Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-12-06
BY Mrs. Ulysses Griffith Nv
Telephone Clearwater 3-2682

Telephone Clearwater 3-2682
The Damascus Chapter of the
Future Farmers of America met
November 81 with SO members
present and Richard Howard pre-
siding. The main order of bust
ness was the initiation of the fol.
lowing to the order of the Green
Hand. Donald Crawford, Ray
mond Hunt, Donald Leishear,
Kenneth Mohler, Charles Seabolt,
Robert Shaw, George Green,
John Beall, Pete Carlton, Arthur
Johnson, Jack King, Larry Leo
nard and Jimmy Moxley
The boys received FLA jackets,
Green Hand pins and their FLA
manuals.
The chapter has 1853 baby
chicks which it is raising as a
group project to be sold as broil-
erS.
The chapter has also started a
six-pig purebred Hampshire pig
chain. Two of the six gifts are
being kept on the chapter farm
and will be raised and bred as a
group project. The other four
have been awarded to Robert
Shaw, Richard Howard, John
Watkins and George Stup. The
boys will return one gilt from
their first litter to be passed on
to other deserving FLA members
and are required to show their
animals at the county and COM
munity fairs.
Danny yesterday has received
the purebred Guernsey heifer
from the chapter and in turn will
return his first heifer calf to the
chapter and will show his animal
at the fairs.
Mrs. o. e. Williams has asked
the column to extend her thanks
to all who worked and contributed
to the United Givers Fund drive
in the Damascus area. A total of
approximately $1400 of the $1624
quota was raised.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Slacum
and children spent the weekend
in Orange, Virginia where they
visited Mr.. and Mrs. N. c..
Bailey.
The Damascus American Leg
ion auxiliary was presented with
an awar for having obtained its
1856 membership quota at a rec
ent presidents and secretaries
conference held in the Emerson
hotel in Baltimore.
Attending from the Damascus
auxiliary were the Mesdames Ada
Burns, jeanette Medairy, Reba
Mae Pearce, Deanna Gladhill, and
Dorothy Cover.
The Auxiliary is at present sell
ling ladies and mems hosiery and
boxes of lanolin soap. Proceeds
from the sale of these products
will go to the auxiliary Ameri-
canism project. This for the local
group includes sponsoring girls
at Girls State, good citizenship
awards to senior boy and girl
at the Damascus High School
obtaining and distributing to the
schools flag code and etiquette
booklets, entering high school
students in the national why 1
am proud to be an American"
contest, and many other worth
while projects.
Any auxiliary member will be
glad to take your orders or you
may contact the chairman, Mrs.
Dorothy Cover.
At the November meeting of
Damascus Cub Scout Pack TIT
the following awards were pre-
sented by advancement officer E.
E. Saylor. Wolf: William S. Allen
II, and George Appleby; Bear:
Larry Mullinix, Wayne Koontz,
Lee Hafer, David Lyon, and
Gary Cupit; Silver Arrow: David
Purdum, Richard Miller, Wayne
Bowers and Michael Woodfield;
Gold Arrow: Larry Mullinix, Pet
er Tuckerman, David Purdum
Richard Miller and Michael Shon;
Bobcat: Charles Appleby, George
Stipe and Allen Keil. The Deem
Der Pack meeting will be held or
December II.
Mrs. Herbert S. Hyatt enter
tanned Friday evening at a stork
shower for Mrs. Leonard Tolley
The Senior MYF enioyed Z
spaghetti dinner as a part of theil
meeting Sunday evening.