Calendar of Events for Monday and Tuesday
Weekly meeting of I C O F at their hall on Monday at 8 00 p m and a Lions Club weekly luncheon on Tuesday at 12 30 p m
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1942
Page
6
Weekly meeting of I C O F at their hall on Monday at 8 00 p m and a Lions Club weekly luncheon on Tuesday at 12 30 p m
A healthier routine fights anxiety with sleep eight hours work eight hours play. Seek medical checkups if needed and restructure daily life for sunshine, family time, and recreation to manage stress and avoid needless fears.
Q and A style notes address women wartime roles and appearance. The article promotes a Wallace speech pamphlet available from A Winchester Star Service Bureau, offers opinions on wearing slacks for older women in various settings, and explains why saccharin cannot replace sugar in canning.
Amanda Cooke a well known resident of Clearbrook county dies Saturday night at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She is survived by son Lee M. Cooke brothers Joseph and Jacob sister Emma and a nephew. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 pm from Cedar Hill Methodist Church with Rev. Gander officiating. Pallbearers named Edward Kremer Roscoe Carter Sylvester Carter Taylor Jackson John Carter and Sheely Brown. Interment follows at Jabez Hill Cemetery Brucetown.
Newport News Virginia July 13 A fire of undetermined origin but spectacular proportions destroyed a building housing the Newport News Foundry Company. All contents were lost. The one story wooden structure measured about 200 by 75 feet. The plant’s operating manager J Wright declined to estimate damages or speculate on the fire’s origin.
Everitt Habron, son of Mr and Mrs Lehman Habron, will enroll at the Virginia Military Institute Lexington in September after passing exams. Mrs Dollie Galladay returns from Havetown Maryland, visiting relatives. Nan Bauserman and Calvin Fadely visit. Mr and Mrs Fadely welcome a newborn son.
Mr and Mrs Clarence F Schenck of Valley Avenue announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Schenck to Ensign Charles William Huntsberry son of Mr and Mrs Walter E Huntsberry of North Loudoun Street He is a UVA graduate and Navy Ensign set to attend Harvard for Navy Supply Corps training The couple has not set a wedding date Also dinner guests at C B Carrs Boyce included Rev James A Figg and Rev Claudius P Shelton with Miss Marjorie Shelton Marjorie Lewis engagement announced to Vernon Dayton Adams both recent graduates with Adams in Beloit Wis and a former Indiana Central College student He is a former Indianapolis Power and Light Company employee now in the Aviation Cadet Corps on furlough
Mrs. Julia Beaver Mrs. Margaret Lake Miss Lillian Sheetz Louise Moore Louise Duncan Betty Ann Thomas and Josephine McKee leave today to attend Leadership Training School for the Synods of Virginia and West Virginia at Massanetta Springs. Rev. Donald Richardson will teach the Bible hour. Classes focus on young people adult education Sunday school and Vacation Bible School work.
Red Cross Production Room will open Tuesday from 11 to 4 for yarn distribution. Hubert Kerr receives a surprise party hosted by Miss Mary Gay Marker and Mr Graham Kerr at Willow Lawn Inn in honor of his upcoming enlistment in the U S Navy and departure to Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Larrick Hockman and Mr. James Livengood of this city spent yesterday in Washington. Miss Florence Messick of Elizabethtown PA and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Messick of Opequon were guests of Mr. and Mrs. D B Messick for the weekend.
The wedding of Miss Alberta Maude Owens of Berryville to Mr. Charles Isaac Patton was held Saturday night at 8 in Berryville Methodist Church. The ceremony was performed by Rev. A. O. Lyons with a mixed summer floral altar. The couple left for Atlantic City and will reside in Berryville.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service holds an ice cream and cake sale at Market Street Methodist Church Wednesday at 5 PM. Circle 3 meets Tuesday at 8 PM at Mrs Georgianna Graves 721 Woodland Ave. Garden clubs from Winchester Clarke Fredericktown and Eastern Star McKinley Chapter plan meetings this week with talks on conserving defense and storing surplus foods.
Social and club notices listed for dial in The Star-3424. Dial numbers appear for social events personal announcements and club updates in this compact listing.
The Shenandoah Area Council Boy Scouts report 48 youths in the final week of camp led by Scout Executive Stanley Mate. Participants come from Winchester, Strasburg, She nandoah, Martinsburg, Summit Point, and Charles Town with Troops 2 5 8 41 22 19 13. Total boy weeks reach 173 with strong merit badge progress and no serious incidents. Camp ends next Saturday.
The Winchester-Frederick County rationing board issued tire and tube purchase permits to multiple residents and businesses. Names include John R. Burcham Opequon two passenger tires and tubes Harry Ridings Middletown pickup two truck tires and one tube Alfred S Henkel one passenger tire and others such as Edmond R Letts Lecompte La and Rev Carlyle A McDonald. Also listed are Raymond Carter Winchester Seed Co P W Plumly Lumber Co Virginia Feed Mills and Novick Transfer Co with various tire and tube allocations. The report also notes seepage in Chinese provinces with limited underground reserves.
Mrs Henry Hughes Little a long prominent Winchester family member and Norfolk attorney’s wife died Saturday night at her Norfolk home. Former Annie Littleton Conrad daughter of the late Dr Daniel Burr Conrad and Susan L Conrad survived by her husband two sons Daniel C Little and Henry C Little a daughter Mrs Nathan Bundy and a sister Mrs A C Carson. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 11 at Mount Hebron Cemetery Winchester with Rev R B Nelson officiating pallbearers include John Hedrick Harold Smith Henry Baxley and the Little sons.
Rome reported that Axis troops in the El Alamein area repulsed renewed British assaults in lively fighting. Italian communiques noted the air escort of a Mediterranean convoy beat off a British plane attack, shooting down a bomber and two torpedo planes. Large numbers of motor vehicles were put out of action by Italian air strikes in the desert.
Martin B. Williams, Richmond insurance executive, has been named chairman of the Virginia State Salvage Committee by Governor Darden. He succeeds Frederic W. Scott Jr., who resigned due to other war duties as assistant state rationing administrator for the Office of Price Administration. Williams is a Flint Hill native and former president of the Richmond Junior Board of Trade and the State Junior Chamber of Commerce, a national director of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, and chair of the speaker's bureau for the Virginia War Bond and Stamp Committee.
Richmond VA July 13 The Mental Hygiene Society of Virginia will hold its first meeting on the theme mental hygiene at work at Marion F W Gawaltney executive secretary announced Dr M A Turumianz director of Delaware mental hygiene clinics and superintendent of Delaware State Hospital will be guest speaker on preventive psychiatry in public schools Dr Frank H Redwood of Norfolk son of the society will preside
Egypt's Qattara depression covers about 6 950 square miles with at least half lying more than 160 feet below the Mediterranean level, highlighting subsurface geography and potential drainage implications.
Local notices report promotions and overseas assignments for area service members. Lee Butler of Moody Field Georgia becomes sergeant after a 15 day furlough. his brother George Butler of Fredericksburg also promoted to sergeant with the 116th Infantry at A. P. Hill.
Clarke county truck owners and users of gasoline for non highway uses must register at Berryville courthouse on July 15 and 16 between 1.30 and 5 pm and 7 and 9 pm. The registration is set to support gasoline rationing programs.
Russell Ainsworth aged 49 was attempting to free a stalled car in a garage when he grabbed the bumper. The vehicle rolled down a driveway, ran over him and shattered his right shoulder.
A compact puzzle listing clues labeled by numbers spans varied definitions from weight units to family terms. It weaves through math minded hints and wordplay, naming items such as mallet or like and ends with clues for verbs and minerals.
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