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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Society and clubs To Dance The Promenadcrs, square dance sroup. will hold their weekly Sunday night dancing party tonight at the home ot Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Philips, Big Boulder orchard. During the winter months the group dances In the recreation room 01 ine home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Barnes, East Main street, and when weather permits, the dances are held outdoors at the Philips' country nome. TREES Tooned Pruned Removed Chamberlin Tree Service & Cement Work llcenied and Insured Sarvlca PHONE 3-1145 YOU LL NEVER WAX OR SCRUB FLOORS AGAIN Suit Win Oh uitk eUU Ask Fon Thi Black a white Cah AT nCTTCn tTORII NEAW YOU Rcms HARDWARE CO. "Specialists In Horn. Warei" 3 Weir Sinrh Phone 2-S201 Store Your Furs NOW! utlEEKj That's a reminder! Fur storage rim Is her again. Call ui today we'll call for your furt . . . star them in our scientifically cooled and protected vaults . . . then deliver them to you again when you need them next Fall. 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One of the dancing par ties was at the tlks temple. Mr. Jacoby is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. Rease Braley, hav ing been a friend of Mrs. Bra ley's family for many years. The famous card authority was brought to Medford by the League of Women Voters and Rogue Valley Country club, and the Braleys had as dinner guests Saturday night Mrs. S. . Hiil- lips, president of the league, Dr. Phillips and Harry Holmes, as well as Mr. Jacoby. Directors of the Shakespear ean festival, meeting this week end had a chance to read a letter from the distinguished Shakespearean actor, Sir Laur ence Olivier. The letter was a reply to an invitation telling the actor of the observance planned for the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, but arrived too late to be read at the cere monies. Sir Laurence wrote "May I wish you many happy returns of Shakespeare's birthday and God speed to your enterprise." The letter came from his cottage at Chelsea in England. Gene Malecki. balcm. pub licity agent tor this year's fes tival, is spending the week-end n the valley to meet with the directors and make festival plans. Angus Bowmer, festival di rector, spoke for a dinner meet- ng of AAUW Friday night and telling about the historical plays, one of which the festival will stage this summer, said they were a record of "human rebellion." In addition to "Henry IV," part one, which is to be done this summer, "As You Like It," "Antony and Cle opatra" and "Comedy of Errors" are scheduled. The director said the costume designer had been struggling mightily over the problem of Cleopatra's dresses but finally had some designs which every one seemed to think were "Just right." Director Bowmer at tempted to give some impres sion of their dash with a few provocative gestures and a lifted eye-brow and ended up by say ing "The costumes are going to be worth the price of admis sion." He threw In the remark that Falstaff, one of the characters in Henry IV, is the greatest comedy character of all time. Sunday. May 28, 1950 tne seasnore or a lavume camping Once during his remarks Mr. Bowmer, an SOC professor, let a grammatical error slip out. He grimaced and remarked "it hap pens even to tnglisn prof.es sors." Life is taking on an added flavor for the women who are working with the new Red Cross community service corps. Far from finding their new work boring or trying, they all declare that almost every visit or task brings a little adven ture. Mrs. Dale Newton started making visits to the home of a blind invalid and ended up by touring the countryside trying to buy a milk goat. She didn't succeed in buying a goat, but did find a goat owner who is supplying milk to the invalid. At a meeting of the corps Thursday she also told about the talking records which are supplied to the visually handi capped by the Oregon Commis sion for the Blind, and how eag erly the blind wait for each set of records to arrive. The talking records are secured from the Library of Congress, which now has 1100 titles re corded. Mrs. Chester Guches visits an invalid boy and when re cently in Portland, began tell ing a clerk at the counter of a Portland store where fishing tackle is sold about the boy and how he was learning to tic flies. The clerk s eyes filled with tears and she sadly told how her only son had died of rheu matic fever. "1 want to give the boy something," she said, and added that she would send him so.ne hackles. Not having any idea of what hackles might be, Mrs. Guches wondered if she would have trouble transporting them home. She was surprised to find the box "full of nothing but feath ers. While shopping Mrs. Gu ches forgot the package in a dress store and had to return for it. "The clerk gave me an odd look," Mrs. Guches reports. I'll bet she opened the box and I'll also bet she doesn't know what a hackle is either." Mrs. Lila B. Thomas makes visits to a couple in Ashland. Both are blind, and when Mrs. Thomas asked if she could read to them they both asked at once if she would mind read ing the Bible. "I most certainly would not mind," Mrs. Thomas quickly assured them. It seems Mrs. Thomas read the Bible aloud to her mother for years, and it has been a pleasure to her as well as the elderly cou ple to re-read the passages which were favorites of her mother. Other corps members spoke enthusiastically of their work with the visually handicapped. a,nd of the courage of these pe.o- pie. une told ot a woman who, faced with the fact that she was going blind, did her housework in the middle of the night, with out light, and then checked the results in the day-time. She even knitted in the dead of night, and then looked at her work by daylight to see how she was progressing. "You can't know the despair of those i who are going bund, she told her visitor. I Those who have visited the homes of the blind marvel at I the fact that these handicapped persons Keep uieir Homes as neat as a pin." One told of the blind man who is growing a vegetable garden. "But who weeded it for you?" asked the Red Cross volunteer. "I weed it," was his reply. "I can dis tinguish the weeds by the way they feel." Mrs. Edward Burgess and others told of the small gifts which bring happiness to the in valid children they visit such trinkets as a string of beads, a bowl of gold fish or a tiny tur tle. The turtle has become such a pet of one of the small pa tients that he keeps It In bed with him when opportunity af fords. One worker seemed to ex- MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. . 10:30 P.M. For Complete Prescription Service 6253 If No Answer Gill 2-8582 Prompt Fre Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bldgood Hudson Medford's Own Modern Pharmacy DAY Night 2- Y s -! kA. Miss Elisabeth Collins (left) selected by Medford American Legion auxiliary to represent Med ford at Oregon Girls' State to be held at Willamette university in Salem June 12 to Jane 18. Miss Collins is a dauahter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Collins, 2242 East Main are Mr. ana Mrs. rranic Boone, Visitors Guests at the Byron Griffith home. 920 Broad street, last week where Mr. and Mrs. Eric Wahlstrom of Iron Mountain. Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Forell and son, David, Sheboy gan, Wis., and Mrs. Hilden J. Pryde Jr., ana daugnter, liaren Lee. Aberdeen, Wash. The Wahlstroms are Mrs. Griffith's parents and Mrs. For ell and Mrs. Pryde are her sis ters. The visitors were traveling by motor car. press the thoughts of all when she said "It's ended up by the people I visit inspiring me, in stead of my doing anything for them. I d happier than I have been in many years." O.S. OREGON'S a & Ah and Miss Fidelia Boons have been street) and Miss Boone's parents 15ZB East Main street. (Shangle photos). Honor Prospect Woman At Anniversary Party Prospect Mrs. Halvar Haukli entertained in honor of Mrs. Fred Simmington in observance of her birthday. May 18. Guests attending were Miss Cathy Simmington, Mrs. Helga Hakkerup, Mrs. R. L. Artmire and daughter, Frances; Mrs. Hat tie Salter, Mrs. Eula Middle busher, Mrs. Nellie Barry, Mrs. Gudrun Vognild, Mrs. Marjorie Biden and daughter. Beth; Mrs. Hazel Summers, Miss Kathryn South. Mrs. Lee Oswald and the hostess, Mrs. Huukli. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day: 10 a m Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m TOURIST TRAVEL IS A $110,000,000 INDUSTRY DON'T It's Here! 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The next regular meeting of the club will be June 8, and each Sojourner is reminded to invite some newcomer to Medford to attend. Springfield Couple Here For Week-End Mr. and Mrs. A. Bruce Me-! Donald of Springfield, Ore., are in Medford to spend the Me morial day vacation with Mrs. McDonald's mother, Mrs. Fred Rankin, and Mr. McDonald's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. McDonald. Mrs. McDonald was also in I the city last week, having re turned to Medford with her mother and grandmother, Mrs. L. M. Beaty, after the two had been visiting in the north. Mrs. Rankin, Red Cross executive, at tended a social worker's confer ence in Portland, and also a Red Cross session, while Mrs. Beaty was in Springfield with her granddaughter. Medford Woman Leaves Mrs. O. W. Ebright left this morning for Northfield, Minn., where she will attend gradua tion exercises at St. Olaf's col lege, June S. 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