Union Chooses State Delegates Chairmen Give Talks; Dave Ramseyer "Wins Speech Contest BETHEL Bethel Farmers Union members ballotted for the following delegates to state con vention at a meeting Monday night: Gus Schlicker, W. R. Baker and S. Hamerick. Alternates are A. C. Spranger, Mrs. J. R. Car ruthers and Mrs. R. Wilson - AIL W. R. Baker was elected ware house delegate with A. J. Mader alternate. - Committee reports were the main business of the meeting. Chairman giving details of com mittee work were: A. J. Mader, agriculture; W. R. Baker, ware house; A. C. Spranger and S. Hamerick, dairy; Mrs. A. C. Spranger and A. Shultz, good of the order; Dr. Olson, PUD; S. Hamerick, hospital; S. Hamerick and T. Nelson, legislative. Mr. Nelson discussed the social sec urity bill now before the legisla ture. Spranger announced the com ing testing of dairy herds; W. R. Baker reported on the subscrip- Union paper and on the annual meeting of the Marion County Oil company. Participation in the junior speech contest were Howard Ma der and Dave Ramseyer. Judging were S. Hamerick, J. M. Franz and Dr. Olson. Ramseyer was awarded first place and will com pete in the county elimination at Central Howell February 8. A social meeting of the unjon will be held February 12. At the close, Mr. and Mrs.- Bucurench and Mr. and Mrs. A. J., Klug served refreshments. West Salem Mayor names Group WEST SALEM At the city council meeting Monday night, members voted to purchase near ly two acres of land near the Blue Lake cannery. Some time ago 20 acres were purchased and the additional acres will straight en the boundary line. The purchase of a fire hose was delayed until a more thorough in vestigation was made on avail able equipment. The matter of a transformer was discussed. The one the city had been using belonged to Harry :jue4VTnanagerftt ine.wwptwuvc ' . ' - 1 Al nujiir inrii t i. n iitiiia- will. uic city gets part of their electrical current. During .the flood this was damaged as was some of the com pany's other equipment. Since then the company has been forced to increase rates. No definite ac tion will be taken until g., a later meeting. Mayor Neugent appointed a - planning committee 1 n e lading Max Gehlar, Al Ramseyer, Glen Woodry, Waldo Mercer and Tom Dalke. Bert Perry, the night watch man at the city hall was given a $15 a month raise in pay. Dr. Gof frier and Don Kuhn, council men, were absent. Elizabeth Barton Buried Wednesday - ALBANY Funeral services for Miss Elizabeth Barton, 83, a ..life-long resident of Linn county who died following a brief illness on February 1, were held from the Oakville church Wednesday at 2 o'clock with Rev. G. W, Rohr bough officiating. Burial was in the Oakville cemetery tinder the direction of the Fisher Funeral home. Miss Barton was born at Oak ville on April 12, 1859, and had spent her life mostly in that com munity. She was an active mem ber of the United Presbyterian church jof Oakville. Surviving is one brother, Charles A. Barton of Shedd and one nephew. , 1 '1 3 Actor-husband of Madeleine Car . roll, the screen beauty, Stirling Hayden has shelved his screen ca reer and now is going through the process of becoming a rough, tough Marine. Hayden is shown on the rifle range at Parris Island, Couth Carolina, where he is star . tioned, Mid-Willamette Valley New Reports From Speakers Outline Wr Activities for Cattlemen Vf.f w s Oregon Jersey leaden planned wartime activities at their annual meeting at Salem Saturday. Speakers shewn above included W. C Leth, Dallas, western director of the national Jersey association; Charles A. Sonne, former xavernor of Oregon; J. D. Mickle, director state department of agriculture, Salem; Leslie M. Scott, state treasurer, Jersey Cattle club for the ensuing Farmers Join Repair Classes SUBLIMITY Farmers in the Sublimity community are attend ing a farm machinery repair class which is held in the service shop at Ted's Corner. William Zimmer man is hired by the government to assist groups of ten or more farmers in this community to get their farm machinery repaired. The class started Monday, Febru ary 1, and will continue nine hours a day, for six days and after this, another class will start. The group of 12 farmers are repairing trac tors, combines, mowers, trucks, harrows and spray machines. With many of the same farm ers attending, a dairy class is be ing held in the Sublimity city hall two nights a week. The class is held Tuesday and Friday nights for a period of ten meetings. Al Hassler, a local dairyman, has been selected as the instructor or discussion leader. TURNER A course in farm machinery opened Monday night at the Webb garage here, with Fay Webb Instructor of the group. Ten members were pres ent and slrned for the first meeting". Of three hoars dura tion, the classes are to be held on Monday, Wednesday and Fri day nights, with anyone over 18 years welcome to attend. The coarse comprises instruction bf repairing tractors and farm mg chlnery, and will continue for. a period of three weeks, when an other new class will be started for the same length of time. Andersons Back From Eastern Trip SILVERTON Mr. and Mrs. Tom Anderson have returned from a two-weeks' trip to Minneapolis. During the absence, Tom, jr., re mained at Silverton and attended school. Mrs. H. K. Hutchins left this week for Modesto, Calif., to visit her husband who is convalescing at an army hospital from a re cent appendectomy. Mrs. Hutch ins is the'former Marion Nicol. Mrs. Charles Martin of Aums ville, a sister of Mrs. Lynn Neal, has been very ill with pneumonia at a Salem hospital. She is some what improved. Mrs. Gilbert Moser remains about the same at the local hos pital. The Gilbert Mosers lived at Silverton for a number of years but , recently have made Valsetz their home. They returned here a few months ago. Rev. GiUtrap Visits Oklahoma, Conducts Services f-4 TURNER Rev. E. J. Gilstrap has returned after a 12-day trip to Selling, Okla., where he offi ciated at the marriage ' of his daughter, Miss Margaret, to Charles B. Leicht, pastor of the Seiling Christian church. Enroute he encountered considerable win ter weather. : Three days were spent in San Francisco with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Downing (Fernet Gil strap) where Downing is stationed with ithe naval reserves: Mrs. Downing is now employed in secretarial-work with the San Fran cisco community chest comprised of over 80 associated charities. Both Mr. and Mrs. Downing form erly made Turner: their . home. . Whiyiri Seiling, Rev Gilstrap, who is superintendent of the Tur ner Memorial Home,' occupied the pulpit at both the Sunday morning and night services at the Seiling Christian church, and showed col ored moving pictures of the Tur ner Memorial home. . --. Return to School In Central Howell i CENTRAL i HOWELL Lauderback - of Portland - Jean visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. - John Lauderback Sunday. With her was Patty .Tweed, " daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Tweed of Lebanon, who were also guests at Hhe Lauder back home Sunday. U J U; 1 i Melvin, Mayo and James Hol lin are again pupils at the Central Howell school. :' They , have ' been The Statesman's Salem. Oregon. Thursday Salem, and T. J. Law, Jr., Gresham, year. Ralph Cope, 4H speaker, 1 ' I t - J I f ' i s ' Turner Residents Take Trips, Entertain Weekend Visitors TURNER Weekend guests at the Methodist parsonage of Rev. Paul Jaquitli were his brother, Dave Jaquith, and, Bob Gwenn of Newberg and Bill Tate of Salem. They left for their homes on Monday, and Rev. Jaquith accompanied them to New berg where his parents reside. Mrs. Ruby Oust of New Orleans, La., is spending a few weeks in Turner with her mother, Mrs. Vina Moore, and young daughter, Dixie, before going on to Portland where she will be employed. Her hus band, Pvt. Bert Oust, is stationed with the medical corps in the New Orleans hospital. New measles cases this week reported in Turner include Bet ty and Marjorie Lou Bonehie, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. For est Boachie, and Dennis Riches, son of the Wallace Riches. Bet ty, carrier of an early morning paper, finds her Illness a handi cap to her family, as her father, local carafe man, has tempor arily taken over the paper route. Miss Clotilde Trimble of Port land, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Trimble of Turner, recently underwent an emergency opera- Former Silverton Resident Dies Sudden tly .Tuesday SILVERTON Eldon Fox, for mer Silverton resident, died af Se attle Tuesday night He was em ployed at Boeing Aircraft. He was taken ill suddenly Friday night, but cause of death is not known here. Fox was born January 9, 1908, and was graduated from Silver ton high school in 1928. Surviv ors include his widow, Floy; two children, James and Delores, all of Bozeman, Mont., brothers, Jack and Floyd of Silverton and Roy of Portland, and sisters, Mrs. Frank Doerfler of Salem and Mrs. Ice land Mulkey of Santa Rosa, Calif. Funeral services will be held at the Memorial chapel at the Ek man Funeral home Sunday at 2:30 p. m. with Rev. O. Leonard Jones officiating. Mrs. Hudson Dies WEST SALEM Word has been received here of the death of a former West Salem resident, Mrs. Thomas E. Hudson, who will be remembered here as Mrs. Homer Barber. She and Mr. Barber lived on the west end of Sixth street until Mr. Barber's death. They were active members of the Me thodist church here and their daughter, Mft. Estella Sebern was the organist. Mrs. Hudson died January 27 at Grants "Pass, Ore., at the age of 76. She is survived by her hus band and daughter, Mrs. Sebern of Wood burn. Stock Dog, Tip, Lost Two Weeks, Returns POX VALLEY J. H. John ston thought he had lost his stock dog, Tip, which disappear ed from the Johnston farm early Saturday morning. January IS. Inquiry . throughout the neigh borhood brought no results as to h i s whereabouts, ; and the heavy snow of the : last two weeks lead Mr. Johnston to conclude he was gone for good, so he beran looking for another dog . Monday afternoon of this week, the dog retarded and met his master at the barn door. He had one bind Act badly braised and torn from; being caught In a trap. The dog was very thin bat didn't seem to be hungry. Evidently' someone had rescued him and fed him for a time before letting him leave for home. Silbernagle Children HI FOX VALLEY Mrs. J. E. Jungwirth visited at the Jake Silebernagle home in Jordan Mon day afternoon. The .Silbernagle children have been ill ;with mea sles and - one boy . has a .badly effected arm. If . other treatments fail : to prove beneficial he may be taken to a hospital , soon. attending school at North Howell where the family bought a place last. year but obtained permission to retunt-to school here.-;, -rr"- Community Correspondents Morning. February 4. 1943 reelected president of the Oregon was not available for the picture. tion-for appendicitis. Her mother is spending several weeks in Port land with her. Grover Cleveland, jr., has re turned to the home of his parents in Turner after four months spent at Yakima, Wash., working. He is waiting a call for military service. Two other young men of Turner, both high school graduates here, Kenneth Barber, son of the Lee Barbers, and Jack Schifferer, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Schifferer, recently enlisted in the army avi ation corps and are waiting to be called into service. Kenneth Bar ber's brother, Delmer Barber is now at Murio, Calif. j Mrs. Clara Shields recently re turned to the Turner Memorial home after spending two months in California with her daughters. She spent Christmas at Redding with Mrs. Ora Schrock, and later visited Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Ray at Pittsburg, Calif. Rev. M. B. Madden left! the last of the week for an extended speaking- tour for the post-war missionary recruiting campaign and will be gone until April. Rev. Madden, who spent over 45 years as a missionary at Osa ka, Japan, had just returned to his home here Christmas ; eve from a many months tour in the interests of Christian mis sionary work. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Spencer and son, Richard, spent Sunday at La comb where they were dinner guests at the home of their daugh ter, Mrs. Maxine Pyle and family, in honor of the seventh birthday anniversary of their young grand daughter, Phyllis. She accompan ied them home for a week's visit in Turner. Weldon Looneys Move to Salem JEFFERSON The Weldon Looney family, living in Looney's mother's residence in north Jeffer son, purchased a home in Salem and moved Saturday. Looney is employed in Salem. Verle Myers returned to her home at Coquille Saturday j after spending last week visiting her friend. Miss Alice Weeks, j Lee Grenz spent Friday and Saturday in Portland visiting his aged mother Mrs. Eva Grenz, who has been critically ill but is much improved in health now. Mrs. Hal Reeves and son, Dickie, who spent .last week in Salem at the home of Mr. and ! Mrs. Frank Reeves, returned -home Sunday. Mrs. Reeves is employed in Salem, and remained 1 there during the coldest weather. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taylor and family, who spent the weekend visiting relatives in Salem, called on friends in Jefferson Monday enroute to their home at Sweet Home. They are former Jefferson residents. i 4H Carnival Funds To Provide Kitchen - rPRINGUE PUns forf the 4H club carnival at Pr ingle school Friday, February 5, are be In completed under the di rection of the leader, Mrs.) Cla ra Girod. The purpose of the carnival Is to start a fund to provide a modern kitchen for the school and club. The kit chen would help with noon lun ches. - - Most parents realize the advantage of warm meals I dar ing the winter months and It Is hoped that the community will torn oat in force.--'? 1 - DRS. CHAN . . . LAM r.Y.1Xaa.N D Dr.G.Cbmaju. CHINESE Ilerbalists; 241 North Liberty ; Upstairs Portland General rteetrte Co, Office open Saturday only IS a. m to f p.m.; S to 7 p. m. Consultation. - Blood pressure and nrhw i tested- are free of , cfaarga Practiced since 1917. I ' in I v. PAGET! Flax Plant Reelects Officers DAYTON Dayton Cooperative Flax plant reelected officers at the annual meeting Monday night Those named again were: G. E. Bixler; manager; L. S. Lorenzen, president; Ersel Gubser, vice president; Earl Coburn,' secretary; Harry Sherman,' treasurer; U. S. Alderman, Dale ; Fowler, Era e 1 Gubser, I S. . Lorenzen, John Shelburne, Russell Sheldon and George Zimmerman, board of directors. 1 The flax plant employes 20 workers 'for .eight hour shifts; two thirds of the 1942 crop has been deseeded and machinery to continue - processin the fiber Is expected to reach the plant and be installed within a month. At the peak of the harvest last year, 41 were on the payroll and . two eight hour shifts were worked. How to Garden Slated on Air -(jraraening tor ooa" . . . soon thousands will be doing it, under the leadership of Cecil Solly, northwest garden expert. Peter G. Schmidt, president and master brewer of the Olympia Brewing company, announced this week that a new quarter-hour wartime radio program, "Garden ing for Food" with Solly, would be heard three times weekly. This new program will tell amatuer gardeners how and what and when to plant how to grow the most in the smallest space how to have fresh fruits and vegetables the' year around. "Gardening for Food" will be aired over radio station KGW every Monday, Wedneday, and Friday night from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m., . it started last Monday. Pioneer Homes Opened to Guests PIONEER Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Weaver and son, Wayne, had as their guests for dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Weaver and Mrs. M. W. Prindel and daughter, Elaine, of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Black attend ed the Polk County Coop Oil meeting in Dallas Saturday after noon. Robert, Julia, Edward and Lan nie Ross Hughes spent the night Saturday with their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Ray Slater. Those calling at the Slater home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Laudahl and children. Dale and Audrey. Mrs. Wesley Harritt returned to the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wells, after visit ing at the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Newbill, in Willa mina. ' Carol Coy was an overnight guest of Margaret and Rose Marie Wells Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Keller and Dickie had as their guests for dinner recently Henry Weideman, Willis Kelker, Fred McAllister, and Clarence Weideman. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Slater called on Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Laudahl who live on the Ellendale road. Ruth Dornhecker was an over night guest of Joyce Houtz in Dallas Tuesday. Mrs. Tom Keller and son,' Richard, visited MrsC Henry Weideman of Dallas Thurs day. Mrs. Robert Kent and son, Robert, visited at the. Roy Black home Sunday. Hopewell Attends Unionvale Services , - -UNIONVALE There were about 50 members attending the 10 a.m. church services here Sun day. Rev. Paul Petticord, superin tendent of the Salem district, conducted the quarterly con ference at the close of the Sunday school. A delegation from . the Hopewell church attended. V UNIFORM ' maathly ? ftaysacats; a reaewal expease; - ao laerease la later est rate. A rradeatlal ta-Tear Martcasa la the safe way tm fteaae tn hs .. AfaUal ha acieetctf HAWKINS . BOBEXTS, tSCT Aatbarlaee Martrac La SaOcttat la Tka. Pra4 entiaJ lasaraace . Ca f Aaaartea. Guardian Building, Salem, Oregoa inv Mil Mlhii Schools Reveal Honor Rolls , Swegle Bases j A wards On Citizenship, Scholarship j SWEGLE Two honor rolls are being kept by the teachers this year, scholarship and -citizenship. On the record for scholarship are: first grade, Shirley Werner; second grade, William Werner; third grade, Gladys Werner; four th' g r a d e, Marvin Pauls; : fifth grade, , Joan Stark! and Merlin Cogal; seventh grade. Joan Lake and Ruby Pauls. J On the , record for excellent citizenship are: first grade, Arnold Hoffman, , Loraa Deane Wilson, Grace Peterson, and Shirley Wer ner; second grade William Werner: t hi rd grade, . Patty Mathenson, Donna Mae Brandt, Dick Smith, La Vonne Yost and Eldon Harms; fourth grade, Doloris Werner, Barbara Harris and John - David Biles; fifth grade, Dolores Farm er, Carolyn Mathenson, Marilyn Fram and Richard Hoffman; six th grade, Myralynn Standley. Audrey. Steele and Alvera Pur cell; seventh grade,, Peggy Straw, Mildred Schultz, Ruth Biles and Richard Nelson; eighth grade. Rogene Pauls. Additional third i grade names in citizenship are: Noel Swingle, Norma Jean Wilson,- Donald Schultz, Vida Standley, Nola Jean Zobel and Gladys Werner. RICKEY The students in the upper class making the honor roll for the six weeks just ended are: 1 fifth grade, Vivian Mahrt, Betty Campbell, Mildred Bales, Ruth Chrisman, Gay Clearwater and Wayne Mercer; sixth grade Helen Benz, Marlene Perkins and Betty Jean Vogt; seventh grade, Glenna Dodson, Jannette Wasser and June James; ' eighth grade, Lawrence Cherry ; and Verlaine Walker. Evangelists Conduct Undenominational Meetings at Turner TURNER Special unde nominational evangelistic meet ings are being conducted for the second week at the Masonic hall at Turner, with services on Sun day, Tuesday and Friday nights. They are under the leadership of Miss Dorothy Sheldon of Cana da and Miss Rose Spiers of Australia. . The public is invited to attend these meetings. Last week's evangelistic meetings were dismissed due. to the inclement weather. . MSA I Ed .. . Gimmunity Qub Meeting Until February 12 . LABISH CENTER The was scheduled for, this Friday night, February 5, has been post poned one week, until February 12. On the entertainment com mittee are Mrs. Pete Russ and Mrs. Noble Ragland. They have secured the Strand orchestra and I some other entertainment zrom Waconda for the program. Serv ing on the refreshment committee will be Mrs. Ed Klampe and Mr. and Mrs. W, F. Klampe. Commit tees for - March meeting are Mr. and Mrs. O. G. McOaughry and Mrs. - Alice Jefferson, refresh ments, and Mrs. E. M. Boies and Miss Grace Klampe, program. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rasmus sen have purchased a tract of Beaverdam from E, "rJ. Wein maa and also a plot of ground from the Cochrans. They plan to move a house on the latter place and make- their " heme' there. Mr. and Mrs.- Orville Klampe and family from Basel Green will move into the house formerly occupied by the RasV mussens and else will farm the onion ground. The Frank Weia- : mans own this place. . Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carr and daughter. Donna, - of .Salem and Mr. and 'Mrs. Willard Aker were dinner guests at the J. C. Leedy home on Sunday. , . Lawrence Zinser has been seri ously ill with bronchial pneumonia at his home, but is reported to be slightly improved. Sunny Rentz Is also improving after an attack of the flu. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Leedy en tertained Saturday with a dinner party. Valentine day decorations were carried out. Guests were Mr, and Mrs. Frank Weinman,, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Aker, Mr. and- Mrs. Joe Burr, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lee dy. and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Aker. .V '.;; W. A., Starker reports having found a large white owl in the Frank Weinman onion house while a crew, was topping out a ear of onions last week. Several neighbors suspect that the owl has been killing some of their chickens.''; ;' Mr. and Mrs. . Dewey Lowery have rented a tract of onion land on the Bush place which is' owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Nelson of Spokane. Mr. Nelson is a brother of Mrs. Harvey Aker. Lehman Attends Meet FAIRVIEW Russell Lehman, delegate of the Yamhill county jersey cattle club, attended the state meeting held at Salem Sat urday. Wayne Ojua, . Fairview. school sixth grade student, . is -ill with the mumps. . Larry Hooker, five year old son of Mr. and' Mrs. Hooker, is ill with thechicken pox. fr-. Pare ingredients plus clean 'baking; plus added enrichment makes Master Bread lead all other foods as a source of vital energy . , . At your Grocer's. Postpones Community club meeting which Ministers Visit In Aum8ville ' AUMSVILLE - Reverend and Mrs. W. S. Crockett of MU1 City and Reverend Armstrong of Med- ford were visitors in Aumsville Monday. J. A. Gillespie, who has been employed at a Portland ship yard for some time, has re turned to his home here to remain due to his Illness.. Mrs.' Sundlee. teacher of the primary' grades here, is ' a w a y from her work for two weeks, due to being called by the death of her sister. Mrs. Anna Nichols is substituting in her absence. Fred Gustafson, who has been visiting here from Revelstoke, BC, left for Portland Tuesday. Miss LsYern Lesley, daughter ef Major and Mrs. O. A. Lesly, who recently moved from Sac ramento, Calif., to Orlando, Fla. has written to friends here of the very hot weather there. While; her Salem friends shivered,' they were sweltering .with a temperature of 85 de grees. Valley Births SILVERTON Births reported at the Silverton hospital Tuesday were a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ditchen of Salem and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Flukinger. "v Mr. and Mrs. W. S Morrison of Scotts Mills are reporting the birth of a daughter at the hospital on January 30. . Friends have received word here of the birth of a son on Decem ber 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Phylo Da vid Hall In New York. Mrs.. Hall will be remembered here, as Miss Virginia Nolgren, later of Salem. AUMSVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rak are the parents of a son, 4 James' Walter, weighing IVt pounds, born at the Rak home Monday. They are the parents of five daughters and, this is their first son. ; ' JEFFERSON Mr. and Mrs. Karl Kihs received word from Pratum, of the birth of a son to their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hofstetter Thursday at the Salem Deaconess hospital. The baby weighed, seven pounds and 15 ounces, and has been named Dale Sherman. The Hofstetters son, Dwayne, is stay ing with grandparents.