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Benefit Party Announced by Lions' Auxiliary Plans for the forthcoming rummage sale and benefit card party were discussed at a Crater Lions' auxiliary meeting March 2 at the American Legion hall. In the absence of the com mittee chairman, Mrs. Murray Dumas, Mrs. Bill Ferris report ed on the rummage sale which will be held on March 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at 106 North Ivy street. Members of the committee are Mrs. Ferris, Mrs. Earl Crismon, and Mrs. Delmar Chapman. The auxiliary will sponsor its second annual benefit card party April 25 at Rogue Valley Coun try club. Bridge, canasta and pinochle will be played after dessert luncheon. The chairman Mrs. Willard Buchanan, an nounced her committee heads as follows: Decorations, Mrs. Dal ton Gressett; ticket sales, Mrs. Clayton George and prizes, Mrs. Marvin Hart. Mrs. Lloyd Evans of the nom inating committee presented the following candidates for 1955- 56 club officers: President, Mrs. Floyd Eastwood and Mrs. Mur ray Dumas; first vice-president, Mrs. Robert B. Morris and Mrs. Warren Brenner: second vice- president, Mrs. James Armson and Mrs. George Potucek; secre tary, Mrs. Delmar Chapman and Mrs. Marvin Hart; treasurer, Mrs. Clayton George and Mrs. " Bill Ferris; directors, Mrs. Wen dell Vaughn, Mrs. Robert Kyle, Mrs. John Lusk and Mrs. Man ville HeiseL sergeants-at-arms, Mrs. Bill Royce and Mrs. Dalton Gressett. At the April meeting, mem bers will have an opportunity to make nominations from the floor and election of officers will take place at the May meet ing. ' . After refreshments were serv ed by Mesdames Wendell Vaughn, Manville Heisel and Earl Crismon, members rehears ed a skit which they will present at the Crater Lions club hobo party Saturday, March 5. Senior Student Winner of Awarp! Eagle Point Miss Pauline DeHaas, a senior at Eagle Point high school, has been named a Betty Crocker "homemaker of tomorrow" as the result of re ceiving the highest score in her school in a written examination sponsored by General Mills, Inc. The examination was conducted at the school. Her name will be entered in the competition to name a state's candidate for the title of All American Homemaker of To morrow and the state winner will be awarded a scholarship of $1,500. In addition the winner will receive a trip with her local school advisor to Washington, D. C, Williamsburg, Va., and Phil adelphia. Her school also will receive a set of Encyclopedia Britannica. The national winner will re ceive a scholarship increased to $5,000. The 50-minute written exam ination was designed and judged by Science Research associates of Chicago. Miss DeHaas will receive a golden award pin and cook books for herself and her school. Art Instructor To Be Speaker Rogue River College Womens club will have Mrs. E. R. Gil- strap, 35 Geneva avenue, as their hostess for a meeting Saturday, March 12, at 2 p. m. Miss Marion Ady of Southern Oregon college faculty will be the speaker for the day and Larry Brunette, guest soloist. Mrs. Earl Bradfish will be the social chairman. . jt JOANNE DRU Cfi,WWA' -THREE RIN6 CIRCUS" Imdmiamr About 46 Calorie pir It ptm slice No added fats Made vith I different dtWratrf vegetable flours Hollywood Bread Is Baked Exclusively In This Area By These six Rogue River academy accordion stu dents of Mrs. Eve Prentice will be th fea tured soloists in the eleventh annual accord ion concert which will be given Monday eve ning. March 7 at the Medford Senior High school auditorium. Left to right are the Miss es Sally Jo Lindgren, Ruth Jolliffe, Rose Marie Belts, Eldene Burgess, Elizabeth Joll iffe and Patty Kennaday. Upper Applegate Extension Unit Holds Meeting Upper Applegate A nominat ing committee, made up of Mrs. Lee Port, Mrs. Fred West and Mrs. John Bryne, was selected at a meeting of thhe Upper Ap plegate Home Extension unit March 2. Mrs. Lester Jacobson, chairman, presided for he meet ing which was held at tie home of Mrs. Chester McDonough of Ruch. The nominating committee will make recommendations for 1955-56 officers at the April meeting. Twenty-nine members and vis itors attended the session and the lesson which concerned veg etables was led by Mrs. Byrne and Mrs. Clarence Williams. The vegetables prepared were includ ed in the luncheon menu for the group. In addition to the leaders the luncheon committee was made up of Mrs. E. Cox, Mrs. Otis Buck and Mrs. McDonough. During the noon hour Mrs. Louis Jones conducted an apron project for the Grange, -. Mrs. Lynn Valentine, as unit chairman of the Associated Coun try Women of the World, out lined suggestions for corres ponding as a group with similar organizations in foreign coun tries. Visitors included Mrs. Edward J. Kammerer, Mrs. Howard Hel geson, Mrs. Charles Williams, Mrs. Glenn Williams, Mrs. James Fossen, and Mrs. Menno Bach mann who was a former member. Sunday, March 6, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Improved Penmanship Goal Of New National Foundation By Elizabeth Toomey United Press Correspendent New Ycrk U.R) Archeolo gists who a few thousand years from now sit down to decipher the handwriting of the average young adult of the year 1955 A.D. are in for trouble. We can't even,' read large por tions of our friends' handwrit ing when the ink's still damp on the page, laments a public-spirited group concerned with the dismal state of our nation.il pen manship. A generation or so ago school children competed in regional writing contests. They won "Palmer Method" certificates and took artistic pride in grace ful, legible writing. Now it's different. "We got into a period along about the 1930 s where we felt that expression was the' more important," J. Kendrick Noble, president of a school book pub lishing firm, said. "The way you wrote something was considered secondary to the way you ex pressed your thoughts. "Schools used to have hand writing supervisors. They have gone out the same as high but ton shoes. Oh, I suppose some people must wear high button shoes, so I assume there is a handwriting supervisor here and there. But very few." Our writing has become steadily more illegible, the newly-formed handwriting founda tion reported after a survey of personal confusion caused by post cards you can't decipher and letters with mysterious sen tences, bad handwriting results in big business problems. Now the foundation hopes to reawaken our penmanship pride. Noble, whose company publishes handwriting manuals for grade schools, says we'll never go back to the old Palmer Method teach ing. The children won't be ex pected to do the old "push-pulls" and "ovals" either. "Now we believe in teaching handwriting for use and not as an art," he explained. "Palmer Method was the artistic ap proach. Ours is the functional approach. We correlate hand writing with subject matter, so that a child actually is being graded for handwriting in all subjects, including arithmetic." There is less attempt to stand ardize a child's handwriting to a specific form, such as Palmer Method, but more emphasis on legibility and ease of writing, Noble said. Youngsters learning to write now will have better handwrit ing than their parents, Noble predicted. The 20 to 30 age group produces some of the most baffling penmanship, since their early education fell somewhere between Palmer Method and the new enthusiasm for legibility. "It's never too late, though, he said, looking curiously at the notes written during the inter view by this reporter, whose American business. Besides the handwriting falls into the latter "push - pull-use-arm-movement' period. "Take this; handing over a guide which can be placed over ' j your own handwriting to test he said kindly, major flaws. "Practice improves plastic letter anybody's handwriting." In Medford It's Modern Beauty CALL 3-5379 Four Your Appointment at . . . MODERN BEAUTY SALON Monday Morning 131 SOUTH CENTRAL "Hollywood Diet and FREE! Calorie Guide." Vrite " Eleanor Day, Box 1027, O Hollywood, Cailf. ss ss ss ss MTfi W tit . III MORLOVE PRETTY PINWHEELS of venice lace edge the pin-tucked shirtfront of this Krinkle-Voille blouse by Morlove. A care-free fashion that needs no iron 'ing. Petite ocean pearl buttons point to a jewel neckline. Blue Pink Sizes 32 to 38 BEADED BEAUTY. 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