Major Clagett Ordered to Oslo for NATO Duty
Major Thomas B. Clagett long served as chief of the radio and television branch of the Army and will depart February 1 aboard the Stavengerfjord to join NATO headquarters for Northern Europe in Oslo. He will be accompanied by his wife and daughters Anne and Patricia. he studied at William and Mary and Georgetown and has overseas service in Japan Korea and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas B. Clagett
Department of the Army
Oslo
Norway
NATO
Stavengerfjord
Anne
Patricia
Clagett
Anne Meade
Louis B. Meade
Pairview
Millwood
College of William and Mary
Georgetown University
Japan
Korea
Europe
Islands in Our Community and Local Social Events
Winchester Chapter 1367 announces women of the Moose ritual tonight at 7 30 at the Moose Home. Braddock Street Methodist Church hosts W S C S January meeting tomorrow at 7 45 with speaker Mrs. Lewis M Allen and reader Miss Lois Hammond. Circle No 10 meets tomorrow at 6 pm at 324 Whitlock Ave with skits Islands in My Community and Islands in Our Community featuring Rebecca Simpson Dennis Brumback Lewis Boyer and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
the Moose
Lewis M. Allen
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Lois Hammond
Jimmy Miller
No Man Is An Island
Circle No. 6
C. D. Lanahan
Yeader
Braddock St
Circle No
Curtis Barr
Whitlock Avenue
Bynum Neese
Brooks Flickinger
Rebecca Simpson
Dennis Brumback
Lewis Boyer
Ashby Lynch
Robert Smallwood
Holmes Harper
Allen Gaunt
Calendar of Events Turns January Into Busy Social Month
January calendar lists meetings and activities across clubs and organizations. Flight A at 37 E Boscawen Street. Eastern Star. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Holy Name Society. Duplicate Bridge. Lions Club lunch. Garden Clubs. Alcoholics Anonymous. Loyal Order of Moose. Rebekah Lodge. Hiram Lodge. Kiwanis. Colonial Garden Club. Winchester Clarke Garden Club. Disabled American Veterans. and Air Force Reserve events. Many venues include City Hall, Masonic Temple, Baptist Church, and local hotels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force Reserve Squadron
E. Boscawen St
McKinley
Eastern Star
City Hall
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Holy Name Society
Sacred Heart Church
George Washington Hotel
Alcoholics Anonymous
Baptist Church
Loyal Order of Moose Home
Rebekah Lodge
Hiram Lodge
AF & AM
Masonic Temple
Negro Nursery Board
Kiwanis Club
Colonial Garden Club
Winchester-Clarke Garden Club
Ely Bradfield
Duplicate Bridge
Golf Club
Births Reported From Several Families in Various Towns
To Mr and Mrs Herman Lloyd Falls Church a boy John Herman Mrs Lloyd is the former Miss Alice Langbein To Mr and Mrs Leonard Lansberry Riverton a girl Mrs Lansberry is the former Miss Hazel Windle To Mr and Mrs Charles Vance Wardensville a girl Nancy Kaye Mrs Vance is the former Miss Virginia Scott To Mr and Mrs Emerson Romney W Va a boy Mrs Baron is the former Miss Ruth Johnson To Mr and Mrs Richard Combs 132 Amherst St a girl Mrs Combs is the former Miss Rose Porter To Mr and Mrs William Kirkpatrick Upperville a boy Mrs Kirkpatrick is the former Miss Mary Knott
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Lloyd
Falls Church
John Herman
Lloyd
Alice Langbein
Leonard Lansberry
Riverton
Lansberry
Hazel Windle
Charles Vance
Wardensville
Nancy Kaye
Vance
Virginia Scott
Emerson Romney
W. Va
Baron
Ruth Johnson
Richard Combs
Amherst St
William Kirkpatrick
Upperville
Kirkpatrick
Mary Knott
Modern Etiquette Q and A From Roberta Lee
A Q and A column covers announcing a baby's birth to family and close friends by phone, with attractive keepsake cards optional. It then advises sending a gift for a bridal shower missed due to prior plans. It also states never to cut muffins at the table, recommending breaking them by hand.
Dates set for Sabrina Fair at Bark Mill Theatre
The Little Theatre announces February dates for Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor at 8:15 p.m. nightly from February 14 to 16 and February 21 to 23. Mrs. Richard F. Lewis Jr directs with Mrs. Boyd Headley Jr. as producing manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Theatre
Samuel Taylor
Bark Mill Theatre
Braddock and
Wolfe Sts
Bark Mill Players’ Club
Richard F. Lewis, Jr
Boyd Headley, Jr
James Marsh
Business Firms To Be Contacted In Dimes Campaign
Local club leaders met with H. W. Butler Jr. to plan a business outreach for the March of Dimes polio campaign in Winchester and Frederick County. Attendees from Stonewall Raritan, Round Hill Ruritan, Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions pledged club members would visit businesses, collect funds, and return receipts and totals by month’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Butler, Jr
March of Dimes Committee On Business and Labor
Loring Woore
Rufus Smith
Stonewall Raritan Club
Robert Dailey
Round Hill Ruritan Club
R. E. Heltzel
Rotary Club
Leonard Ellis
Kiwanis Club
Henry Lowery
Lions Club
Butler
Winchester
Frederick County
Buth
Lions Club Plans Business Session at Luncheon
The Lions Club schedules a business session during its regular weekly luncheon tomorrow at 12 15 p m at the George Washington Hotel. The note about the blind-slow worm clarifies it is a lizard with bright eyes and quick movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Lord Pairfax Garden
The
Century Club
William H. Lawrence
Editors Scout Spring Fashion Week Echoing Comfort
After five days and nearly 50 showings in New York editors wrap a strenuous week with upbeat notes on 1957 spring lines. Suits remain slender and soft with short jackets and slim skirts while daytime dresses stay sleek with delicate lingerie touches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nettie Rosenstein
William Fox
Tina Leser
Anthony Blotta
Ben Reig
Harvey Berin
Suzy Perette
Anne Klein
Jack Horwitz
Kate Greenaway
Galilee Church news and local community notes
Rev Charles N Grubbs preached at Galilee on January 5. The Women’s Fellowship Circle held its annual covered dish supper at the home of Mr and Mrs Robert Russell in White Hall with about 20 attendees. Mrs Ora Pleek and son Donald visited her brother Ernest Dawson in Keyser W Va, a Cumberland Hospital patient. Hog from Valley View Farm weighed 470 pounds. Albert Whitacre bought the Forty Oaks orchard and farm from Ida Shepard and moved from the Harry Leight farm. Clearbrook Fire Company responded to a chimney fire at Mr Swartz with no damage. Homer Leatherman has been a Winchester Memorial Hospital patient after a recent accident. Zirkle Williams of Winchester visited. Swimley family ill at Rich Hill. Mrs Hattie Good and Miss Ethel Guess visited Hensel. Several children have mumps. Farmers plowed in winter. Weather cold and windy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley View Farm
Here
Albert Whitacre
Clearbrook Fire Company
Swartz
Homer Leatherman
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Zirkle Williams
Winchester
Samuel Swimley
Rich Hill
Three Commended At Local Legion Auxiliary Meeting
Mrs. Claude Grim Mrs. J Clayton Cochran and Mrs. George Taylor were commended by Conrad Hoover Unit No 21 American Legion Auxiliary at its meeting held at Mrs Cochran's Jefferson Street home. The program covered national security and civil defense with a paper read from National Headquarters. The rummage sale raised 170.20 and 17 children were fitted with clothing at a cost of 138.41. A total of 15 families benefited from Christmas baskets funded by the joint party with the Legion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Grim
J. Clayton Cochran
George Taylor
Conrad Hoover
No. 21
American Legion Auxiliary
Cochran
Clarence Hill
Harry Butler, Sr
American Merchant Marine Library
Norfolk
Clarke T. Cooper
William and Henry Evans
Robert E. White
Harry A. Nelson
Lynn Wiseman
Nelson
Wiseman
Winchester Ministerial Assn
Kate Waller Barrett
The
Legion
Salvation Army
Clayton Cochran
Catherine Hottle
Robert Butler
Sidney Snellings
Lessons in English by W. L. Gordon
Readable notes on confusing words and proper usage. Distinctions between convenient and commodious explained with examples such as a house or car being convenient but not commodious. Includes mispronunciation tips for facsimile and misspelling cue for accessibility. Word study urges daily vocabulary with feign as today’s focus. The bald eagle remark concludes with a note on appearance versus fact.
Ron Delany Withdraws From K of C Mile Race
Olympic mile champion Ron Delany pulls out of the Knights of Columbus meet at Boston Garden under doctor orders. The mile field narrows to seven contenders as Delany remains 12 pounds underweight and will not run with Villanova teammates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Ron Delany
Knights of Columbus
Boston Garden
Delany
Melbourne
Villanova
Midwestern runners to contest pre Olympic two mile race
Phil Coleman of Chicago, joined by Ted Wheeler and Deacon Jones, will compete in a pre Olympic two mile race. Coleman set a native American two mile record at 8 47.8. Other entrants include Burr Grimm, George King, John Kopil, and Ed Murphey from Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Coleman
Chicago
Coleman
Ted Wheeler
Deacon Jones
University of Iowa
Burr Grimm
Maryland
George King
New York AC
John Kopil
Bayonne
N. J
Ed Murphey
University of Tennessee
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Iad
Freda M. Seldon
L. V. Seldon
Pennsylvania Ave
Baltimore
Mda
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Charles Philip Blaughter
Susan
Blacksburg
Slaughter
WY. P. I
U. S. Air Force
Mr. Slaughter
Frances Slaughter
N. Braddock St
H. W. Butler, Sr
John Vaughan
Galax
Horticultural Society
Roanoke
State
George Tabler
Boonesville, W. Va
Robert White
Howard Duncan
Virginia Horticultural Society
J. Pinckney Arthur
Wilkie Hunt
Herman Stine
Kenneth Robinson
Fred Glaize
Joseph Dorsey
William W. Dunn
Mrs. Allen
Braddock St. Wscs
Negro Day Nursery
Freemont St
Bobbie Conrad
Roberta Lee
Arctics
Little Theatre Play
Andrew Babb
John
Whetzel
H. Delmer Robinson, Jr
William Brash
Werner Nordheim
Charles
Milton
Marjorie Duncan
Robbie Conrad
Kenneth Sheeler
Wallace Hankin
Mack Headley
House
Eugene Babb
J. A. Emmerth
Ray Morrison
James Mareh
Duell Glover
Dorothy Overcash
Jeanne Williams
Irvan O'Connell
Charles B. Mallory
Ruby Kirk
Rhoden Studio
FE. T. von Pippin
Villa LaRue
Clarke County
William W. Bargeron
Peggy Anne von Pippin
C. W. Athearn
Warwick
von Pippin
Laura Mae Stone
Dorothy Roe
AP Women’s
Grimes
By N. C. Hensell
Forty Oaks
Ida Shepard
Harry Leight
Hattie Good
Ethel Guess
Charles Hensel
Gaunt
Gerrard & Valley Ave
Begum Aga Khan
Aga Khan
Paris
HELEN R. COLLIER, D.C_T
W. Boscawen St
Room
Local
Legion Auxiliary
W. L. Gordon
Lovett Brothers
Skimmer
Lovett Bros
N. Loudoun St
C. Mile
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sther
Cather’s Department Store
Marx Pola
Pearce
Timberlake
Shoecenter
Loudoun St
BR Rte
Mae
Your
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