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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1955)
p MEPrOBP (OREGOIQ MAIL TMBTTlfg Wednesday, March IB, 1855 'Slant Strides did Shoe Comfort for Men ' The effort to get men's feet out of leather cases and into something both smart and com fortable for warm weather goes on apace and this spring it is really getting somewhere. Mesh started the ball rolling. And the shoe of mesh and leath er still has great popular appeal, with particular interest in the natural to wheat mesh com bined with black or brown. This Is a shoe for late spring or sum mer. A popular shoe, but one that no longer has any great style significance. "The smart man, who wants a good looking town shoe that he can wear early, and right through summer, is going for the new models in perforated or woven leathers which have a well-tailored smart air while al lowing the foot to breathe. Many of these 'shoes are Amer ican designs. Others originated in Italy or Spain, where men's footwear is a matter of great interest to all concerned. If expense is no object, the handwoven leather shoe, in which all fashioning and fitting is done in the handling of the a triumph. And it has inspired leather without lasting is really some very handsome shoes, in which all or the major portion of the vamp is of laced strips, so well styled that the shoe is a perfect accompaniment for town business suits. Tans and brown are favored in shoes of this type, but black is smart, especially with the charcoal and off-black green and brown flannels and worsteds for business wear. And there are also some good looking shoes in navy blue calfskin. In perforated shoes, another way of getting ventilation plus style, the most popular models show a perforated section in the vamp with plain edge. Brown is the leading color, but the tone combinations are also popular. In other models the entire vamp is perforated with plain quarter, this perhaps having the style edge, since there is more and more interest in the plain toe effect. While perforations and woven leathers were originally intro duced for reason of coolness and comfort, they have caught on so rapidly that many shoes now simulate the effect with em bossed leathers. These may be no cooler than regulation shoes, ion band wagon, showing how but they are riding on the fash have appealed to the public these new air-conditioned shoes fancy. In real summer styles, the classic tan and white spectator gets the new look in a two-eye let butcher type with perforated vamp and quarter of white buck Sir Francis Drake named the Farallone islands, off San Fran cisco, the Islands of St. James, in 1579. 117 S. Central Phone 2-6241 WARDS HAVE NATIONALLY KNOWN WEATHER-BIRD SHOES For Active Boys and Girls Here are a few styles from Wards Large Stock of Weather-Bird Shoes Toddler's shoes in red and white. Sizes 4 to 8 4.45 Children's white 2 -strap sandals. Sizes 4 to 8, 8V4 to 12, 12ft to 3 ' 4.95 to 6.95 Little girls' white ankle strap sandal. 4 to 8 4.95 8!i to 12 5.95 Girls' patent sandals, 8ft to 12 5.95 12ft to 3 6.95 Boys' crepe sole oxford, B, C, D widths. 8ft to 12, 5.95 12ft to 3 6.95 Little boys' brown 2-strap exford, 4 to 8 4.45 M i kl ft r -SI' hi J " NYLON BLENDED Take a breather in airy, moccasin style shoes for spring. Here ny lon and grain calf are blended to provide ease and comfort. (By Pink With Black In Men's Footwear Will men wear pink shoes? They . have accepted pink shirts, especially for wear with new and popular charcoal shades in clothing. The New in Shoes this season include not overall pink footwear, but pink with black, with navy and with charcoal. Other newest style footwear highlights for men include black calf with green suede for a two eyelet oxford and yellow calf with red soles and piping in a blucher. Soft .shrunken grains are now very high style in black, navy, darkest brown and charcoal. ine new lower toplme is be ing used on everything from footwear for active sports to town and dancing shoes. Matching mesh, in brown, black or navy is being used for men. wall last effects in slinons. with the wall of mesh and the vamp and quarter of calf. The pure white leather slip- on, cut like a slipper and with punched cut-outs and with black sole and heel is here for Pigskin is going high style on men's footwear in wing tip pat terns and dark town colors. Charcoal polished calf with matching suede is an elegant town wing tip treatment. National Archives Building Contains Reams of Records Washington (U.R) If you want information about loyalty oaths during the civil war or maps dealing with sunken treas ure, the National. Archives building here can fix you up. There are now nearly 800,000 cubic feet of records which date from pre-Revolutionary times to the post-Korean conflict. Scholars and writers seek in formation and material on al most every conceivable subject the geology of the Antarctic, literary figures in diplomacy, activities of the American Con go Co., and how the New Deal affected Puerto Rican political movements. The reference service boasts that about 400,000 reference de mands are supplied annually. Congressmen frequently call upon the staff to produce infor mation needed in connection with legislative activities. One state used copies of rec ords to support its claims to off shore petroleum rights and an other found that maps (there are 900,000 maps and charts) were very useful in planning a re-survey of its coastal and in land waters. Preservation Problem Among many historic docu ments on exhibit are the Decla ration of Independence, the Con stitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. General Services Administration reports that last year some 25,000 stu dents from 32 states viewed these charters of American lib erty. Archives officials also recog nize the need to preserve the legibility of its precious docu ments for future generations. The Declaration of Indepen dence is already badly faded, partly due to damaging light. Special filters now control the 'injurious effects of natural and low-intensity light and photo lighting is prohibited. , Filters are being installed in all display cases and special problems in the preservation of exhibited documents were in vestigated. A recent survey re vealed that over 8,000,000 items are in need of some repair. TWO-EYELET BLUCHER Smart, sophisticated colors feature the New in Shoes for men as in the instance of the two-eyelet 'blucher above with charcoal grey mudguard and trim in buckskin. (By Bates). SCIENCE AT WORK By DELOS SMITH United Press Seienct Editoi New York (U.R) -The reason American physicians prescribe some four billion doses of habit forming and potentially deadly "sleeping pills" every year is because they work benefits in the human body which nothing else can bring about. Drs. Joseph F. Fazekas and Theodore Koppanyi asked over 300 medical educators and prac ticing physicians for their opin ions. They concluded that "sleeping pills" are prescribed in such huge numbers not be cause of "the physician's lack of conscience, knowledge or awareness of the problems in volved but to the rudimentary state of medical and biologic science." What the public calls "sleep ing pills," doctors call thex bar biturates. They're a family of potent ' central nervous system depressing drugs derived from barbituric acid. They've become an enormous problem because it is possible to become addicted to them no less than to opium and because an overdose is fatal and people keep killing them selves with them, either acciden tally or intentionally. Necessary Or Legitimate Drs. Fazekas and Koppanyi wanted to know if members of the medical profession thought they and their fellows : were using them "promiscuously." They asked this and other ques tions of the professors of medi cine, neurology and phychiatry in American and Canadian uni versities, of the staffs of two hospitals, and of a number of general practitioners. Of the 112 who answered the question about promiscuity, 75 said yes and eight more said yes with reservations. But the other President's Visit Turns Capital Flower Show Into Utter Confusion Washington U.R) Flower shows normally are sedate, fra grant affairs conducted in li brary-like calm. That is, until a President of the United States comes to call. Then brick walls collapse, photographers fall into glisten ing garden pools, garden club ladies get their corsages crushed and men with live alligators shove their alleged pets at the chief executive. Such was the case here yester day when Mr. Eisenhower, sub bing for his wife who was back at the White House getting over the flu, visited the National Flower Garden show at the huge District of Columbia armory. Until the President arrived, the armory was a bit of floral paradise as well-dressed matrons moved between the displays, ad miring the flowers and plants and wishing their gardens at home could look the same. Confusion Reigns When the word passed that the President was on the prem ises, however, the place took on all the aspects of a department store basement with nylons on sale for a dime a pair. The President went first to see "Mamie's Garden," a strik- STYLE WINNERS For . casual stepping a smart model adapted from the Swiss, shown above, is available in the new ginger crushed grain or smooth cherry leather. In the lower photo un usually low cut is this raised seam moccasin slated to be a style winner this season in smooth orange toned leather. (Both by Thorn McAn). - - ing plot of chalk white tulips, boxwoods and blooming dog wood trees set within a serpen tine brick wall and flagstone ter race. The garden will be given to the Eisenhower farm at Get tysburg, Pa., by the Allied Flor ists association. Here the first difficulty de veloped. . One man insisted on giving the President a huge vase brimming with two dozen Hap piness roses. Mr. Eisenhower wanted to see the rest of the show and he wasn't about to go trudging through the aisles haul ing the vase of flowers. He turned it over to a Secret Service man who disappeared, only to cause a lady gardener to shrill, "Where's he going with our flowers they're for the President." Wishing Wells Then the President moved to ward a series of wishing wells into which the public was invit ed to toss coins for the Crippled Children's society. Two camera men, trying for a high angle shot of the President's approach, climbed up what looked like a sturdy garden wall. The wall was not cemented, however, and buckled under the weight. Down came a cascade of peat moss, top soil, bricks and two photographers at the Presi dent's feet. He remarked, "That will make good golf soil," and proceeded toward the wishing wells where he discovered he had no coins. "If I can find luck, let's not pass it up," he said, dispatching an aide for change. Armed with $2 in quarters, the President began tossing coins into the small, knee-deep pools. One photographer, duti fully intent on what he saw through his camera viewfinder and not on his footing, calmly plunged into the first pond. Ough To Be Ashamed ' One gentleman gardener trum peted, "Hey, you, don't do that." A lady stuck her head from be hind a hedge and shrilled at the poor man who was trying to clamber out of the water, "You ought to be ashamed of your self." Ladies pushed and shoved to get near Mr. Eisenhower who took all the fuss with good hu mor. One lady loped along be hind the presidential group, calling out at frequent intervals, "Don't forget the Patent Office." After several yelps, investiga tion proved that she didn't want the President to pass up the floral display on the Patent Of fice which patents about 80 new flowers a year. The President visited and approved. Then, on his way out of the building, he stopped to view a jungle exhibit, standing in the midst of which was a man with a live alligator about three feet long. The man pushed the 'gator toward the chief executive. Mr. Eisenhower fixed a steely eye on the reptile, warning with cautious humor, "He's not going to bite me, by gum." Then the President returned to the White House and such workaday rou tine as war and taxes. questions broadened the investi-j gation, and, from the answers to them, the; questioners found that they had to distinguish between necessary and legitimate uses of the drugs. The necessary uses, they found, were in epilepsy and oth er convulsive states, for the tranquilization of maniacal pa tients," and as anesthetic agents The legitimate uses they cata logued as relief of apprehen sion and anxiety states, persist ent severeinsomnia, thyrotoxi cosis, essential hypehtension and probably gastro-intestinal disturbances." Their interpretation was ne cessary because of marked dis agreement among the answering doctors to the opposing ques tions: (1) what are the legiti mate indications for barbitu rates? (2) what are the unneces sary uses of - barbituates? Im pressive numbers lined up on opposing sides. Nothing Preferable Forty-six out of 334 thought insomnia legitimately called for barbiturates, but 42 others said barbiturates were not" neces sary" in the treatment of in somnia. Fifty-eight thought the drugs legitimate for "acute an xiety, panic and tension states" but 36 thought them unneces sary for those states. The questioners reviewed other agents for depressing the central nervous system and found ijpne "preferable." There- .Ji y UCil UlbUlOtCd VY 111 .VFAiU&WU to be used by the medical pro fession." They suggested that doctors should always be care ful to prescribe them in the smallest effective doses possible, always on a short-term basis, and should never use them when something would do as well or better. They doubted that any effec tive law could be devised against "the so-called promiscu ous use of barbituates." They thought that laws tougher than the present ones governing them and other habit-forming drugs, would drive the manufacture "underground to a greater ex tent than at present." Doctors, pharmacists, teachers, clergy men, and social workers could do more than laws to "curb the illicit barbiturate traffic." They made their report in the technical journal, Postgraduate Medicine. Cayenne pepper is hot and pungent, and a bright red col or. i Should lead you to a profession llnl (Am dnti ctpnnfiirl And gets your confession AO All sfceS&V $895 gygp $1295 And wi'n tenfuttn' thai City Clvbi r your but bvyl By fee flMfSMEM jr? any t rpm -m 'T.w.rro (Ktxm ft 117 S. CENTRAL PHONE 2-6241 TONIGHT 5 to 9 Specials Reg '2.98 GIRLS' SWEATERS SPECIAL PRICE 1.99 TONIGHT ONLY ATTRACTIVE CARDIGANS IN 100 WOOL OR NYLON CHOICE OF TRIMS, STYLES. SIZES: 3-6X, 7-14.. CHILDREN'S DEPT. MAIN FLOOR Were 3.98 to 6.9,8 WOMENS, GIRLS' SHOES SPECIAL PRICE 2.27 TONIGHT ONLY YOUR CHOICE OF WOMEN'S CASUALS, GIRLS' SANDALS, OTHERS WIDE SELECTION OF COLORS, STYLES, LEATHERS. MOST SIZES SHOE DEPT. MAIN FLOOR SPECIAL PRICE Reg. 59c MENS SHORTS 46c TONIGHT ONLY SWISS RIB SPEED. SHORTS OF FINE COMBED COTTON NYLON REINFORCED LEG OPENINGS. SIZES: S, M, L MEN'S DEPT. MAIN FLOOR SPECIAL PRICE Were 5.50r5.98 ELECTRIC CLOCKS 3.33 TONIGHT ONLY NATIONALLY ADVERTISED ALARM AND WALL CLOCKS YOUR CHOICE OF 3 MODELS. PLUS 10 FED. TAX HOUSEWARES BASEMENT SPECIAL PRICE Reg. 2.49 GARDEN HOE 1.88 TONIGHT ONLY WARDS MASTER QUALITY. 614-IN. STEEL BLADE WELDED STEEL SHANK. 52" ASH HANDLE HARDWARE DEPT. BASEMENT
