2 The New-Revlew, Roiebura;, Ore. Tfiur., Feb. 28, 1952
Multnomah School Of Bible
Sets Sacred Music Concert
The forty-voice choir of Mult
nomah - School of the Bible,
above, under the leadership of
Lauren B. Sykes, will present a
concert of sacred music in the
new sanctuary of the First Con-
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Sykes has held the position as
choral director for the school since
1938. He Is also well-known as an
organist, and bas been organist
choirmaster in a number of Port
land's largest metropolitan
churches. He carries his musical
activities into two other Bible col
leges in addition to Multnomah.
He also holds the associateship
and choirmaster degrees in the
American Guild of Organists and
and is their Northwestern re
gional chairman. He has been so
loist at the regional conventions
of the guild and is organist for
tne Portland by m phony Orchestra
and associate - conductor organ
ist for the Portland Symphonic
choir.
Selections Listed
The choir will sing ''Let All the
Nations Praise the Lord," Leis
rinjj; "All Breathing Life," Bach;
"Jesus, Friend of Sinners,"
Grieg; "0 Praise Ye God," Tschai
Kowsky; "Judge Me, O God," Men-delssohn-Bartholdy;
"Lost in the
Night," Christiansen; "From Hea
ven Above," Christiansen; "Jeru
salem Road," Youngdahl; "I Sat
Down Under His Shadow," Bair
stow; ''Jesuo and the Traders,"
Kodaly; "Were You There:" Kern
mer; and "0 God, Our Help In
Ages Past," Weaver.
A trumpet solo by Doris Whltak
eq, "Song to the Evening Star,"
by Wagner accompanied by Er
nest Ediger will be included in the
program and Joan Buckner will
narrate for the choral selections
Greetings from the school will be
presented by Dr. Willard M. Ali
ricli, president.
The choir makes recordings of
some of the selections each year,
und recently Harold Herremans,
F.A.G.O., Ch. M F.T.C.L., wrote
Sykes, saying, "The excellent re
cordings I heard indicate a tech
nically competent and musically
intelligent performance, and, may
I add, a credit to the Choir Master."
Pierrette Alarie
Appears Monday
In Concert Here
Pierrette Alarie. petite coloratura
star of concert, opera and radio,
has been acknowledged not only
by her native Montreal as ' an
"outstanding classic soprano" but
has equally been acclaimed in the
United states, r ranee ana Eng
land. Mist Alarie will appear on the
stage of the Roseburg Junior High
School Auditorium Monday at 8:15
p.m. as the last in the series ol
four Community Concert Associa
tion presentation!.
Miss Alarie boasts a rich musical
heritage. Her father conducted the
CanaJlsn Operetta Society; her
mother was its leading soprano
until Pierrette, still In her teens,
took over the job. At 14 she made
her professional debut over station
LttAC in Montreal and was given
her own program. Her operatic
debut in Mozart's "The Marriage
of Figaro" under Sir Thomas
Beerham was also in Montreal.
Winning a two-year scholar Id
to the Curtis Institute of Music
in Philadelphia, she studied with
fciizabeth Schumann. Her talent
and implication led to a contract
with the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany and her New York debut
Dec. 8, 1945. Later she was soloist
with the NBC orchestra. Numerous
appearances here and abroad and
concert tours have followed. .
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Club For Juvenile
Skaters Winston
Club Program
The Winston ' Community Club
has inaugurated a program for
a Winston-Dillard skating club for
juveniles.
A drive to finance the program
has been under way for the past
three weeks, and through contri
butions the club hopes to be able
to have the floor of the club build
ing refinished for skating use.
Dean Collins, Dillard, is heading
the program, assisted by Arthur
McGuire and Arthur M. Johnson.
A total of $800 has been raised
thus far. It was estimated that the
cost of refinishing the floor would
be about $2,000.
Although designed primarily to
give grade and high school young
sters something to do in the area,
the skating facilities will also be
available to adults.
The club also sponsors teen-age
dances Friday nights.
A contest has bien started at
the Dillard Grade School In
which the 507 youngsters have
been divided into four categories
"Army, Navy, Marines and Air
Force."
Students In the category which
turns in the biggest contribution to
the project will be treated to a
free movie. The five highest in
dividuals will each be given five
dollars in merchandise.
HOME OF
MOT POINT J
Cape Cod Storm Dealt
Death, Highway Choot
BOSTON Ifl At least ten per
sons were dead, 10,000 Cape- Cod
homes were heatless and more
than 100 miles of Cape highways
wore completely impassable Thurs
day after one of the worst north
east snowstorms to hit Southern
New England in 50 years.
Drifts as high as 12 teet naitea
all modes of highway transporta
tion. Nearly 1.000 automobiles were
buried in snow on main highways.
The new mid-Cape highway and
the old route 8-A, familiar to sum
mer visitors to Cape Cod, were
paralyzed. Dozens of telephone and
power poles were down.
Two Umpqua Children
Recuperating At Home
By JULIA OSBORN
Shirley Judd, who suffered a bad
ly wronched knee that put her in
i he hospital last week, and Mike
.Wilcox, who was hospitalized with
I kidney infection, are bnlh re
Icupom'.ing at home in Umpqua
now.
Sh'rley will wear a cast for some
time, and Mi!.' whose illness will
iceep him bedridden for months,
is receiving "get well" cards from
his s.h'olma'.c in Hie primary
grades and from the intermediate
grades where his older brother and
sister attend.
PACKING supplies for the Red Cross fund campaign that begins March I are members
of the Junior Red Cross and Camp Fire Girls. For three hours Saturday morning the group
worked in the Armory chapter rooms preparing items necessay for the drive. The fund
campaign will continue for two weeks and the quota for Douglas County has been set
at $18,000. Pictured, from left, ore Beverly Sims, Liliene Young, Gloria Taylor, Joan
Miller, Bob Gardner and Charlotte Kelly. (Picture by Paul Jenkins)
Population Hiko Brings
6 New Voting Precincts
(Continued from Page 1)
Deer Creek, Umpqua, Lane, Laur-
elwood, Hamilton, Woodward,
Caro, Herman, Roseburg, Miller,
West Roseburg, airnaven ana
Wharton.
Other county precincts are listed
as follows: Gardiner, Smith River,
Winchester Bay, Loon Lake,
Scottsburg, Elkton, Drain, Gunter,
Comstock, Yoncaua, laiapooia,
Oakland, Wilbur, Kellogg, Coles
Valley, Garden Valley, Edenbow
er East No. 1, Edenbower East
No. 2, Edenbower West No. 1,
Edenbower West No. 2, East
Umpqua, Dixonville, Mill, Brown,
Green, Parrott, Melrose, Looking
glass, Olalla, Camas Valley, Tri
City, Riddle, Canyonville, Days
Creek, Tiller Cow Creek and Glen-dale.
Mineral Club Hears
Talk By Jack Wharton
The Umpqua Mineral Club met
at the Episcopal Parish Hall Feb.
21. Approximately SO members
and friends listened to Jack Whar
ton recount his experiences of a
nation-wide trip to places of inter
est to everyone and "rockhounds"
especially.
Several new members were wel
comed to the organization. Invi
tation is extended to all who are
interested in rocks and minerals
to attend the meetings and join
in field trips -to places of interest
as soon as the weather will per
mit A circulating library program is
being initiated within the club,
which will make books and pe
riodicals mors readily available
to those Interested in increasing
their knowledge in the earth's
sciences.
The next meeting is scheduled
for March 20 when members and
friends will meet at 7 p.m. for
a potluck supper. M. R. Garten
will show color slides he has taken
of placet of Interest in South
America. There will also be a
showing of slides made of thinly
sliced agates and similar material.
RABBIT GROWERS MEET
The Umpqua Valley Rabbit
Breeders Association will meet
Tuesday evening, March 5, at the
Farm Bureau hall, across Spruce
Street from the Consolidated
Freightways terminal. This is an
important meeting, said C. L. Bib
by, president, and he urges all
rabbit growers in Douglas County
to be there.
4-H Club Week
Observation Set
March 1-9
National 4-H Club week will be
observed from March 1 to 9.
The principal local observance
will be the Lions Club food pro
duction contest banquet for 4-H
members.
The banquet will be held Thurs.
day, March 6, at 7 p.m. in the
South Deer Creek Grange Hall,
located eight miles east of Rose
burg on the South Deer Creek
Road.
All 4-H members who completed
work on a food production project
in 1951, Lions ana weir wives are
invited. .
Earl Britton, former club agent,
and Jack Gurton, 4-H agent from
Lane County, will attend the ban
quet. Britton will explain the orig
inal purpose of the contest and
banquet.
Locally there will also be window
displays and radio broadcasts.
County 4-H clubs will conduct
special programs in observance of
the week.
The week is being observed to
acquaint the public with the 4-H
work being conducted in commu
nities and counties, and to enlist
more public-spirited citizens as
voluntary local leaders or sponsors
of 4-H clubs.
"Serving as Loyal Citizens
through 4-H" is the theme for 1952.
Woman Convict Robs
Warden's Wife, Flees
SALEM W A woman convict,
Mickele O'Brien. 27. escaped from
the Oregon penitentiary Vednesday
night after robbing the purse of
the deputy warden s wife.
The amount of money she ob
tained is undetermined, but she
used $26 of it to pay for a taxicab
trip to Portland.
She is the first woman convict
to escape in many years. She was
a trusty working at the home of
Deputy Warden and Mrs. E. C.
Halley.
RADIO SHORT COSTLY
A fire started by a short in a
radio caused damages estimated
at $12.50 in a dwelling occupied by
Mrs. Harold White, 444 S. Stephens
St., Wednesday at 5:08 p.m.. Fire
Chief William E Mills reports.
PTA MEETING CHANGED
The Glide Parent-Teacher As
sociation meeting, originally an
nounced for Monday, has been
changed to Tuesday, March 4.
Superintendent Byron Evans will
talk on the proposed county reor
ganization plan.
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INSPECTS RESTAURANTS
County Sanitarian Claude Baker
Is making an inspection of restaur
Meeting Slated Tonight
To Form Racing Club
An organizational meeting to
form a local hardtop racing asso
ciation will be held in Bruce and
Hals Cycle Shop on the North Ump
qua Highway at 8 tonight.
All persons interested in enter
ing the association as a car owner,
official or driver are asked to attend.
Vital Statistics
Marriage Licenses
RIGSBY MORGAN Keith B.
Rigsby and Alyce G. Morgan, both
of Roseburg.
S WISHER-PALMER Malcom
Keath Swisher and Helen Marie
Palmer, both of Reedsport.
Divorce Sulfa Filed
NICHOLAS Donna Taye vs.
Edward Nicholas. Cruelty
charged. Plaintiff asks custody of
two minor children, $100 monthly
support and medical expenses.
GILSON Donna Jean vs. Glen
Ray Gilson. Cruelty charged.
Divorce Decree Granted
BISHOP Wilma Nadene from
Floys Franklin Bishop. Plaintiff
awarded custody of two minor chil
dren and monthly support.
George Neuner Jr. New
Loan Assn. Director
Appointment of George Neuner
Jr. as a director in the Umpqua
Savings and Loan Association was
ants in the southern part of the announced today. He will tin tne
county, it was announced today, unexpired term of the late Nathan
tnis inspection ana otners slat- ruiienon. uiner meraucu m ui.
ed, Baker said, will be "more or. hoard are M. E. Ritter, H. o.
less" a continuous program. Thus Pargeter, W. F. Harris, G. V.
far one restaurant has been closed , Wimberly, B. R. Shoemaker, a.
becaue of unsanitary condition, .7. Shoemaker, i. riniay anu
Baker said. 'Guv Cordon.
Marjorie Pettit
Dies Wednesday
Following Illness
Marjorie Roberta Pettit, 53, res
ident of 1018 Winchester St., died
Wednesday after a short illness.
She was born Oct. 8, 1898 in San
Francisco, Calif, and came to
Roseburg at the age of eight years.
She was the only daughter of Dr.
R. E. and Jessie Eager Hunt
and received her schooling in
Roseburg. She was united in mar
riage to Clair L. (Jim) Pettit of
Silverton, Ore., on June 1, 1918.
He preceded her in death on Jan.
6, 1951
She was well known in writing
and radio circles. Her poetry was
well known through out the United
States, particularly in the North,
west. Poetry and timely articles
appeared in leading newspapers
and magazines over the country.
She was vice president of the
Roseburg Writers "Club and a
member of the First Presbyterian
Church, where she was teaching
Sunday School. She was an ardent
stamp collector and enjoyed cor
responding with Philatelists in
foreign countries. She will have
contributed greatly to' the forth,
coming Labor Day Centenial Pa
geant, having served in the ca
pacity of a member of the histori
cal and scenario committees.
Surviving are two sons: Donald
Eager Pettit and Clair Hunt Pet.
tit, both of Roseburg; and three
granddaughters: Linda Lou, Mu
riel Irene and Coralee Clair Pettit,
all of Roseburg. , ."
Funeral services will be held In
The Chapel of The Roses, Rose
burg Funeral Home, Saturday,
March 1, at 2 p.m. with Dr. Morris
Roach of the First Presbyterian
Church officiating. Interment will
follow in the Masonic' Cemetery.
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