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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1945)
O ICBETARY of State and Mrs. Rob ert S. Farrell, Jr., and their daugh--7 ters, the Misses Joan and Sally, will be in Portland Sunday to attend a birthday tea being given by Dr. and tyrs. Lyle Kingery at their home in cpJtipliment to Robert S. Farrell of Port land. The honored guest is the father of Mi's. Kingery and Secretary of State Farrell. Mrs. Benjamin Slurry Whiscnand is a week-end guest at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house in Eugene. t " 'vi, N, RS. MONICA Rodakowskl, as so loist for the Business and Pro fessional Women's Music Week gfeicert on May 8, has chosen to sing a group of numbers well suited to her flexible voice, which has unusual range and timbre. So busy has Mrs. Rodakowski been during the past three or four years being a wife and the mother of three small boys, that her singing has been limited to church choir work except for occasional special request appearances before clubs or other small groups. 'Previous to the arrival of her de manding young family she studied voice under Prudence Clark on the Univers ity of Oregon campus for three years; took special work with Paul Petri of Corvallis; was soloist with the Eugene Glee club and was staff soloist on radio station KORE, where she sang to her own accompaniments on her own pro gram. Later she was sponsored by Fahey Brockman on KOIN for a number of months. Since coming to Salem from E"ugene she has been soloist at St. Jo seph's Catholic church and with the Salem MacDowell club. Other features on the varied concert program will be two groups of num bejts by the club's vocal ensemble, a shwi, dramatic skit given by members of the Salem Civic Players, duels sung by Mr. and Mrs. William Bush and a junior artist, Miss Edna Marie Hill, who will be featured in a special piano interlude. Miss Hill will assist the club's regular accompanist, Miss Gladys Ed gar, in several of the musical num bers. The concert will be given in Waller hall. Miss Helen Yockey will entertain the Salem Zonta club members at her home in South High street next Thursday night, Reports of the recent District 6 conference of Zonta International, which was held in Portland, will be given. Mayflower Evening Guild of First Congregational church will meet at the home of Mrs. Gilbert Davis. 1630 Saginaw street, Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Alice Robert, who is art super visor in the public schools, will talk and demonstrate flower arrangements. Guests are asked to bring cut flowers and suitable containers for arrange ments, Mrs. George Albright and her small daughter, Miss Karen, of Florence have hen spending her days as house guests it Senator and Mrs. John H. Carson at (heir home In ChemekeU street. . v 1 V - , 4 . s b ' '.v . . ''; - v p--T'-( ,y: 2J "R. AND MRS. Harold Domofatla entertained with a dinner parry Thursday evening in compli ment to Wallace Beckett, who is leav ing to enter the service next Tuesday. A low arrangement of primroses cen tered the attractive table where covers were placed for Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Beckett, the honored guests, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Siewert, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Neuens, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Davis, Miss Florence Hines, Frank Craw ford and the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Domogalla. . 1 MISS IIKI.FX SMITH, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kcrt Smith, who announced Jier en gagement to Lt. James Bowersox, son of Mrs. Mary Bowersox of Baltimore. Mary land, nt a luncheon given this afternoon by Miss Ernestine Frederlckson at her Fair mount hill home. Miss Smith's fiance Is now serving with (he ramnll Amerinil divi sion in the Philippines. (Jesten-Millcr) ' RS. G. R. HYSLOP of Corvallis is-being announced today as the Oregon Mother for 1945, accord ing to word coming from Mrs. George R. K. Moorhead, chairman of the com mittee appointed by Governor Earl Snell to select the Oregon Mother for 1945. Committee members with Mrs. Moorhead were Mrs. Harry H. George of Portland, Mrs. Charles Lemons of Pendleton, Mrs. Emma McKinney of Hillsboro and Mrs. Ralph W. Rassmus sen of Portland. Mrs. Hyslop was nominated by the Corvallis Woman's club for the distinc tive honor of being typical of Oregon Mothers. She is the widow of the late George R. Hyslop, who was chief of the plant industries division at Oregon State college for 35 years. Oregon's typical mother has three sons in service and three daughters. Susan is the wife of Commander E. R. Duncan and lives in San Francisco. She is a graduate of Oregon State college in home economics and holds her master's degree from New York university. Judy is the wife of William Belton, first vice-consul at the American em bassy in Ottawa, Canada. She holds her B.S. degree in home economice from Oregon State. Mary has her B.S. degree from Oregon State and for six years was with the Home Owners Loan corpora tion in San Francisco. At present she is working with the Red Cross. Maj. George L. Hyslop is a graduate of Oregon Slate and is now stationed in Chicago. Staff Sgt. William Hyslop is an Oregon State graduate and is now serving in the Pacific war theatre. John H. Hyslop, Q. M. 2c, left Oregon State in his junior year to enter the United States navy and will return to complete his college women at war's end. Mrs. Hyslop is president of the Cor vallis Women's club and has held offices in the DAR, PTA. College Folk club, Oregon State Mothers' club, and Red Cross. She was very active in the Cor vallis USO and many other war-time projects. Mrs. Hyslop is a member of the Presbyterian church and teaches Sunday school. She serves as a member of the Corvallis Moving Picture Censor board and in many other civic activities. Chapter A.B., P.E.O. Sisterhood, will meel on Monday, April 23. at the hom of Mrs. Charles E. Bates ith Miss Ann Eoentje u co-hostess. RS. MERRITT TRUAX and Mrs. Kenneth Orison will share host ess honors next Thursday even ing when they entertain a group of friends with a dessert supper and bridge. The rooms of the Truax home will be graced with arrangements of early spring flowers in pastel tones. Tables will be made up for contract following dessert. Romen Gouley and his daughter. Miss Kaye Gouley, were dinner hosts at their country home Friday night. '7 TOWN AND GOWN will meet in the Carrier room of First Meth odist church next Thursday with a musicale, featuring Josephine Albert Spaulding, mezzo-soprano, and Margaret Hood, pianist. Serving as accompanist for Mrs. Spaulding will be Mrs. A. A. Schramm. The tea committee will include Mrs. E. S. Oliver, Mrs. C. A. Kells, Mrs. M. E. Peck, Mrs. T. S. Roberts, Mrs. E. C. Richards, Mrs. Floyd Utter, Mrs. George Allen, Mrs. Grover Bellinger, Mrs. H. W. Elgin, Mrs. M. C. Findley, Mrs. Paul Hauser, Mrs. E. A. Kinney, Mrs. David Wright, Mrs. Helen Goodenough and Miss Alice Crary Brown. ' ' ' : V-?j ' I A ."'I ' - I -1 MRS. CORDON' WRIGHT and her mall sons, Mlihai-I and Krlr, who lire glll of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. (irnrtr. Aikrn, at their North Summer street hom. Mrs. Wright a nd hr children will sail for France In Ihe early nmmrr to Join Mr. Wright, who is In Paris a vice-consul at the American embus. Several affairs ar. being planned In compliment to the visitor. Uwlcn-MJller) (JJII ' HRILLING romantic news trai j revealed this tfternoon when Miss Helen Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smith, announced her engagement to First Lt. James Bower sox. son of Mrs. Mary Bowersox of Bal timore, Maryland, at a beautifully ap pointed luncheon given by Miss Ernes tine Fredcrickson at her Fairmont hill residence. The betrothal news was announced with white scrolls tied with white rib bons and Cecil Brunner roses, bearing the names of the affianced couple, which were at each place. The attract ive luncheon table was centered with an arrangement of pink camellias and white snapdragons. The bride-elect, a lovely brunette, greeted her friends wearing a smart pink and black print frock. Following the luncheon hour tables were marie up for contract bridge. The rooms of the Fredcrickson home were graced with bouquets of red camellias, grape hyacinth and peach blossoms. Bidden to the affair were Mrs. Dean Trumbo. Mrs. Orville South. Mrs. Rob ert Barnctt, Mrs. Norman Yagle, Mrs. Floyd Smith. Mrs. James Bennison, Mrs. William Whitmore, Mrs. George Kel logg, Mrs. O.-car Paulson. Jr., Mrs. Geo. LaVatta. Mrs. Robert Brownell, Mrs. James Howard, Mrs. Bert Smith, Mrs. E. R. Fredcrickson, Miss Jeanne Burrcll, Miss Ruth Skinner, Miss Lorraine Tay tor, Miss Phyllis Adams, Miss Bernice Elgin, Miss Helen Smith and Miss Ern estine Frcderickson. Miss Smith is a popular member of the capital's younger contingent. She is a graduate of Salem schools and at tended Oregon State college, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Her fiance attended eastern schools. He was stationed at Camp Adair with the 70th division and is now serving in the Philippine .Islands with the fam ous Americal division. T: ' HE National League of Women Voters has been invited by Secre tary of State Edward R. Stettinius to send an official consultant to the United Nations conference, which will open next week in San Francisco, Mrs. Ralph W. Rasmussen, president of the Oregon league, heard this week from the national organization's headquarters In Washington, D. C. Mrs. Anne Hartwell Johnstone, for merly program secretary for the league's department of government and foreign policy and for many years a member of its headquarters staff, will be the con sultant, Miss Anna Lord Strauss, the na tional president, announced. Mrs. Rasmussen and Mrs. Virginia Shirley of her board will leave Sunday for Washington, D. C, to attend ftie general council meeting of the national league, to be held there May 1 to 4. The council will replace the cancelled national convention and has been called by league officers for the transaction of essential business of the organization. By authority of the league constitution, the council may make any changes in the league prqgram. "necessitated by changing events. Mrs. Rasmussen expecls to remain in the east for several weeks, returning in time for the Oregon league's annual meeting scheduled for May 16 and 17 in Portland. Week-end guest at the country place of Congressman and Mrs. James Mott is Miss Beverly Mott, who is registered at the Mt, Angel academy. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Spaulding were hosts at dinner Friday night in their Fairmount hill home honoring their daughter, Miss Dimpy, and a group of her young friends. Later the group made up a line party at a downtown theatre. The Woman's Union of First Congre gational church will meet at the church Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. C. Buisman will lead the devotions. V '. w!f 1 k i iihii i ii H iilrili mm i A n i Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Saturday, April 21, 1945j MRS. FTOYIt II. CI. ARK, who was Miss Marjnrtr Matley. until hor mnrrliiife April IS at (he Presbyterian TheoloRiral Seminary chapel in Austin, Texa. I t. and .Mrs. ( lark arp now "at home'' in Brownswoori, Texas. Lt, Clark is the son of Mrs. Lula Clark of Salem and San Francisco. 0' CORDIAL interest to Salem's younger set is the announcement made by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bow ersox of Dallas of the engagement of their daughter, Berneice Helen, to Pvt. Landy J. Franz, son of Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Franz of Salem. The announcement was made at a dinner party held Friday at the Quelle, with the bride's mother as hostess. Spring flowers and yellow candles dec orated the table. . Miniature wishing wells, with the secret in the bottom of the well, marked places for Mrs. J. M. Franz, Mrs. Joe W. Bowersox, Mrs. Ewald Franz, Mrs. R u f lis Franz, Mrs. Arthur Franz, Misses Clarice Busselle, Lorraine Mtirdock, Marion Wampler, Inez Hillfiker, Luotta Furrow, Rosemary Wilken, Helen Peterson, Beverly Mc Gilchrist, Sharon Burnett, Lucille Bair, Frances Friesen, Betty Jane Thomas, Berneice Bowersox, the honor guest, and Mrs. J. W. Bowersox. Miss Bowersox and her fiance are graduates of Salem high school. She is now a junior at the Oregon college of Education in Monmouth, while he is in the medical corps, stationed at Fort Lewis. No date has been set for the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Harper will celebrate their golden wedding anni , versary with an "at home" in their Court street residence Sunday after noon with their friends invited to call informally. Mrs. A. F. Marcus will greet the guests at the door and Mrs. Homer V. Carpenter and Mrs. J. W. Harbison will assist informally. The serving table will be centered with an arrangement of gold and white flowers. Mrs. Charles A. Sprague and Mrs. Frank Power will preside at the urns. 4 "1 'HE ANNUAL Salem Community Concert association membership drive will open next Tuesday following a dinner of the executive com mittee and campaign workers at ths Hotel Marion Monday night at 6:30 o'clock. Senator Frederick S. Lamport, pres. Ident of the Salem Community Concert association, will preside at the meeting. David Ferguson, western division man ager of Columbia Concerts, Inc., will be present to speak to the workers. Mrs. Max Rodgers is making arrangement for the affair. The campaign will be held from Mon day until the following Saturday. Cam paign headquarters will be at the Jaq uilh Music store, High and Ferry streets. Those who have. had member ships during the past year will be able to renew their memberships until Tues day, when the drive for new members will commence. Over 65 Salemiles are expected to be in attendance at the Monday night affair. Artists for the coming series will be announced at the conclusion ol the drive, it was said today by mem bers of the executive directorate. Mrs. Walter Kirk will entertain mem. hers of her contract club Informally next Wednesday night In her South High street residence. Miss Linda Edigar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Edigar of Dallas, was married to Martin Kroker at a beauti ful ceremony solemnized Thursday night at the Evangelical Mennonite Bre thren church In Dallas with Rev. D. T. Schultz officiating. Singing preced ing the ceremony were Sol Ediger of Dallas and Mrs. Leonard Harms of Sa lem, who sang a duet, and a quartet composed of John, Sol and Henry Erii gpr and John Schmidt. Jr. Mrs. Schmidt was accompanisl and Mrs. John Ediger played the wedding marches. The Misses Rosella and Linda DalkS of Salem, wearing pastel frocks, lighted the cathedral tapers on the altar, which was graced with spring blooms. The bride wore, a handsome wedding gown of while satin with a fingertip veil, which fell from a liara. She car ried a white prayer book topped with gardenias and streamers of bouvardia. I-lor only ornament was a strand of pearls. The maid of honor. Miss Martha "Fis cher of Salem, wore a blue taffeta frock and carried an old-fashioned nosegay. Herman Ediger of Bolton. Mont., was best man and ushers were Frank Ediger and Peter Kroker. t A reception for 375 guests followed the ceremony. The serving table was appointed in white and pink. Special music was presented, including a song written and sung by Ihe bride's father. Mrs. Peter Ediger of Portland and Mrs. Henry Ediger of Dallas were in charge of the guest book and the gifts Assist ing were the Misses Dorothy Zimmer man, Mabel Zimmerman. Lucile Ediger, Irene Dalke. Ann Schultz, Ann Funk, Betty Kroker and Marian Edigej-. Mrs, Thomas Dalke and Mrs. Sol Ediger cut th bride's cake. Following their wedding trip the cou ple will take up their residence in Dal las. For traveling the bride chose a smart aqua suit with brown accessories. Mrs. Kroker is a popular member of t ie Dallas younger set and attended Dallas schools. Her husband was edu calPd in Nebraska. Among Ihe out-of-town folk attend ing the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Na thaniel Klrich, Kenneth and Dwight El rich. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ediger, Lucille. Harry and Charles Ediger, of Rakcrsfield, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Her man Ediger and Donny Ediger, all of Bolton, Monl. (Additional Society on Paga ()
