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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1949)
I Tha Statesman, Salem. Ore- Thursday. NoTsmbor 24. 1849 Toylands Jammed Desirables 77 With nfiiiffi-irfi 3 1 . wit Ml IIOUSEKEEPER ... With latest toy kitchen NURSE . . . Diaper can, rabbef (lores equipment, Including- electric mixer. uniform accompany Dydee doll. narte Toys Aid Vocational (Guida-tce By Dorothy Roe AT NawtieatarM Writer America's 43 million children .will get an assist from Santa this year in preparing for future careers. . ' ) The 1949 toy pack, totalling close to last year's $300 million record, definitely spotlights j play things ' designed to help children discover their vocational aptitudes. Emphasis is placed on new play aids for road construction, farming, home making, housing, engineering, fashion design, nursing, science and transportation, says Kenneth P. Fallon, president of the Toy Manufacturers of the UJS.A. Good news fer parents is the greatly increased mtpnt of toys la lower price ranees. Beeanse of late placing of orders by many department stores as well as the steel strike, shortages of a number of play Items are expected and assistant Santas are urged to do their shopping early. ' Toy designers this year have catered to juyenile demand for realistic miniatures of everything on the road with a variety of new truck and auto mobile models as well as agricultural implements. A garbage disposal truck appears for the first time In the wheel top lineup, and there is an armored truck that 'is an exact duplicate in minature of those that deliver cash to banks. There's a bus that reproduces the clink of a fare deposit when the door closes. A new remote control dump truck operates from a steering wheeL Electric trains are streamlined. A new taxicab set includes three cabs, a taxi stand, a plastic bus stop and a parking meter. ! The cowboy holds top billing as playroom' fav orite. More than a million girls Join 12 million boys this year as enthusiastic users of cowpunch- lng equipment such as lariats, two-gallon hats, two-gun holsters and other accessories. Newest ideas for the Junior dudes are a horse's head and tail designed to be attached to velocipedes or . bikes. There's t an astra-domed train and a new Jet fighter plane with a nose gun that has spring " loaded shock absorber to protect furniture. There's a unit model crane with an outrigger and Jacks that make it possible to lift heavy weights. A miniature parking lot gives small fry a chance to try out the problems of business. The newest Dydee doll not only has real hair i that can be washed bat comes with a diaper dis posal can and a nurse's outfit and rubber glares for the small mother. There's a msanlfjeent acw talking- doll with a phonorraph record attachment ' Inside and another with hair designed for a home permanent wave. There are dolls In shadow box frames, dolls with lifelike voices and almost ataman kin. New styles in household equipment keep step with the adult field. Newest play washing ma chines have the latest attachments for spin drying and such. Cooking gadgets include angel food cake pans, electric mixers and impressive white enamel stoves. There's a 21-piece baby feeding .set complete with bottle rack, bottle brush, formula measuring cup, spoon and ' rubber nipples. Plastics and magnetic toys both have an Im portant place in the 1949 toy pack, and a cuddly skunk is a new addition to the stuffed animal kingdom. There's a bear that makes music when his paws are pressed together, and new puppets that talk. And we most not forget the newest reflnesaent In toy telephones it says "hello" when dialed. Collection Gift For Mother j Ideal for Yule Speaking of collections, what's mothers? Demi-tasse cups, English bone china tea cups, little; odd miniature cups, old-fashioned cut glass or Chinese cloisonne salts, ceramic salt and peppers, a men agerie of glass or carved Oregon myrtlewood or ceramic animals they're all in plentiful array and some of them are quite inexpen sive! Other gifts that are personal something for Mother alone are Piewelrr fahrf lmr a timnl trHnr of pearls or a. fine new watch), compacts (in precious metals as well as Jeweler's bronze or enamel ed), handkerchiefs (there are Chinese imports, Swiss embroid eries, Irish linens and American prints, gloves (French fabric gloves come boxed for $3.98) and a gold-plated glove-guard for $1, umbrellas (a nylon fold-umbrella with gold-plated frame is $14.88, fashionable long-handled bumber shoots and rayon fold-umbrellas are under $10.) whatever the choice, it will be fun to surprise Mama with an un expected luxui Mmxas3aMaMS ) Wl black w white. ,r tkUU IU. grt, puk. Skf W mjU. ( , it ' Mi ; . MfLittof. I'll (IN l f V 0 s u J i : mi r I m SB . X I ST BV TeaH lots Oournxs . . .tley're '" I ' I v pretty to look at, so smart ... and so outrageously eonifortable! Ia . ' ' : j ootess, bosdolr, 'round the hows sad play styles . . . la leather, gabardial brocade and rich rayoa satins h, there ars OoMrsuss kere to i erery leisure oosaaloa aad loir tousework hours, tool Just soum ht ad try oa a pauyoull agr, it's fan to have foot .h Oouyasas) COMWI ewd ay otA Pfls$dJ' dJalfaV osWedJg? ardJJ 1 ffnM tnrmmir. feiaHoMMb I Santa and his helpers in the North Pole workshops must have worked overtime without any strikes or stoppages ever since last Christmas. Toyland is chuckful of the most wonderful things that ever made a child's eyes sparkle as brightly as the star atop the holiday tree on Christmas morn ing.' Most toy departments have their wares arranged according to dif ferent age groups from tiny in fants who can barely hold a plastic rattle to older boys and girls who can concentrate for hours on a chemistry set or sewing Outfit for doll's clothes. Jewelry Store Items Gifts for the newborn which are certain to please his parents include jewelry store items such as a sterling and bone teething ring for $3, sterling cups, sterling spoons boxed in plastic with fluffy stuffed toys for $5, a silver long handled baby spoon with bowl small enough to fit the little mouth for only $3.30, or, a complete edu cator set for $15 that includes in fant spoon, baby spoon and fork and junior sized . tableware to match mother's sterling pattern. Chip-proof plastic: and wooden toys with harmless paint are best for the creeper or toddler set. Blocks, bails, beads and toys for pulling, pushing and pounding are included. Later on come the musical teddy bears, fancier stuffed animals and dolls among which one of the cutest is the red-nosed reindeer for $3, tops for SO cents, little plastic cars, moving press-action animals on wooden stands for $1, wooden rocking horses and furry ones fori about $10. Then, for the ages when the kiddies iwant to do everything Mother land Dad do, there are miniature pieces of household es sentials like vacuum cleaners and brooms, junior - size tools in real tool-chests, and even a small steer ing wheel complete with born and gear shift that attaches to the family-car dashboard with a suc tion cup) so that Junior can help Daddy drive. Speaking of small-size facsimiles HOW LONG? Well, It's 2C Shopping Days un til Christmas, but year merchant and yonr mailman both plea to shop early. of grown-up-size gadgets, there's almost nothing the toymakers haven't (duplicated. Children can have mifiatures of every electric appliance in the house, from wash ing machines that wash and iron, and every vehicle on the road, from logging trucks, earth-moving machinery and lumber carriers to fire trucks and police cars with real sirens and a ultra-modern sedan that operates by remote con trol for j$7. Model trains, from the very sim ple wooden blocks for baby to pvll around to the elaborate, ac curate reproductions that Southern Pacific would envy, are sure to prove popular especially with Dad. Dolls, as traditional and favorite a Christmas gift as model trains, this year are more lifelike than ever. Their lovely faces are of un breakable plastic and their crown ing glory is washable nylon hair that takes pin-curls and combing. The baby dolls cry and sleep and wet just like real babies. The toddler dolls say a few words and all the dolls at all prices and In all sizes are dressed fit to make any little girl happy. Then there are doll houses, doll buggies, bathinettes, high chairs every conceivable item a doll might need and Santa could think of. Something for Brother But while Sister is tending her doll family, Brother will have to keep out of the way. He will, too, if he has one bf the new wagons, tricycles, bicycles, cars or airplanes that look real enough to take off any minute. Among the more unusual gifts for children are clay piggy banks from Mexico for 85 cents, old fashioned clothes-pin dolls for $2. nursery lamps fitted on colorful wooden animals for around $5, and the exquisite if expensive Pennsylvania Dutch doll furniture that is a collector's item, as well as tiny costume dolls in boxes. Guthrie's New X 1 VlCt Mlll&itJ As Yule Gift 11 Guthrje's "The Way fWestl Im probably the one novel most Ore gon residents want most to read right now and it ought to be avail able in local bookshops for Christ mas giving. "The Egyptian' Is th fiction best-seller of the! moment. Walter Clark's "Track oij the: Cat" will appeal to men, mostly.) In the field of humor--and who doesn't want to be Jolly iin holly time there's "Chips Otf tht Old: Benchley" by Robert of the same name, S. J. Perelman's Listen to the Mocking Bird" and .H. Allen Smith's "We Went Thataway. j Armchair gridiron strategist will appreciate Frank Leahy's "Notre Dame Football tilling about the T-formation or th gilt edged and boxed "Shotgunning in the Uplands" by Ray PJ Holland. Then there art dozens o how-t-do-it books, cook books, hobby books, and bird and art and ani mal numbers that look good on a library table. j 1 i Regal Raiment For Tho Queen In Your Life! Mate Her Christmas SparkU With a Gift of At-Hom Glamour . ! QUILTED CHENILLE C0RDUJ10Y SATUI NEGLIGEE SETS PAJAMAS j LOUNGING; SETS BRUNCH COATS ! I W li - A - . . - ...... . s i. , T I f In7 ! t ' vu'lll SS: A J 1 u U U U V ... - f : : : T" T )V V; I 1 x ; W W-m Ml li r Regal Raiment For fb M iiik j ! S? j Tho Queen i In Your Life! 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