Evening star., 1951-03-18
Agriculture Unit,
Legion Auxiliary
Plans Supper Dance

Plans Supper Dance
United States Department of
Agriculture Unit. American Le-
gion Auxiliary, will sponsor buf-
fet supper and dance for mem
berS of the armed forces at the
Legion Club, 2437 Fifteenth street
NV, today from to 9 pm.
Miss Orvene Nelson, president,
Is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Sarah Rovner and Mr..
ToXey will give dance instruction
from 8 to 4 pm.
Mrs. Bertha w. Fichthorn, de-
partment president, and her staff
will make an official visitation toI
Henry C. Spengler Unit on We'd
nesday at the Legion Club at g
pm. Mrs. Henrietta DeAvies,
president, will preside.
At the request of nationalI
headquarters units of the auXili-
airy are securing signatures on a.
pledge to prevent participation in
black market activities. Copies of
the pledge may be obtained from
Mrs. Ida c. Orr, department Sec
retary, at District of Columbia
headquarters.
Mrs. Ada Riley, department.
poppy chairman and Mrs. Kitty
Peters, co-chairman, will be at
the auxiliary headquarters every
Monday night for the next few
weeks to distribute material for
making poppies and to assign
quotas and the sections at, Arl-
tngton National Cemetery In
which the poppies will be used
to decorate graves for Memorial
Day.
Mrs. Esther Carrico, depart
ment community service chairman
and her committee will hold an
Easter party next Saturday at
the Blue Plains Home for the
Aged and Inf1rm at 2 pm.
The committee recently pre-
sented the home with a 50-pound
drum of clay for the making of
models. Members of Kenna- Main
Unit are planning to present a
firing kiln.
Gold Stars have been presented
to the auXiliarys hospital workers
for service at Mount Alto Hospital
as follows: Mrs. Margaret E. Car
roll, 1856 hours; Mrs. j. Florence
Dietsche, 564 hours; Mrs. Beulah
La Scola, 622 hours; Mrs. Ida c.
Orr, 506 hours; Mrs. Loretta M.
Reed. 542 hours, and Miss Mabel
F.. Staub, 537 hours.
Veterans Administration Vol
unteer Service Certificates of
Merit for 800 hours or more have
been received by Margaret Carroll,
Mrs. Dietsche, department chair
man of volunteer hospital work.
ers; Bertha Gresham, Pearl
Heagerty, Beulah La Scola, Loretta
Reed and Mabel Staub.
Certificates of appreciation for
one years work have been given
to the following: Helen Barry,
Marie Batten, Phyllis Belden,
Margaret Carroll, Merle Cerulla,
Ruth Clough, Jessie Carran, Flor
ence Dietsche, Virginia De Force,
Pauline Eggleston, Bertha Fich-
thorn, Matte Frye, Ella Gibson,
Anna Goldberg, Bertha Gresham,
Florence Harrill, May Hilleary,
Pearl Heagerty, Alethe Hermann,
Mary Jordan, Alberta Lacy, Cath
crime Linenkamp, Fairfax Lomack,
Doris Miller, Clara Newton, Court
ney Newton, Ida Orr. Rose Per-
kins, Laura Prince, Mabel Pug
liese, Loretta Reed, Mabel Staub
and Rebecca Ward.
@4A D. ~s4A4Oi GU y OoLl1Co, III 1SGlOE11U,
and the Rehabilitation Committee
Of Woodbridge Unit, will hold
games party at Mount Alto Hos
pital on Friday from 1880 to
$3.50 pm.
Agriculture Unit will meet at
the home of the president, Miss
Orvene Nelson, 4433 Faraday place
NV, Thursday night, to start
work on the making of the units
quota of 5000 poppies for Me-
mortal Day.
q. S. Maritime Unit will meet
at the Legion Club on Tuesday at
8 pm. with Mrs. Faith Windsor
presiding. The unit has pur-
chased walker" for physical
therapy work, 10 view masters and
a protector with 16-mm. films for
use at the Blue Plains Home for
Aged and Infirm.
A "straddle chair" an innova-
tion for the comfort of a child in
a cast, is to be presented to the
Chippled Children's Clinic at Gal
liDger Hospital.