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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Hearings, Joint Session ; Described by Secretary By FRANCES LITTRELL . Salem On Wednesday of last week (February 16) the highway committees of both the Senate and the House were guests of the Oregon Automobile associa tion which is affiliated with the AAA. The ligislators were pick ed up at the State House and taken to the Marion hotel in an tique cars. Gov. Patterson rode in a 1901 Locomobile, Rep. Elf strom and Al rode-in a 1919 yel- "low sports model Pierce Arrow "with a rumble seat, Phil (Sena tor Lowry) rode in a 1917 Ford touring car. s Orf Thursday the first sales tax 'bill was read in the House. It was presented by Rep. Hill of a Lane county. Needless to say it "created numerous and varied 3 opinions. 9p This week there will be sev , eral minor tax bills up for third readings that have been recom mended by the tax interim com mittee. Seemingly they are non- ; controversial. However, that isn't a proven fact until after the third readings and votes are counted. As all tax bills must first be presented in the House, we no doubt will hear many more of the same. On Friday, due to Al's being in another hearing, I was sent to the judiciary committee to take H. J. R. 9 and H. J. R. 7 pertain ing to the status of coroners and surveyors. It was a lively hear ing and if the bills get out of the committee and if they pass both houses, they will be on the ballot in '56 for the voters to de cide upon. When possible the secretaries go to the public hear ings, even though our husbands and bosses are present. It gives us an insight on the issues that we would miss otherwise. Then too we write the letters that go out to the people and although the Legislators dictate the letter, if we have attended the hearings, we know what we are writing about. It also gives us an under standing of the men and women ho make up this Legislature. Al and I often say to each other "if every man and woman in. Oregon could have the privi lege of being where we are and hearing these men and women in -the committee room and on the floors of the Legislature, we wouldn't be sending people to Washington who would use their political affiliations for personal gains." The Legislature celebrated Lincoln's birthday with a joint session in the House with Gov. The coat that win ravet, this sensational new casual by las sie. Expensive-looking knit trim and self-covered buttons ... darted in a fine sunburst around the cardigan neck. Pure wool ' Levmoor, in beige or grey. And remember ... the lining of very Lassie is guaranteed for the life of the coat. The need of a slim, trim figure to emphasize current fashions demands ever watchfulness of the diet. Delicious different MISS NINETEEN BREAD is a wonder ful adjunct to your diet plan, and, best of all it tastes so . , good. Get MISS NINETEEN BREAD today! BREAD sr w.-.-.'is Be sure to include MISS NINETEEN In your slimming diet. It's the loof In the pink wrapper with the ballet dancer en tap. Baked Exclusively by FRESH BAKERIES ft dk. Mlmm and Mrs. Patterson and all State officials present. Dr. O. Mere dith Wilson gave the Lincoln Day address! Dr. Wilson's hand some wife was also present wearing a beautiful red hat. Phil (Senator Lowry) was one of four to escort the chief jus tices to the rostrum and he was the one who announced them. We are told that Oregon is not only unique for her very friend ly and unassuming top state of ficials, but that we are one of the few states which permits sec retaries to be seated "on the floor" of the House or the Sen ate with the legislators. In fact Montana makes no provisions for secretaries whatsoever, while most other states provide a pri vate office for each member of their Legislature and a secretary too. Secretaries here feel that we are fortunate in the fact that the "front desk" under the direction of Mrs. Edith Lowe, chief clerk, is so friendly and helpful. They, of their own vo lition, held a school for the new secretaries and many of the girls who have been here before at tended and said they wished they could have had it their first session. Mrs. Lowe also keeps a check on the readings of the bills, guides Mr. Geary, the speaker, and acting speakers in parliamentary proceedings and on occasion point of order. One of Mr. Lowe's able staff is Peg Drager, who is married to a cousin of Mrs. Earl York of Medf ord and the friendly gentle man at the information desk just outside the door of the House of Representatives is Mrs. York's father. Parties for the Representa tives' wives last week were given by Mrs. Pat Dooley and Mrs. Robert Steward (both Represen tatives' wives) at Mrs. Dooley's apartment where we met Mrs. J Thornton, the attorney general s wife. On Friday Mrs. Needham and Mrs. Tomlihson took a small group of us to the Salem Art Mu seum, which is the old Bush home, where we saw an exhibit of modern paintings by Carl Hall, after which we went to Mr. Tomlinson's lovely home for tea. Both hostesses are secre taries in the House this session. This week's calendar shows a busy week ahead of us. On Tuesday the Federation of Republican Women is meeting here in Salem. The Representa tives of the legislature are in vited for luncheon at noon in the Marion Hotel and to tea in the afternoon at the home of Salem's Mayor and Mrs. White. Tuesday evening Speaker and Mrs. Geary are entertaining for the members of the House and their wives, Thursday evening the Marion county delegation is giving a reception for all the Legislators and wives. On Friday the Legislature and wives are invited to Cor- vallis for dinner and to the Ore gon-Oregon State basketball game. The Corvallis Chamber of Commerce will host the dinner and Oregon State college game. Ben Day was in last week for a visit with the Jackson County delegation. We attended church services on Sunday and sat next to Jean Vilm Hart's friend, Mrs. Davis. They haven't seen each other since they were in college. Tried to bring her up to date on Jean and her family. SHRIMP A LA FRANCAIS New York (U.P.) Take a tip from French chefs next time you prepare fresh shrimp. Coat them with batter before you fry them. To make the batter dip, combine a cup of pancake mix with Vz teaspoon of salt and SA cup "of water. Beat about 2 min utes, dip the cooked shrimp in the batter and fry in hot deep fat (375) degrees for 2 to 3 min utes. . POWDER PUFF SHINE ' Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) That which is used to take a shine off the nose, can put one on a pair of shoes. A handy buffer to brighten up shoes is an ordinary powder puff. Wash it thoroughly in warm water with a detergent to remove powder. our first STARTING Presenting Water colors by V. G. WRIGGLESWORTH 404 E. Main Sunday, February 27, 1953 IPcmtljpciDTmirirn. Every fall the Medf ord Kiwanian Dames square their shoulders, take a deep breath and plunge into the "doll project." Sometimes there's a few groans, too, for like all money-making projects, there are problems to be solved and minor crises to be weathered, When it's all over for another year, these same "Dames" heave a big sigh of relief and rest for a few weeks until another year rolls around. The big moment of the entire year comes when the women give the money they have earned to the Girl Scout leaders who see that it becomes a new shelter, a new roof or a piece of needed equipment at the Girl Scout established camp, Low Echo. Such a moment came Tuesday and the women who gathered in the Dwight Houghton home not only heard the leaders tell how the money more than $500 this year, will be used, but watched a group of Girl Scouts from Washington school portray camp life in songs and words while sitting around an imaginary camp fire in a corner of the Houghton living room. Potpourri doesn't know who wrote the skit, but we heartily approved of the sentiment. For the girls talked about camp life last year, and of Trinidad Sales, Girl Scout leader from the Phil ippine islands who was an exchange counselor at Low Echo. "She wasn't really any different from the rest of us," remembered one little girl, and another said, "I guess we're all alike that must be what my Sunday school teacher meant when she said we were all God's children." Mrs. W. A. Samuelson, president of the Dames, thanked the "indefatigable" (she can pronounce it, too) Mrs. Everett Faber and her co-chairman, Mrs. Emerson Anderson, for their successful doll project, and Mrs. Houghton for the use of her home. Mrs. Samuelson, who had arranged her make believe campfire from a few sticks of wood and a bit of red paper for the flame, said when she called Mrs. H. and asked if she could build a campfire in her living room the hospitable hostess said "go right ahead everything is insured." - e According to the Grocery Manufacturers of America, the transfer of food preparation from the home to the processing plant, has reduced food preparation in the kitchen four hours a day. A few years ago it took about 5V2 hours a day to prepare meals for a family of four. Today, comparable menus of easy to serve foods can be prepared in about lVz hours, the manufactur ers say. When the homemaker buys food today, in many instances it has already been, cleaned, trimmed, shelled, mixed or otherwise prepared, packaged and sometimes partially cooked. A present-day wedding fad is the lettering of little reception napkins with the names of the bride and bridegroom. Those for a wedding last Sunday read Burk-Burk, the couple having decided to amuse themselves and the guests by using their surnames, which are the same, instead of Carl and Joan. It is all quite con fusing to the poor society editor for Miss Joan Burk married Carl G. Burk and the bridegroom's sister, before her wedding, was Johanne Burk. e Potpourri absolutely must do something about our reputation for food. Always a weakling when it came to potluck dinners, we sampled at least a dozen dishes at a Rebekah dinner Monday night. Then along came Minnie Bryant, whose guest we were, who heaped our plate with two pieces of cake and a piece of cherry pie. Because of our loud cries that it would be left not another bite was possible Mrs. Bryant came back with some wax paper and a bag. Now we not only eat too much but we go home with enough dessert for the news room's mid-morning snack and the family dinner that night. Our hearty thanks go out to all those who brought in pictures for today's out-of-the-past page. Because the staff found them so interesting, and there were so many from which to choose, an other page is planned. Fearful that something would happen to these family treasures, we've counted them practically every day and will return them to owners as soon as the second page is done. "Do you realize," wrote the Junior, "that this is the last PE class I will ever, ever, EVER have to take?" She was dutifully reporting on her new classes for the second semester, and wrote that she was taking Shakespeare, a course in the English novel, fourth semester German, a two-hour course in German civiliza tion, typing, second semester music theory and folk dancing. The student also wrote that she had been to a concert fea turing Leonard Pennario as soloist with the Spokane Philharmon ic orchestra, and added that his technique is fine but "not much feeling." Pennario, a pianist, played in Medf ord a few seasons ago. With the letter she sent a clipping from the WSC newspaper which told how the pianist, leaving the stage after acknowledg ing applause, became confused and stepped off the edge of the platform into space. He clutched a curtain and the orchestra director leaped to his rescue, saving him from what might have been a, bad fall. . Most Britons apparently approve of Princess Margaret's plung ing necklines, a press dispatch revealed Saturday. From London came word that the Woman's Sunday Mirror, new weekend edi tion of the mass circulation Daily Mirror, asked readers to express an opinion on whether or not the "necklines of dresses worn by the princess in her Carribbean tour weren't too low" and invited readers to give their opinions. About 75 per cent favored Margar et's decolletage. "Just the sort of thing we can copy for our own daughters," said Mrs. A. Moody of Teighmouth. , "I only wish I could wear that type of dress but mine is only a 30-inch bust," wrote a lady from Lancashire.. "Why shouldn't the Princess wear off-the-shoulder gowns?" asked Mrs. D. G. Wolsey of Sheerness. "If I had lovely shoulders like hers, I would certainly do the same. Don't cramp her style." Saturday morning, Commentators Agronsky and Hemingway both told how President Eisenhower, visiting his farm in Penn sylvania, complained about the "dirty pigeons" in the barn and said he'd have to get out his shotgun. Pigeons, we can report from experience, are not nearly so bothersome as flickers. Pigeons stay quietly in the barn, while the flickers, a variety of woodpecker, are as dirty as pigeons and have the added horrible habit of wak ing the entire household at some ungodly early-morning hour by drumming loudly on the side of the house. O.S. one Man Art Show MARCH I i - . . Hi." 1 " v I Fans of Gilbert and Sulliyan will toon recognize that this it not a legitimate scene from "The Mikado," now in production at Southern Oregon college for presentation March 3, 4 and 5. Giving an idea of what could have happened if he had done his duty is Lord High Executioner, Ko Ko, played by Stafford Thomas, with the neck of Nanki-Poo, played by Gene Brown, on the headsman's chopping block. Nanki-Poo's lover,. Yum Yum, played by Tresa Matlack (left) and Peep-Bo, one of the three little maids, played by Helen Brown, (right) are shielding their eyes from the scene. President Confers With Wife On What Color To Paint Barn By MERRIMAN SMITH UP White House Writer Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Pres ident Eisenhower is like any other man with a new house. He has to check with his wife on what color to paint the barn. For nearly an hour on his Get tysburg farm Friday, the Presi dent worked with a painter to get just the right shade for the huge barn that sits not far from the new Eisenhower house. The house is mostly white, and the old red barn would have been an eyesore without a new coat of paint. The President thought first of painting the barn white, too, but he decided the huge structure would dominate the house. So, he had a painter, Carl Mauss of nearby York, Pa., mix white with a little green, blue and umber. They came up with a shade which looked like a pas tel green in the late winter af ternoon sun. Checks With Mamie The President was satisfied, but he told Mauss: "We'll have to ask Mrs. Ike. She'll have the last word, any way." Like a dutiful husband and new householder, the President, his tan camel's hair .topcoat flapping in the breeze, strode across a muddy field back to the house where Mrs. Eisenhower was deep in conference with Eli sabeth Draper, the New York in terior decorator. Sounds of "oohs" and "ahs" filtered from the upstairs win dows as the ladyfolks looked at curtain material and moved chairs around in an elaborate game of furniture arrangement. The President and Mrs. Ike came to the window. He point ed toward the barn which by now resembled a nursery school exercise in . finger painting. Painter Mauss . had tried dabs of varying green shades all over one end of the barn, on top of white trim and on the old red finish itself. The Right Mixture There was some animated con versation in the upstairs win dow and the President reap If yon don't like to kissed, dou't wear TABU Lipstick Vx) for fragrant Red. Lips Dan lips...ptal-mooth, Mossom-fresii Tabu fragrant. "Forbidden colors, in a ldpkted wiTel cue. Refills available. Charge It at I f WESCPIPTI0S DRUG CENTRE I 1 mi peared in the yard a few minu tes later. "That's just right," he told Mauss. The President drove here from Washington Friday and plans to return sometime late Sunday. The farm house is completed structurally and the first fami ly is-now engaged in decoration and placement of furnishings... "When will it be ready?" a reporter asked the President. The ancient house has under gone extensive renovation for more than a year. ''Well, it is a matter of finish ing touches now," the Chief Executive said. "We're getting down to the point where you find that the rugs don't fit and the furniture doesn't fit." Rebekah Lodge Has Guest Dinner About 80 persons attended a guest night dinner given Mon day evening by Olive Rebekah lodge women at the Odd Fellows hall. Guests indued Odd Fellows lodge members, their wives and friends of members. - Mrs. L. M. Arnold, Mrs. Mary Brown, and Mrs. Lucille Cave were committee in charge of serving. The playlet, "My Birthday Gifts," written by Mrs. Florence Manley of Brattleboro, Vt.', arid taken from the Rebekah publi cation,"International Rebekah," was . enacted as a part of the evening's program. Those taking part in the play let were Mrs. W. E. Roberts, Mrs. Riley Applegate, Mrs. Mar garet McGinty, Mrs. Verda Vin zant, Mrs. Gladys Thomasson, and Mrs. Alice Garrett. The program was planned by Mrs. Frank Chapman, noble grand, and Mrs. Marie Small. Deborah Ann Rader and Glen Rader furnished a dance num ber. A patriotic dance was done by Bonnie Simmonds and Carol Griff in costume. . . A hard-to-spot eye in a sew ing machine needle will be easier to see when a niece of black paper or cloth is held be hind it. , i be 150 Phone 2-7113 Free Delivery Open Weekdays 8 A.M. to Midnight Sundays 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. We Give NORTHERN TRADING STAMPS Double Stamps en - Prescriptions 11 Fagle Point PTA Members Inspect New School Room Eagle Point The February meeting of Eagle Point Parent Teacher association was held in the new section of the high school February 22. Members were invited by Glenn Hale, principal, to inspect the other rooms in the recently" construct ed addition, which contains li brary and classrooms. The shop area has also been enlarged.. Workshop-type meetings were conducted in different class rooms under the direction of Mrs. W. H. Pomeroy, grade schoo i teacher. The subject of the round table discussions': Was "What Is Your Child Learning" and these were led by Mrs. Vera Selby for the first and second grades, Mrs. S. W. Callaghan for the third and fourth grades, Mrs. R. Barrow for the fifth and sixth grades and Harold Brown for the seventh and eighth grades. Mrs. Ray Palm, president, pre sided at the business meeting during which several amend ments to the by-laws were pass ed and a nominating committee elected. Members of the com mittee are Mrs. R. H. Denning, Mrs. Thomas Shearin, and Mrs. Elsie Turner. Mrs. Victor Hay led the devo tional service and Mrs. R. B. Fleming's Cub Scout pack led in the salute to the flag. A Founder's day. observance pro gram was presented by Mrs. Lester Bradshaw. The third and fourth grade room mothers were hostesses for the evening, with Mrs. Lester McFall as chairman. In recogni tion of Washington's birthday, cherry pie was served during the social period following the program. The next meeting of Eagle Point PTA will be held March 29 and will feature the physical education program in the Eagle Point schools. . Use light starch on rag rugs. You'll find they have more body and lie flatter on the floor. 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