"Saturday night parties for service men to be resumed--J.W. March 16-45

Lawrence citizens will be gratified to learn that, at a
meeting held last night in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, the
Community Service League,which has been responsible for community
hospitality to service men, perfected an organization wkieh-wiil
for carrying on the Saturday night parties in the Community building.

of the Naval Training School
Lt. F. P. Butorac and Ensign Oscar Pederson met with Mr. and Mrs.
George Hedrick, Mrs. Deal Six, Miss Joie Stapleton, Mrs. Laurence
Woodruff, Mrs. Frank T. Stockton, A. FE. Woestemeyer, and city clerk
Harold Fisher. :
The Saturday evening festivities, so appreciated by the

_army and navy officials and enlisted men, were discontinued after
January 24rd, since the liquidation of WPA at that time deprived
the city recreation program not only of game room supervision and
janitor service bak oF the services of a director, and the League
was faced with the necessity of carrying on the activities with a
corps of volunteer workers who had no source of funds other than
the weekly gifts of sponsors. The recreational facilities afforded
the service men during the preceding six months had been carried as
an integral part of the city program, with the result that moderate
expenditures for music, refreshments, and incidentals by local
sponsoring groups made possible a weekly dance and game room party
each Saturday night. The discontinuance of the week-end hospitality
for service men has been a matter of grave concern for armyy and
navy officials,and a source of embarassment to patriotic Lawrence
citizens who have been grateful for the opportunity to meet and know

the men in uniform who are quartered here for training or who are

the city's guests for a few hours or days when on leave. It is hoped