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Tho OHEGOH STATESMAN. Scdew." Oregon, Sunday Meaning. April 50, 1944 Gary Barker Has Birthday : Little Gary Barker was honor guest on Friday afternoon at a ' party on his second birthday.': Forget-me-nots and lilies -cf-the- . valley Were decorations. At the party were Mrs. Arthur Meyers and Rosemary, Mrs. Wal- ter Beck and Gary, Mrs. Frank I Starr and Mary Lou, Mrs. Bon-' aid Baker, Barbara Jane and Sonny, Mrs.. Kenneth B a r k e r, , Judy and Sue Ann, Mrs. Foster Wintermute and Joan, Mrs. Ed ; . Johnson and Jimmy, Mrs. 1 Del win Finley and Ann Lee, Mrs.' Dale Burres and Keith, Mrs. Gor don Barker, Gary and El win. Mrs. Spaulding Is Hostess , Mrs. Bruce Spaulding was hostess at a salad luncheon on Friday afternoon at her Fair mount Hill home for members of her Dallas bridge club. Spring garden flowers were used for decorations and contract was ni play during the afternoon. - Covers were placed for Mrs. ' J. A. Inglis, Mrs. Lawrence Smith, Mrs. Cecil Dunn, Mrs. Carl Gerlinger, jr., and Mrs. Vic tor Williams of Dallas, and Mrs. George Rodgers, Mrs. Garlen Simpson, Mrs. Urlin S. Page and " Mrs. Spaulding of Salem. . , Salem DaagMers of the Nile will meet for a 12:30 o'clock lun cheon Monday afternoon at the - Masonic temple. : Hostesses are Mrs. Rex Turner, Mrs. Percy Kelly, Mrs. C C. Gabriel and Mrs. David Wright "1 4 3v 4.5 5- V 1 Miss Viola Conradt, whose engagement to Mr. Les ter Pearmine, United States marine corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. LL Pearmine of Salem, was announced recently at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house on the Oregon State col lege campus. Miss Conradt is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Conradt of San Jose, Calif. No plans have been made for the wedding. Mr. Pearmine is stationed at San Diego. ' ; boWt look 04U but . . we've had a big week, what with community concerts, YWCA tea3, and county federation meetings. Love their work. . . When we want a house built, we know the men who will get the job. They are the two carpenters who pounded on the side of the church wall in Silverton during the county federation meet ing on Friday. "It Was entertainment in it self, first they'd pound on one side, then saw down In the basement then rip some thing off over on another side. Nothing could tear them from their work not even a con vention of over a hundred women and a guest speaker who miraculously managed to shout out her talk about personal philos ophies In wartime. , They were wonderful. Then the tea. . . though .we weren't a founder of the YWCA, we were one oi the T first girls to learn to swim in the old YMCA kmk down on North Commercial street. We . wore a red flannel two-piece number with bloomers it's a wonder we didn't sink right there). The YWCA tea was nice celebrat ing your 30th birthday, if you are a YWCA should be fun. - Temperament la reverse. . . Prima donas are supposed to be temperamental, but lis ten to mis. A Salem waitress has the dis tinction (and not an enviable one) of being probably the only person in the United States to refuse to serve ice tea to Miss Hel en Traubel because "she didn't have time to make it" As the waitress went to get her distinguished customer some HOT. tea, Mr. Bass, Miss Traubel's husband remarked, "We. almost had a bad moment, didn't we7 ' And at for Mr. William Bass. . . he is an extremely pleasant gentleman. We had several nice talks with him and will write a story soon about interesting things he said about the prima dona. . . . Maxine Buren e etaoi shrdluuuu '. Camp Fire Glib -Column Camp Fire News -. uPbm - Sponsors of Camp Fire Girls end Blue Birds will be guests of the Guardian's association at the last meeting for the year which will be a covered dish dinner at the First Presbyterian church at 6:30 May 3rd. The- committee -planning the affair is 'Mrs. Em ery Feller, chairman, Mrs. M. D. Vinyard, Mrs. F. M. Fleming, Mrs. T. L. Kuhns, Mrs. Bea Bromley, Mrs. C. S. McCollam, Mrs. F. W. Taylor and Mrs. A. E. Ullman. The committee of awards with Mrs. J. S. Lochead as chairman will hold their last meeting be- ' fore the Grand Council Fire on May 9 immediately after school at the YWCA. - The Blue Bird training session, conducted at the local office in the Oregon building by Mrs. Emma Maxwell last week proved one of the most stimulating and enthusiastic gatherings. Crepe paper crafts were featured by an "idea exchange" when each lead er demonstrated the crafts and program best received by her, group the past month. - Although plans for camp de mand most of the time of the lo cal executive, groups are con stantly being organized. Groups with new leader are the fourth grade at Washington now meet ing with Mrs. W. W. Schultz, sixth grade girls at Highland meeting with Mrs. Alta Magurn. The new third grade groups are in the process of organizing at Highland. ' Junior high school Camp Fire Girls entertained .the Camp Fire Girls who are entering junior high school next fall, at a skating party Thursday after school. One . hundred and ten girls attended the affair, x Mrs. Elmer Roth was the guardian advisor for the party. ."- :v. fvvi Board Meeting 1 ' Believing that girls of Camp Fire age will face profound chan ges in their lives in the post-war period) the national- council of Camp Fire Girls has set up a pro gram especially to prepare girls for living in that period. Recom mendations , for achieving that coal were presented at the dis trict convention in Seattle last month and were reported to the executive board at its meeting by Mrs. Paul Morse, local extension chairman and delegate to the convention. Stressing that the Camp Fire program was a positive program with the aim to provide its girls with the opportunity and encour agement to develop her own skills, talents and capacities, the importance of understanding the girls by the leaders was . recog nized. It was noted by Mrs. Morse that the program outlined " at the convention coincided with the one being carried out in this area by the local executive. - Service Women AMITY Private Verna E. An derson of Amity Marine Corps Woman's reserve has received or ders to report for boot training at Camp Lejcune, NC She will leave Portland with 23 other ma-. Tines. April 28, en route south where she will begin classes May 3. Virginia Blevens Entertains , Miss Virginia Blevins enter . 'tained on her 13th birthday Fri day afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Blevins.. Lilacs and bleeding . hearts provided the decorative - note. Croquet' was in play with - refreshments following. Guests were the Hisses Joan Barnes. Ruth Ann Morgan, Eliz abeth Hamilton, Pat Milton, Car ol Kannier, Patricia Olson and Marie Harder. RestingVS Soldiers in Italy Can t Forget the Front Lines By KENNETH I DIXON , WITH THE AEF IN ITALY, April 2I-(Delayed)-(ff-When left this tired outfit last January at the front almost every wakeful though was given over to wondering when they would be relieved. They'd been in the line a long time. .: And now that they've been out a while and received some rest and replacements, they're wondering when they're going back in,' and where. It isn't that they want to re turn, but rather that they know they must and that this inaction a temporary thing. So they're tense. Then, too, there's the rest- essness of spring. ' 'k For spring hangs rich and green over the mountain slopes and val- eys : of Avellino. The oxen and donkeys f move - slowly, , pulling plows and carts across soil where war. scars have already been healed by grass, and flowers. Lying in the sun high on the hillside the soldiers look down cn a valley noor carpeted with grain fields and truck and flower gardens set off by brightly blos soming orchards. ; 1 But they can't lie still long. For one thing, they're constantly training . both to improve their own fighting skill and to break in the new replacements. Even when they could rest, they kept alert, looking for some hint of their next move. "Hello, bad news," they greet you if youTe a newspaper man. What are you doing here? We thought this was too good to last. Where are we going next?" Even when you convince them that you . know exactly nothing about their future movements, they remain on edge. They flop on the luxurious grass and yawn and talk about spring, and then they hop up again and start talk ing about iXumors and whose fault it was that they lost so many men at such and such a hill or river crossing, and how green the re placements are. If there's a little silence, the church bells of Avellino break it with their soft reminding chimes every 15 minutes. And somebody says, Those damn bells keep ringing all the timeA Somehow when the last clear chimes die away across the val ley there are scores of churches scattered over the mountains the talk always turns to grimmer things. They . mention men who fell in certain actions. They talk about the time the command post was shelled and several men were killed and wounded in their sleep. They lie there, each flunking of 'his own thoughts. Sk- The gentle stillness of the spring evening suddenly is split by the shrill squawl of a tomcat Every body laughs. 3 - "It's spring, all right," someone says, "Boy, that really makes me homesick. The others laugh again and talk of home. And someone says that next to being home, this about the best setup they've ever had, while it lasts. And then the bells of Avellino tell the sprawled soldiers that 15 minute? more of peace for them has passed. . Scio City Budget To Be Considered SCIO The dry council i scheduled for regular monthly meeting May 1, at which time the 1944-45 budget will be consid ered. - The budget committee, ap pointed' at the March meeting re cently prepared a schedule , far consideration of the council, the tabulation totaling $148&24, max imum 'statutory six per cent in crease over the 1943-44 budget. These computations allow only $94 for a year's salary for dty marshal and water superinten dent whereas this offidal has been paid SlOO per month since last June. -The council will be expected to reconcile and adjust the figures for. the fiscal year opening . July 1 next Certain street work, drainage and other matters are ripe for consideration. Budget committee appointed at the March meeting of the council are Roy V. Shelton, G. F. Bryan, Rolla M. Shelton and W. Z. Sims. These, with Roy Lambert interim appointee by Councilman Keith Miller, presented a budget for 1944-45. School Closes On May 26 MT.rAr?GEL - Graduation ex ercises for Mt Angel preparatory school will be held in the college auditorium Friday night May 26. The Rt Rev. Abbott Thomas Meier. OSB, will present the di plomas and the Rev. Willis Whal- en of Portland will address the graduates. - ' - mi ' Gold medals will be conferred on the winner ox the . elocution contest and; the student selected for the general excellence award. Benjamin Charvet was chosen as valedictorian and Wilfred p ping will give the salutatory. Class officers are Francis Hauth, president and " Thomas Becker,' secretary. Service Man Visits Monitor MONITOR Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith and baby, Carole, returned from Colorado last week and are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lienhart Smith is in the army, -stationed at Camp Carson and is here on furlough. Nidaros Lutheran church will dedicate its .service flag May 14, at a 2 o'clock service. Lt Chap lain Braa of Barnes hospital, Van couver, Wash, will be the speak er. .. Girls from Oak. Lawn school rolling bandages at Molalla in clude Betty Beck, Darlain Brem er, Roberta Shdder, Donna Per due and Norme Wells. Dr. Albert C Walker, the new pastor of the Elliott Prairie and Smyrna churches is expected to start services soon. He comes here from North Dakota. Hopewell School Glass Lists Six Graduates HOPEWELL The Seventh Day Adventist parochial school's eighth grade includes Eileen Al sop, Murray Gildersleeve, Virgin ia Hilderbrand, Floyd Sargeant, Pauline Stratemeyer and Charles Van Vlack. - Commencement exercises will be held the last of May. A Musical Tea This Afternoon Miss Frances. Virginie Melton will be hostess for a musical tea this afternoon at the Roberts studio from 4 to 6 o'clock. Any- - one interested in music is in vited to attend the affair. A for mal program will be presented at 4 o'clock by advanced stu dents of the Melton piano stu dio and during the social hour at 5 o'clock an informal program will be given by the younger pu pils. Miss Melton ; has asked Mrs. George E. Allen and Mrs. J. E. Bowen to open the door and welcoming the guests in the stu dio will be Mrs. Silas Gaiser, Mrs. B. B. Boy lan, Mrs. George H. Swift and Mrs. David Ben nett HilL Mrs. Charles L Sherman and Mrs. John A. Jelderks are in .charge of refreshments and serving will be Miss Beverly Nelson, Miss Gracey Widdows and Miss Jean Turnbull, stu dents of Miss Melton. Mrs. John Schmidt and Mrs. Lee Brown are arranging the program. - Pre-America members will meet at the chamber of com merce Tuesday night at 8 o'clock with Mrs. Walter L. Spaulding, president presiding. - Dean Mel vin Gelst is in charge of the mu sical program and a panel dis cussion will be given by a group of - business and professional . women." Mrs. Walter Lamkm will give a short explanation of the equal rights amendment 1461 Automobiles Will Be Available SAN FRANCISCO, April There will be 1461 new passenger automobiles available for eligible residents of the Pacific states, the OP A said today. That number has been allotted, out of a total of 10,000 to region 8 which embraces Californiar Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. In the same area, 2428 new bi cycles for adults will be available. The May quotas were the same as the number of automobiles and bicycles rationed in April. American War Mothers will meet all day Tuesday at the Che meketa street USO, with a bus iness meeting at 2 o'clock. 19 You cent y lh MOST out al lite m -rotiMMd" vision. Te PO Tear bast and FEEL yovr best too saust SEE year feestl HAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINED Mwiuat.efoamtm if. V mm 3mMtWM MM A A CLASSES Oil CREDIT1 Permanect Push IVavt f"i f Complete: V.wJ Onen Tbura. Eve. JN-J ,bv Acoointment ; v ' '; ; " - rfcoar, l . 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