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Mrs. William L. West, 796 Fairmount Ave., president of Hallie Q. Brown Community House is congratulated by United Fund president James F. Owens Jr., upon being selected as the outstanding member of a United Fund agency board of directors. This first annual award was presented at the Fund's annual meeting May 14.

Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: The women, residents of the Valley and High Rise apartments, are among some 40 elderly St. Paul men and women who have joined a sewing project enabling them to serve others although they are without much money or have no transportation. It's a project that works two ways. The senior citizens have a useful activity and Our Lady of FGood Counsel home for terminal cancer patients gets a much-needed supply of pads, hospital...

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Residents of some of the city's homes for the aged attended the recent "old Folks" party given by the St. Paul Sunshine federation in St. Paul's United Church of Christ.

Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: Whatever the viewpoint, old age--or what passes for it in today's parlance--is an important preoccupation of the century which has done momst to encourage it. It has its own science, geriatrics. It subscribes to an in-group magazine, Maturity. It is courted by travel agencies, dance schools and real estate promoters. In St. Paul, it even has its own retail outlet for hobbycraft: Senior Citizens Sales, at 379 Minnesota...

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Mrs. Charles McNeal., 853 Iglehart ave., was watching "Dialing For Dollars" on KSTP-TV Channel 5, Tuesday afternoon about 3:30 pm when the announcer said the Count is Down 2, and the amount 915 dollars. He dialed the number, and Mrs. McNeal's phone rang--she knew the count, direction, and amount and she is 915 dollars richer.

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Popular with many St. Paul retired men are bowling groups such as this one at the East District YMCA. Sending his ball down the alley is Home Bailey, 72, of 947 Earl St., while Ambert Nelson, 74, of 1549 E. Ivy Ave., waits his turn.

Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: Milton Williams of 955 Iglehart Ave. in St. Paul will again this year be conducting classes in the "Negro in American Life" at Hallie Q. Brown. Milton first began teaching these kind of classes at Karamu House in Cleveland in 1960. He taught them at that location for three years until he was made regional coordinator for the Emancipation Proclamation Exposition in Chicago in 1963. Mr. Williams...

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Belle Swanson, 90, left, a former ST. Paul schoolteacher, has been collecting buttons for many years and has about 800 assorted types. Her companion, Eliza Schlenk, 105, prefers reading. Both are residents of St. Paul's chuch home, 484 Ashland ave.

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Funeral service for Mrs. Lila M. Weaver, 72, Wilder Nursing home, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Wulff mortuary, 1485 White Bear ave. Mrs. Weaver died Saturday at the nursing home. She had been ill 8 years. A life long resident of St. Paul, Mrs. Weaver was a waitress at the St. Paul Athletic Club and was a member of Hallie Q. Brown center, the Golden Age club and Union Gospel mission.

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Age 79, of 507 Marion. Husband of Doris; father of Joseph, Goleta, Calif.; James, Elizabeth, Doris and Judith, all of St. Paul.