or seized 47 enemy warships captured 338 merchant vessels and over 380 minor craft and shot down 114 planes. Japanese losses include one light cruiser slight damage one destroyer sunk one minesweeper sunk another severely damaged five submarines missing and 72 planes lost.
The privately published Spanish Newsletter reports that Spain could enter the war if Hitler is not defeated in North Africa. It claims plans are mature and all that remains is the button to be pressed, noting German military and air missions have been in Madrid for two weeks.
London dispatch says Australia had no information of a Japanese attack in New Guinea. Rome radio claimed Japan seized the island to avenge Portugal Timor occupation by Dutch and Australian troops.
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