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I r-L Semtnolc'Tohisla Thursday, Jan. 12, 1961 Chamber Recognizes Tourist Unusual Party Makes Hit i'jc mil hi mi.i.:"' i a "1 tfL i I If. It liatmJak-a if, r-'' (Pa Klwunis Club Installs By Blanche Fearington DELAND Mrs. Mary Howard was recognized as the tourist who has been coming to DeLand for tha greatest number of consec utive years at Tuesday's Chamber of Commerce coN fee at Hotel Putnam. When F.

H. Barnhart, president of the Tourist Club, presented her with a corsage and a piece of jewelry a six month's search by his organization came to an end. OVER THIRTY years ago Mrs. Howard and her hus band came from their home in Chesapeake City, Maryland, to visit the godmother of their son, the late Mrs. Lydia Alexander, on Blua Lake Road.

They liked DeLand and the friendliness of its people so much that they con tinued to come every year before Christmas and stay until April or May. After Mrs. Howard's hus band's death 14 yean ago she continued her winter visits. For the past nine years shs has occupied a sunny front room at Silver Oaks Apart, ments. A picture window allows her a good view of Fish Memorial Hospital and (center) installs Doyle Kennedy as president while Vice Pres.

J. D. Ful-ford (left) and immediate past Pres. Bill Wright look on. (Sentinel Photo) The New Smyrna Beach Kiwanis Club observed its 35th birthday with installation of officers recently at Smyrna Yacht Club.

Fifth Div. Lt. Gov. Bill Edmiston of St. Augustine Reduces Negro Use By VIRGINIA MIKLER OVIEDO Folks are still chuckling about Lucille Ni-black's Ridiculous Party-yes, that's what she called it.

And she warned guests in advance that only those in ridiculous attire would be welcome. The party date was the Friday before New Year's and the hour was early 9 'til 10. Greeting each car was a jolly young Santa, Suzanne Partin, who sent some guests to the front door, others to the rear. Busy sweeping the sidewalk, raking leaves and brushing outside walls of the hostess' house were Ka-trina Brookshire, Clora Battle, Vera Myers and Nadine Meek who weren't even speaking! UNFORGETTABLY beautiful Christmas flowers and! decorations were used in the' party rooms along with old. dead camellia Valen.

tines in the fireplace and taster bunnies on the table. Stork napkins added another note of variety to the theme. Marguerite Partin, a potato sack flapper, rendered Jingle Bells on the piano as each guest entered. The costumes cannot be adequately described. One was quite shocking, another so dirty.

After a costume parade and games, novel prizes were One guest received roach tablets, another raved about her bleach. Sumptuous refreshments were far from ridiculous. But those who longed for their first cup of coffee were surprised when treated to tomato juice. Claire Ev ans presided at the tomato, juice bowl, All agreed it was the cleverest party yet! MRS. JEANNE MICHAEL With mementos of Thailand Sanford Sampler Coming Out Party Held By Club By LILLIAN SEVERS CASSELBERRY The United Citizens League held a coming out party this past week at the Women's Club with over 50 members at tending to usher in a New Year of social and communitybenefit activities for the town.

They were entertained by dances and skits performed by Misses Sally Lunn, Judy Grimwood, Elizabeth Lunn, Sharon Chaney and Joyce DeLongchamp. Community singing was led by soloists, Donna Sonnenberg and Davie B. Halin with Rohn Lady at the piano. PRIZES WERE awarded! for the games played, and; an auction of gaily wrapped packages, provided manyj amusing surprises for the bidders. Refreshments and.

a very prettily cecoraiea room completed the party atmosphere. Serving on the entertainment committee were, Mrs. Elton Bennett, Mrs. Milton E. Lady, Mrs.

Edward Lunn, Mrs. Paul Lewis, Mrs. Herbert Olson, Mrs. Daniel B. Hahn, and Mrs.

Myron E. Jacobs. Rohn gave a brief report of his recent trip to New York, where he attended the United Nations as a delegate of the Youth Group and representative of Rollins College. Lady said he participated in discussions with ambassadors to the United Nations, mainly from the African countries, and that their problems of Govt are as the problems of young democracy seeking representative expression of the peoples. THE UNITED Citizens plan to hold the election of officers in February for the ensuing year.

An announcement of details will be made later. PROVE YOUR STORY! Tok tomtro along on your next fishing trip! WIEBOLDT'S CAMERA SHOP 219 f. Pirk Avi. Sanford Retiring Club Head To List Resolutions cleaning and washing and an ayah. The latter was the Thai version of an English nanny.

No. 1 girl did most of the ia person could find a place hopping, but the navy than DeLamr Beachside Beat Integration By SID PORTER Volusia Bureau Chief Ph. RE 4-H0I DeLand DAYTONA BEACH In tegration of Daytona Beach Country Club has practically eliminated Negro golfers from the scene. Negroes played free after 4 p.m. for several years, then a few pushed to play during the day.

The city fathers decreed they could, but everybody pays the $4 a day greens fee. A Negro foursome last Saturday has been about the only one on the scene recently. Before the integration rul ing the course was jammed with Negro golfers in the late afternoon, some coming from West Volusia and over the county. IT'S OFF again on again with the motorcycle races and now it looks like they will be staged at the speedway as part of the speed weeks next month. The handlebar derby is one of the big ones nation ally for the leather-jacket set.

This move takes about the last of the speed events off the beach. The beef with the motorcycle derby was that did learn to count and bargain in the Thai language. The market was typical, all out of doors with myriad the people who own the land on the north turn want $2,000 and that the track needs fixing badly anyway. The speedway bike course will take in the sports car layout on the infield and a bit of the trivial. There were a few auto speed trials on the beach last year but spectators weren't there in much number.

THE SWANK Sam Snead golf course and subdivision of Tomoka Oaks west of Or-mond Beach is scheduled to get started in the next month or so. Ormond Beach is the area to watch. The face of the business part has changed practically overnight too. There are about 5,000 people just north of OB, mostly retired folks, and OB is being built up also like mad. A new retirement hotel northward is being planned, we he'ar.

A person would pay a lump sum and get care for life. THE GIGANTIC frame ho tel in OB is all set now, and doing well as a retirement home for about 350 people, many of whom could well afford to pay more but who like the atmosphere, com stalls where most things. feed at stetson having been bought were is a member of Stover Thea-then wrapped in banana ter, Civic Music and also leaves. Her mode of travel Shoestring Theater. oft times was in a samlor.l se Soe5 t0 Chea peake City in the summers a bicycle like ricksha, which ito visit her son and his wifa she says are now outlawed and her three grandchildren.

Club will hold its gua (Sanford-DeBary Enter-months tainment a member monthly luncheon for they became a traffic hazard. SHE WAS fortunate to take side trips to Hong Kong, India, Indo-China, the Philippines, and toured Cambodia and Saigon with another navy wife, Pat Burfield. It was while visiting the famous Angkor ruins in Cambodia that they were caught momentarily in a local coup. Tanks rumbled about their hotel while they calmly played bridge. Mike and Jeanne were guests at a dinner party in Vientienne in Laos when their host introduced them to jhas resigned as president Dr.

Tom Dooley. It was! of the Merchants Division panionship and entertainment, which includes variety shows provided by their own number. The hotel was in the soup a few years ago, with mortgages being foreclosed and it needed repairs. It changed hands, has a new coat of siding, the automatic sprinklers were fixed and the future is assured under a trust fund. Women Qualify For Golf Play DELAND Following are the DeLand women who qualified Tuesday at Ellinor Village in the South Atlantic Tournament: First Flight Joan North-rup, Missy Mitchell and Imogene Carter.

Second flight Bonnie Bradley and Jean Zucker-man. Third flight Nan Moore. i Hoop Tilt Shied NEW SMYRNA BEACH-Coach Elwood Shahan's New Smyrna Beach High School freshman team will enter tain Sanford at 7 p.m. today at the high school gym. 4.

THE ONLY WIDE-TRACK CAR! Pontile Ut th wt(tsf track of my car. Body mtftk tnawd radix 4w kaaf Mora awM sataatad bataaai tt (wall tor tara-toslad dtmaf ttattary. 'she especially enjoys watch ing the new fountain ther when it is lighted at night. "I'VE BEEN ALL over Florida and I don't think Mrs. Howard She stresses how much she enjoys know, ing the people she meets bn the streets.

She takes advan- a ft manv tViinoc rf- They live on and run tha 1,000 acre asparagus farm where she and her husband once lived. Last year her stay in De-Land was longer than usual. She came in October and stayed until August. DeLand CofC President Quits Post DELAND Ken Williams of the DeLand Chamber of Commerce and Herb Jackson of the Fountain Co. has been named to replace him.

The reason for Williams resignation is that he is moving out of the city, he said. Other business at a ses sion this week included firm ing of plans for a kiddy rides promotion Feb. 16-25, with the rides to be at a place to be selected down town. The latter two days will include annual DeLand Days in the stores. The merchants ask that those who haven't contributed to the Christmas festival do so in order to pay a $700 deficit the JayCees encountered because of insufficient funds for the Christmas parade.

Groups not paid include high school service clubs that furnished carol singers several nights. The agreement was to donate fund3 to the service club treasuries. Obituaries MR. DAVID MITCHELt STONE, 81, DeLeon Springs, brother of Ed Stone, Volusia County District 1 County Com missioner. died Wednesday at a DeLand Hospital.

He was a life time resident of Volusia County, born in Em poria and had lived in DeLeon Springs for 17 years. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jennie Stone, DeLeon Springs; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Haire, DeLand; and four other brothers, George Stone, DeLand, and Jim, Peter and Charlie Stone, Emporia; a sister, Mrs. Annie Moody, Palatk'a and six grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

Allen-Summerhill Funeral Home, DeLand, is in charge. Thursday Movies DELAK5: ATHENS Sunri. Campobeilo. 17: BOUL-EVARD DRIVE-IN Tht Mountain Road; Son of Robin Hood. SANFORD: RITZ Sunrisa at Camrw bello.

OS, 3:43. I SO; MOVIELANrj DDIVE.IM Om Wlnrf in Prtni Utlto By KAY BARTHOLOMEW Phone FA 2-1863 SANFORD "I am going to sit down and list my New Year's Resolutions!" That was busy Jeanne Michael's answer to the question of what was she going to do with all the sudden leisure time she would have when she completed her term today of being president of the Naval Officer's Wives Club. But vou can well imaeine that somewhere on that list will be the words, commun ity service. For during her term of office, she was the navy representative for the of a discussion group here in town and a very active member of Holy Cross Epis copal Church. Not to men tion the chief homemaker in the life of Lt.

Comdr. "Mike" Michael and two young in dians, Larry, five, and Peter, four. JEANNE IS NO novice to nomadic navy life nor a stranger to responsibility. Her father Nwas an electrical engineer and the family lived all over the world, Jeanne having been born in Shanghai. After a year in Tokyo, the family came stateside, living in California, Colorado and Washington.

It was while a student at the University of Vermont, the major in dietetics formed the habit of taking on chal lenging jobs. She was a mem ber of the Mortar Board, and Omicron Nu, (national honorary Home "Ec" Society) a veep of the Women's student Govt, chairman of Senior Week activities, and ran the kitchen at the Pi Beta Phi House where she did her own cooking. AND IT WAS while she was a senior on spring vacation that she was the Colorado Princess at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washing ton, D. C. Her escort turned out to be "Mike" Michael! They were married in 1952, and the naval officer's orders took them to Morocco, then Yorktown, Va.

where Larry was born, and Oceana where Peter was born. Then off to Bangkok where Mike was Asst. Resident officer in charge of construe tion. (He is a member of that respected group the SeaBees). The couple found a house near the American Embassy and lived on the local economy.

They had taken only personal belong es and their own beds, since ings, small electric applianc the Thai bed was just a slab of teak with a 1-inch kapok mattress. "THEY ARE supposed to be good for your back, but we were mighty glad when our American beds Jeanne laughingly recalled. Their shuttered house was in a walled compound near a klong, one of the many canals in the city, which is called the Venice of the East. The canal was convenient for the geese they kept for watch dogs and to keep the snakes away. For help, Jeanne had No.

1 girl land No. 2 girl, who did the. meeting t-riaay at Fellowship Hall, First Methodist Church. Guest speaker will be Judge vernon Mize, Sanford Mrs. J.

E. Lundy is chair man of the luncheon com mittee, and serving with her are Miss Ruth David son, Mmes. D. D. Daniel, Karl Daul, Bob Parker, Joe Battle and W.

D. Brown. Mrs. D. D.

Daniel was hostess Sunday at a luncheon and meeting of 20 A Echelon 5 of the American Legion. Mrs. Carolyn Frid, national VIP, Orlando, attended along with other women veterans of World Wars I and II from Tampa Ze-phyrhills, Daytona and Orlando. Mrs. Daniel is one of the founders of the honorary organization, which was started in 1952.

To be selected for membership, the women must be active members of the American Legion. MR. AND Mrs. E. A.

Miller have recently moved from Chuluota to a home near the Black Hammock Fish Camp. Miller is the Oviedo Sentinel-Star carrier. His phone number is FO 5-3868. C. M.

Arie is improving! at Florida Sanitarium and Hospital where he is a patient, Christine Mikler had a tonsillectomy at Winter Park Memorial Hospital Monday. Patsy Parker entered Winter Park Memorial Hospital Tuesday for X-ray examinations. Deer, Turkey Kill Reported DELAND Game management supervisors report a total kill of 138 deer and 61 turkey in the Tomoka area for the season, which closed last Sunday. The kill was 58 deer and five turkeys in the Farm-ton area. Fowl Pox from pen raised turkeys used for restocking reduced the number of turkeys in the Farm-ton area, The Sentinel learned.

However, plans are to again restock, this time with wild turkeys trapped in areas with an oversupply.l THOMAS MOVING I STORAGE Local Along Diltonct 201 N. UUrTT SANFORD A 2-1991 i- i if A i 'i "5 rtin'ffiiMiiiiMMiimniTi rMrTr-ninOTMrriiiihiniitiitiiriiiiiiiiifiniiifttififfiin-tiim during the time he was building his first hospital near there and also had just found out that he had cancer. His personality is a i Jeanne said. "He could sell the Brooklyn bridge and convince you that you had the world's best bargain." They came home via India and Ceylon, taking a boat at Colombo and going through the Suez Canal to Naples. Touring Europe, they also spent some time visiting Mike's mother's family in France.

She was a World War I war bride. (She did some translating for Mike's dad, who was a navy doctor attached to the Marines under an Army STATESIDE TO Sanford. The couple live in Loch Arbor where there are a number of reminders of their travels Siamese jewelry, Thai cotton, a piece or so of teakwood furniture, pictures hand screened from the carvings on the outside of one of the temples in Bangkok; and their prize and joy, a Buddha head that came from Ayudhya, the old capital which had been sacked by the Burmese during one of the wars. Sports Car Club Slates Meeting NEW SMYRNA BEACH-The Daytona Beach Sports Car Club will discuss a speed weeks open house event at a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Florida Power Light Co.

building. Following the session motion pictures of auto racing events will be shown. SamsuJa P-TA Meet SAMSULA a 1 a P-TA will meet at 8 p.m. today at the school. Here's how the Wide-Track Pontiac keeps pace with your stepped-up driving schedule Pontiac for Is tuned and tailored to enliven the extra hours you spend in a car.

Weight Is trimmed to gve you more action with less expense. Wider doors open farther to ease your getting in and out. There's more room inside. Outside, Pontiac has a more parkable, garageable size. You maneuver without effort, sit steady and straight on curves and corners.

This comes from the built-to-the-road stability of new Wide-Track. And Pontiac's famous V-8 performance lets you take city or turnpike travel with assurance. Choose the car that has kept pace with the change in your driving habits. Inspect, drive, select the '61 Pontiac of your choice. PONTIAC '61 -IT'S ALL PONTIACI -SEE YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER- BELL MOTOR COMPANY 211 W.

Rich Ave. Dtlond, Fla BILL HEMPHILL 01 W. Firs Sr. MOTORS, INC. Flo.

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