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Four To Make Debut
Four King* Mountain area young
• ladlea wUl be among the 101 from 16
dttea and towne who will make their
debut to Weitem North Carolina
■oclety at the Mth annual Debutante
Ball June 8 and • of Shelby Junior
Charity League.
Making their formal debut wlU be
Barbara MarUen Patrick, daughter
of Mr. and Mre. Henry Lawrence
Patrick of 688 Battleground Ave.;
Kathleen Barker Slncox, daughter of
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WANDA DIANN BARRETT
FRANCES MVSSELWHITE
Dr. and Mre. Francla John Slncox of
404 Bdgemont Drive, Wanda Dlann
Barrett, daughter of Mr. and Mra.
Tony Dale Barrett of Rt. 8, and
Frances Elisabeth McLean
Musselwhlte, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene McMillan
Musselwhlte, Jr.
The formal presentation wUl take
place on Saturday evening, June 9th,
In Malcolm E. Brown Civic
Auditorium In Shelby.
Co-chairmen of the 1070 Ball are
Mrs. Dick Palmer and Mrs. Jac
ReVlUe. Debutante Secretary la
Mrs. Don Yelton, assisted by Mrs.
John Schweppe, Jr. League
President is Mrs. T.O. West
moreland. Mrs. Henry CHilgo Is
publicity chairman.
The Debutante Ball had Its
beginning June 7,1046 when the late
Mrs. Isabel Hoey Paul Initiated the
occasion. Since then. Invitations
have gone out each year to a select
group of young women In their
senior year of high school. The Ball
has tradlUonally been held the
weekend after high school
graduation.
Members of the Junior Charity
League spend hundreds of hours
each year In preparation for the
Ball, to Insure that It Is a social, as
well as flnsinclal, success. Proceeds
from the Ball, along with funds from
other money-raising projects, help
support a year ’round charity
program Including a Clothing Room
for needy children.
Since 1046, vriien 84 young ladles
accepted Invitations as "sponsors"
of the first Ball, the event has grown
to a well-established social custom
Im Western North Carolina. Post
war frugaUty dominated the first
Ball, where the only deeoratlona
were crepe paper garlands. This
year. Debutantes will be presented
from the stage of the Malcolm E.
Brown School-Civic Auditorium,
decorated as a beautiful Southsm
garden.
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In the early Ball years, girls wore
pastel gowns and carried a nosegay
tied with pastel ribbons. Eventually,
the custom was established that
each girl wears a long white gown,
long white gloves and carries a
bouquet of red roses.
Each of the young debutantes
tradltlonaUy choose their fathers as pbuit manager. Smith, si
chief marshal and an escort for the Rt. 4 reoently retired aflsr
nunierous social functions preceding ti years service. Re
the ball. received a framed
retirement award, Bible
and watch from the textile
..SMITH
service by BUI Artel, h
Division manager
Reeves Brothers, Ii
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★DRESSES
★SHOES
★JEWELRY
KATHLEEN BARKER SINOOX
Ms. Hudson
Is Honored
At Luncheon
whose wedding to Hugh
Harrison Hayes, in of
Charlotte takes idace June
80th, was honored last
Saturday at a 18:80 lun
cheon at the home of Mrs.
H. Carl Mayes on Ridge
Street.
Entertaining with Mrs.
Mayes were her daughter,
Mrs. M.A. Ware, Jr. of
Charlotte, and Mrs. Carl
F.Mauney and her
daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Charles F. Mauney of
Kings Mountain.
Tomato Juice cocktails
and cheese straws were
served as guests arrived.
The Mayes home was
beautifully decorated with
spring flowers. Guests
were served a three-course
luncheon from tables
arranged with spring
bouquets.
Mias Hudson received
guests In a street-length
vanilla raw silk ensemble.
Assisting In greeting,
along with the hostesses,
were Mrs. Irvin M. AUen,
Jr., mother of the bride-
elect, Mrs. Hugh Harrison
Hayes, Jr., mother of the
proqmctlve bridegroom,
and Mrs. George Houser,
grandmother of the bride-
guests were Miss Jo Ann
Hayes and Mrs. Jamas
StancU, both of Chariotta,
ristera of the prospectlvo
bridegroom, Mrs. Hugh Ed
Howard of Charlotte, Mrs.
Haywood Allen and her
daughter, Mrs. Ellis
Monroe, both of Shelby.
Mias Hudson's place was
marked with a good-luck
horseshoe and pair of
lovebirds. The bride’s
centered with bride’s
bouquet of qtilng flowers
from Mrs. Mayes’ garden.
Luncheon was served to
84 guests.
The hostesses presented
the bride-to-be with a
dinner plate In her china
pattern.
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