Q-(Sec II) Statesman, Salem, Ore.. Sun., Dec. 25, 55 . . : 5-Year Research Produces Deep-Red Color Home .'.arid '- Garden o o o Lillio L. Madicn H ywa art looting for a sew, ever-kleoalag rose vita Iota ef Jeep-red color, there's good news this snonth from the Gardening CoancIL Five years of research has produced a new hybrid, named Eara Coventry. Spokesmen 'of Introducers ay it is one of the finest hybrids produced in several years. A crocs betweea the Ret Finacchie and Garnet, the Sarah Coventry first flowered ia 195 I tad has beea tested ant daring the five successive years. 'Overfeeding' House Plants Listed as Common Mistake ' By LILLIE L. MADSEN Gardea Editor. The Statesman MERRY CHRISTMAS " FIRST THINGS FIRST And today that will be enjoying Christ mas. I don't honestly expect any one to read this column today. However, there may be one or two c-f you will file it for further refer 'Room-Strctchcr Suggested If yaur growing child It getting toe large far hit room, here's a room stretching idea. Tip the furniture P lata tfe wall and give them more floor spare. This Is essy ta da with softwoods , like Douglss fir er west coast' hemlock which work sa easily, they caa he eat and shaped ta Fit aay space. Ia this anit you have comfortable bunk bed, study table, aad storage for shoes, baokt, linens aad bobby gear. New Charges Filed Against Historian , WASHINGTON Ufl - The SUle Department has filed new charg es against Donald Doser. a his torian it sought to dismiss last Oct. i. " I The October dismissal was upset by the Civil Service Commission which ruled on Dec. I that the Stats Department charges against Dozer were too vague, and ordered film reinstated. . Kenneth Wells Pakinson, an at torney retained by Dozer, said the 'new charges were made Wednes day'shorUy after the State Depart ment reinstated him with back pay in keeping with the Civil Service - Commission order. ' , The new accusations, Parkinson " aaid, are "the same charges as before but in a mors detailed form." r-i. -it - ! J r - M ih auurnej miu lAjtcr wiu 'aubmit m "complete and compre hensive answer" within 10 days and will appeal again to the Civil ' Service Commission and "to the court If necessary. Dozer was back at hit Stats Department desk Thursday. ; The State Department declined to comment on the new charges .but Dozer's attorney said they were that Dozer had: i l. 'Tilled to meet work reauira- tnents" at to quality and quantity of work. New, specific examples art now cited under this charge. 1 Made "false and misleading Statements to hit supervisors about hit work accomplishments. This charge was described at al most identical to the old one. 3. Disrupted "good working re lations" in the historical division. Interfering with the efficient oper toa of the- employes. A number f examples art also cited ta back trp tail accusation, Parkinson ence . . . and it is for you that I'm writing this week. HOUSE PLANTS There will be a tot of new ones in homes today,. Some of them will go with you through the year. Others will give you joy and add color for some months- Still others will just be at their best for a day or perhaps, if your are lucky a week. The Eager Beavers of you. who Liquor Bottle 'Can Be as Bad As Time Bomb' LANSING, Mich. I-The Mich igan Board of Alcoholism remind ed holiday shoppers this week that a bottle in the Christmas stocking of an alcoholic it almost as bad as a timt bomb. "We're anxious that people re member the troubles of alcoholic friends at Christmas." said Ralph W. Daniel, executive secretary. Daniel said gifts for alcoholics should be restricted to neckties. tools, books and the like. "Real friends," Daniel said. would no more give liquor to an alcoholic than they would give a pair of track shoes to a person with a bad heart." Malay Peace Talks Possible KUALA LUMPUR. Malaya til A Communist courier brought word through the jungle Friday night that rebel leaders have agreed to come out of hiding for peace talks wnn Malayan officials. Since mid-IMS the Malayan fieht- ing has claimed the lives of 3,189 civilians, 1.790 policemen and troops and 1,827 Communist Guer rillas. GOOD WARNING PLATTSM0UTH, Neb. (V-A bad sign on the highway entering Plattsmouth warns mortorisU; "Slow, Live Children Ahead." AIR VENT ALUMINUM avi::::o5 rrtk Bm4i fatta Ctrs Catena MS la Our Shop rr Serjrthin ka tmtr Wtow fttECii'rr) the e a LU itX BUND MAN rraa IWaitH Par f rfl(M riL SUSS Trau) SI7S Caaf St. j - . l i must always be doing something to your plants indoors or out don't feed house plants much if at all during the dark cloudy days. Wait to resume feeding at two or three week intervals when sunlight increases. When daylight gets long er, a bit of feeding may be re sumedif you feed the right plants. Was yours a gloxinia, the plant you received today? Well, Gloxinias like an east, southeast or south window for wintertime growing. the night is cold, remove the plant from the window. Gloxinias do not like cold nights. They prefer tem peratures even during the dark hours at from 60 to 68 degrees. A too dry atmosphere is not appreci ated by gloxinias. They simply will not thrive if the relative humidity is below 45 per cent. Water the plant with room temperature water when the soil has become quite dry. Soak it from top to bottom. If you splash water on the leaves, take time to blot it off or at least keep the plant out of the sun until the water is evaporated (if we have sun). Did you know you could propa gate gloxinias, much as you do African Violets? By cutting smaller leaves and putting them in water, sand, or vermiculite? WHV RED? - With the use of holly as a religious emblem for Christmas, people became accus tomed to red as standing for Christ mas cheer. Originally the color was interpreted as emblematic of the blood of Christ. Later it was re ferred to as the warmth of love both human and divine- ' So red became the Christmas color in clothing, decorations. ribbons. . . -. Roses were once adopted as the Christmas flower and more than half a century ago. history says, the favorite Christmas gift from the "bashful beau" was a dozen American Beauty Roses. Today the red rose most popular Is probably Better Times, or per haps Happiness, both of which bloom well under glass. FAVORITES Red Cyclamens, originally from Persia, are among the favorite Christmas plants. But they come now in beautiful whites, in rose shades, ruffled and plain. They bloom well for quite a spell and are best discarded when through. Of course poinsettias are sym bolical of Christmas, too ... and this year we aee them in pink and white as well as red. Forget ting to water them at the right time, and letting a cold, or even cool, draft hit them, are disast rous. Christmas cacti, so popular in grandmother's day. are out at the fore again this year In fancy new containers. These make excellent "heirloom" plants, as they will continue to bloom for 40 to 50 years and more, if given regular care- They are frequently listed as crab cacti, but the Christmas Cactus name has become a favorite. The Christmas Cherry, which some of you may have received, needs frequent watering to keep it growing and blooming a fair time. If once It gets dry, off come the leaves. If you have both a Christ mas Cherry and youngsters, watch the latter as the former are poi sonous. For this reason, in recent years, the Christmas pepper has become mora popular. AZALEAS If your Christmas plant happens to be an azalea, take good care of it. There are a tot of casualties In these In the outdoor valley this year. Water freely and regularly or the budt will not open. Also this is not the plant to put atop a beat register or near the fireplace. The azaleas like the weather a little an the cool tide without freezing. . DRAPERIES eastern Made la Our Shea tim Baartt Ilia trr vaiaacaa a travara Baa SEE CllfCt) . THE a a IU klK BUND MAN fTM Brttaufart Pi; mt MIsM fa. rilS itatsas) MltCaatutt, Garden Calendar... Jaa. a Salem Garden Club meet ins. Jib. 14-li Annual Camella So ciety show, Thomasville, Ga. Feb. e-M Annual Home and Garden Pilgrimage to Mexico. In formation may be had from Mrs. Ben G. Oneal, 2201 Miramar, Coun try Club Estates, Wichita Falls, Texas. March Ml Famous Natches Pilgrimage. Headquarters is Pil grimage Garden Club, Stanton Hall, Box 347, Natches, Miss. March 11-17 International Flow er Show, Wanamaker store, under direction of Horticultural Society of New York. Headquarters. Essex House. Central Park South, New York City. Basements Due to Stage Bir Comeback Basements are staging a come back that is remarkable in its scope. More than half of all new homes started in the latest months for which figures are available includ ed basements, according to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is turnabout of the trend toward basementlcss homes which developed immediately following World War II when materials were scarce and speed to get shelters up were motivating forces in home building. In commenting on this sensible return to the more useful homes with basements, H. V. Simpson, national lumber authority, said the basement in a single-story home almost doubles usable floor space and at a cost of not much more than ten or fifteen percent over the slab type floor. There are several ways to build basements to get additional living space artow costr Simpson points 0"1- v f xpos ng me casement !nref or ,our 'Mt bo Krou."d I th. "indow,I W,U P-0' plenty of light for playrooms, bed rooms, utility rooms- The ordinary joist-type floor of Douglas fir or west coast hemlock forms an ade quate ceiling structure which can be paneled in a variety of woods. ' Basements solve seversl prob lems which were readily apparent in the tiny one-floor home of post World War II. They give that extra storace space for trunks, luggage. old furniture, lawn furniture and garden tools. They also generally have room for a warm work shop and a place where the general handyman can do ordinary repair work on screens, doors, furniture and tools. The housewife has a main floor of wood to walk on which Is easy on her feet and saves backache and foot trouble, Carpenters' Union Appeals Jiiry Verdict PROSSER, Wash, t - The carpenter who was awarded $11. 000 Wednesday because he was kicked out of his union for pick' ing up his paycheck on his own time isn t going to get .the money without a battle. The Pasco, Wash., carpenter's Local No. 1849 filed notice of ap peal Thursday against the judg ment granted here Wednesday to Albert J. Couie, Kennewick, Wash, by a Superior Court jury. Couie had sued for $37, 500 from the Pasco union and Millwrights Local 1699. also of Pasco. The jury awarded him $1,000 for loss of wag es. 17.000 for mental nain and auf fering and $3,000 for loss of union benefits. Couie's troubles started while he was employed on a project at the Hanford Atomic Energy Worst. He testified during the six-day trial of his damage suit that in Novemb er, 1953, he came in on his own time and drew his pay check. He explained he needed the mon ey and would have been unable to get it before the following Mon day. The Millwrights Union fined him $25, claiming he violated a provi sion of the union's agreement that paychecks would be drawn on company time. Couie said he appealed the fine, first before a special board of the Millwrights Union and then on up to international headquarters in Indianapolis. He contended the un ion't action wat not in accordance with its constitution. Because of the fine by the mill' wrights, Couie said his own union, the carpenters, bounced him off its rolls six months later. This, he said unlawfully deprived him of the right to work. It wat not made clear but ap parently the Millwrights Unioa had jurisdiction over the job Couie wat working on when he drew hit check at the wrong time. BURNT OFFERING UHRICHSVILLE, Ohio tfV-Flre- men dashed to the home of Helen Arborast and charged Into the smokmlled interior. The embar rassed Mrs. Arbogast admitted she had burned a steak. FREE ESTIMATES Oa Fleer Cevertagt NORRIS-WALKER PAINT COMPANY 1711 Front fkeae 4-ttfl Qvestie What is the Christmas rose? Is a particular kind of rose or something else that looks like a rose? D.R. . Answer This actually isn't a rose at all. It is, botanically, Hel- -a 1 1 nip i .ry -J, , Jifttel-. a ..... i. mJr-T I ir- li : fir- --dLrtti-ra c4-vrH :i in 1 bedroom bedroom Wino room fllvSj !' 1 1.0-.M--O- I.N-a.n-grt 'oY? d.mngroom UJff J 1 1 ii'. 4-i lo-o" f rTj?' J ! O bedroom lU mt T t .. A Ntwsfaalurts SPECIAL FEATURES can Mice a house ssore livable. Hete a family room adjoins the kitchen with a folding partition separating it from dining toon. A built-in oven wastes no space when vented through the fireplace chimney. A mud room and adjoining lavatory are convenient from the gardea porch. Garage has space for a work bench. Entrance vestibule opens into a foyer. Matter bedroom bat a spacious dressing room adjoining private bath. An outdoor cIoset provides storage for gardea tools. Sliding glass doors merge dining room and porch. This is plaa 5M45AP by Radolph A. Matera, architect, 90-04 161st St., Jamaica 2, N.Y. Tbe bouse coven 1,613 aquue feet, without garage and porch. Man,109,Tells By RICHARD MCMURRAY ENNIS, Tex. At 109 as brown snd wrinkled Frank Fow ler claims to be, one faces prob lems. The alert old fellow listed his big ones as two, and in this order: How to get Christmas lights to blink in his front room? And getting ready, for Fowler insists he is "fixitr to die." Christmas wreathes are up and a wood fire crackles in the mod est little home at the edge of Ennis, a cotton and railroad cen ter 35 miles south of Pallas to which Fowler moved 83 veari ago in 1870. He snd his wife Ollie, 78, built the house with their own hands I not too long ago. Fowler wears a brown cofduroy cap and he is never seen with out it He sat on the edge of his bed, which was covered with patchwork quilts snd waved his cane as he talked. He told of his memories of Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James and of all the wan through which he lived. He talked of the Bible, which he cannot read but which he can quote profusely. Fowler claims he was born of a Cherokee Indian father and West Indian mother Feb. 11, 1846 In Indian territory. There are no records, of course, of his birth. He says he sat with boys among the pines high on a hill in Georgia and watched skirmish ing during the Civil War. "Rub Board'' Around Ennis, Fowler Is known as "rub board." For years he made the boards on which women scrubbed their clothes at the weekly washes. Fowler isn't a whiskey drink er or-cigarette smoker. But he Short Newsprint Supply Cuts Ads In Denver Paper DENVER un There will be no advertising in the Monday edition of the Rocky Mountain News. The morning newspaper said that the ad-lcss edition it made necessary by short supply of news print. It is said the inventory Ls the lowest in the paper's 96-year history. The News said the only adver tising to appear in the edition will be funeral notices. It blamed the shortage on an un- forseen increase in consumption of newsprint nationally. CANADA IMMIGRATION OFF OTTAWA LTV-Because of labor shortages, Canada is offering two year or longer, interest-free loans to pay passage of Immigrants and dependenti from their hornet in Europe to where they settle. Im migration declined to 86,60? in the first nine months af this year from 126.853 In the comparable period of 1954. All Kinds of INSURANCE and SURETY BJSHB9 5 VISIT US IN OV 121 No. HIGH - Answers to Garden Questions leborus niger, and one of the most delightful little plants we have in the winter garden. Surprising as it may seem the November frost fail ed to atop its blooming in many gardens. In a few others, the plant i r ( , - : t- Of 'Problems' At Christmas dips a mean snuff brush. He eats a lot of grits, rice snd corn bread and likes good coffee. "Do unto all as I would have them do unto me," is hit creed, as Fowler puts it Settle far Hea Mrs. Fowler, who disagrees staunchly with "Rub Board" every time he says he is "fixin' to die," planned a turkey for Christmas but settled on a hen. They plan to spend the Yule at home alone. Fowler had a son, Howard, who once was porter on the Seaboard Airline Railroad, but he hasn't en him since 1910. He hasn't heard from his daughter Nellie ,n "ng" wan mat. Stock Sale Creates New Ford Position WASHINGTON Iff) -Things wert changing all over the place with the announcement Wednes day that Ford Motor Co. would sell some of its stock. The man giving out the Informa tion in Washington introduced him self as A. E. Jeffcoat. 'Dearborn, Mich., the man in charge of stock holder relations. "That's new isn't it?" asked a newsman. "Never needed one before," was the laconic reply. Missing Flier Search Halts TOKYO OB - Search for 1st Lt. Frank D. McKillit, 23, of Walla Walla, Wash., missing since Dec. 15 on a flight over Sagaml Bay, has been abandoned and he is as sumed dead, the Navy said Satur day. . McKillit was a jet pilot with Ma rine Air Group U at Atsugi, 30 miles south of Tokyo. Japanese fishermen reported a plane had dropped into the bay shortly after McKillit wat reported misting. An sir and tea search failed to find any trace. Surviving are his parents, Mrs. Dorothy E. McKillit, 1327 Modoc St.. Walla Walla, and Ralph L. McKillit, Nampa, Idaho, and a brother, Cpl. Merle R. McKillit. 21, stationed with the 3rd Marine Division at nearby Camp McGill. RENT A TOOL Do It Yourself It't Cheaper OPEN SUNDAYS Salem's Oldest Tool Rental HOWSER BROS. 118 South 12th St. BONDS" MW QUAMmt asa PH. 4-3333 suffered a little, but nowhere, that I've yet heard of, did it suffer se rious damage. Qaeiilea Have a very tall pear tree. Want to prune out the top. During World War II, Fowler said he made two trips across the Atlantic on a mule ship. He says he has been all over the world, and adds: "A person has to travel about this world to ever know any thing." Age Predicted The brown old man said t for tune teller told his mother he would live to be more than 100 years old. An uncle who was a preacher told him, he said, his "days would be added" if he was obedient to his mother and father. At this Christmas season, he sits near his radio and listens to "the weather, the singing and the preaching." Segregation? The diplomacy of time has long since taught Fowler to thy away from such tricky topics. -.0 Xd Ckri$fmG$ W .. 0 (9ur.wi$hes go out to all our CAPITAL SHADE J AND DRAPERY '5 1695 Fairgrounds Road Ph. 4-1156 W MANUf ACTUM Ri OF VENETIAN SUNOS A Sanitary Service fo. and Employees 215 S. High k When should this be done? Will the pear tree have suffered from the November cold spell? W.F.G. Answer Ordinarily you would have pruned this in February or early March. This year, we art be ing cdvised to wait until growth starts before pruning. Some in jury may have resulted from the freere and it would be best to do all the pruning at onetime taking out the injury and cutting back the tree. Cuts suffer more from cold weather, and if an already weak ened tree is pruned severly, injury msy be too great. ' J Question Can you give me the dze of a ping pong table? This should be a size that would meet official requirements for the game. L.P. Anawer Am told that the table should be nine feet in length by five feet In width. The table top should be 30 inches above the floor. Table top should be painted dark green with inch w h 1 1 1 line 'roimd the outer edge and a sim ilar line lengthwise down the cen ter. Qneation Can a hawthorne be started from a cutting? There is one on my grandfather's place I'd like a start from but am told that this tree will not start from a cut ting. It looks like it should. B.G.E. Answer While I have never tried it, I should think a hawthorne would start quite readily from cut tings. Take your cutting about tlx inches long and dust with hormone powder. Set the cutting in sharp sand and keep it moist. If you have an electric starting bed, you will be able to start a number of tree cuttings. If you do not, you can still start them, but the casualties will be higher. After the hawthorn cutting is rooted, pot it up and grow it in doors until the weather warms up. Leg f Change9 Brings Hotel - COLOMBO, Ceylon,-UrW A movie audience howeled for its money back here Thursday night. The wrong legs appeared in "Daddy Longlegs," and the audience got switched into The Seven Year Itch." The management blamed the Indian censors; somebody's scis sors slipped. The audience was astounded as the long legs of Leslie Caron, in a sequence from the film "Daddy Longlegs," were suddenly replac ed by a pair of legs undulating in the unmistakable manner of Mari lyn Monroe. Indian censors, who handle Cey lon's 'films also under an arrange-' ment dating back to British rule of both countries, had been cen soring both films at the tame time. After tnipping out several "of fensive" scenes from both, the censors mixed the movies. The theater management halted the film after the audience booed and told fans they could use their tickets again to see "Daddy Long legs" when it geta unscrambled. friends and patrons for a bright and cheerful $ Holiday Season. k. JL1 ...