Record Searchlight from Redding, California • 9

Thursday November 23 1V78 Page A- Reception fetes Faulks Record Searchlight The Redding area Raptist Church Fellowship hosted a reception honoring Mr and Mrs Rolf Faulk of Central Valley on their 50th anniversary The couple were married on Nov 17 1928 in Ventura They moved to Central Valley three years ago from Chico where they managed a barber shop and beauty salon They liave two children Dr Ralph Faulk of Richmond Ore and Burl Faulk who lives on the East Coast A third son Elvnn passed away in 1945 Wayne and Jane White along with Charles and Carol White of Redding will honor their grandmother Mrs Bertha White of Oklahoma on Thanksgiving Day Mrs White will be 90 years old in December This is her first visit to California since the early 1940's Three new University of California Berkeley students from the Redding area have been awarded Alumni Scholarships for the 1973-79 school year by the California Alumni Association Glen Heppel Feter Waller and Susan Van Eyck selected by 75 local committees operating throughout California were judged on academic achievement and leadership potential Brenda Peterson of Redding pui-licipated in a speech contest at the California Association ol Resources Conservation Dsitricts 33rd AiUiiiai Convention in Santa Rosa Alung with six other speakers from throughout the state Miss Peterson a senior in Enterprise High presented a speech to convention delegates entitled stewardship as viewed through the eyes of a young adult" Cheryl Lynn Welker and Andrew Briar Sturgis were married Sept 9 at the Conununily Congregation Church The new Mrs Sturgis is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Welker of Chico Her husband is the son uf 20-40 CLUB WILL HELP SEND RUNNERS TO NATIONALS Steve Scott Zaue Scnreder Kim Carter and Michael Weidlein Area runners go to nationals MK AND MRS ROLF FAULK They were wed in 1928 and graduated from Chico State University with a degree in account-ing He is employed by the firm of Moore Miller and Kvanhoe in Redding (See ELLA Page A-10) Irma Sturgis of Yreka and Kenwood Sturgis of Montague The bride is a 1975 graduate of Pleasant Valley High School in Chico She is employed by David's Place Chico l'lie bridegroom was a 1971 graduate of Dunsmuir High School When most families are sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner today four members of the Redding Track Club will be flying to the National AAU Cross Country Championships The four young people all members of the Redding Track Club are being helped on their way by the Redding 20-40 Club which donated proceeds from its recent haunted house to the cause Competing in Albuqueruqe NM will be Zane Schreder son of Dr and Mrs Jack Schroder who will be competing in the 7 and under division in the Pacific Association Championships and the California State Meet Kim who has been Pacific Association Qiampion for two years in a row also placed 18th in the field of top collegiate runners throughout the US Weidlein is Pacific Association Champion this year while Scott placed second in the California State Meet Schroder placed 13th in the 9 and under division of the state meet The track club has been in existence for three years and is open to anyone 8 years of age or older Steven Scott son of Mr and Mrs David Scott and Michael Weidlein son of Mr and Mrs Don Weidlein both competing in the 10 and 11 division They will be accompanied by one-haii of their coaching team Mike Silva- Regina Silva the other coaching team half will accompany Kim Carter daughter of Mr and Mrs Kent Carter to Memphis Tenn Kim wiil race girls ages 10 and 11 All four runners earned the right to compete in the nationals by placing MOVED! to 2770 Churn Creak hiving a RED TAG MOVING SALE OFF IN Dot 10) (ALL DOLLS TOYS ACCESSORIES MARKED WITH A RED TAG You can thank a woman for Thanksgiving settled? Putting aside the sectional feelings and local incidents that might be urged by any single State or isolated territory that desired to choose its own time would it not be more noble more truly American to become national in unity when we offer to God our tribute of joy and gratitude for the blessings of the year? DOLL HOUSE FOR THE YOUNG and the YOUNG-AT-HEART" Oiily 10-8 241-7947 kind in the country) Mrs Hale wielded a powerful pen Gradually she garnered the support of the people and in 1863 she published her and finally plea for a Thanksgiving Day in the form of an editorial Titling it "Our National she began with a Bible verse from Nehemiah 8:10: he said unto them Go your way and eat the fat and drink the sweet and send persons unto them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto the Iiord neither be ye sorry for the joy of the Iord is your Strength" Her editorial continued in part: commanded the inspired Leader of the Jews when they kept the 'Feast of the Weeks' In a time of national darkness and sore troubles shall ivc not recognize that the good ness of God never failelh and that to our Father in heaven wc should always bring the Thanksgiving offering at the ingathering of the harvest? "Wise lawgivers and great patriots have acknowledged the salutary effect of appointed times for national reunions which combine religious senitment with domestic and social enjoyment thus feeling of benevolence are awakened and gratitude to the giver of all blessings is seen to be the great duty of life Owing to the different economy of different churches among Protestant denominations except the Christian Sabbath all our religious commemorations are partial and local "Would it not be a great advantage socially nationally religiously to have the day of our American Thanksgiving positively PRE-HOLIDAY SALE ijp pantyhose panties all in one This story was first published in the Record Searchlight in 1974 Editor's note By SUSANNE HOPKINS A woman saved Thanksgiving That's right If it hadn't been for Sarah Josephs Hale a Boston magazine editor you probably wouldn't be celebrating Thanksgiving today or any other day The day of praise to the I-ord for the bounties of the past year was first brought to this country in 1621 when the Pilgrims celebrated at Plymouth Rock But from then on it was downhill all the way Thanksgiving was celebrated when the spirit moved the men which was not often It was erratic holiday held only in parts of the United States (mostly in the North) and usually oil varying dates No one really thought too much about it unless they were miraculously cured or saved from the plague That is no one thought about it until Sarah Hale came along Mrs Hale was for nearly half a century the intensely patriotic editor of Book" a popular magazine of the 1800s A widow and mother of five children she had turned to writing in 1822 when her husband died only four days before the birth of their youngest child In eight years she published three books Genius of Oblivion" (1823) (a novel 1827) and of Our (1830) Her literary efforts attracted the notice of Rev John Iuris Blake who proposed to establish a woman's magazine "ladies Magazine" with Mrs Hale as editor She accepted and began wielding her editorial pen as a means of righting wrongs and launching various campaigns A great proponent of education for women she gave valuable support to Vassar College in its early years lavishly praised Catharine Beecher efforts to train woman teachers for the unschooled west supported Elizabeth Blackwell America's first woman doctor and offered an extensive list to her readers She also fought to have Mount Vernon recognized as a national shnne campaigned to have the Bunker Hill monument completed and last but not ient battled vociferously for a national Thanksgiving Day She began this last in 1827 while still editor of "Ladies Magazine" She continued her plea for a national day of thanks when she became tlie editor of "Godcy's" writing letters to governors in every state of the union publishing editorials and even writing to the President of the United States With Lady's Book" approaching the 15000 circulation mark (the largest of any periodical of any OFF Now you can save 20 on one of most popular styles of pantyhose Underalls have no panty lines because the panties are knit right into the hose Come in and stock up todayl Regular $1 95 now $1 55 Regular $250 now $200 mx THE DOWNTOWN REDDING MALL Christmas Stockings EGGSHELL.