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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1957
Page
6
Miss Betha Athey Shirkey daughter of Mr and Mrs Mel Shirkey of Miller Street left Saturday with a group of 114 persons from Langley Air Force Base for a three week tour of Europe. Several local families hosted weekend visitors and students.
Winchester Chapter 1367 Women of the Moose will hold a special ritual practice tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Moose Home.
Mrs. Clayton Cochran chairs the sale to be sponsored by Conrad Hoover Unit No. 21 American Legion Auxiliary Priday and Saturday at 10 a.m. daily The event is in the Glaize building on N Cameron Street with Mrs. Harry McCann and Mrs. Cochran soliciting donations and arranging pickups.
The Colonial Garden gathers tomorrow at 2 30 p m at 1431 Cheystone Terrace with hostess Mrs Filis C Ford. The special exhibit titled Bon Voyage will be featured.
A detailed list of events and meetings from September 17 to September 19 at War Memorial Building and various venues. Highlights include Umpires meeting, Little Theatre, boards of Exchange Club and Moose, AA at Baptist Church, Disabled American Veterans, Duplicate Bridge, Rotary Club, DAR, Shawnee Bowmen, and Knights of Columbus activities. Flower arrangement talk by O J Sager with awards for blue, red, and yellow ribbons among groups led by Mrs French Lee, Mrs T W Massie, and Mrs T R Cather.
St Catherine's Guild of Christ Episcopal Church will hold a supper meeting Friday at 5 30 pm in the Fairfax Room.
Members of Carbaugh-Walford Post 9646 VFW and Auxiliary hosted veterans at Newton D Baker Hospital on Sunday with games and cigarette distribution in Wards 106A and 106B. Florence Nightingale Class of First Evangelical United Brethren Church plans its monthly meeting Friday at 8 pm at 556 N Braddock St hosted by Mrs Betty McKee and Mrs Fay Weid. Old Fredericktown Gardens Club met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Virgil Strader Sr.
The Middletown Parent-Teachers Association will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m in the school. Mrs Charles Seaman the newly elected president will preside. A social hour for teachers and parents follows the meeting.
Susannah Godlove leaves for Mary Washington College to begin her senior year. Clarence Oates goes to Elon College as a freshman. John Pinckney Arthur Jr starts at VPI. Shirley Horner departs for Shepherd College sophomore year. Margaret Crisman heads to Mary Washington for junior year. Marshall Crisman enters the University of Richmond freshman class. Mary Anderson leaves for Potomac State College in Keyser. Clyde M. Thompson returns to Richmond Professional Institute for senior year. Susan Kuykendall and Sloan Kuykendall head to St Anne's School Charlottesv ille. Stephen Brown leaves for Yale for junior year. Mary Susan Brown joins St Margaret's School. Frederick N Donica Jr reaches VPI as sophomore. Anne Barnhart Barnhart leaves for Mary Washington sophomore year. The Germelman son begins TC Williams Law School. Diana Bauserman returns to Richmond Professional Institute.
Junior Carroll Newbraugh son of Mr and Mrs Lynwood Newbraugh of North Frederick Terrace left Sunday for his sophomore year at the University of Virginia balancing family pride with academic plans at the Charlottesville campus.
Memorial Hospital recorded 126 births in August 1957, with 78 boys and 48 girls. July had 154 births, while last year August reached 162 births. The ten year August average is 124 births, higher than May at 109.4. No twins were born in August 1957.
Out of town guests for the wedding of Virginia Hensley Cline and Charles A. Dick included Don Owens Vernon Taylor Joe Sissler from Station WTTG Washington and Dale Turner of WMAL TV. Also present were Robert Astor and Al Valente of the Gale Agency New York Bureau along with guests from Chantilly Vienna Hancock Md Washington D.C. Martinsburg W Va Berryville and Alexandria.
Mrs Herbert Schutte and Mrs John D. Glover won the monthly masterpoint event of the Monday Contract Bridge Club at the George Washington Hotel. Runners up were Mrs Harold Brown and Mrs W A Carskaden. Third were Mrs Robert Osth and Joshua Holmes. Fourth were Mr and Mrs Paul Bennett Martinsburg. Fifth were Mr and Mrs B H Reaves. Next meeting is September 23 at 8 30 p m open to all interested players.
Representatives from two Winchester Frederick County Community Chest agencies will address the Winchester Kiwanis Club at the George Washington Hotel tomorrow noon. Mrs Farm er and Skippy Mason of Winchester Day Nursery and Donald Jones of the Boy Scouts are scheduled to speak.
At the September Turner Ashby Chapter meeting five delegates and five alternates to the Virginia Division United Daughters of the Confederacy fall convention in Fredericksburg October 1 3 were announced led by Mrs R Bruce Slonaker president with Mrs E C Helmuller Miss Ethyl Lee Martin Miss Lucy F Kurtz and Mrs Emmett Henry as delegates Alternates are Mrs O Ullman Mrs Elizabeth Tanquary Mrs Hunter Gaunt Miss Edith Taylor and Mrs C Bruce Harlee The chapter also noted new members deaths and a pergola restoration funded by donors.
Roberta Lee asks if a caller should identify themselves or be asked to leave a number when the called party is away. She also asks which piece of silver is set at the start of a meal, the dessert spoon or fork.
A reading section presents guidance on etiquette and language use with examples. It covers correct pronoun usage, common misspellings, pronunciation tips for sapi ence, and a daily vocabulary aim through observing study and experience.
The Garden Clubs of Winchester plan the "Over the Garden Wall" fall flower show at the War Memorial Building on October 2 from 3 to 9 p.m. with 12 artistic class entries and a six-class horticultural division plus an educational conservation exhibit by local clubs.
The Q and A discuss which postal rates can be changed without Congress consent, noting parcel post and special delivery as examples. They state Congress must authorize rate changes for first, second, and third class mail. The heraldry answer lists five recognized colors azure blue gules red sable black vert green and purpure purple. It adds that in Europe orange tenne is also accepted and that yellow and white are metals gold and silver rather than colors.
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