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CURB REPORTER
Bill Weigel is at sea again,
headed this time for San Francis
co from New York, on the City oi‘
Newport News. Having his -Bul
letin transferred from Allentown,
Pa., to Oak Grove, Oregon. The
Bulletin follows some people all
over the world .... The cook
ing school now in session here for
three days was held last week in
Hendersonville and a prominent at
tendant at community cooking
schools there states that it was the
best she had ever attended . . . .
That SSO prize offered by Avant
Electric Co. is the grand prize at
tracting visitors to the cooking
school .... The European situa
)ion is keeping a lot of people busy
hese days. What we need most is
to think right and for every moun
tain home to have its own chick
ens, hogs, cows, sheep, pasture,
garden and orchard and plenty of
dry wood cut in the shed. Then
embargoes, boycotts, blockades,
etc., will not make us really suf
fer .... Lefty Flynn had a tele
gram from David Niven the other
day stating that he would definite
ly come to Tryon as soon as ar
rangements were completed for him
to rejoin his regiment. In a press
interview in New York Saturday
Dev'd said it would be five years
before he married and if he did
it wouldn’t be a movie actress.
“Movie actresses,” he said, “are
sweet, but marriage hasn’t half a
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Polk County War
Relief Work
The American Red Cross is ask
ing from Polk county the follow
ing quota of heavier weight gar
ments to be completed and sent in
by January Ist, 1940: Eight men’s,
four women’s and eight children’s
sweaters; and four women’s and
eight girls’ dresses of heavier ma
terials. This quota is only on
sweaters and heavier weight dress
es with full length sleeves. The
need for this type of garment in
war relief is practically unlimited;
end Polk countv is asked to ex
ceed its quota if possible.
No work room for Red Cross
work is contemplated at present;
but all who w.i h to do such relief
work in their homes will be giving
a distinct service to war-stricken
people. Directions as to sizes and
types of garments can be gotten
from Miss M]ae Irene Flentye, sec
retary of the Polk County Chapter,
who will hold open house in her
home at 10 a. m. on Wednesday of
each week to anv who wish to meet
with others to do relief work. The
first meeting will be held this
coming Wednesday. Materials for
making seaters and garments have
been ordered and will be on hand.
In order to carry on relief work
for sufferers from the war it will
be necessary for the Polk County
Chapter to receive special gifts of
money for this purpose. For ex
ample, the yarn alone for the few
sweaters requested in this first
quota w'll cost some thirty dol
lars. The money which the Polk
County Chapter receives in the an
nual roll call is not more than
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6, 1939