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Tat 02EG0N STATESMAN, Soltcu! Oregon. Wtdnttday Homing. April 11, 1843 FAG2 XHTtEE Mm City Has Many Guests For Holiday MILL CITY Mr. and Mr'. Lvle TVitao T I v n it - "u ! uu rars. jreari Holthouse were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Millsap at Gates re cently. v.V-;;-. J.- ? Visiting at the Bert Morris home is hia sister,' Mrs. Effie Smith and children Donna ; Jean and Donnie of Park Place, Ore. Mrs.. Lester Reed '. and son of Dallas visited her sister- and brothers, Anna, Raymond and El vin Horner.: ; , Edna Swift spent the weekend vrith her mother, Mrs. Anna Swiff She is employed in Port land. - ' - - ' Guests at the W. W. Mason home were" their , son, Mr,, and Mrs.' Arthur Mason and family of Cottage Grove: I . - - Mr. and Mrs. Troy -Warobaugh and three children; of Milwaukee visited "recently" with her -parents, Mr; and ; Mrs. Clyde Rodgers. Recent guests at the James Swan home were Mr.: and Mrs. George .j G Men water and two children of Gaston. ' , Guests of Gus Koeneke recently were Otto Koeneke, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lea tha Thurston and children of Port land. The occasion was the Koen eke's birthday. . Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Lake, Forrestt Berry, Fern Clark and .Lynn Ber ry visited recently in Bend. Berry and Lynn returned to California Monday. Mrs. Josie Myers of Silverton is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Louis Verbeck: and family." Mrs. W. L. Oliver was returned to the home last week from the Salem Deaconess hospital by am bulance and is still in a' serious condition. Attending the two day Willam ette Presbyterial meeting in Eu gene last week "were Mrs. John Swan, Mrs. Herbert Schroeder, Mrs. Lee Morrisr Mrs! James Swan and Mrs. Roy Huber of Lyons. Eva Short of Buena Vista has replaced Mrs. Homer Thacker as bookkeeper at the,Mill City Man ufacturing company office. Miss Short is staying at the James Swan home. Mrs.' Morris Howe was taken to the Salem Deaconess hospital Sat urday to be treated for an in fected foot which ' resulted from stepping on a nail a week previous. Birthday Party Given For Mill Gty Girl MILL CITY Mrs. Charlie Pow elson assisted by Mrs. Elmer Shaw nd"Mrs. Alonzo Daly honored La Vetta Powelson on her 12th birth day Saturday afternoon. The guests played games. Guests were Alona Faye Daly,Marlene Verbeck, Patricia Cree, Sylvia Benett, . Barbara Trimble," Anna Mae Nelson, Wanda Vandarmeer, Wanda Haney, Joan Davis, Butch Meinert, Keith and Howard Pow elson. . . Property Changes in North Howell Reported NORTH HOWELL Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rickard have sold their small farm on what is known as the Seism road to the Ragnor fam ily, who will take possession al most immediately. Mrs. Ditchen has purchased the Sann place where Ragnor's have been living, and the Ricketts fam ily, who have been living in the Rickard house, will move to the Ask house on the Silverton, high way. - Lincoln Goodwill Club Will Meet oil Thursday 1 LINCOLN School was closed Monday because of the illness of the teacher, Mrs. Roy W. Hammer. The Lincoln Goodwill club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. I. E.. Merrick, Thursday afternoon at 2. Mrs. Nels Yenckel has an nounced final arrangements will be made to start a Pollyanna club. IN THD TDRIVGR'S SEAT FfoniI Valley Obituaries PfDEK C. SONNESTN SILVERTON Funeral serv ices for Peder C. Sonnesyn, 91, who died Monday night, have been set for Thursday, April 12, at 2 p.m. from the Memorial chapel of the Ekman funeral home. Rev. O. C. Olson will offi ciate. Sonnesyn had lived at Silverton for the past 25 years and was one of the oldest drivers in the state to hold an operator's license. He drove from his home to town and to neighboring farms on a special permit FLORENCE G. HARRISON , ALBANY Mrs. Florence Ger trude Harrison, 56, wife of ex representative Fred Harrison, died at the family home in the Ash Swale community April 6, ajfter a long illness. Funeral serv ices were held from the Baptist church in Brownsville Sunday, April 8. Elder G. E. Patterson and Elder William Christianson were in charge of the service Burial was in the Brownsville Baptist cemetery. Florence Gertrude Yokum was born at Riddle in Douglas county, June 15, 1888, the daughter of early residents of that county. Her girlhood days were spent at Riddle. - She was married in 1905 to Fred E. Harrison and' they came to. Linn county, locating on a farm in the Ash Swale commu nity near Brownsville whert they had since made their home. Mrs. Harrison, who for a num ber of years was a practical nurse, was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church and of the Lake Creek grange. Survivors are the widower, three grandchildren, James, Helen and Barbara Harrison, all of Brownsville; three sisters, Mrs. Ella Davis of Roseburg, Mrs. Paula Marsters of McMinnville, and Mrs. Pearl Lawson of Riddle. Her only son, George Harrison, died in 1940. HAMPTON BABY ALBANY Graveside serv ices were conducted for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Hampton, who died in the Albany General hospital April 5, , at the Jefferson cemetery Saturday Saturday morningg, April 7. Rev. Edward Terry of Albany con ducted the services. Clarence H. Schenrer AURORA, April 10 Funeral services for Clarence H. Scheurer, 68, who died Sunday night at his home here, will be held Wednes day, at 2 p.m. from the Miller Funeral home. Rev, E. W. Kastn will officiate and burial will be made in Butteville cemetery. 4 Born Sept. 23, 1876 at Butteville, he had spent all of his life in Or egon, living in the Aurora . and Butteville communities. Survivors are a son, Howard of Tulare, Calif.; three brothers. Rue- ben of Portland; "Ralph of Twin Falls, Ida.; Charles of Caldwell, Ida., Joyce Madden, Los Angeles; Merle Emmett, Portland; Florence Wade, Green Lakes, Oregon; and two grandsons. Brooks Sewing Club Meets With Mrs. Ramp BROOKS Mrs. Willard Ramp entertained for the Brooks Sew ing club. Mrs. William Cotts was assistant hostess. The rooms were beautifully arranged with spring blossoms. Others present were Mrs. A. P. Sidebottom, , Mrs. Elmer Conn, Mrs. H. H. Bosch, Mrs. N. P. Vin yard, Mrs. J. H. Repley, Mrs. John Dunlavy and Mrs. Harry Single terry. Mrs. Conn and Mrs. Dun lavy will be hostesses at the Conn home in Brooks next time. THI CAREFUL CHAP who babies his car. worries about every scratch, hates to leave it in the rain. He insists on RPM Motor Oil be cause it KEEPS ENGINES CLEANER, fights the carbon and sludge that run up repair bills. . RPM Motor 09 Tckes Better Cor lot Yowr Cor, too STANDARD OF CALIFORNIA SMSM. Mews' K Worrespondenis Hunting, Bear, j Sees Fat Deer j In Linri Area j Jsl .'"St. i SCIO Deer have wintered well in the Bilyeu creek foothills 15 miles southeast of Scio, Jack Bates, Thomas creek farmer and sheep man reports. On recent trip in that area Bates observed four largest? deer that appeared not the least I disturbed by approach of his car.- . I . f I- He droye within a short dis tance of Indian Prairie lake, which appeared to : be covered with ice and snow in places, he said. Snow at least three feet deep was on the' highway kept dear by a log ging company operating there since Pearl Harbor. .1 Frozen crust on the snow was two to four inches thick, Bates observed, and would . bear the weight of man as well as coy otes, cougars and other predatory wild animals. Although "loaded for bear,! Bates saw no traces of bruin the cold, late spring keeping the prolonged sleepers in hibernation later than 'usual. Jefferson School Votes Against Conscription JEFFESON Robert Simpson, senior announced that a poll had been taken in the high school re garding peacetime military con scription, with 20 voting for it; 14 against; four; undecided. The fig ure was reported at the PTA meet ing, l j The nominating committee re ported as f fallows: Mrs. Frank Shrisman for president; Josephine Getchell, vice president; Mrs. Nel lie Cornell, secretary; and C. J. Thurston, jStreasurer. They were elected, ad will , be installed at the -next meeting. j , The president Mrs. Paul Smith announced! the district conference of the MaliOn County council of PTA'at Salem April 20; Mrs. C. J. Thurston, lr$Irvine Wright, Mrs. Ernest Powell, Mrs. M. A. Hutch ings, plan o attend. . j M. H. Beat superintendent, an nounced the student body play for Thursday night, April 12, and the May day program May 4. j Waltnian Family Visits fin Siletz NORTH iHOWELLMrs. C. E. Waltman and Mrs. Don Kuenzie spent two days last week at the Lester Waftman home at Siletz. j Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hynes were Mrs. Paul Clark, Teresa Hynes and Dennis Hynes of Portland. , j Mrs. Leo Ramp, who spent last winter in jjciamath Falls with her husband, has returned to visit her parents, . Mr, and Mrs. August Woelke. Ramp, aviation store keeper, has been transferred to Alameda, Calif. Valley! Calendar WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 Salem grange, social, H. D. Stnita won. S3S N. 13th. p.m. i Silverton Home Extension unit, Eu gene Field school. , 1 30 pjn. Hazel Green Sunshine club, Mrs. Albert Ferns. ' Turner WCTU. S THURSDAYS APRIL IX ' Lincoln Good Will club. Mrs. X. X. Merrick. I pm. Brooks Garden club. Mrs. DunlavyJ Union Hiil $ Woman's club, Henry Peters home. ' - Auburn Woman's club, Mrs. E. C. Sunderlln. fl I; Polk County Federated Rural Wom en 'i clubs. Oak Grore. i Gates Women's club, schoolhouse. i p.m. - HayesvUleft Farmers Union, S at school. ! .- p.m. - Brush Colfege Helpers, Mrs. Joseph singer. & FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Liberty Community club pm. ! Spring Valley - Community club, ' at school. m 1 .--.....! East Salem s Home Extension unit, home of Mrs, Harold Holler, 1:30, pro Turner WSCS, 'Mrs. Jake Wheeler, ject leaders,, r Valley Briefs Health ;pictares County health department pictures will be shown Friday night at the Macleay com munity club , meeting. v . i : -. '.. i"v; . Bar ton Property Sold Harry Martin, sr has purchased the Roy Burton property in Macleay, It is part of the donation land claim of Philip; Glover,' father tf Peter Glover, "it is across the highway from the: Martin place. " - f i r - - I - :- - vf"v!": -- Salem Height Meeting The Women's! circle j of , the Salem Heights , 'community church twill meet at the George Wilsons Wed nesday night, April 11. Mrs. My ron Van J Eaton will give a book review. S i ' CJ j : : : '--'i ! " : t - School to Give Program The schpol will present the program at the Liberty Community club I Fri day night at 8 p.m. Mrs. E. C. Fhee and! Mrs. R. M. Toller Iwill serve. .. I I 1 - ; Albany; Jaycees Reorganization of the, Albany junior chamber of commerce is planned for- Friday night, April 13, at the Albany ho tel. Frank Merrill was chairman of the temporary committee which met to make plans for the organ ization meeting. A group of from 15 to 20 men between 21 and 35 years of age is needed to obtain a charter. The original group dis banded more than two years ago because of war time conditions. . Eugene : Woman Injured Ber nice McBee of Eugene is in the Lebanon hospital suffering from facial bruises received Saturday night, when the car in which I she wa ridirig and driven by Wib Fit4water of Lebanon, collided with an ifmlighted car parked in the j center! of highway. Dixie Lee FiUwater'was also injured. Others in the car were less severely in jured. 1 ! . ' ! ' 3 ! Change! Meeting Place Be cause of illness the Turner WSCS wul meetf with Mrs. Jack Wheller instead of as originally announced. On Radio Program Rae Smart, secretary, and Alma Knower, edu cational chairman, will speak at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday night on the Oregon-Stjate Farmers Union pro gram over KOAC jj Attends! Health Meeting Dri N. E. Irvin of Lebanon has gone to Washington, D.C. where he will attend a meeting " of the ' United States health officers association. He will also visit New York and other caster cities while way and will return Aprii 19. j Program at Banks The Kansas City and Verboort locals of the Farmers Union will hold a box I"Iave iyou ever seen a manufacturing plant that turned snow into war power? Few have. Yet the ! ? ' Portland General Electric Company operates several I A - such "factories' for war power, in addition to being 1 the largest distributor of Bonneville Power. PGE was I ' L ' : : i given the assignment to supply warpower to 67,000 war I i fjobs and 20,000 war farms. Power must reach these .. ' . i I .vital destinations in an uninterrupted steady stream. MM i Breakdowns and it ' j minimum. If necessary, PGE linemen and engineers I i I must work a 57,000 ) How can it all;be done? It just takes years of experi- ! ' -IS . - I ence, devotion tq duty and the electrical "know-how." . j ' " ' .'- ' i j When you're "toying" with! 1 5,000 volts of man-made ! lightning, there Peirtfflaraa for V MarjorieTye Talks to Cliib . . MILL CITY The Women's club met Tuesday with Mrs. Carl Kelly," Mrs. Lola Hurt assisted. The speaker was Marjorie Tye, home demonstration agent for Marion county. She spoke on "Col or in Interior Decoration" and showed samples of materials used for upholstery, samples of rugs, draperies and decorative pictures. ' Mrs. Donald Sheythe, president, announced the date April 27 as the Marlon County Federation of Wo men's clubs which will be held at Salem Heights. Mrs. Vera Braniger will head the dubs participation in the na tional clothing - relief drive -and Mrs. Curtis Cline was named on the national Cancer Control com mittee. The next meeting or the club will be April 17 with Mrs. Donald Sheythe. Four DeWall Sons Are in U. S. Army JEFFERSON Sgt. Merle De Wall, who has been with the mili tary police in Hawaii for three years, recently enjoyed a 30-day furlough, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John DeWall in Jeffer son. Cpl. Dordon DeWall, with the infantry, has been overseas for three years; 22 months of that time were in active combat, in New Guinea, East Indies.- He was transferred to the Philippines in February. Another son of Mr. and Mrs. DeWall, TSgt Walter DeWall, has been in the army for seven years and three months, and with the ninth army engineer head quarters in Germany for 'nine months. The fourth son, Sgt. Roy, DeWall, has been in the service for two years,' and is now at Fort Knox, Kk., with the ordnance depart ment. Immanuel Bethany Circle Makes Plans SILVERTON Mrs. C o n r a d Dahl, president is announcing the April meeting of the Immanuel Bethany circle to be held at the home of Mrs. Edwin Overlund on April 18. Circle members who have been making lap robes for the Red Cross will make a few of the USO scrapbooks before taking up sew ing again, Mrs. Dahl reports. ' social tonight, April 11, in the Royal Neighbors hall in Banks to which the public is invited, W) (MMMMI failures must be cut to an irreducible or 115,000 volt Kne "hotted is no substitute for ."know - GcuGD'aD century, pioneering in ! BUT ' S aspeajBsa- , -bj- s J i : i ' : rrr-1 1 Over the ravaged ground of war-torn Europe, . trudge 125 million men, women, and children who have given all but life itself toward the same per- manent peace we all are striving (or. Their need for clothing is as great as that for food-in some areas deaths from exposure equal those from starvation. 4 t These people need something you don't. Tbey need your spare clothing. 150 million pounds must be collected this month. Will you give your share? UNITED NATIONAL CLOTHING Leave Old this Wthiiil yraparsw by hW S75 Chemeketa St. up' how." y-A:. yy rU- u - v . y . . f . jr mm mm GDogucOs (Somparay oecrrca "fcnor-howM - .GTON, ALL LIFE" 'ITSELF! vSn ..1 ,! : X I - , F - j ' 1 Clothing at Any Service Station, ! School or Church April 7-14 Inclusive War AsWsvtiunf Cawkd for United Matijaal to Make hcxjsc a V What YOU Can Do I 1. Get toftatliar all the aarHceaUa aaei aommr and wiatar dothlnS you m apar. Thto ladudeas Maat'a, wosua't, chlidraa'a, and Infanra wear, aa4 tbnm Onrcoatm, topcoats, eulta, draawi. ahirtt. Jackets, paata, skirts, work clothea, SIotss, naderwear, sIms int ftarmenrs, robea, aweatsra, shawls, and all knit gooda. Also blanket, bedclothes. X Take year coatribntloa to yoor local COLLEC TION DEPOT ' ! ' " - C : ! S. Sapport your Local Committee Dot only wtth yoor dothlnc contribution but also with your time. COLLECTION Oeahiwf CslscHaa, aad your home Salem e f , "Iff t