Evening star., 1946-07-07
Service Complies
Entertaining
Families
By Betty MHHken

Dy Deny MHfRPn
A broken elbow that resulted from
a fall few weeks ago is causing
Mrs. Norman Kirk, wife of the
Army's Surgeon General, to take
things easy these days. The un-
fortunate accident occurred when
she slipped on wet grass in her
garden, and one of the incest things
she's had to forego was a trip to the
West Coast with her husband.
Gen. Kirk got back Friday from
the American Medical Association
Convention in San Francisco. While
there he did a little pinch-hitting
for his wife. One of her pet hob
bies in the Nurses National Memo
rial, so in San Francisco the general
attended the luncheon-and made
a speech-that opened the drive for
funds for the West Coast Division
of the Nurses National Memorial.
General TO Retire
Gen. Kirk, who'd been Surgeon
General three years on June first
will retire next spring after IS years
service. Already he and Mrs. Kirk
have made plans for their future.
They've bought the Tuthill residence
at Montauk. Long Island, nine
bedroom white-frame house that
sets squarely on a hill above Fort
Pond Bay and has a view of the
ocean.
This service couple has spent
many summers at Montauk, but not
in the house they now own. The
one they usually occupied was
ripped from its moorings" twice
during hurricanes, so, fearing to find
themselves floating around in the
ocean" they decided to buy the big
house on the hill.
The present tenants will remain
on the property till the first of No
vember, when Mrs. Kirk goes up and
begins renovating the house that
she and the general will occupy
most of the year when they're not
in Florida.
They'll have plenty of room, too,
for their children and grand-chil-
dren, all of whom now are in Wash
ington. Daughter Ann and her
husband, Harry Lentz Willard (re-
Gently lieutenant colonel in the
Army, gave housewarming last
oUnniro of snA Wi B.
new home in Takoma Park, in honor
Of their house guests, the Cecil
Williamsons.
The Kinks other daughter, Jane,
with Jane, jr.," has been staying
with her parents at Walter Reed
while her husband, Marvin Rea
Klmbrall, jr. "a former Navy Ieu-
tenant, has been getting started
with General Electric in Schenec-
tady. Marvin is down for the week
end and with Jane attended the
housewarming last evening.
Others in the guests list incident
ally were the Raymond w. Bliss,
jrs., newly married son and daugh-
ter-in-law of the Deputy Surgeon
General and Mrs. Bliss; 1t Col. and
Mrs. James Souder, Mrs Harvey
Klemmer, DR.. and Mrs. Robert Ap-
pleman, visiting here from Chicago
and Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Wachtel
from North Carolina.
Davises Here
Another service couple enjoying
family reunion is Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Glenn B. Davis. Their
son and daughter-in-law, the junior
Glenn Davises, with their 5-year-
old daughter, Jean, and 15-month-
old son, Glenn, III, have been visit
ing them since the middle of April.
Come July 18th and they'll be back
again In Rio de Janeiro, where Glenn
is with the U. S. Steel Export Co.
Since early April, Admiral Davis
has been commandant of the Po-
tomac River Command as we'll asI
superintendent of the Naval Gum
Factory, and he and Mrs. Davis lived
in Quarters B at the Navy YARD.
Recently, however, the admiral was
relieved of the second assignment
and Rear Admiral Theodore D. Rud-
dock took over the job.
Last week Admiral and Mrs. Da-
Wis moved into Quarters A and
turned over their former residence
to their successors. To celebrate the
occasion and to give their son and
daughter-in-law a chance to saw
good-by to their friends here, they
gave a cocktail party at the Oficers'
Mess. It'll be their last big partyl
until fall.
Back in town from a holiday att
Lake Placid is Col. Thomas j. Weed
former Military Governor of the
Port OF LIE Havre, who has been Wis
iting old friends, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Philip B. Eaton, since his re-
turn from France. Col. Weed, who
was in charge of bringing the GIs
home from Europe. will remain with
the Eatons till he receives a new
assignment. He and his late wife
were golf teammates of Admiral and
Mrs. Eaton in Honolulu more than
10 years ago, and as Mrs. Eaton
puts 1t, Mrs. Weed was a champion
Il was only 'follow-upper'." !