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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1954)
i ft. I v i V F.lf wt Ate J 4 - -,. - I, E " hKmKKi Y'' - Medford Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1854 2.M .V S i! f 9 , hJi. Lit i r- . s, t -mMtanMill mi WW-.'' U4 ttSf t-'rswX 1m is 3 oft ; :r.- 'w wl I iflfflu itWllin ii mi f ill in rut&m, i i tnn'm ill i, W .11. v. -:- Time dDwiit ffoir ILunitclIa By Olivt Starchtr . In day$ gone by lunch for th school child meant only on Welburn who-was making coffee" for the teachers and Mrs. Ruth ' thing sandwiches in a paper sack or tin lunch box, with maybe Hall, who serves the milk. .1 It l .1 l l ? I !-. . i I t .. some cookies or an apple and milk in a jar or thermos bottle. To- . m"2 s Tnrougn ,ne iooa ,,n. a, nowara pi day every school in Jackson county serves a Type A hot lunch a but . earefo,y earrrIec ,her trays away without mishap. At Howard full meal which supplies at least one-third of the nutritional needs r,. Hall supervises the lunch period, and teachers eat their lunchee for the day and which always includes whole milk and bread In In a separate room. some form. Shady Cove elementary school has two cooks (below, left) and , . i j, i . . j i ,. L j Mrs. Faye Ross, head cook, is shown handing a tray to the first boy These noon meals are cooked in clean, Inspected kitchens and - , ,ne 'whie Mr. juan,a Conner, her assistant, butters hot rolls served In attractive cafeterias. Every ch Id who wants unch is fed wh,ch Mr, Ro ha, ade herte,fi shad Cov. feQchBrl $It at tha If need be, he is given an opportunity to earn his lunches. The h(jad of A- ,bIe, for uneheon each d-y and pc,ured (tow,r rght) cost is low, with the government subsidizing the program to the M Dorofhea Crowley (at left) with her second graders and extent of three cents each meal for every pupil served a Type A M Grae hQm ot ,he7head of fh, firs, grad, tab9. Mrl Una meal, and with donations of surplus commodities, with schools pay. ((,h ,upervi,or of rura ,choos, can be seen at the counter, ing the freight charges. ' M,k ,, an ,-ipor,ant part 0f each gnch and pictured (upper In some districts individual residents or groups aid the school rgnt) are four Shady Cove boys ot work on the day's supply, the lunch program with donations of food or money for cafeteria boys are (left to right) Dale Chamberlain, Mickey Martin, James equipment. j ' Brewer and Danny Casey. They posed before starting to eat Mrs. Today's pictures were made last week during noon-time visits Ross' excellent lunch, but didn't delay long after the camera snapping to Howard and Shady Cove schools. Howard serves a complete lunch was over. for 20 cents a day if the children pay in advance and 25 if they pay ' V : Earlier this fall school cooks of Jackson and Josephine counties at meal time. Two tables of Howard school youngsters are shown gathered In Medford for a demonstration by Miss Una Wood of the (upper left) in the cafeteria, which is paneled in knotty pine and American Institute of Baking. Miss Wood (left, second from top) has growing plants In each window. The Howard cooks are (above, demonstrated uses of ead for the school lunch, this being on left to right) Miss Zella Adams, busy making cole slaw, Mrs. Dee of the public service projects of the Institute. (Brainerd photos) s J ;- TV : , '! .a; I 1 i 1 .ITO' a.1 , it 1 j ' - i si ':'!'V..:-r:v;;:-;.'i .4. . ' , ---. I, ' I , , . I -!, 1 ( 1 r .j, I
