Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-12-18
!. THE NEWS
FROM
Here And There

Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Pollock of
Boyd, accompanied by Mrs. Vivian
Orme of Dickerson, attended the
Army-Navy football game in Phil
adelpbia.
Between 10 A. M. and 4 P. M. on
Saturday, December 20, sale will
be held at the Potomac Community
Shop. Persons in the community
are asked for donations of toys,
dolls, books, gadgets, clothes, shoes,
handmade, knitted and crocheted
articles or woodcarving. A free
chance for a door prize will be
given with each purchase. Leave
donations at the Potomac School.
Tiny Meeker's Orchestra will
provide music for the dance to be
held at the Sherwood High School
Gym on Saturday, December 20,
9 to IL, for benefit of st. Barthclo-
news Church.
Describing the three major
projects which the Montgomery
County Safety Board has under
taken, Washington I. Cleveland,
Chairman of the Board and mana
ger of the District of Columbia Di-
vision of the American Automobile
Association, said that the promo
ton of driver training courses in
Montgomery County high schools
had been outstandingly successful,
in his interview over radio station
WGAY, Saturday, December Is.
Mrs. Arthur Becraft of Spencer
vile won wonderful prize offered
through the Homemaker's Gift
Shop Program, on Station WGAY,
Silver Spring. The Indian Spring
Market at Four Corners, one of
the sponsors of the Gift Shop, do
mated the prize, Mrs. Becraft has
been a member since almost the
beginning of the club.
Christmas seals were invented
by a Danish postal clerk, Anton
Holmboe, in 1908, as a source of
revenue for an anti-tuberculosis
society, according to the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica. Their use spread
to the other Scandinavian coun-
tries and to the United States.
Ruth Vitale, winner of the In
ternational Grand Prize on Per-
manent Waving in 1888, has
bought the beauty salon formerly
known as Elise Beauty Shop, To-
Gated in the Bethesda Bowling
Center Building. The new salon
has been completely redesigned.
Carey Quinn, II, former judge
of the Orphans Court, has been
gravely i'll at Suburban Hospital
following an operation.
In a recent news article six pu-
pills of Kensington Elementary
School were credited with winning
quizdowrf over station WTOP. 1t
seems that after the program went
off the air Mollie Miller and Peggy
Janney of Sherwood Elementary
pointed out an error made by the
Kensington team-proving it by
the 10 vol. Encyclopedia which had
just been awarded to Kensington-
and the prize changed hands right
there.
A Christmas entertainment I'M
der the direction of Mrs. George A.
Wilson End, will be held in the
Rockville Christian Church at 1870
P. M. on Friday evening, December
10. An interesting feature of the
evening will be a program of
Christmas music presented by the
new Junior Choir and directed by
Miss Anna Marie Harding.
Cadet Frank P. Palmer, Jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank P. Palmer,
Olney, achieved first honor roll
rating at Fishburne Military
School, Waynesboro, Va, for the
academic month ending December
5, 1947, having met the require
ments of no grade below IS per
cent.
"Tell Carl / am prouder than
ever to be working for General
Motors" Mrs. Betty F. Kraft of
Takoma Park, joyously declared
when she learned from her "bip
boss" c. E. Wilson, president Of
General Motors, that a shiny new
four-door Chevrolet sedan would
be delivered to her in a few days
as the result of her having been
one of the top winners in the cor
poration-wide GIN employee con-
test "My Job and Why / Like It."
The Bethesda Chevy Chase Chap
ter IWLA will hold turkey shoot
en- Sunday, December 81, Begin
ming at noon, on East-West High
way east of Rock Greek, near
Meadowbrook Horse Show grounds.
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