'Auxiliary Board :
Hears Keporrs,
Adds Committees
Reports of functioning units
and announcements of addition
al committee chairmen were
made at the first meeting of the
new Community hospital auxil
iary board of directors Tuesday
evening. The group met at the
hospital penthouse and included
officers of the auxiliary; Mrs.
Shelby Tuttle, president; Mrs.
V. Ward Hammond, vice-president;
Mrs. Ernest Lytle, secre
. tary; Mrs. Eugene Thorndike,
treasurer; Mrs. Fitzhugh Brew
er head of hospital services;
Mrs. Elwood B. Hedberg, staff
services; and Miss B. J. Larsen,
administrator.
Hospital service committees
active now include the sewing
unit, under the leadership of
Mrs. Earl Tumy, which meets
each Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m.
at the hospital. Mrs. B. L. Lage
son has charge of the auxiliary
members who give daily care to
patients' flowers, and Mrs Clay
ton Walker arranges for women
to give "on call" services such as
helping feed patients, letter writ
ing and shopping, and visiting
out-of-town patients.
Auxiliary members working
in the hospital building have
been provided with uniform
smocks, made by the sewing
unit of material which was given
by Mrs. Alfred S. V. Carpenter.
Anyone interested in participat
ing in any of the projects is in
vited to contact Mrs. Brewer, or
the committee chairmen.
Mrs. Hedberg announced ap
pointments for staff services as
follows: project planning and
vmith crouos. Mrs. Otto Frohn-
mayer; radio and television pub
licity, Mrs. Roberta uamei;
memorial and remembrance
fund, Mrs. John C. Mann; mem
bership committee, Mrs. Jack
Sanborn; and babies' alumni,
Mrs. Ernest Lvtle.
Holiday tray favors for hos
pital patients are provided by
various young peoples' groups,
as arranged with Mrs. Frohn
mayer. Favors far Halloween
were made by the Zion Lutheran
church teen-age group, directed
by Mrs. Knute Lindgren.
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New Appliance Store
; jets upening Monday
City Appliance, Inc., a new
I store, will open Monday at 127
North Central ave., the former
Gates Furniture store location.
Opening events-will be conduct
ed through Monday and Tuesday
and numerous prizes will be
given during those two days.
The owner of the new busi
ness is N. H. Zacharisen, who
formerly was in the appliance
store business in Medford. : '
sThe store will deal-in nation
ally known makes of ranges,
automatic washers, dishwashers,
television, radio and many other
items including small appliances.
Store hours are 8:30 a.m. to
5:30 p.m., and Wednesdays the
store will be open until 9 p.m.
4-H Club
The first meeting of the Apple
gate Tractor Maintenance club
was held Friday, Nov. 19. It is
a new club for the Applegate
community and Gene Krouse is
, our leader. The members are
Francis Krouse, Philip Krouse,
Charles Elmore, Truman ; El
more, Russell Elmore, Don Ku
cera, Donald Davidson, and Jer
ry Rowden. .. v
The meeting was called to
order by the leader. After all of
us enrolled we elected these of
ficers: President, Francis Krouse;
Vice-President Don Kucera; Sec
retary Charles Matthews; Re-
porter Charles Elmore, and Song
Leader Gary Krouse.
Our leader told us a little
about the future activities of the
club project. We set the dates
for our meetings as the 2nd and
4th Tuesdays. Our next meeting
will be Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m., at
Gene Krouse's home.
-; Charles Elmore,
Reporter.
r Heat marks on furniture often
can be removed with camphorat
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cation is to stroke the spot light
ly with a cloth moistened with
the oil, then rub immediately
with a dry cloth. Don't use ,a
linty cloth; the fuzz may stick to
the wood. The final step is a
IPdDttlpaDimES
Knowing practically nothing about the Farm Bureau, Pot
pourri decided to go to the women's luncheon Wednesday which
was a part of the state convention program. The company turn
ed out to be so congenial, we stayed on for part of the afternoon
session.
Mrs. David Blair of Wimer was one reason we had such a
good time. Mrs. Blair, is a friendly and easy conversationalist
and gave us a helping hand in finding out names and home towns.
For some reason we decided that Mrs. Blair was a newcomer, but
it developed that she had been in the county for 14 years. The
Blairs came to Oregon from Santa Barbara, and have never re
gretted for a moment leaving California, she said. ,"
Mrs. B. said she found everyone in Oregon hospitable and that
she drank far more coffee here than she did in Santa Barbara.
"One of the first things I heard after coming up here was that
whenever two people get together in Oregon, they serve food
and drink coffee," said Mrs. Blair.
The Blair's son was graduated from Oregon State college
in engineering with honors, and is now at Columbia university
working towards his doctorate and teaching. We expressed sur
prise that Columbia taught engineering, and Mrs. B. replied that
according to her son, Columbia teaches everything. He once re
marked that if a student wanted a course in the life and habits
of the striped Afghanistan beetle, (or something equally fantastic)
Columbia would have it.
Mrs. Blair, who is county associate woman's chairman for the
Farm Bureau, said her husband was a little unhappy about some
thing. He went to the 1953 convention, extended an invitation
for the Farm Bureau to come to Medford in 1954 and promised
that all the delegates would be given pears big, luscious, Rogue
valley pears. Mr. Blair didn't know then that the spring of '54
would be the year of the big freeze, and that come fall he
wouldn't be able to induce any of the pear growers to give up
their precious and very scarce fruit.
There were pretty little winter corsages of evergreens, red
berries and cones for every woman at the' luncheon, though, and
we were told that these were the work of Miss Claire Hanley,
who is president of the Oregon Federation of Garden clubs.
'
Rogue valley passengers on a United Airlines plane which
made an emergency landing Tuesday night in Portland all came
home with stories of the adventure. The pilot of the big south
bound Convair found just before preparing to land at Eugene
that the hydraulic system had failed, so he informed passengers
that the plane would return to Portland where the field has a
longer runway and where preparations would be made for a crash
landing.
Mrs. Paul R. Smith, one of the passengers, said no one seem
ed to be particularly nervous or afraid. President Elmo Steven
son of SOC went right on working .with his notes (he writes
books while flying back and forth to meetings) and a man across
the aisle just went back to sleep.
Medford's mayor-elect, Earl Miller and Mrs.Miller, and the
A. D. Harveys, were also on the plane. Mr. Miller declares that
the first thing Mrs. M. said was "did you buy extra insurance?"
and when he said he had, then she tried to decide whether the
platter she'd bought and was carrying home would be safer on
her lap" or on the floor.
If anyone was worried it was wasted, for the pilot brought
the ship down without mishap, even though he had no control
over brakes, wing flaps or the front steering wheel. A truck
towed the plane to the hangar-, and the passengers were served
a fine dinner while they waited for another ship.
Mr. Miller had nothing but praise for the pilot, his crew and
the staff at the field, saying he felt he couldn't have been in more
efficient hands. He told how the fire trucks and ambulances
were beside the plane the moment it touched the ground, and
sped along side until it had stopped.
.,.
Eighty-year-old W. Somerset Maugham, important literary
figure of the world today, recently wrote in the Literary Guild
review publication, "wings, that he did not believe the novel
should be used "as a pulpit or a platform, and I think readers
are misguided when they suppose they can thus acquire knowl
edge without trouble"." 'r " - , : ; - - -
"It is a great nuisance that knowledge cannot be acquired
without trouble," this great man wrote. "It can only be acquired
by hard work. It would be fine if we could swallow the powder
of profitable information, made palatable by the jam of fiction.
But the truth is that, so made palatable, we can't be sure that the
powder will be profitable. I suggest to you that the knowledge
the novelist imparts is .biased and thus unreliable and it is better
not to know a thing at all than to know it in a distorted fashion.
If readers wish to inform themselves of the pressing problems
of the day they will do better to read, not novels but the books
that specifically deal with them." "
News from "Potpourri" section of French Government Tour
ist office: "A new drink popular along the Riviera is called the
Doir cocktail. It is made with a combination of brandy, Coin
treau and a secret ingredient, and is guaranteed to flatten you
in np time at all." O. S.
Ballot Title Finished
For Prohibition Plan .
Salem (U.R) Attorney Gener
al Robert Y. Thornton said Sat
urday he has: completed the bal
lot title for a proposed consti
tutional amendment whjch
would prohibit 'the manufacture,
importation, sale, purchase or
possession of all alcoholic liquors
in Oregon including wine and
beer.
The amendment was filed in
the secretary of state's office
here by the Oregon-Anti-Liquor
league, of which George Smith
Brown of Portland, is president.
Completed petitions to get the
amendment a place on the bal
lot must be filed by July 1, 1956.
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Traditional Holiday Pies
Have Interesting History
It's pumpkin-pie and mince-pie
time again ! These traditional fa
vorites in America since before
the War for Independence now
are being featured by bakers
throughout America, to grace the
tables in millions of homes at the
Holiday Season.
The exact origin of mince pie
has been lost in antiquity, but it
is known that the pie's ingredi-
, ents once sym
bolized the
gifts of the
Magi and its
shape, origi
nally oval, rep
resented the
cradle of the
Christ Child.
Frequent
reference to this Christmas fa
vorite in English literature dat
ing as far back as the Fifteenth
century, enabled the American
Bakers Association to recon
struct the appearance-and con
tents of the mince pie and cus
toms surrounding it over the
centuries. -
Always considered an essential
part in the Christmas observ
ances in England, the pies once
were more of a main course than
a dessert. They contained a large
portion of boiled pork mixed with
minced dates, cloves, mace, rais
ins, salt and ginger during the
reign of King Henry V.
Boiled pork was replaced by
, finely shredded mutton as the
chief , ingredient in the mince
meat pies at the time of Henry
VIII, Edward VI, and Queens
Mary and Elizabeth. Thick rolls
of dough were used to line large
deep-sided dishes and this in turn
was covered with another layer
of thick pastry to form the top
crust of the pie.
In America, the fruit content
of the pie gradually was in- i
creased until today the mince pie !
has become a mixture of fruit
and spices, with the addition of ;
meat optional. :
While the pumpkin pie always
has been synonymous with . the ;
holiday season in America, it has
changed its appearance and taste
much more drastically over the
years than has its mince-meat
cousin.
Shortly aftet the Pilgrims ar
rived in the New World, failure -of
the grain crops resulted in a
shortage of flour for pastry.
However, their craving for bak-,
ery delicacies was satisfied be-
cause of the never-failing pump-:
kin crop which the Indians had
taught them to raise. Pilgrim
women used pumpkin flour - to
make pastry goods and the filling
also was made from the pumpkin
after it had been cooked and
sweetened with sugar and honey. "
For many years before, a va
riety of gourd ,
similar to the
American
pumpkin was
cultivated and
eaten through
out Europe. An
early English
recipe called
for the "Pom-
pion" itself to be stuffed with;
apples. :
It was not until the sea trade,
on which the early colonists de-.
pended, was free to bring in the
spices of the West Indies and the
Orient, that the pumpkin-pie be
gan to taste anything like it does
today. And it was the early Penn
sylvania Dutch cooks who are
credited with developing the flat
pie as we know it now and with .
making the greatest improve
ments in all types of pies.
Department Dance Held
The Department of Oregon,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
auxiliary were hosts at a dance
given at Camp White domicili
ary Monday evening. Mrs. Harry
Burch, department hospital
chairman, supervised.
Two orchestras donated their
services. Verne Marshall, leader,
was accompanied , by Pete
at Camp White
Hughes, Rod Willborntram and
Bub Crosby. The other orchestra
members were Dale Newman,
Lerby Cooper and Jack Satur
day. Refreshments were served by
the auxiliary.
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Sunday, November 21, 1834
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Institute Survey Indicates
Women Manage Purse Strings
When somebne talks about wo
men managing the purse strings
of the nation he may be a lot
closer to the truth than he su
spects. The latest evidence is that
married women write most of
the checks, when it comes to
checking accounts held ' Jointly
by husbands and wives.
This aspect of the financial ar
rangements of American families
was brought to light in a samp
ling made , by the Institute of
Life Insurance, , which covered
some 50 representative banks
throughout the country.
The response suggests that
more wives in younger families
have become iae. family "comp
troller," perhaps as a Colorado
banker observes,, because of a
"mutuality of trust and confi
dence in the marital relation
ship." It is desirable for a wife
to handle all of the finances, he
adds, because it cultivates a feel
ing of partnership and responsi
bility. She becomes familiar
with business procedures so that,
should her husband be removed
from the scene, she is not brutal
ly thrust into a foreign world.
In the experience of a banker
in northern New Jersey, married
women who are under the age of
36 are most likely to help plan
their family finances and to pay
the bills. This he attributes to
the war, when wives simply had
to take on the work for their
absent husbands. In this age
group, couples, rather than hus
bands alone, usually come into
the bank to talk about loans,
and very often wives are better
informed than husbands about
the size of monthly payments the
family can afford.
The vice-president of a bank
not far from Boston, Mass., notes
that the typical husband, in sign
ing for a joint account with his
wife, expects most of the checks
will be written by her. This" is
confirmed by a Milwaukee bank
er, who adds that there still are
some husbands who write most
of the checks themselves because
they want to "protect the little
wife from all complicated busi
ness matters." But such an atti
tude is becoming scarce, he said,
because women nowadays are
more knowledgeable about hand
ling and managing money. In
one busy Minnesota bank, for ex
ample, most "time" payments
are made by women, according
to an official, and they frequent-;
ly bring little children with them
to the bank. .
While there is an evident trend
for married women to write most
of the checks in joint accounts,
wives do not always pay all of
the bills. A Connecticut banker
reports that wives usually pay
household bills for food, opera
tion of the automobile and per
haps the rent or motgage pay
ment and that husbands pay the
premiums on life insurance,
other insurance, taxes and so
forth. This appears to be a fair
ly common arrangement. Manv
families open joint "special
checking" accounts, where a
minimum balance is not requir
ed, and expenses are paid by
wives from these accounts.
There's one thing about joint
checking accounts that worries
bankers: the danger of overdraw
ing, when both husband and wife
carry checkbooks.
A Wisconsin banker offers this
solution for the problem of two
checkbooks: Enter part of the
balance in one checkbook and
the remainder in the other. In
this way, it will be impossible
to write a check that bounces.
Advent cards will make their
appearance in the United States
for the first time this Christmas
season. Adapted . by Hallmark
Cards from an old German cus
tom, the cards contain 24 tiny
doors, each concealing a picture
or verse. One door is opened
each day during the Advent season.
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