cVm. Or"on, Vv'ednesday. December 26, 1956
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.THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Christmas Party
For Garden Club
DALLAS (Special) The Dal
Im Garden club gave ila annual
Christmas party at the country
hpntc of Mri. Claude Lewia,
rftursday afternoon. Assisting
Mri. Lewis as hostesses were Mrs.
R. G. LeFors, president of the
Hub; Mrs. Josiah Wills and Mrs.
Lynn Cook and Mrs. Art May.
About the rooms were beauti
ful Christmas decorations includ
Ing 1 tree. Mrs. Roy Livcsay was
in charge of the Christmas medi
tation. A brief business meeting
followed with plans for the com
ing year under discussion. Fol
lowing the early departure of
Mrs. Lynn Cook, Santa Claus ap
peared on the scene to present
eifts to members 01 tne ciun.
A highlight of the afternoon
wss the collection of swags,
wreaths, and bedside arrange
ments. made and brought by
members, to be taken to Dallas
hosoitals and rest homes. This
tradition is observed each Christ
mas by the club. .
A Tisitor of the afternoon was
Mrs. Ira McDulin, a guest of
Miss Elva Boone.
It was announced that the
January meeting would feature
a representative from Miller pro
ducts, a garden supply firm. Mrs.
Livesay will act as program
chairman for that meeting. A
special guest of the club, in Jan
uary will be Mrs. Lyle Bain of
Salem, district president.
Pouring during the tea hour
was Mrs. Wills. The table was set
with a lace cloth and centered
with a miniature Santa and pack
and eight tiny golden reindeer.
These were flanked by tall red
tapers.
MOI.AI.I.A (Special) FL club
members met last week in t h e
home of Mrs. Bud Wynn for their
annual Christmas dinner pnrly
with 20 present. A planned no-host
turkey dinner was served, with
Mrs. Bud Larson and Mrs. Verle
Wyland assisting the hostess. The
house was beautifully decorated in
the holiday motif, with favors for
each member, Mrs. Jack Stafford
was presented past president's
pin. There was an exchange of
gifts. Second nomination of of
ficers was conducted, with instal
lation to be at the next meeting,
January 18, In the home of Miss
Joanne Breen. assisted by Mrs.
Dick Jackson. Mrs. Bud Wynn will
be Installed as new president, to
gether with her staff of officers.
Eileen Warrick will be past presi
dent. Report was made of the travel
ing basket. The sum of 121.40 was
taken in from the dinner to be
donated to Molalla swimming pool
fund.
DALLAS (Special) Members of
the Dallas club, Daughters of tho
Nile, were entertained recently at
tht borne of Mrs. George Kurrc.
A 1 o'clock no-host luncheon was
enjoyed by the croup.
Mrs. Harry Davis conducted the
business meeting at which time of
ficers for the coming year were
elected. Mrs. Clinton Ruiter was
chosen president. Others serving
with her will be, Mrs. E. B. Ham
ilton, vice president; and Mrs.
Aaron Mercer, secretary-treasurer.
'The dining table was centered
with a large candle and holly. On
this mantel in the living room waa
a madonna.
mrs. Oscar Hayter will entertain
LhVclub for the January meeting
with Mrs. Orrin Kelley assisting.
5LMITY (Special) East Side
Sewing club met at the home of
Ifrs. Loyd Tresham recently. Pres
ident, Mrs. Lee Vasoy conducted a
brief business meeting, at which
tiine it was decided to stage the
January meeting at the home of
Mrs. Alf Dercaves with Mrs. Mar
vin Dereaves acting as co-hostess.
This meeting will be on January
I,- and will feature a shower for
Mrs. Bud Jones.
At the close of business a buffet
luncheon was served and a gift
exchange took place. Mrs. Otho
Shields served popcorn balls to the
children in attendance.
CERVAIS (Speriall-Mrs. Ordie
Hoye and Mrs. Bill Ewaliko. tier
viis High school faculty wives,
were co-hostesses at the Hoye
residence last week following the
High school hand concert at a
pre-Christmns dessert hour. Guests
included Mr. and Mrs. l'nul Itril
Ing, Mr. and Mrs. David Cnvelt,
Mr. and Mrs. Al Itingo. Mr. and
Mrs. Al May. Mr. and Mrs. ( Ill
ford Girod, Mr. and Mrs. Hill
I'ependahl, Mr. and Mrs. dene
Uwis, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Ward.
Misses Helen Rickey, Marjorie
Mahoney and Margaret Mice Out-of-town
guests were Mr. and Mrs
Thomas Simonson, parents of Mrs
Hoye. who are visiting over the
holidays from Fargo, North Dakota.
-The Simonsons and Hoyes left
for Reccda. Calif., by tram Satur
day morning to spend the holidays
wjtn Mr. and Mrs. David Piatt,
sifter of Mrs. Hove.
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SPRING V A 1. 1. K V Sneeial
Four new members were added to
the rosier of the Country Harden
riuo at me Christmas meeting at
the Community center at Spring
Valley. New members are Mrs.
Ted Daum. Mrs. Claude Karn. Mrs.
Bert Smith and Mrs. Eugene Wil
son. Demonstrations on wreaths,
swsgi, garlands and centerpieces
were given by Mrs. Mike Focht,
Mrs. John Peterson, Mrs. Kva Pur
vine, Mrs. Avalt Miller and Mrs.
Lloyd Hoxie. A special guest was
Mrs. A. Versteeg. The hostesses
were Mrs. Alvin Ellison and Mrs.
Frederick Muller of Zena Hills.
MOLALLA (Special! Mrs. 0.
0. Fogiesong entertained past
matrons club of Orchid chapter,
Order of Eastern Star, In h e r
home Thursday night for their an
nual Christmas party.
MOLALLA (Sneciali-Mrs. Elsie
Rarwtell was guest of honor at a
dinner party on the occasion of
her KHh birthday, recently. In the
borne of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Mil-,
No Shoes Her Size
Harry Holt to
Bring Another
Load of Waifs
CRESWF.LL Ifl - Harry Holt.
the Creswell. Ore., farmer who
has brought more than two hun
dred Korean orphans to this coun
try lor adoption, is feeling "aw
fully tired."
But he Is trying to make ar
rangements to get 100 more of the
abandoned children of American
servicemen Into the country. He
hopes he can make a deal with an
air line for another bnbylift some
time after the first of the year.
The law permitting the entry of
these children expires on Dec. 31
but the youngsters can be brought
in if adoption and other papers
are completed by that time.
One of Holt's daughters. Bar
bara, left San Francisco Tuesday
to join another daughter, Molly,
who is caring for the children in
Korea. Barbara accompanied her
father on the recent flight that
brought 89 of the children to new
homes in the United Slates.
Holt is not sure whether he will
be ablo to make the final trio
himself. He suffered a heart at
tack on one of the earlier trips
and has been somewhat ill and
tired since.
If Holt doesn't make the trip,
the Rev. Lawrence Ncwhousc of
Escnndido. Calif., who has been
helping with the program, will go
to Korea to supervise the baby-lift.
DALLAS, 1 EX Rev. William Leo Ilarrod, known as 'Brother
BUI' who gives hundreds of pairs of shoes to needy children at
mission here each Christmas, tries to console tiny S-year-eM
Mary Hernandez who has Just learned there were no shoes her size.
Henry, 5, takes It all manfully. After 700 pair al shoes had been
passed out, Brother Bill was forced to tell some 9O0 small fry
the supply had ran ent. (AP Wlrephoto)
SCIENTIST GUESSES:
Lightning May Have Sparked
of Life on Earth
n
Beginning
By ALTON L. BI.AKESI.EE
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inaoriniea tress science Reporter ler.
NEW YOI1K un - Lichtnina
flashing through deadly gases of
an eerie world could have sparked
the beginning of life on earth, a
scientist said today.
The dazzling electric bolts could
have created complex chemicals
from the gases. From these new-
Navy Shifting
Two Carriers
Juvenile Gang
Attacks Abate
WASHINGTON Wl Two 45.000
ton carriers, the Coral Sea and
Midway, arc being transferred
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Fleet.
The Navy said Wednesday Ihe
Coral Sea will return in Febru
ary from duly with the nth Fleet
in the Mediterranean and leave
later for the West Coast. The car
rier will go into the Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard at Bremerton,
Wash., for about two years of
modernization work, then join the
Pacillc Fleet.
The Midway already is under
going modernization at Bremer
ton, preparatory to joining the Pa
cific Fleet.
uuring tne coming year,
This theory and experiments to
support it were described in a
speech prepared for an opening
session of the American Assn. for
the Advancement of Science.
Some of the latest scicntilic
guesses about how life began
were presented at a conference
held by the association and the
New York Academy of Science.
Scientists generally think lite be
gan in the salty oceans. Some
how, organic or living chemicals
were formed out of inorganic or
nonliving chemicals.
Some scientists, among them
Nobel prize winner Dr. Harold
Urey. Chicago, have proposed that
our primitive earth had an atmo
sphere of poisonous gases such as
methane and ammonia, plus wa
ter and hydrogen. Lightning might
have created the reaction which
produced the chemicals for life to 1
begin.
Testing this. Dr. Stanley L. Mil
ler, biochemist of Columbia Uni
versity's College of Physicians
and Surgeons, exposed just such
a mixture of gases to a series of
elpclric discharges for one week.
The ni.m-madc "lightning"
created some amino acids, the
building blocks that make up pro
teins such as flesh, nerve and
hair. Nine amino acids were
two 1 formed from the gases.
Dr. Miller said it appeared that
I'axlor .Summons Police
Before Floridan Can
End Own Life
MIAMI, Fla. W - Murder
charges will be brought against
financially harassed and ill father
who sajd he shot his wife and two
cnuaren to death witn nis wile
agreement. State Atty. George
Brautigam said today.
Leslie Edward McClure, 52, said
he intended to kill himself with
the same .22-caliber pistol but po
lice, summoned by his pastor, ar
rived before he could do it.
McClure underwent psychiatric
tests after the shooting yesterday
and was then placed in city jail
to await a preliminary hearing.
He admitted shooting to death
his wife Ruth, 41, and their chil
dren, Anna Laura, 22 months, and
Leslie Edward II, 7 months. Each
had been hit with two bullets. Mrs.
McClure was pregnant.
McClure told police:
"I have cancer and my wife and
I were despondent over debts. We
talked it over and decided there
was no other way out. I shot the
little boy and then the little girl
and then my wife and I prayed
before I shot her."
He said he telephoned his father
in Swissdale, Pa., told him what
had happened, and then tele
phoned his minister, Dr. Lewis
Head of Coral Gables Methodist
Church and told him what he had
done.
Head said McClure. an irregular
churchgoer for several years, had
threatened to kill himself with the
gun's one remaining bullet as soon
as the telephone call was com
pleted. Head notified police, who
arrived to find McClure taking a
headache powder in the kitchen of
their home.
McClure gave police a note
which read:
The Lord brings and He takes
away. We talked things over and
weighed the net results. Since we
find no other means of staying
together, the decision was this.
Please give my father the murder
weapon with my thanks. The gun
is registered in Miami."
He said the family was two in
debt and faced eviction in two
weeks. He had formerly worked
ih irri. nrt h,Hi., boarding there
home- for children after he de-1 Christmas.
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The nation's retail merchants had their biggest sales volume
la history In 193C. Consumers spent about 192 billion dollars In
retail outlets supermarket, restaurants, gasoline stations and
auto showrooms, as well as department, furniture, appliance and
specialty stares. The gala over l55 was not as big as the jump
the previous year. Merchants said the smaller increase could be
attributed partly to higher prices. (AP Wlrepholo Chart)
He asked Wyatt to join him in
asking Smith to hold off on the
appointment.
Wyatt said: "Mr. Boyer's sug
gestion that there is some im
propriety to Gov. Smith's filling
a vacancy because he was not
elected to succeed himself would
disqualify Mr. Boycr from giving
advice in view of the fact that he
was defeated by the people of his
home county, Jackson, for the
Legislature."
Three-Car Crash Near
Albanv Hospitalizes 2
ALBANY, Ore. IM Three cars
collided near here on Highway
99E Tuesday night, sending two
women to hospitals.
Mrs. Barbara Boisberg, 50,
Grants Pass, suffered back injur
ies and Mrs. George Middle
stcadt, 55, Portland, suffered a
wrist fracture and bruises.
Wvatt Backs
Smith Choice
Of New Judge
ASTORIA m Republican state
chairman Wendell Wyatt thinks it
proper for Gov. Smith to appoint
an Oregon Supreme Court justice
just before Smith leaves office.
Smith said earlier he planned
to name a successor to Justice
Walter Tooze who died last week.
This brought a protest from Gov.
elect Robert D. Holmes and Dem
ocratic chairman Robert Boyer.
Boyer said it was improper be
cause, among other reasons,
Smith was not elected governor.
veloped
cancer. Four children
were away for
27.000lon flat tons. Ihe Wmn onH
PORTLAND Jl A wove of Essex, will transfer from ih P. . ..... - .
"'Ir'lT ?Z 'r!Ci"C ,0 A,,an"C "r. fcd hvl Snin andb"
Ti i t ov,'r 1,10 A spokesman said the shirt of ultraviolrt light in the atmo-we-kend
abated Tuesday mshl. !lhe 45.000-ton shin, to the Pacific I snhcre. Rains carried them down
ih XCC'; k v ., Palr"' , VUvt ' p!,rl " ntim,ing!into (he oceans, where they re
no cuy io DrraK up gatherings o program lor exchange of ships be- acted to (orm amino acids and
as- ween the fleets and did not neces-1 o t h e r complex organic com-
sarily mean a new buildup of I'a-.pounds.
cific Fleet strength. I c..h ,..,;, ..,, , .
" ; great many of the compounds
Insects have no lungs. They that are components of present
breathe through tubes. Hiving organisms," he said.
icenagers. ine entail was
signed alter the third case ot
hoodlum assault was reported.
Two teen-agers were bealen bv
gangs and an adult motorist was
forced to the curb and beaten.
A number n convert ilile auto.
mobile tops wore slashed as cars
were parked on city streets Mon
day. Humane estimates ranged
from $100 to $M5.
Some 20 youths have been taken
into custody in the several investigations.
PORTLAND Someone used
a brick Christmas day to smash
a suburban jewelry store window
from which smxi worth of watches
was extracted A passerhv saw
the broken window and called police.
niorn-
to visit
to SHI-
IIAK01.lt THOMAS of l.oina Lin
da, Calif, spent the wrrkend with
his mother. Mrs. Grace Morris
nomas in .Salem. Sunilav
ng lie went lo Portland.
Iliree brothers and then
kane. Wash . to spend the Christ
mas Holidays wilh Ins tamily. at
Ihe home ot his wile's parents', Dr
and Mrs elide E. Oiusiead
Mr. Thomas Is nltendini: the den
tal college of CMF. ot Unin l.inda
SI-ENDING the Christmas holi
days in Coeur d'Alene. Idaho, is
Mrs. Anna I.. Madsrn. who is at
the home of her son-in-law and '
daughter, Mr. and Mrs Richard;
Castello Beverly M.nlsen) and
family.
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MOI.AI.I.A Special-Mra. Rnval
Davidson spent Ihe weekend with
her son and family, the Laurence
Davidsons in Beavrrtnn. Their son I
Mitchell Kent, about six weeks old.
was christened December 23 in the '
Episcopal church in lleaverton.
and Mrs. Royal Davidson attended
the ceremony. '
ler in Canhv. her daughter anil
husband Others guests were her
son and wile. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Sewtell, Molalla.
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THURSDAY - DEC. 27
"Coffee And" Time with informal modeling of
daytime and sport clothes A "come as you are"
hour for women with coffee and light snacks
available.
OREGON ROOM, STREET FLOOR
9 30 10 30 A. M.
FASHION MODELING
OREGON ROOM, STREET FIOOR
12 15 . 1:30 P
HAVE
YOU
HEARD
. . . that the favorite meet
ing place for women of the
Salem area is Meier &
Frenk's-Salem each Thursday
morning from 9:30-10:30 at
COFFEE AND"
TIME
, . . a come as you are
coffee hour for women . .
featuring informal modeling
of daytime and tporti
clothes in a friendly "over
the coffee cup" atmosphere.
EVERYONE
HAS FUN
. . . and so will you, when
you join your friends for
"Coffee And" time this
Thursday al Meier & Frank's
Salem. P S. Facilities available at
"Coffee And" time for your
own coffee parties. Call EM
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