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The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 12

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THE SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY IB, 1948 TWELVE answer, 423.675 times, was News Of Interest In Social Circles PHONE 75 EUNICE APPERSON WeddingTreasure ajunMim a in i Citizenship. W. O. Hairston, sistant agent, displayed a motion picture on scenes from other countries, stressing problems and cus-j toms, and emphasizing the great need for world-wide understanding of citizenship. Miss Dorothy Hixson, home demonstration agent, and members from the Lucky 13 Club of Potter's! Ramon Noyarro has given up thoughts of a film comeback and is selling real estate near San Diego.

It a little silly, I think, for Warner Brothers to be talking about an Oscar for Jane Wymans work in "Johnny Belinda. The Mrs. Bailey Speaker For-Birthday Party Of Pilot Club Here Personals SJEW YORK IKEA) Wedding gowns breath-taking Sumptuousness are fashion's gift to todays bride. Trains long enough to carpet church aisles unfold from wedding gowns of regal white satin. Finest antique lace or veil of illupon spreads filmy loveliness over dresses designed for one-occasion grandeur and destined to become heirlooms which future generations will treasure.

EPSIJ3 KINARD, NEA Fashion Editor Broadway Binnie Jack CarsQjj takes his airshow on tour of the midwest when he completes John Loves Mary Sydney Greenstreet's wedding present to his son whq will marry a Berkeley, girl, Beverly Harvey, is a house in the San Fernando Valley. Sydney bias lost 25 pounds." but I dont know where. Do you feel bloated and miserable after I every meal, taste sour, bitter food? so, here Is how you may get blessed re- Uef from this nervous distress. Every time food enters the stomach a vital gastric juice must flow normally to break-up certain foqd particles; else the food may ferment. Sour food, acid lndl I gestlor.

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1 Promised and hoped for: Dorothy Ford the six-foot-two Glam-azon, and frail, sad-eyed Ben Blue playing husband and wife in One The traditional design for the for- SMB mat wedding gown is unchanged jHBll by new fashions such as the one above which features a full skirt, moulded bodice, a high, round neck and long, tight sleeves. One notable exception is the tradition- luting i It-, right, of Mildred Sunday Afternoon. With six chil- Junction Club Holds v. Citizenship Program Quinns. This gown has short 2d sleeves, low-cut decolletage.

The Marion Junction Home Demonstration Club gave a program on Citizenship Thursday night in the Community House where about 75 persons assembled, in spite of bad weather. Many children were present. Mrs. Harvey King gave a' talk on ness session which preceded the GUEST SOLOIST AT BIBLE CLASS Amote. director of ligious education in the First Bap tist Church, will be guest -yotei! for the Mallory Bible Class on Sunday morning.

rooms. and what we can achieve peace. Mrs G. Clinkseales, of Spar tanburg, S. was a visitor.

PETAL PATH CLUB. WILL MEET WEDNESDAY The Petal Path Garden Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 3 hostess Theres talk of another remake of Seventh Heaven," with Diana Lynn and Guy Madison co- Bob Preston turned down a term contract at RKO because he from TEPPER'S MAIN FLOOR Mrs. A. C. Steed, who was here during the illness of her father, John L.

Laster, at the Vaughan Memorial Hospital, left Friday for her home in Camp Hill. Mr. Laster is now convalescing at his home on Alabama Avenue. Mrs Sam Wilson will reach home Sunday after an absence of six months, spent with a son, T-Sgt. E.

C. Wilson, in Fairfax, Cai. Her sister, Mrs. E. Holm, of New Orleans, will accompany her here for- a visit.

En route home, Mrs. Wilson was the guest of Mrs. Holm and another sister in New Orleans, where she spent two weeks and attended the Mardi Gras celebration. Stuart Powell Raine, son of Mr. i and Mrs.

T. C. Raine, has returned to his home on the Range Line road from the Selma Baptist Hospital where he underwent an appendix operation the past Monday. Mrs. G.

B. Clinkseales, of Spartanburg, is the guest of her WMjmother, Mrs. J. M. Dannelly, and sister, Mrs Ed Hobbs.

They were joined for the weekend by Dr. god Mrs. Clarence Dannelly, of Mont- gomery, and Mr and Mrs. J. M.

Dannelly, of Birmingham. -i Miss Jennie Lou Jackson was the guest oi friends at the University of Alabama for the Vaughan Monroe dances on Saturday afternoon and evening, i it Mrs. Desmond Crain, of Lami-on, is a patient at the Vaughan Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Law Lamar, and children.

Rainer and Law, will return flj home in mid-week from Birming-If ham where they have been guests tf of Mrs. Lamars parents. Miss Jewel DeBardeleben attended the Vaughan Monroe dances at the University of Ala- bamrSaturday: MRS. THOMAS L. BAILEY, wife of the late Governor Bailey of Mississippi, who will be the speaker at the Selma Pilot Clubs annual birthday party on Tuesday evening.

A. A. Mahan has returned from a ten-day vacation spent with relatives in north Alabama and Mississippi. Mr. anti Mrs.

Elmer Franklin Crocker, of Uidoptowh, announce the birth of a son February 11. He has been named Elmer Franklin, Jr. Miss Celia Shuptrine is the weekend guest of her cousin. Miss Betty Boone, at the University of Alabama, where she attended the Vaughan Monroe dances. Dr.

and Mrs, John R. Vonachen, of Peoria, 111., are the guests of their daughter, Mrs. C. W. Hanson, and Mr.

Hatton at their home in Edgewood. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Harper have returned from Fort Deposit where they were called by the death of Mrs. Harpers niece in an automobile accident.

Max, the year-old son of Mr, Mrs. Max Tepper, is convalescing at his home on Fifth Avenue from first and second degree burns suffered about his hands and legs in a recent fall on a floor fnmaoe Mrs. Ruth C. Gantt, a-member of the Junior High School faculty, entered St Margarets Hospital in Montgomery the past Thursday to undergo an operation. Mr, and Mrs B.

C. Hill (Margaret Ann Glass) of Linden announce the birth of a son February 14 at the Vaughan Memorial Hospital. The presence of Mrs. Thomas L. Bailey, wife of the late Governor Bailey of Mississippi, and a celebrity in her own right asthe first woman to be named to one of tire 12 elective offices in that state, that of Tax Collector, will lend distinction to the, annual birthday party of the Selma Pilot Club to be held Tuesday evening, February 17.

at the YMCA. The club will celebrate, its. anni versary at the gala affair" which will begin at 7:30 oclock with many friends of the Pilot Club as special guests. Mrs. Mary Woods, chairman of arrangements, is assisted by a committee composed of Miss Lucy Me-Manus, Mrs.

Ruth Buffington, Mrs. Jerry Rumph and Miss Harriet Mc-Sv ean. Mrs. Ruth Bennett, of Montgom-ery. Pilot district gnvprnnr, wilt share honors with Mrs.

Bailey as an out-of-town guest. Mrs. Bailey is a past president of Pilot International but this will mark her first visit to the Selma club. A new state record was set in Mississippi the past year when she was elected to the office of the' state tax collector, as the first woman to be named to one of the 12 state elective offices. "Her present home is at Jackson, where she also resided as Mississippis First Lady during the administration of her late husband.

Long active in business womens groups aimed at the advancement of womens status, Mrs. Bailey is a charter member and former president of the Meridian Business ajjd Professional Womens Club, a charter member the Pilot Club of that city, and present parliamentarian of the Mississippi Federation of Womens Clubs. In 1936, she served at president of Pilot International. She also Is a past librarian of the Carnegie Library in Meridian, home of the Bailey family for many years. TOMMY RATLIFF HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY Tommy Ratliff, son of Mrs.

T. J. Ratliff, celebrated his third birthday at a party held Wednesday afternoon at his home: Small friends sharing in the good time were Trudy and Charles Hubbell and Patsy Decker. Ice-cream and candy were served with the birthday cake and Valentine favors were presented each guest Others present Were Mrs. R.

Roseberry Tommys grandmother, Mrs Joe Lane, Mrs, Horace Decker and Mrs. J. E. Decker. VALENTINE DANCE AT SWING INN CLUB Parrish High School students made merry Saturday -evening following the basketball game at a Valentine dance sponsored by the Swing-Inn Club, both the club rooms and.

gym of the-Y being thrown open for the affair. They were galiy decorated in red and white streamers and paper hearts and the tickets were in the shape of valentines. Jell? Powell's orchestra played for dancing in the gym and tpe Snack B-i the Club quart was open to serve refreshments. Members of the Parrish High PTA assisted Mrs. Helen Talmadge, club director.

y. SELMA STUDY CLUB STUDIES MUSIC TRENDS Devoting their -Thursday afternoon program to "Men of Music, the Selma Study Club was directed toward a study of the nature of music; whether it is intrinsically national or rather universal, the leader for discussion being Mrs. Howard Crandell who raised the question of whether or not American music is developing a tradition of its own. Miss Rate Welch and Mrs. L.

R. Hillyer contributed papers. The meeting was held at the home of the president, Mrs. F. G.

DuBose. CLUB DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT The Saturday Night Club, Dallas Academy group, held a Valentine dance Friday night at the Fourteen boys and girls participated- Mrs. Morris Barton and Mrs, 1 Frank Crittenden served refreshments of punch and cake. BIRTHDAY PARTY HELD AT CATHERINE Allene Erwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

M. E. Erwin of Alberta, celebrated her twelfth birthday at a party -held, Wednesday afternoon at the Catherine School where she is a student. The Valentine motif was carried out in the decorations of the class-room and a large white cake with Valentine trim-mings centered the table A feature of the party was a Valentine box from which the honoree, assisted by a class-male, Son'' Richards, whose birthday also is February 11, distributed favors to each guest. Mrs.

Erwin served cake and icecream to the young guests. CLASS HOLDS VALENTINE PARTY The Mary Graham Bible Class of the First Baptist Church held a Valentine social on Thursday evening in the class-room, thirty-two members attending the affair at which Dr. Fred P. Pearson, pastor of the church, was a special-guest The fun program was featured by several contests, including a Game of Hearts and a Valentine jig-saw The decorations of the room, with red hearts predominant, and the refreshments were in the Valentine motif. The committee in charge was composed of Mrs.

L. T. Faulk social chairman for the class, Mrs. Sara Vanderslice, Mrs. C.

L. Jones and Mrs. L. S. Dickerson.

Mrs John May ton class president presided over a brief bust- IN HOLLYWOOD By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD -CNEA) -Hurd Hatfield is trying to get away from those stone-face roles he has been playing ever since his film debut in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Hurd wants to do comedy. Nobody knows it, he told me, but Im a frustrated Red Skelton." Press agents are lucky guys. Just when theyd like to publicize singer Dorothy Blaine, along eeihes something called The Bachelors Association of America to name hpr Miss Leap Year because shes the girl theyd most like to have propose to them in 1B48. Aint colnci-deuce wonderful? starred.

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GAY NEW SPRING FLOWERS 59c lo 1.98 To highlight this seasons voting on that one is 14 months away. 'Fred MacMurray has given up the ghost op his own film producing company. June -Nash, one of the original Our Gang kids, 1 working as a dress buyer for a New York department store. Station Were among those presen After group singing, with Mrs. K.

G. Baker at the piano, refreshments waraserved. Good News For Folks Who Suffer From STOMACH CAS SON VR00 TASTI ACID IN DIIESTlOk Buddy Rogers Foil What the people in the hintfr-land wants, and what Hollywood gives them, can always start an argument Buddy Rogers is just back from a nine-week, 19-city tour of the tf. It was a ballyhoo stunt for Sleep, My Love, which he and his wife, Mary Pick-ford, produced. He reports: Double features are still- favored Admissions are too high.

People are tired of big, super-colossal epics. They want homey films. Action and western films are tops in small towns. The Hollywood star system doesnt mean a thing outside of Hollywood. Some theaters bill minor players over the stars or just ignore the stars completely, Buddy Dew in his own plane, did an average of nine radio shows a day and was asked 423,675 times, When are YOU going to be in another picture? His RUBINOFF and his VIOLIN JN A CONCERT OF CLASSICAL POPULAR BOOGIE WOOGIE MUSIC YOU LOVE SPONSORED BY THE SELMA OPTOMIST CLUB BENEFIT OF OPTOMIST YOUTH CENTER JUNIOR HIGH AUDITORIUM SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22 -2 P.M.

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