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By LOTUS KNIGHT PORTER NOTICE Social items submitted by tele- Ehone for the society page must e turned in before 12 o'clock Monday through Thursday and by 10 a. m. Fridays, at which time the social calendar and Sat urday's society page are dosed weekly. , HAYRIDE AND BOX SUPPER TO BE EVENT OF SUNDAY Jay-C-Ettes and Jay-Cees are invited to enjoy a hayride and box supper at 6:30 Sunday eve ning, July 24, at Playmor. Those auenoing are asKea to meet at Adair's parking lot at 6:30. Wom en attending are asked to bring a oox supper. CLUB TO ENTERTAIN PARENTS AT WIENER ROAST NEXT TUESDAY The Lucky Seven 4-H Stock club members will entertain their parents at a wiener roast at the lorks or tne river next Tues day, July 26. HENSLEES TO CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING ON SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Henslee will celebrate their golden wedding .. anniversary aunaay, July i Dy holding open-house at their home at the end of Broccoli lane, Just off the Melrose road. Relatives and friends are most cordially invited to call between the hours of 2 and 5 o'clock. T. N. T. CLUB TO MEET AT DESSERT SUPPER TUESDAY NIGHT The T. N. T. club will meet Tuesday evening, July 26, at an 8 o'clock dessert-supper at the home of Mrs. Al Smith at 816 W. Mosher street. All members are cordially invited to be pres ent. REBEKAH LODGE TO MEET TUESDAY NIGHT Roseburg Rebekah lodge No. 41 will meet at 8 o'clock next Tuesday night at the I.O.O.F. hall. Members and visiting mem bers are invited and those at tending are asked to bring a sack lunch. LAYTON CLAN ANNUAL PICNIC TO BE HELD IN ALBANY, AUG. 7 Layton clan annual picnic and meeting will be held Sunday, Aug. 7, at Bryant's park in. Al bany, Ore. Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish for the 1 o'clock picnic luncheon. All relatives and friends are in vited. APRON AND OVERALL DANCE TO BE HELD SATURDAY EVENING An "apron and overall" dance will be sponsored by South Deer Creek Grange Saturday evening, July 23, at the hall. The public is invited. Grange ladies are asked to bring cakes..,-,..,. . . . THIMBLE CLUB TO : MEET AT POTLUCK ' LUNCHEON MONDAY Neighbors of Woodcraft Thim ble club will meet, at a 1:30 o'clock potluck luncheon Monday, July 25, at the home of Mrs. Henry Erskine on Cobb street. All members are Invited and those attending are requested to bring their own table service. ANNUAL MISSION RALLY AND PICNIC TO BE HELD SUNDAY, JULY 24 The annual mission rally and Sunday school picnic of St. Paul's Lutheran church of Roseburg and St. John's Lutheran church Df Sutherlin will be held at the Veterans hospital picnic grounds Sunday July 24. - The mission service will begin at 10:30 in the morning with Rev. R. Gross of Cottage Grove as the guest speaker. A potluck picnic luncheon will be enjoyed at noon. Coffee will be furnished. Each family is ask ed to bring a covered dish or sal ad, dessert and sandwiches and their own table service. A Softball game has been ar ranged between the members and the veterans in the after noon. Games and races are plan ned for the children attending. All members and friends are most cordially invited to enjoy the day. AZALEA GARDEN CLUB HAS INTERESTING MEETING TUESDAY Azalea Garden club met Tues day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mina Johnson with Mrs. Gertrude Rose as co-hostess. There were 17 members pres ent. The topic for the session was on wild flowers. The next meeting will be the afternon of August 9 at the home of Mrs. Emma Hearold. GLIDE GRANGE TO HOLD DANCE SATURDAY EVENING Glide Grange will sponsor a dance at the hall Saturday night, July 23, at 9 o'clock. The public is invited. Ladies attending are asked to bring sandwiches. The dance will take the place of the monthly Grange social night affair. 8,000 Drawn To SDA Meet At Gladstone Park Gladstone Park, a "mushroom city" two miles north of Ore gon City, is bristling with ac tivity. Approximately 8,000 per sons from all over the state are attending the 72nd annual camp meeting of the Oregon Confer ence of Seventh-day Adventists, which opened July 14. Roseburg is represented by Pastor and Mrs. J. J. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Quintus Dickenson, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Paulson, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hitchman, Mr. and Mrs. Othal Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lang, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Olson, and Mr. and , Mrs. Bob Wilson, all from the local Seventh-day Adven'ist church. Elder L. E. Biggs, Adventist president for Oregon, said the meeting scheduled for the 10-day encampment provides a series oi six services daily in the main pavilion and other gatnenngs planned for young people of all age groups in the five other au ditoriums on the grounds. The Oregon Conference of Sev enth-day Adventists has 110 churches, listing a total mem bership of 12,228, according to R. T. Emery, Portland, state secretary-treasurer. The welcoming committee states that all visitors, of what ever faith, are invited to attend. if i - r ' - ' - '- aj3l f W 'v 4 U x " - Barbara Hutton Very . Sick, Needs Her Son DEDHAM, Mass., July 21. OF) Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoi is critically ill in Paris, her weight down to 88 pounds, and she needs her 13-year-old son with her, a court was told Wednesday. She Is too ill to make the voy age to see her son Lance, whose custody she has shared with a former husband. Danish Count Curt Haugwitz Reventlow, the court was told. Her condition was disclosed In probate court when Judge Arthur W. Davis granted her custody of the boy until Sept. 15. . Counsel for the heiress told the court she has had four surgical operations within the past three years. , Reventlow, who now makes his home in Newport, R. I., was not represented in court Wednesday. Arkansas Farm Wife ; Reports Rape By Negro HOPE. Ark., July 21. (P) A 23-year-old farm wife reported to authorities she was raped by an unidentified armed Negro at her home yesterday morning. A man hunt Is in progress lor tne as sailant. The attack occurred In a com munity 12 miles north of Hope. Prosecuting Attorney James ti. Pilkington quoted the woman as saying that the Negro had a knife in one hand and she thought he had a revolver in the other. She said she resisted as long as she could. POSTER C I R I Barbara Telr, 3. of Slayton, Minn., has been selected as the poster rlrl for the Sister Eli tabeth-Kenny Foundation's 1949 appeal for funds to combat Infantile paralysis. Sugar helps to make a baked product more tender and affects the browning of the crust. Life Traded For Fame By Yankee Major Who Said, "See You In St. Lo!" By HAL BOYLE NEWYORK. OP) Five years ago this week many thousands of Americans went for a cross-country walk. And every field they passed made them a year older. . It happened on another continent at a place called St. Lo in a thing called a war. In that long ago time the world still tried to solve its troubles through warfare. The men who took part in breaching the nazi line there a sieve to all France don't re member the whole area so well. They recall better the rough bark feel of a tree they hugged. They remember a ditch they crawled into and hated to leave more than they ever feared to leave their mother's arms. In those days ther was no such thing as a landscape. There was the world you knew on this side of a hedgerow. On the other side was another world an unknown terror. And every hedgerow safe ly passed was another birthday. The Germans had lines of fire through the hedgerows. They de fended them mathematically and fanatically, with skill, with guns, with blood. It was a noisy time. The little guns chattered all day, and the big guns har-r-rumphed all night, like giants clearing their throats. Skies Filled With Planes In the hazy skies great fleets of planes flew over and hit the Ger man positions. And sometimes one would swim into an ack-ack burst, erupt in flame ..nd go down smoking, leaving a muddy scar against the blue. The earth was so torn by bomb and shell you would think it could never close up its wounds again. The doughboys were grateful for the craters. They made inenaiy foxholes for a man to lie and sweat in until he could gather his b ?ath and courage to go on. It was terrible introduction to battle for many green soldiers. "They bring up a new kid in the night," said a sergeant. "I check him in and he hits the dirt. Then a shell comes and finds him in the dark and the medics carry him away. And I haven't ever seen the boy's face." Life Traded For Fame Every battlefield has a hundred j anonoymous neroes. livery man who took a step forward was a hero then, but one traded his life for a lasting fame. He was the "major of St. Lo" Thomas D. Howie of the Staun ton (Va.) Military academy, com mander of a battalion of the 29th Infantry division. ine major was young and friendly. He had the gift of leader ship. "He was so kind and consider ate you always felt comfortable around him," said one of his sol diers. But Howie also was a deter mined man. He wanted to be the first man into St. Lo at the head of his battalion. "See you in St. Lo," he laughed at the end of a conference of staff officers planning the attack. It became the division's rallying cry "See you in St. Lo." The major didn't make it alive. During an enemy bombard ment he paused before taking cover himself to see that his men were dowm-A mortar burst caught him standing. But in death young Howie gained his wish. His flag-draped body, by order of his command ing general, was in a lead vehicle of the first task force to fight its way into St. Lo. And they laid him reverently in the rubble of a ruined church. "It's foolish to take a dead man into battle," said a hardened : doughboy. "It . doesn't make sense." j 3ut It did. It made one brave unan a legend and a symbol. looay there is a bronze bust of "the major of St. Lo" before that church, and the French deck it with flowers. It stands not alone for Major Howie. It stands also for 1,818 other men of his own division who lost their lives there and for how many thousands more? Camp Fire Girls Advised To Bring Lunches To Camp All Camp Fire Girls planning to go to Camp Tyee Sunday for the coming week are dvised to bring sack lunches for t heir Sun day evening meal, as t.iere will be no prepared meal there that night, announced Mrs. Elizabeth Gjbson, Camp Fire executive dir ector. Darents who will pick up their daughters at the conclusion of the first week are urged to come be fore 2 p.m., and all girls who will arrive for the next week should not come before 3 o'clock. This arrangement is necessary, said Mrs. Gibson, in order to avoid confusion on the road and in the parking area on Sunday. About 60 girls will leave for Camp Tyee Sunday. There will be eight or 10 girls remaining for a second week. Any of the girls going Sunday who wish to sign up for a two weeks may do so, as the third week of camp roster Is not entirely filled. Thur., July 21, 1949 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or. 7 June Weather Ties Record Dry Spell Of 1904 June, 1949, tied for seecond place as the driest June on re cord, according to a report by Thomas A. Hill Jr., official In charge of the Roseburg weather bureau. Only .03 of an inch fell In Rose burg last month to share low pre cipitation records with June, 1904. The all time low was re gistered in 1883 when .01 of an inch was recorded-for the month. Hill indicated the lack of rain fall, combined with above-normal sunshine and temperature factors, led to hazardous fire conditions in the forest. He said a lack of rain has also resulted In a poor grain stand and the number of sunny hours, 19 per cent above normal, has burned the pasture lands so they will not support the normal number1 of livestock. Although the June 5 temper ature reading of 92 degrees fail ed to approach any record highs, the average temperature for the month was above normal. 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