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Newspaper Page Text- i IB Gee. J Statesman Salem, Ore- Smw FeK. 21, 1S54 News1 of Fai4ii;:'Hbme;andi-Gddd By LilHe L. Madgen Garden Gabbing .:;.:'.- - t i : Home Workshop By LILLIE L. MADSEN ' II you are one of those fortunate few who do. not have to work on Washington'! Birthday tomorrow and if it doesn pour down rain you might well spend the time getting thole sweet peas into the ground. The earlier they get in, the more bloom you can have later. i ? - : - Sweet peas will thrive in any sunny location, fthey need a rich, well-manured deeply dug soil with good drainages Arrange a trench about six inches deep. Place the seed four to si inches apart and cover lightly with good soiL Then place-another! light covering of peat moss on top of this and scatter slug bait or sharp sand on both aides, of the trench. Before planting seed, shake it up in a sack with a bit of semesan. As the plants grow you can rake the soil in around them until the trench is filled level with the surface of the rgrounL While we are on the subject of sweet peas, let me suggest that tou look over some ef the new varieties. There are some new earner flowering sorts now. many of which come into bloom three to four weeks earlier than the older varieties. Also there are some aew sorts which have many more blooms to a stem than the: older varieties do. If you have berry -bearing bushes in your! shrub border, prune before the flowers appear. Late flowering shrubs -such as hydrangea hortensis can be pruned now. Remember that the flowers develop on the shoots that did not flower last year do hot cut these to the ground. Is ; fi I Pretty soon now youll be getting yours chrysanthemum bed ready for spring planting. Most growers do not ship crysanthemums for spring planting until late March or Aprili However, orders are filled in rotation, so the orders placed early will be attended to first Perhaps you recall that last fall quite a number of us attended open house at the gardens of Dr. . J. Kraus at Oregon State Col lege. We noted a lot of new ones which he was going to introduce this year. If you don't remember where you put the list here are a few of his new ones which are available from Marvin Black, out on Chemawa road: Ballerina, an orchid rose, a bushy two-foot plant. heavilv covered with two inch blooms. . 5 Chestnut, a reddish chestnut brown, small, fully double blooms with long stems. Purple Sage, another orchid-purple with lUac silver reverse. The petal arrangement of this is irregular. The blooms are rather large. (Marvin adds the supply of this plant is very short) Reverence, a light primrose yellow, large land fully double This begins to bloom about September 10. Snowspoon, the best white spoon, single liut the Northwest but almost double in the Midwest (and don't ast me wny). Tfie Diooms are snow white and three inches across.' j 1 f White Rice, another fine white one. Very; sturdy, full-double blooms. t i : ' If Almost everyone has a philodendron, if he has any house plants at alt So few have peperomia, which seem much better adapted to the average small house ... particularly is the Watermelon-Begonia (peperomia) suitable. The heartshaped dark green leaves, striped with silver, make a very pretty little plant The peperomias like northern exposure, plenty ef water and lots .of humidity. I fre quently see them in florists shops here in the valley and always wonder why I don t see them more often in homes. t s i Now is the time to think of transplanting your house plants that have grown throughout the winter. Some of these need very little transplanting that is repotting only every few years. Others should be transplanted every year. I A Bomber of bright red azaleas were received during the St Valentine season. A south window win suit these plants best for the present The ideal temperature is 45 degrees at night and little more than 5540 degrees in the daytime. If a sunporch is available, this is nsnally quite suitable. Most living rooms or dining rooms get too warm to keep the azalea in good blooming health. Water the plant frequently and very thoroughly but dor not let water stand in the saucer or the leaves will soon begin to tarn yellow and drop Most of tho azaleas we are getting here are also hardy here, although a few are not Ton might ask your florist if yours is, and then, as soon as the weather warms np April for instance, set the plant out la your azalea bed for next year's bloom. New Rose Is Size of Penny Lazy Susan Table Blends With Decor i f '' f ' T'f - - By BILL BAKER Furniture Designer to the Stars r, In designing my Lazy Susan coffee table, the purpose was to create a piece of furniture that would blend with any kind of de cor, yet achieve distinction by performing a special function; The main table top is station ary, ot course, am me -raisea Lazy Susan ring and crowning small table top rotate convenient- ly as a unit ; While the Lazy Susan coffee table looks expensive, it can be built at home for just a few dol lars and a few hours of hobbyshop work. If you want to have a lunvr beryard do the cutting, it will add a few extra dollars to the basic cost I made the table for my own home in clear white pine, giving it a lacquer finish, but alder wood, gumwood and plywood are other excellent choices. The cost of using an expensive hardwood is somewhat offset by a saving of about $5.00 on varnish and lac quer, since the choicer woods re quire only a wax finish. For informal entertaining in small quarters, the Lazy Susan coffee table is a handy and at tractive space saver. Its generous dimensions make it equally suit able for spacious rooms. ' The double-decker Lazy Susan unit is readily detachable in '.a few minutes. You can make this Lazy Susan coffee table in your own workshop in a few hours with the aid of pattern number J01 Every section of the table is giv en you in its exact aize, on heavy duty paper which can be pasted, taped or thumbtacked right on the wood for simple tracing and cut ting out Youll also receive shop-tested, easy-to-follow directions in sim ple, understandable language. Tinker Belt pictured here.'is one of the new small roses that will become quite popular this summer, according to growers who had the opportunity to tesu.it oat last year. Garden Calendar... set your L117 luu eoffee table pattern, tend your name and address together with one dollar (SD la cub or money order to Bill Baker, The Oregon States man, P. O. Box 1111, Los Anteles. California. REMEMBER TO ASK rOB PATTERN NUMBER 11. Other Bill Baker pattern avail able: No. 13, Planter Desk, SI- Questions Answers Question Where can I get old-fashioned roses? Are there any, catalogs out; on these? If so would you give me the name? c.l. , ; ; . Answer Yes, if youll send me a self-addressed envelope so that I may reply directly. IH give you the names of some. Question Last year had some madonna lilies that sort of rotted oit xou toia me to use some spray, which I did and they seemed to come out of it But I lost the slip on which my in formation was given. Would you mind repeating? And tell me when to use it I know I used it several times last year. F.A.L. Answer I use Bordeaux mix ture. Start in early spring and re peat two or three times before blooming season and again in falL Read the directions on the container carefully so you do not burn the foliage. It helps, too, to dig some of the; dry mixture into the soil around the plant i. r .. " ! I vuesaon wnen do we spray for peach leaf curl? Have just a few trees but they were badly curled last year. We art not really farmers,, so county agent doesn't visit us. C.BJ. Answer I'm sure the Mar ion County agents would be will ing to give you any information they .could if you'd call them. However, in this case, see story on peach leaf, curl spray else- wnere on tms; page. This in formation was: supplied by our county agents. A - Question Have been hunt ing for some information on the Jordan Community in Linn County. Can you by chanct tell us how old it is and the family names of the early settlers there? O.T. Copyright 1954, pnses byndicate, Calif. .: Mirror Enter- Los Angeles, I Aalley Newsi Statesman New Serv'rtt OCE Speech and Hearing Center Plans Open House i Statesman Mews Serrte MONMOUTH The Western Oregon Cooperative Speech and Hearing Center on the OCE campus here will hold open house Friday and Saturday from 9 am. to 5 p.m. Purpose is to acquaint both the public and professional, school people; with the service of the center, according to Dr. Robert L. Mulder, director of the recently completed center. j: , The center is the last of five regional centers in the state to be completed through a coopera tive arrangement between the Special Education Division of the State Education Department and OCE. j Thef geographical region served by the Center in Mon mouth is composed of Tillamook, YamhilL Lincoln, Marion, Polk, and Benton Counties. General objectives of the cen ter irivolve clinical speech ther opy for children who are organi cally speech handicapped, ana general service to students on campus, to screen for speech pro ficiency in prospective teachers and to provide on-campus and in service sourses related to special education with emphasis on speech correction practices and techniques for the classroom teacher. One-day diagnostic clinics are i held , periodically at the request of local school districts in this area. Call to Work Looms Soon For Loggers Dallas Firm T 1 A 1 juanas Amityi School Job 1 1 , : Statesman Mews Service; AMITY The bid of $11J 194 of Grubb and Green Con (traction Cex, of Dallas, Ore, has been approved for eon-, traction of a four-classroom addition U Amity Gride School, schoolboard chairman v Russell Sheldon said; Satur day. I 4' ' Grubb and Green submitted the low bid among 13 contrac tors who bid on the project Construction is due t start May 1 with completion due in time for start of school in the falL f ,. Chinchilla Show et for Feb. 23 Chinchilla pelts will be offered on the western Market for the first time this year. Chinchilla Associ ation of America will sell these pelts through the Seattle Fur Ex change, one of the three largest fur auction houses in the United States.., The association, Portland Branch, is holding its fourth an nual open show, Feb. 23 at the Multnomah hoteL Registration starts at 8 a.m. and all animals must be in place by 11 o'clock at which time judging starts. Feb. 2 Marion County Straw berry Growers meeting, Izaak Walton League Building, 1:30 p.m. Feb. ZS Mill City Garden Club meeting. I I Feb. 25 Salem Camellia and Rhododendron Society, YMCA f 8 p.m. Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, speakers. t Feb. 25 Labish Meadow Gar deners. Home of Dorothy Zielin- ski. Don Smith to show slides. ! March 1 Salem Garden Club; 2 n.m. 460 N. cottase street, t f March 4 Salem Begonia Sciety. March 10 Mt. Angel Garden Club. I f March 11 Men's Garden Club of Salem, YMCA 8 p.m. ( March is Salem Rose Society, YMCA 8 p.m. It April 22-25 Multnomah County Spring Garden Show, Gresham." May 1 Silverton Jay-C-Ette Flower show, : Eugene Field Audi torium, Silverton. , in May 15-16 Salem Garden Coun cil Spring Flower Show, Izaak Wal ton League. May SO Fleet of Flowers, De poe Bay. - i June 8- Pacific Regional Gar den club meeting, Ashland., ; June 8-9 Oregon State meeting of Garden Federation. : s Jane 12-1J Salem Rose Society Show, Izaak Walton League build ing. I I Dedication Set Wednesday at Morningside Statesman News Service SOUTH SAEEM Official open house and dedication ceremonies are slated to be held at Morning side School Wednesday beginning at 7:30 p.m. SupL of Schools Walter E. Snyder will chairman this recog nition of Salem s latest new school opening. Snyder is to introduce LeRoy J. Stewart, chairman of the school board who will in turn introduce the members rl the board. Other special guests are William 1. Wil liams, architect for the job; Rob ert Morrow, general contractor; Mrs. Agnes Booth, Marion County school superintendent; Paul Harvey, chairman of the Morn ingside P-TA, and Rex Putnam, superintendent of public instruc tion. A salute to the flag will be led by LaMont Perman and Warren Harvey with the invocation deliv-i ered by the Rev. Harold Hamil ton, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. The school, located at South 12th Street and Strong Road, was completed and occupied this year following Christmas vacation. i Answer It's listed as hav ing been settled in 1847 with a grist mill, the first "business". Settlers were Sheltons, Thom ases and Bilyeus. : Question I have a spot that eems just suited for a fern gar den, and wonder if such a garden is ever planted by itself. There is a pool and some trees mostly oak. I have always wanted a green garden, and am espe cially fond of ferns. Could you tell me anything about the soil they take and a little about va riety? H.D. Answer A fern garden is love ly, and does exceptionally well in the Willamette Valley. We do not see it here very often. Some of the .nicest fern gardens I have seen were around San Francisco. Ferns will do just as well here. A rock or rather large boulder or two helps out, if you have the space. Ferns like a soil full of humus and if this is not natural where you plant them, add it to the soil. You would enjoy. I'm sure, the book "American Ferns' by Edith Roberts and Julia Law rence. Your library probably has it in stock. Question I'm an invalid and have enjoyed your page so much dreaming of what I could do if able. But now someone gave me a metal hanging basket with an interior of pottery. It is nine inches across and almost as deep. I used to like greenery in the gar den so much and once had a green garden. Would any fern or vine grow well in this indoors? L.O. Answer Get the basket filled with a soil of one-half loam, one quarter sharp sand, and one-quarter well decayed leafmold. Mix the whole together well. Don't plant too much in the basket It will look better if given plenty of room. Place an upright plant in the center. For this a Boston fern, if you like green things, would do nicely. If you want flow ers, the i semperflorens begonia would do. For trailers at the outer edges you could use Wan dering Jew, one of the small ivies, or smila. You might also use dwarf alyssum, the .small gera niums, a low growing phlox, lan terns. A flowering trailer might be a lobelia. School Lunch Aims Told to Pringle Club ; Statesman News Service PRINGLE Simple food, un der sanitary conditions, at a low cost These are the aims of the school lunch program as explain ed by Mrs. Emma Wasson to the Prinrie Community Chib Thurs day night She stated that tnere has been a great change in school lunches in the past 20 I years. Menus are careiuiiy piannea to' ! make them nutritionally sound. In most cases the teach ers eat with the children and good eating habits are stressed. Principal A. W. Hoerauf, an nounced that, starting Monday, there will be a ten-minute rest period immediately following lunch, rather than after the children come in from play at one. Hoerauf stated that the quiet period would give food a chance to start to digest, whereas if the child rushed out to play imme diately after eating, blood would rush to the extremities and di gestion would be delayed. After the rest period, the children will have the usual play period, re turning to their rooms ten min utes later than before, An "Old-Timers" Day is being planned for April 15. All. who have had any connection with the school will be invited to at tend this meeting. Statesman News Service GRAND RONDE The logging business is snapping out of the winter doldrums here, and hun dreds of loggers and millwork era in this area expect to be called back to work within the next two weeks. About 50 men already have gone back to work on the Lone Bell logging operation here. 2up t c. j. Hmes said Saturday. Long Bell's operations closed down briefly at Christmas and resumed, only to be stymied by the mid-January blizzards which plastered deep snow over the area. We have had worse winters and longer shutdowns in the past Hines said. . ; But the effect of this winter's shutdown was widely felt in Yam hill County by merchants. Hines said the company hopes to produce about 50,000,000 feet of Douglas fir, white fir, hemlock and cedar this summer and falL That would be 10,000,000 feet less than last year. . The Murphy Logging Company which operates a big mill and logging operation in the Grand Ronde area is rushing comple tion of a new log dump on the Yamhill River near Dayton. Mill Sup't Robert Ross said about 100 men will "definitely" resume operations on March 1. The mill normally can handle 21,000,000 feet a year. New Dallas Group F Statesman- News Servir DALLAS The young married couples of the Methodist Church have organized a discussion group where problems! and ex periences of their age group may be presented. The group will meet monthly; the next meeting is scheduled for March 14 at tho home of the .Clinton (Bud) Fos ters. ' j " At the Feb. 14 meeting a film, "Is Your Home Fun," was shown with commentaries by ;the Rev. Fremont FauL Officers elected the same evening were president LeRoy Fritz; Bill Harlahd, vice president and program' chair man; and Mrs. Bud Foster, secretary-treasurer, 'it Kindergarten to Start New Term Statesman News Service WOODBURN Mrs. L. H. Hildebrandt of the organization of mothers of children at kinder garten age, has announced the opening date of the second term of; classes on Tuesday, March 2. The school will again be taught by -Mrs. T. M. Baxter at Lincoln Grade School. Mrs. Hildebrandt asked that parents interested in entering their children, cooperate in the project by calling her at an early date. Classes will be . held Tues days through Fridays as in pre vious terms, said the spokesman. Polk County Court News Statesman News Service DALLAS A : marriage li cense was issued here Friday to Kenneth Ross Dyer, 21, Army, and Glendoris Floyd, 19, student Both listed Dallas as address. Suit for divorce has been filed by Donna L. Banks vs. Leonard D. Banks in Polk County Circuit Court Alleging cruel and in human treatment, plaintiff eeks restoration of maiden name of Donna Durfee and equal settle ment including Barbecue Tavern. Married July 1, 1951, at Winne muca, Nev. 0 HURRY! f , :--"? (jldAAlieat Of Salam Inc. 1540 Fairgrounds Rd. Ph. 4-6263 About 3Va million tons of copra, the dried meat of coco tnuts, is produced annually. RENT. A. TOOL I I Do it Yourself -It's Cheaper . OPEN SUNDAYS i f Salem's Oldest Tool Rental , Howser Bros. 1 I 1180 South 12th St ' I Hew20-lb chain r - - i . i -- . 5 I . . i - . vnnnnnnsmnnBVnnnnnnnnnviBssnnnnnnnnnnasinn 1 j M V r 7 ' j Use Aluminum! Baked Enamel) Siding I I v I ine venniarea rvaii i nar Lets Tour t I ! Housfe Breathe!" ? 1 MI j No Mor. 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