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Reception Held Saturday For Lodge Grand Officers 4 One of the large social events of last week-end was the re ception given by Medford Odd Fellow lodge and Olive Rebekah lodge June 7 in honor of Lynn Cram, newly elected grand master of the IOOF in Oregon, A. J. Hanby, newly elected grand chaplain ond Mrc. Lewis Thompson, new grand inside guardian for the Oregon Rebekah assembly. Mr. Cram's wife, Rebekah member, was also honored The reception, held in the auditorium of Medford Junior High school, was attended by more than 300 Odd Fellows, Re bekahs and members of other branches of the order from all Mparts of Oregon. Grand Master Cram and Grand Chaplain Hanby are members of the Med- fprd IOOF lodge and Mrs. Thompson is a member of Olive Rebekah lodge. '; Frank Heller, noble grand of the Medford IOOF lodge, gave the address of welcome after the honored guests and visiting grand officers had been escorted to the stage by members of the . Patriarchs Militant of Medford and Grants Pass. They also pre sented the nation's flag and the 'program opened with the na tional anthem, flag salute ana in vocation bv Mr. Hanby. Mr. Heller Introduced Walter Craig, vice-grand; E. D. Perkins, treasurer; John P. Daniel, secre tary. Medford IOOF officers, who had cooperated on planning the reception, and also introduc ed were Mrs. A. H. Gregory, chairman, Mrs. Heller, Mrs. O. S. Walden and Mrs. Alfred Schroeder. the Rebekah com- .' mittee. Mrs. Schroeder, Rebekah noble grand, introduced her officers. Mayor Diamond Flynn also welcomed the visitors and Past Grand Master A. J. Lenon, Port land, was master of ceremonies Roy Gibbs, Taft, Ore., past , grand master, was speaker of the evening. Mr. Gibbs reviewed the '100 years of Oddfellowship In Oregon. , Mr. Heller presented Grand Master Cram with a check and -. gift, and Mr. Hanby with gift from the Medford lodge. Mrs, Thompson was -presented cor- sage from Olive Rebekahs. Grand and past grand officers . present were Earl Shank, Port land, grand secretary; noy w. Gibbs, Ocean Lake, grand treas urer: Harry Looney, grand war den. Lake Grove: George E. Lyons, past grand master, Port land; Howard Collins, Lebanon, Brand conductor; Arthur Kel- lert, O'Brien, marshal; Hugh Lewis. Yamhill, grand patriarch of the Patriarchs Militant; Abel Olson, Astoria; Major Gen. Jesse Jones. Portland, who substituted for Department Commander Roy , V. Terney, Pendleton, of the patriarchs; George V. Naderman, Salem, grand senior waraen Herbert M. Munsell, Klamath Falls, grand junior warden, and Herbert Walker, Eugene, past grand patriarch. Grand Master Cram introduc ed his father, Henry S. Cram, Ashland: his brother, James A. Cram, Portland, member of the IOOF home board and another brother,. Hazen, Medford, and Mrs. Hazen Cram. It was thought to be probably the only time that an IOOF grand master had so many family members pres ent for such a function. Others Introduced included Mrs. Olive Ramey, Hillsboro, president of Oregon Rebekah as sembly; Mrs. Lola F. Osborne, Portland, assembly vice-presi dent; Mrs. Walter Drury, Coburg, warden; Mrs. Mary Moss, Med ford, and Mrs. Ethel Bailey, Roseburg, past state presidents; Mrs. Cleona Applegate, Medford, i If J Ivwy" Celamklo Diamond c.m.ii'wttti P".Jt Citlflcat. .1 Ouarant. and It.glltrati.n j jAj ' 4.ywr auwran t Gworonlttd, ftrftctlon y' VIRGINIA i . r w. i j f ' WlMirif Un state president and Mrs. Donald Ivie, state treasurer of FL club. Mrs. Drury was a guest of her sister, Mrs. June Williams, while here. Representing the Association of Ladies' auxiliary to the Patri archs Militant were Mrs. Char lotte Eastman, Redmond, state president; Mrs. George V. Nader- man, state publicity chairman and Mrs. Vern Knight, Central Point, aide to the flag bearer. Mr tfher T. Weed Medford. a past state president, waf intro duced. Guests also included E. M, Abel, major, and A. W. Klatt, lieutenant, of the Grants Pass Patriarchs Militant, who were ac companied by a large delegation from Grants Pass; and delega tions from many southern Ore gon lodges. Representatives of other fraternal orders in Med ford also attended. Miss Virginia Cyrus, Rose burg, president of Theta Rho girls, sang. Dance numbers were given by pupils of Colleen Mope with Mrs. R. A. Botts at the pi ano, and Mrs. Norman Gail, Gold Hill, sang and gave whistling numbers, accompanied by Mrs. Thompson, Gold Hill. Mrs. W. H. Dyer of Olive Re bekah lodge decorated the stage in the IOOF and Rebekah colors. Refreshments were served from three tables and a fourth was reserved for guest books for the three honored persons. Mrs. Frank Heller took charge of the books. Family Returns From Kwajalein; To Vacation Here Mr. and Mrs. Harry V. Wor thylake and daughter, Mary Jo Barrows, formerly of Ashland, passed through Ashland am Medford yesterday en route north on their return from Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. Mr. Worthylake was called back into the navy last year as chief petty officer, and sent to Kwajalein. Mrs. Worthylake, former Ash land teacher, has been employed as principal and upper grade teacher in the Navy school. Mrs. Barrows spent several months on Kwajalein and was chosen "Miss Kwajalein" in the Christ mas festivities. The last semester she was enrolled in the Punahou school in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Worthylakes flew by mili tary transport plane to Honolulu where they vacationed for a week, and Tuesday flew over night to the mainland, landing at Travis field. Chief Worthy lake will spend his 30-day leave visiting friends and relatives in Oregon, and fishing. Then he re ports to the amphibious forces base at Coronado for assignment to Japan. As soon as housing is available his family will join him there. In the meantime they plan to live In Ashland where Miss Bar rows, will be a senior In high school. The travelers report that southern Oregon "looked beauti ful" after living on a flat island in the middle of the ocean. Kwajalein Is 2.7 miles long and less than half a mile wide and was bombed bare of trees during the war. -iJ200-w Potpourri... Bright and early Monday we had a call from Mrs. H. B. Janes wfto said she thought someone should set us right about who was the first woman ever to hand out diplomas for Medford Senior High school graduations. It wasn't Mrs. Stephen G. Nye, as per last Sunday's issue, Mrs. Janes said, but Mrs. E. E. Gore. What's more, Mrs. Janes sister-in-law, Mrs. Milton Janes, later served on the school board and she also was chairman and pre sented diplomas. Chagrined, but philosophical. because our source for the In formation is almost always ab solutely correct, we called Mrs. Gore who said yes, she had been member of the school board many years ago and had given out the diplomas. Mrs. Gore wasn't at all excited over the fact that we had ignored her pri or service on the school board, and later when we called to have a cup of tea, talked about her work on the board. Mrs. Gore said she thought she was elected in 1912, but the files of the Tribune for that year said Mrs. E. S. Parsons ran for the office, but was defeated by Dr. E. R. Seeley. Mrs. Gore then recalled that Dr. Seeley and J. H. Cochran were on the board when she was elected, and added that after she ,had served her three years, she was replaced by Mrs. Janes. The senior high school build ing was on Bartlett street in those days, about where the Safeway store now stands, and there was no junior high school. Mrs. Gore recalled that the sup erintendent of schools had pro posed dividing the students of Lincoln school between Jackson and Roosevelt, and making Lin coln into a junior high school, and had promptly brought on a vigorous city-wide fight among school patrons. When Mrs. Gore served on the board there was no medical or dental examinations for chil dren, no hot lunch program, no school nurses or any teaching of music except a little singing taught by the regular teachers. Mrs. Gore said there was agita tion during her term for these innovations, although they were vigorously opposed by many who thought the school system was trying to usurp the right of parents In the life of a child. "Just think of all the progress that has been made," she said. "I think it's wonderful how pub lic schools serve the community nowadays." Mrs. Gore, who was also presi dent of the Greater Medford club while on the school board, recalled how she was once asked to drill a chorus to sing for com mencement, and reminded - us that in those days there was no high school band or orchestra to furnish music. She said that Har riet Baldwin, one time music supervisor of the school system, asked permission to buy the first musical instruments to be used for school groups. Mrs. Gore said when she handed out the diplomas she was secretly a little nervous, and had made sure in advance that the school staff was going to pile them correctly so each stu dent would be handed the right one. MIDFORD FEATHER CURLICUE... pure drams for ,w pwwi fflanwitw f am. carat? being txdusivtlf outi '. A fpw vnr hefore her school board term, Mrs. Gore first be gan writing articles to be used in Medford publications. She has kept a copy of the, first is sue of "Medford's Magazine," dated April 1909 and published by A. Brown. Mrs. Gore had contributed an article on the city's schools for the issue. In those early days. Mrs. Uore also sometimes reported lectures for the old Medford Mail, and la tor hpnan tn write the musical reviews which she continues to write for The Mail Tribune. Potpourri dashed away from the office long enough last Sat urday afternoon to look in on the wedding of Mary Anne Mik sche to Peter Trim. This was a wedding to make the "older girls" sigh and perhaps weep a little, for the bride was truly beautiful, and looked statuesque in her white satin gown, while the bridegroom was both tall and handsome. Peonies were used both for decorating the church and for attendants', bouauets. and we thought the effect remarkably pretty. Mrs. Lester Adams and Mrs. Martin Sands, family friends of the Miksches who had decorated the church, achieved an unusually effective decor for the altar by using pink peony heads in planters, and masses of leaves back of the altar. The bride's sister and two brothers were all here for the wedding, one brother, Leo, com ing all the way from New York City. If Leo went to New York to seek the proverbial "fame and fortune," he seems to be doing all right on the former. An ar tist with bright new ideas, Leo, who calls himself Michael Mlk sche for the sake of his work, has attracted much attention for both his very sophisticated win dow effects designed for the city's smart shops, and for his drawings and paintings. Not long ago the young man broke into print in a New York magazine called "Park East. Headed "The Least He'd Take,' the writer told how Artist Mik- sche markets his wares. Accord ing to the article, "he recently sold a drawing to a man who paid for it by arranging for Mik- sche to browse around among the medieval oddities in the at tic of Charles Addams, the maca bre cartoonist. He traded a dog sketch for the privilege of sit ting a game through on the Yankees "bench this summer.' It seems the strange way of "selling" pictures began when Mrs. Eleanor Ward, manager of The Stable, combination gift shop and studio,. offered to hang some of Leo's, excuse please, Mi chael's pictures. He had offers for some of them and not consid ering himself enough of a fine artist to charge gallery prices, the young man decided he would part with them for nothing it he could be sure the people truly wanted them. To prove they were sincere, the would-be pur chasers were asked to provide the artist with virtually unpur chaseable entertainment. The scheme worked out, ac cording to the magazine, and one painting went to a woman who arranged for Saul Steinberg 7 summer-feather cap ,T- J iiurciunc. vnc till Ul j u I II...: ZZrr -A shown. A fM; j 15.93 -rv is- V T "i.irii'-- Fun -Fun -Fun! 7082 ( FUN AND FASHION for your kitchen, bath, or bedroom with Anatole the frisky, fluffy French Poodle! Embroider him by ma chine or hand on linens. Easy! VALUE! 16 French poodle mo tifs about 2x2 to 4V5x9 inches, Easy embroidery. Pattern 7082. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern to The Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 5640, Chicago 80, 111. Print plainly NAME, AD DRESS with ZONE, PATTERN NUMBER. Exciting! Our 1952 edition of Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book! Brimful of new ideas, it's only Twenty cents. NINETY-ONE il lustrations of patterns of your favorite needlecraft designs, plus SIX easy-to-do patterns printed right In the book. to swap portrait sketches with Artist Miksche. (The woman just went to the phone booth and arranged a date.) Another was sold to a woman for two fifth-row on-the-aisle seats for "The King arid I" and a third for seats for "Pal Joey." A whiskey salesman swapped the use of a Fire Island house for five days this summer for one of the pic tures, and another went for a trip oyer the city in a police hell copter, this having been ar ranged by a member of Grover Whalen's office force. "Unsold" are paintings for which Michael is asking tea with Bernard : Ba'ruch, a summer week end in Nantucket, a trip on a commercial fishing boat and lunch with Tallulah Bankhead. The writer further said that when an assistant of Stanley Marcus, Dallas merchandiser, admired a Miksche painting, her boss arranged to purchase it for a gallon of European lemon ice, flown to the artist from Los An geles, and another customer got a Miksche work by arranging to have him appear as a "super" in a Metropolitan Opera produc tion of "Die Meistersinger." The artist, by the way, likes 4 -jfiit rV A re 1 ' ' Sunday, June 13, 1952 to sing and was soloist for his sister's wedding. Way back in 1912, according to the files of the MT, it was quite a feat to visit Crater lake in June. Under an item date of June 10 we read: "The first party of tourists this season to reach 'Crater lake returned to Klamath Falls Sat urday after four hard days. In the party were two women, probably the first of their sex to visit the lake this early in the season. "The tourists were Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Neighbor and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Trower of Oak land, Calif. The party reports 10 feet of snow yet at Arant's camp. 'The sight of the lake well repaid us for the hardships of the trip, said Mr. Neighbor, and although we expected a grand sight, we were hardly prepared for the sight that met our eyes. I have seen the Grand canyon, Yosemite park. Lake Tahoe, the Selkirk mountains, the Cana dian Rockies and other Ameri can scenes of wonder, but in my mind, none of these compare with our view of Crater lake. " 'Mrs. Trower and Mrs. Nelgh b o r s : displayed remarkable pluck during the strenuous trip, and enjoyed every moment of the outing,' said Mr. Neighbor in conclusion. 'Still this is a trip that I would not advise other women to make so early in the season, especially those who are not used to continuous riding'." O. S. . ft V MEDFORD to let 5 you look jk. (' ' w o, SLIM ' : : W 'iWL. ' as this... y 1 fall , Whether you're dressing for dancing, relaxing, sports or tanning, here's the girdle that's jntt right for you. 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Yet they are doing a job that would make any man proud of his achievements. Words of praise cannot express the admiration we have for these valiant boys who refute to be objects of pity. They are Americans Inh. finest sens, of the word , . . they are proving that no hindrance or handicap can keep good men downl MEDFORD PHARMACY. Inc. 127 fAST SIXTH PHONE 2-6J53 11:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. W. Ar. Op.n Today We Salute Our Town! V , OCHAKM nCHIOl COO. QMONtVC IONS STlt R.araes Social Club Postpones Meeting Reames Social club his post poned a luncheon meeting origi nally set for June 18 to June 25. It will- be held at the Masonic temple at 12:30 p.m. , f . -ffr 7 193 mm Ploytu Paaty Oirdta . mw with saw Jgrry Schade FINE JEWELRY SINCE 1918
