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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, July 24, 195S House Dress Manufacturers Styles Give Dior Competition By GAY PAULEY Uniled Press Slaft Corespondent New York -V.?.) The world of fashion resounds with names such as Dior, Mainbocher and Carnegie. But some of the out standing style changes of the last 50 years have come from one fashion group which never boasted a hemline shuffler or "H" line creator. The house dress industry, which was thriving when Chris tian Dior was still in knee pants, says that it not only has caused style trends but that some of thf-m have been copied by high fashion designers. Big Business We've been starting styles since we first came out with the Mother Hubbard," said Erwin Feldman, director of the Na tional Association of House Dre?s Manufacturers. Some of the members of the association have been in business more than 50 years; the industry does a S500.000.000 annual sales, which Feldman said made it the larg est single segment of the whole apparel market. Some of its designers earn as much as $25,000 a year. House dress manufacturers ?ay they started the bungalow apron, the junior size, and the shirtwaist dress. The shirtwaist, which has been in and out of fashion for 20 years, now shows ia several spring lines from top designers. Helped Cotton "We're the ones who helped Eetcotton out of the gingham and calico class." said Feldman. "We first used the multi-color prints. Later, the name designers took to cotton . . . now of course it's Three-way Method For Washing Windows Lincoln. Neb. (U.R) Window washing need not be the chore many housewives and their hus bands make it, according to an extension home management specialist at the University of Nebraska. Clara N. Leopold said that dirt on soiled windows should be wiped off with a damp cloth. Then the windows should be washed with a cellulose sponge moistened in a solution of one quart of warm water plus one tablespoon of household ammo nia or vinegar. The windows should be pol ished with a soft, dry cloth, a clean damp chamois, or a squee pee. Sister Here Miss Helen Halboth. LaMar?. Ia.. is in Medford as a guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Pr. and Mrs. O. J. Halboth, 2419 Hillcrest road. Miss Halboth is a teacher in LaMars. PINEAPPLE AND CHEESE Chicago fU.R) Fresh Pine apple and cheese combine to make a delightful summertime dessert or snack. Cut the pineap ple, leaves and all, lengthwise and scoop out the fruit. Cut the fruit into bite-sized pieces and spear with food picks for easy eating. Fill the pineapple shells with whipped pineapple-flavored cheese with the pineapple chunks. For added color, add wedges of red-skinned Gouda or Edam cheese and complete the platter with thin slices of Swiss. Assorted crisp crackers and cof fee or tea are "musts" with this dessert. Cheese not only is an attrac tive garnish for salads: it is an easy way to add protein to a summertime menu. Vlan Wtc BUY THE NEW GE Water Heater AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -All Day Long ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer I GENERAL 7f ELECTRIC Wafer Heaters a .year-round fabric." The industry conceded that Paris and rew iork names in fluenceed it, but not to the ex tent of faithfully copying their ideas. "We watch trends," said Feld man. "We will adapt a silhouette, but not the frou-frou. Today's house dress is just as appropriate for shopping or an afternoon tea as for general home wear. ' At their recent fashion show in Manhattan, the manufacturers featured the longer torso silhou ette of higher priced spring lines, But it also clung to such all-time favorites as the coat dress, and the shirtwaist. The fashions were called "day time dresses" at the show. "But there's no attempt on the part of the industry to get away from the house dress label," said Feldman. "It's been good for half a century and it promises to stay that way." Jacksonville Jacksonville Mr. and Mrs. Clinton A. Smith left Monday on a three-week automobile trip. They plan to drive through the Rocky mountains, visit Yellow stone and Glacier National parks. They will visit Mrs. Smith's sister in Denver, Colo., and Smith's relatives in Bould er, Colo. Here for a month's visit at the J. M. Patterson home is Mrs. Patterson's niece, Mrs. Arthur Johnston. Pompano Beach, Fla Mrs. Patterson was guest of honor at a birthday dinner party July 15 at the Jackson hotel, Medford. Included in the party were Mr. and Mrs. Ford Patter son, Mr. and Mrs. George May field, Mrs. Authur Johnston, Mr. Patterson was unable to attend due to illness. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Denton, Myrtle Creek, visited last week at the home of Mrs. Denton's sister, Mrs. Elna Flyn. Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Flyn's grandmother, rfeturned with them to Eugene after several weeks visit here. Misses Beverly and Linda Flyn, daughters of Mrs. Elna Flyn left this week to attend the camp of the Assembly of God Church, near Mt. McLaugh lin. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Peak and family. Seattle, Wash., stopped for a short visit with Mrs. Peak's two sisters, Mrs. Lois Fretwell and Mrs. Paul Algeo, Jackson ville. The Peaks were en route to their new home near San Francisco. Olin Knox, Yamhill, Ore., visited last week at the home of his sister, Mrs. Peter Fick. He also visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Knox, Jackson ville. Mrs. J. D. Brown and grand son, Bobby, Eagle Point, were week end visitors at the home of her sisiter, Mrs. Peter Fick. Walter Littlefield and niece, Ardela, Amery, Wash., visited at the home of his cousin, Mr. and Mrs. David O'Connor, last week. Mrs. Nora Foss and son Paul, Seaside, Ore., were visitors last week end with Mrs. Frank Jano-sky. Harold Godley of Los Angeles is visiting his mother, Mrs, Frank Janosky, this week. Buddv Dick, third class elec trician on the USS Princeton, formerly of Jacksonville and a graduate of high school here, and his sister, Betty Ann Dick, made several visits to Jackson ville last week and are also visit ing their grandfather, Dave Hu chins, Butte Falls. Mrs. Lulu Saulsberry is ex pecting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Sauls berry, Berkeley, Calif., this week end. They are coming by the coast route and plan to spend a two weeks vacation here and see several Shakespearean plays in Ashland during the fes tival. B. J. Chrlstianson of Chris' Drug store will attend a Christ mas gift showing at Portland this week end. A square dance sponsored by the Jacksonville Lions will be held at the community hall next Thursday night. Guest of honor is Zita Maddox, the Lions' can didate for queen of the Jack sonville Jubilee. Melba, Pixie, Ed and Lynn Graham and Pat Hubbard were house guests two days this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. i Jesse Groves Sr., at their farm : on the Stage rd. J Fishing parties visiting at I Crescent City . over last week i end included Mr. and Mrs. Fred Christian with their fishing boat Salty,' and Mr. and Mrs. Rich : ard Souza, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Noble, who stayed over until , Monday evening, and Carl Hos ! kins with a party of 5 who went deep sea fishing on the boat ; 'Undine' and came home with a I small catch of salmon, j Twelve boys from Jacksonvil ' Ie Boy Scout troop 35 will leave this Sunday for camp at Lake O' Woods. i - 1 sr i r . t if'.'.-w,:, :sP? VIA TIi is feminine golfer putts in vtylc! She is dressed in cool, com fortable rnlion coordinate designed hr Jo Collins. A polka dot print blouse of cotton broadrl.ifh i teamed with trim shorts in solid cotton. Group Attends School Lunch Conference The first school lunch confer ence sponsored jointly by the Department of Institutional Man agement of the School of Home Economics, Oregon State college and the school lunch section, State Department of Education, was held in Corvallis, July 11 to 13, with a large delegation from Jackson county attending. The program was planned by Miss Helen Mulhern, manager, women's food service, Oregon State college, and Mrs. Laura P. Wells, director of the Oregon school lunch program. State De partment of Education, to meet the needs of the group. More than 200 people attended the three-day workshop. The general sessions and group discussions as well as demonstra tions by instructors and speak ers, presented an opportunity for group participation in solving problems concerning school lunches for the children of Ore gon. Monday evening's entertain ment, which was concluded with a colored film "You'll Remem ber Oregon," and a special guest dinner at the Corvallis Country club Tuesday evening, added in terest to the success of the con ference. Those in attendance from Med ford schools were: Mrs. Irene Drew, Mrs. Genive Gray. Mrs. Edith Hamilton, Mrs. Wilma White, Mrs. Hazel Withrow, Mrs. Betty Ayres and Mrs. Virginia Wait, School Lunch Supervisor, Medford city schools. Other schools in Jackson county were represented by Mrs. Elsie Gemaehlich, Griffin Creek; Mrs. Elizabeth Jeffries, Central Point; Mrs. Peggy Peck, Eagle Point; Mrs. Arlie Ragsdale, Elk Trail; Mrs. Grace Hitson, Evans Valley; Mrs. Edrie Hays, Mrs. Beth Malone, and Mrs. Thelma Putman, Ashland; Mrs. Sybyl Avery and Mrs. Margaret Wal lace, Phoenix; and Mrs. Bernice Cowell and Mrs. Theta Hilton, Lone Pine. Kansas City Women Earn Living by Breaking Many Eggs Kansas City, Mo. U.R) Be tween three and four hundred women here make their living breaking eggs. There is more to this egg breaking than just breaking the eggs. You have to separate the white from the yolk. A crack-egg breaker can break 900 eggs an hour. That's 7,200 a day, 36,000 a week. Five or six months out of the year, in the spring and early summer, egg processors sell egg whites and egg yolks to candy makers, noodle makers, baker ies and such. The rest of the time they process the whole egg, in the shell, for home consump tion. During the season the women break eggs eight hours a day. Trie two largest companies here keep 100 women lined up around the egg-bearing pulley belts. They crack the eggs, drip the white in one bucket and flip the yellow into another. Wholesale egg officials say the old hands show up every year for the season. IP ilp mi nir 5 Tuesday, July 19. was a very special day for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Applegate. Not only was it their golden wedding day, but the Applegates renewed their marriage vows in a ceremony held in the same church in which the wedding took place. Mrs. Applegate, recalling that day 50 years ago when she promised to love and honor the tall young man at her side, said the aisle in the little Catholic church in Jacksonville seemed very' long to her when she walked to the altar. Fifty years later she was surprised to find how tiny the church seemed, and how brief the walk down the aisle. It was very hot last Tuesday when the Applegates welcomed guests at their home on South Oakdale avenue, and Mr. Applegate sprinkled the walk and porch from time to time with water from the garden hose, hoping to cool the air a bit. This reminded the couple that it was also hot the day they were married 110 degrees, in fact. On her wedding day in 1905 Mrs. Applegate, then Lida Wil liams, wore a grown of white crepe de chine with large puffed sleeves. Her large picture hat, known as the Charlotte Cordea style, was of white horsehair and shirred chiffon and was trimmed with white violets and satin ribbons. It was handmade by a millin er in Jacksonville and Mrs. Applegate recalls that "it was a per fectly beautiful hat." For the golden wedding anniversary Tuesday Mrs. Applegate wore a dress of pale green nylon and a coat made by her oldest daughter, Mrs. Thomas R. Barry of Klamath Falls. Her flowers were red rosebuds. Among the friends who called on the Applegates Tuesday were the W. J. Warners, who have lived next door on Oakdale avenue for many years. The Applegate and Warner children played together as youngsters, and Mrs. Warner remembered with a smile Tuesday how her son, Gordon, and the Applegate's older son, Dick, enjoy ed telling people that they were "cow cousins." Seems the two families used milk from the same cow. Mrs. Applegate reminisced about the underground house which the boys dug in a vacant lot between the Applegate and Warner homes, even neatly bracing the sides of the dugout with bricks. Even so, Mrs. A. said the two mothers worried that the whole thing would cave in some day, burying the boys. Mrs. Applegate, a devout Catholic all her life, has a deep faith in prayer. During the time her son, Dick, was imprisoned by the Communists in China she prayed daily for his release and was confident always that he would return to this country un harmed, which proved to be true. The Applegates are living at the addres on Oakdale avenue which was Mrs. Applegate's home as a girl, her father and mother having purchased the home in the early 1900's. There was some reminiscing about the Shakespearean festival during the annual Bard's Heyday last Sunday. Angus Bowmer, founder and producing director, recalled how the first Shakes pearean play, given as part of an Ashland Fourth of July cele bration, had 42 rounds of boxing on the same program. The sponsors of the celebration had grave doubts about the box office power of Shakespeare, but their worries were ground less. The play drew larger crowds than the boxing matches did, and made enough money to underwrite the losses of the athletic events. Director Bowmer remembered too that fireworks had been planned for the same night as the play, and that somehow or the other there was a mixup in plans and the fireworks began before the play was over. This resulted in the actors having to speak their lines to the accompaniment of hissing Roman candles and roaring sky rockets soaring over Lithia park. Actors in those days didn't even have dressing rooms. "There wasn't any worry about modesty," said Mr. Bowmer. "We couldn't afford it." Later on the program Dr. Margery Bailey talked about the festival and praised the 1955 cast "the festival hasn't had such a cast in years," she said. Dr. Bailey, whose knowledge of Shakes peare and Elizabethan times is unquestioned, also spoke of the excitement and thrill of seeing his plays presented in authentic style on a stage patterned after the Fortune theater of old London and said "you never know Shakespeare unless you see the plays in the theater." - Mrs. Robert Shepherd was announcing news Wednesday be fore it happened, or so her friends thought for a time. Mrs. Shep herd received a wire from Germany telling of the birth of a daughter to Lt. and Mrs. Fitzhugh Brewer Jr., which said the child had been born at 8 p.m. Wednesday. She began relaying the news about 6 p.m. and had a lot of fun over the exclamations which this brought. Mrs. S. just airily told everyone that she learned the news from a crystal ball. One of the housewives of our family recently complained that she couldn't find a decent cleaning rag around the house and wished someone would donate some well worn turkish toweling or a couple of old knit undershirts in the good cause of clean floors and woodwork. Scanning the editorial mail a few days later we came upon a dispatch which says "The great American shortage nowadays is just plain rags. Miracle fibers are now used for almost every thing around the house, but they make poor rags and that nar rows the field down to sheets, pillowcases and table linens, which are not lightly disposed of these days." The article went on to ad vise housewives to put the good cotton rags through the washing machine, keep them clean and usuable as long as possible. Honest clerk story: Shopper at Meier and Frank in Portland asked if store had any fall cotton dresses in dark colors and came the clerk's reply, "Yes, we do but frankly, you wouldn't like any of them. They're such ouchy colors." She was right, too. O.S. CALENDAR Calendar notices and news fat the society section of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition Is 1 D.m Friday Dead line for the weekly calendar is 8 a.m of the dav of publication and for week day news is 5 cm the dav before Duplication Sunday 1 p.m. Cebu swamp, MOOL, Mrs. Ted Cotter, Lower River rd.. Grants Pass. 5 p.m. - Siskiyou canton and auxiliary, Patriarchs Militant, picnic, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dyer, 29 Myrtle st. Monday 12:30 p.m. Grandmothers club, Hawthorne park. 6 p.m. LPNA, picnic, Tou Velle park. 6:45 p.m. Cruisers club, First Presbyterian church. 8 p.m. Public card party, sponsored by Neighbors of Wood craft, Moose hall, 11 Newtown St. Tuesday 12 noon DUV picnic, Haw thorne park. 1:30 p.m. Rogue Valley Herb society, Girls Community club. 8 p.m. Medford Truith cen ter, Unity, Room 203, Holly Theater bldg. 8 p.m. Pythian Sisters, Girls' Community club. Wednesday 7:30 p.m. SPEBSQSA, Grange hall, Phoenix. Thursday 6:30 p.m. Golden Link class, E. H. Niedermeyer home, Ross lane. Friday 11 a.m. Medford Truth cen ter, Unity, Room 203 Holly The ater bldg. Neighbors of Woodcraft will give a public card party at Moose hall, 11 Newtown street, Mon day, July 25, at 8 p.m. Pinochle, canasta and bridge will be played, and prizes given. Pythian Club Plans Meeting On Tuesday Pythian club will meet Tues day, July 26 at 8 p.m. at Girls' Community club. Mrs. Joe Cook and Mrs. Ida Ireland will be hostesses. Past Chiefs' club of the Pyth ian Sisters met last week at the home of Mrs. Delia Littlefield for a covered dish luncheon. Merry Widow Party Given in Minnesota Sanborn, ' Minn. (U.R) Most of this village's 33 widows turned out for a "merry widow" party given by Mrs. Emma Dull. "Too many parties are for couples," said Mrs. Dull, a wid ow herself. "The widows always get left out," she said. Highlight of the evening was when three men came to take them home. Gold Hill HEC Meet; Chairman Appointed Gold Hill Mrs. Nina Dusen berry, fancy work chairman of the Gold Hill Home Economics club, reported on work being done by the group during a meeting July 13 at the Grange hall. A potluck luncheon was served and 12 members and 1 visitor attended. Mrs. Lucy Eddington, chair man, presided. Mrs. Grace Bruce resigned as publicity chairman because of illness and Mrs. Lena Laricks was appointed to the of fice for- the remainder of the year. The next meeting will be July 27, also at the Grange hall when another potluck luncheon will be served. Wrap individual hamburgers in aluminum foil for picnics. The patties can be cooked right in the hot coals, and leave no dirty pans to take home. Small children enjoy eating a combination of bite-sized cer eals and raisins not only for breakfast but for between meal snacks. When it's snacktime, serve the raisin-cereal mixture dry and either milk or fruit juice in a cup. When you're thinking of trim mings to serve with barbecued hamburgers don't forget that a zippy mashed avocado spread adds a real de luxe touch. Simply mash soft avocados and season to taste with salt, pepper, wine vinegar and grated onion. A little curry powder used in salad mayonnaise or boiled dress ing will give the salad new taste appeal. GQSK ttfn,pnr, ess Shakespearean Festival We extend to the Oregon Shakespearean Festival Association heartiest congratulations upon the celebration of their 20th season. With nineteen actors and actresses, new to the Festival this year, playing key roles, this season's offering promises to set a new record for enjoyment of devotees of the Elizabethan theatre, and attendance at the cjat. We also salute the people of Ashland, who have been among the leaders in sweeping Shakespearean revival throughout tht United States. The annual Festival draws people to Ashland and the Rogue River Valley from all parts of the yuntry, and this outstanding cultural attraction thus becomes an important economic factor to this section of the state. To all who manage, direct and participate in the Oregon Shakespearean Festival this year, we offer the best wishes of this community and the gratitude of those who appreciate truly fine stage presentations presented in historically faithful settings in lovely Ashland Lithia Park. Medford Pharmacy, Inc. We are Open Today 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. PHONE 2-6253 127 EAST SIXTH Right Beam Get On the VOTE Jjh, 1 Connie y! JUBILEE ! 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