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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1956
Page
10
Chestnut Grove Methodist Church will hold the WSCS meeting at 7 30 p m tomorrow at Mrs Leona DeHaven’s home. Mrs Katherine Kaes to lead the devotions.
Mrs. Rolland A Young and son Michael visit from San Diego while EM2 Young tours the East aboard the USS Lexington. Mary Washington College student Jane Sjostrom helps stage The Curious Savage. Births announced for Rev B W Coe’s son and Lt James L Miller Jr’s daughter, Elizabeth Leigh, at Fort Polk. Other notices include hospital patients, a senior organ recital by Frances Lukin, and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial cast in Pennsburg.
May 4 schedule includes Women's Civic League at George Washington Hotel 12 30 p m and socials by Woodmen of the World Eagles Knights of Columbus and Duplicate Bridge. May 5 offers a bake sale by Emmanuel Chapel Auxiliary and May 7 lists Women’s Auxiliary to Memorial Hospital and other gatherings including Municipal Band and Northern Virginia Hairdressers Association events.
Mrs. Cooper is the former Miss Vivian Lake, marking a recent marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Gibson and Mrs. Frank Hartman visited Mr. and Mrs. E. W. O'Hara in Charlottesville last weekend, according to local social notes.
Mr and Mrs A C Long hosted their daughter Peggy Ann Long a Madison College senior and classmates Rita Ritchie Frances Lukin Barbara Jean Brown Nancy Cavendish and Marilyn Southard for the festival. Numerous relatives and friends visited the Moores of Portland Oregon during a three week stay near Mountain Falls. Jane Pettitt of Route 1 was admitted to Memorial Hospital yesterday.
Mr and Mrs Harold Anderson welcome a boy at 679 National Ave with Mrs Anderson formerly Anna Baker. Clyde Brumback of White Post. a boy. Brumback previously Douglas Carper. Luther Burke Route 1. a boy. Burke formerly Hattie Mills. George McFarland Gainesboro Route 2. a girl. McFarland formerly Audrey Dorsey. Stuart Cooper 711 N Loudoun St. a boy. Cooper formerly Vivian Lake. May 2 Edward Sowers Front Royal. a girl. Sowers formerly Dollie Crisman. Lyle Smith Arlington. a boy. Smith formerly Shirley Sirbaugh. Diehl Wilson 1413 Berryville Ave. a girl. Wilson formerly Frances DeHaven. William Mauck Front Royal. a girl. Mauck formerly Annie Chadwell. James Holder 434 W Leicester St.. a girl. Holder formerly Eva Fant. May 3 Vincent Finerty Strasburg. a girl. Finerty formerly Barbara Grubb. Lohn Dunlap 364 Miller St. a girl. Dunlap formerly Jean Hamman. Leon Page 114 Bellview. a boy. Page formerly Doris Werdebaugh. James Ott 337 N Loudoun St. a boy. Ott formerly Joan McKinney.
Eugene Milburn has come back to Norfolk after a five month cruise begun May 1. Apple Blossom Festival attendees from White Hall included several residents. Mr and Mrs B F Strother visited Martinsburg and Winchester relatives. Becky Strother joined Bennie Strother and family in Winchester. Mrs Kenneth Holliday remains ill at home. Carter Luttrell hosted dinner for Greenspring visitors Albert and family Welltown. Lottie Whitacre of Bunker Hill visits Luttrell relatives.
Helen Garner Edmonds a Mary Washington College junior and Glee Club president will be a soloist at the spring concert Sunday. She also sings with the Mary Washington College Dance Band for May Day events and will perform at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland next Thursday. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs S Garner Edmonds of W Cecil Street.
MEMPHIS Tenn. Birth days of the Overton T. Ryan children are linked to holidays: John born Christmas Eve, Alan on Washington's birthday, Marion on Lincoln's birthday, and James Patrick on St. Patrick's Day.
A self help charm guide prompts women to rate their beauty routines and lifestyle with ten questions. It urges long term glamour planning through grooming hair, posture, diet, relaxation, exercise, and fashion choices to improve impressions and advance careers. It asks readers to mail ten cents to receive further steps.
A column by Roberta Lee answers etiquette questions about hosting a visiting service member, handling damaged wedding gifts, and naming an adopted child. It advises sharing a spare room if possible, avoiding mentioning broken gifts in thanks, and approves using Junior as a given name.
Daily guide on word usage pronunciation and spelling. Covers common mistakes in phrases like we shall meet you later on in the evening and the proper pronunciation of plague. Includes synonyms for help and a note on acquiring vocabulary by mastering one word daily, today INITIATIVE.
Several hundred University of Southern California students rioted along fraternity row early today hurling wine bottles beer cans and firecrackers and starting a street bonfire. Photographer Frank Rutherford was treated for two rib fractures after being elbowed while photographing the scene. Sorority houses bolted doors as riot police investigated a rumored panty raid amid tensions following a chapter secession from the union event yesterday.
Norfolk businessman A. P. Co. has decided to market 9,000 acres of the Demal Swamp as potting soil. The land will be packaged in two quart bags for sale to plant enthusiasts.
Frederick County 4-H team James Wood Senior 4-H Club placed seventh in the Northern Virginia District Dairy Judging Contest at Orange with 807 points. Pat McTiernan was third high individual. teammates include Susan Bierer Susan Stine and Richard Goode. Ten teams competed. top teams were Culpeper Shenandoah Fauquier.
Dr. Hunter B. Blakely secretary of the Division of Higher Education of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church US will speak at 11 a m Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church. He previously served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Staunton and as president of Queen s College in Charlotte New Jersey.
The Armel School PTA thanks Sherwin Williams for the window space and lists numerous volunteers who assisted with the Pie and Cake Sale. Also describes The Fashion Group, Inc. as a non profit organization aiding women in fashion with activities and lectures, based in New York City.
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