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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1941. PAGE THREE Society by Betty Shoemaker Local Resident To Leave Soon For Panama Mrs. W. S. Phares and year old daughter, Judith, are plan ning to leave sometime next week for Balboa, Panama, where they will make their home for the next few years. Mr. Phares. employed in the department of engineers in the war department of the Panama Canal zone has been in Balboa for the past four months. Mrs. Phares and small daugh ter will fly by United Mainliner to Los Angeles and will take a steamer from San Pedro to their new home. It is expected that the trip will take about 14 days from San Pedro. Mrs. Phares is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McAllister, 33 Tripp street. Juit Friends Circle To Meet for Luncheon Just Friends circle will meet with Grace Walker at Eagle Point Thursday for covered dish luncheon. Members are asked to meet at the home of Helen Wet terer, 621 South Holly street, to arrange transportation. Extension Unit Meeting Announced Roxy Ann extension unit will meet with Mrs. C. E. Rose, Spring street, Friday at 10:30 a. m., for covered dish lunch eon. Topic for the meeting will be "health emergencies in the home, No. 2." Mrs. Kathleen Yoakum and Mrs. Madge Nowlin will be leaders. In One Regard We're Still MOSS COVERED SO often the old swimming hole, she ain't what she used to be. So often the old oaken bucket has become a streamlined faucet. Yet here's the case of i man who has just rev isited his youth to find the essential satisfactorily the same. This Standard Oiler started on a tank-wagon and retired as a district sales manager. Re cently he found himself back on a tank-truck. For he was visiting a son who is now on the very job at which his a ther started years ago. VCtU, sir, this father had to visit San Francisco headquar ters to tell associates how happy this experience had made him. Any right-thinking parent would give his eye-teeth to see his children get a proper start in life. For him, that satisfac tion was in the bag. We take it as a testimonial of character that a father who knows by experienct approves so deeply of his son's career with Standard that he holds fair treatment and opportunity certain for his boy. If such square-shooting toward our people within and the public without means being old-fashioned then we propose to remain as moss covered as the old oaken bucket. THURSDAY, 8-9 P.M. 733th WSEKIY STANDARD SYMPHONY rsrds Grofs, Conducting Mutual-Don lee Network Virch for Americans Grara Orpbtus in Hades OnVsoacn The Nutcracker Tchtikuvikj 4 Selections) Grand Canyon (Selections) Grata Lea Pretu6.cs LttMl Standard Oil Company of California Keeps 'emqcfj and Clubs Society Holds Annual Homecoming At Christian Church ' Adult Missionary society of the First Christian church ob served annual "homecoming" with a 12:30 p. m. luncheon in the recreational hall this week. The tables and rooms were de corated with fall flowers car rying out the Thanksgiving mo tif Mrs. Julia Gregory acted as toastmistress introducing her of ficers and group leaders who in turn introduced their members and guest;. Mrs. Delia Childs led the wor ship period which was closed with a solo by Mrs. Archie Pierce, "Prayer Perfect". Mrs. Mabel Sims was program chair man and presented a five point discussion on "Democracy in the Home" by Mrs. Eloise Winkle bleck. "Democracy in Fellow ship and Politics" was discussed by Mrs. Sims; "Democracy in Education by Rev. R. w. Cole man and "Democracy in Reli gion" by Mrs. E. Ireland. The program carried out a phase of the society's six months' study of "Christianity and Democracy in America" Mrs. Edna Kindred and group were hostesses for the day. ! Ninety members and guests at tended. Nurses To Hear Two Speakers District No. 4, Oregon State Nurses' association will hear two speakers when they meet at the Girls' Community clubhouse, 229 North Bartlett street Friday at 9 p. m following the first aid class. Miss Ellen Bill will talk on "Rheumatic Fever" and a dis cussion of "Nutrition" will be given by a state nutritional ad visor. Hostesses for the evening are Miss Mary Blood, Mrs. Verna Johnson and Mrs. Helen Starnes. Daughters Of Job To Meet Tonight Daughters of Job will meet in regular session tonight at 7:30 o'clock at Masonic temple. Hon ored Queen Carol Tengwald will preside. 1 calendars FARMERS IN Wednesday 7:30 p". m, Chrysanthemum Circle. No. 84, N. O. W., K. of P. hall. 7:30 p. m. St. Mark's public card party, parish house. North Oakdale avenue. 8:00 p. m. Adarel chapter No. 3, O.E.S., Red Cross unit, home Mrs. Lela Shores. 8:00 p. m. American Legion auxiliary, armory. 8:00 p. m. Junior Guild. St. Mark's Episcopal church, home Mrs. Peggy Baker, 618 South Holly. Thursday 9:30 a. m. Thursday Morn ing Study club, Girls' Commu nity clubhouse, 229 North Bart lett street. 1:00 p. m. Medford Sojourn ers, Hotel Medford. 1:15 p. m. Just Folks of the First Methodist church, home Mrs. H. F. Nordwick, 919 Reddy avenue. 1:30 p. m. Chrysanthemum thimble club, N. O. W., home Mrs. Verna Goldfrap, Jackson boulevard. 2:00 p. m. Alpha Delta Class. First Christian church, church parlor. 2:00 p. m. Ladies Bible class of First Methodist church, home Mrs. W. E. Nicholson, 1417 West Main street. 2:00 p. m. Loyalty Circle. First Methodist church,- home Mrs. Lawrence Crocker, Jack sonville highwav. 2:15 p. m W. C. T. U., Sal vation Army chapel. 7:45 p. m. Mother's Study club, home Mrs. Mary Albert. 423 Beatty street. 8:00 p. m. Past Noble Grand club. Girls' Community club house. 229 North Bartlett street. 8:00 p. m. Eagles Auxiliary, Eagles lodge. 8:00 p. m. Degree of Honor Protective Association, K. of P. hall. fEIVALBERS OATS TASTE BETTER-ARE BETTER FOR US Th flntSt OOtl moaer eta bar. You'll find the new, imrmrti garec of Albert Rolled Osa just the thing to perk-up dull breaJuut arpeutea. Naturally rich In Vitamin I, Che pep-up fHramin. Child specialists rexranrnend Rolled Oats al an excel lent bod-buildio, energr jiTinf, food foe graving children. Tnoonr Told to Carry On nasaajt 1 ..w.;'i The navy Instructed Rear Ad miral C. A. Blakely (above) to "take necessary steps" to carry work forward at San Diego, Calif., where Blakely, comman- dant of the 11th Naval district characterized an AFL strike on the $35,000,000 naval construc tion program In the area as "Open Reo't." Dinner Held At Coffee Shop Mark Ellsworth, Jack Jewitt and Carl Holt entertained Mon day evening with a dinner at the Hotel Holland Coffee shop hon oring Mr. and Mrs. Ben Berry and Mr. and Mrs. Hartman de Waard. The table was centered with roses. An evening of visit ing followed the dinner. Visitor Here From Montana Among Medford visitors Is Mrs. R. E. Wells of Helena. Mont., who is a guest of her daughter. Miss Mary Wells, 335 South Ivy street. Miss Wells met her mother in Portland and both returned south by train. She plans to visit a month. E So far, 1388 formers have signed in the Department of Agriculture drive to increase production. It is planned to have the farmers in this section produce more vegetables, hogs, hens, beef cattle, milk and cscs, to meet defense needs, under the slogan "Food will win the war." County Agent R. G. Fowler estimates the final figures will show around 2,200 farmers sign ed up. The census is expected to be completed by the end of the month. Closing time rur Classified Ads 9 m. Too Late to Classify 13:30 p 1 I 1 1 1 In office, factories, shipyards and workshop, the pautt that refreshes with Ice-cold Coca-Cola 1 a pleasant moment on the sunny side of things. This welcome drink Is the easy way to turn to refreshment without turning from work, when you work refreshed, you do more work and better work. omia vmoii aufHotiTY or tmi coca-coia company if COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., of Medford, 601 No. GraPo St. Phono 3339 Mrs. Hedrick's Book Rates High With Noted Reviewer "The Blood Remembers," first book written by Mrs. Helen Hedrick of Medford, recently received the following flatter ing review by Joseph Henry Jackson, the San Francisco Chronicle's "Bookman": "The wise people. The In dians call us that, laughing at us, back of those faces. The white man! The get-out-of-my- ! way-you-dirty -Indian white man! I'm catching all the damn sal mon in your river. I'm digging up your river and blasting out your graves, and I'm going to get hog-rich. Why, you fool In dian, you used to pack this gold around and think it was noth ing but pretty rocks, but I know different, see? . . . You, Indian! Get mad. But what can you do? Get out of my way! I'm white. . . . And then, when the salmon arc all gone, when the gold has run out, when the mountains are snag-bare what then?" So one of the characters in Helen Hedrick's "The Blood Re members," (Knopf; $2.50), ex presses himself. That expression romos as close as anything the reader could select from the novel to expressing what the author herself wants to say about the Indian, the white man, the salmon, the fine trees, the river. What then after the exploiting is all done? What will happen to the Indian? And what, after all, will happen to the white man who goes at his exploitation so senselessly? Miss Hedrick doesn't answer the question she raises. But she does write a poignant, often strangely violent, always tense story about a handful of peo ple up on the Klamath river on the border of Oregon and California. It is a first novel, but a surprisingly well-knit one. You Must Choose Your World Central character of the story is Elden Braddock, a half-wild girl of the half-savage Klamath region, who falls instantly in love with a fisherman, Richard Burch, and goes with him to share his life. They're married; the girl's father sees to that. for what it Is worth. But it is not marriage that Elden and her husband share, exactly. It': more a matter of her barely con trolled passion for him and M-D Sanitary ' mm i everything he does or Is, and his stubborn desire to go on being what he is, in spite of her This situation sets up Frus tration Number One in Elden. Little though she might have thought it, once married and with a child she wants Rich ard to settle down, give up the risky fisherman's life and have a farm. Richard wants no sucn thing, and makes it clear that he doesn't. Meantime, the girl Elden be gins to absorb Indian lore, to see more and more the Indian point of view. She also encount ers the half-breed. Jubal Math ews, in whom the Indian blood has the upper hand. Somehow the same things she thought she loved best in Richard are the things she loves best about Jubal, though she will not ad mit it, even to herself. Jubal is the Natural Man she thought at first her Richard was. And as time goes on she sees that her desire to settle down with Rich ard, if he would only give up fishing, was no more than a kind of escape from what her spirit was really driving her toward. In the end, she finds that it is Jubal and what he stands for that has the only real mean ing for her. Jubal, as symbol of the force, whatever it was, that give life meaning for her, was what she needed and must have. Perhaps it is a kind of "memory," as the author sug gests; perhaps, if that is so, it is the Indian racial memory. I don't think, however; that Miss Hedrick limits it as closely as that. What she's driving at, I believe, Is something greater than a persistence of specific racial "memory;" it's a matter of a human, natural Instinctive pull toward whatever one chooses to call the force that rules nature and man the choosing of a way which. In Elden's case, exercises a deep, Napkins None better at 2 You strong attraction too powerful to be resisted. All this, to be sure, has a mystical sound when it is sum marized in such fashion, and for that matter there is more than a little of the mystical In Miss Hedrick's approach to her theme. As has been suggested. It Is surprising to find so tight a grasp of the novel in a first book, but you'll find it here. Miss Hedrick has a sense of plot, of situation, of character. More over, she knows what she wants to say and how to say It with out letting her idea run away with the book. You can read "The Blood Remembers," If you like, without paying the slight est attention to the author's in ner meanings, and I mean this in a complimentary sense. But if you happen to be the kind of reader who is sensitive to im plications behind plot, then you have Just that much more wait ing for you in this novel. ALL NEXT WEEK All schools in Jackson county will be closed next week for the Thanksgiving Day vacation, the county school superintendent's office reported today, the annual county teacher's Institute will be held in Ashland, from Monday to Wednesday noon. The annual census of school students in the county is pro gressing favorably, though some of the districts, as yet have not comploted the count. The census is taken by the clerks and other officials of each district. BIRTHDAYS Roanoke, Va. (IP) Some of Roanoke's school teachers seem to have mathematical problems outside the classroom. In filling routine forms, one has given five different birth dates and has become two years younger each time. Another filed her birth date, later filed another that made her a year younger, then gave still a third date be fore filing a "corrected" birth date that made her younger than any of the others. earn packages for 35c trust fts quality T CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Martha Ross Flitcroft, a resident of Medford for the past 20 years, passed away at her home, 199 Mc Andrews road, early this morning. She had been in failing health for many months. She was born in Joplin, Mo., August 17, 1867. Beside her hus band. Craig H. Flitcroft, she leaves five children: Mrs. Z. Wiseman, Klamath Falls; Mrs. A. Cox, Welser, Idaho; Mrs. S. O. Stearns, Medford; Mrs. E. F. Higginson, Medford; E. H. Ross. Applegate, Oregon. There are also five brothers and five sis ters surviving: Mrs. Nancy Han non, Silverton, Oregon; Wnv Babb, Nampa, Calif.; C. W. Babb, Grants Pass; Mrs. Alice Burrows, Pasadena, Calif.; J. M. Babb, Talent; Mrs. W. A. Chil ders, Jacksonville; Mrs. Alma Garvin, Silverton; Mrs. Charles Vogal, Medford; Mrs. S. L. Babb, Jacksonville; D. T. Babb, Weiser, Idaho. There are also 15 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Services will be in the Conger Funeral Parlors Saturday morn ing at 10 with Rev. Irvin Du Pray officiating. Interment will be in the family plot in Jackson ville. Cm Mall Ttidudo want ads. SAVE TIME IN lirfBTlsJY IMPDC y S Malnliners to Portland, 4 to San Francisco, con necting at both cities with daylight and sleeper flights to Chicago, New York and the East. UNITED Municipal or (rave A BRAND NEW SERIAL! pp w7 AX HOI- '9IM fduT BEGINS TUESDAY NOV. 18 In the MAIL TRIBUNE TEACHERS' PAY TJPPED Stayton. Ore., Nov. 12. (in The Stayton school board has granted a $5 monthly pay in crease to teachers to meet risinj costs of living. CUSTOMER ALWAYS COOL Myrtle, Miss. 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