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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1947)
CTION . It; t - . i " Cr VA ... - , I . J.- . : ' V i . T S ';.;-.-.--fiir-:-- . ii-J " 1 ..'. . - .1 1 i vmmmmmmmmmmmi I , 'X. r l - . , . jl A pre-holiday gathering at the Wallace P. Carson home on Leslie street includes Mrs. Carson and her son, Wallace, jr., who are stand ing on the stairway. At the left is her sister, Mrs. Daniel J. McLellan end at the right her mother, Mrs. E E. Bragg. The McLellans have two children. Sally, who is in Germany with the Red Cross and Daniel Mc Lellan, jr., who lives in Madras. (Kennell-Ellis). THE FAMILY ALBUM... By Jeryme English Statesman-Society Editor Three generations, and even four, are not uncommon among those gather ing for the great family holdiay. Thanksgiving. Here we've pictured several three generation families who will be together for the holiday. . Th approaching holiday season means many visitors will arrive to be with their families. Mrs. Guy E. Raymond is arriving tonight from her home in Winona IMinn., for an extended visit with her son-in-law and daughter Dr. and Mrsi Ralph E. Purvine. Mr. Raymond will join his wife andjamily here for Christmas. Mrjmd Mrs. Fred Lasater of Walla Walla are arriving in Salem Tuesday to spend the holiday and remainder of the week with her daughter and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Coburn L. Grabenhorst. On Thanksgiving day the two fam ilies will join the George Grabenhorst family for a family, dinner. Richard Page is arriving home Wednesday night from his studies at Leland Stanford to spend the holiday week with his parents. Judge and Mrs. E. M. Page. On Saturday Mr. Page and his parents will motor Jo Eugene for the wedding of Miss Joyce McCracken and Samuel Huston, at which Mr. Page will be an usher. He will return south Sunday. Ted Baum, a sophomore at Stanford, is also coming home from Palo Alto to spend Thanksgiving with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. W, Wells Baum. Virginia Gase Sets the Date . . ANew Year's day bride will be Miss Virginia Case, who will marry Brady Gallagher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gallagher of SalemThe blonde bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Case of SalemAlthough the cou ple hav been a steady duo for two years no engagemount announcement pre ceded the news of their approaching marriage. The ceremony will be quietly solemnized before members of the two famil ies at the Knight Memorial Congregational church at 8 o'clock with a reception following in the fireplace room.- Miss Case and her fiance graduated from Salem high school. She is also graduate of Willamette university and a member of Delta Gamma. She was .princess in the 1946 May court at Willamette. Miss Case is an active mem ber of the Spinsters. Mr. Gallagher attended Willamette university and is now studying at the University of Oregon. His fraternity is Beta Theta Pi. During the war he served in the army for four years. Mr. Gallagher will tak his bride to Eugene to live while he is completing his education. Parties Fete Brides-Elect . . . The Thanksgiving week has been chosen by many girls for their weddings. A round of pre-nuptial parties are also being planned in their honor.' Miss Joan Lochead, whose marriage to Hubert Williamson, will be an event of November 29 at St Paul's Episcopal church, will be honored Wednesday night when Mrs. James M. Clark entertains at her Saginaw street home. A dessert supper will be served by the hostess with a bathroom shower in honor of the bride-to-be fol lowing. Bidden to honor Miss Lochead are Mesdames John S. Loch ead, Paul Williamson of Long Beach, Calif., Claude Cooke of Bend, H. T. Eastridge, Orville Eastridge, Edward Salstrom.-Jack Buhler of Corvailis, Misses Donna Lochead , Nancy Montgomery, Barbara Crawford, Margaret Newton, Betty Jean Manoles, Patsy Nickens, Patricia Brock.'Paulie Wallace, Dolores Clement, Gloria and Bar bara McClintock, Suzanne Small, Jane Carson and Harriet Huston. Ihree generations gather at the North Winter street residence of Mrs. Frank G. Kjlycrs. Mrs. Myers is pictured with her daughter, Mrs. Charles W. CJaggett, and grandchil dren. Patricia, who is eight, and Carclyn. who is eight months cfd OCennell-EIlis) r r : Dance Time ... A gala event for members of the junior high school set will be the informal dancing party for which Virginia Eyre, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert yie wfll be hofcteM Tuesday night. The TnahUsgivir.g party. will be held at the Mayflower ' hall from 8 to 11 o'clock with . 60 guests bidden. The hall will be festive with arrangements of c o r n s t a Iks, pumpkins, crepe paper stream ers and autumn leaves and flowers. Assisting at the re freshment table will be Jean Spaulding and Elizabeth Shaltr. Chaperones will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eyre, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Harris, Mr. and; Mrs. Frank Shafer and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Spaulding. Bidden are the Misses Rober- ta Boyer, Janice Seller. Gail Lochead. Kay Perriri, Pat Ruth, Jackie Baldwin. Othelene Lee, Carolyn Deckebach, M a r c i a Webb; Jean. Smith, Greta Ann Schrecergct, Barbara Wag ness. Jan Fculger. Sandra Nor- dyke, Marjorie Little. Beverljr Kayser, Joan Neal, Joyce Cas per, Doris Helen Spaulding, Joan Wenger, Valgene Gars- ' nelL Barbara Withrow, Darlene Johnson, Donna Phelp. Clarice and Claudia Waters. Barbara Franzwa, Marcla Map. Julia MiUer, Patsy Snider, Otis Greve. . John and James Humhprey, Kelly Conover, Richard Davies, Donald White, Harland Brock, Steve Merchant. Michael Dee ney, Joan Perry, David Black mere, Harry HendricksonrWal lace Carson, Sonny Walker, Bill Walker, Frank Panponpus, John and James Humphrey, vid Rhoten, Buz Covalt, Jack Beakey, Elmer' Winger, Jeff Walton, Bruce Burns, Linn Da -vies. Bob Mapes, Allan Gra ham, Tracy Gilman. Jim Fol ston. Jack ' Cobb, Elmer Say, Laurie Walker, Bob Luther, Peter Loder. Gertrude IVDshler to Wed ... The .engagement of Miss Gertrude Mishler, formerly of Salem,' daughter of Mr. and Mrs: Ben Mishler. to Stuart T. McAlister.'of Wash ington, D. C, son of Mrs. Daisy. B. McAlister cf Parsons, Kaos., waa told at a dmner party Thursday night at the Golden Pheasant. The news was told on scrolls attached to rosebuds at the places. Small chrysanthemums in autumn shades were used as the decoration for the table. Miss Mishler is here visiting her parents, and will return to Wash ington D. (V where he is employed, after Thanksgiving. She is ad ministrative assistant to the director of maintenance and engineering of the Capital Airlines in Washington, D. C. She is a graduate of Al bany schools and attended Oregon State college. Mr. McAlister is director of properties with the same company. He is a graduate in law of the Washburn college in Kansas. The wedding will be sometime after the first of the year. Attending the party were Mrs. William Saunders, Mrs. C. B. Stan ley, Mrs. Clyde Cardy, Mrs. Emma Vesper, Mrs. Thomas Kenagy. Mrs Edward Hansen, Mrs. John Herrick, Mrs. Bertha Ganong. Miss Alene Phillips, Salem, Mrs. Max Rohabaugh, Mrs. J. G. Buchanan. Miss Nor ma Buchanan, Mrs. Don Peebjer. Mrs. Thomas Buchanan, all of Albany, Mrs. Mike Trapman and Mrs. Carl Horten, Portland, Mrs. Bill Bryant and Mrs. O. Hammond, Corvailis. threesome at the Joseph M. Devers. jr. heme cn street is Mrs. Harry J. Weidmer, vho holds hsr eight months eld granddaughier, Paula, and at the..iright her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Devers. (Kennell-Eilis). , To Entrain for East .. . Entraining for Chicago on the streamliner Tue?day will be Mrs. Abner K. Kline, who will attend the annual conven tion of the Showman's League qf America and other meetings of showman's organization?. She will be there until Decem ber 6 and will be registered at the Sherman hotel. On Friday, November 28 Mrs. Kline has been asked, along 5jvith other showmen, to appear on the radio show, "Welcome Travel ers," which is on a nationwide hookup. From Chicago Mrs. Kline will board the City of Los An geles for Los Angeles, where she will attend the Pacific coast Showman's association meeting and sessions of the ladies aux iliary, with two banquets scheduled for the Biltmore hotel. Mrs. Kline will return to Salem on" December 13. BOP, A Breakfast for Coeds Miss Jane Walsh has bidden a group of the college set to a ten o'clock breakfast Friday morning at the Jefferson street home of her mother, Mrs. Raymond Walsh, for the pleasure of Miss Loch ead. Covers will be placed for the Miss Lochead, Mrs. John S. Lochead, Misses Helen Shepard, Jean Swift, Charlotte Alexander, Jane Carson, Donna Lochead, Betty Manoles, Mariann Croisan, Mar gie Cooley and the hostess. T ; Rehearsal Parties Several rehearsal . parties are scheduled for this week4)r. and Mrs. James L. Sears will entertain informally Tuesday night at their North Winter street home for their daughter. Miss Patricia Sears, and her fiance, James Shaw, jr., following their wedding rehearsal at the First Presbyterian church. Members of the bridal party have been bidden to the party. Mr. and Mrs. Ferdig Hall will be hosts for a dessert supper at their home Wednesday night in honor of their daughter. Miss "Shir ley Hall, bride-elect of Robert C. Warren. The couple's marriage will -take place Thanksgiving afternoon at the First Congregational church and the party will precede the rehearsal. Mr. and Mrs. Nofman A. Kei.ney will be hosts at an informal party Thursday night at their Market street home for their daugh ter. Miss Dorothy Kenney, and Donald Johnson, who will be mar ried Friday at the First Methodist church. Members of the bridal party and the two families have been bidden to the party, which will follow the rehearsal. v nr. (in m vi ?v rr fill BIT V A i - r iff ) In the living room the Fcdxmount Hill home of Mr. and Mrs. Wijlard C. Marshall are Mrs. Walter T. Stcltz, left, with her daughter, Mrs. Marshall, and two granddaughters, Julia, a first grader ort Mo Kinley, and Martha, a sophomore at Salem high school (Kennell-Ellis). A frequent foursome at the Dean Ellis home on Leffells street In eludes Mrs. Hal Wiley, who has recently moved back to Salem from Jelferson, her two grandchildren." John, who , is two, and Diane, who was six Saturday, and her daughter, Mrs. Dean Dli3. (Kennell-Dlis.) Bridal Party Selected . December brides-elect are now revealing plana for their-weddings. Miss Bettie Burks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Burks, will be mar ried on December 4 to Lon J. Spady, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Spady of Dallas. The rites will be solemnized at the First Evangelical United Brethren church. The Rev. Wilmer Brown, assisted by the Rev. Elmer of Dallas will officiate at the 8 o'clock ceremony. Miss Helen Tims of Portland will sing and-William Fawk will be the organist Candle lighters will be Miss Claudine Barkhuft and Mrs. Earl Gum. " Mrs. William E. Burks, jr. of Portland, will, be the honor matron for her sister-in-law. Bridesmaids will be Misses Betty Sedar, and Patricia Tiller, Jacqueline Wren and Marilyn Bauman of Portland. Shirley Stokes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stokes, will be flower girl. Melvin Spady of Dallas will be his brother's best man and ushers in clude. William E. Burks, jr Portland, Jesse Payne, Dallas, Elmer Abjji and Robert Price. A reception will follow in the church parlors.