The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-10
State Women S Clubs Hold Fourth
Place In Sale Of Bonds In Nation

club needing report blank may
request one of Mrs. Bishopric.
Another important piece Of work
clubs should do is to spread In
formation about the scholarships
offered from the Sallie Southall
Gotten Loan Fund available to
qualified persons who wish to pre-
pare to teach Bible in the public
schools. These scholarships are
gifts, not loans. Mrs. ]. M. Hob
good, Farmville, will supply infor-
nation to any applicant. Course
are offered in Bible teacher train
ing at Davidson college, Duke Uni
versity and Guilford college.
Mrs. w. T. Bost, chairman OF
the Public Welfare department,
announces that prizes awarded an
nually in her department go this
year to the following winners:
The Kate Burr johnson cup,
awarded for the best piece of child
welfare work, to the Raleigh Jun
ior Woman's club for the sponsor
ship and maintenance of the Fan
ny Y. Beckett Detention Home for
Children in Wake county.
The Nathan O'Berry cup, estab-
lished by the late Mrs. Thomas
O'Berry in memory of her father
in-laW, was awarded to the White
vile Junior Woman's club for hav-
ing done the best piece of civic
work by any club. 1t cleaned up
large unsightly area and made
it into an attractive park for citi-
zens of the town.
The Pleda Jackson cash award
for the best health work by any
club went to the Hendersonville
Woman's club. Mrs. Charles R.
Whitaker, a pioneer in club health
work and once chairman of the
division of Health in the Fedora
ton, directed the work of the Hen
Jacksonville club. Among the fine
things reported by the club were
donation of considerable sums to
health needs in both white and Ne
gro schools, to the polio drive, to
Red Cross; boxes sent averaging
IS lbs. each for five months to
polio hospital, the boxes contain
ing scrap books, cut-out books and
hundreds Of separate sheets of
pictures for children patients.
Gave registered nurse 500 to ex-
anime elementary school children,
going through all grades and
checking each child for general
diseases; gave daily 30 pints of
milk to needy children; sold
Christmas seal sales amounting to
1888. Contributed to teen-age can
teen; sponsored a dental clinic for
school children; sponsored and
paid disqualification for children of
primary grades.
Mrs. Bost. says that the sum to-
tai of work done by Welfare de-
partments Of clubs during the past
year was simply amazing. while
Commissioner of Public Welfare
for North Carolina" she says, Il
was aware that clubs were doing
welfare work, but the extent and
varied kinds of work done by the
clubs is far beyond anything I had
knowledge of until 1 read their
annual reports. The Federation
has every right to feel a sense
of deep satisfaction in what the
clubs have achieved this past
year"
Mrs. J. Henry Highsmith, i'm
mediate past president, continues
to receive reports from clubs of
held for the purpose of
studying the Dumbarton Oaks Pro-
posals and the Breton Woods con-
ference. Additional clubs having
made these studies at Mrs. High
smiths request are: the Maids
club and Sorosis of
Chadbourn, Wendell Woman's
club, the Sunshine club of Sana-
forum, the Peachland Woman
club.