4 Miss Marion Smith
Is Crowned Queen
Central Point Bethel
Ontral Point Miss Marion
Smith was crowned queen of the
Central Point bethel, Order of
Job's Daughters, in a ceremony
held June 12 in the Central Point
Masonic hall. The bethel was as
sisted by Medford chapter. Order
of DeMolay and Miss Smith re
ceived her crown from her broth
er, Douglas Smith, councilor of
the DeMolay chapter.
Installed were: Marion Smith,
honored queen; Carlene Von
Buskirk, senior princess: Donna
Lavin, junior princess: Linda Ob-
enchain, guide; Belva Chew,
marshall; Helen Tonn, chaplain
Virginia Dew, senior custodian
Sharon Whitlock, junior custo
dian; Judy Servold, recorder; Jo
anne Ritter, librarian; Anita Con
ger, treasurer; Vicki Noel, mu
sician; Earlene South, inner
guard; Maria Jean Abbott, outer
guard. Darlene Bonner, Joanne
Henderson, Nadra Moore, Melva
Chew and Mildred Gail were in
stalled messengers. Barbara Pree
was appointed historian, and
Geraldine Gidney, lady of the
lights.
New choir members are Rosa
Drake, Grace Gail, Jeanne Stelle,
Maxine Day, Gwen Moore, Mel
ba Allen, Beverly Hogue, Mu
i riel Swing, Ruth Fisher, Jack
' lyn Cummings, Irene Cummings
Colleen Snook, Alice Martin
Francis Hogue, Rita Rose, Sarah
Turner, Sherrill Von Buskirk,
Sue Van . Galder, Sally Elden,
Karen Johnson and Joanne Hen
derson, soloist.
Jean Malott was appointed
hospitality chairman; Joan
Morse, sociability chairman; Hel
en Hood, Dixie Lee Walker and
Gayle Godden, welcoming com
mittee; Susan Gustison, Sharon
Copsey, Delora Dunn, examin
ing committee, and Sally Mon
gold and Gail Childress, custo
dians of paraphernalia.
Installing officers were the re
tiring queen, Nancy M a 1 1 o if;
guide, Esther Snook; marshal,
Jan Freeman; chaplain, Patsy Fa-
ber; musician, Laural Jewett;
Junior custodian, Shirley Lyman;
senior custodian, Muriel Swing
and recorder, Marilyn Jantzer.
Introduced from the large au
dience were Mrs. C. D. Elhart,
Ashland, past grand guardian for
Oregon and Andrew Stevens,
Ashland, past associate grand
guardian, as well as guardians,
associate guardians and officers
of valley bethels.
Medford DeMolay members
present were Master Councilor
Douglas Smith, Darrell Vinson,
Paul Schaeffer Jr.. Jack Ward
and Paul Schaeffer. Hal Vroo-
i ' man, DeMolay, presented the
new queen with a gavel which
he had made.
Miss Esther Snook presented
the retiring queen, Miss Mallon
with a past queen's pin from the
bethel. The hall and dining room
were decorated in the nosegay
theme, and an addenda which
followed the ceremonies was al
to in this theme.
Oberammergau Citizens
To Hold Oratorio Week
G e r m a n y's Oberammergau
Passion Play community
plans to hold an Oratorio
Week this summer, to be
highlighted by the c o m p 1 e t e
original composition of the St
Matthew Passion by Johann Se
bastian Bach to be given in the
Passion Theatre under the direc
tion of Eugen Fapst, a native of
Oberammergau. Other perform
ances, including religious works
and chamber music, will be play
ed in the Little Theatre. Ora
torio Week is scheduled to fit in
with the Salzburg Festivals to
give visitors an opportunity to
attend both events.
.
Miss Marlon Smith
(Shangle studio)
Average Age of Brides
Getting Younger in U.S.
Girls getting married this month are likely to be as youthful
a group of June brides as any in American history, the Institute of
Life Insurance reports this month. Many of these brides will be
marrying young men in the armed services, and setting up house
keeping for the first time in cities and towns near their husbands'
Army camps or Navy installations.
Figures published this
spring
by the U. S. Census Bureau show
that girls in this country have
been marrying at younger and
younger ages since 1890. Twen
ty-two years old was an average
or "median" age for marriage in
that year; today, half of all wo
men who have ever been mar
ried were first married before
their twenty-first birthdays. Fig
ures before 1890 are not avail
able, but genealogists believe
that even in Colonial days the
average ' age-at-first-mamage
was higher than it is today.
The Census Bureau says there
are now more than 900,000 wo
men in America whose husbands
are in service and about three-
quarters of these wives are un
der 30 years of age. Over 500.000
of them are living .with their
husbands and the rest are at
home, with their parents or in
homes of their own. Two-thirds
of all these wives have children;
over half of them have children
of pre-school age.
Although almost everyone has
become conscious in the past few
years' that girls are marrying at
younger ages than they used to,
not everyone realizes what a
significant change this has meant
for family life in this country,
according to the institute.
One effect of younger mar
riage ages in the past few years
has been the nation's higher
birth rate. Although larger fami
lies of seven or eight or nine
children are no longer common
in the United States there are
many more small families of two
or three children. Most babies
in the United States have young
mothers who are in their middle
twenties.
Partly because of the Korean
war, there are now more than
seven million households in Am
erica where women have the full
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responsibility for day-to-day de
cisions. There were fewer than
six million in 1947 and fewer
than four million in 1930. About
half of these families consist of
women who are living alone or
with non-relatives; 400,000 are
families where the husband Is
overseas or in a distant camp. In
February of 1944, there were
2,800,000 families whose hus
bands were in the Armed Ser
vices and away from home.
Activities Planned
By Women's Club;
Committees Named
Plans for summer activities
were made at a meeting of Scot
tish Rite Woman's club held
Monday evening at the Masonic
temple, with the president, Mrs.
Ira D. Canfield, presiding.
A 6:30 o'clock potluck dinner
was planned by the club for the
June 23 meeting, with a social
evening to follow. All Scottish
Rite Masons and their wives are
invited to the affair. Those
whose names begin with A to J
inclusive are asked to take
meat dishes; K to S vegetables
and salads; T to Z cakes.
Mrs. Canfield appointed Mrs.
Tony P. Franco, Ashland, Mrs.
Herbert L. Alford, Mrs. Howard
C. Goldsmith and Mrs. Ralph
Lue on a calling committee, and
Mrs. Fred H. Graten, Mrs. Jack
Weddle, Mrs. Edward C. Root,
and Mrs. Clay M. Lee on a tele
phone committee.
A financial report was given
by Mrs. Ralph Krows, treasurer.
The president announced that
the Scottish Rite picnic would
be July 20 at the Edwin H. Tay
lor Ranch. Mrs. Perry Gregg and
Mrs. Ralph Lue were named to
buy prizes for the picnic.
The official hostess, Mrs.
Franco, introduced and welcom
ed Mrs. Sam J. Fulco, Grants
Pass, as a new member.
Garden heliotrope, columbine,
and catalpa decorated the re
freshment tables ,and the Scot
tish Rite men joined the wom
en for the coffee hour.
Hostesses for the evening were
Mrs. Alford, Mrs. Lee L. Stone,
and Mrs. Kneut C. Wernmark.
Plan Open Air Stage
For Historical Plays
Rothenberg - on - Tauber, Ger
many, popular among countless
tourists from all parts of the
world and famous for its magni
ficent presentations of the his
torical play, "The Master
Draught," soon will have an
open-air stage. The town's quaint
medieval wall and towers will
serve as a perfect backdrop for
the stage, while its picturesque
streets, ancient market square,
and the great hall in the City
Hall, centuries old, provide
natural settings for this play as
well as "Shepherds' Dance" and
a number of Hans Sachs plays
which are performed several
times every summer.
A new washable, one-coat wall
paint has a patented dirt-repellent
Ingredient.
Ruth Kilbourn,
Frank Buchter
In Cast of Play
Included in the list of sup
porting players in "Suspect," the
Footlighters' June production,
are the president and vice-president
of the organization, Frank
Buchter and Miss Ruth Kilbourn.
Mr. Buchter is cast as Sir
Hugo Const, elderly newspaper,
magnate whose remembrance of j
a 30-year-old unsolved murder
embroils the Smith household in
a very tense situation. Mr. Buch
ter, recently employed by radio
station KYJC, will be remem
bered by valley theatergoers for
his many roles in Footlighter
productions in the past several
years. He was last seen as Dr.
Pitt, the liberal college profes
sor, in "Goodbye, My Fancy."
He also took prominent roles In i
the Christmas and Easter radio ,
dramas sponsored by the little 1
theater group.
It is Sir Hugo's recognition of ;
Mrs. Smith's Scotch servant, j
Goudie Maclntyre, which brings j
to light the tragic story of Mrs.
Smith's past. The part of Goudie
is played by Miss Kilbourn, who j
was cast as the harried alumnae ,
secretary in "Goodbye, My i
Fancy." Miss Kilbourn, a wel
fare worker, appeared in several
plays at the University of Ore
gon before joining the Foot
lighters last year.
Set construction for "Suspect,"
which will open June 24 for a
five-night run at the little the
ater on the fairgrounds, is be
ing supervised by Bernard Rob
erts. He is assisted by Robert
Roberts and Joan Lashua, a new
comer to the group.
Jerome McDougall Is director.
Acquatie Weed Killers
Demonstrated at Talent
Talent A field day demon
stration of aquatic weed killers
was held in the office of the Tal
ent Irrigation district office here
with a discussion in the morning 1
of June 11 and field trip in the
afternoon, according to W. B. i
Tucker, county agent in agricul-
ture. i
William Mercer of a chemical j
company gave the demonstration i
of the chemical "dead-X" which j
is applied to kill the submerged j
weeds in irrigation ditches,'
Tucker said.
Attending the demonstration
were over 20 representatives
from Siskiyou county in Califor
nia, and Jackson, Josephine,
Lake and Klamath counties In
Oregon.
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