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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1952)
14 The Stat mem, Salem. Ow, Thursday, Docrabr 4, 1852 JHE VALtEY NEWS COLUMNS from The Oregon Statesman's Volley CotrespOAdents Victor Point Folk Delegates To Convention Statesman News ferric VICTOR POINT Mr. and Mri. Floyd T. Fox Sr. are at Chicago to attend the National Livestock Raisers convention and the Na tional Wool Growers meeting. Mrs. Fox is president of the Oregon Woo! Growers Auxiliary and Fox is an executive board member for the) Oregon Wool Growers. They are delegates to the convention. Mr. and Mrs. Fox left on a special train for the convention and Will return in a new car that will be delivered to them from the fac tory. Mr. and Mrs. John Walker (Dorothy Lang), Crescent City, Calif., have returned home after several days visiting here and at Silverton with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Doerfler, Tacoma, Wash., spent Thanksgiv ing with his parents, the John J. Doerflers. Additional Thanksgiving guests were Mr. and Mrs. John M. Doerfler and Mrs. Lucy Lichty, Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lorence were Thanksgiving dinner hosts to many relatives including Mrs. Paul Wicker, Vancouver, Wash. Anna Doerfler, who had been visiting with her sister, Mrs. Karl Hanneman and family at Clover dale since her recent illness, re turned home to spend Thanksgiv ing with her mother, Mrs. Joseph Doerfler, who has been confined to her home many months follow ing a, fall when she suffered a broken hip and other injuries. Mrs. Rosa Amstutz, .who had been cared for at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Doerfler, for several days, was returned to Sil verton Hospital last week for fur ther treatment. Gary Tokstad In Overseas Messiah Choir State ibulb News ferric SILVERTON Gary Tokstad A2c, now stationed in England, had always wanted to sing in the "Messiah" which is produced an nually at Christmas season in Sa lem, but he never found time while going to Silverton High School to attend the Salem re hearsals. This year ha has the tjme and is now singing in a -50-voice choir known as the Warrington Musical Society, which will present the "Messiah" during the1 Christmas season in Manchester, England. He joined the singing group upon invitation of friends, Mr. and Mrs. William Dale, whom he met at the Holy Trinity Church he attends in Warrington, near Manchester. Tokstad is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Audne Tokstad of Silverton. While here he sang in the First Christian Church Choir, and later in the Immanuel Lutheran Church Choir before entering the Air Force. He has been in England nearly a year and expects to be there for two more yearsi Stayton Garden Club Meets Friday Statesman News ferric STAYTON The Stayton Garden Club will meet Friday at 8 p. m. at the Women's Clubhouse to hear Miss Eugenia Raebel of Portland talk on "Christmas Greens." The public is invited. Mrs. Fred Berger will continue her talk on the care of African Violets and Mrs. Andrew Fery will , talk on the car of poinset U&sJ In charge of the meeting are Mrs. Robert Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Harold, Mrs. James Mo Daniel and Mrs. W. H. Loose. Potent Rodent Catcher : : ! - - - i .!.' f . t" ' t - '- . . k w I1 Sf- - f f ' 1 i .! ,W ""'" s - I ? v - ' . , K - , , ' , ' A VaflDey Mews IHJip2Bffs Clear Lake The Community Club will meet at 8 p. m. Friday at Clear Lake School. Each family is to bring a pie. Hubbard A well-child clinic for Hubbard, Butteville, Donald, Au rora and Broadacrees will be held Tuesday afternoon at North Mari on Union High School. Mrs. Les Eppers, Aurora, may be contacted regarding appointments. Prospect Prospect Home Ex tension Unit will hold a bazaar Friday in the basement of the de partment store at 340 Court St., Salem. Toys, handiwork and food will be sold. Halls Ferry The Community Club will meet at the Schoolhouse Thursday at 7:30 p. m. which is earlier than the usual starting time. A color film will be shown about the Red Cross blood pro 1 gram and how blood Is sent to Ko rea. The public is invited. Special music will be presented by Wil lamette University students. Liberty The Liberty Womans - Club will not meet on Thursday, Dec. 4, but will meet on Dec. 11, for its annual Christmas party. Hazel Green A mental health film, "Angry Boy," will be shown to the Hazel Green Mother's Club by Mrs. Edith Haulman from the Marion County health department Thursday evening. Two new stu dents, Patricia and Bonnie Rlck- etts, have enrolled in Hazel Green School. Silverton Excavation of a full basement for the new 44-bed nurs ing home to be built on Sputh Water Street by Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Patterson, has been completed and construction of the home itself is expected to start the first of the year. It will be a one-story fire proof building, the main section 13S by 40 feet, joined to a wing 101 by 44 feet. Hopewell Hopewell Home Ex tension Unit will meet at the Hopewell EUB Church basement Dec. 9 at 10:30 a. m. with Mrs. Lillian . Legg and Mrs. Barbara Fuqua as project leaders. The les son Is "Christmas Decorations." . Members and visitors are request ed to bring a sack lunch, greenery and supplies. Wlllamlos Many Willamlna folk are ill including Mrs. R. B. Lamson, who is recovering; John ny Breeden and Bonnie McGee who have the flu; Mrs.. Glenn Tucker; Mrs. N. W. Smith, who is suffering from pneumonia; and Allen Mode, baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Mode, who has been seriously ill in a Portland hospi tal. TJnlonvale The Youth Fellow ship of Unionvale Evangelical United Brethren Church is spon soring a used clothing drivo for Korean relief. Members will call at homes in the community next week to pick up articles. People ax urged to give usable articles fnd to have them ready. Articles may also be taken to the church. Mrs. Howard Steingrube is direct ing the pickup service. Four Corners Tha Lincoln School Mother's Club will meet Friday at 1:30 p. m. at the school. Educational slides will be shown. Hostesses win be Mrs. Burnham's fifth grade mothers with Mrs. L. G. Greider and Mrs. Carol Capps aa co-chairmen. Four students transferred . this .week' from Lin coln School to Bush School. They were Clarence, Lee, Elmer and Billy Suttoa, Liberty Norval Hirons, who underwent major surgery last Thursday, at a Salem hospital came home on Tuesday and is convalescing at his home on Al bert Drive. Hirons Is fire chief for the Liberty-Salem Heights Flra department. Salem Heights The annual pa per drive of Salem Heights School started Dec. 1. and is exDected to last one week. Everyone living in the area is asked to bring paper to the school. Proceeds from the drive will b added to the stu dents fund. verton police Judge, reports that fines for Nnvpmhpr tntn1M .9ftd in his court. The sum covers large ly traiiio violations, including iauure to scop at posted signs, lack of nnpratnr'i llranut snt speeding. This was Anderson's Mi A 1 a. iirsi monin as ponce judge. He was appointed by the City Council in late October to replace Kenneth tjrown, resigned. Mt Angel Father Cyril Lebold. pastor of St. Mary'a Catholic Church, announces that 1 107.000 has been pledged by parlshlonert for construction of a new parish nouse and payment of a new heat ing unit for St Mary's church, already completed. The goal had been 1100,000, $80,000 for tha rec tory and $20,000 for .the heating plant. He said $43,000 of the pledged amount had been paid. tsuiming operations are to begin in the spring. Willamlna John Mode and Don Booth left this week for their base at Long Beach, Calif. Bob Kerns returned to Seattle this week after a 19-day leave. District Athletes Sponsoring Dance Friday at School Statesman News ferric DETROIT Detroit High School lettermen will sponsor a dance Fri day evening in the school gymna sium as an athletic fund-raising project. Proceeds will be used toward the lettermen's award trip in tha spring and to promote the spring sports program. Francis Kettleson, Detroit coach, reports that the let termen hope to contribute toward the student activity fund as well. Interesting decorations are planned for the gymnasium, and music wil be supplied by Gordon1 WincHcomb s orchestra. 1 liO - an , AH" w- tfSS 1 J mm 6IANI AVINUI AT IUIH SAN FRANCISCO FOUR CORNERS Lowmaa Conner holds one of the rodents ho catches for a hobby while Lady, who accompanies him on bis trap ping trips, looks on. In background are some of the traps in his collection. Catching Moles is Hobby for Loivman Conner, Community Service for 4 Corners Area By EFFIE MAY WHITE Statesman New ferric FOUR CORNERS Hobbies have run the gamut from collecting colored pebbles to human heads (among the aborigines) but it re mained for a Four Corners man to develop a hobby that has grown into a community service. Lowman Conner began bis unusual hobby of trapping moles and gophers, as he expressed it, "for want of something to do." Ha lives with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baker, 4045 Monroe Ave. Starting with two traps he now has 24 including eight varieties. Some are called the V-trap, flat, spear and spring trap. Conner began in May, 1951, to keep a record of his catch of goph ers and moles. On June 21, 1952 he caught the 1,000th animal. On Nov. 22, 1052, his day's catch was one gopher bringing the total to 1,415 in approximately 18 months. Once he caught a mole and a mouse in the same trap. His rec ord for one day is 13 of the busy, destructive rodents. Born Near Dallas Conner, 76, waf born in Polk County near Dallas on his father's donation land claim. He says "I always trapped a few gophers every year," but so expert has he become that his services are much in demand. Farmers for several miles around in thia area come for him to rid their premises of the rodents. His records show that they average about half-and-half goph ers and moles with a few rats and mice. Early this year, noticing the ex' tra nice pelts of the moles, he be gan skinning and curing the pelts with a view to disposing of them commercially. They are of a soft, silken texture with a blending of very dark bluish-black coloring. The fur is average for durabi lity. The pelts are five to six in ches when stretched and nailed flat to a board. The pelts are prime during the winter months Announcing 5 United's 3rd Annual 14 wonderful day beginning December SO Priced as low as $933.12 for two from Salem, tax Included. United Air Lines' Rose Bowl Hawaii tour offers the thrills of the annual New Year's Day football classic plus a relaxing vacation in beautiful Hawaii. You spend New Year's Eve in Los Angeles and Hollywood and enjoy the game the next day. Then you fly to beautiful Honolulu on United's luxurious Mainliner Stratocruiser, which offers the very finest in service, accommodations and meals prepared by United's Continental chefs. The tour price incudes round, trip transportation, your Rose Bowl tickets, hotel accommodations and sight-seeing. Make your reser vations nowl For details, call COMPAU THM tAMM AND YOU'LL 0 BY AM Airport TemtaoL Co8 2-2453 or in ovtborlzad lravl ogcot. Garlands to Sub for Lights At Mt Angel Statesman News ferric MT. ANGEL' The Mt Angei City Council voted Monday night to add garlands of evergreen boughs to the strings of; electric lights above main city streets to give the city a festive appearance for the Christmas holidays even If power shortage should make it necessary . not to use the lights. Lights will only be turned on if the shortage is relieved, i The council also decided to con tinue the street tree-planting pro gram. Joe Wagner volunteered to head the planting campaign again. Wagner and his committee suc ceeded last year in interesting pro perty owners on most of the main streets to plant trees suitable for curb planting with the result that a fine crop of young trees, many of them flowering specimums, promise new beauty to the barren streets. The council hopes to ex tend the program to other streets this year. Councilman Carl Mucken re ported that the winter youth re creation program in Mt. Angel re quired $750 to carry on its super vised work. A motion was carried that $400 be contributed by the city after a written report on the proposed program is submitted by the athletic director. Indignation was expressed about using city lots for dumping grounds or as a place to burn trash. Notice was given that if the lots are not cleaned by Jan. 1, action will be taken. Police Chief Merle Grace stated that children would be required to have a license to operate bicycles in future. GUESTS AT AUBURN' AUBURN Guests the past week week in the home of. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hanson on Monroe Ave. were Mr. and Mrs. Martin Swan son, Great Falls, Mont. Mrs. Han son was one of a delegation of members from Grace Lutheran Church who attended the Western Missionary Federation at Spring field last week. Representing the Ladies Aid were Mrs. Henry Stor lie and Mrs. Henry Torvend. Polk County Courthouse News Briefs Statesman News ferric DALLAS-Marriage licenses from the office o. E. B. Hamilton, Polk County clerk: Delbert DeBerry Neal 34, Coos Bay, and Kathryn Kosack 30, Sheridan; James Rob ert Johnson 18, Monmouth, and Mary Lou Tarter 17, Monmouth; Louis Mola 62, and Pauline F. Bates 40, both of Corvallis; Joseph R. Doyle 21, Dallas and Frieda Mae Smith 20, Salem; Raymond Earl Crouch 39, Burbank, Calif, and Sara Eva Block 35, Dallas; Robert Lynne Mitten 18, Ellens burg, Wash, and Sandra Raye Lines, Chehalis, Wash.; Loren Don ald Lange, 21, and Doris Gruver 17, both of Dallas. Keizer Girl In Spotlight At Chicago CHICAGO, HI. (Special) About 600 guests will watch Kay Shldler, 4-H girl from Keizer, Ore, dance at a "Share the Fun" breakfast at the National 4-H Club Congress here Thursday. Miss Shidler, 16, Is one of It winners in a nationwide 4-II talent search sponsored by United States Rubber Co. An acrobatic 'dancer, she was recommended for her ap pearance, here by Burton S. Hutton, Oregon 4-H Club leader, on the basis of her personality, appear ance and the reception she recei ved from an audience at the 4-H summer school at Corvallis. - In the audience will be Exten sion Service and industrial lead ers from the United States and 29 foreign countries. Intlependence Host To Polk County Rebekahs Saturday Statesman Hews ferric INDEPENDENCE Clover Leaf Rebekah Lodge will be host Satur day to the 34th convention of Dis trict 9 of Polk County. Mrs. Maude Benscoter is gen eral chairman of the convention which will begin at 10 a. m. in the I OOF Hall. A no-host dinner under the chairmanship of Mrs'. Grayce Cartee will be served at noon in the hall dining room. - A special meeting has been called Saturday evening for Mrs. Olive Ramey, president of the Re bekah assembly of Oregon, who will make aa official visit. A formal evening has been -. planned. Degree work will he given with Mrs. Ruth Grantham, ' noble grand, presiding. J . 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