Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March" 80, 1957
Page 8 Section 1
THE CAPITAL JOURNAE
Pretty, But Watch Out When They Wilt
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Skunk cabbage, flowering in this bog
near Neotsu, heralds the coming of spring
for coastal inhabitants. This member of
the arum family deserves Its name only
when the flowers are wilted or the stems
crushed. Its roots were an Item of food
among the Indians. (Capital Journal Fhoto)
Traditional Skunk Cabbage
Ushers in Coastal Springtime
By BEN MAXWELL
Capital Journal Writer
When the skunk cabbage blooms, those at the coast
know that spring has come.
Skunk cabbage, a member of the arum family and
botanically known as lysichiton camlschatcense, belies its
name. When the bright yellow flowers are fresh their
odor is sweet, almost unpleasantly sweet. Only when the
flowers have wilted or the stems are damaged does skunk
cabbage become its name.
The story is told of a Swedish girl, once employed at
the old Agate Beach Hotel. She was unfamiliar with local
flora and fauna.
A small banquet for the very select was scheduled and
the Swedish girl was told to decorate the room with flow
, ers and then close the room to keep other patrons out.
She placed bouquets of skunk cabbage on the tables and
on the sideboard, admired her performance and closed
the door just as she had been instructed to do.
When the dining room was opened, the wilted skunk
cabbage had maintained its reputation. Guests dined
elsewhere and It took three days to air out the hotel.
Lysichiton literally means the act of loosening of a
chiton, which was a tunic in classical times. The plant
is found from Japan o North America and flowers abun
dantly from March until May in swales and swamps.
Hoots of skunk cabbage are peppery and sought for
by bear and elk as a food. Among coastal Indians the
root was an item of diet, particularly in the spring when
famine threatened. Cooking destroys much of the strong
and unpleasant flavor of Iho root.
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SKTION II, PAGES 1 TO J4
OSC Says Dairy Merger Plan
Will Strengthen, Not Abandon
Two Charged
On Lewd Count
David Countryman, 52, of Bea
ver Creek, and Mrs. Jean C.
Doyle, 34, of Eagle Creek, pleaded
innocent when arraigned in Dis
trict Court Friday on a charge of
lewd cohabitation.
Judge E. O. Stadtcr set April 5
as time for trial. Mrs. Doyle was
released on her own recognizance
and Countryman's bail was con
tinued at $250.
The complaint against the two
was signed by the woman's hus
Spring Music
To Highlight
North Concert
Music in the springtime mood
will highlight the concert of the
North balem High School band
Monday night. The admission-free
program will start at 8 o'clock in
the auditorium.
Under the baton of Russell Witt-
mcr, the 61-picce uniformed band
will play a variety of marches and
concert selections, ranging from
one of the world's favorite old
overtures to a bit of modern
boogie-woogie.
The Viking rally girls will appear
wun tnc pep band, performm
some of the 'dance steps which al
traded statewide publicity at the
recent basketball tournament in
Eugene.
Coached bv Mrs. Douglas Kieft
the dancers are Doris Hein, Dottyc
Jones, Mary Wood, Judy Seamstcr,
tsein Horn and Kathy Archer.
Singing in close harmonv will be
the North High HarmoneUcs, stu
dents of Howard Miller. The vocal
trio includes Helen Monke. Mar-
jorie Bolt and Darlcne Goodman,
accompanied ay uary f rame.
"Three Cardinals" features Garv
iNopp, nay Kreuger and Dick West,
ying a trumpet trio with the
Dand.
Den Mother Training
To Begin Here Tuesday
Handicraft display and practice
of den mother programming will
be among subjects covered in the
den mother training course which
is to begin here Tuesday.
The sessions will be on Tuesdavs
for five or six weeks from 9:30
until 11:30 a.m. in the Meier &
Frank auditorium under the di
rection of Mrs. Vera Shidlcr.
The classes arc sponsored bv
the Cherry City District of the
Cascade Area Boy Scout Council.
It is planned to make them a
yearly event.
Assisting Mrs. Shidler will be
Mrs. Robert Corev. Mrs. Sam
Samuels and Mrs. Otto Yunker.
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
(SpecinD A proposal tinder con
sideration at Oregon Stale College
to merge the dairy department
with two other departments would
strengthen dairy research and
leaching, not abandon or weak
en the program, V. E. Price, dean
of agriculture, said today.
The plan, still in the discussion
stage, would combine dairy pro
duction work wilh animal husband
ry, Price reported. The joint oper
ation would be designated as the
department of dairy and animal
husbandry, with no major changes
in functions or make-up of exist
ing research and teaching work
Dairy manufacturing work now
conducted in the dairy department
would no transferred to the food
technology department.
Economy And Efficiency
Price said the consolidation pro-
grum was being considered for
reasons of "economy and effi
ciency." It is not a new venture,
lie noted. Sixteen other land-grant
colleges, including Cornell, Cali
fornia and Iowa Stale, have their
dairy and animal husbandry work
combined.
Reports and rumors that the new
program would subordinate dairy
husbandry to animal husbandry
are false and misleading, the dean
insisted.
The proposal came in for special
attention at lliis lime, he said, be
cause the headships of both the
dairy husbandry and animal hus
bandry departments will be vacant
July 1: P. M. Brandt, head of
dairy, will retire this year and
John Landers, acting head of ani
mal husbandry since Fred F. Mc
Kcnzie left in September for a for
eign assignment, plans to take
leave next year for advanced
study.
Would Save $15,000
The two departments share the
same building, Wilhycomhc Hall,
built in 1032.
Price said the consolidation
would reduce administrative costs
by $15,000 annually. These funds
could be used to employ badly
needed research workers.
He pointed to the "great simi
larity of scientific training and
technical knowledge for the con
duct of the research and teaching
work in dairy husbandry and ani
mal husbandry. Basic animal nu
trition is the same in both. Animal
physiology, animal reproduction
and many of the animal disease
problems arc much the same.
North Salt in PTA
To Hear Brooks
Dr. Dean K. Brooks, superinten
dent of (lie Oregon Stale Hospital,
will speak on the subject, "The
Schools and Mental Health' at
the Parent -Teacher meeting of
North Salem High School Tuesday
at 8 p m.
Tins is the last meeting of the
year for the North Salem PTA.
Newly-elcclrd officers for 1957-."
will he installed hy Mrs. l.ula
Mnrschal, a junior vice-president
of the Oreson Council of Farents
and Teachers. Delegates to the
state convention in Pendleton on
April 9, 10 and It, wilt be elected
at the meeting.
In the "Know Vour School" se
ries. Mrs. Hope Edwards will pre
sent the program of the Home Eco
nomics Department.
I Let's
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Oh, the good clean smell of
Spring in the air! The tickling,
vigor and crispness of it! A
daphne fragrance drifts across
the garden, occasionally mingled
with the heady perfume of hya
cinths. They catch our eye in
doorway plantings of rose, white
and a blue like none other. ... In
(he studio our hands travel across
fabric samples and we find a
Spring-like ecstasy in seeing the
new chintzes, the floral cottons
of rose and blue on clean white
backgrounds,, and the new tex
tures whose colors arc clean and
fresh. . . . We think of the drab
room which we had visited late
lya dining room through an
arch from a living room little
used now since the addition of a
family room had toccn made at
the other side of the kitchen. . . .
What a transformation could be
wrought here! We could paint
the walls hyacinth blue to go
wilh the lighter blue of the ad
joining living room and the dark
er blue of Ike wall-to-wall car
pet. The woodwork should be
painted white. . . . The wide ex
panse nt plain wall which we see
from the living room could be
opened to reveal a ten-foot bay
window in which we could place
a curved sofa covered in our
beautiful, quilted floral cotton
which shows rose and blue flow
ers on a while ground. ... At the
window our silky, crisp, white
chintz made Into ruffled curtains
at the sides and held back very
nign, under a ruttlcd valance,
would be fresh and pretty. . . .
To flank the sofa let's use cherry
tables holding crystal lamps with
bright rose shades and in front
of it our oval Victorian coffee
table with the white marble top.
. . . We could break through the
kitchen wall at our left to use
the old chimney flue for a small
fireplace which we'll paint white.
At cither side Degas floral prints
in white frames could be hung
against the blue wall. . . . Let's
place the old spinet piano,
sprayed w hite wilh a glaze of gold
against Hie opposite wall from
the fireplace, using a light hya
cinth hluo on the bench scat. . . .
At either side of the arch and
drawn into comfortable angles
to the room let's place two wing
back chairs of the bright rose of
our lamp shades and behind them
i on the wall hang large wall
brackets of crystal with white
satin shades to bring a sparkle
across the room. , . . Now, Spring
has invaded the drab, little room
so that we might enjoy its fresh
ness through long months to
come.
'Bye till later,
KM
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Siltm, Oregon
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