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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1952
Page
8
Social announcements include the engagement of Helen Marie Johnston to Daniel Steele with details of the families and schools. Betty Glaize returns from Wellesley College to Amherst Street. Local clubs elect officers and plan meetings at the Methodist Church and Old Fredericktown Garden Club.
Bobbie Conrad notes a calendar of events including Eastern Star at City Hall Madison Lodge and Municipal Band at Rouss Hall. Activities at Murphy's Feed Store Amherst Street and meetings at George Washington Hotel, Legion Home, Moose Club and Rebekah Lodge populate the evening schedule with AA at Friendship Fire Hall.
Community groups announce weekly meetings and social events. Kernstown WSCS gathers Monday at 8 p m with devotions led by Mrs Eu gene Keisling. Quota Club plans June Friday rummage sales at 188 Loudoun St 7 to 9 p m and donates books to Gallaudet College.
The Comrade and Margaret Collins Denny Bible Classes of Braddock Street Methodist Church will meet jointly in the church auditorium tomorrow at 9 45 a m Mrs Edgar Brown will lead worship service and Mrs John L Glaize will teach the lesson Also noted are weekend returns from Berea Ky by Mr and Mrs Elwood Carper and Mr and Mrs James Good who were joined home by their son Donald Good a Berea College student.
Birth announcements list six baby boys and one girl born to couples in Hanging Rock Berkeley Springs Middletown Bloomery Route Front Royal and associated families. Names include Melvin Rooms burg Robert Dunham Cleveland Jenkins William Aldrich Edger Crane Roy Du Brueler and Ulysses Veach with mothers identified by former surnames Whitacre Dawson Golliday Huttle Bible Bly Braithwaite.
The weekly schedule for the Frederick County Home Demonstration Agent covers June 9 through 14. Activities include 4-H girls coaching, electric project meetings, demonstrations on quick meals from freezer and refrigerator, and club meetings at Gore Gore School Albin Middletown and Whitacre Community Hall with leaders and Miss Flickinger directing demonstrations.
Lesson excerpt by W L Gordon focuses on language usage and pronunciation. It explains common mistakes such as pref erable and ban al while highlighting the word panacea as a universal cure for all ills and encourages daily vocabulary expansion with practical examples.
A promotional charm column outlines a six day beauty diet with menus and six exercises to shape the body for summer. It promises vitality, heat resistance, and lasting beauty habits, and offers a booklet for 10 cents with additional menus. The sixth new menu features breakfast with sugar free, poached egg, rye toast, lunch of frankfurters and slaw, dinner of London broil with vegetables.
A six exercise sequence promises a slim tummy and toned back. The routine includes side-lying leg raises and arm-leg swings, repeated ten times with gradual increases. The piece also promotes Your Beauty Diet booklets from Secrets of Charm in Michigan City, Indiana, requesting a 10 cent contribution and SASE.
A New York garment executive reports a rise in tall women nationwide with California, the Pacific Northwest, Chicago, Texas, and New England identified as the dominant regions. Dressmakers note 70 percent of women stay at or below five feet while 22 percent are five eight and taller, shaping sizing and inventory decisions.
Kuala Lumpur police denied a Kuala Lumpur Chinese newspaper report that Russian submarines operating from Hainan landed Communist agents and guns on the Malayan coast. The police called the story untrue and refused to comment further.
Cooking's Fun section features a Sunday dinner menu with pork chops browned potatoes green peas cole slaw bread and butter lemon pie and a beverage. A sauerkraut tomato juice cocktail recipe follows with ingredients sauerkraut juice tomato juice parsley and a method to freeze juice into cubes for serving.
Roberta Lee answers on grandchildren using first names by elders and anonymous protest letters to newspapers. She says children should not address adults by first name, anonymous letters are ill bred and cowardly, and golfers should smooth bunkers themselves while the caddy stays out of the bunker.
The Cleveland bird watching season closed with 300 participants spotting 182 species in a six week period. Harold E. Wallin of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History notes 31 of 33 warbler species were observed during the finale.
A Pittsburgh mother sent her 4 year old twin sons Donald and Joseph Devinsky with a shopping bag and money to the store. The boys wandered for three hours and returned home with the empty bag and money, never finding a shop.
Mrs. Mabel Perry celebrated her birthday with a family picnic hosted by her children at Mt Pleasant. Attendees included James Russell family Carlton Zuckerman Eva Perry and many Perry relatives plus others visiting from Windchester Reliance and Mt Williams on the weekend.
Two Japanese steel firms reached a one year contract to ship 1,000,000 tons of Malayan iron ore. The Eastern Mining Company Bukit Besi mine yielded 498,000 tons in 1950.
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