[to them, and later on the college1
and high school gymnasiums for
basketball.
Mrs. H. W. Morlan who heads the |
junior hostess league here is re- ■
■ cruiting and training young women t
to assist in serving at the recreation |
center, or at other local recrea-|
tional functions for the soldiers, i
Mrs. Morlan is also registering |
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girls of Monmouth and its sur-|
rounding communities who wish to
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attend local dances to be given for
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the soldiers. The national USO
I regulations govern this registra
When other gifts have
tion, admitting unmarried girls 18
been long discarded,
or over, and excluding high school !
YOUR PHOTO
girls.
GRAPH will still be
Church cooperation is active here
also, with the Rev. Victor A. Bal- J
treasured.
lantyne, minister of the Evangeli
cal church, as committee chairman.
After all nothing is
Mrs. F. E. Chambers is chairman
so truly you as your
of the recreation center project.
photograph,
especially
Her assistants are Mrs. Paul Riley,
Mrs. Clay Egleston, Roy Clarke,
if it has been made in
Ellis A. Stebbins, George Cooper
our studio.
and Clarence Grund. Residents of
Monmouth wishing to entertain
Let us help you sur
soldiers in their homes will contact
I Mrs. C. C. Powell, hospitality chair
prise your friends at
man.
home.
SUPPLIES MUST GO THRU is the watchword of the drivers bringing up food, water and ammunition
The Elkins Woman’s club and
■or the troops in the desert battlelines. Enormous convoys of vehicles are needed for the job and tbey
Farmers’ Union, Suver Community
tore visible for miles from the air, but the British drivers proceed regardless of bombing.
(This picture gives a driver’s-eye view of the bombing of a convoy. One bomb has just burst ahead and club, and other community organ
others are whistling down behind and at the sides. If the driver stops for shelter, his truck becomes
ton easier target and the supplies are delayed, if not destroyed. So, he zig-zags and keeps right oil izations have offered contributions.
The Valley View Woman’s club
which is disbanding because that
Ball Bldg.
be redecorated and furnished to committee heads here, offering
area is absorbed by the cantonment,
Corvallis
meet USO requirements. The own helpful ways and means of coopera
has offered its dishes to the Mon
ers will donate one month’s rent tion with Monmouth in promoting
mouth center.
for cleaning, and retinting the the proposed local program.
Monmouth’s Canteen corps has I
walls.
Formerly a high school athletic offered to equip the kitchen and
A drive is on here to raise $500 coach in his native state, West Vir assist in serving whenever needed.
for the local USO quota; and for an ginia, Captain Wimer believes that The Chamber of Commerce and
additional $1500 to finance the pro basketball is the most played of Civic club are both contributing, I
posed recreation center. Mrs. Clay all sports, and thought that many and other service organizations in
Egelston who canvassed the busi recreation halls might well be town have expressed willingness
ness section and Oregon College of turned into equipped basketball via their members to aid the proj
Education last week reports col courts for soldiers.
ect. Donations of furniture and _
lection of $500. Total figures on
J. Alfred Cox, athletic coach at books, magazines and other equip- ‘
the residential and community con Oregon College of Education heads ment, offers of help in cleaning 'òhe Çi[t [ox Sex vice
tributions has not been aggregated the physical activities’ committee and renovating the building, in fact
yet, Fred J. Hill, chairman, said to of the recreation center here. He all sorts of promotional aid is ,
states that the Polk county fair coming in from all sectors of the s
day.
Friday night, July 17, Captain grounds located in Monmouth will city and community.
Frank C. Wimer who heads the be available for softball, volleyball
It might be of interest that Mon- j
USO recreation and entertainment and similar games for soldiers’ par mouth with a population of 965 ’
setup at Camp Adair, spoke in ticipation; the college and high (1940 census) aided by its neigh
formally to the recreation center school football fields will be opened
boring section^ of farm population,
sponsored a miscellaneous auction
INCLUDI FEOEIAL TAX
sale in 1918 for the Red Cross which PRICES
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TME "YANKS’ IN IRELAND
netted $2500 cash. Everything put
ARE TEACHING! THE IRISH HO*w
Wm. KONICK
up for sale was donated by the
TO MAKE JRISH STEW*
people of this area, auctioneers
Jeweler
Est. 1913
donated their services; result was
' clear gain. When Monmouth folks
Corner Second & Madison Sts.
I get behind a project they're going
Telephone 485, Corvallis
j to put it over. They are anxious
i to assist in every way possible to *
make The soldiers' stay at Camp
Adair a happy and profitable inter-
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j lude in their military careers.
rectal disorders successfully
treated the ambulant way.
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Phone 421-W—Corvallis
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