The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 057, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1984 Page: 5 of 29
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Thursday, January 5, 1984
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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DIMENSION
Stimulate Plant Growth
With Correct Pruning
Club News
Kappa Kappa
A program on marriage
will highlight the next
meeting of Kappa Kappa
Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi at
7:30 p.m. Jan. 5 at the Grace
Methodist Women's Center.
Karen Trigg and Terrie
Laird,hostesses, will present
i the program, “Marriage —
What is a Successful Mar-
riage?”
Mtmbers will elect the
Valmtine Beau to be an-
.. muacecL-at, thft..Yalentine.
Daice. Plans will also be
disused for the Chili Cook-
~ Oi to be held at the home of
Ttrri and C.P. White.
Messick was elected Valen-
tine Sweetheart for the
chapter.
Linda Mulkey will present
the program at the first
meeting of the year on Jan. 10
at Grace Methodist Women’s
building. Fall pledges
Margret Abernathy, Kathy
Hanel and Carrie Porter will
be the hostesses. The Ex-
ecutive board will meet at 7
p.m., with the regular
meeting beginning at 7:30
p.m. __________
jjSTBTrOpTay "wlshe*, for
January pre sent to Robin
vRice-and Ms. Worthington. ■ -
Pinehurst Garden
Bebee Corbell of the
Baytown chapter of the
American Red Cross will be
guest speaker at the 7:30 p. m.
Jan. 10 meeting of the
Pinehurst Garden Club. The
club will meet in the home of
Wanda Duncan.
First place winners of the
Pinehurst Christmas
decorating contest were the
the Kenny Lannou family,
9831 Pinehurst. Second place
went to the Richard Cuneo
family. 7428 Lone Oak; and
'the Kay~Heihtscher family,
7322 Cottonwood, took third
place.
Anyone interested in atten-
ding the club’s meetings
should contact Wanda Dun-
can at 573-1683.
Wj
The last days of winter just crease flower production, with
before the greening of new spring roses and crape myrtle being ex-
growth is pruning time for many amples. Fruit trees are pruned to
plants in the home landscape, increase new growth and fruit for-
says Don Portie, county extension mation. Pruning an old plant will
agent. Pruning is perhaps the rejuvenate It and cause it to grow,
least understood and most abused
A good example of an old plant
of all the many gardening chores, often calling for rejuvenation is
Inoorrect pruning results in poor nandina with its old leggy stems,
growth, improper growth, un- A severe pruning of nandina will
natural plant forms, poor flower induce a flush of new growth, he
and fruit production, and often says. ______. ....
HIippecT Hedge’s, of course, call
Pruning stimulates growth,' {or a regular pruning
thus-pruning becomes a time con-' gardener looking, for low
suming and often unwelcomed maintenance in the landscape
garden chore. ’ T should never establish a clipped
or formal hedge but instead allow KATHY MCGILL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M
the hedge to take its natural form. McGill, is presented an award from Kathy Barnett, chair-
The gardemer is often cbnfused man 0f the education committee of the Catholic
and rightly so, as^ifferen^pes Daughters Court Mater Dei Na 1829 Miss McGill took
of plants are pruned at different first an(* second place honors m the district and first place
seasons. Basically, pruning times in the state in a song writing contest sponsored by the
may be grouped as follows:
Spring flowering plants such as
azalea, dogwood, quince, and
spiraea should be pruned once
. , , ■ they complete their peak bloom in
Large plants should be given the spring. Evergreens such as
ample growing room at their junipers and hollies should be
mature size. Such plants are cor- pruned in the winter,
rectly used as background or Summer .flowering,shrubs and
screening material orpilhTed on trees such as althea, crape myr
large walls without windows,
never to be pruned. Avoiding mant season or winter pruning,
pruning not only eliminates work Hybrid tea roses should be pruned
but also allows the plant to take just prior to spring growth in late
its natural form. February.
Berrying ornamentals such as
ed flowing forms of pyracantha, hollies and pyracantha produce
eleagnus, primrose, jessamine, berries on old or second-year
and spiraea are destroyed by growth, thus the gardener must
pruning shears. allow the growth to age to have
The gardener should prune with berries. A continual removal of rA
a good reason for pruning. Just to new growth on these plants
be pruning because it’s pruning eliminates potential berries. I'-: r?-( p !
season is not a good reason for Pruning also goes along with , ,, _
pruning Reasons for pruning transplanting, which is a dormant INSURANCE WOMEN of Baytown, represented by Pfesi-
may include to correct winter or winter season chore, when dent Pat Canner, left, and Vice President Pat Campbell,
damage and to correct overgrown moving a plant, always prune center, donate $250 worth of toiletry items to the Bay Area
plants, which are usually in too' back the branches so as to com
small of an area
Plants may be pruned to in- system
t
as
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Tdeatirof the plant!"'*
The
The wise gardener choses
dwarfs or semi-dwarfs to plant
near the home, at entrance areas,
near the patio, and in planter
boxes. Compact*dwarfs such as
dwarf yaupon, Indian hawthorne,
dwarf Chinese holly, dwarf
pyracantha, dwarf pittosporum,
dwarf nandina, and many others
will never need pruning, Portie
says.
Women's Aglow
Husbands will be guests at
a covered dish supper to be
held by Baytown Women’s
Aglow Fellowship at 6 p.m.
Jan. l3 at the Family Life
Center of Trinity Tabernacle.
Guest speakers for the
meeting will be Don and Mik-
kie Hughes. Don is an ordain-
ed Southern Baptist minister.
| Mikkie is a former president
of the South Central Texas
Area Board of Women's
Aglow. She served. in_that,
position for three years and
worked in Aglow for a total of
Catholic Daughters
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
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M
tie, and mimosa call for a dor
t
Ml*..
seven years.
Aglow is an interfaith
Christian women's organiza-
tion
According to Portie, the round
A nursery will not be pro-
vided for the meeting
Colonial Dames
t
A luncheon will highlight
the next meeting of the Rev.
Edward Folliott Chapter of
the Colonial Dames XV.II
Century at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 10
at the Goose Creek Country
Club.
The Executive Board .will
meet at 10 a.m. prior to the
luncheon. The luncheon will
feature reports to be
presented during the State
Conference Feb. 15-17 in
Delta Gamma
fall
Sue Fields will teach cake
decorating at the 7:30 p:m.
Jan. 5 meeting of Delta Gam-
ma Chapter of Phi Sigma
Alpha. ——
The meeting will be held in
the home of Ida Miller, 705
Lindenwood. Mrs. Miller will
frovide a cake for
decorating.
Program leaders will be
Dana Gann and Lois
Chamblin. ,
February Sweelheart^partv
and social will be discukSOU at the luncheon meeting.' %
Six new members will be
/
Women’s Center, represented by Sylvia Lohkamp.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
pensate for . the loss of the root
Alley Theater Subscriptions
At An All-Time Record High
Our Once-a-Year Winter
Nacogdoches, where head-
quarters will be the Ffedonia
Ipn. Delegate^' the
Chapter will be named during
SALE
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With season ticket ill’s comedy “Cloud “Angels Fall’’
sales drawing to a 9,” will continue to be (March 29-April 22),
close, Alley Theater sold through the run as well as the world
Managing Director, of the play which premiere of a new
Tom Spray an- closes Jan. 29.. Sub- work (May 10-June
nounced today that scribers can see 3), for as little as $26.
subscriptions for the “Cloud 9,” plus two For.'season ticket in-
Alley's 1983-84 season plays by . Ptfl.itzer formation, conta
are at an all-time re- Prize w'i n n i n g the Alley Box Office,
cord high for the authors, Sam Shep- 615 Texas Avenue,
Theater’s 37-year his- ard’s “True West” Houston, 77002, or
(Feb. 16-March 11) telephone (713) 228-
“Our total of 25,686 and Lanford Wilson’s 8421,
for the current sea-
son is one of the larg-
est in the nation,” re-
ported Spray. “I am
very pleased to an-
nounce that we have
exceeded last sea-
son’s total by more '
than 5,000 sub
scribers.” •
Subscription
tickets for the Alley’s
Arena Stage series,
which Opened Dec. 29
with Caryl ChurCh-
the business meeting.
To celebrate the Christmas:
season, Ida Miller led a
candle-light program on Dec.
1 entitled “A Special
Christmas Program.,” Those
participating were Rose
Fowlpr, Ollie Enderli. Marie ’
Garrett. Clovis Kelly and
Frances Pickel. Special Cooking and Kitchens
season greeUngs from the - Membership into the
president concluded the pro- chapter is open to American
/ gram.;, 'V'* , women of good moral
character. 18 years or older, a -/■>
lineal descendant of a resi-
dent of the British Colonies in
the continental United States
welcomed, including Mrs.
Don Duncan. Mrs. Samuel
Yeager Jr.
Bryan, Mrs .Coyle Johnson,
Mrs. James Patton and Mrs.
Mrs. Foster
Joseph Kilpatrick.
Mrs .G.A. Fairfield will
give a talk on “Colonial
tory
PRICE
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Members, and guests e*-
Changed .gifts and enjoyed^
Christmas buffet in the home
of Ann Miller. Mrs. Gann and
Gertrude Marsh assisted With
the holiday celebration
CLEARANCE SALE
ladies Apparel
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Alpha Pi Omega Chapter of
Beta Sigma Phi held its
Christmas meeting and party
Dec. 13 at the home of Ad-
visor Adele Pumphrey.
Janie Worthington, Valen-
tine representative to City
Council, held a short business present the program
meeting to discuss the up-
coming Valentine dance , set
for Feb. 11. Kasandra
The Sunshine Shop
A program on “Lawrts” will
be featured at the next
meeting of the Plumwood-
Eva Maude Garden Club set
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for 9:30 a.m. Jan. 11 in the
home of Carmen Lawton, 3805
September. David Hearn will
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 057, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1984, newspaper, January 5, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153916/m1/5/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.