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ROSEBURS NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURS, 6RESOR, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1942. THREE o Society and Clubs By LOTUS KNIGHT PORTER P.T. A. MEETING HELD AT GREENS SCHOOL The February meeting of the Greene P.-T. A. wa3 held Friday evening at the school house with Mrs. George Holm, president, op ening the session with the flag salute, followed by the group singing, "The Star Spangled Ban ner." Reports of various committee chairmen were heard and Mrs. Norman Fisher was appointed re freshment chairmen for the March meeting. Mrs. Joseph Porter Invited the Greens Study club to meet at her home Febru ary 17 for a potluck luncheon. The school picture was won by the upper grades room and Mr. Leuellen won the pillowcases made by the Study club. Mr. Lcuellcn presented the en tertainment for the evening, which included a song by Willene and Melba Lee Leuellen, reading by Frances Land; one-act play by the upper grades with the follow ing cast: Bob Holm, Eob Gould, Keith Henson, Frances Land, Beverly Vansteenburg, Marie Aus (tin, Norma Fisher and Irving Parkhurst, and a piano solo by Marie Austin. After the business meeting re freshments were served in the dining room by Mrs. Claude Park hurst and Mrs. Norman Fisher. The next meeting will be held at the school house March 6th with Mrs. Norman Fisher in charge of refreshments. EPISCOPAL GUILD TO MEET MONDAY St. George's Episcopal guild will meet at 8 o'clock Monday evening at the home of Mrs. James E. Judd in Laurelwood with Mrs. J. M. Judd acting as joint hostess. Mrs. H. H. Turner, president, will conduct the meet ing and all members are urged to be present as final plans will be made for the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake and waffle sup per to be held February 17th at the parish hall. The pancake and waffle sup per is open to the public and will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 o'clock The committee in charge of the affair includes: Mrs. R. R. Brand, Mrs. Theo Bond, Mrs. William Bell, Mrs. James E. Judd and Mrs. J. M. Judd. RED CROSS f O BE BENEFITTED BY DANCE SATURDAY EVENING - -.-.The public has been most cor dially invited to enjoy the benelit dance to be sponsored by mem bers of Roseburg Rebekah lodge No. 41 and Philetarian lodge No. 8, of the I. O. O. F., Saturday ev ening, February 14th, at the Ori ental gardens. The affair Is oeing sponsored as a benefit- for the American Red Cross. A line or chestra has been secured to fur nish the music for the evennig. Tickets ane being sold by mem bers of the two organizations and will also be sold at the door Sat day evening. P.-T.' A. COUNCIL TO MEET SATURDAY The Douglas County P.T. A. council with Mrs. Wilbur Culp as president, will meet Saturday at two o'clock at the junior high school building. The public Is cor dially invited to attend. Mrs. L. A. Wells, chairman of the Doug las county nutrition council, will talk on the "Hot School Lunches" and Mrs. Culp will give a report on the state board meeting of the Oregon Congress of P.-T. A., which she attended. January 2Znd in Portland. D. A. R. TO MEET MONDAY AFTERNOON Umpqua chapter of the D. A. R. will meet at two o'clock Mon day afternoon at the W. M. Campbell home on South Main street with Mrs. C. L. Branton acting as hostess. . The business meeting will be in charge of Mrs. Ray S. Petrequin, regent, with Mrs. Walter V. "Monger as pro gram chairman. All members are urged to be present. VALENTINE DANCE TO BE HELD AT COUNTRY CLUB SATURDAY NIGHT; Members of the Roseburg Coun try club and their friends have been most-crodially invited to en joy a charming "Valentine" danc ing party to be held Saturday ev ening, February 14th, at the club house. Mrs. R. E. Greene is act . lng as chairman of the affair. MRS. MEISSNER IS HONORED AT PARTY GLENDALE, Feb. 13. Mrs. E. J. McMullin was hostess to a sur prise party Sunday evening in her home in honor of Mrs. Walt u'hn was celebrating her birthday that day. The evening Might Coughs due to colds . . eased without "dosing Hub 1PORUI was spent In playing games and afterwards the hostess served re freshments to Mrs. Meissner, the guest of honor. Miss Florence Johnon, Mrs. Elma Archembeau, Mrs. W. T. Harbour, Mrs. I. H. Smith, Mrs. Gertrude Lystul, Miss Blanche Hoffner, Miss Berle Smith, and Miss Alice Nobel. HOME NURSING CLASS ORGANIZED AZALEA, Feb. 13. Mrs. Mil dred Caylor of Azalea organized a Red Cross home nursing class at her home Wednesday, Febru ary 4. Mrs. Caylor R. N. Is a graduate nurse from the Sanitarium at Glendale, Calif. A three hour lesson will be given once a- week on Wednes day until 24 hours have been given. Mrs. F. A. Farnam is chairman and treasurer, Mrs. Johnston sec retary, Mrs. Esther Worley is also a member of the committee. JUNIOR C. E. GROUP HAS PARTY GLEWDALE, Calif., Feb. 13. The Junior Christian Endeavor enjoyed a party in the parlors of the Presbyterian church Friday evening. The evening was spent in playing games and later re freshments were served. Those present were Mary Ann Bowman, Mary Ruth Sparkes, Dorothy Reynolds, Mabel and Marion Nixon, Betty Harbour, . Elinor Pruner, Charles and Lee Mill, Jerry Lassen, Larry Henninger, Jack Prunner and John Harbour. The leaders present were Miss Luella Cunningham, Mrs. Wm Wunsch, Mrs. Ira Lewis, and Rev, Paul Tidball. LADIES AID SOCIETY HAS MEETING THURSDAY RIDDLE, Feb. 13. Mrs. Asa Lawson entertained the Ladies Aid society at her home Thurs day afternoon. The devotions were led by Maud Grant, presi dent. After the business session the Indies spent the afternoon visiting and sewing. The hostess served dainty refreshments on trays decorated in a valentine motif. Eleven ladies were pres ent. American Legion Auxiliary Activities By MRS. CLAUDE BAKER "Tuesday, Feb.' 17, at the I. O. O. F. hall the auxiliary will en tertain Legiopnaires, their wives and any eligible to membership, according to President Bess Rie gel. At 6:30 a potluck supper will be served with each unit member bringing a covered dish and bread and butter for her guests. She should also bring complete, table service. Coffee and cream will be served by the committee com posed of Mrs. S. W. Van Voorst, Mrs. Margaret H. Brown and Mrs. Ned Dixon. Mrs. .Riegel reports that enter tainment has been provided for the evening. She urges everyone to be there. "Lincoln was honest. He was a good man, too!" So said young Ivan Vaughn of Glide yesterday when he showed me his second grade paper. His teacher, Violet Wiltshire, had given each child a picture of Lincoln about whom they were to write. Thus early in our schools are pupils taught Americanism and good citizen ship. Feb. 16 is the day for registra tion of women for war time work. When you are called upon you will have the plan explained to you, so it is to be hoped every one will find some place to help. In England today, how surpris ed you would be if Instead of a red-cap, 114 pounds of charming femininity were to tote your lug gage from the station. Over there now you would see a woman tuck a curl under her cap before hoisting a mailbag on her back. The driver of a plow would pause for a minute to powder her nose, before climbing into the seat and releasing the ciutcn. In muni tions factories and machine shops the protective peak of a work man's cap would be set st a jaunty angle over saucy eyes, and nimble fingers would be busy At the lathes. The Legion and auxiliary all over the nation have pledged to eive and secure other pledges for defense bonds and stamps. You who are giving to your country will be interested in learning what your dimes will buy for the army and marines. I ll tell you what it will do for navy and air corps next week. For the Army A ten-cent savings stamp pur chased by a citizen will buy one set of insignia for our armv. A 25-cent stamp win buy a dozen bandages. One dollar invested in stamps or bonds will buv the armv one arm splint; six dollars will buv it one antitank shell: ten dollars will buy It a tent: $19.36 will buy It one 81-milllmeter trench mor tar shell. The sum of $370 Invested In de fense bonds will buv our army 17 surgical beds; $500 will buy it a SIDE GLANCES " 1WIYWH MHVICC.tWC. TM. REC. U. S- T. OTf. . wuinc on in, I'm iJl.t my v.e i:i jrtsl u-'iji viclim for practice in her first aid course. Thrills and Romance! - - Wjlliam Boyd, as "Hopalong" in "Secret of the Wastelands," with bara Brlttoii, which starts today showing. I Vigilance Is Price , , U. 8. Navy photo. Eternal vigilance is also tne puce ot safety, and this scene on the Hying bridge of a, destroyer on convoy duty on the Pacific gives the alert tone. One officer taxes bearings with a polaris, a signalman blinks in code to another ship as merchantmen in convoy are escorted by war craft. motor trailer; $1,000 will buy It a reconnaissance car; and $15,000 will buy it one pontoon bridge. For the Marines A dime defense savings stamp will buy five .45 caliber jcart ridges for the U. S. marine corps. Fifty cents' worth of stamps will buy 12 yards pf barbed wire. A dollar will buy one Intrenching shovel; $b.70 will buy one round for a 37-millimeter anti-tank gun. Five dollars will get the ma rines one steel helmet; $18.75 will buy them one field telephone; and $37.50 In bonds will buj them one wall tent complete. The sum of $75 invested In bonds will buy our marines one field range complete; $184 will buy them one sub machine gun; and $240 will buy them enough ammunition to fire a 50-callber anti-aircraft machine gun 1,000 times! Elisha J. Holloway Funeral Services Set Funeral services will be held at the Roseburg Undertaking company chapel at 10:30 a. m. Saturday for Elisha J. Holloway, who died Thursday at his home at Myrtle Creek. The services will be conducted by the Rev. John A. Barney. Interment will follow in the Willis creek cemetery. Dy Gdbraith Cassidy, forestalls a bit of gunplay Brad King, Andy Clyde and Bar at the Rose theatre for a two-day of Life on Convoys Grant Wood, Noted Iowa Painter, Pastes Away IOWA CITY, la., Feb. 13. (API Here in the heart of the farm belt, where he found sub jects for many of his best known paintings, Artist Grant Wood died last night after a long Ill ness. Had he lived until today, he would have been 50. , Wood's most widely known works included "American Go thic," depicting an austere farm couple from his native midwest: "Daughters of Revolution," which drew harsh criticism from D. A. R., members, and "Parson Weem's Fable." in which he paid his re spects to the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. Rationing of Gasoline Under Consideration WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (AP) Wartime gasoline rationing for "NO CHILD OF MIKS WILL EVER GfrliAIXIIA1 vvunifid 'Si,--T'"' Awtalr. ,r-ln Crtt J-n.'s Vmilfug, uur! tw.rWi Local N ews Returns From California Mrs. E. E. Wimberly has returned to her home on North Jackson street, following several months in Los Angeles visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and . Elton Wimberly, and at the home of her brother-in-law, Lee Wimberly, and family. Will Hold Initiation Members of Florence Nightingale tent, No. 15, Daughters of union Veterans of the Civil War, are requested to attend an important meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock In the for mer Adventist church on Mili tary street. Initiation will be held. - Benefit Program Saturday The public has been Invited to at tend a benefit program Saturday night at 8 o clock at the Rivers dale grange hall, to be followed by a dance and refreshments. A small admission charge will be made. Proceeds will bo used to benefit the Garden Valley and Edenbower observation posts. Nutrition Classes to Organize Three classes in nutrition, spon sored by the American Red Cross, will be organized tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the justice court room of the courthouse. Ail persons in terested in taking the 20-hour course have been asked to attend this meeting to register and to be assigned to classes. Persons plan ning to take the canteen course must receive certified' nutrition instruction first, the Red Cross advises. Return Here Mrs. V. J. Mlcelll and her mother, Mrs. Annie L. Russell, have returned to their home here, following several days In Portland, where the former at tended the state mobilization of women meeting. Mrs. Mlcelll is county chairman for the reulstra- tion of mobilizing womeirfor the war industry.. Tuesday afternoon, they attended the state mid-winter convention of the W. C. T. U. Mrs. Micelli is state chairman of fairs and exhibits, and Mrs. Rus sell is president of the local unit. They visited the headquarters of the Christian Science war relief and also made a trip to the har bor: to see bundles-for-Britain be ing shipped. While in Portland, they also visited Mrs. Russell's cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Wilson, who recently built a new home there:. . -. i V " State Guard Units Ordered Formed in 3 Oregon Cities SALEM, Feb. 13. (API State guard units will be formed at Eugene, Astoria and Tillamook, Governor Sprague announced to day in an order directing Briga dier General Alvin C. Baker, Portland, state guard comman der, to complete organization of those units as soon as possible. . Arms and equipment for the new units will be shipped from the state arsenal as soon as or ganization is complete. The governor also said that a complete survey of the state, with reference to the possibility of organizing other new units, is under way. Equipment provided by the state for guard units comprises rifles, ammunition, trousers, coats, overcoats, gun slings, bay onets and first aid packets. Captain Melville H. Cullender was chosen to command the As toria unit, while Captain Irvle Keltson will head the Tillamook unit. The Eugene commander has not been. chosen. Captain Keltson Is a World war veteran, and Captain Callender served for eight years as an offi cer of the Oregon national guard. the eastern seaboard and the Pa cific northwest was under discus sion today in official circles here. Coupon books may be introduc ed soon to distribute equitably the dwindling supplies of motor fuel, sources close to the industry said. Diversion of tankers from their normal runs, coupled with war i losses, has trimmed the volume j of coastwise oil movement. A committee representing the j industry was said to have reconv j mended to Harold L. Ickes, petro-, leum coordinator, a 15 per cent j cut in consumption before April i 1, by rationing motorists and by! closing filling stations at nights and on Sundavs. ' -J-r.J.TrrA-r.-.--r. I Noted Orchestra Leader Billed at Eugene Concert Sir Thomas Beecham EUGENE, Feb. 13. (Special) The Seattle Symphony orches tra, conducted by the Internation ally famous Sir Thomas Beech- am, will play In concert here at McArthur court on Monday ev ening, February 23, as a feature of the University of Oregon's an nual artist series. Betty Humby, distinguished British pianist, will appear with the orchestra as soloist. . Sir Thomas Beecham is recog nized as one of the world's great est orchestra conductors and his appearance in Eugene Is expected to be the season s musical nign light. Tickets for the coming concert are available at the A. S. U. O. ticket oiflce at McArthur court, Eugene. MARKET REPORTS LIVESTOCK PORTLAND, Feb. 12. (AP) (U. S. Dept. Agr.) CATTLE: Market fairly active, mostly steady to strong; some dairy type cows now fully 25 higher than Monday;, some steers, also showing advance;'common to me dium steers $9.25-11.50; few head good light steers up to $12.75; strictly good carloads quotable to Monday's top of $13.15; common dairy type heifers $7.50-8.50; beef heifers to $9.00; canner and cut ter cows $5.00-6.50; fat dairy type cows $7.00-50; medium cows $8.00; common- to medium bulls $7.75-9.25; good quotable to $10.00; good to choice vealers $13.5015.00; common to medium $9.50-12.50. HOGS: Market 15 to mostly 25 lower; good to choice 170-215 lb. drive-Ins $12.50-75; few lots $12.85; extreme early top $13.15; 230-270 lbs. $11.75-12.00; light lights $11.50-12.00; medium grades down to $11.00; good sows 350550 lbs. $9.0010.15; medium grades down to $8.50; good and choice feeder pigs $11.50-12.00. SHEEP: No early sales; good to choice trucked-in lambs sal able steady or around $11.50 with carloads-eligible to $12.00; few fall-shorn lambs unsold; good slaughter ewes salable $5.50-6.00. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb.' 13, (API POTATOES, new Cali fornia white, $1,751.90 per 28-lb. lug; Florida, red, $2.60-2.75 per aO-lt) box. Texas $2.50-2.65. ' Other produce unchanged. WHEAT PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13. (AP) Open High Low Close May .. 1.024 1.02H 1021 1.02S GETTING STALE? iOWtlNO teeps voufit.. Keep fit, Mr. Business Man, nd Ladles, too, by dropping In one or two nights a week for healthy exercise that Is great fun. You'll find the town's leaders pepping up herel Roseburg Bowling Alley L Captured Deer With Mystery III To Be Examined A yearling deer, believed to be suffering from a malady which has caused a large number of deaths recently among the deer In the North Umpqua area, was captured at Illahce today and is being brought to Roseburg for examination In an effort to Iden tify the disease, V. V. Harpham, forest supervisor, reported. During the past few years a re curring malady has taken a heavy toll of deer. The state game commission, working through the department of bi ology at Oregon State college, has endeavored to identify the disease in order that a study may be made to reduce losses. The work, however, has been handi capped by the Inability to secure deer while still alive or shortly after death. Capture of the sick animal at Illahee is expected to furnish the department one of the best speci mens so far obtained in the study. Experts from the college are expected here tonight to ex amine the animal, Mr. Harpham reported. Jas. Kirkpatrick, World , War Veteran, Passes On James Kirkpatrick, 63, World war veteran, resident of Ply mouth, California, died at the E-S'.TM:1 ES! He was born in California May o, ioio, ana enusiea in me worm war June 20, 1918. He served as a horseshoer with Company 8, 6th engineers. He was discharg ed September 8, 1919. Mr. Kirk patrick was never married. He was a member of the Catholic church. Surviving are two brothers, Orlando Kirkpatrick, Inwood, California, and .Jefferson Kirk patrick, Bend, Oregon. The body has been removed to the Douglas Funeral home and lunerc: arrangements will be an nounced later. SUMMONS Case No. 8887 In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Douglas. . -., G. W. Nelson and A. B. Nelson. Plaintiffs, vs. sopnia F. weaver, Defendant, To the Above Named SoDhla F. Weaver, Defendant; . . , In the Name of the State of Oregon, you are hereby required to appear and answer the com plaint of plaintiffs filed against you in the above entitled, court and cause, on or before the ex piration, of four weeks from the date of the first publication of this Summons, and if you so fall to appear and answer, the plain tiffs for want thereof, will apply to the court for the relief prayed for In said complaint, a succinct statement of which is as follows: A decree of Court fixine a time and date for the payment of the ! sums oue, owing ana entitled io be paid by the defendant, Sophia F. Weaver, under the terms of that certain contract of sale, here in sought to be foreclosed, which contract was entered Into by these plaintiffs, and others, and the said Sophia F. Weaver, defendant herein, and of the date of Septem- Today and SalurdayLlAL 'fig FEATURE ' ' .v U1NU Plus Chapter Twtlvt "Th Returns" Shows Today 7:15-9:30 P. M. AtilU S5e and Jwj Si be'r 1st., 1935, for the sale to the said defendant of the following described real property, to-wlt: Lots Four and Five of Oak Ridge Acres, in Douglas Coun ty, Oregon, according to the of ficial plat thereof filed In the office of the County Clerk of Douglas County, Oregon. Decree that defendant is In de fault under the terms of said con tract and that there is owing thereunder- and entitled to be paid bv said defendant, the sum of $210.00 principal; interest thereon of $57.92 to December 10th, 1941, also accruing interest from said date on principal sum; taxes of $12.48 paid by plaintiffs; a reasonable attorney fee in sum of $50.00 and plaintiffs costs and disbursements to be taxed, or such other sums as the Court shall find to be due and entitled to be paid under the terms of said contract. . That if the sums found by the Court to be pavable, be not paid bv the date as fixed by the Court, plaintiffs have a strict foreclosure and said defendant and any and all persons claiming by, through or under said defendant, be fore ever barred from any and all right, title and interest by or un der said contract of sale and in and to the lands therein repre sented, and that said contract be determined. And for such other and further relief as to the Court shall seem just and equitable. That said Summons is served upon you by publication thereof In the Roseburg News-Review, in pursuance to the order made and entered In this cause on the ?2nJ day of January, 1942. bv the Hon. Carl E. Wimberly, Judge of the above entitled court, directing the publication for four consecutive weeks and directing that said de fendant appear and answer said complaint on or before the expira tion of four weeks from the date of the first publication of this Summons. 1 this" Summons is January' 23rd! Date of the first publication ot iu9 II. A. CANADAY. Attornev For Plaintiffs. Post Office Address, Roseburg, Ore gon.. Today and Saturday ERR0L FLYNN OLIVIA de HAVILLAND Starts Sunday ; Nelson Eddy In "THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER" : NO. TWO Si 7?f r"i- . Spider Matinee Saturday, 2-3:30-7:15-9:15 30e. Klddlet 11c CRAPEWIN I C LOCKHART 't PLU8 - ;. t,J. . PREVIEW S i , SATURDAY 0 u , , ml J
