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Reports From Tlie Statesman's Community Correspondents
Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning. May 6, 1944
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Pratum Elects
PTA Heads
South American Views
Shown yTFrances
Qinton
- PRATUM More than-85 were the many people who -are eager
In attendance at the spring meet- to see him and the reception is
ing of the Pratum PTA held at planned by his friends to give
the ' schoolhouse Thursday ' night this opportunity to his old par
with the program featuring Fran- ishioners.
ces Clinton, county home dem- The time has been set at 3:3,0
Reception for Father Alcuin
To Be Held Sunday Afternoon
MT. ANGEL A reception in honor of Father Alcuin Heibel
will be held Sunday afternoon, May. 7, and will be held at the
Legion hall from 3:30 to 5 pjn. , )
i Father Alcuin arrived Wednesday" for a short visit. His time
here will not permit him to visit
r
onstration :, (ent. entertainers
from " Macleay ' and the Pratum
Boy Scout patrol.
Election of officers was held
. during . the business meeting
with Melvln Lien, reelected
president: Mrs. C. C Bateson.
vice-president; M r s . Ernest
Dewey, secretary; and W. E.
t Branch, treasurer. Miss Clinton,
' as a representative of the coun
ty PTA council, served as in
stalling officer. " ;-' rr':'J:'
A report was, made on the
school support amendment to the
so as not to mieriere wiw at
tendance at the musicals , and or
atory contest, an annual music j
week feature of ML Angel col- j
lege. - , . h. :
Father Alcuin left ML Angel a
year ago and in that time has
established an agricultural school
. . . 1
in Mexico ana nas aiso Deen
teaching in Mexico City.
All friends ' of Father Alcuin
are invited.
mi:
Zena Woman
BVUWI.0UAi sjkv-a, w , '1
state constitution. Several signed fVaa foi'f tlC
the petition for it to be placed on -a.OA l,aaa.O
Mrs. Phillips
Wins Award
r.Art -Huh Pw Uilness.
w7 ' - - - Rev. D
Given at Sleeting
Held This Week
Jefferson Resident 1
For Half Century ' I
JLs Honored I
; JEFFERSON Many relatives
and friends attended the funeral
services Wednesday at the Jef-
I tenon Evangelical church for Mrs.
t Emma. Josephine Jones, - 77,; who
cued April 30 at ; her home on
Third street, following a brief
-SCTC- Winner in the flower ar
rangement competition , at this
week's meeting of the Scio Gar
den club was Mrs. Birdelle Phil
lips. Others 1 competing . included
Wilson Jaycox ; con
ducted the service, and was as-;
sisted by Rev. R. . W. Elmer of
Corvallis, former pastor here. Mu
sic was furnished by Mrs. K. , WJ
Elmer and Mrs. C J. .Thurston.
Mrs. Kingsley Thurston, Mrs.
I. L. Shields and Mrs. Irvine
Wright were in charge of the flo
ral arrangement. Bearers were
pars, -Eunice; Bartu, Mrs. Sigrid wrt
Winter and Mrs. Carolyn Schrunk. CTe. WIightL h K
Mrs. Hendricksen also - won 1 a
prize. Mrs. Auaie Myers had a
paper on camellias .and Mrs. Bess
Phmppl discussed prtaroj. Next Home
meeting is scneauieu at uie name
of Mrs. Pat Densmore, with Mrs.
I Wilipa Crow as co-hostess.
Lowell Myers of the Jordan
area has been inducted into the
Shields, Guy Roland, S. H. Goin,
and K. S Thurston: Burial was
in Willamette Memorial park, un
der the direction of the Fisher
: She was born at CarltonviUe
HL, November .14, 1865, and spent
her girlhood there, coming to Cal
ifornia . and then to Oregon in
1880, locating in the Syracuse
the ballot for the vote of the peo
ple..
The program included a skit
by the Boy Scout patrol with
Cornelius Bateson, leader; several
numbers from Macleay. a piano
duet by Mike McGovern and Hen
ry Cooper;' a style review, show
ing costumes from the gay nine
ties to the present time with Mrs.
Mildred Barrows, piano accom
. panist, playing music appropriate
for each model. Mrs. J. ; F. C.
Tekenburg, in fitting costume,
gave, a . reading, "Fifty Years
Ago." A skit, "What All House
wives Know," was presented also
by the Macleay group. ;.
Miss Clinton told of her experi
ences traveling in parts of South
America ? and . concluded with
. showing two films in color
isuwu nunc uic iiviui
and "Orchids of South America.'
Dads of . the upper grade room
served refreshments.
The Macleay entertainers with
Mrs. J. J. ) McGovern and Mrs.
Theodore Olson in charge includ
ed: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Burton, asde ai
Mrs. J. F. C. Tekenburg, Mrs.
Art Spelbrink, Dolores and Don
ald Spelbrink, Margaret Keller,
Mrs. Wilbur Miller, Patricia and
Mjke McGovern, Patricia Wodze
; woda, yt ilbur ; Miller, . Sedonia
REV. ALCUIN HEIBEL, OSB
Fori QuB Group Valley Calendar
ZENA Twenty-five attended
the Mother's day program and
social fefternoonv sponsored by
the Spring Valley Home Mission
ary society, held at the Zena
US .navy, to report within a short fa
. . i . - , . v : , &ne was .marriea to jonn r.
AinoiiK lucai uwyie who are
candidates In the primary f elec-
tion May 19 are M. D. (Del)
Zander for sheriff on the repub
lican ticket,! aiid J. A. Withers,
delegate to the democratic na
tional conventipn. '
The estate of Ithe late Joe Kruml
was appraised i this ' week at S4,-
was
Jones - in Linn county March .22,
1885. They moved to Jefferson in
1890, where they made their home
for 54 years.
home, if Mrs. W. W. Henry, xuesdav. may
SATUKDAT, MAT I 4
Riverview Farmers Union.
Jordan Farrners Union.
Bridgeport , Farmers Union.
TUESDAY, MAT 9
Marlon county home extension
rram nlanninc dav. YMCA. Sal
10:19 to 330t ,
wednesdat; mat is
SUvtrton Home Extension unit. Eu
gene ; fields school 10.
THURSDAY, MAT 11
Gate woman's ciud, l pan.
Thursday with Mrs. C. F. Merrick
as cchbstess.
Former members, Mrs. Frank
Matthews and Mrs. Louise Pat
rick, nw of Portland, and Mrs
L. M. IpPurvine of Salem, were
Special nguesia, aisu iib. - uwigc um u.
w JL ct ir , I East; Salem Home Extension
4 '-it"- Sweelt school, 130 p
twins land macs were usea
about vie rooms.
Mrs. IWf D. Henry presided at
the program and told of the ori
gin of Mother's day, in 1907, and
of the proclamation made by the
president of the United States,
setting aside the second Sunday
in Mar to commemorate the
event. I
A Mother's day stamp -was is
Besides the widower, survivors
are one son, Harry E. Jones; one
daughter, Mrs. Gladys Wadsworth
of : Harrisburg. A ' son, Raymond
noo n - ,.:-. ino ... m -
Z'i Trf v. Tu 7 Vving are five grandchildren and
Six great grandchildren,, three
nieces and one nephew.- Mrs.
Jones was a charter member of
the Jefferson Evangelical church,
$nd also of the Woman's Mission-
as real estate;, chiefly the 40
acre farm least of Providence.
Appraisal Was made by
W. A.
Marion County Home Extension pro-1
ffram slannin dav. YMC!A. Salem. uu
ers. A. L. Riddle, a near neigh-
lS k year8ViS Ury ciety, and wa, pianist for
administrator.
Local people attending River-
view Farmers Union business and J
many years.
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Yamhill Count Homemakers Sprinf I aooui
restival. McMlnnVUle.
social meetipg were Mr. and Mrs. " XTa.
Rolla Shelton and Mrs. Bess Phi- UOUpi6 XlOSl
linn! T7-i1l4 CVa14am anrl Tm 1 JL . ! K
Hendricks won prizes. Cafeteria f g kijiiik WMYi
supper was; served at1 midnight AU OC1 VltC Hv"
and guests
I Turner
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Elects Four
Lodg
100 immbm
i i xJLajruuvji. mr. ana jars. Ai
John , Palmer, timber worker Uj11 Kusom . entertamed Wednes-
near Sdo. vhitod hif famil in T wr- aars. Juuan ie-
simSniuf' Jardin of Stayton and Hubert
j. , . . ,, . ,
Mr. and Mrs Carl Warren anrt i orunaiage oi XJonage commum
I A m a m . -
Miss Bohbl Pnnll wor in t fX- Mr- Mr- arry uressier
Portland Sunday.
sued in
before
bf Salem .were also guests at the
Nusom home Wednesday night
) , Mr. : and Mrs. Arthur Coffin
went to Portland Sunday, visiting
Dr. and Mrs. O. J. Goffin.
I a turaey runner was servea
Thursday by Mrs. Ivan Brundidge
at her new home near Woodburn,
honorinir Donald Nusom. v ITSN.
JEFFERSON Mrs. Hal Wiley un(1 Cwlm Rlcu itcv ,r.
Participating on the program t commemoration of the 28th ?te?afe? ,t? buIfet ""PP1" home on leave after six weeks
d poems .nniversarv of Meal Rebekah T ' lHome m,th Nning at(rirrapit
1934. Mrs. Henry said long
Christ the Greeks set
day v to honor their moth'
era and that the idea of honoring
motherhood came down through
the ages.
TURNER Delegates to the I
state! assembly ; of Rebekah lodges
in Portland May 16, 17 ! and -18
were? named by the local lodge
Wednesday night They are Ethel
Whaley and Velma Hatfield; Mu
riel Salisbury and Thelma Cas-
pel are alternates.
Wiley s Host
At
son
with readings, articles and
Burton.
Mildred Barrows.
Dr.
Far
Marvin Wells and Mrs.
Howard Named
n Home Head
were - Mrs. Florence Atkinson. i-i , ... j -one apartments. . Present were r present besides the honor ust
I ivuKCi uic ? i wiu w aa ucvviawu t - a?L mm I
Mrs. Fred Muller, Mrs. Oins witnibasket, or le lr iaact Mr. and
iiuijni, n. boi and bleeding hearts. Mrs. NeUie X "i pniiKuujc.rapy sua uaw onm-
n, auu aaage ana tne nosts. Mr. and Mrs,
u. i-aie ana mi. ana msr. wuey. van Brundidge.
The Wileys entertained Tues- j The Brundidae familv moved
day for Mr and Mrs. M H. Beal, ew weeks ago to their home east
Mr, and Mrs. Harold Wynd, Mr. of Woodburn. Thev have lived
MONMOUTH Dr. C. A. How
ard recently was appointed a
member of the board of trustees
of the Children's Farm Home. The
. Farm Home, located between' Cor
vallis and Albany, was establish
ed in i23, and is operated on a
cottage basis. The , first cottage
was named for Frances E. Wil-
lard, Honoring the sponsorship of
Mrs. Robert V. Carlson, Mrs. Lois
Crawford, Mrs. L I. Mickey.
Mrs. R. C. Shepard, president
presided at the club meeting.
Group singing was led by Mrs,
George E. Allen.
At a previous meeting the club
discussed the advisability of be
coming , a member of the State
Federation of Rural Women's
dubs.
Letters from Mrs.. George K.
Moorhead, president of the state
federation and Mrs. K. W. Har
Hamilton, the first noble grand,
presided at the latter part of the
lodge meeting. Mrs. Dora Peebles,
noble grand, was in charge.
n H Hrs. Wimam.Walls, andMf. many year, in this communi
surprise guts were Ann Baker,
who; has joined the .Waves, who
was given a handkerchief shower.
and rMr. and Mrs. Roy Hatfield,
presented with a piece of silver
in observance of their silver wed
ding anniversary. Miss Baker is
the : second member of the lodge
the WpTU. There are now eight j secretary.
cottages comprising tne school.
Dependent children, and those
having no satisfactory home, are
the ob; ective of the Home, and in
its lifetime to date, more than
1000 children have lived there.
"Chairman of the board of trustees
is C. iL Starr, Portland, who for
many years was a member of the
state board of education, and is a
of-Polk county.
to idin the Waves, as Alice Titus
ritt, county federalion president, let weeks ago for New
were reaa Dy aars. u . raicaiey, i York . :
and Mrs. TX. L. Shields at a buf
fet supper.;
The Woman's club will i meet
May 10 at the home of Mrs; Ma
rion D. Looney. "Music for! Your
Pleasure" Tiy ill be the theme. Mu
sicians from Salem will present
the program.
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Trim despite her S5,000-tbn slse, the giant batUeshk) USS Alabama rides at rest during an Interlude in
the war at sea. The craft represents the latest improvements and modifications in areaonangnts ana
Is shown in her first ptctare la battle dress. She Is capable ef throwing ene-Un shells accurately
for 20 milesJ Launched at Norfolk. Va navy yard February IS, 1942, the warship bristles with guns
af all calibres up to U Inches (AP TOrephoto from US navy) 1
A
Home Management Specialist
To Help Planning Program i
Lois Lutz, home management specialist from Oregon State
college, will be guest .speaker at the annual program planning
day for home jextension in Marion county to be held Tuesday at
the YMCAt in Salem. Miss Lutz has chosen as her, topic fProb-
lems Confronting the Homemaker
Today
Registration
bezin 8t .10:30.
of delegates will
Two representa
tives from each group taking the
home extension program and oth
er interested jorganizations hav
been invited to attend for the
purpose of planning the projects
for next year's meetings, j Frances
Clinton, home demonstration
agent will review the year's ac
complishments in the, county, and
suggest 4hej goals to be reached.
A report on jthe State Council
executive rammittee meeting : re
cently held in Portland I will be
given by Mrs. p. A. Lynds, coun
ty chairman. ) - - - . i
During the afternoon 'session,
following suggestions made f by
the delegates, j the home ; exten
sion program of projects for 1944
1943 will be determined by the
vote of those attending.
The nominating committee with
Mrs. W. F.jKrenz, chairman, will
report, and election of three coun
ty committee members whose
terms expire this , year i will fol
low. ; i ,
The members of the county
committee assisting Misa Clinton
in' making j arrangements! for the
day are Mrs. Harry Martin, Mrs.
Floyd Fox, Mrs. Verny Scott Mrs.
Grace Cramer,! Mrs. James Keys
and Mrs. W. R4 Woodburn.
During the rest of the week,
the May program of "Touch-Ups
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on Wood Funiture,, will be pre
sented by Miss Clinton at Silver-
ton , on : .-Wednesday, Gates on
Thursday, and East Salem at the
Swegle school on- Friday.
Saturday, May 13, the
committee with Miss Clinton have
been invited and plan to attend
the Yamhill county's Homemak
ers Spring Festival to be held at
McMinnville. L
Keizer Women
Entertained
KEIZER A pleasant day was
spent at the home of Mrs. Wal
ter Lansing Thursday, when she
entertained 14 members of the
Woman's Sewing club of Keizer.
Work on two quilts was the di
version of the day. Mrs. W. E.
Savage,1 Red Cross chairman of
the group, announced that 159
articles! had been completed and
returned. This group gives $1 per
month to the Red Cross for ditty
bag supplies.. j- ,
Ethel Hall held the lucky num
ber when the drawing on the
quilt took place.. ' X v
Mrs. ! J. E. IWhitehead, who
moved to-this district last- winter,
was a guest The next meeting
will be on May 18, with Mrs. Ar
thur Ounmings. , i
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TrSsksMove
To New Place
Mill City Residents
y To Live in Lane
County Town '
MILL CITY Evelyn ClipfeU of
Lyons, was a week end guest or
Margie Thompson. The girls sang
a duet at the Presbyterian church
Sunday morning. 5 ; '-I-'';-
Dr. D. ; W Jleid was seriously.
ill last Week end from food pois
oning, but is reported to be much
better and is back in his. office
-" ! ..X - ' . ... II .
again. . , . 7
Kfi. nn Mfm XlrS SBclr llrAf
Sunday to the s Duggan J) home,' .
which they recently purchased.
Mr. and Mrs. Duggan have pur- :
chased a home in Springfield, and
moved there Sunday. . '
t MrsR. Haseman was in eharse
of the local post office Saturday
while Mr. and . Mrs. Charles Kt
were in Salem. - - '. ; i .
Clyde Hathaway fell while
practicing baseball Wednesday
and broke his leg. He was taken
to the local hospital, where it was
set and put in a cast Clyde was
to have been inducted into the
navy May IS, but because of his
accident will have :- to wait six
months. - y . -Jt l-p
- Lester Hathaway broke several
ribs last week while at work.
Adam Bauy dislocated! his hip
and hurt his side while ! he was
repairing telephone wires' for the
Mill City Manufacturing! compa
ny at their camp at - Blowout . -t
The; Presbyterian church voted
last Sunday to conduct; a dally
vacation Bible school this sum
mer, h -: .:I
exiy
ty.
Peach growers in this and Wa
con da vicinities are spraying their
orchards for brown rot This dis
ease has . appeared much earlier
than in former years.
Mrs. R. H. Scott led devotionals
using as her theme, "Honor Our
Fathers and Our 'Mothers." Mrs.
Scott read a touching verse found
on the body of a soldier which
told of the faith of our. boys.
Characters of mothers, ' said Mrs.
Scott are playing a vital part at
Sick Nurse
Coming Home
native
this time in family and national ,eveh members and one guest
life. -The hostess calendar . for
June includes Mrs. R. H." Scott
Mrs. Fred Muller and Mrs. W. B.
Hunt Refreshments were served
to Mrs. M. J. Neiger, Mrs. Ben
McKinney, Mrs, John Childers,
Mrs. .Robert V. Carlson,
Stella Fetsch and Thelma Cas- ( - O
pellf comprised the refreshment Hears bf Da 111 8
cumiuiiiet. : me ut Dies were luvr-
ly wjui oowis m puw. na wniie CHEMAWA The regular
tulips and papers in, crystal hold- meetinit of i chemawa mn was
S l ; hu?e wdfdm cak held in th haU Wednesday." Be- ;viation flight will be started
andia Wave cake, the latter with - . t. . t. -Mt this week to return Second Lt
gave a talk on proposed dams and
river conditions near Salem. He
showed some pictures of Oregon
wild life, flood and snow scenes,
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday,
May S--The world's ' longest
an 'American flag and small red.
white and 1 blue candles. Twenty
were present
Final nomination of new offi- centennial
cerswiU be held at the next meet- 8Cenic garden pictures in color.
ing.
State Strawberry Crop
Valley Obituaries
PERRYDALE Mrs. : Lois Let
ticken died at the Salem General
hospital Wednesday morning af
ter an J illness of several months
at the ige of 73.
. - - i 3 a Tvrn ?
Mie was marnea 10 wmiam
: .111 1 . 1 ' f '':
tZ,rrn T?Zr -l V1 v v be Just half of the average 1937
unrisunas i low. ourviving - MONMOUTH Crimson O Dra- 42 .harvott , nrnrrm . Stat rot
childrert are Mrs Maud Houk of matic dub will pre6ent two one- lege extension service said today.
Strawberry acreages, declining
pictures and some
TWO 1-aCt PlaVS Jft Mf rf Average
To Be Given
Swegle Workman
Injures (Hand in Fall
Katherine Landrey of Boston,
stricken army amrse, to the United
States. . .:-f-M -.'
The- first ,! trans-Pacific flight
for a patient will mark another
record for air evacuation activi
ties in the southwest Pacific thea
tre where Lt Gen.1: George C
Kenney's x 5th air . force planes
have moved more than 85,000 pa
tients more , than any other air
force. .
The seriously ill nurse, who re
quires an immediate operation by
steadily in tthe last three .years,;
produced only 15,264,000 pounds
last; year a 66 per. cent drop
from the vl941 peak, the service
Perrydale, Mrs. Evelyn White of act plays Saturday night May 6,
tticxreau, jwrs. ciara mornson j m . auditorium i of Campbell
of North Bend, and Ernest of hall- piay ha, an aii.giri
riicitreaii. i ne seven granacmi-1 cast.
ciren mciuoe Mrs. vioia bcnmiot The drama "House Divided."
who is kwith her parents, Mr. and written by Evelyn Neurenberg, said.
mr. j. ji. nuu, wrme ner nus- ha, a ca$t of four, Lily Waggon
Dana is) overseas; Mrs. Marie cei- er Ontario; Roberta Johnson,
lars ofh. SanU Barbara, Calif.; Portland; Doris Johnson, Port-1 Mntfii4T)aii fritter
White, US army in New Guinea, j wood. Darlynn Matlock is direc- " arty to lie 31ay O
Mrs. Vidian. Brown of Perrvdale. rh- meA-m WhoV Ar. v,i SlLVERTON Mrs Ben Gif
and Bob Morrison in 4 the - air Going 1 to Wear?" by Jean Lee OT J announcing a mothers
corps, Rationed, at Eagle Pass. Latham, has a cast of nine: Lois ?u8hter Tfrty, May 8, in place
Texas; Marjory Letticken of Heater. West Linn; Evelyn Kent regular annual missionary
Xickreau. IMolalla; Viola Tiedeman, Sher
Four j great-grandchildren, Eu- wood; Lois Loosley, Ft Klamath;
. ne. arid Jimmy Schmidt Rich- Julia - EngdahL - Scio; Eleanor
ard Brown and Micheal Cellars. Johnson, Gresham; Evelyn Smith,
Funeral services will be held Portland; Barbara Parker, Con-
at t h undertaking parlors in I don, and Orchid Howard, Albany.
Dallas Saturday at 2 o'clock, with The director is Marge Stringer
burial at the Evergreen! ceme- of Lebanon. Cecilia Brennan ' is
tenr at McMinnville. ' dramatic adviser for Crimson O.
SWFr.I.K Tmm TTmcoII
rAo1rit Tte I " T w
. - -yrr- y- youngest son of. Mr. and "Mrs
gon's im strawberry crop will William n -.-..fcv..irZ: J,..
the Deaconess hospital Friday for be accompanied by First Lt Mary
n operation. V. Kerr. Washinctonl Iai. chief nurse
Walter Dement ' fell while at of the first medical air evacua
work at a Salem cannery Wed- tion transport squadron to arrive
nesday and broke the bones in In the southwest Pacific nearly a
his hand."
.year ago.
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