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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
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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.
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The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, April 3, 1949
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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.
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'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 . . .
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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':
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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
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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"'"
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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).
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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
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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.
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