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I The Nowi-ltoWow, Rosebjra, Of Tuoi., Au. 30,. 19491 Herft'S Dft L.UX6 Reception Fare Society and Glubi By LOTUS KNIGHT PORTER NOTICE Soda! Items submitte-J by tele- Ehone tor the society page must 5 turned in before 12 o'clock Monday through Thursday and by 10 a. m. Fridays, at which time the social calendar and Sat urday's society page are closed weekly. TULSA VISITORS ARE EXTENSIVELY ENTERTAINED DURING STAY IN ROSEBURQ Mrs. John Hall and son, John Hall Jr., of Tulsa Okla., were extensively entertained during their stay in Roseburg as guesls of the former's cousin, A. G. Hen- ninger, and family, In Laurel wood. While here, all of the Hon ninger families entertained in their honor. Mrs. Hall and John Jr., have been enjoying a six weeks' trip enroute to Roseburg, stopping off at numerous points of interest. They Ipft this week for their home. They are making the trip by automobile. Also during their stay In Rose burg, guests at the A. G. Hen ninger home included Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Hunsaker of Eugene. EPISCOPAL PICNIC IS LARGE AND ENJOYABLE AFFAIR OF SUNDAY Members and friends of St. George's Episcopal church enjoy ed a picnic dinner and social gathering Sunday at the Veter ans hospital picnic grounds. Mote than one-hundred were in attend ance. Following the picnic dinner, Softball and other out-door games were enjoyed. Soft drinks were on sale during the afternoon. COLO STAR MOTHERS TO MEET THURSDAY NIGHT Roseburg chapler, American Gold Star Mothers Inc., will meet at seven-thirty o'clock for an Im portant session Thursday night at the armory. Mrs. Martha Wells, president, has requesle-J all members and those eligible to membership lo attend, MID-WEEK BIBLE CLASS TO MEET THURSDAY The Mid-Week Bible class of St. Paul's Lutheran church will meet at two o'clock Thurdsay at the parish house with Mrs. H. Ylviasaker and Mrs. W, Nehr Ing, co-hostesses. Members and friends are most cordially invited to be present. NOW -at your favorite food store! MISS GLADYS H. STRONG TAKES SPECIAl COURSE IN SAN FRANCISCO Miss Gladys H. Strong. Rose burg piano instructor, has re turned to her home on South Main street, following a trip to San Francisco to attend the Na tlonal Music Teachers conven tion and to take a course of piano instruction. Miss Strong took her course of Instruction from Angela Diller of the Diller and Quaile School of New York City. Miss Diller Is a teacher of note In both Europe and America and sne is promi nent also as a publisher of teach ing materials emnracing musi clanship for students. While In San Francisco, Miss Strong vlslled her cousin and aunt, Mrs. Edward Gordon and Mrs. J. O. Metz. She was ac companied by Eleanor Peterson, music teacher at Chehalfa, Wash., who has returned to her home. They made the trip by automobile. TWO BIRTHOAYS ARE CELEBRATED AT WOODS HOME SATURDAY EVENING Mr. and Mrs. William C. Woods entertained at a very enjoyable ainner party at tneir nome Satur day evening to honor their son, Donnie, on his birthday I which occurred August and to hon or Mrs. Woods' nephew, Alex Ly- nas, wnose oirtnday is August 17. A beautifully decorated birth day cake graced the table. Cov ers were placed for Mr. and Mrs. Alex Lynas, Mrs. Jessie Moar, Mrs. Estelle Woods and Judy Wiggans of Stayton, Ore., and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Woods and son, Donnie. ALPHA IOTA CHAPTER TO MEET THURSOAY Alpha Iota chapter,' Beta Sig ma Phi will meet at eight o' clock Thursday night, September l, at tne nome of Mrs. T. B. Vlrden, 1018 N. Jackson street with Mrs. R. B. Rhodes and Mrs. Elliott- Perkins, co-hostesses. All members are asked to be pres ent. DORCAS CIRCLE TO MEET ON THURSOAY Dorcas circle of Faith Luther an church will meet Thursday at one-thirty o'clock at the home of Mrs. Fred Aamot, 113 Corey ave nue, with Mrs. Marvin Quint a hostess. Members and friends are most cordially Invited to at tend. EASTERN STAR TO HOLD FIRST FALL MEETING THURSDAY EVENING Roseburg chapter, Oregon Eastern Star will meet Thursday night at eight o'clock for the first fall session at the Masonic tem ple. Mrs. A. J. Ellison, worthy matron, will preside. Members and visiting members are Invit ed. ELGAROSE COMFORT CLUB TO MEET The Elgarose Comfort dun will hold a no-hostess meeting Thurs day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Clara Edman, All members are most cordially Invited to be present. Staff to Practic Roseburg Rebekah degree staff will meet Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the I.O.O.F. hall to practice under the direction of Mrs. Lena Poole. By GAYNOR MADDOX NIA lull wnur Every beautiful girl Isn't mar ried In June. Some wait until Au gust. So many August brides-to-be have asked for wedding re ception and buffet luncheon sug gestkins that we did something about It. We asked Claudius C. Philllppe, executive catering manager of New York's Wal dorf Astoria, to tell us what he would serve for August weddings. Here are his suggestions exclu sive to this column oh, yes, very elaborate and very de luxe. But though your wedding clans may be far less elaborate, you'll find some wonderful ideas to use In M. Phlllippe's regal menus. Wtddlng RtMptlon and Buffst Luncheon (fee 200 gutsts 1 p.m.) A simple assortment of hot and cold appetizers Including smoked salmon sturgeon, anchovies, freshly made cheese straws to be passed on trsys In the recep tion room with beverages. Su preme of fruit prlncesse decorat ed with strawberries on Ice in silver cups. Cold creme Vichy ssoise with chives, in cups. Hearts of celery and ripe and green olives on Ice, salted al monds and nuts In silver shells. Buffet Lobster and seafood Newburg in chafing dish, cold Kennebec salmon imperial (boned and stuffed and specially decorated in beautiful silver platters), warm sugar-cured hams, roast turkey (cut on the bone French stylet, white of chicken a la king. Boston baked beans, spaghetti Milanese, buttered pilaff rice, po tato salad, mayonnaise, 'string beans and tomatoes vinaigrette, buttered finger roils, lovebird va nilla and raspberry Ice cream on illuminated ice socle, hot bran died cherries jubilee flambe In chafing dish, petlts fours, coffee or tea mot or iceai. Wadding Recaption and Lunehten (Ltss Elsberats) (for 2SO gutsts 1 pm.) Assorted cocktail crackers and potato chips, served with bever ages, stuffed avocado pear royal? with crabmeat, liberally stuffed with caviar, on Ice, in new silver cups, consomme petite fermiere with tiny cornstlcKs, nearts oi celery (on Ice), ripe and green olives, salted almonds and nuls (In Individual sliver shells), breast of chicken Virbinia on sug ar-cured ham, croquettes of Min nesota wild rice, new string beans saute with mushrooms, lovebird raspberry and vanilla Ice cream on illuminated ice so cle, hot brandled cherries Jubi lee, deml tasse. DINING ON DOLLAR DINNER. Four-H girls at the county fair competed in "dollar dinner" contests Friday and Saturday. -This group judged the results Saturday noon, left to right: J, D. Myers, chairman of the county fair board; County Judge 0. N. Busenbark, Mrs. Holden R. Mc Taggart, heme economics extension agent, and Miss Mary Beth Minden (back to camera), home management specialist of Oregon State college. I Picture by Paul Jenkins.) Advice To Surf Bathers: Watch Those Rip Tides! Never Mind The Undertow JOBS AVAILABLE We have Jobs for trained workers, If you hove the training, we have the job. If you don't hove the training, come in or coll tomorrow Fall snrollmtnt new under way GRANT'S BUSINESS COLLEGE 112 N. Sttphens Phone 1535 ft Bank With A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated Member Federal ' Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank COUNTRY CLUB WOMEN TO MEET ON THURSDAY Women of the Roseburg Coun try club will meet at eight-thirty o'clock Thursday .morning at the club course for golfing. Luncheon will be served at twelve-thirty o'clock and the contract bridge play will begin at one-thirty o' clock. BUSY STEPPERS CLUB TO MEET AT LUNCHEON The Olalla Busy Steppers club will meet Thursday at a noun pntluck luncheon at the home of Mrs. Loue M. Wood. All mem bers are cordially Invited to be present. WEST MELROSE CLUB TO MEET THURSOAY West Melrose club will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Howard Kaiser. All mem bers are moat cordially invited to be present. CLEVELAND 4-H CLUB TO MEET THURSDAY The Cleveland 4-H club will meet Thursday night, September 1, at eight o'clock at the school house. Members are urged to at tend and all visitors are wel come. Council to Meet The Camp Fire Guardian council, including guardians and Bluebird group leaders and all persons Interest ed In Camp Fire, will meet to night, August 30, at 8 o'clock at the First Christian church. A pro gram will be presented. Turn to Practice Rlversdale Orange degree team will mevt for practice Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Grange hall. You ran peel two bunches of small -sized beets, cut them in long strips, and cook them In a half cup of salted water for 10 to IS minutes or until tender. Dress them with a little sugur and lemon Juice before serving. Or if you want to cook the heels whole, leave on an Inch or two of their stems and the long taproot; peel them after they are cooked and the skins will slip off easily. Then they may be sliced or diced and used as desired. Mankind's Spirit Of Conquest Demonstrated In Effort To Swim Across English Channel By DEWITT' MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst ' The annual parade of aspiring English channel swimmers Is under way, demonstrating again that mankind's spirit of conquest especially against the forces of nature never dies. The difficulties of this channel feat are staggering. One can un derstand Leander's desire to swim the Hellespont. I've sailed those relatively placid waters on a star light night, and they were en trancing. They would have been doubly romaniic to Leander, with a lovely girl awaiting him on the lar snore. But deliver us from the English channel! It Isn't merely a ques tion of swimming the approxi mately 18 bee-line mites between France's Cap Oris Nek and Brit ain's Dover. The cold and inhos pitable waters of the channel are filled with wicked cross-currents and tides which tear at the unhap py swimmer until he or she is compelled to cover not 18 but some 40 miles. But that Isn't all. Frequently seasickness settles over the wretched contestant, who already not only Is weary but chilled to the bone despite the heavy coat ing of grease used to keep out the cold. That seasickness is nature's last trick to defeat the swim, and often It works. All of Its hazards are known by aspiring swimmers, put still they keep coming, though few win through. It isn't so much a test of skill in swimming as a trial of strength and ability to withstand cold and seasickness. A person who is well padded with healthy fat has a better chance than dees a skinny contestant who is likely to succumb to cold. Challenge Is Lurt Of course it's because the chan nel presents such a challenge that swimmers of both sexes keep on iicKinj; up tne gauntlet. Tney are mpelled by the same urge' that sends adventurers out to scale dangerous mountain heights, or to hunt fierce beasts in the Jungle. It's what through the cen turies has made great explorers. Ana tnis spirit isn t character istic of the "touch guy" alone. As often as not you will find it hid den beneath the mildest of sur faces! Such a one was my friend the late C. E. Montague, distin guished British writer. He was a mild mannered, gentle individual and yet he was one of the few men I ever have known who ap peared to be utterly fearless in Ihe face of physical danger. At the outbreak of World War One the famous Montague was over the British enlistment age but he dyed his hHir black, put on a sporty suit and told the authori ties he was 35 which was true. only he forgot to say how much more than 35 he was. Anvway Thin slivers of almonds, brown ed In butter or margarine, are delirious served over panned fish or a geen vegetable such as snap beans, broccoli, or peas. Uloh Rhoden Studio of Dane Arts announces 220 N. Main Street ' Third Year Registration in BALLET Character To Spanish Castlnels Instructor: llah Rhoden BALLROOM Foxtrot Walt Samba Rhumbs Tango Instructor: Mickey Hard TAP Acrobatics Authentic Hula Instructor: Sally Hilt Register 10:30 a.rri. to 1:30 p.m. Wed.. Aug. 31, Thurs., Sept. 1, Frl., Sept. 3 Graded classes for students of all ages Evening classes for adults All former student! must re-register NUTS! . to claims and empty promises. What counts is RESIXTS. That's why we're so proud of our reputation. It's a fair deal or no deal so far as we're concerned. SEE US FIRST for listings of residences, arms, stock ranches, acre age, business opportunities and lots and lot of lots. C. FORREST LOSE! 230 N. Stephana St Fulltrton Realty they blinked and passed him, and he went into the front-line trenches as a private. ' Later he was given a commission and was attached to British general head quarters as press censor. It was there that I became acquainted with him.' Courted Worst Danger Montague used to seek out the most dangerous places he could find along the fighting front, not because of necessity but because he loved the thrill. He was Im pelled by the same urge which In peace times sent him out to scale precipitous mountain faces, or work his way up and down rocky cliffs with his back against one wall and his feet against the oth er. He would have been a channel swimmer if he hadn't got a greater kick out of something else. That's the spirit of private Ini tiative and free enterprise which keeps the world turning. It's the spirit on which great nations have been built. When sturdy souls stop trying to conquer the English channel this will be a dull old world to live in. Frt Eyo-Glassos In Britain Cut To On Pair LONDON. Aug. 30 UP In an attempt to cut down the backlog of orders for free glasses, the ministry of health announced to day it will give each patient only one pair for the time being. Each patient has been receiv ing two pairs. More than 3.000, 000 are waiting to get theirs. Some have been in the lines more than six months. The specs are supplied as part of Britain's tax-supported womb-to-tomb national health service. Coming or Going? It doesn't make any differ ence when you have the pro tection of the Personal Prop erty Floater. With this grand insuronce policy, the property you leave at home, the belong ings you take with you on trips . . . pre covered against theft, loss, fire, explosion and just about every other hozard you con think of. Don't settle for less. Ask us obout the Personol Prop erty Floater today. R. 0. YOUNG Phone 417 20S W. Cast St. Rotebury Cancer-Struck Family Aided By Public Donations OMAK, Wash.. Aug. 30. UP A generous-hearted public struck by the tragic cancer illness which claimed the life of a 33-month-old Omak girl has responded to nn appeal for funds to aid the child's parents. During the first week after an appeal was made, more than $1, 100 was donated to help the fam ily of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Calen tine. Their child. Lavonne, died of cancer last week. The Calentlnes now are faced with the problem of paying for many months of hospital bills in addition to providing for three other children, including a three-week-old boy born before La vonne died. By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AMocUted Prw Science Kaporur NEW YORK, Aug. 30. (. When you swim In turf, don't worry about the undertow. Undertow, blamed for count less drownings, probably doesn't even exist, says Dr. Francis P. Shepard, professor of submarine geology at the University of Cali fornia's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The thing to watch for Is rip currents, that come In puffs or pulses. They can carry you out through the breakers, and prob ably cause many drownings. Dr. Shepard says you usually can tell where they are, and of fers advice on how to avoid, them or to escape from them. Belief Contrary Contrary to popular belief, "there may be no such thing as undertow,'' he writes in Physics today, magazine of the American Institute of Physics. Undertow is supposed to be a strong current under the surface that sweeps bathers off their feet and draws them out to sea. It's supposed to come from water thrown shoreward by the break ers. At the edge of a beach, you do feel returning water under mining the sand at your feet. The idea has been that this water con tinues as a strong subsurface cur rent cut through the breakers. But no measurements have ever shown any dangerous sub surface currents of this kind, Dr. Shepard reports. Rip currents, also called rip tides -or sea pulses, are a differ ent and dangerous matter. Move Througn Breakers -.. They are currents that move in narrow bands out through the breakers, spreading out fanwise beyond. They extend from the surface all the way to the sea bottom, both inside the breakers and for some distance out. A drowning person, submerged, can be carried out by these deep cur rents. The rips are caused by uneven ness oi the ocean floor, Dr. Shep ard explains. Ridges or canyons slow or speed up different parts of the breaker as it comes In, thus piling up water at one point and thinning it at another. This sur plus water flows along the shore until It meets water coming from another point. The two currents merge and turn out to sea as a single current. Rip currents are easy to spot from the air. and with practice can be detected from the beach, too, Dr. bhepard says. Easily Detected They can be detected by turbu lent brownish or greenish masses of water moving out from the breaker zone. They have some what the shape of a cauliflower cloud, and the edge of each rip is likely to be outlined by foam carried out from the surf. The flow of each rip comes In pulses, with one mass following another "somewhat like , pufft from a smoke engine." From the beach, th rips can be spotted by the turbulence of the water along the lanes of flow, or a change in color of the water due to greater depth. The Incom ing wave often does not break in the rip current lane. If it doea break, the water is likely to have the typical brownish color. - - Dr. Shepard advises poor swim mers to stay in shallow waters when breakers ar? high.. and to avoid bottom irregularities. If you are carried out, don't try to fight back in the same direc tion. Swim at right angles to the current, and you'll get out of the rip channel, sometimes with Just a few strokes. Then you may be able to touch bottom and rest, or at least be able to swim back in without having to fight the current. 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