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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 59

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Det MoTnet Sunday Register Fiancee of John LeCoq WASHINGTON F. B. Jordans To Honor Miss Johnston, H. D. DeBok Take Vows Record Crowd Attends Iowa Society's Brunch Women's Fellowship To Meet (or Luncheon Christian Women'a Fellowship of Park Avenue Christian Church will meet for a luncheon at 1 p.

m. Thursday. All women, who have united with the church since Easter, 1953, will be honored guests. Worship services will be conducted by Mrs. Mary Trlndle and Mrs.

Velma Davis. Mrs. Ancll Hoover, program chairman, wiU give "Travelogue Portraits of People Around the A memorial gift will be presented and dedicated. The Mary Thomas group will By Kathcrine Macy Of The Register's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D. The Iowa Society of Washington had its annual brunch at the Sheraton-Park last Sunday, and it turned out to be a success, in the way ol both quantity and quality.

V'. I i 7 Ui I -t vTv 'X 1. 1 jf i V' xzfi 1 'I Miss Susan Genevieve Dolan. Mr. and Mrs.

George Francis Dolan of St. Paul, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their, daughter, Susan Genevieve, and John Richard LeCoq, son of Dr. and Mrs. Jean Pierre LeCoq, Women' Section be hostess for the day and res ervationa may be mad with Mrs. Russell B.

Chase, 409 Pleaaant View drive. Child care will be provided. Walnut Couplets! j. a a i A 686 Forty-sixth st. Miss Dolan attended the College of St.

Catherine in St Paul and the State University of Iowa. Mr. LeCoq, a graduate of Drake University, haa hia mas Artist Dean and Mrs. Frank B. Jordan, 41QS Ovid wul be hosU at a reception Tuesday honoring Robert Baker, gueat artist for the American OuiRnJI Organlsta.

Si wul follow hia achoUrshlp recital Tuesday night at Ply mouth Congregational Church. Meadamea Alice S. 'Brown. Elvia Schmitt and John Dexter wul assist as dicing room hostesses and Mra. Nathen Jones wul pour.

Te Arrive Monday. Mr. Baker will arrive Monday and will be the guest through Wednesday at the Urdu home. The reception will be for guild members and guests. Mr, Baker is organist at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and Temple Emanu-Kl in New York, N.

Y. He also la teacher of organ at the Union Theological Seminary. Ha began his study of organ with Dean-Jordan. 1 Scholarship Contest. The scholarship contest will be at 9 a.

m. Wednesday at St Paul's Episcopal Church and Mr. Baker will be the adjudicator. Tlfereth Israel Women's League Plans Banquet Tlfereth Israel Women's League's annual mother-daughter banquet will be given at 6:30 p. m.

Tuesday at the clubhouse. Mrs. Mose Waldinger, president, wUl preside. Mrs. Jack Silverstein, program chairman of the month, will present a musical program featuring "Starlets of Tomorrow." Participating will be Marcla Ginsberg, Ellen Beren-stein, Gloria Asarch.

Mra. Herb J. Smith and daughter, Cathy, will play a piano duet Installation of new officers for the ensuing year will be conducted by Mrs. Irving Weln-gart in a candle-lighting cere mony. i Officer to be installed are Mesdamea Jack Lazarus, presi dent, S.

8. Hockenberg, Sidney. Fein tech, Harold Leener and Morris Feintech, vice-presidents; Ben Witten. recording secretary; Psul Duitch, corre sponding aecretary, 8id Becker, treasurer, and Maurice Cohen, financial aecretary. Mesdames Morris Sherman and Esther Frankel and members of their circle will be In charge of the dinner.

Democratic Women's Club to Sponsor Rally Democmtto Women's Club will sponsor a rally at p. m. Wednesday at Byron Rice School, Beaver and Adams avenues, for state and Polk county candidates. The public may attend. Entertainment will be fol lowed by refreshments.

Mem bars of the committee in charge include Meadamea 8. G. Han sen. Homer aocock, a. Franquemont, Edmund Janak, John McNemey and Walter Maley.

Fur CAPES STOLES MM from im ootmort-d ror cn.t IIMt ds. Illnt NINA XKAL ter's degree in zoology from the State University of Iowa and now is a junior atudent in the college of dentistry there." He la a member of Delta Sigma Delta dental fraternity. The wedding will be June 12. Seventh All-over Eyelet Bapliste to keep you cool and smart all summer: 8 98 hl IS. Slie 10 to 18, l2'l to 20'2 Navy Powder blue Toatt A d'est wih a kol itat leaves it price.

far behind Beautifully designed by Qualer Lady in aii-over embroidered eye'et batiste trimmed with spariJInq rfiinestone butonj. A com pliment to every f.gure! Mail Orders Welcome vv Attorneys' Wives to Have Final Meeting of Year will meet at 8 p. m. Tuesday at 100 E. Locust st Ruth Burk-halter will preside.

Delegates and alternates to the Department Encampment at Mason City in June will be elected. The all-day sewing and potluck luncheon of the auxiliary Wednesday will be at the home of Mrs. Burkhalter, 751 Sixteenth at. Mrs. Moll to Speak at Lutheran Church Rally Mrs.

Oscar Moll, wife of a former missionary in South America now living at Waver-ly, where her husband is pastor of a congregation, will be guest speaker at a women's rally at m. Wednesday at Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Sec ond and Madison avenues. The local pastor, the Rer. K. Richard wUl be In charge of the opening devotions.

The noon luncheon wilt be served by the women's society of the congregation. Mra. Robert Krenzin of Ames, west district president of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League, wiU speak in the afternoon. Women'a societies from con gregations of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in the Des Molnea area have been invited. At this meeting a W.

M. L. zone comprising women's societies from the Dea Moinea area will be organized under the direction of Mrs. Krenzin. I Des Moines Attorneys' Wives Association will have its final meeting of the year and a tea at 1:30 p.m.

Friday at the home of Mrs. Ray Fountain, 658 Fifty-sixth St. Following a business meeting, conducted by Mrs. Thaddeus C. Jonea, reports will be given by Mesdames Robert Mannheimer, secretary, Max Putnam, treasurer, and Wade Clarke, of the nominating committee.

Comedy Skit. After election of officers, there will be a comedy skit giv en by Mesdames Gerald Chinn, Carroll Chinn, Xen Q. Lindel, Joseph Petosa, Joseph Priestley and Robert Throckmorton. Parlor hostesses will be Mes dames Orval Dykstra, Lindel, Warren Huebrier, John Mont gomery, Robert Throckmorton and Walta; Selvy. Hostesses.

Mra. D. J. Goode, chairman of dining room hostesses, wUl be assiated by Mesdamea James Bennett, Don Beving, Robert Jackson, F. D.

Huebner, Robert Sandblom and J. Herman Schweiter. Mra. Theodore Andresen will have charge of tea table decorations. Any Des Molnea attorney's wife may attend.

V. F. W. Auxiliary. 5 Auxiliary to Dea Moines, No.

738, Veterans of Foreign Wars, The society is a highly in formal organization. no dues, everyone welcome. and up to a few years ago devoted itself chiefly to dances at which, quite often, nary a native son was Since however, Gertrude Gromann, longtime aecretary, and "whichever member of the congressional delegation hap pens to be president (Senator Bourke Hlckenlooper for 1954) have saved, their energies for one bang-up party a year. Sunday's drew one of the largest crowds on record, Including good portion of the Iowa VIPs here. These began with most of the con-" gressmen, plus the Assistant Secretary at Defense) and Mrs.

Franklin Floete; the Federal Trade Commissioner and Mrs. John Owynne, and the Interstate Commerce Commissioner and Mrs. Richard Mitchell. The Invocation waa given by the Rt Rev. Monsignor Maurice Sheehy, who haa (tha probably unique distinction of being also an admiral, a recent upgrading.

Admiral William S. Leahy re gretted, aa did the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs and Mrs. Arthur Radford, who are In the Far East. So are the As sistant Secretary of Defense and Mrs. Wilfred J.

McNeil, who left last week for a month or so In Japan and Korea. In their conscientious effort to round np all Important Iowans now In town, the committee might have tried Iowa-, bom Attorney Joseph. Welch, but they couldn't reach quite that far. Up to now, at least, he's been able to go home to Boston, on weekends to rest up from his duties as army' special counsel at the McCarthy-army hearings. But there were other out-of-town guests at the party, such as Col.

and Mrs. Charles "formerly of Des Moines, who came down from Philadelphia, Fenn. Their son. Bob, incidentally, is now with the U. S.

Foreign Service in Paris. Congressman and Mrs. James Dolltver brought along Mps. S. L.

Bickal of Fort Dodge, who has been staying with them since she drove back to Washington with the Dollivers after the Easter recess. She was going on to New York, N. to see her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bickal.

Her son, who will have his Ph.D. at Columbia University In June, will teach English literature next year at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Dolliver also took her house guest to the Congressional Club luncheon for Mrs.

Eisenhower, where one of the most wide-eyed guests was Mrs. Stanley Marshall of Des Moines. Not that such parties are new to Mrs. Marshall, since ahe's the former Pauline Hoeven, daughter of congressman, from Alton, But this waa her first Washington holiday for several years, 'and It's hen a crowded one especially since she brought along her email daughter, Paula roarcw, ppnu lim week with her parents and her brother, Charles, at student at the Bullls Prepara tory School here. Besides the brunch and the luncheon, she went with them to the White House Congres-' atonal reception and the preceding Iowa Chamber of Commerce dinner.

Pauline's husband, a navy re-servs lieutenant. Is now a senior law student at" Drake University. She was graduated from Stephens College, and from Drake, where ahe waa a member of Delta Zeta, Mrs. William Gillillar.d and her mall daughter, Sarah, are driving next week to Seattle, Wash, where they will aall for Japan on May 21 to Join her husband, Lieutenant Glllilland, son of the Whitney Gillillanda of Glenwood and Washington. They will be stationed at Camp Wood In southern Japan, where the lieutenant, who waa In combat service la Korea, haa been transferred.

An army regular, he expects to be In Japan for the next two years. His wife haa been on the office staff of Senator Hlckenlooper. She la being replaced by Dorothy Dykhouse of Rock Rapids. Mr. and Mrs.

Laurence B. Brierly of Newton spent a recent weekend here with their son, Pfc. Robert Brierly, who Is stationed at nearby Fort Bel-voir, Va, and his fiancee, Sally Fuller of Silver Spring, Md. Mr. and Mrs.

8. K. Cunningham of Pittsburgh, spent last weekend with the former's brother and sister-in-law, Representative and Mra. Paul Cun ningham. After they had been In Wash ington a few daya last week, George Pryor of Cedar Rapids went on to Philadelphia, while Mra.

Pryor stopped in Bam bridge, Md, to aee their son, in training there. More Iowans to Washington: Robert Wise, Eldora; Mr. and Mrs. Berwyn Collentine, formerly of Waterloo, who now live In Philadelphia; Norman McFarlin, Montezuma; R. U.

WolJenhaupt, Fontanelle; U. G. Tamlsea, Mis souri Valley; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Weber, Dubuque, and Mrs.

C. D. Dodd, Shenandoah. Also John Morrison, Dea Moines; Mr. and Mra.

Reid Hunt of Tipton, with their sons, James and Peter; Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Klein, Fort Dodge; Midshipman Mel Andrew Peterson, of Algeria; and and Mrs.

C. B. Looking Bill of Nevada, who have been guests Of their daugh ter in Baltimore; William Reiff and H. R. Schafer, Davenport; H.

L. Glaser, Waterloo; Mr. and Ralph Anderson, Grundy Center, and Manly Draper also from Grundy Center, who la in college In Kansas. NEW BRIDES Your Newspaper FREE for One Month Every new bride who will establish her new home in Iowa after this date may have entirely free as a gift vone full month's delivery of the Des Moines Daily Register or the Des Moines Tribune. Just fill out the coupon below and mail to Circulation Department, Des Moines Register and Tribune, Dea Moines 4, Iowa.

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Elmer Reed of Ventura, Cal, are spending their vacation with the former'a parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Reed. Enjoy Friendly Gimpus Life at firownell Hall For Girls flrtuffA -lt.

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Hire, BROWNELL HALL Hmtn NMIMI IM, a MrtTMU New Hair Style Htm. VM Vmlm I III at Walnut For town! For -r i 1i.ii.ii..i I n'r Mrs. Herbert D. IleBok. The marriage of Miss Mary Lou Johnston, 705 Clark and Herbert D.

DeBok, 2929 University waa solemnized at p. m. Friday at the Methodist Church in Patterson. The Rev. Eldon Haworth officiated.

Mrs. DeBok is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Denver Johnston of Patterson and Mr. De-Bok's parents are Mr. and Mra.

W. H. DeBok of Prole. Lara Gown. Given In marriage by her father, the bride wore a waltz-length gown of roaepoint lace.

She carried an arm bouquet of white feather carnations centered with an orchid and lily of the valley. Miss Patricia Johnston, aister of the bride, was maid of honor and Miss Esther Oakland, bridesmaid. Attending the bridegroom were Gordon Burks, best man, William Johnston and Harold Dunham, ushers. Marc La Martin waa flower girl. Church Reception.

Following the church reception, the couple left for a wedding trip to Miami, Fla. Both are graduates of Patterson High School and Mr. DeBok is a graduate of American Institute of Business. She Is employed by Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa and he, by Form an Ford at Co.

They wiU live at 1061 Twenty-first st Alumnae To Observe Founders' Day TVa Mnines Alumnae Associa tion of Alpha Delta Pi soforny will observe Founders' Day at a dinner at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday at Dee Molnea Golf and Country Club. Mra. W.

K. Backmaa and Mra. Jamae Raaley will be co- bosteaaea. Bridge and eanaata wis ba played. Store your furs! Phone 4-6145 Seventh Cool Cotton S'eeve'ess sheath dresses that rhyme irh duslet the tiny prices are pure poetry to your budge'1 Which f- for you? The b'ack-and-white striped duster over a itrealc of black broeddothl Or the checked ginghant dress with its check-detailed dusier in black wifh black or brown with maiie.

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cool necklines the essence of the new season 1 jjw made for the junJor figure. Ut Coton-e bodice, with cap Wat. White lac tlift ovar coiof-matched Pallon hat rtayt crisp throuflh 1 4 waihing. liue or pink. I balew Red or navy birdseye piqua, wiK white rhinaoia J' ttuddad bodice aitandinq eround rha thouldan, laca adgad 'v in the naw princatt ilhouatta, partly tied in back.

Yea Ccn Save Or your next PERMANENT f. I WAVE Complete With and Shampoo A PERSONAL MESSAGE to men and women. EARN BIO PAY. Actual ahop training in BEAUTY CULTURK. Assistance fat job placement while going to school.

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