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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1946)
1 , fc ' J ' ""o HOME FOR AWHILE is Mrs. Herbert Olaisycr, .Jr., who with her three while Major Glaisyer attends Oregon Slate college. In a year he will which the family expects to go overseas. (Jcstcn-Miller studio) A MOMENTARY QUIET has come over the social scene, as youngs ters are gotten oH lo school and last summer household duties are dis posed of. But a gay season will soon be launch ed. Plans in the offing are many for smartly arranged affairs. Next week end, many Salemites will motor lo Portland to attend the tea for which Mrs. H. H. Weinstcin and her sisters will be hostesses, honoring another sister, Miss Bernice Hochfeld, soon to be mar ried. . Several informal at homes are in the planning stages and with the opening of schools, parties among the younger et are many. lWt - 1 ' . - -- jO ATURDAY afternoon, September 5s 28, will formally open the fall sca son of the Salem Woman's club, of which this year Mrs. Walter L. Spaulding is president. The event will be a 1:15 o'clock salad luncheon, held at the Women's club house. Mrs. Spaulding has called a meeting of her executive board for 12:15 o'clock preceding the luncheon at the club. Included on the program will be the Introduction of department officers for the coming year. Mrs. Charles A. Rad cliff, the Salem club's delegate to the National Federation of Women's con vention, will give her report. Introduc ed too will be the 4H winners of the club, Miss Dolores Castor and Miss Hazel Stowell. Social chairman is Mrs. Elitha Slaats. Heading the tea committee for Satur day's meeting will be Mrs. N. S. Rogers. Members of her committee will be Mrs, J. W. Hutchinson, Mrs. Roy H. Mills, Mrs. Frank B. Meyers, Mrs. R. C. Hunter, Mrs. I. M. Doughton, Mrs, Charles II. Fowler, Mrs. Jack Pedcrson, Mrs. C. W. Priggc, Mrs. J. S. Beck, Mrs. I. O. Clement, Mis. F. A Elliott and Mrs William Grier. Mrs. Carl Nelson, who flew to Los Angeles a week ago, will return Sun day to Portland by plane. Miss Janice Nelson, home during freshman week from the University of Oregon, Mr. Nelson anil Reed will drive to Portland lo meet Mrs. Nelson Sunday. Leaving during the coming week lo enter Oregon Stale college are a num ber of young Salemilcs. Tuesday, Miss Peggy Paxson will motor to Corvallis. Among the men going down will be William Poorman, who will attend as a sophomore, Gordon Wellcr, a fresh man, and Peter Geiser, a freshman. Among those who went down to the University of Oregon during the past week were Marjorie, Gordon and Robert Reeves. Another sister, Joyce, is at tending Willamette university. The Misses Marjorie and Dolores Donaldson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Donaldson, left Saturday tor New York and Washington, D C. They plan to be away three weeks. Hostess Wednesday evening at her North Summer street home was Mrs. Erwin L. Peterson, who honored her husband with a surprise party on oc casion of his birthday anniversary. Guests mjoyed an informal evening, ind the hostess served a late supper. Covers were placed for Mr. Peter ion, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Jochimson, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bothwell Avison, Dr. and Mrs. Ros coe Wilson and Mrs. Peterson. Nurses district No. 3 will hold its first meeting of the new year Monday at 8 o'clock at the Salem General hos pital's nurses' home. Plans for the year will be made. Nurses are urged to attend and bring with them nurses new in the Marion-Polk county area. V, i ; .ml mm I THE T. A. LIVESLEY home is scene of much entertaining these days. From San Francisco have come his sister, Mrs. Victoria McDonald, and Miss L. A. DcBeck, her sister. Over the weekend, guests will be a nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Clark, of Seattle. Mrs. McDonald re turns to her home Sunday. Thursday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Stu art Bush entertained honoring the visi tors at their country home, "Fir Cone." Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Paulus were hosts for a family dinner on Friday evening, and Friday afternoon, Mrs. Walter Mc Dnugal and Miss DeBeck were guests of Mrs. Asahel Bush at luncheon. Members of the executive board of Capital unit No. 9, American Legion auxiliary, are invited to attend a seven o'clock buffet supper at the home of the unit president, Mrs. I. N. Bacon. Committee chairman will join the group at 8 o'clock for a special meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chambers left Friday evening for Pacific City, where they will spend the week end. Going clown with them were Mr. and Mrs. Kticll Clifton and Miss Josephine Kaliff man of Corvallis, Mrs. Chambers' sister. The party will return Sunday evening. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and their auxiliary will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mor gan, 525 South 17th street, Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock for a no-host dinner and musical program. 1 Av , i ' A i I i ; - , ; . -srs . V ', Mv k . -Ms t I . ' ; ' . , f l . , fV" - .f . ..?-, J 'Tin Mill ". -ntaJtA RKCKM'I.Y TOMK IS Mrs. Donald Coons, who with her husband. T.t. Col. Coons and their 3-year-old son, Donald Will'- n. h; s vt i i:i; at tl'e In. me ot her brother-in-law and sister, Mr, and Mrs. William Uush, IJestcn Miller studio) The Monday Study club will resume its year's program Monday, September 30, with a luncheon meeting at the home of the president, Mrs. Frederick Hill Thompson. The year's subject is Spain. Mrs. R. D. Woodrow will have the first topic and Mrs. Russell Pra;t, the book re view. Members of 1 he club arc Mrs. Al Adolphson, Mrs. L. V. Benson, Mrs. El mer Berg, Mrs. W. J. Brtuin, Mrs. Les ter Newman, Mrs. B. E. Owens, Mrs. Conrad Paulson, Mrs. Russell Pralt, Mrs. Herbert Rahe, Mrs. Thompson. Mrs. T. Harold Tomlinson and Mrs. H. W. Woodrow. .'-':;x 4 ' '.vl ' children, John, Jolcnc and Jimmy, Is here receive his degree in civil engineering, after ALA event of next Sunday, Sep tember 28, will be the smartly appointed tea for which Mrs. H. H. Weinstein of Salem, Miss Gertrude Hochfeld of Portland and Mrs. S. O. Meyer of Butte, Mont., will be hostesses at the Multnomah hotel, in Portland. The event is being arranged in honor of their sister, Miss Bernice Hochfeld, who will become the bride of Jerome Semler of Portland in October. Guests from Portland, Salem and Seattle, numbering 200, are being bid den to the affair, which will be held In the Rose room. Calling hours are from 3 o'clock until 5. The bride-elect and her sisters will receive their guests in formally. Miss Hochfeld, daughter of Joseph Hochfeld, served three years in the Waves, stationed at Arlington, Va., and Washington, D.C. Her fiance was dis charged from the army, having served in the South Pacific and Japan. A chartered plane will take a group of Salem Kiwanians and their wives to Vancouver, B. C, where they will at tend the Kiwanis district convention to be held at the Vancouver hotel. They will return to Salem by plane on Wed nesday. Taking the trip will be Mr. and Mrs Russell Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. T. Harold Tomlinson, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. McKin ney, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hickok, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Greider, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Schnell, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Klaus, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer O. Berg, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wirth, Mr. and Mrs. C. Ronald Hudkins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bennett. Mr. Greider will be one of the convention speakers. In first session of the fall season Mon.'ay af.ernoon will be St. Anne's Guild of SI. Paul's Episcopal church. Mrs. Glenn Paxson, president, will be in charge of the meeting, to be held at the parish house at 2 o'clock Vice president is Mrs. F. W. Poor man, secretary is Mrs. Paul Hale, and treasurer is Mrs. Conrad Paulson. In stallation of officers and plans for the year's program wil be on the agenda. During the late afternoon, tea will be served by the hostess committee, composed of Mrs. Rex Adolph, Mrs. Keith Brown, Mrs. Lee Bown, Mrs. William Busick and Mrs. Wallace Car son, ' STELLAR program is that of the Community Concert series for the season 1946-1947. Outstanding artists haye been the choice of the mem bership holders and the season promises to be one of the most exciting and full of high-ranking musical talent ever to be presented in Salem. Season tickets will be in the mail on the way to subscribers about October 1, announced Mrs. Max Rogers of the as sociation. Opening the series with a late Octo ber concert will be Rudolf Firkusny, brilliant Czech pianist, who returned to the United States early in the sum mer after a triumphant visit to his na tive land, his first visit to Bohemia since 1938. His work with the New York Philharmonic symphony has been ad judged by critics as "masterly." He ap pears at the Salem High school audi torium on Friday, October 25. The fame of Todd Duncan, bright new star in the concert horizon, spread after his initial appearance with the original cast of "Porgy and Bess," Getn'ge Gersh win's famous folk-opera. Duncan now makes his first transcontinental tour. Presenting a complete program of art works, Mr. Duncan's offerings, of course, include selections from the fam ,ous Gershwin work. Second on the Community Concert scries list, he ap pears in Salem Thursday, January 23. "Consistently brilliant" is the critics summary of Erica Morini, Italian vio linist. She "shouldn't be described as a great woman violinist, because her playing has become great regardless of her sex. ' So says the New Yorker She is magnetic and plays with authority and mastery. She appeal's in Salem Thursday, February 27, Highlight offering of the season's community concert series is the pres entation of the full Minneapolis symphony orchestra, under the direc tion of its great conductor, Dmitri Met ropolis, who of late has been a frequent guest conductor of the Boston sym phony. The event will be one of the greatest in the musical history of Salem, with the concert scheduled for Thurs day, April 10. Last and climactic on the list of con cert series offerings is Helen Traubel, Metropolitan soprano, and a Salem fav orite, who because of her charm and un qualifiedly great singing, was most sought after for reappearance by her Salem concert hearers. She is complete ly endowed with the qualities essen tial to great singing, and no doubt her concert will be hailed by Salem music lovers. Her concert closes the series Wednesday, May 21. THE T. S. ROBERTS studio in North Summer street will be scene of an unusual wedding ceremony Sunday afternoon at one o'clock, when a sister and brother ex change their marriage vows with a brother and sister. Miss Evelyn Owena Meilhof, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Meithof of Brooks, will become the bride of Cecil Earl Gum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil S. Gum, also of Brooks. Miss Wanda Jean Gum, sister of Mr. Gum, will mar ry William Harvey Meithof, brother of Miss Meithof. The double wedding ceremonies will be performed by Rev, Wilmer Brown. Miss Betty Burkes will sing. The brides will be given in marriage by their fathers. They will wear iden tical wedding gowns, fashioned of white , satin, with fitted bodices and full trains. The necklines will be high, with net yokes, and the sleeves will be long. Their three-fold veils will fall from beaded coronets. Both girls will carry white Bibles, topped with white or chids, from which will fall white satin streamers. Attendants for Miss Meithof and Mr. Gum will be Mrs. Edwin Wittenburg, as matron of honor, wearing a blue gown with marquisette bodice and net skirt. She will carry a pastel nosegay of gladioluses. Bridesmaids will be Miss Betty Meithof, the bride's sister, and Miss Lola Fay Blakston, who will wear pink rayon taffeta gowns and carry nosegays of pastel gladioluses. Best man will be E. G. Wright. For the marriage of Miss Gum and Mr. Meithof, Miss Rovena Stamper will be maid of honor. She will wear a pastel pink marquisette like that of Mrs. Wittenburg, and she will carry a like nosegay. Miss Delores Westling and Miss Ann Russell will be Miss Gum's bridesmaids.. They will wear blue taffeta gowns, made identically to those of Miss Meithof's attendants. Edwin Wittenburg is best man. Flower girl will be Miss Beverly Meithof, wearing a pastel green taf feta gown and carrying a miniature nosegay. Ushers for the wedding will be Wal ter Westling and Homer Walters. Mrs. Meithof has chosen for the wed ding an afternoon gown of fuschia crepe, embellished with black sequins, with which she will wear black accessories and red roses. Mrs. Gum will wear a grey dressmaker suit, black accessories and red roses in a corsage. A reception will follow at the studio. Mrs. Sam Ramp will cut the wedding cake, and pouring will be Miss Phyllis and Miss Opal Howland. Both couples will live in Salem. When she goes away, Miss Meithof will wear a grey pinstripe suit with black accessories and white roses. Miss Gum has chosen a steel grey suit with black accessories and red roses. Moimouth The Junior M. '.Irons' club met at the home of Mrs. Lester Green in South Broad street. Mrs. L. E. Forbes, guest speaker, gave a talk en titled "Small Child and Its Growth." It was announced that the next meet ing of the club will be at the home of Mrs. Albert Jackson. Present for ti:i evening were Mrs. Glen Cole, Mrs. F. H. Woods, Mrs. Ralph Winegar, Mrs. Albert Jackson. Mrs. Vesta Roath, Mrs. Joe Smiley of Rick reall and the hostess. Sojourners will meet Thursday after noon at one o'clock for a salad lunch eon at the Woman's club. Contract bridge will be in play following. Hos tesses for the event will be Mrs. D. H. Binkley. Mrs. M. H. Berisull, Mrs. John Clutter and Mrs. L. L. Sanders. A: rR3. LELACE ELLIS and Mrs. C. W. Stacey will be hostesses next Thursday evening at the home of the former to members of the Salem Zonta club, the group to assem ble for a buffet supper at 6:30 o'clock. A business meeting will follow the sup per, and for a short program, Mrs. Stacey will gave a report on the conven tion of the General Federation of Wo men's clubs which she attended. Corvallis Zonta club has invited the Salem members to a birthday dinner in Corvallis, October 21. Announcement has been received by local Zontians that the fall' conference, originally planned at Medford, will be held in Olympia, Wash,, instead, on October 12 and 13. Among the young people from Salem who will attend California schools this year is Miss Jo Ann Tweedie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tweedie, who entered Mills college last Tuesday. The Women's Association of the First Presbyterian church will meet Wednes day afternoon at 2 o'clock in the church. The executive board will meet at 1 o'clock. Mrs. E. T. Barnett will be solo ist for the meeting. Topic will be "Wo men's Work in the Church." Woodburn Tne women's fall tourna ment pairtips will be posted at the club house at the Woodburn golf club Mon day, September 23. The tournament will be match play and all those paired for the first week must complete their play by Sunday evening, September 29. The monthly no-host golf supper will be held Sunday evening, and play should start not later than four o'clock. Women out Thursday for play and luncheon were Mrs. P. L. LaBarr, Mrs. L. H. Shorcy, Mrs. H. M. Austin, Mrs. George D. Jones, Mrs. P. C. McLaugh lin, Mrs. Sumner Stevens, Mrs. Marion Helming, Mrs. Wallace Jones, Mrs. Tom DeArmond, Mrs. Floyd Maricle, Mrs. William Garver. Guests recently at the D. B. Jarman home have been their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William J Thompson and their son, Gary, of For est Grove. The young couple spent a week at Neskowin as well. -KJl ' LOVELY DARK-HAIRED BRIDE was Miss Beverly Jeanne Pattlson. daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Pattlson, when she was united in marriage to Frank E. Imper. son of Joseph lmper of Oswego at the First Congregational church September 14. The young pair will live in Monmouth while he completes his work at the Oregon College of Education. (Kennell-Ellls studio) Mrs. Stewart Sharpnack was honor guest at a surprise shower at her home when Mrs. Daniel Zeh. Mrs. Allen Clark and Mrs. Glen DeLapp enter tained. After an informal evening refresh ments were served. Those invited were the honored guest and Mrs. Frank Beckwith, Mrs. Dean Glenn, Mrs. Dale Biles, Mrs. Doris Jean Dancer, Mrs. John Goffrier, Mrs. Orval Cooley, Mrs. Zeral Brown,' Mrs. Myron Harper, Mrs. Maurice FarrelL Miss Mary Houston, Miss Bessie Beam, Miss Jean Hatfield, Miss LaVelle Cross, Miss Mary Skelton, Miss Mary Copley, Miss Florence Wallace, Miss Caroline Strohmeir, Miss Marceil Stewart, Miss Ellen Morley, Miss Margaret Forsythe, Miss Sylvia Arnold, Miss Alice Baillie, Miss Wilma Dunn, Mrs. Zina Sharp nack, Mrs. Earl Hatfield and the hos tesses, Mrs. Daniel Zeh, Mrs. Glen De Lapp and Mrs. Allen Clark. Returned home Thursday evening from their wedding trip to Victoria, B. C, are Mr. and Mrs. William Shinn (Miriam Becke), THE EPISCOPAL church of St. Paul was scene Thursday eve ning at 8 o'clock of the mar riage of Miss Jean Lois Barnes, daugh ter of Wellington O. Barnes and the late Mrs. Barnes of Portland, and Wallace Joseph Doerfler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Doerfler of Salem. Performing the rites, which were read in the presence of the couple's friends and relatives, was Chaplain A. E. Butch er. Miss Ruth Bedford was at the or gan. ' Given in marriage by Peter Sukalac, the bride chose for her nuptials a pas tel blue floor-length net gown with a short train. It was designed with a metallic bodice and a brief, full pep lum and short sleeves. She wore a Ju liet cap of matching net and carried a large arm bouquet of American Beauty roses. Matron of honor was Mrs. Peler Sukalac, who wore a light pink gown with satin bodice and chiffon skirt. Her cap was chiffon and satin of a match ing pink. She carried an arm bou. quet of pastel pink roses. Best man was Donald Doerfler, broth er of the bridegroom. Ushers were William Townsend and Hillary Etzel. For her son's wedding, Mrs. 'Doer fler chose a dubonnet crepe gown, with which she wore a corsage of gardenias. A reception for 200 guests was held after the ceremony at the home of t iVa bridegroom's parents in North Lancas ter drive. Cutting the bride's cake were Mrs. Charles Perlot and Mrs. James Gedamke. Presiding at the urns were Miss Margaret Doerfler and Miss Anna Doerfler. Passing the brides book was Miss Ann Marie Doerfler At the gift table were Miss Eleanor Olson and Miss Delora Doerfler. When the couple left for their wed ding trip, Mrs. Doerfler wore a brown wool suit, the jacket of which was shot with gold threads. Her accessories were brown, and to her shoulder she pinned an orchid. The couple will be at home after October 1 at 140 North Lancaster drive, following a wedding trip to the Ore gon coast. Mrs. W. Emery Hobbs will entertain members of her contract bridge group Wednesday evening at her home in Jefferson street. Members of the "soon-to-go-to-col-lege" set will be entertained Sunday evening when Miss Nancy Farrar, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Farrar, is hostess for a buffet supper party at the home of her parents, in Electric street. The supper will be followed by an informal evening. Covers will be placed for Miss Charlotte Williams, Miss Char-.' lotte Reeves, Miss Norma Cass, Miss Velma Davis, Miss Hope Jaquith, Miss Ramona Evans, Miss Mary Elizabeth Rinehart, Miss June Camp, Miss Joan Schwabbauer, Miss Mary Massee and the hostess. Mrs. Mabel Lockwood, third national" vice president of the American War Mothers, accompanied by Mrs. Eva Wire ' Albany, state president of the organi-' zation, left Thursday by plane for Raleigh, N. C, where they will attend club. Marion auxiliary. No. 661. Veteran of Foreign Wars, will meet in regular session Monday evening at 8 o'clockn the VFW hall. I ;
