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
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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.
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Assorted crisp crackers and cof
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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.
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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
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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.
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