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Harrisburg Telegraph from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 6

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6 Highspire: Miss Wilt Holds Social Gathering Highspire, Dec. 14. i Dharlys Wilt, Second street, entertained at a party or Saturday evening at her home. Present were: Irene Ebersole, Margaret Thrush, Jean Lenker, Jane Frutiger, Janet Straw, Janet Weidenhammer, Greta Snoddy, Jean Porter, Dale Jones, Harold Chubb, Morris Clugston, Edward Ceck, Kenenth Crumling, Francis Hatison, Ronald Shaffner, Richard Sides, George Hinkle, Alfred Wilt and Dharlys Wilt Auxiliary to Hold Party The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Citizens Fire Company will hold its annual Christmas party and banquet this evening at 6.30 in the firehouse. Red Cross Workers Sought Members of the surgical dressing unit of the Red Cross will work tomorrow in the Red Cross rooms on Second street.

Volunteers are needed to carry on the work. Mrs. Earl Stansfield 'is in charge of the unit Working hours are 9 a. m. to 4 p.

m. Board Reorganizes Reorganization of the board of education took place at the monthly meeting in the school office. Dr. William J. Albright was re elected president and Roy V.

Knight, vice president. William W. White, and Paul W. Zeller took the oath as directors. to be Organized The Rev.

C. A. Funk, United Brethren Church, will organise a Christian Endeavor group row at 4 p. m. Children as well as adults are in vis ted to attend Weekly prayer service will also be held tomorrow evening at 7.45.

Prayer Meeting Arranged Prayer service will be held to morrow evening in me rirsi Church of. God at 7.30. Following the service, the senior choir will rehearse, under the direction of Mrs. Harvey L. Nitrauer.

Democratic Club Elects The Women's. Democratic Club met and elected "the following 1944 officers: President, Mrs. Ivan Meffert; vice president, Mrs. Harry Gingerick; recording secretary, 0U1 AIMED THE HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1943 Mrs. Clayton Spotts; assistant sec retary, Mrs.

Hazel Herald; cor responding secretary, Mrs. Ger trude Chapman; financial secretary Mrs. Walter Dengler; treasurer, Mrs. M. A.

Shaeffer; trustees, Mrs. Clara Feig and Mrs. Frank Ford. Christmas Box Packed The Ladies' Aid of the United Brethren Church met Monday evening and packed a Christmas box to be sent to Quincy Orphanage. Clothing and cash were Board Will Meet The Executive Board of the Women's Missionary Association of the United Brethren Church, will meet Thursday evening at o'clock at the home of Mrs.

Clara Reever, Market street. Gettysburg Couple Married 50 Years Gettysburg, Dec: 14. Mr. and Mrs. William Durboraw, Carlisle; street, marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary Sunday at a family dinner at which they used a linen tablecloth they received as a wedding gift 50 years ago.

The couple farmed in Mt. Joy town ship until 16 years ago when they moved to Gettysburg. CHRISTMAS THOUGHT: lots of War and I. nnn ft ran npnnrcn nwnRiit? will ruii America's ffflKT Cigarette Shippensburg: Pair Under Bail Following Fight Shippensburg, Dec' 14. Ray mond Derr and James Stine, Ship pensburg, R.

R. 1, furnished $1000 bail each for further hearing after appearing before Magistrate El mer E. 2 inn on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill. The information was made by Clever Diehl, 45, Shippensburg, R. R.

2, patient in Carlisle Hos pital. Police said the charges grew out of a fight following an argument in a local taproom. Diehl's injuries include multiple contusions and. lacerations of the head and face and a possible fractured nose. Ration Forms Being Mailed Russell F.

Bower, executive secretary of the Shippensburg rationing board, said new registration forms for industrial users of sugar, meats and fats and processed foods are now being pre pared. Registration forms are being mailed by the board direct to the users. These forms should be filled out and returned promptly and must be received by January 5. Rent Office Hours Changed Frank J. Shea, area rent direc tor of the OPA, Harrisburg, an nounced a change of the hours when the OPA representative will be available here.

The represent' ative will now sit at the Ship pensburg rationing board office every Tuesday from 12.30 to 2.30 p. m. School Board Reorganizes The Southampton School Board held a reorganization session. John A. Wiser, Shippensburg, R.

R. 2, and Joseph McVitty, of Lees Cross Roads, took their oaths. The board officers: President, John A. Wiser; vice president, David Gephart; treasurer, Guy Martin, and secretary, Hugh Beattie. Ladies' Aid to Meet The Ladies' Aid Society of the Messiah United Brethren Church will meet at the church this eve ning at 7.30 o'clock.

Mabel Karper, Ethel Jacoby and Jean Wadel, will be hostesses to the Sunbeam Class of the Messiah United Brethren Church tomor row evening at the home of Ethel Jacoby, 16 Lurgan avenue. Servicemen's Notes Pvt. Chester T. Peters is spend ing a ten day furlough at his home, 200 East King street. Lt.

Arthur M. Atkinson, former instructor of physiology at the Teachers College, stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia, was a weekend guest at the college. Lt. Floyd Oliver, stationed in Kansas, visited friends at the col 3F01CE This Christmas let us think, with profound appreciation, of our armed forces and what they are doing for us. Let us individually pledge to them our financial support, to i the extent of our ability to buy more War Bonds now.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION liHlfili MIDDLETOWN SAILOR OVERSEAS Slc Harry Le Roy Leach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Leach, Russell avenue, Middletown, is overseas. He enlisted in the Navy in June, 1942. He was employed at xMiddletown Army Air Depot.

Seaman Leach is a former Harrisburg Telegraph carrier. lege and attended the junior class dinner, reception and dance. Pvt. John W. Fague of North Morris street, having completed his basic training at Camp Roberts, has been transferred to the College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, to study civil engineering.

Fight Chimney Fires Firemen of the Vigilant Hose Company were called to extin guish chimney fires at the home of Charles Martin, Prince street, on Saturday, and at the home of Carl Hinkle, 319 East Burd street, yesterday morning. No serious damage was done in either case. Christmas Party Planned Members of the Women's ChriS' tian Temperance Union will spon sor the annual Christmas party for guests at the Episcopal Home for the Aged, East Burd street. The program will be presented at the home Thursday at 2 p. m.

Mrs. L. Eisenberg, president, will pre side. Cadets Are Guests Aviation cadets at Dickinson College, Carlisle, were guests of the student body of the State Teachers' College at the annual Junior Prom on Saturday evening. Music was furniahed by the Cadet Orchestra of Carlisle.

Miss Ann Baldwin, president of the junior class, was general chairman. Committee members included: Decorations, Sara Jane Bennett, chairman; Janet Means, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers P. Means, Shippensburg, R.

R. 1, and William Naugle, 609 West King street. Invitations, Betty Maclay of Scotland, chairman; Betty Stock, 76 King street, and Pauline Brenneman, 202 Fayette street, Shippensburg. Advertising, Phyllis Hoke, chair man, and James Geyer, son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. Emory Geyer, 230 West King street. Reception, Mary Gbyt, chair man, daughter of Mrs. Alta B. Goyt, 37 Richard avenue.

Program, Elizabeth McKnight, Carlisle, chairman, and Adeline Seitz, 34 North Washington street. Finance, Lillian Booher, chair man, and James Shugars, 115 South Washington street. Orchestra, Phyllis Cunningham, chairman; Elizabeth Ott, 113 South Queen street, and Jack McClel lan, 124 North Prince street. Election Officials' School to Be Sought Easton, Dec. 14, iff).

State Rep resentative Harry P. Kitchen (R Northampton), member of the House Elections Committee, an nounced he will introduce a bill providing for a compulsory school for members of election boards at I the next Legislative session. Board members would receive $4 a day and mileage allowances to a central point in each county, where the sessions would be held before elections, Kitchen said. OPA Activities OPA today announced the for mula undedr which apple butter made from apples of the 1943 crop will be priced for sale by packers and distributors. Increases in apple prices over those for 1942 will mean that the 28 ounce jar of apple butter will cost three to four cents more at retail.

Prices of oats, barley and sorghum have been frozen by the OPA pending issuance within 60 days of a permanent regulation on these seeds. All alfalfa seeds have been made subject to control of the OPA regulation governing legume and grass seeds. Housewives may give Christmas gifts of hams, jellies, preserves and other rationed foods, the OPA ruled today. However, the house wives must present ration coupons when they purchase the items but the housewives do not have to be reimbursed by the recip ients. Gift packages containing lim ited amounts of mixed fresh fruits have been lifted from price control, the OPA announced to day.

Beginning about March 1, sup plemental and gasoline coupons will be issued in strips rather than book form and will be serially numbered. The plan is an extension of the recently announced action under which coupons are to be issued in se rially numbered strips starting January 1. OPA officials said today that up to this week fuel oil consum er! should not have used more than 25 per cent, of their year's supply. Middletoum: Auxiliary Police Hold Maneuvers Middletown, Dec. 14.

Middletown platoon of the aux iliary police troop held maneuvers in Londonderry township on Sunday afternoon. Participating in the maneuvers were more than 100 troopers who ran down "snipers" from tree tops, woodlands and dugouts in fields. More than 25 mounted troopers took part. Some of the "battles" took place in open fields. The "saboteurs," led by Orville Swanger of Elizabethtown, tried to prevent the troopers from tak ing over strategic roads, which extended over an area of more than 15 miles.

The local were in charge of Lieutenants Benjamin Graybille and Ira Risser, of the Middletown platoon, with officials of the Harrisburg troop making their rounds in station wagons as observers. Maj. Harry Banzoff and Capt. Edward Towne of the Harrisburg troop, attended. Kiwanis Club Installs Officers of the Kiwanis Club were installed last evening at a meeting of the club in the Colonial restaurant, Centre Square.

The officers are: President, Harvey B. Gaver; first vice president, Walter Detweiler; second vice president, Herbert Schaeffer; secretary, Harold Hickernell; and treasurer, Benjamin Longenecker. Delivers Farewell Sermon William Wunder, Gettysburg Seminary student, who assisted in the services in St. Peter's Lutheran Church here for several i months, delivered his farewell sermon Sunday night. Brotherhood to Meet A meeting of the Men's Broth erhood of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held this evening.

Yale swimmers will open season against Brown University at New Haven January 8. Andy Varipap, noted tenpin expert has rolled 52 perfect 300 games. OH ass EVENINGS and SUNDAYS No. IN. THIRD ST.

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