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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1943
Page
6
The Ewing Studio of Dance Art stages its annual Fantasie tonight at eight o clock. Dress rehearsal was held Thursday afternoon and the public will witness a spectacular and delightful presentation of real art in dancing.
Miss Anita Mae Brumback announces engagement to Charles Graves Rothgeb of near Luray. Brumback, a Madison College graduate and Shenandoah High School faculty member, will marry Rothgeb, Virginia Tech engineering graduate.
Fifteen women met in the Blue Room of the George Washington Hotel with Lieut Jameson B. Dowdy Sgt Gene Lacko and Auxiliary Eleanor Nolley to form a Citizens Liaison Committee between WAAC recruiting personnel and Winchester and Frederick County residents. Mrs B B Dutton was chair with Miss Salome Crisman secretary. other members included Ethel Jolliffe L M Alien George Snart W Alan Peery Douglas Hardesty T Russell Cather Dorothy McCann Rice Norman Ochs and Misses Sue Sch Tack Mary Glenn Lupton and Marguerite Baker. They planned how to cooperate with local recruiting officers.
Mr and Mrs Cecil L Whitlock entertained last Saturday May 15 at their National avenue home in honor of their daughter Winifred s sixteenth birthday A pink blue and white color scheme and a large blue candle centered birthday cake decorated with pink snapdragons were on the dining room table Attending were Misses Grants Nelson Audrey Stultz Iris Pugh Jo Anne Laughlin Corronne Early Doris Jean Early Virginia Lee Grant Alita Fay Hammer Dorothy Davis Hilda Nelson Anna Mae Grubbs Glanda Allen Agnes Grubbs Geraldine Hockensmith Fay Nelson Isabelle Sheetz Messrs Roland Nelson Lohring Wright Jr Jack Barnhart Robert Jenkins Frankie Snapp Mrs Julian Bayliss Mrs Edgar Nelson and Mr and Mrs C L Whitlock Others noted include Mrs Paul Fries improving after an operation at Winchester Memorial Hospital and Mrs Nelson Grim a hospital patient in Winchester Memorial Hospital Christ Episcopal Church urged attendance Sunday at 945 am with a 10 o clock Bible Motion Picture presentation at the church house J Howard Cather Jr of the UVa is visiting his mother on Washington Street Rev L C Messick of Martins spent Thursday in Winchester Mrs Frank Butsler has returned home after visiting relatives in Edgewood Park Grant Royal
Berryville residents note hospitality as Mrs. Samuel Chew Williams hosts her daughter Mrs. Ernest H. Williams from Pullman Washington State. Other guests include Mrs. William Bell Watkins Jr and Dianna Watkins at Centerville Maryland. Air Cadet William Levi arrives from Nashville Tennessee to visit family and see his father recently released from Winchester Memorial Hospital after treatment.
Elementary piano pupils of Miss Kathleen McCartney performed a colorful recital themed Music Of The Allies. Students appeared in country costumes with a program listing names including Gary Whitfield Diane Hunt Carroll Lee Bridgeforth Patsy Barton Edwin Bridgeforth Cary Marshall Barbarra Wheeler Bonnie Seal Helen Johnston Evelyn Allen Susan Sowers Jane Sowers Barbara Brooks Susan Nixdorff Bootsie Minnegerode Kitty Stephenson Betty Lou McFarland Morrison Nancy May Hurst Peggy Merriner and Jane Miller.
Mrs. Thomas E. Gold and Mrs. Harry Warden return from Baltimore with Rebekah Gold in tow. Seaman Gilbert Oden heads to Jacksonville after transfer. Edward H. Shackleford arrives from Camp Lee for his father’s death. Various relatives plan visits and a Berryville High School alumni reception is announced for June 11.
Report by Elizabeth Sprouse Home Demonstration Agent outlines weekly meetings for 4-H and home demonstration clubs. List includes Red Bud 4-H May 24 at Red Bud Church, Stonewall May 26 at Mrs Riley, Evandale May 27 at Mrs Hollar, Friendly Grove May 27 at Mrs Hudver, Frederick May 28 at Mrs Hamilton.
The piece describes limited production of 150 000 canners with war model features and purchase by county committees, notes scarce pressure cookers, and urges victory garden planting with price examples. Guidance on wallpaper limits, towel production streamlining, and home storage tips follow, including beets and apples storage advice.
All day baptizing and worship services planned at Zion Baptist Church Boyce Virginia on Sunday May 23. Schedule lists 9 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. baptizing 11 a.m. Holy Communion with sermons at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. by ministers Baltimore and Patterson both from Happy Creek. Refreshments to follow. Committee includes Sisters R L Morgan Annie Fells Isabella Carey and Lucy Byrd.
Timely luncheon menu features spaghetti pies spring salad muffins and ice tea with recipes for six servings. Spaghetti pies blend ground beef tomatoes onions and cheese baked in muffin pans then inverted. Spring salad combines pepper carrot cabbage apple and a light dressing with a carrot curl garnish. Orange ice made from sugar water orange rind juice and lemon juice is frozen and beaten for fluff. Recipe notes credit the Nutrition Committee.
Christ Church hosts the film The Book for the World of Tomorrow from the American Bible Society. It screens May 23 at ten o'clock and May 25 at the Presbyterian Church with a short worship service. It highlights the Bible’s role in history and today and uses material from Warner Brothers and MGM.
Boyce Virginia seniors at Boyce High School host a fun frolic this evening at 8 in the high school building featuring bridge bingo fortune telling dancing a musical show and side shows refreshments served public invited.
Cpl. Ralph S. Brown, son of Ralph S. Brown of 314 North Braddock Street, has arrived at a destination in Africa and reports he is getting along fine. He enlisted about four years ago. Friends may obtain his address by calling 6165.
Pvt Charles W Gruber Jr son of Mr and Mrs Charles W Gruber Martinsburg pike stationed at Fort Belvoir with engineer replacements attends a mechanics school Takoma Washington Father served at Fort Belvoir in World War I. Albert A Railton S 2 C returned to Bainbridge Md after 9 day furlough with wife at 315 National Ave. Briscoe Ginn promoted to Technical Corporal. Hq Btry 138th F A Bn APO 38 Camp Livingston La. Pfc Allen K Legge transferred from Fort Custer to Fort Devens ASN 33538150 466th Q M Regt. Sgt W Cecil ORear son of W T ORear returned to Yuma Ariz after furlough, transferred from Shreveport La.
Mrs Albert McCormick of 20 South Kent street said she will be assisted by Rev E T Clark of the First Baptist Church in forming a War Mothers Club. Interested persons are asked to contact Mrs McCormick promptly.
More than 200 volunteers aided by a plane continued the search for four year old Doris Virginia Dean missing since Monday afternoon near Island Ford in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Deputy Bodkin said the chances of finding her alive fade with time and only a hair clamp found by a searcher near her home is a trace. Planes have scoured tree tops while ground crews cover about eight square miles since the disappearance.
In Gorton Connecticut on May 21 sailors disrupted a CIO organizer event at the Electric Boat Company yard. They toppled a public address system microphone over a fence tore down union signs stomped on union buttons and smashed a table. Officer H T Perry reported the incident and that sailors accused Maurice Miller of making a slur during remarks.
Fragmentary report notes police were called four times to a scene near the Thames River Bridge in Groton. Officers escorted Miller to the Groton end and to his car heading toward New York. additional details about a ship or organizers are unreadable.
The mother of Miss Bessie Corkey a supervisor of Elementary Grades and assistant principal of Handley High School has died and was called to the home of her parents in New Jersey details of illness and death unavailable today
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