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Mildred Ahlgren Urged as GFWC Head
By AGNES H. OSTROM “WE PROUDLY pre-
serit Mildred Ahlgren as
‘Gardens, Guests and General Gaiety
_president.
a candidate for president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.” The Shamrock Hotel's convention hall in Houston will ring with cheers when Mrs. Claude S. Steele, Knox, Indiana Federation of Clubs president, makes that nomination just before noon Friday at the GFWC annual meeting. And hundreds more--fed-erated Hoosier clubwomen— will be cheering here at home in Indiana. For Mildred Ahigren of Whiting is Indiana's own representative clubwom an. As an unsuspecting local club delegate more than 20 years ago, she nodded her dark hair in approval of a candidate’'s qualifications at a county convention. That was before she realized her name was being put-up as Lake County president. The beginning of her. intensive club work was that accidental. Friday's nomination is not. ~ 2 » INDIANA early recognized
her ‘prodigious appetite for hard work.” To a woman they tell you, ‘she’s done
even better in every job than we thought she would.” They have supported her rise up the state and national ladder rung by rung. They have known their trust was safe. So it is with great pride they are nominating her to head 11 million GFWC members in the United Stategland 36 foreign countries. he election will be next spring at the Minneapolis convention. Only once before has Indiana nominated a GFWC ,8he was Mrs. Edward Franklin White, formerly of Indianapolis, now of
Times photo by Lloyd Walton. "WE PROUDLY PRESENT"—Indiana's popular representative clubwoman, Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren, Whiting, GFWC presidential candidate.
Long Beach, Cal. However, she~ was defeated June 6, 1928, at another Texas con-vention—-in San Antonio. But, Hoosiers do claim the very first GFWC first vice president, Mrs. May Wright
In the GFWC she had been
a resolutions committee member, dean of directors and recording secretary, second and now first vice president. Always interested in citizenship and community affairs,
Sewall. she considers a highlight of 5 22 her IFC president's term the IN THE STATE Mildred political science forums she Ahigren has served as Indi- set up with a view of interestana Clubwoman business ing women in government manager, treasurer, first vice and becoming candidates. for president, president and
GFWC director. Continued to Page 42, Col. 8
3 Big Gs’ in Merry Month of May
By KATY ATKINS HERE WE ARE RIGHT in the middle of that Merry Month of May when everything Gardens, guests and general gajety are the Big Gs. Gardens this week-end, of course, lots of them on the Park School Garden Tour.
seems to happen at once.
you reach the campus for tea in the gymnasium today, unless you were there yesterday, you will find a roadside flower market. The plants are arranged in tiers with a natural background of shrubbery. Hundreds of geraniums in eight varieties, including those for hanging baskets, make a colorful display. In addition there are flats of many different perennials and annuals. A garden um-
brella and table add to the-charm of the booth. Everything has been donated, an indication of the co-operation given by business firms and individuals to the Park School Mothers’ Association - which -sponsors the tour to raise money for the scholarship fund.
horseshoe wreath of red roses around his neck. Betty Ruckelshaus and Adeline Norris were at the Cadicks, their husbands having gone to the race. Virginia Williams was looking very pretty in a beige and white print. in spite of a heavily bandaged elbow. Marie Wemmer, the Harold Buells, Marnie and John Ruckelshaus, Sally and Tom Kackley, the Fisk Landers and Betty and John Cooper were among the guests. It is nice to have the Coopers back in Indianapolis after a long period away because of John’s war service and residence in Germany. Their daughters, Elizabeth and Barbara, had wonderful experiences during their three and a half years abroad. They spent five months in Lisbon and eight in Teheran visiting. The family is settled for the summer in the George Mueller house in Zionsville while their new house is being built,
= 2 u MANY PEOPLE DROVE back from Louisville Saturday night and went to.the University Club for the special lobster dinner, among them the Otto Frenzels, August Bohlens and Bill Griffiths. Mrs. Griffith went east Sunday to see two of her sons in New York and Prince-
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This market was the brain-child of Mrs. ton.
John Mead, chairman of the project, and has been executed by Mrs. Paul van B. Allen. A staff of teen-age girls is in charge ket. One never thinks of the garden tour without connecting Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes and Mrs. James Carroll who originated it years
ago.
Mrs. Carroll has been receiving congratulations this week on her newest grandchild, He is the son of Marilyn and Alex and is named for his uncle.
Allen Talbot Carroll.
1 WASN'T AT THE DERBY but I got lots of the flavor of it at the Jerry Cadicks’ radiolast Saturday. were greeted at the door with true Louisville hospitality and were confronted with Derby Day pennants decorating the house. guest got a magnificent paper jockey cap with . with the name of his
television party
a gold foil bill . favorite horse on it.
Red candles on the buffet supper table surrounded a wooden horse with a miniature
Our Readers Write—
‘Southern Fried Chicken Doesn't Hold Candle To Hoosier Variety, Traveler Boasts
SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN receives a different kind of “panning” this week in one Our Readers
Write Letter.
Mrs. Ed Morris writes that she and her husband have just returned from an extended trip south where they ate “This is supposed to be the most popular fried chicken in the nation—all smothered in batter and not once would I trade it for one of o our own fries prepared “tHe Hoosier way,” shé writes. “The chickens were skinny—one and one-half to two pounds" —and never orice tender clear to the bone,” she continues. “We're disappointed in southern fried chicken if that means tt has to be crisp for the first quarter inch and not tender for Southerners don't know what good eating is. I'm enclosing our favorite recipe for REAL fried chicken.”
fried chicken” In six states.
the next bite.
HOOSIER FRIED CHICKEN First select a nice young chicken about three to three and one-half pounds dressed weight, Cut into pieces making two wings, two drumsticks, two thighs, two breast pieces, two back
I saw her at the luncheon Mrs. Joseph J Daniels gave for Mrs. Thurman Arnold and Mrs. Paul Porter and her daughter, Betsy Three enormous bouquets of sweetpeas on the table were br:ath-taking with their varied pale colors. It was good to see Mrs. Fred Van Nuys that day as she is here all too rarely. She was wearing a smart steel gray taffeta dress with a veiled white straw hat.
on n ” THE ROAD TO BLOOMINGTON was much traveled the early part of the week by operagoers. Among those in the audience for “Fledermaus” Monday night were Mrs. George Home, Mrs, Robert Tyndall, Joan Hollett, Laura Gaus, Mrs. William C. Bobbs, Dr. and Mrs. F. R. Hensel, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Curle, Mrs. John Eaglesfield, Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, Mrs. George Parry, Mrs. Mitchell Crist, Mrs. Anna Marie Sayles, Mr. and Mrs. George Kuhn, Flo Binford and her father, Herman Wolff. Sally Hope, looking lovely in a mink cape, was there with Henry.
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‘SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1951
Local Mothers ‘Adopt’ Servicemen Here
Volunteers Staff Service Center By JEAN TABBERT EY ERY DAY is Mother's Day at the Indianapolis Servicemen's Center. The observance has a proxy slant, however, differing from the celebrations taking
place all over the country today. Instead of- Parties honor: ing them, it's the mamas who do the entertaining. Most have service badges to prove the point. Almost all have children of their own they've mothered to successful jobs or worried through military careers. Many of their offspring are in the services; others remain at home under the parental roof. Some, like Mrs. Claude Castleman, are Gold Star Mothers. She's one of the center's most faithful Sister Suzies, that contingent of volunteers who sew on stripes and shoulder patches and mend rips and tears in servicemen's clothing.
Hearty Eaters
RES PONSIBLE for over 2900 of the stripes and patches herself, Mrs.
Castleman works both at the Sister Suzie headquarters in the ‘local canteen and at Camp Atterbury. She's the mother of one son killed during World War II and another in Chicago, a reserve in the troop carrier command. Mrs. Anna Bunge, whose son was a doctor in World War II, is co-chairman of the Pantry Shelf, the center's canteen. It's not unusual for her and her staff to serve 5000 cups of coffee a week, dispense 150 cakes and pies on a single Saturday night. Mothers (Mrs. Paul Topmiller and Mrs. John Shanahan are two excellent facsimiles) also make and serve the pies, cakes and cookies church - women regularly bring to the center. Mrs. Topmiller had a son in World War II, just inducted. Mrs. Shanahan had two service flags in her window the last time; there's a third now.
Desk Is Popular
HE HOUSING information desk continues
to be one of the most pop-
ular spots in the center. Like many of its personnel, Mrs.
another -as well
EVEREADY SEWING BASKET—Sgt. Ralph E. Beatty, Hackettstown, N. J., Ft. Benjamin Harrison TAG School, consults vet: eran Sister Suzie Mrs. Claude Castleman, 540 Udell St., about a rip in his shirt. ;
Howard Christena, 6235 N. Tacoma Ave. has a son who is a U. 8. air Force attache in Saigon, Indo-China, also is a Gold Star mother. The desk sifts leads from the papers, receives calls from individuals, lists Ft. Benjamin Harrison placements. As a result, servicemen new to town look to it for asistance in housing themselves and their families. Two weeks before Mother's Day every year, the Indiana units of the American War Mothers set up gift shops all over the state. The local cha pters-have done it here at Billings and Cold Spring Road Hospitals “as—at—8Sunnystde— From a selection of gifts donated by the group’s members, the patients visit the shop. may choose two gifts apiece,
For the Critical
EDRIDDEN or critical cases pick their pres-
ents from carts the mothers wheel through the wards.
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The project is the only one of its kind in the country. Proceeds to support it come from a yearly carnation sale. Mrs. Ralph Fisher, 6969 S. Meridian 8t., chairman of the gift shop, is the mother of two girls. One in World War II was a SPAR. Both are married now, and Mrs. Fisher is twice a grandma. x Mrs. Thomas Prather, state corresponding secretary, also has two grandchildren, the children of a son in the Air Corps in World War II. An unmarried daughter lives at home. Also an active - worker is
Mrs WF. McMillen, treas-
urer of the U.S.A. Chapter. Christmas Day, 1944, she learned one son was killed. Another served in the World War II Navy. A daughter is married, and Mrs. McMillen has six grandchildren. Though she’d probably rather Baby-sit, she's typical of her companions. They choose to spend the time with their “adopted” children . . . the servicemen of the U.S.A.
PANTRY SHELF SNACKTIME—AIlways open to hungry servicemen is the canteen of the Servicemen's Center. Here Mrs. Anna Bunge, 37 W. St. Clair St., co-chairman of the Pantry
Shelf, serves Pvt. John Contos (left) Greensboro, N. C., Company 1,
1 10th Infantry, 28th Di-
vision, Camp Atterbury, and Pfe. Herbert E. Nunnally, «34th Troop Carrier Wing, Atterbury
Air Force Base.
minutes before chicken is done to dry the surface and recrisp
each cup of whipping cream. This keeps it firm for a longer
period while topping a dessert. Soften gelatin in cold water.
Dissolve thoroughly over
hot water; chill cream. Add gelatin to cream and whip until stiff, adding sugar and flavoring as desired.
THANKS to Mrs. Max E. Engle, Speedway, for her Strawberry Parfait Pie recipe essentially the same as the one sub-
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DEAR ORW: Could someone pleate Yer me to get some
pieces in my crystal and silverware, as they have been discontinued in my patterns. The crystal pattern is “Spear” in “Rock Sharpe” and the silver is “Community Plate” in “Grosvenor.” I need four salad forks and
fates bostaessvcai
pieces, neck and giblets. Soak chicken over night in mild salt water to remove animal heat, When ready to fry, drain and roll pieces in seasoned flour; about one-half cup flour, one and one-half teaspoons salt, one-half teaspoon pepper and one-half teaspoon poultry seasoning. Use one tablespoon bacon fryings and vegetable shortening tn heavy skillet for frying. Bacon fryings give good seasoning. Heat a quarter inch layer of fat piping hot and turn heat slightly lower. Cook pieces of chicken to a golden brown, turning often to brown evenly and prevent sticking. Add two or three tablespoons of water when all pieces are brown, and cover tightly. Cook slowly about 40 minutes or until thickest pieces are fork tender. Remove lid the last five to 10
the coating. Serve immediately and use remaining flour from dredging to make gravy with drippings in skillet.
” o LJ "= » DEAR ORW: How can I clarify and deodorize French-fry-ing oils? .1 always have go much fat left whenever I Frenchfry onions for steak, and with the onion odor in it, it isn't usable for doughnuts or other deep frying. Is there any way to salvage it? Mrs. R.K. 8.
Whipping Cream ppg. MRS. W. W. on her whipping cream for
a topping question is Mrs. A. O. She suggests use of one teaspoon gelatin and two teaspoons cold water for
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goblets and sherbets in the crystal. I have broken several of mine. Mrs. K. Black, 3316 N. Meridian 8t., Apt. 102. Ny.» » MRS. FRANK SMITH
writes that she doesn't have a question to ask any Times Reader, but she does have a tip to pass along. “I wonder how many readers know * that you get more froth out of an egg for mermgus for instance, i he 88 it at room temperature
DEAR ORW: Is there anything I can "use to "seep bread dough from sticking to my. fingers when shaping the loaf?
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“tried to get the mess cleaned up. Does any one have any idea
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THE PIE'S THE THING—Mrs. Paul Topmiller (lef), 242 Park-.~ view, and Mrs. John Shanahan, 550 N. Oriental St., enjoy making pies for the Servicamer s Center, know apple f isa faverite,
Times photos by John Spicklemire, PRESENTS BY PROXY-—Mesdames Thomas Prather, Ralph Fisher and W. F. McMillen . . . wrap Mother's Day greetings in the American War Mothers gift shop at Billings Hospital.
I would also like to know why it is necessary to rub the top of the bread loaf when it comes from the oven, Mrs. V. P, 8 8 8 ss 80 2 DEAR ORW: I have a member of my family to cook for. who is on a strict vegetarian diet. It is so hard to find a variety of foods to serve with such restrictions. Cin anyone: give me some suggestions for menus and different ways to ° cook vegetables? Mrs, N. R. ” » 5 orn fi =GUSTARD die-ecipe-fssubmitted yaar rare RYAH-ToF her many friends. CUSTARD PIE Pinch of salt 3% c. milk
3 eggs 13 C. sugar 2 tsps. nutmeg Beat eggs and add sugar, beating well. Add salt, milk and nutmeg. Pour in one nine-inch unbaked pie crust or twe small pie crusts. Bake in a moderate oven. The larger pie takes about 40 minutes. Mrs. Grace Ryan. :
nN ” = 2 » » DEAR ORW. I washed some baby blankets recently fa too hot water. They shrank and curled up. Is there I can do to get them back to their original size and shape? Mrs. D. O. R. » ” » - » » DEAR ORW: Last week when my husband and I took our two tots to a drive-in movie, the 3-year-old knocked the baby's formula out of my hand. It broke and spilled all over the upholstery. Of course, the car simply reeks even though I have
how to clean the upholstery? Mrs. L. P. 2 8 8 2 8 » DEAR ORW: Last spring I used a paste wax on my kitchen linoleum. Periodically I coated it with a liquid wax, Now would like to start over by removing all the wax. How ean get all the wax off and clean the surface thoroughly? Mrs. IF.
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