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2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, March 13, 1944 Youth Center Is Dedicated Dallas Officially Initiated Friday night at a well attended "open house" was the Dallas PTA-sponsored youth recrea tion center on the second floor of the Hyde and Long building. Hosts and hostesses were mem bers of the Parent-Teacher or ganization and high school stu dent representatives. While adults inspected the newly decorated rooms and partook of tea, sandwiches and cookies, provided by the high school recreation refreshment committee headed by Nelda Bevens and Al Dembowski, the itudents entered into the regu lar social activities provided at the center. Four tables of ping pong, checkers and other games were in play. A juke box fur nished music for dancing. From a coke bar high school girls dispensed drinks and delicacies. The center has been complet ed in less than two months of intensive work, the result of careful planning. Selection of the Hyde and Long location was made January 19 by the youth recreation committee, composed of PTA members and high gchool students. To adapt the rooms to the needs of the young people, a remodeling program was launched, with students delegated to do much of the work. Walls and ceilings were kalsomined; woodwork painted; floors sanded, refinished and waxed; lighting fixtures, heat ing and plumbing were install ed; a coke bar, tables, benches, booths and a band stand were constructed. The walls feature huge oil paintings, the work of a student artist. According to the schedule an nounced, the center will be open for high school students Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights. Mrs. Genevieve BeHar rell, member of the high school faculty, will be supervisor in charge. Assisting the refresh ment committee each night will be representatives from each high school class. Wednesday evenings will be reserved for junior high school students, with members of the PTA sup ervising. Students under high school age may attend the cen ter with members of the older group on any open house night, Mrs. Raleigh Middleton, presi dent and chairman of the youth recreation committee, announc ed. Mill City ' Mrs. H. R, Brown spent three days of last week with her daughter, Mrs. David Wilson and family, of Beaverton. An other daughter, Mrs. James Dowllng, and six-wecks-old daughter, Marilyn Jane, accom panied her on the return trip to Mill City. Mrs. Dowllng plans to spend two weeks with her parents before leaving for New York, where she will visit with Captain Dowling's moth er. Capt. Dowllng is at present In Louisiana. Mrs. D. B. Hill, local chair man of the fourth war bond drive, announced that Mill City had gone over its $50,000 quota by $4,000. j. Mrs. W. J. Robinson returned the latter part of last week from a .week's visit with her on and family, Gunnery Sgt. and Mrs. Max Kelly and family of Bremerton, Wash. ', Mrs. John Plambeck under went a major operation In the Deaconess hospital last week. , Mrs. Curtis Cline honored her sister, Mrs. Otto Schicman, on her birthday anniversary with a dinner Sunday. Covers were placed for Mr. and Mrs. Schie man, of Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, of Blodgett, and Mr. and Mrs. Cline. Mr. and Mrs. C. Richardson, proprietors of "Chefs Garage," (formerly Hinkle garage), are living at present in the small house on Miss Georgia Sahane's properly. Church Women Called Pcdce The monthly business meeting of the local Women's Missionary society will be held Tuesday at the home of Mrs. An na Arnold. This is a week ear lier than the regular time, be cause of the district meeting to be held in Dallas March 21. Tonight Tucs. DOORS OPKN6M5 DONALD O'CONNOR POSTER RYAN TO? MAN Mil IIIU!IE&i TOO Conference Scheduled For Farmers' Union Dallas A Farmers' union of ficers' open conference will be held at the West Salem Legion hall Wednesday, commencing at 1 oclock and continuing through with an evening meet inir. Dinner will nrobably be served in the hall by women of the auxiliary. The meeting will be open to all Farmers' union members, and to the tumoral public in the evening. City Hall Benefit Party Arranged Jefferson The community is sponsoring a card party in the city hall March 16, the proceeds will be used to buy chairs for the city hall. Pinochle and 500 will be played and prizes and refreshments. A free-will of fering will be taken, and the public is Invited. Committees are: tables and cards, Mrs. A. E. Phelps, Mrs. Guy Roland and Mrs. A. B. H I n z; refreshments, Mrs. Charles Smith, Mrs. Rex Hart ley, Miss Mary Donohue, Mrs. Earl Lynes, Mrs. Harry McKce, Mrs. Wallace Wickett, Mrs. Karl Steiwer and Mrs. T. O. Kester. Prizes, Mrs. Harold Knight and Mrs. William Walls. Finance. T. O. Kester and Mrs. L. L. Shields. Sunnyside Doyle Webster, who Is sta tioned at Los Angeles, is home on a 16-day furlough. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Northup were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Taylor last week. Little Curtis Burnett fell against a slove and burned his hip recently. Charles Sherwood, who has been at the Deaconess hospital for a number of weeks is report ed improved. Mrs. Norman Alexander, who has been confined to her home by illness for some timei was taken to the Deaconess hospital last Saturday. Recent visitors at the Charles L. Taylor home were Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Allen and children, Dolores and Dickie, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kron. The occasion was the birthday anniversary of Mr. Edwards, who is Mrs. Tay lor's father. Bridge and Dinner . Parties Are Given Mill City Mrs. Vernon Todd entertained a foursome of bridge in her home. Her guests were young married women whose husbands are in the service. They included Mrs. George Laird, Mrs. Lee Ross, Mrs. Lafe Potter and Mrs. Todd. Dinner guests at the Late Pot ter home were Mr. and Mrs. William Witt and Jimmy, Lyla Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Potter, her mother and faiher-In-law and Mrs. Lafe Potter, Jacky and Lyle. The occasion was the wedding anniversary of the Lafe Potters. M. M. 1C Lafe Potter Is in the Scabecs and Is somewhere overseas. THE BIG ACTION DRAMA OF THE YEAR! Sensational scenes of love moments of drama when fighting mad . . . strike SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S Starts TUESDAY Doors Open at 6:45 P.M. Lebanon Boy Bike Vi Lebanon Lowell Delbert McBurncy, 10, of 521 West Sherman street, Lebanon,, was instantly killed when thrown from his motorcycle in an ac cident occurring near the Wiley creek bridge between Sweet Home and Foster Friday eve ning. After being dragged by the cycle, he was hurled more than 50 feet over an embankment into the front yard of Lowell Bowser. It is believed that the youth, employed by Merton Woods, logging contractor near Foster, caught his foot in the wheel. His right ankle was broken and his light shoes and one sock were pulled off. His body was badly bruised and cut, and blood stains along the side of the road indicated that he had been dragged by the motorcycle before it threw him. The cycle stayed on the road. A short time earlier McBur ney was said to have been tak ing some children for a ride on his motorcycle at the Woods home, and had just left, going towards Sweet Home. One of the Woods boys saw the acci dent at a considerable distance and summoned help. The Bowser family was eat ing the evening meal at the time and heard the crash. Their little girl went to the door but saw nothing until the crowd appeared a short time later. McBurncy was born Septem ber 7, 1924, at Mill City, and had been living in Lebanon with his parents about a year. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McBurney; three brothers, Albert of Dallas, Fred and Ray of Oakland, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Alma Chastine and Lois McBurncy, both of Leb anon. Services will be announced from the Harry C. Howe fun eral home pending word from the brothers in California, Linn School Census Shows Slight Gain Albany Linn county's popu lation of school census children has Increased 381 or nearly four percent, County Superintendent J. M. Bennett reported last week after he had finished com piling reports from all school districts. The new census brings to this county an all-time high record of 9,951 children aged from 4 to 20 years, providing a new basis for apportionment of 1944 school funds. Greatest gain is accredited to Albany, where an increase of 129 was reported but Lebanon closely follows with an Increase of 122. A Generation on the Loose! "WHERE ARE YOUR CHILDREN"? and fury! Memorable men and women , . , back at the invader! j ( ' A peace-loving proplt fight with cold fury ! Jefferson Peppermint growers who op erate large acreages here, met at the Talbot schoolhouse to discuss the labor and wage problems. People from this community attending the funeral services in Salem for B. F. Nye, were Mrs. Ethel Blinston, George, Jr., Ar thur Blinston, Mrs. Edna Reeves and Mrs. Albert Gurgurich. Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Freeman were Mr. and Mrs. Merton Harding and children, Marion and Ralph, and Mrs. Ellis Harding of Cor vallis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gra benhorst, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Nye and son of Salem were recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gur gurich and Delene. Oregon State Guard Troop Holds Dinner Lebanon Troop L, Lebanon unit of the Oregon state cavalry, was host at a turkey dinner given for high officials in the cavalry division in the Lebanon hotel Thursday night. There were about 25 visitors and members of the local troop present. Chief guests of the evening were Gen. Ralph P. Cowgill, commander of the Oregon state guard; Major Tobin, retired army officer, now in charge of all Oregon cavalry units; Ma jor Barton, commander, second squadron cavalry; Capt. George Plumb, commander of Troop B, all of Portland; Capt. Ken neth Hay, school instructor, Eu gene, and Sen. Joel C. Booth, retired national guard officer and for 25 years active in na tional guard work and now a member of the military affairs committee of the slate senate. Major Barton discussed the strength of the Japanese, stating that statistics show the Japan ese have had more ships and planes captured or destroyed than American figures showed that they had prior to Pearl Harbor, indicating that the Japanese strength was greatly under estimated. The English language contains about 700,000 words in good repute. HURRY Ends Tonight! on ,jivlPANION TREAT! I pOi vv tot Hor"M . lr M.kh VTrombone Trouble" - News ANN! lAXTIR OANA ANDMWS WALTIR RINNAN ANN HARDING JANI WITHERS ant) IRICH VON STROHIIM KtHui IWf m4 Unm, LILLIAN HELLMAN MmM Woodburn Has Honor Students Woodburn With a scholastic standing of "2" or better 51 stu dents of Woodburn high school qualified for membership in the Torch Honor society for the fourth 6-weeks period of the first semester. Rating an average of "1" were Robert Austin, Delores Brog, Bruce Nelson and Audrey Pet erson; having the largest num ber of periods of membership are Robert Austin, Edna Her manson and Bruce Nelson, each with 22 periods of successive membership. The complete list of honor students includes: Robert Austin. William Austin, Muriel BfBl. Ell(ie Bllven, Deloreit Brog. Louise Collin.", Loin Connelly, Jean Corn well, Dorothy Davis. Donna Dean. William Duffy. Mildred Fish, Donna CilUlam, Nao mi Greene, Florencr Hall, Thelma Han son. Ma.y Hclsel, Colleen Hempel, Edna Hermanson, Beverly Hughes. Joyce John. on. Betty Jonen. Viola Krelger, Delber Kuim, Aim Leary, Eddie Leavy, France Lettenmalrr, Anlla Miller. Richard Moon, Marie Moirlson. Eloraine McCormlck, Marilyn McLaughlin. Donald McNulty, Bruce Nelon, Jeanette NUns. Paul No wack, Arlene Odenbora. Virginia Olson. Dean PeteiROn, Audrey Peterson. Bobhy Pillsbury, Madonna Prinslow. Auda Rich, William Ropers. Barbara Slmonson, , Hel en Snyder. Mary Stevens, Carl Swehson. Alleen Wnrmire. Donna Wengenroth and Caroline Zuber. Pedee Jan VanDenBosch was sick last week and had an abcess under her ear lanced. Rev. R. J. Phelps of Summit preached Sunday morning at the schoolhouse. Mrs. Thera Womer spent sev eral days the past week at Mon mouth with her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Shellenbarger, and lit tle son. Mr. and Mrs. William Con dron and daughters, Marlene and Colene, were week-end guests at the Morgan Aasheim home in Salem. Mrs. Emma Womer spent Tuesday with her daughter, Mrs. C. F. Burbank. Emmett McGee, who was se verely injured in a bomb ex plosion, and has been in an army hospital in Alabama for several months, has received an honorable discharge and has returned to his home here. Mrs. Marylinn Price was a dinner guest at the Elton Zuver home Friday, night and Mrs. Today and Tuesday Drama packed with power and tenderness L & him MM wmtz rscHircotoR I0ODT 00NILD M'DOWALLjJIRISP Dime Mi? WIHtly U mund Cwewi Nigel firuci thi LincliiMer I and LASSIE . ... ut Plus Action l eature WRMR80CffiTf Added Serial, "Capt. America HUSTON WALTER FARLEY GRANGER LEWIS MILESTONE Co-Feature! Hilarity Set to Music! "WEEK END PASS" with Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery, Jr. Alice Murphy Was a guest at the Roland Trueax home. : Mrs. Sidneys Howard", and Margaret were in Salem Satur day and Margaret spent Sat urday night and Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. Jim Siddell, and family. , .;,- ' Earl Woods had a horse se verely cut on barb wire Sun day morning. Billy Burbank and Raymond Bush went to Portland Monday, where Raymond will take , his test for enlisting hi the navy. He will not be called until he graduates from high school in May. Merrill Appointed Farm Labor Aide Albany The appointment of W. V. Merrill, Albany, as Linn county farm labor assistant was announced Friday by O. E. Mikesell, county agricultural agent. Merrill's headquarters will be in the Linn county court house, across the hall from the county agricultural office. Until the matter of a contract is settled, Mikesell stated that the county agricultural office will continue to receive grow er's requests for assistance and will take applications from prospective workers. Mikesell is urging that farmers and per sons wishing agricultural place ment contact Merrill at his of fice in the courthouse. Con tacts may be made by personal visitations or by telephone. Pioneer District Club Organized Gervais A 4-H club was or ganized in the Pioneer district with six members. Floyd Bierly distributed books on the 4-H club work. The following officers were elected: Myron Harper, president'; Wanda Ban ick, secretary and treasurer. At the close of the meeting Mrs. John Banick .served refresh ments. Two meetings have been held since the organiza tion and one new member, Mar lene Henny, has been added. Bridg Blows Up! GET gPPY! '' " ' Shew ii Twnl He Mighty climax to one .of the three greatest motion pictures ever made. A sensation in TECHNICOLOR, as is every scene of its action-filled and impassioned , love story . . . A film so great that record-break ing crowds all over the States are thronging to Advanced Prices: Mat. till : p.m., 75c Eve. $1.10 (incl. tax) The Biggest Hit in Years) rC"- Art Your only chance to ice it until 1 94-3 (PASSES SUSPENDED THIS ENGAGEMENT) . . COMING THURSDAY GRAND THEATRE Kirk Candidate For Linn Sheriff Albany First democrat to file for any political office in Linn county aside from precinct committeeman, is Clay Kirk, deputy sheriff, who this week end placed with the county clerk his declaration of candi dacy for democratic nomination to the office of Linn county sheriff. Announcement was also made this week-end by Earl Elliott, for the last 12 years a deputy county assessor, in both office and field, that he will, file his candidacy for republican nomi nation to the office of Linn county sheriff. Elliott is a for mer Brownsville resident. Kirk was an Albany city po lice officer for many years be fore receiving the deputy sheriff appointment. Union Hill Grange Club Has Meeting Union Hill The Union Hill Grange Home Economics club met at the home of Mrs. Eu genia Fischer for ah all-day meeting on Wednesday. Sol dier kits were made by the group. Mrs. Jennie Humphreys was co-hostess with Mrs. Fischer, serving a covered dish lunch eon at noon. Mrs. Vera Savage presided at the business meeting. Plans were made for serving the lunch at the John Steinberger sale of March 115. A subscription was voted for the Red Cross. The club hostesses for April are Mrs. Alice Doerfler and Miss Laurel Krenz. Women Plan Dinner . Independence The women of the Methodist church will give a benefit dinner in the banquet parlors of the church starting at 6:30 p.m. March 17. This is an annual dinner and all are cor dially invited to attend. Continuous Shows Daily from 1 P.M. NOW SHOWING! TWIN HITS! PACKED WITH JOY! ... JUST NOTHIN' BUT LAFFS AND FUN! In the News! Monastery at Cassinn Bombed . . . Wounded Heroes Flown to Hos pital. ; . Big Amateur Boxing Finals! COLOR CARTOON i I f United set' it I V finnf7im.j ' ' - 1 : ULU Vj mill' 'f44tlfiH 1 THg HOUSC THAT HlHTtfiTP HH3HE Opens 6:45 P.M. f Now Showing! Roaring Adventure . . . jn Technicolor! Sky-Hk'h Thrills! THKILL CO-HIT! ONE FOR AU--AU FOR FUN... THE THREE MESQUITEERS! Cartoon NEWS EVENTS HILARITY ON THI Opens 6:45 P.M. Now Showing! . . . A Woman's One Mistake Becomes a Triumph! Bette Davis Paul Henreid "NOW VOYAGER" CLAUDE RAINS CO-FEATURE! I UT) Hi A C01UMBI PICTURE Mil aim iiliw
