The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
N. 6. Women
Club To Meet
Here In June
Board Meeting Of State Fedora
lion Held In Raleigh, Con-
vention Plans Mapped

The executive board Of the
State Federation of Women's
clubs, meeting in Raleigh last
weekend, confirmed the dates Of
May 21-23 and Wrightsville Beach
as the time and place for holding
the 1947 convention. Ocean Terrace
hotel will be headquarters with
other nearby hotels prepared to
take care of the overflow of dele
gates and visitors expected to at
tend.
The North Carolina Sorosis (Jun-
ior and Senior) of Wilmington and
the clubs of the tenth district viii
be h~ostesses to the convention.
Mrs. A. R. Willis, president Of the
Sorosis, met with the board mem.
bers and together they outlined
plans for the convention. Mrs.
Karl Bishopric, the federation
president, is communicating with
a number of notable speakers anc
she promises that the convention
program will be interspersed with
a wealth of information and enter.
tainment, names of the speakers
to be announced later. She is en-
thusiastic about the prospects Of
ending her Observation-Disclosures
ed by all clubWomen of the fedora.
ton as one of the most progress.
sive and fruitful-With a fine con
vention.
The General Federation conven
ton will be held in New York City
June 22-28, with headquarters at
the Commodore hotel. From Mrs
LaFell Dickinson has come an ur
gent request that women expect
ing to attend that convention make
their reservations as soon as pos.
sible. None will be accepted after
10 days before the convention. Ap.
plication blanks containing hote,
prices and general information
may be secured from state feder.
alton headquarters.
Each club in the North Carolina
Federation Of 100 members or few.
er is entitled to one voting dele.
gate, and for each additional hun
dred members or major fraction
thereof, one additional delegate.
All delegates should arrive on
Sunday, June %, and Junior dele.
gates will have a tea that after.
noon.
This is election year in the gen
eral federation. and with a South
ern woman, Mrs. J. L. Blain Buck
OF Richmond, Va, an unopposed
candidate for the presidency,
many clubwomen from North Car.
DINA and other Southern states
will be on hand to support the
Virginia delegation and win the
election for Mrs. Buck.
Two additional requests have
come from the General Fedora
ton. Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs.
Gertrude Parks. president of the
District of Columbia Federation,
are asking that clubwomen use
their influence with their repre-.
sentatives in Congress to secure
submission of a proposed amend.
ment to the Constitution of the
United States that would grant ma.
tional representative to the vote.
less and unrepresented people OF
the District Of Columbia.
The general federation, at the
Chicago convention last June
adopted a resolution pledging ac.
tive support to such a proposal.
The measure introduced by Sena-
tor Kapper is identical with the
federation resolution and it is
known as Senate Joint Resolution
No. 6. Mrs. w. Carson Ryan,
chairman of legislation for the
state federation, joins Mrs. Dick
inson and Mrs. Parks in asking
North Carolina clubWomen to work
for adoption of this resolution.
The second request is from Mrs.
John D.. Robinson of Wallace,
chairman of veterans committee
in the general federation and she
hopes it will receive the same sort
OF response as has her appeal to
clubs for contributions to be used
in giving birthday parties to vet.
Grams in Walter Reed hospital
This request has to do with a cam
paign of education extending to
May 3, in behalf of National Serv-
ice Life insurance. The pur.
pose of the campaign is to make
known to veterans the benefits o.
National Service Life insurance
and to encourage them to take ad
vantage of the generous insurance
terms offered by the United State:
Government.
"It is a disturbing fact" Mrs
Robinson says, that of the IA mil
lion World War II veterans nov
out OF service, three million arr
retaining their insurance but II