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Ranch-Style Offices Mingle With Suburban Homes in Menlo Park By LETF EKICKSON : "(Park the home-owning neighbors MENLO PARK. Calif. I How of Prudential Insurance, of Magna would you like an office building j going up in the block where yoi had bought a new suburban borne? It's not a gag question. In Menlo Dress Up Your Clothesline Monday's Billowing wash needn't rob yon of the nse of year patio. Too can screen off the clothesline with a simple yet attractive lat tice fence at each end of the lines. This lattice screen can he bnilt of western red cedar to match kept away from blowing-reach of screens will make them even more effective, so the hostess doesn't have to feel uncomfortable about a wash in full view. Inexpensive, these screens can be made decorative enough to add charm and interest to the landscaping. Garden i j By LILLIE L. MADSOV Gardes Editor, The Statesman THAT SUNDAY TRIP And III be careful to keep my direc tions straight today. Last Sunday I said "Division" when I meant ''Mission." Mission Street seems a dividing line to me there, that's my excuse.. Fortunately my letters and notes tell me most folk knew where Bush's Pasture is even if they don't know the name of the street Others, when they got out to Division the opposite side of Salem and didn't find the Pasture, looked at the gardens there, asked how to get to Bush's Pasture and made the jaunt anyway. That's one of the benefits from living in a city not too big. And I found out 'that some folk read my story Today's suggested trip will take you a little farther a-field. The rhododendron exlibit by the Portland chapter of the Ameri can Rhododendron Society opened yesterday at Crystal Lake Spring Island. It will be open today as well. -The Island is in the East moreland golf course, with road signs directing you to Eastmore land from the super-highway as you enter East Portland. Here youll find one of the largest and finest rhododendron plant ings in the country. There ore around 250 varieties of species and 300 different hybrids represented Everything from the R. sinogrande, a 20 foot tree native to western China, to the small-leaved Lap ponicum found in many parts of the world. There is even one tough species from-Lapland. You won't find the sinogrande in bloom as it takes some 12 to 20 ye?rs for a tree rhododendron to bloom, but the foliage is magnificent. I'll warn you, start out right after church j. I . you'D need time. You can spend hours in the garden selecting the plants you want . . . and youll find magnolias. Japanese maples, azaleas and other choice shrubs and trees, too. The garden will be open until dark to-iight. There's a 50 cent charge, and the funds raised through this will be used to further the building fund for "a permament .exhibition building. Children, under" 12, when accompanied by their parents, are admitted free. : T WHAT A . DAY Dennis Day has been signed for the starring role in the 1955 Portland Rose Festival's Ttarsday and Friday (June tv S, SflVJVinfcU 1U 111; ATlUJlillMiJail Vi T Aim Stadium. Dates for the 47th annual Rose Festival are June 8-12. It took some "talking," says Gerry Frank, chairman of this year's festival program committee. "Starlight Serenade," the najne given this two-night musical variety show, will incliHe other top-flight entertainers comparable to the popular program presented last year which featured Gordon MacRae, Ed Sullivan, Tex Ritter, Dancing Waters and the Portland i Symphony orchestra. The rose show will be the Friday and Saturday of Rose Festival Week. Looks like Mid-Willamette Valley roses may be ready . . . .... chores of the WEEKNow that daffodils have completed just about anyway-their. long spring bloom, snip off the seed pods before too much of the strength that should go into the bulb goes into unneeded seed production. But leave the foliage until it turns yellow. If you look on it right, it isn't at all unattractive. Some growers like to scatter some 5-10-5 over the daffodil bulbs to give them a good feeding-for the summer, and then reoeat again with the same fertilizer along in October or November. And if you can get around to it, now 's the time to prune that forsythia that so many ot you wanted to-prune in earlier spring be fore it bloomed ... Be locking over your primroses before the last blossoms fade to decide and mark those you want to divide for additional plants. The best time to divide them you know, is just after they have finished blooming. Then water them well. Before planting out into new .locations, -mix some aldrin into the top six inches of soil in the bed r planting space to protect the plants against root weevil one of the worst enemies of primroses. I ' - ' ' , SEA AROUND US In the sea of green around many homes there Is always the possibility ol swarms of weeds because weed seeds infest every; soil. Time was when weeds dominated the home scene, successfully resisted hand-l-gging. chopping, pulling, scalding. In early lawn care days, writers suggested many hideous tortures for destruc tion of dandelion, plantain and their ilk. Easy lawn tending erne into its own just after World War II when it was found that a wartime chemical, 2.4-D was the nemesis of the broad-leaved despoilers In the early days the chemical was available only for spray application, a godsend, but still tedious work. Over five years ago researchers developed a way to adhere this chemical to grandular panicles. The dry form, called 4-XD. seems easier to use with practicellv no danger to valuable plants and shrubs from the drift or volatilization of spray-applied forms. Homestead Land Sale Considered WASHINGTON UP A bill to allow public sale of former Oregon homestead lands found unsuitable for farming because of lack of irrigation has been introduced by Rep. Coon R-Ore). He said there would be a "good many thousand" acres of such land. , Including tracts in Lake County around Ft. Rock, and in Jefferson County. - Coon said , modern irrigation methods such as pumping and sprinkling now make it possible to farm the once arid land. Riindoilendrons For Specimen or Hedge RIIOMELLIl ACRES 2497 Hollywood Dr. Phone 2-2182 r ; Camellias Engineering, and of Sunset maga- line like having tbem next door, i Their "country style" office buildings harmonize architectural- the yard fence. Climbing roses (if clothes) or other Tines alone the Gabbing .-Were running into the chandelier so often, let's not call the doctor this time. Let's call General Finance Corp. for money to pay his kill!' Those friendly folks lend money for any purpose end so quickly, fl Jnst phone first, then stop in. GGtiGnm FinnntG onp. license Nos.S-1 31 M-33S 13? SO. COMMERCIAL ST. PHONE 3-9161 ly with the neighborhood's homes. And their landscaping will match a country dub's. The companies lawns, and their shrub and flower layouts, are a tough- ''keeping up with the Jones es' challenge for nearby house holders. The companies can afford high priced gardeners. The people of Menlo Park, a peninsula suburb 30 miles south of San Francisco, are impressed with the way their "garden office build- j ing zoning" is turning out I And. savs Menlo Park s mayor. Charles P. (Chuck) Burgess, the companies make important and betpful taxpayers. Like fast growing suburban home communities anywhere, Menlo Park needed and wanted substan tial business taxpayers. It wanted its cake of attractive neighborhood living with a frosting of sweet busi ness tax money. N Invitation Given The zone ordinance "'an invi tation to large companies to build their offices in the country" was enacted in April. 1949. Allstate Insurance Co., a Sears Roebuck subsidiary, accepted first, moving into its quarters in Decem ber, 1950. Next came the Lane Publishing Co., settling in its show place headquarters for Sunset Mag azine in August, 1951. Magna Engineering, makers of an all-in-one power tool for home craftsmen, put in their shrubs and designing desk in September, 1951. Since then have come the Amer ican Insurance Group; the U.S. Geological Survey in the first unit of an eventual Pacific Coast sur vey center: A.C. Nielson k Co , market analysts who measure ra dio and TV audiences; and Pru dential Insurance, with its North ern California mortgage loan of fice. '' Insurance Office Under construction now is a re gional headquarters for Hardware Mutual Insurance of Minnesota. Four similarly zoned sites re main, with eight to 10 more po tentially shaping in a tract origin ally plotted as a shopping center. The zone ordinance requires that each firm provide adequate park ing space for its employes. Build ings can cover no more than 40 per cent of a minimum two acre tract. Borders of parking areas as weQ as front lawns must be land scaped. Are the firms happy?' Sunset magazine's people keep busy guiding tours of readers through their building and grounds. They look like the modern ram bling manor of a mogul with the fortune and taste to afford the ul timate in Western living. The managing executives glow about personnel morale and low job turnover. Turnover Drops Prudential's regional manager, Willard Hansen, said his office had virtually 100 per cent turnover an nually in San Francisco's financial district. "But not here. About the only girls we lose are those getting married and starting a family." President Bob Chambers of Mag na said his young company want ed "-beauty and quiet in an at mosphere for creative thinking" to keep ahead in the power tool busi ness. How do the Jane Does on the payrolls like it? Sheilah' McGelland, phone op erator and receptionist at Pruden tial, commutes by car from San Francisco, where she and Janet Tarnello still like to live. Sheilah turned down a recep tionist job in another Prudential office in San Francisco. "I guess I'm mixed up." she says. "I like living in the city and working in the country. "When we moved in here, you know what? Jean Stasser, the re ceptionist girl at Magna, came right over to say hello and asked me to coffee at their place. "I guess you don't see that much in the city, do you?" News Director Quits KEX Post PORTLAND HI Bob Thomas, long-time news director at radio station KEX here, will' leave the station May 31. His resignation was announced Friday by Mel Bailey, KEX program manager. Bailey said Jess Leonard, announcer-newsman, will succeed Thomas as news editor. Thomas has been with the station since 1945. Before that he had been news editor from 1941 of KGW-KEX when the stations were a com bined operation. His future plans were not an nounced. An ideal box for starting seeds in the spring can be made from an old coated cardboard milk carton. CaterpiUar Control Now Advocated v Tent caterpillars don't grow easier to control as time moves on. They get tougher. S the thing to do is tp get at them right now when they arcnt too old. - The Statesman Garden Editor has had a dozen requests this past week for methods of luffing the pests. There's only one sure way.. Get at tbem! You can use either a dust or a spray, but use one soon. Spray the surface over which they crawl and spray the nests. DDT or lead arsenate will do the work. So will some of the various trade-named dusts and sprays. " There's a trade-named vegeta ble dust that is very effective in controlling pea, raspberry, logan berry or other worms on vege tables. . With the peas, raspberries and loganberries, just dust the vege table dust into the open flowers. If you go over the planting about every fourth day, so as to catch each new crop of flowers that opens, there should be no trouble from the fruit .worms. For cur rants, gooseberries and blueber ries, wait until petals have fallen off and the young fruit is seen to be forming. Then apply the vegetable dust about once a week, making sure you cover the tiny berries with it Reporter Ban From Ike's Office Lifted WASHINGTON UB A White House ban on reporters visiting President Eisenhower s office was lifted less than 24 hours after Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty imposed it Said Hagerty: "I apparently blew my top." And he added with a grin: "I am entitled to blow my top once in a while, but let's for- Hagerty, who used to be a news paperman himself, put the Presi dent's office off limits to reporters Wednesday after several of them heard and reported a remark Eis enhower made to Secretary of Welfare Hobby about the Salk polio vaccine. As the newsmen heard it the President said on the subject of the vaccine: "I couldn't be hap pier that my grandchildren have had it." This caused some surprise. So far as the public knew only the President s . grandson, David, 7, has bad a polio shot Eisenhower's other grandchil dren Barbara Ann. who 11 be S.May 30. and Susan, 3 are younger than the age-groups cov ered in the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis' inoculation program. Under this program only first and second graders have been vac cinated, together with those third- graders who received shots of a non-protecting substance in last year's field trial. Asked about the President's re mark, Hagerty showed consider able irritation. He told newsmen after checking that only David has been inoculated. And he told them, . too, they would no longer be permitted to accompany phO' tographers into the President's of fice. PAINTING X-RAY PLANNED STOCKHOLM, Sweden Url Rembrandt's "Claudius Civilis" is to get an X-ray examination. The National Museum, like a lot of art lovers, wants to know why a float ing sword mars the 1661 master piece. Details oft he weapon be gan emerging about a century ago. Aware Rembrandt may have done the painting over an old picture, the museum ordered the X-ray probe. It s expected to take six months. j "' THE 071 V COWLl TELY AUTOMATIC HEATING SYSTEM NOW COSTS YOU LISSi... Because UTSfX automatic electric Wiredheat brings yon most acm. te thermostatic control individually for every room ia jout house plus convenient central control and outdoor temperature control when desired, your VTESrX system will assure you completely automatic operation that to other heating system can match! Best of all, WESIX leadership in Electric heating engineering bring you this fine system for LESS COST to own and to operate. You can make sure that tout home will be perfectly comfortable even ia the coldest weather and that you will enjoy unmatched economy. Call today for a complete estimate of your heating sad wiring needs I Vibberi Electric 551 Court St. Ph. 3-9031 Salem i a iPiAi APPROVED FOE FH Questions Qttfrti Can yo teH me what is wrong with parrot talips enclosed. I moved them in De cember when we changed places. Last year they bloomed beautiful-! ly. Is it the sou? Or some bug? : I was advised to put chicken' netting under them as there arej lots of snoles and gophers out here. in the country. I did that' C.R. . - ! Answer Looks like botrytis blight, sometimes called tulip! fire. It is especially bad In rainy j springs like we have had this, year. Remove into a paper bag plants with serious infection, or at least cut off diseased portions ; of leaves. Cut off all fading flow-! ers before pedals fall; cut off. all foliage at ground level when' it turns yellow. I Spraying with fermate. Zerlate and Tersan seem to give control, but anyone of these may also in jure the foliage a little. Bordeaux mixture is effective, too, but will spot the leaves, particularly in cool weather.- The best method of control, however, is sanitation. Usually, ia the spring as the tulips begin to show, I dig some bordeaux powder in around the plant and dust the foliage a time or two. Sometimes that helps. Question Can I take starts from heather? Will this grow from cuttings, and if so, how? I have tried frequently and every time failed. S. G. Answer It can be done. You may either start new plants by layering (pegging down a limb until it roots) or by cuttings The latter do best if taken from the half-ripe new wood in late Aug ust They root best in a sharp sand. If a little bottom heat is available, so much the better, but if not, they will root in a pot of sand, peatmoss and little soil, mixed well together. . Keep them in the dark until roots are well established. Question When is it one treats for the narcissus fly, and how often should one divide the bulbs? E. L. Answer This is the time of the year you dust for the flies. Putting chlordane or lindane around the daffodil beds, will do a pretty good job of ? control. Usually the bulbs are divided, in home gardens, every three or four years. Don't do this until the foliage yellows. If your bulbs are crowded, the fly is much harder to control. Question By any chance can you tell us when the outdoor operas are at Coblenx and the opera festival is at Munich? We saw announcements of them earlier but have not been able to find them since we became in terested. Plan to go to Europe in July and would like to get there for the operas. E. P. Answer The Coblenz Out door Operetta season is on from June 25 to Sept 12, and the Munich Opera Festival is from Aug. 12 to Sept. 11. - Question Can you tell me when Yellowstone Park opens? I thought it was open the year around, and friends of ours tell us it does not open until July 4. C. C. C. a . . xr.li i ya: Answer xeuowsione iauon- al Park opens June 20. . Question We have one wal nut tree on our lawn. Last year it suffered from blight Can you tell us what to do for this? M. P. Answer Your county agent, D. L. Rasmussen in the Marion County Court House, just sent out notices that it Is "now time to be getting your spray or dust equipment ready for the first wal nut blight control application." He adds that newspapers and radios will carry notices of spray or dust times. Growers will have a choice of several spray or dust - combina tions. Materials in the various combinations include yellow cu procide, copper A compound, or other copper material, dusting sulphur, talc and beutonite. Custom-mixed dusts, however, would be best for those of you with just one tree. Independence Elec. 226 Main St. l Independence Phont Ind. 95 . A INSTALLATIONS - - Answers Question I bought tome beautiful Columbine plants with long spurs ' and excellent color ings. The bed is only three years old, and now most of the very fine varieties have turned into small, cid-fashioned ones again. Is this natural, or did the grower sell sne poor plants? H, A. Answer The old-fashioned short - spurred Columbines are about the hardiest of all our flowers, but the new ones are much more graceful kaC colorful. However, after two or three years, the hybrids seem to die out, or reseed themselves into the parent stock. The best way is to start new seed about every two years and dont save the seeds from your own stock if this tends to revert You might save the seed from some of your better plants. Don't let the ethers go to seed. I've seen fine Colum bines last for years if seed pods were all removed, the plant given a little fertilizer and the weeds kept out of the beds. Columbines need well drained soiL Question Tell me something about peony culture. I've- tried for the past three .years to have some good ones, but don't have the faintest idea why I haven't So instead of me trying to tell you what I've done, would you mind telling me what I should do to have good ones? K. L. Answer In the fiat place, I hope you didn't plant anything but good, healthy roots. Roots should have no less than three, and preferably five, eyes. Plant ing should be done in the falL A sunny situation, well drained, should be chosen. The crown should be barely below the sur face of the soiL Too deep plant ing has been the cause of more' failures in peony bloom than any j one other thing. Regular spray-; ing with bordeaux mixture, from the time the plants are no more than two inches high until bloom ing time, controls the botrytis which is so destructive to peony, bloom. As soon as flowers begin' vu uuCf tub uicui ui., auu icuivtc all foliage in fall, burning it Don't disturb them if you have them growing in the right place. You will loose bloom, if you move them every year or two. Question How can I keep my phlox red? Is there something vrvn nan foH them liW vmi An i v - j i good bright red ones and after two cr three years all I have is that horrid purplish-lavender color. R. E. Answer This is your own fault, and there isn't anything you can feed them to correct it Take out the magentas as soon as they bloom. Cut off the flowers of all phlox as they fade. You have per mitted your phlox to go to seed. Almost all colors revert to their original color when permitted to go to seed. Aluminum foil bent around the top of a paint can to form an apron over the edges will keep the container free from splashes and streaks. 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