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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 3

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Happenings of Interest Around and About the Borough inir were: S. Grace Dlttman, Pln- Parkes Cadman Memorial Church and Rabbi Sidney Tede-sche of Union Temple. The 25 Year Service Club at the Green Point Savings Bank has two new members, bringing the total to 15. The new members are Herman D. Mlchaelis, assistant secretary, and John J.

Miller, auditor. cus M. Berkson, and M. Mix Aeuanno. vice presidents; Louise B.

Haslam, James E. Thomas and Alice E. Biddle, secretaries: Seymour Besunder, treasurer and Ben Lefkowitz, sergeant-at-arms. Cheryl Archer of 25 Stratford Road will model Junior cos tumes next Monday at a card They were guests at a luncheon and were presented with gold watches. The Parent-Teacher Associa tion of Public School 215, Avenue and E.

2d St. will see color films next Tuesday at the school and the Scholarship Glee Club of Bethany Baptist Church will sing. John Dudley is the director. Brooklynites who served at Fort Tilden during the war are hearing the old "front and center" for a reunion at the Tavern On The Green in Central Park seme time soon. The event is being planned by Milton Saunders who was "one of the gang." He and his orchestra are playing an engagement at the Manhattan eatery.

Boy Scout Troop 135, or-ganized 23 years ago is planning a reunion for some time next month at the Hotel St. George. Former members are urged to contact Herb San-tano, 719 Greenwood Ave. Although Brooklyn's official flower Is the forsythia, the boro has an "Orchid Queen" too who Left- to righk Henry Kroencke, William McKeveny, Frank Frank McCann. Br CECIL JOrfXSOX Therapy patients at the Manhattan Beach Hospital will receive a movie camera and all accessories from the Communication Veterans of the New York Telephone Company.

The money represents proceeds of a dance held at the Columbus Club. A membership campaign is about to be started by the group with 1,000 new members as the goal. Active in the hospital benefit THEIR DAY IN COURT Th children who take part in the radio program "Juvenil Jury" had never been inside a real courtroom and so Supreme Court Justice Anthony J. Giovanna invited them to' the Brooklyn Supreme Court, where they witnessed a court session. Left to right: Dickie Orlan, Peggy Bruder, Jerry Weissbard, John McBride and Charlie Hankinson with Justice DiGiovanna.

the committee are: Mrs. Bertha Tweet tweet! The Brooklyn Bird Club will show the film "High Over the Border" next Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Museum. The Brownsville Civil Rights Cheryl Archer party and fashion show, the lat ter by Martin's, for the benefit of the Apostolate for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at the Hotel St. George. Cheryl attend ed Holv Innocent Parochial School, E.

17th St. and Beverly Road. She is appearing in the play, "Love Life" in Manhattan, and was in the movie, "Cover Girl." At the last meeting of the Brooklyn Poetry Circle, first honors for a humorous poem went to Jeanne Paul of 223 78th whose offering was titled, "Six O'clock Alarm." The 19th Infantry Battalion of the Organized Marine Corps Reserve has resumed recruiting at its headquarters in the Naval Militia Armory, 52d St. and 1st Ave. The St.

George Association of the United States of America will hold its annual entertainment and dance Feb. 18 at the Manhattan Center. War bonds and a television set will be awarded during the evening. The cultural committee of the Williamsburgh Ixdge, I.O.O.F. will conduct a "Brotherhood and Cultural Night" next Tuesday at the headquarters.

Speakers include Mrs. Thomas Evans, president of the National Coun cil of Women of the United States; the Rev. Arthur Acy Rouner, minister at the Dr. S. were Henry Kroencke, treas urer; William McKeveny, vice president; Frank Reilly, president; Norman LaVoie, chief of pecial services at the hospital and Frank McCann, personnel representative of the telephone company.

The Naame Club of the Pioneer Women's Organization Is presenting a puppet show today at the James Madison High School, Bedford Ae. and Quen-tin Road. Proceeds will be used for the rehabilitation of women nd children in Israel. Trances Rurfeind, chief dietician at Manual Training High School gave a luncheon at the school for students in the Cafeteria Service Squad during the past year. A program by students of the music department was presented.

Burnt cork, latin suits, corn in plenty, and songs and dances will make the welkin ring at the Hotel St. George Feb. 18 when the Brooklyn Lodge of Klks go all out for minstrel show. Al Doyle has coached 73 of the antlered herd to carry on a la Primrose Went, and some of the boys will doll up as dames to become "The Skyrockettes." The "Dead End-Men Kids" will be former Magistrate Leo Healy, Ronnie Carr, Frank Dilson, Eugene Jones, William Quinn and Alfred Rakin. Interlucn-tors will be Hyman De Rapps, John Manning and Francis Cnite.

The Brandeis Chapter, Ameri can Jewish Congress presented a cantata "What is Torah?" at the installation ceremonies of the Brager Society at the River side Plaza, 73d St. and Broad way, Manhattan. The Brandeis Chapter is a boro unit of the congress. Harold J. Bailey of 3437 Bed ford Ave.

announces that Dr. Charles W. Cole, president of Amherst College and John J. McCloy, president of the Inter national Bank for Reconstruc tion and Development will be the speakers at the annual smoker of the Amherst Club at the Roosevelt Hotel Feb. 17.

The Rooster Club of the 9th Ward will have a combination Lincoln-Valentine party tonight at the "Main Coop," 759 Washington Ave. "Bantam" Tex Gregory is chairman. The Parent-Teacher Associa tion of Public School 98 will meet next Tuesday at 1:30 p.m at the school, Avenue and E. 26th St. Movies will be shown at the meeting.

The Parent-Teacher Asnocia Congress and the American Labor Party of the 23d A. D. will will present a Negro History Celebration next Monday at the First Baptist Church, 695 Rockaway Ave. Mary Lou Williams, pianist and Laura Duncan, singer, will perform. Speakers include Terry Rosenbaum of the A.

L. Frank Herbst, union official, and William Petterson of the Civil Rights Congress. The Rev. G. C.

Christian is chairman. A meeting of the Reserve Officers Association of the I'nited States will be held next Tuesday at the Columbus Club, 1 Prospect Park AVest. Department President Col. R. K.

Doughty will be the speaker. The annual card narlv for the benefit of the Todd Memorial Post American Legion Welfare Fund will be held next Wednesday at the clubhouse, 1 Wil- lougny m. ine event is spon- iored by the Auxiliary and on -jtfN. if'' i. 1 Reilly, Norman LaVoie and tion of Thomas Jefferson High School will hear National President Mrs.

Ludwig Kaphan of the Women's American Order for Rehabilitation Through Training, next Monday night at the school. The "Wheelchair Basketball Team" at New Utrecht High High School, composed of physically handicapped students met and defeated the varsity team 35 to 17 in a re-rent game. Anxious to help crippled youngsters who wanted to take part in athletic contests, Francis Griffith, school principal, hired a number of wheelchairs for Iheir use and the proceeds of the game will he used to buy the chairs outright. The following Brooklynlles were installed as officers of the Briyuth Society of the Department of Health at ceremonies held in Manhattan; Sylvia Behr, second vice Abe Brown, treasurer; Sadie Sher man, Minnie Form and Saul Fucns, secretaries; Jacob Ker- ner, executive board member and George Kerchner, council delegate. Louis F.

Montelione is presi dent of the 13th A. D. Republi can Club at 2913 Avenue for the coming year and elected with him at the annual meet- LaSalle, Flower Memorial, St. John's, St. Francis Seminary 1 and St.

Peter's, 1. Public high schools represented are Manual, Franklin, Bryant, Jackson, Long Island City, Bay Ridge, Boys High, Brooklyn Tech, Fort Hamilton, Jamaica, 1: Kings Park, Lafayette, Miami Edison Morris, Newtown, New Utrecht, Sewanhaka, Washington Irving, 1 and Erasmus Hall, 1. ward A Cummlnga Post. American Legion, Elks Club, 910 Union gt 8. Dinner-dance honoring Representative James J.

Heffernan. Democratic leader of the 12h A. Columbue Council, 1 Prospect Park West, Valentine dance by the ladles auxiliary of Robert I. Porter Poet. Veteran of Foreign Wars, 8123 4th 8.

Art-auction party entitled "Artists for Neighborhod Art," for benefit of United Art Workshops of the Brooklyn Neleh. borhood Houeee. Sidney Jants and the netty parson oauenea, 13 z. 7Ui Manhattan. 8:30.

"GOIXO PLACES?" PHONE MA. 4-6200 FOR IDEAS A.M.-5 P.M. I portrait, taken by his painting of Washington. The Revllle Post Auxiliary, American Legion, will have a card party next Monday at the headquarters, 592 Fulton St. Fifteen new members will be welcome into the AVomen's League for Judea next Monday night by Mrs.

Pauline Weinrick, the president. The meeting will be at the clubhouse, 818 E. 51st St. The organization has sent cards, to Mrs. Rose Kaplan, a member, who is in St.

Catherine's Hospital. The Philathea Class of Memorial Baptist Church, 16th St. and 8th will celebrate its 28th anniversary with a dinner at the Park-Vanderbilt Restaurant next Monday night. The Parent Association of Public School 131 will Dresent a play "Who's To Blame?" next Monday at the school. Fort Hamilton Parkway and 44th St The play was written by Rose a.

and will be acted by members of the association. Tim Grfrnilnt Vnat IwluU War Veterans will have it sth annual dance tonight at the jewisn uenter, 45-46 43d Long Island City. Jerry Standig is chairman. Botanic Garden Forming Spring Course Classes Registration Is now underway for nine short courses to be given this Spring at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Frances M. Miner, curator of Instruction, announced today.

Classes are limited in size and early registration is advised," she said. Enrollment informa tion may be obtained by writing her at 1000 Washington Brooklyn 25. The courses in clude: Flower Arrangement Sec tion 1, Wednesdays, 7 to 8:30 p.m., March 2-ApriI 1.3; Section II, Thursdays, 10:30 to noon March 3-April 14 (omitting March 23 and 24). Instructor Marion Feddersen. Fee, $15; Bo tanic Garden members, $7.50.

Planning and Planting the Home Grounds Section Tues days, 6:30 to 8 p.m., April 5-May 10; Section II, Wednesdays, 10:30 to April 6-May 11. Instructors: Alice Recknagel and Alvs Sutcliffe. Fee, $12; Botanic Garden members, $5. Flower Painting for Amateurs Wednesdays, 10:30 to noon, April 6-May 25. Instructors: Ta- bea Hofmann.

Fee, Bo tanic Garden members, $12. More About Ornamental Plants Section Thursdays, 6:30 to 8 p.m., April 7-28; Section II, Fridays, 10:30 to noon, April 8 29. Instructors: Miss Reck nagel and Mrs. Sutcliffe. Fee, Botanic Garden members, $4.

Dwarf Plants April 20, 21 and 22, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Instructors: John B. Nomer and George S. Avery Jr. Fee, free to Botanic Garden members.

Wild Flowers and Ferns-Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8 p.m., May 3:31. Instructor, Hester M. Rusk. Fee, free to Botanic Garden members. Kaplan Faces Tough Ring Fo in Mogard Georgie Kaplan, youthful Brownsville heavyweight, undefeated In 12 pro starts, will face the toughest foe of his budding ring career when he oppose Dom Mogurd, a Christiansen, Mrs.

Margaret Boccia, Mrs. Julia D'Amato, Rose D'Amato, Mrs. Sara Gil-bride, Mrs. Helen Gil lan, Mr. Margaret Hagadorn, Mrs.

Helen Koroshetz, Mrs. Bertha Miller, Mrs. Gertrude Palumbo, Mrs. Helen Thayer, Mrs. Emma C.

Sullivan and Mrs. Marion Popper. The Brooklyn Chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants, announces the following new members: Vincent G. Pirozzi, Charles J. Thlele, John J.

Hughes, Anthony J. Zlelinski and J. E. Altoonian. The following Brooklynites with a yen to see the world, enlisted at the navy recruiting station in the Federal Building; Robert W.

Thornton, 198 Washington Park; Gus Sclafani, 1196 E. 93d Frank Zigo, 642 Logan Salvatore A. D'Auge, 6707 13th Edward T. Ray, 2034 E. 65th Arthur W.

Hag-strom. 35 Park Place; Anthony .1. LaRocca, 1718 Suydam Richard E. Farrant, 886 Jefferson Charles H. Isaacson, 901 73d William D.

Hamill, 67 Hausman John J. Palecki, 177 Norman and Salvatore T. Vela, 1396 E. 58th St. INT Heffernan Club To Dine.

Dance Representative James J. Heffernan and Mrs. Julia Larkin Rernard, district leader and co-leader, will be honored at the annual dinner and dance of the 12th A. D. Hosts will include D.

Kenneth McEvoy, club president; Councilman William M. McCarthy, general chairman: Mrs. Elsie Jacobs, Joseph J. O'Brien, Maurice F. Hickey.

Mrs. Sydella Starlight, Joseph DeSanti, Roy R. Riohard, Chauncey H. Levy, Assemblyman James W. Feely, Bernadette Dolan, William L.

Berk, Joseph E. Murphy, Col. Walter Jeffreys Carlin, "Ralph K. Jacobs, Thomas J. Lynan, Mrs.

Pauline E. Thornton end Irene Ascetta. Signs With Browns Pitcher Jack Appelbaum of Brooklyn College has been signed by the St. Louis Browns and will be sent to the Aberdeen club of the Northern 'League, a class league. Last FEB.

12, 1949 ii fyf fiiF itii' SWEARING IN Suprem Court Justica Charles E. Murphy, left, swears in Municipal Court Justice Charles E. Breitbart as honorary president of Greater Flatbush Civic League. At right is Harry McDermott, league president, while Assistant Borough Works Commissioner Frank Nolan looks on. Susan Murphy will rule over the Brooklyn Heart Campaign at the Hotel St.

George. She is Susan Mur phy, a Brooklyn Barbizon model who exhibited orchids sent from Hawaii to be sold to raise funds for the campaign. Red Cross Olfers inq Course A basic knowledge of Red Cross home-ntirsing procedures will help the busy working girl care for sick members of her family -with a minimum disruption of her daily life, Ijoui.se F. Wilson, R. director of the Brooklyn Red Cross home nursing department, said today in announcing a special course for career women.

Beginning at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 14, and continuing on Mondays and Thursdays for three weeks, the free course is designed, Miss Wilson said, "to teach basic techniques in home care of the sick so that the busy working girl can make the most of her non-working hours when illness strikes in her home, or eo she can arrange the necessary oomfort-alds for the period of her absence from the home." Information about registering for the course may be obtained at the 'home nursing department, 57, Willoughby St. BROOKLYNITE'S LINCOLN The portrait at left, just completed by a retired Brooklyn stockbroker, was inspired by his grandfather's painting of Lincoln, extreme right. Center shows Emerson Carpenter Ives of 158 Cleveland the retired broker, putting finishing touches on considered a masterpiece. Mr.

Ives used as model a photograph grandfather, Francis B. Carpenter, who used it as model for Great Emancipator which now hangs in the Capitol at Artist Carpenter painted five other Presidents. Catholic Schools Give 40 to College Television Added To Facilities of Maternity Pavilion Mothers recuperating from childbirth can now occupy their time watching television programs in the maternitv pavilion of I'nity Hospital. The hospital's executive director, Peter S. Berlind, reveals that 25 private and semi-private rooms, containing a total of 41 beds, have been wired for television.

Eight seta already have been installed and six are in use. Berlind pointed out that television service to patients was "purely optional." He said the sets can be rented at $10 a week, or $2 a day. He said he believes Unity Hospital was the first in the city to install television for patients and that the hospital expects to wire all the private and seml-prlvate rooms in the medical and surgical building in the near future. Berlind reported that the pa tients enjoying television were "pleased and "responding nicelv." BROOKLYN EAGLE, Farewell Dinner For Navy Chaplain Capt. Frank R.

Hamilton, 3d Naval District chaplain since May, 1947, will be given a farewell dinner Monday evening in the Brooklyn Navy Y.M. C. A. He will leave for Norfolk Tuesday tn become chaplain of the Atlantic Fleet. Captain Hamilton's hosts will be members of the New York Chapter of the Military Chaplains Association and representatives of the General Commission on Chaplains, the Military Ordinate and the Division of Religious Activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board.

Rear Admiral Walter S. De-Lany, commandant of the 3d Naval District, will be among the speakers. Commander Joshua L. Goldberg, who will become acting chaplain of the district, will be master of Boro Elks Expect 'Sellout' for Show Brooklyn orpham and indigent children will benefit by what is expected to be a "sellout gate" for the annual minstrel show of Brooklyn Klks Lodge, No. 22, at the Hotel St.

George, Feb. 18, Exalted Ruler Ross J. DiLorenzo announced today. Net proceeds will go toward the lodge's annual orphan outing at an Ebbets Field Dodger game, Mr. DiLorenzo said.

The show will have a cast of 50 lodge members. A feature of the performance will be a comedy act by former Magistrate Leo Healy and Ronald Carr, a bonding executive. Al Doyle Is coach of the "Elkt-travaganza," the title of this year's production. Tickets for the show art on sale at Elks headquarters, 910 Union St. The Very Rev.

Brother Jerome, O.S.F., dean of St. Francis College, announced today that 40 of the 65 students who have entered the college for the Spring term are srraduates of Catholic high schools. The others are from public high schools. Catholic schools represented are St. Francis Prep, 15; Bishop Loughlin, Cardinal Hayes, St.

Augustine's St. Michael's, Cathedral, Chaminade, Calendar 2th annual Mllitirr Bill of J. Person Pot, American Xjegton, Livingston, 301 Schermerhora a Dlnnar-danc celcbratlm silver anniversary of Port Hamilton Memorial Post. American Let ion. Hotel Oranada, Ashland Plae and Lafajrett I.

Card party and reception of 24th A. D. Retular Republican Club, 745 New Lot Ave (. Party honoring Pet Ness, first World War I veteran to Join Mesa-CarMtl Post, V. P.

2518 ConT Island 8 Carnival of Hi-Y Clubs of tb Highland Park Branch, T. M. C. A 670 Ja-maloa 8. Dinner -4anc tandemd ta Jamea Marren, Junior put commander of Bd.

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