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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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