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t TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE As We Live By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. Bridal Showers Should Not Be Drain On Friends When a girl announces her en gagement, her friends think of giving showers to help her pre pare for her new "home. But is this fair to her, friends? An en gaged girl writes: (Q) "I announced my engage ment last month and selected my bridesmaids. I have asked four of my friends to be brides maids, my younger sister will b my maid of honor, and my married cousin will be my matron of honor. Now they all want to give parties for me -ard they have all suggested giving - showers. Of course I would love to have these par ties and I, could use the gifts in our new home. But I know that my friends don't have too much money to spend. If they are invited to four or five showers and they would be the people I would want to have as guests would I be fair in expecting them give me a gift at every party? I would like to have your opin ion on tthis matter." (A) I agree with you that ex pecting your friends to give you gifts at a number of parties, in addition to a wedding gift, is e x p e c t ing too m u c h. Could you not explain frank ly to y o u r brides maids how you feel about this m a 1 1 ex and suggest that Dr. Hurlock iust a tea. a luncheon, or some simple party without gifts would please you better? Most people react to an en gagement as your bridesmaids have. The first thing they think of, when they decide to give a party for the bride-to-be, is a shower where she will receive gifts for her new home. Unfortunately, most of the young people who are invited to these showers find this a finan cial strain. It is, as you say, not fair to them to expect them to deluge you with gifts before your marriage and then send a wedding gift too. If any of your relatives or your mother's friends want to give a party for you ' and friends of the family often do your mother could tactfully sug gest that they give showers. Older people are usually in a better financial position than young people are. A person who can afford to have a wedding with brides maids should be able to. afford to equip her home. She should not have to rely upon her friends to do it for her. So enjoy your bridesmaids' parties and let AMES MAR 22 APR 20 lS70-75-84-90j TAURUS APR 2) f i" MAY 21 My49-o7-68 mi GEMINI MAY 22 ,-) JUNE 22 6345-82-86 CANCU JUNE 23 114-26-37-38 H77-78-81-8fl LEO JULY 24 AUG. 23 tt) 4-12-22-47 51-62-71 VIRGO AUG. 24 SEPT. 22 60-64-76 STAR GAZERS, By CLAY R. POLLAN' Friday. December 17, 19541 A 4"LJU Rl". n.. 7 wniiaren nun Reunion For First Time in 28 Years l Your Daily Activity Guide H ArenrAinn ta ihm Stars. ""7 To develop message for Saturday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. 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Attend Army, briefings, leave her cat at a cat motel, make her costume, buy winter underwear, pay her bills, insure her fur coat, postpone work dates until she gets back in three weeks, make out a will, and get her hair bleached. "But it's worth it," laughed June before stepping on the plane enroute to Iceland, France and Germany. - "When the Army, told us the boys appreciate our giving up our Christmas to entertain them, we felt kind of happy to do something good for them." June,, a little-known singer your friends enjoy them without and financial obligations. (COPYRIGHT 1954. GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) and mimic who records cartoon voices for records and movies, is typical of most of the show people making the trip. She's a veteran of 10 years of "Tom and Jerry" movies, radio, TV; and "Woody Woodpecker", records, and was asked by the USO to work up a comedy imitations act. . . S10 a Day . Expenses The troupers get $10 a day ex pense smoney and their board and room, but, except for the union musicians, so salary. Ter ry, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Hope and other stars have received headlines for their trips to Army bases. But June and other troup ers wade through snow, work two or three shows a day, travel by jeep and get little sleep with no recognition. Disc jockey Johnny Grant, another unsung hero of the USO troupe, left today on his seventh overseas trip to entertain home sick GIs at forgotten bases in the Orient. "Forest Tucker, the star of our group, won't let us girls wear slacks," June added. "He thinks the GIs will want us to look feminine." American Farm Bureau Names Kline's Successor New York4U.R) Charles B. Shuman, 47, president of Illi nois Agricultural Association, has been elected president of the American Farm, Bureau Federa tion without opposition. ShumaiO of Sullivan, 111., was elected to fill the unexpired year of the two year term of Al lan B. Kline, president of the federation since 1947, who an nounced his resignation, be cause of ill health, before the convention Tuesday. Built by Studebaker-Packard Corporation . . . world's 4th largest full-lino producer of cars and trucks VWN ONE of America's great "name" cars ai the magnificent new 1955 Studebaker Com mander V-8 now sells in the lowest price field. This finest, most powerful Commander in Stude baker history sparkles with advanced styling. It's roomy luxurious brilliantly powered and it's engineered for the kind of gas-saving that won the Mobilgas Economy Run Sweepstakes. See the new Studebaker Champion, too and the power-packed new Studebaker President V-8. COMMMDERfS Studebaker v ...so much better made ' ' ..worth more when you trade! COO ICS EY MOTOR COMPANY, Inc. Detroit (U.R) Nine brothers and sisters whose family was shattered by death and adoption 23 years ago will be reunited for the first time this Christmas. Brother will shake hands with brother. Sister will embrace sis ter. Each of them has a different last name. They all have sep arate sets of "parents." It will be their first Christmas together since a bleak one in 1826 when all of them, ranging in age from one to 15 years, were sent to an orphanage to "be put up for adoption. ' Their mother, Mrs. ' Rufus Hartsell, had died and left 10 children with only their invalid father to care for them. He found the job too big and finally consented to turn the children over to the Children's Aid Socie ty. . Identifies Secret . In the years that followed the children were placed in foster homes. They took on new names. Their I real identity ' was kept secret under, provisions of the adoption laws. Their "family" virtually ceased to exist. This year's yuletide reunion came about through painstaking investigation by older members of the family who had corres ponded since leaving the orphan age. One of the brothers, Melvin, had been killed in a traffic acci dent in World War IL Alton, now 33, who lives in Foster, Mich., with his twin brother, Allen, managed to lo cate most of his living brothers and sisters in Michigan. He found Ell, 44, in Pontiac; Elma, 49, in North Branch; Marybelle, 42, in Elkton; June, 38, in Lin den, and Clinton, 36, in Owosso. Lillian, 30, turned up in Kent, wash. v ; . That left only Velma, "the baby of the family who was only a year old when her mother died, unaccounted for. Velma, nbw Mrs. Jane Moore of Milan, Mich.j had no idea un til early this month that her brothers and sisters were trying to locate her. She had written to a Detroit newspaper explaining her cloudy background and" ask ing help in locating her family, if she had one. .'Td always felt I had kinfolk somewhere," she said.. Alton Hartsell's wife, Delores, read her letter in the paper. -Soon Alton was telephoning Velma in Milan, and the family was once more complete. 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