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Th,ursday~June 20" 1946
Pointers Push Drive
For Russian Relief
C.,~paign to Reh"bilitate, Great Hospital Being.Carri.d
on Through June; Youngsters to ,Benefit
'To provide hospital care )or the thousands of Russian
children -who require operations to restore their' sight and
their hearing, and to provide artificial legs and arms' for
yOW1gsterswho saw actual warfare during the Nazi invasion,
the" Detroit committee, Society fOr Russian Relief, hie., is
. danger.
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Party Serves
Dual Purpose
Mr. and Mrs. Syd R. Scott of
University place entertained on
Tuesday, June HI .at an Open
House for 125 guests. The occasion
was in the form of a double
celebratilm.
It was the Scott's twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary and' their
eldest son Robe;t, had returned
just recently from 18 months
duty in the' South Pacific, an
Ensign in command of an L.C.T.
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Loch,uoor Plans
Djnt&et- ,Dance
i..oclunoor Club is holding a
dinner,. dance on the night of
Saturdpo, June ,22.
Bobby Grayson's band will
play lor dancinr which will. be
from 9:30 t'& 1:30. Dinner will
be from 7. to'9 p}>m,
.MAJOR TRAGEDY.
A brand new Ford Tudor sedan
belongirig to the Alfred Sttiner
COm\'any' caught fire' while
parked at Jefferson' and Way burn
Wedriesday forenoon. .
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Lutherart
WillHqld
., 6 ROS S E ,PO I N T E
Guild,'
Sociai
The St: James LuUieran chureh
Women's Guild will hold .,lawn
social 'on Sunday, June 23, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Flemming,
265 Moross road. Grosse
Porrite Farms. The event will
start at 5: o'clock. ,
Members of the church and
their friends, are .cordially invited
to attend. Mrs.' William Nelson
is chairman of the. cOlIlinittee
in charge. ' .
conducting its final campijign for funds. The drive opened
People wh~ se« how far they
June 12 and will continue thr~,(gh June 30. :
can 10, go too far and don't see it
Grosse Pointe is, well represented,
on}he committeecl;mduet- _
ing Hie drive witli Wendell C. ------------- ------- _
Goddard heading t,.he Michigan
committee for RUSSian Re)ief and
Dr. Alfred H. Whittaker, chairmall
of the June drive.
Surgical instflunents and medicines
are to ~ purchased in this
;, country to be. shipped to Russia,
l' as the articles required. by host
pita1s there are not available in
1 Russia. Filatov Children's Hospital,
lal'gest pediatric institution
in the country.hasa capacity of
700 beds, but is now functioning
on a limited scale.
Named after:: Dr. N.,F. Filatov,
Russia's great pediatrician of the
nineteenth century, the hospital
not only directly cares for numerous
ill and maimed children,
but also serves as a training. in-
,stitute for sp€dalists in children's
diseases. Annually many of these
doc to r s le'ave .the instilute to
spread the benefit of their train- ,
ing and .knowledge throughout
thr,: childl'en's hospitals, schools.
clinics and rest homes in all parts
of the Soviet Union.
Russian Relief has taken the
f;,OUlSE STEVENS PAGE responsibility of. providing for Fi-
, " 'Ialov HospitaL It.is the theory of
Mr. and Mrs. Blinn Stevens the sponsors that this kind of
Pag~, 112~ ,Devonshire road,. help given to the Russians will
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