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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1956)
ai ksI bmS b Iae Esl Ib Bwl Ss m SPRING brings sunshine, blossoms am) queens. Ami soon it wi II be May Weekend for Willamette university students. Six of the candidates Tor the title of queen are pictured above, left to right: Misses Margie Knot-ken-haucr, Charlene Miner, JoAnne Kenan), Pal Jteckwith, Jeanne Holme, June Harms. y .. Mrs. Elmo Smith Plans Informal Tea Thursday Afternoon at Marion Hotel Prominent nn the coming week's social calen dar will be Ihc informal tea for which Mrs. Elmo Smith, Oregon's First Lady, will entertain on Thursday afternoon next, April 26. The party will be in the Marion hotel Gold room between 2:30 and 5:30 o'clock. All friends are invited to call during those hours. No formal invitations have been issued, the tea arranged as an informal gathering for Salem women to meet the governor's wife. Receiving With Mrs. Smith will bo wives of other board of control members, Mrs. Karl T. Newbry and Mrs. Sigfrid M. Unander; and the wives of supreme court justices, Mcsdnmes Harold Warner, George Rossman, James T. Brand, Hall S, Lusk, Karl C. Latourette, Waller L, Toozc, and William C. Perry. Introducing to the line will he Mrs. Wheeler English and Mrs. Robert M. Fischer, .Ir. Greeting guests at the door and taking charge of the guest book will be Mrs. Robert 1,. Elfslrom, Mrs. Dean H. Walker and Mrs. G. Herbert Smith. Assisting about the rooms will he Mrs. B. 0. Schucking, Mrs. Fred Shideler ot Corvnllis, Mrs. Roy S. Keene and Mrs. Francis Zlcglcr, both of Corvallis, Mrs. Howard Helton of Cnnby, Mrs. War ren Gill of Lebanon, Mrs. Mnrjorie Charbononu, Mrs. William Burns of Portland, Mrs. Hussel Bout ler, Mrs. Charles Musscr, Mrs. Bruce F. Pieketl, Mrs. Clark C. McCall, Mrs. .!. N. Bishop, Mrs. Mrs. Richard L. Cooley Is to entertain for her bridge club on Wednesday night. RIYXSlW W flte M WWW mm U CANDIDATES FOR WILLAMETTE'S MAY QUEEN Warren McMinnimce of Tillamook, Mrs. Chester M. Cox, Mrs. Daniel .1. Fry, Sr., Mrs. John C. F. Merrifield of Portland, Mrs. Rudio Wilhelin of Portland, Mrs. Carl Francis of Dayton, Mrs. Rob ert B. Ebcrsole. Pouring will be Mrs. Karl Snell, Mrs. Charles A. Sprague, Mrs. Richard A. Rawlinson, Mrs. Phil ip Hitchcock of Portland, Mrs. Robert F. White, Mrs. Bernard Mainwarlng, Mrs. George lilelt of Coqlllllc, Mrs. Charles 11. Holtzel, Mrs. John Rich ards of Eugene, Mrs. Lee Ohmnrt, Mrs. It. H. Baldock, Mrs. Douglas McKay, Mrs. William I,. Phillips. In the group serving will be Mrs. T. Harold Tomlinson, Mrs. Forrest Bodmer, Mrs. Del Milne, Mrs. A. W. Louclts, Mrs. Lawrence Anderson, Mrs. James It. Phillips, Mrs. Charles A. Barclay, Mrs. Rudy Calaba, Mrs. Horace McGee, Mrs. Robert DcArmond, Mrs. Bruce Williams, Mrs. Sam R. Haley, Mrs. John A. Ilell'.el, Mrs. Robert Sprague, Mrs. James C. Stone. Mrs. Sam Stewart, Mrs. Ralph, 1''.. Purvine, Mrs. Charles D. Wood, Mrs. Chester Loe, Mrs. Palmer Saltier, Mrs. Dean K. Brooks, Mrs. Robert M. Needham, Mrs. Edwin H. Armstrong, Mrs. Leon Perry. Mrs. J. B. Monnette, Miss Ilnltie Bratzel, Mrs. Mnrjorie Gabriel, Mrs. Robert Dragor, Mrs. Paul Geddes of RoScburg, A large group of friends from Portland and oth er valley cities will be attending (he lea. Mrs. Reed Nelson will be hostess to her bridge club Wednesday night, for dessert and cards. ,-MttlPf itm.jo irtutt) TO CAPITAL m$m a lour r duty there. Jtglsjdsae ' ..SaBBBBBBW I (McEwan studio pii ture) By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER run. dance lor ihe .16 CJUD is to he next Friday night at the American Legion club, dancing lo be between 9:30 and 12:30 o'clock. Stubby Mills orchestra is to play for the semi-formal party. "Blossom time" is the theme for the dance and pink and silver will be featured in decorations. On Ihc committee for the evening arc Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Feller, Mr. and Mrs. Max Dolezal, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dench, Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Itobert Allison. Sojourners club will meet for regular salad luncheon Thursday, at I p.m. at the Woman's club house. Committee includes Mrs. Austin Elvers, chairman, Mrs. V. C, Fletcher, Mrs. Clara Mac man, Mrs. Robert Hoslctter, Mrs. W. M. Huxtable, Mrs. Allan T. Cnrlston. Meeting Monday night will be chapter BQ of P.E.O. Sisterhood, at the home of Mrs. M. E. Moore, 1795 Kola Drive, at 7:45 o'clock. The chap ter birthday will be observed at a social evening. Mrs. Marens Maltby is in charge of the program. Co-hostess is to be Mrs. Chester Loe. Governor and Mrs. Elmo Smith will be out of the capital for a number ofngagemcnls elsewhere this next week. On Monday they will be in southwestern Oregon, attending the luncheon of the Oregon Coast High way association at Coos Bay. Governor Smith lo be speaker; and in the evening at a Chamber of Com merce event in North Bend. On Friday evening, Governor and Mrs. Smith will be in Portland for the opening of the baseball season there. On Saturday, the Smiths will be at the Young Republicans gathering at Dorchester House at Occanslde; and on April 30 are slated to be in Rend to attend the Police Officers group banquet in the Pilot Butte inn, Governor Smith to be the speaker. Chapter BC of P.E.O. Sisterhood will meet Tues day evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Kinley Adams with Mrs. D, A. Emerson as co hostess. Members of Mrs. C. W. Parker's bridge club are honoring her Monday at a no-host luncheon gathering at I.ipman's, the group later going to the home of Mrs. L. C. Mcl.eod. In early May, Mr, and Mrs. Parker leave for an extended stay in Califor nia. Chapter CB of P.E.O. Sisterhood is meeting at the home of Mrs. John M. Greenwood In Dallas next Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Irene Adams will be co-hostess. Miss Mildred Dcisehcr is in charge of the program on "Blueprint for Build ing." Leaving tomorrow for Spokane lo attend a joint meeting of the Washington and Oregon Hotel as sociations will be Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Chadwiek and Mr. and Mrs Leonard Rowan, the quartet (ly ing there and back. They will return Wednesday morning. Mrs. Adam Lefor, superintendent at Salem Me morial hospital, leaves Sunday for Seattle, accom panying Miss Virginia Welch, superintendent of the Good Samaritan hospital at Corvallis. the (wo to attend the Western Hospital association meeting there. Following the mectlnC. Mrs. Lefor will remain in Seattle until the weekend to visit her mother, Mrs. Ted Newman Chapter AR of P.E.O. Sisterhood is to be enter tained Mondav night at the hon)0 of Mrs. James S. Smart. n Zona with Mrs Robert K. Worrnl ns eo hostess The meeting will be at 7:3rj o'clock. A large group M Salem folk will be in Portland net Thursday evening lo attend the annual Mat rix Table banquet of Thela Sigma Phi. national professional honorary in journalism for women. The event Is sponsored by the Portland Alumnae association of Thela Sigma Phi The formal banquet w ill he at 7 o'clock in the Multnomah hotel grand ballroom FWf Oregon women named as "women o( achievement fe the year 1 honored at the affair. Including Helen ' Cowgllt, Corvallis, for her wort in a-N club programs; Miss Wthn B. Had m. rwJ librarian at In University of Oregon tkWal achoal; Mrs Mar parol Thompson Hill, editor and publisher of the Pafkrose-Easl County Enterprise; Miss Martha a. Shull, English teacher m Jefferson High school, Pottland; and Sister Milium Theresa, lead of throsoeioiogy department at Maiylhuist Allege, o 00 ChnrlgUc Paub Groshell, autlar and-astanl publisher of the Snftniatmle. K.UU Record. Sno qualnuc. Wash., is To be Rin?st speaker q St n O O Q o THE QUINTET above includes five others nominated as candidates for May queen on the campus. The name of the queen will not be revealed until the weekend events start. Left to right above are: Judy Moritz, Jo Tcr hark. Lorraine Landrud, Margaret HUSOO and Gay Kent. In addition to the queen, two will be named princesses. Founders Event Salem alumnae of Pi Beta Phi sorority will gather for a semi-formal banquet next Thursday night at China City, the event marking the 89th anniversary of founding of the organization. The dinner will be at 6:30 o'clock. Mrs. James T. Brand is to be speaker. Music will be presented by Mrs. James Todd and mem bers of the active chapter at Willamette univer sity. Mrs. Peter M. Gunnar is to be toastmistrcss and Mrs. Ralph Keyser, president of the alumnae, will give a welcome. Mrs. Walter Foster is chairman and on the hos tess committee are Miss Lelia Johnson, Miss F.len nor Oakes, Miss Marian Oakes, Mrs. George Garit, Mrs. George Juba end Miss Mary Louise Lee. Reservations are being taken by Mrs Foster and should be in by April 22. Pi Bela Phi was founded April 28, 1867, at Monmouth college at Monmouth, lil. Among affairs honoring Miss Gloria Stolk be fore her June marriage to Wallace Carson, Jr. will be the luncheon and kitchen shower for which Mrs. Bruce Spaulding and her daughter, Mrs. Robert Morris 111, will entertain next Saturday, April 28. The party will be at the Dunthorpe home of Mrs. Spaulding in Portland. Mrs. Chester Loe is to be hostess to her bridge club next Thursday afternoon. GREETED AMQNG ncurnwfe hring welcomed In tamih, nhn rnmr from ytillr Tlarns, N V. Mth nr lUte water resouRCl titurd. VrttMO and the children. Hi m it and Shrlla m Ifl w m am ! I'" ' a iv Fii THESE FIVE ALSO IN RACE FOR QUFEN TITLE PtNSTKRS club will meet at the home of of Miss Adclc Egan, Rt. 1, Box 22. the St. Paul Highway, Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Janis Hershe will be co-hostess. Petitions for new members will be read. Bridge will follow the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Noel Schaberg are announcing the engagement of their daughter. Miss Ona Mae Schaberg, to Richard E. Bahnscn. A June wedding is planned by the duo. Miss Schaberg is a graduate of Salem Bible academy and is employed by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. Mr, Bahnsen is a grad uate of Salem schools and is employed by the Stevens Equipment company. Mr. and Mrs. St. Elmo Massengale, Jr., who will be leaving soon for Atlanta. Ga., arc to be honored by a group of Portland friends at a fare well party in the Multnomah hotel next Saturday night. Last evening, the Masscngales were honored at dinner by some of their associates in the Coca Cola company, at Randall's Chuck Wagon. St. Elizabeth's guild of St. Paul's Episcopal church will meet for 1 p.m. luncheon next Tuesday at the church. Hostesses are Mrs. Harry H. Belt, Mrs. Jessie Bush Mickelson, Mrs. Keilh Powell and Mrs. Paul Van Scoy. (Jf.t.n.flutf r itudlo rf'tur) NEWC0.SAERS Sllem ir Slf, Wtt. f. 1. Wtti aitn I .ft II. ! i , The f..i. i t( Narlt Tiite. m are plctrfi atoivV ,, (McEwan studio picturt) PRIL meeting and coffee for Willamette Valley Panhellenic, the Salem alumnae croup, will be next Friday morning at the home of Mrs. Stanley C. Rolfness with Mrs. Jack Haller assisting. Plans will be outlined tor the annual "koffe Match" to be given in May. The event is tentatively set for May 26, and will be given at the home of Mrs. G. Herbert Smith on Fairmount Hill. Dabblers club will meet at the home of Mrs. George Grcgor, 2610 Pioneer drive, Thursday at 8 p.m. New officers will be elected and L. E. Show ers will give a demonstration on jewelry making. Some Notations By M.L.F From now on school social activities more and more feature in the news. . . .Dates are announced for annual Junior-Senior Proms in the three local high schools, these affairs being among the big social events of the year. . . .Sacred Heart aca demy has set its prom for May 8; South Salem High school, May 26; and North Salem High school, June 2. . . .And of course Willamette students now are setting up all arrangements and plans for an nual May Weekend, May 4, 5 and 6. . . . ... The unusually beautiful decorations and the col orful array of spring costumes and bonnets worn 'ty the guests all made the setting for Salem Me morial Hospital auxiliary's silver tea, Thursday, like a lush garden scene. ...The successful benefit, of which Mrs. John H. Johnson was chairman, was given at the charming Candalaria Heights home of Dr. anil Mrs. George R. Hoffman, a large group calling between 2:30 and 5:30 o'clock. ...Receiving with the hostess were Mrs. Charles H. Hcllzcl, president of the auxiliary, and Mrs. Adam Lefor, superintendent at the hospital. . . . A large basket of pale yellow blooms with fluffy white and yellow tulle and satin ribbon ar ranged among them hung on the lamp post at the turn-in from the street to the home to greet guests as they arrived ... At one side of the mantel in the living room was a huge arrangement of magnolia blooms . . . Floating camellias and nosegays of bright flowers were arranged here and there about the home . . . The tea table was especially beautiful . . . .A yellow organdy cloth covered it. . . .For the centerpiece there was a tiered silver epcrgne on a silver rooted mirror. . . .At the base were small pale yellow and white pansics and primroses, larger ones in the center tier, then full-bloom tulips and daffodils in yellow and white gracefully spreading out at the top. . . .At cither side of the centerpiece was a hurricane lamp with a white candle burning. . . . Among those on hand during our stay, including a number assisting, were Mrs. B. O. Schucking, Mrs. Frank Nlcholls, Mrs. Frank Ward, Mrs. Robert DeArmond, Mrs, Oscar Specht, Mrs. Wil liam Ferguson. Mtss Edith Schryvcr, Mrs. Stanley Grove, Mrs. Ted Garlington. Mrs. Ritchie M. Turn er. Mrs. Logan C. Berry. Mrs. Walter Brownlow. Mrs. Maynard Shiffer, Mrs. Horace McGee, Mr.V Dale Parker. Mrs. Joe Bnnawit, Jr., Mrs. Ned Foreman, Mrs. Jack Foreman, Mrs. Thclma Stram, Mrs. Donald Wells. Mrs. Richard Taggescll, Mrs. George A. Arbuckle, Mrs. Edgar T. Pierce, Mrs. Homer Smith. Jr., Mrs. Virgil T. Golden, Mrs. Fred Klaus, Mrs. Lee Ohmnrt, Dr. Mary Purvine. Mrs. Ralph E. Purvine. Mrs. James G. Watts. Mrs. Robrrt B. Ebcrsole, Mrs. E. F. Kirk wood. Mrs. George Swartsley, Mrs. Robert W. Gormsen, Mrs. William It. Shlnn, Miss Marjorle Becke. .Mrs. Samuel W. Rohb, Mrs. A. D. Wood mansCCi .Mrs. J. B. Monnette, Mrs. Bruce F. Pick ell, Mrs. Joseph II. Kclton, Mrs. Richard Upjohn, Mrs. Emery llolibs, Mrs. John Mcl'ullough, Mra. Philip llaWley, Mrs. Richard L. Cooley, Mrs. Fred II. 'inompson, Mrs. James R. Phillips, Mrs. B. L. 'lrclslau. Mrs. Wayne Hadley, Mrs. E. E. Batter man. Mrs. C. Ronald Hudkins, Mrs. Chester M. Cox, Mrs. Glenn Hall . . . Among hospital board members calling in the late allernoon, A. C. Haag, Charles II. Helltel, Kenneth Sherman and C. Ronald Hudkins, the board making it a custom each year to have as many of its members as pos sible call at Ihe tea to cheer the auxiliary along in its work for the hospital. . . . Another very enjoyable gathering on Candalaria Heights, Thursday, was ihe informal cotfee for which Mrs. Ritchie M. Turner entertained during the late morning. . . The party was one of a scries tor which the hostess has been entertaining for small groups of iriends. . . . Following their "sec onds" at coffee and delightful vijitilg, the guesti ent on an impromptu tour of the spacious and iwerejtmg hnnie. . . .The coffee table was set with a lace cloth, the centfrpiece a colorful arrange nnt of near American Heaiity shade, full bkoaa tulips, candles tt filher side in matching abad. . . Amine those greeted during our stav Mr. , ( Goritt, Mra. Tt' Cartlagttt, Mrt. I m Milne. Mrs. CaVroll Verd. Mrs. levaaUs Alls. Mrs. Bruce F. Pickett. .Jrs. altar X. Mrs. .lo.eph I. Fellon. Mra. las ttaMt. Mr. SMI Sprrrstra. Mrs. Jnh cl sllaafk. Mr, ntvav frafrhl. Mrs. Vnrreat PMner. re. Ota a Mrs. Stomal a.M as , "v. '. and oer from SiUerto. ttra i saxf a. Mfc 4..,u ... r o CP , O O CD a o G o 00,0 0 S3 0? o o o u O o o O GJ O (!) IS O (!) h o 'B d Cfi) G o o o Cy O 0 0 (!) 6,3