Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1942 — Page 15
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. North side, were in charge of .the ceremonial, ‘Participants were the
Grace Lightle,
. June MacNabb, Patty Watts, Carol
Tips on
Avoiding Fire Hazards
During the Christmas Holidays
- SANTA CLAUS HAS MADE a few preiimineiy trips -this year to;
UNBAN the Christmas trees Git cabs Wb sr air foun oT Duck
‘Already, in many homes, pine branches are bending under the weight of ornaments and lights, But those lights may herald more than the
merriment of Christmas.
Every year thousands of Christmas trees go up in flames, Every year
hundreds of more fires are started by tree lights, discarded wrapping
papers and flammable decorations. The National Fire Protection association lists three simple rules for preventing hres at Christmas time. The first is to use care-in handling the tree and other Christmas trimmings, :
The second is to have the chimney cleaned now. With the yule
. log burning overtime during the
holidays, faulty chimneys can give off deadly sparks, The third is to check the home for common, year‘round hazards, such as combustible roofs, defective heating or wiring equipment and accumulations of rubbish. Special precautions for the tree are outlined by the N. F. P. A. A fresh-cut tree is no more of a fire hazard than the shrubs growing in the yard, but once it has been brought into the house it starts to dry out.
Keeping the Tree— IT IS BEST to buy a fresh tree
sible and remove it Soon afterward. If you want to keep the tree up longer, cut off the base at an angle at least one inch above the original cut; then put the tree in a pan of water. More water should be added
always above the cut. Candles on the tree—or elsewhere in the home for decoration—are obvious hazards. Colored electric lights are safer for the tree itself. If the lights have been in use for several years, however, the cords should be checked for worn spots that might cause short circuits. In buying new tree lights—or any
.| electrical toys or appliances for gifts
—look for the underwriters’ laboratories’ approved label which indicates fire safety. Discarded wrapping papers make bonfires, like dried autumn leaves, if sparks light in them, so don’t hoard them. Put them right into waste baskets as you uwrap the gifts. Then take them out and dump them into the incinerator or
as shortly before Christmas as pos-
into a covered metal container until they can be discarded.
Camp Fire Girl Ceremonial Held At Tabernacle Presbyterian;
National Award
Is Presented
A special national Camp Fire Girl honor was awarded to Miss Betty
Jean Barker, Horizon club member,
at the North Side Christmas cere-
monial held at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church yesterday. The honor, first of its kind to be awarded in the city, was given for material which Miss Barker submitted to the national Camp Fire Girls honor committee in New York. The award, a map of the Torch Bearer
trail, was given to her for work in the field of music. Mrs. Richard Clark and Miss Kathleen Klaiber, Camp Fire guardians of groups which meet on the
Tawasiya group; Gretchen Hauser, Judy Best, Patty Lawvere, Jame Sinex, Donette Warnock, Miss Ruthann Perry, Ruth Beach, Jacqueline Kingsolver, and Barbara Kay Lemons,
Service Honors
Following roll call by Miss Patricla McGuire, Mrs. Clark presented the following honors: Community Service—Patty Saunders, Mary Bertrand, Delores Howard, Joycelyn Kibby, Beverely Holmes, JoAnne Hensley, Wilma Hazelwood, Betty Hobensack, Bernice Stratton, Katie Wilson, Jo Ellen Tweddell, Betty Bertrand, Palmer Alling, Cynthia Baker, Barbara Sue Beldon, Anne Driftmeyer, Joan Herrin, Martha Moore, Jerry Nard, Suzanne Off, Eleanor Pedlow, Suzanne Sharp,
Olson and Martha Ann Adams.
Also, Alice Grindstead, Mary Jo McCallister, Judy Best, Marilyn Wilgus, Jane Sinex, JoAnne Ripley, Ruth Beach, Marilyn Griffith, Phyllis Hobbs, Bernice Horth, Barbara Heinlein, Ellen Fuller, Mary A. Fish, Betty Roessler, Beth Ann Burns, Lois Chapman, Carolyn Malott, Mary Lynn Brubaker, Erma Botkin, Donna Mae Ader, Julia Foreman, Myra Long, Patty Hart, Jane Carmin, Betty L. Stewart, Nancy Clinger, Beverly Wilson, Eleanor Reed, Lois Vanderkoogh, Margaret Spain, Sarah KXKarabell, Emma Lou Reynolds, Gloria Neffinzger, Barbara Bennet, Ruth Reed, Cora Jane Lowe, Mary Ellen Halgren, Jean Fuller and Nancy Jones. Receive Awards
Needlework guild awards were given to Barbara McAninch, Joyce Lovell, Beatrice Grimes, Devonna James, Patty Cauldwell, Joan Waltman, Marianne Waltmsn, Margaret Pierce, Celestine Lou£iwood, Marlene Springer, Lydia Rinehart, Colleen Sinclair, Phyllis Collines, Joan Plass, Mrs. Mary Rinehart, Betsy Cunningham, Betty LeTourneau, Susan Bassett, Jackie Sieloff, Georgianne Davis, Gloria Harvey, Mrs. Bonnie Harvey, Jeannette Albertson, Martha Finehout, Patty Hollenback and Pamela Nolen. Others receiving needlework awards were Helen Gaddy, Carol Lou Schiesz, JoAnn Weinmann, Roseanne Yaver, Phyllis Yorger, Wilma Jean Vehling, Betty Jean Barker, Louise
Streight Jeanne Thompson, Nancy Pritchard, Patsy Scanlon, Virginia King, Marion Merritt, Jeannette Harcourt, Florence Waterman, Marilyn Mitchell, JoAnne Ripley, Jean Fuller, Mary Ellen Halgren, Marcia Matthews, Nancy Jones, Nancy Dearmin, Barbara Jungclaus, Harriet Fisher, Carol A. Lannerd, Ann Hood, Jean Smith, Alison Meade, Carol Segar, Janet Silberman, Monalee Tubker ‘and Marilyn Maupin. Mrs. Clark presented war service honors to Palmer Alling, Cynthia Baker, Eleanor Pedlow, Suzanne Sharp, Judy Best, Jane Sinex, Lois Vanderkoogh, Joanne Ripley, Margaret Spain, Sara Karabell, Ruth Beach, Phyllis Silberman, Mary Quandt, Dorothy Holmes and Donette Warnock.
Ranks Presented
Miss Marcella West gave “service for victory” insignia to JoAnne Weinmann, "Carol Lou Schiesz, Bernice Horth, Carolyn Malott, Patty Hart, Jane Carmin, Eleanor Reed and Cora Jane Lowe. A sewing honor was awarded to Julia Batton. Mesdames Jesse Barker, George Bertrand and Bonnie Harvey received the. guardian's needlework guild honor presented to guardians who have 100 per cent of their groups contributing garments to the Needlework guild. Ten hour service honors were given to Betty Jean Barker, Marilyn Snyder, Virginia Gardner and Mary Ellen Halgren. Lillian Barker, Mary Jane Maxwell, Harriet Fisher, Mary Ellen Halgren and Nancy Jones received 3-year membership honors. Betty Jean Barker received the five-year membership honor, Miss West also presented Camp Fire ranks. Trail Seeker rank was awarded to Suzanne Marquis, Jeannette Harcourt, Ellen Fuller, Cora Jane Lowe and Murray Hake. Wood Gatherer rank was received by Carol Ann Lannerd, Joan Herrin, Virginia Gardner, Louise Hanna, Carol Segar, Joycelyn Kibby, Betty Bertrand, Grace Lightle, Mary Bertrand, Patty Saunders, Patricia Lawvere, Susan Bassett and Sharon Pfister.. Carolyn, Malott, Marcia Matthews and Barbara, Jungclaus received the Fire Maker's rank.
To Have Luncheon
The Chalcedony club will have a 12:30 p. m. luncheon tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Harold Cury, 4039 Central ave. A feature of the Christmas party will be an exchange of gifts. Mrs. Frank Ware-
Finehout, Carolyn Favre, Jane
ren is to be the assistant hostess.
} Ayres’ Will Be Open
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Mondays only.......
Tonight Until 4H
% Store Open Today at 12:15 (Noon)
DAILY STORE HOURS
.9:45 to 5:45
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from time to time to keep the level|
DEAR JANE JORDAN—Perhaps I am making a mistake by asking you a question like this but I am anxious to know. You give advice gra and all I want is an answer to a “difference of opinion” question. I want to know if a boy and a girl are legally engaged if a girl out of school is wearing a college boy’s fraternity pin. - If not legally, then is it taken for granted? I would appreciate’ your opinion on this
matter. HOPING.
Answer—Of course ‘there is no such thing as a “legal” engagement. The law. has nothing to do with engagements until they become es. “Taken for granted” is a much better phrase. The customs regarding fraternity pins are not the same in all sections of the country or in all fraternities. The significance of the pin differs almost as widely as the individuals
peach, blue or rose, 69c.
ers, black and white, 69¢c.
PADDED STOCKING CASE. Rayon taffeta in
case, equipped with thread in six stocking col
who wear them. In one southern state IT know the pin has no signifi-
do not put them on they are engaged to her. “pin” the girl as a token that “going steady” but not i that they expect to be ‘mar ried. If a boy puts his fraternity pin on a girl without a proposal of marriage she has no reason to take an engagement for granted. In
other words, the significance of the| §
pin depends entirely * on’ the expressed intentions of dhe boy who
gave it to the girl, JANE JORDAN
Christmas Party
The Hoosier Bridge club will have
Mrs. Marion Hobbs Ir; was Miss Ernestine before her marriage Oct. 2. She is the daughter
‘of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Reading
and the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hobbs,
y [In New York
its annual Christmas party at a luncheon Friday at 12:30 p. m. in Catherine’s restaurant. There will be a gift exchange.’ Mrs.. P. R. Lawson will be in charge, assisted by Mrs. G. H. Rossebo.
Sorority Meeting Alpha chapter of Omega Nu Tau sorority will meet at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Hotel Lincoln,
MAKE THE
Matching taffeta
boxes, 6%¢.
C-THRU HAT BOX with pastel flower-printed lid; reinforced edge. Neat and pretty for her
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car was only half crowded and the dining car but comfortably filled— mostly with schoolgirls ‘returning from week-ends at home. At the Union station in Washington I was prepared to share a taxi, if I could corner one, with a horde of impatient riders. A whole fleet of taxis flanked the side entrance ‘of the station. As I hopped in one I told the starter I would wait until he found others going my way, the Chinese embassy on Woodley rd. He said, “You don’t have to ma’am, there are plenty of cabs.” Invited to lunch at the embassy. I stopped en route at a drug store to phone Mme, Wei, the wife of the Chinese ambassador, that I'd arrived. With the speed of anyone who es in New York I ran into the
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by, Helen Worden
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—This town has lost none of its easygoing Southern charm. It may be the administrative center of a world war but to a visiting New Yorker the pace is delightfully relaxing. I dashed down to the Pennsylvania station this morning in New Yor expecting to find the Washington train jammed with excited soldiers, sailors, senators and congressmen. To my surprise the.parlor
drug store. “You all sure is in a hurry,” drawled a young girl, stepping aside as I raced past. ® n 2 A WOMAN" ahead of me at the phone booth was intently studying a paper. “Some special government business,” I thought. As she went into the booth I caught a glimpse of the heading on her paper. It was the Armstrong racing chart. She spent 10 minutes placing her bets. - When I tfientioned all these aspects of leisurely living, the guests at the luncheon table protested. Warren Pierson, president of the export-import bank, said I just happened to arrive when everybody was working. He has recently returned from
NICEST GIFTS!
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PADDED CASE OF RAYON TAFFETA —To hang beside her bed or dressing table, pretty
and neat for soiled hankies or tissues.
blue, peach, 1.00.
Pink,
closet shelf—saves opening all the wrong
that
TO KEEP HIS TIE NEAT—Handy 'itfle gadget any man would “appreciate—electric tie
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE—Compartment
tray of rayon moire and fabricoid to divide her
dresser drawer into neat little sections, 1.00.
tries for influence below the Panas ma Canal.
» ” » THE PIERSONS, who have Nved in China, ate with relish the varied and delicious Chinese dishes set be= fore us; clear soup with beautifully
cut vegetables in the form of flows
ers, floating on the surface; hors d’oeuvres—including the surprisinge ly delicious hundred-year-old eggs— sweet-sour duck, Cantonese rice’ spiked with pork, baked fish, a thine ly thickened fruit compote, luscious = scarlet persimmons, lichee nuts and candied ginger. Fragrant tea in tiny eggshell-like China cups was served afterward in the teakwood and silk panelled drawing room. Mme. Wel, wearing a vivid emer« ald green velvet jacket over her black Chinese gown, lent color and charm to the scene. There was also a dignified Chinese general whom I longed to hear talk. I had been told that he planned our Japanese strategy. But all he said during the entire party was, “Please pass the ginger.”
A PAIR OF WASHABLE WHISK BROOMS— Tidy thought for man or woman — two size brooms with a dozen handy uses; made from Florida palm fiber, 69¢.
and peach, 1.00.
SET OF SIX HANGERS covered in quilted rayon satin—innocent little luxury for the most
fastidious lady you know. . Green, blue, wine
HOW'S THE HEAT SITUATION? Miniature - house front with an accurate little thermom