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TAGS srt SASKATOON STAR-PHCENIX JATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1942. THE WOMANS PAGE CxC. Women Leaders Back Drive as porters and in signal boxes. One of them, Miss Doiis Winn, staited as a porter and became the countrys flist woman railway guard. CROWD ENJOYS EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION WOMEN DO MANY JOBS BETTER THAN MEN AT FLYING SCHOOL CENTRES WING COMMANDER SAYS BOYS DONT WANT GIRLS TO GET AHEAD OF THEM; EXERCISE HEALTHY INFLUENCE OVER FORCES T.J.

SMITH Optometrist )he Drives Crane On South Railway By ALAN RANDAL LONDON, Aug, 8. Sixty feet above the Thames Mts. Elizabeth Wenborn, the Southern Railways first woman crane driver, swings her crane out over barges moored in the river, picks up bales of goods as though she were using a giant fishing rod and swings them into the nearby warehouses. Her husband is In the army and before leaving for work each day Mrs Wenborn takes her youngster to hei fathers house and calls for the child at night. Thousands of other women are working for the railways 07 Canada Phone 2850.

map. Church was a student at McGill before she enlisted. A.W.2 Geraldine Fulton of Sydney, N.S., may not have such an exciting job, but shes the first girl to take over the management of the station's official publications and forms. Fulton, who led her clans at St. Thomas, Ont, Technical Training School when she graduated, has become the C.O.'s right hand airwoman.

UNPARALLELED DEMAND Heads of women's organizations, editors of womens pages and womens magazines, and leaders of various voluntary organizations throughout Canada assembled in Ottawa heard Brig. W. H. S. Macklln.

deputy adjutant general, issue an appeal on behalf of the Canadian Womens Army Corps. In picture, Brigadier Macklln Is shown with Miss Dora Dibney, editor of the Saskatchewan Farmer and national president of the Canadian Womens Press Club; Joan B. Kennedy of Vitoria, and Ottawa, officer administering the C.W.A.C, and Mrs. Pearl LAml, women's editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, and vice-president for Manitoba of the Canadian Womens Press Club. 1 there IS a tremendous demand In Civil Service, war Industries, branches of the Armed Services, and private business for office assistants.

The need Is urgent for well-trained, thoroughly competent YOUNG COUPLE WILL RESIDE IN SASKATOON Miss Betty Anne Cormack Becomes Bride of Capt. Fred Parrott Ferna and a profusion of garden flowers banked the fireplace at the home of Mrs. L. S. Parrott, Me Pherson Avenue, Saturday afternoon, when Miss Betty Anne, only daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. R. G. Cormack of Winnipeg, became the bride of Capt. Fred Parrott, C.D.C, youngest son of the late Mr.

Lindsay Social and Personal Summer Students Perform Progressive Exercise Suitable For Grade Schools Excellent example of the type of physical education to be taught in some of Saskatchewan's schools were displayed to the crowd in Griffiths Stadium Friday afternoon by students of Education II Summer School. Tho 28 girls, in trim black shorts and white shirts, performed progressive exercises, games and play suitable for all grades. Favorite of the crowd was the folk dancing These were national dances suitable for the more advanced grades. Winding the May-pole waa one of the prettiest. Its lively measures set to the varied colored ribbons of the dance.

The familiar Sailor's Hornpipe. Irish Jig and "Highland Schottische were spirited numbers, set off by the stately steps of the Minuet." The smaller children's lessons were performed with the idea of interesting the class and keeping them laughing. The girls played they were kangaroos in one difficult exercise, and drew many laughs from the audience. For the smaller children, too, were the dances; Jockey, Baby Polka and Hansel and Gretel. These dances were accompanied with songs.

In this class, was the singing game, "Pop Goes the Weasel. Skin the Snake relay and "Opening the Rose were stunts that brought into play all the muscles of the body. In Opening the Rose, the girls lay flat on their backs, feet in. Joining hands those rose slowly to a sitting position. The reverse was to bring the feet back over the head, touching them to the ground, then slowly lowering them.

It was remarked by a commentator, Miss M. Sentance, that once a student learns perfect balance, lt is no longer a balancing lesson. She referred to exercises done on a narrow, low bar. Some of the girls had not yet attained the position where It wasnt a lesson. The modern method of swinging Indian clubs, using one club only, was rhythmically demonstrated to music.

In perfect time, the body turned or swung, ln time with the arm and club. Foot exercises caused much amusement The girls sat down across the field, only the of their stockings all white toes By MARGARET ECKER Canadian Press Staff Writer FINGAt Ont, Aug. 8. There are lots of job In the Royal Canadian Air Force that women can do better than men and the womens division of the RC.A.F. is proving that at this western Ontario and Gunnery School.

The girls have done well every job they've tackled, Wing Cmdr. D. D. Findlay, the commanding officer, told The Canadian Press And not only that, but the very fact they're here seems to spur the men on to better work. The men have bucked up.

Theyre more careful about their dress and language. They don't want to let these girls get ahead of them," he said. Yes, I think the girls are healthy Influence Im all for them. So he turned the reporter over to the womens senior officer, Section Officer Rowena Cantelon of Regina, for an object lesson in what he had been saying. S.O.

Cantelon was a librarian before she enlisted. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. E.

Cantelon, live In Winnipeg. Corporal Sheila Strang, also from Winnipeg, was the guide and the first port of call was the plotting room of the hangar, past a sign that said: Synchronize your watches. This Is where the airmen gunners send readings of their bomb hits. As soon as they drop a bomb they make a reading and phone it to Airwoman Myrtle Shaughnessy whose civilian home Is in New Westminster, BC. Shaughnessy charts the reading on a practice bomb and plotting chart and figures out the gunners accuracy score.

Plying Officer Moore, who is there to supervise her work, explained the workings of a bomb sight and how most of the gunnery practice is over the lake. AW.2 Evelyn Disley of Sud-buiy, Ont, records the number of bullet-holes In the target. These girls say they feel pretty close to the war, here at Fingal In the big hangar next to where they work is a battered Falrey Battle bomber, a veteran of Dunkerque. Across the hangar is the control tower where A.W.2 Norine Church of Regina helps the bomDing and gunnery school operate. Church, with a cheerful black spaniel Mars Bitting beside her, was decoding weather analyses.

Then she plotted the weather conditions on a map of North America. Before a long flight an airman comes into the control tower for a look at the Rosetown Couple Married in City The weeing took place recently of Frances Margaret Crystal Drury, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Drury, Rosetown, and Thomas Boyd McKay, Rosetown eldest son of Mrs. E.

McKay and the late Mr. Loran McKay of Saskatoon. The Rev. Robert Hall of Knox United Church officiated, The bride looked charming ln an afternoon dress of heaven blue crepe with matching accessories She wore a corsage of red roses and white carnations. The bridesmaid, Miss Jessie McKay of Saskatoon, sister of the groom, was dressed In an afternoon dress of pink dotted Swiss with white accessories.

Her corsage was df pink roses and sweet peas. The groom was attended by Mr Lee Drury of Rosetown, brother of the bride. Mrs. McKay, the grooms mother, was dressed in air force blue with a corsage of sweet peas. A reception was held at the home of Mrs.

McKay. 310 Thirty-second Street, west The rooms were tastefully decorated with cut flowers. Dainty refreshments were served from a table covered with a Venetian lace cloth centred with the bride's three-tiered cake, banked in tulle, sweet peas completing the pretty decorations. Mrs. Catling performed the honors, serviteurs being Mrs.

B. Randall, Mrs. J. Parley and Mrs. J.

D. Parley. The toast to the bride was given by Sgt. B. I Randall, R.C.AF., and suitably responded to by the groom The happy couple will reside at Rosetown on the grooms farm.

SECRETARIES STENOGRAPHERS BOOKKEEPERS MACHINE OPERATORS Graduates of the Robertson Secretarial School secure preferred positions because of the reputation developed and maintained by the College for thoroughly practical training, tested methods and surety of results In placing qualified office help. As we limit our enrollment very strictly, and already have many reservations for the Fall Term, prospective students are requested to make early application. Fall Term Opens August 31st ROBERTSON Secretarial School STANDARD BUILDING SASKATOON Telephone 3327 for Appointment. Mrs. Eva Cole announces the en gagoment of her youngest daughter, Maigaret Aiieen McComb, to Norman Gordon Way, only son of Mr.

and Mrs. Gordon Way of Saskatoon. The wedding will take place early in September, Mrs. L. Adams has returned from a holiday spent ln Regina.

Miss Florence Lipsett, 821 Twentieth Street, west, has returned from Regina, where she attended the wings parade as the guest of Sgt. J. W. Buttrey. Also present was the latters mother, Mrs.

Buttrey of Medicine Hat. Flags and sailboats formed an appropriate setting for a buffet supper held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Hardy, 314 Twenty-fifth Street, west, ln honor of their son, U.

P. Serhyenko, Leading Seaman, and Joe McCrath, Able Seaman, of 204 Avenue north. More than 30 friends dropped in during the evening to bid them farewell. The two sailors have now returned to their R.C.N. posts, Mr.

and Mrs, George Underwood, accompanied by P.O. W. Thompson and Mrs. Thompson, left to spend the weekend at Murray Lake, where they are the guests of Mr! and Mrs. Paul Lang.

Mr. Gilbert Svendsen has left for a visit with relatives and friends at the Pacific Coast. Mrs. W. J.

Wilson of London, is the guest of Mr. ana Mrs I Williams, Sutherland. Mr. and Mrs. C.

E. Miller have returned from a holiday spent in Victoria where they visited their daughter, Mrs. R. S. Searson and son, Glen, who is with the R.C.N.V.R.

Mr. and Mrs. George Hume of Saskatoon, Miss Frances Paterson and Miss Shirley Benoit of Winnipeg, were recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Mac-Aulay, Prince Albert Captain E. Peterson and Mrs. Peterson are spending the next six weeks-as residents at the Mayfair Apartments, Regina. ns.

1)0 AI.L KIMIH IIS Upholstering timtrrflrlda Re-Covered Repaired BROADBENTS CHKSTFHFIPl.n HOI SR 12V bffund Avenue North wiggled. Dean F. M. Quance opened the afternoon with a few words, telling of the importance of physical fitness ln wartime, and of the necessity of this class In school work. At the close of the demonstration, huge bouquets of gladioli were presented to instructress Miss McPherson, assistant Miss M.

Sen tance and pianist Miss M. Copeland The Calendar Holy Trinity' Senior W.A. will hold a circle tea Monday from 3 to 5 oclock at the home of Mrs Craig, 407 Avenue south. Ladies Auxiliary 63, to the Canadian Legion, BESL, will meet in the Legion lounge room Monday at 2 30 oclock. South West Circle of St.

George's Church will hold a picnio in Victoria Park Tuesday afternoon. Members are asked to meet at the parish hall at 2 30 oclock. S.A.T.S. Notes Monday: Ranks and N.C.O.s will drill at Rutherford Rink from 7 451 to 9 p.m., under command of R.S Unger. Officers will drill from 8 30 to 9 30.

in company drill, under Sergeant Pearson, S.L.I, WHY NOT ST. THOMAS, Aug. 8. Airwoman P. E.

Longmuir, Prince Albert. received a gold medal for outstanding work at graduation exercises held Friday at the nearby technical training school of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Only three airmen received this award and Misp Longmuir was the only woman. rpHE Cara Arnica Club held a most enjoyable dinner Thursday eve ning in the Silver Glade Room of the Modern Del ln honor of four of their number, Mrs. George Forsyth, nee Miss Everil Gibbs, recent bride, and the Misses Inez Caza, Dorothy Gibbs and Jean Currie, brides-to-be.

Each girl was presented with a suitable gift along with the beat wishes of the members. Mrs. May L. Moffatt, formerly of Perdue, announces the marriage of hor only daughter, Marion Grace of Regina, to Roy Laird, youngest son of Mrs. Catherine Joyce, Winnipeg.

Mr. and Mrs. Joyce have taken up residence at 52, The Wil lingdon, Regina, Mr. and Mrs. D.

B. Rogers of Regina were guests at The Bess-boiough Friday en route to Emma Lake and Waskesiu. Mrs. C. J.

Westwood will have chaige of the spoon competition to be played at the Saskatoon Golf and Country Club Tuesday morning beginning at 8.30 o'clock. Miss Mary Mitchner returned home Wednesday, accompanied by Miss Gerry Thompson, whom she was visiting in Port Arthur, More than 50 relatives were present at a family reunion honoring Mr. and Mrs. James Weir of Leney who recently celebratod their golden wedding day. On that occasion the family was unabls to attend but the gathering this week Included eight of their nine children and all their grandchildren.

Only one son was missing, Mr. Choler Weir, county Y.MC.A. secretary, now in New Jersey. The Rev. G.

P. Foraey and Mrs. Forsey have been holidaying at Emma Lake. Mr. and Mrs.

A. M. Dyck announce the engagement of their only daughter, Dorothy Alice, to L.A.C. Robert Thomas Lloyd of Macleod, Alberta, son of Mr. and Mrs.

G. 8. Lloyd of Regina. The wedding will take place at Macleod the latter part of this month. Miss Shirley Miller has returned home after an enjoyable holiday spent in Victoria.

Dr. Albert Hazel and Mrs. Hazel have returned from a holiday spent at the Pacific Coast. Guest In the cltyTor a few days 1b Mr. F.

W. Byers of Sylvan Lake, Mr. and Mrs. I G. Needham and Gordon of Barry, Ontario, are visiting friends and relatives in the city.

Sgt. Munro Murray and Mrs. Murray have returned to Yorkton after spending a short holiday with Sergeant Murray's parents, Mr, and Mrs. George Murray. Miss Margaret Swanson arrived from Ottawa Friday morning to spend her holidays with her parents Prof.

W. Swanson and Mrs. Swanson. Mr. Shelton Andrews has returned to FI in Flon after spending a month ln the city at the home of his mother, Mrs.

E. S. Andrews. A pleasant afternoon was spent at the home of Mrs. J.

R. Turner Wednesday, when a number of friends gathered to welcome Mrs V. Gran, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs R. G.

Watts to the community. Mrs Watts, bride-elect, was the recipient of a lovely Hudson Bay blanket. A dainty supper was served, followed by a social half hour. Mrs. S.

R. Lebo left for her home at Preeceville after a months visit with her mother. Mrs. G. Olson of 1321 Seventh Avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Johnson of Saskatoon announce the engagement of their daughter Beatrice Eileen, to Victor Sydney Dolden of May-mont, the wedding to take place in Ottawa, September 5. The young couple will make their home in Montreal.

Miss Florence Andrews has returned to the city after spending a three-week vacation la Vancouver and Victoria. On her way home she was the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. Gorham of Edmonton, USE MARVINS EXCLUSIVE DRY CLEANING PROCESS Pretty Ceremony Performed In SL James Anglican Church CAPT. FRED PARROTT AND BRIDE Parrott and Mrs.

Parrott of Saskatoon, The ceremony was per formed by Fit Lt. Crawford Scott, R.C A.F. The bride was charming in a street length dress of dusty rose crepe with Queen's blus hat and small veil. Her corsage was of Amerioan Beauty roses, white carnations and maidenhair fern. She was given in marriage by her father and was unattended.

Mr. Earl Bowman of Prince Albert was best man and Miss Joan Hodges played the wedding march. The bride's mother appeared in a beige and brown redingote ensemble with corsage of Talisman roses while Mrs. Parrotts dress was of mauve Bilk, redingote style, decked with a shoulder knot of mat shaded sweet peas. Following the ceremony, luncheon was served at a table prettily decorated with sweet peas and centred with a three-tiered wedding cake embedded in tulle.

Fit Lt. Crawford Scott proposed the toast 1 lil the rP'y bclnS made by the bridegroom. The young couple left on a short honeymoon to Waskesiu, the bride travelling in a blue silk ensemble with matching accessories. They have taken up residence in the Ke-wanee Apartments, Saskatoon. Housewives Form Commanders ALAN RANDAL LONDON, Aug.

8. Britains first "Housewife Commanders have been in action In an East Coast town where German planes scattered incendiary bombs. This equad of half a dozen serviremen's wives t0 be "ln th war too, tbpmsve into a mobile swiftly to ary war task Which crops up. Including the some Mere are the othp war tasks the li, out: Communal garden allotment, part time work in tion r8r c''' and salvage codec- WET A pretty wedding took place at St. James Anglican Church In a setting of white and mauve summer flowers, when Daisy Clara, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. E. J. Fid-gett, became the bride of Ernest Coleman, son of Mrs. E.

E. Bailey and the late Mr. E. E. Bailey of Yorkton.

The Rev. R. K. Sampson officiated. To the bridal chorus from Lohengrin, played by Mr.

Robert Flera- DRY CLEANING is a WAR-WEAPON, Too Its pleased your FRIENDS It will please Phone 7988 MARVINS LTD. Cleaners Dyers Furriers i Block South of Eaton's HARRY S. HAY AND ASSOCIATES OPTOMETRISTS Eyesight Specialists Saskatoon I Near I TVoolworths Opposite North Kreeges I Battleford sheer, with a long veil pleated In halo style and held in place by Sprays of orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of American Beauty and Ophelia roses. The Misses Mabel and Rose Fld-gett, sisters of the bride, attended as bridesmaids.

They wore Identical floor length dresses of triple sheer with long bishop sleeves and beaded yokes, Miss Mabels being of turquoise blue and Miss Roses of shell pink. Each carried a sheaf of white and deep pink gladioli. Pte. W. Bailey of Red Deer, Alberta, was his brothers best man.

The bride's mother wore for the occasion a navy blue sheer dress and a navy blue hat, with touches of white. Her corsage was of pink roses and white carnations. The groom's mother chose a dress of dusky rose crepe, white hat, white accessories, and a corsage of pink roses and white carnations. After the ceremony, a wedding supper for immediate relatives and friends of the bride and groom was held at the brides home. The table was laid with an ecru lace cloth, centred with a three-tiered wedding cake and embedded in pink tulle, with tali white tapers each side of the cake.

The bridal couple left for Waskesiu and will be at home to their friends after September 1 at River-view Apartments. Mr. Bailey is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and Mrs. Bailey, before her marriage was employed as a stenographer with the Dominion Department of Agriculture. WOMEN'S PLAIN DRESSES MEN'S SUITS Dry Cleaned and Pressed Most war weapons are designed to eliminate a common evil or to afford protection from an Thats why we call dry cleaning a war-weapon it protects clothes from needless wear and helps prevent waste which is the common enemy of a nation at war.

Dirt in clothes soon wears down the threads cuts short the life of the fabric. Do your part toward conserving materials for war use. Make what you have last! Send clothes to be The Belgian Dry Cleaners crystal-clear fluids cleanse garments 'til theyre a joy to behold! Try us today. Phone 5588 Our Driver WiU Cali photo BY EXPERTS TWICE A DAY SERVICE SASKATCHEWAN PHOTO SUPPLY S68 2nd Aye Saskatoon for pick-up service, and please allow us three days for return delivery. Phone 5500 W.

W. FORSYTH Optometrist AND Orlhoplist MacMillan Bldg, 21t Street PHONE 7122. I UPHOLSTERING AND FURNITURE REPAIRED I TO YOUR SATISFACTION Let ns mount your Needlepoint -expert workmanship. VOGEL'S FURNITURE CO. Ross Block 3rd Ave S.

Church Music KNOX IMTKD Mr. Angus Macpherson will be the soloist at both services on MR AND MRS. E. C. BAILEY ing, the bride entered the church with her fathei, who gave her in marriage.

She was gowned in a white Door length dices of triple xtfvmmrt Lt Receiving Office and Showroom I2J 2nd Ave North..

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