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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1949)
.1 . -t ' . i ' 4 April Date Set Br Jerymc English. Society Editor Wedding bells will ring on Saturday, April 30 for Miss Lorraine Taylor and P. Dixon Van Ausdell, Jr. Although the bride-elect has been wearing a diamond for several months, no 'formal announce ment of the engagement and forthcoming marriage was made known until Saturday afternoon when Mrs. Rex Adolph entertained at tea at her North 23rd street home for the pleasure of the bride-elect. The couple's marriage will take place at the First Baptist church and after their wedding trip they will be at home in Salem. The pe tite, vivacious bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Austin C. Taylor of Molalla and her fiance is the son of Mrs. Beth Van Ausdell of Salem. v Miss Taylor attended schools at Molalla and Oregon State col lege. She is an active member of the Salem Spinsters and is an ex change teller at the Ladd and Bush branch. United tSates National bank. Mr. Van Ausdell is a graduate of Salem schools and attended Woodbury Junior college in Los Angeles. During the war he served in the air corps and is now with the 'state department of veterans affairs. SO CI ETY GLLfBS MUSIC The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, April 3, 1949 ------vi-;-'i7-frM X'i - -.i-..K'?j Assist at Tea Little Susan Jo Grier, daughter of the Loring Griers, opened the door at the Adolph home and passed out scrolls disclosing the news. Receiving with the honor guest and hostess were the bride-elect's aunt, Mrs. A. W. Vernon, and Mrs. Beth Van Ausdell. Friends of the bride-to-be called between 2:30 and 4:30 o'clock. Presiding at the urns were Mrs. Max Allen, Mrs. Duane Lantz f Molalla, Mrs. Ivan Lowe and Mrs; Hillary Etzel. Assisting were the Misses Helen Zielinski, Pauline Turin, Ardell Scott and Mrs. Frtd Nicholls. The bride's table was centered with a bridal bouquet f pink and white sweetpeas, roses and gardenias with a shower of pink and white ribbon and sweetpeas. Pink candles flanked the ar rangement. Bouquets of spring flowers were used about the rooms. 4 : 25 4 -f' i -. . Ml . ft H' 'om on vacation for a month Is vivadatis Betty Lbu Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Edwards. The professional ice skater left last June to join the Ice Follies as a chorus skater. Since leaving San Francisco she has been in all tke large eastern cit ies on tour and in May will be in Portland. Here she is caught by the photographer glan cing at pages of her scrapbook compiled on her tour, (btatesman photo). Dances on Agenda . . . VS ii Lt. and Mrs. Robert D. Gardner stopped in Salem for a visit with, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Gardner bek:re ieaving by plane fgr Honolulu, where he will be stationed with the army "air; force. He recently returned from the air lift in Germany. The cou- i pie's marriage took' place on March 16 in Concern, Calif, (Statesman': Photo). .' ' j", : . i t a 7 i On the social agenda for the coming weekend are several dances. In observ- i A mncm of army day members of the Salem Women's Army-Navy League and the ,, ., Marion county Reserve Officers associ-r " ation wifhentertain with an informal dinner dance at the American Legion! dub on Friday nigh, April 8. Dinner! , L will be served at 8 o'clock with dancing!' j j ' " to attend the Community Concert are asked to come in after the program. Mrs. Chester L. Fritz heads the com mittee in charge of the affair for the league and assisting are Mrs. Joseph A. Gray, Mrs. flobert S. Gentzkow and Mrs. Bert A. Walker. i Wisteria club members will entertain! with their monthly formal dance Fri-1 day night at the Veteran's hall with Guy Albin's orchestra playing between 9:30 1 and 12 o'clock. !lw"XW " The Mondav Nieht dancine club's formal dinner dance will be an event of r t ' J will be the last dinner dance of the sea-t son with a sports dance slated for May. y X j j - 'Jp AAA AAV. W W A AkAA A 0 VWAAW tra. The committee in charge of decora tions includes Mr. and Mrs. - Elmer Church, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Madison, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McCoy and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Palmason. .f"'" ; ft; ; 1 r 5 r . t 6' u revoirs were said the past week to two Sa lem matrons and their children prior to their departure for army bases to join their hus bands. Directly above is Mrs. Edwin F. Houser and daughter, Ann, who left during the week for Fort Riley, Kansas, where they will be join ed by Major Houser, who is stationed there with the artillery. He .was with Keith Brown's ' before leaving Salem and president of the Mar lon County Reserve Officers association. Sailing for Japan soon will be Mrs. George Vinton Ellis pictured at the left with her two children, Jonathan, who is five months, and George Vinton, jr. Lt. Ellis rs stationed at Shir, near Tokyo, with the army air force and ha3 been in the orient since August. Mrs. Ellis and the children leave Monday for Seattle, where they expect to sail cn April 9. (Kennell-Ellis photos). v jf" I ; - . I Li v 'y s It's unanimous for the two Barnes girls. Joan (above left) 18, was recently selected as queen of the Civics; club car nival at Salem high school and Suzanne 17, has been chosen to represent the school as a princess at! the Cherryland fes tival this summer. Both are seniors alt Salem high school and will graduate just 30 years after their mother, Mrs: C. A. Downs. ; y .. j? Just to prove that beauty and popularity; run ies, it's recalled that their mother, then lEsther Parounagian, was May queen at Willamette university in 1923, The Barnes girls have seen a good deal of the world,! as the daughters of Ralph Barnes, foreign correspondent for i, the New York Herald Tribune. Joan was born in Rome and Suzanne in Paris. With their mother they returned! to Salem , during the early days of the war and previous to ithe death of their father, who was serving as a war correspondent. 1 (Statesman Photo), in famll- Au Revoir Parties f Welcome as a new bride in m capital is Mrs. David L Scott, who was Rose Marie Peters, daughjter of Mr. and Mrs. E E Peters of Forest Hills, New York, before her marriage on March 5 in the eastern city. The Cfroom Is theson of the Harry W. Scotts of Salem, (Jten-Miller). Miss Carol Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubbell A. Young of Salem, who recently announced her en gagement to Frank Lauritzen son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Lauritzen of Oakland, Calif., in San Francisco, wherat the bride-elect makes her home. The wedding is planned for late summer. Bride-elect Lorraine Polndexter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L A. Poindexter, whose betrothal to Guy W. Jonas, jr., son of Guy WV Jonas of Portland and Mrs. Wil liam Doughty of Monmouth, has been revealed- The cou ple plan to be married in the fall. Kennell-Ellis). Farewells will be said in the nex few weeks to Mr. and Mrs. W. Jerry Scott, who are leaving April I3j for Spo kane to reside, where he will take over jus new duties as as sistant Boy Scout executive of the Spokane council. lie has been in Salem for nearly two years as1 field executive for the Cascade council. Mrs. Scott has been an active member of the Lions auxiliary and is now president of the Salem Memorial hospital auxiliary. ui - For the pleasure of Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Harold (X Schneider and Mrs. Arthur W. Cole will entertain with a dessert sup per and evening of bridge on Wednesday at the Schneider's Morningside home. . r- ji j i . Honoring Mrs. Scott will be Mrs. Gordon Gilmore, Mrs. Bruce Crandall, Mrs. Harry J. Loggan, Mrs. Robert Laptz of Woodburn, Mrs. James B. Haworth, Mrs. George R. Hoff man, Mrs. Malvin Rudd, Mrs. Jacob Foos', Mrs. Lee Thomas, Mrs. Edward Goeckner, Mrs. Harold HeisermanJ and the hostesses. ' " I ! j I- ' Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Crandall are planning a . dinner party for the Scotts next Saturday night at their Fairmount Hill home. -Jb'A.
