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PTA Unit Honors Founders For the February meeting Washington Parent-Teacher as sociation gave a silver tea in commemoration of Founders' day. The presentation of the flag rvao given uy Kllixz lllxzillLni cotu of the Boy Scouts of America, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts of America and the Brownies. De votion was given by Mrs. John Hatch. Musical entertainment was furnished by the Washington school orchestra under the di rection of Miss Audrey Brist. The group played several num bers. Mrs. Russell Johnson read a brief history of the PTA. Mrs. Ray Alder presided over a short business meeting. Mrs. Victor Taylor, ways ana means chairman, announced plans for a carnival to be held on the evening of March 9th. The car nival is to be the main fund raising event of the year and great hopes are held for its success. Mrs. Alice Webb, Mrs. Victor Taylor and Mrs. John Hatch were elected to the nominating committee which will select of ficers for the coming year. Room count was won by Mrs. Pat terson's fourth grade. , Principal Robert Sage extend ed special thanks to Miss Brist for her "fine work" . with the orchestra. It was announced that the date of the next meeting will be March 23. A buzz session was held with individual groups discussing these four main topics: Aim for next year, afternoon or evening meetings, types of programs, and how to improve attendance. A report was then given from each group on the ideas and view expressed. .,-. Thanks was given to Mrs. Mrs. Clayton Ruhl's study group for the . child care provided. Hostesses for the tea were the mothers of pupils in the third grade. Supper and Dance Set for Sunday at. Posse Clubhouse Another in the series of Sun day night suppers will be hid Sunday, Fbruary 26, at th Jack son County Shnffs posse, club house. A potluck- dinner at 6 p.m. will be followed by square dancing. Memberg of all riding clubs Veteran Groups Hold Meetings; Installation Set Members of Colonel Sargent camp and auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans, attended a covered dish dinner, meeting and drill practice at' Redman hall last Sunday afternoon. Guests from Rogue River aux iliary of Grants Pass included Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cotter and daughters, Susan' and Nancy, Mrs. Sallie Cotter, Mrs. Jose phine Dillenwater and Mrs. Kathiyn Sweetland, president of Rogue 'River auxiliary. Medford guests included Don Anderson, Harry Barneburg, John Unger and Audley White. Plans were discussed for a rummage sale to be held at 106 North Ivy street in Medford March 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Auxiliary president, Mrs. James Cech, appointed Mrs. Mabel Nicholson chairman of the sale. Members having rummage, white elephants and plants are to call Mrs. Nicholson and they will be picked up February 29. The members also discussed plans for the annual Carnation Sale May 11 and 12 on the streets of Medford. Parent-Teacher, Magazine Drive To End Saturday Subscriptions for the National Parent Teacher magazine must be placed with local unit chair men by Saturday in order to be counted in the current drive, it was reported today by, Mrs. Charles Bird, city council mag azine chairman. Parents who have not yet plac ed orders are. urged by Mrs. Bird to contact their unit chair men or presidents so that proper credit can be given. The Oregon Congress of PTA will award a certificate - of achievement to the individual unit in the state which sends in the highest num ber of subscriptions this week. A brief history of the winning unit will also be published in the Oregon Congress Bulletin, along with a picture of the unit's magazine chairman. and their guests are invited, as well as anyone interested in the clubs. ' Last Sunday members of the Ladies'' Mounted troop were hostesses to about 50 guests who enjoyed dinner, cards and danc ing at the clubhouse. As Colorful as "Spring are the pretty New i? rv ip iP TP ipn sty II 11 II II II IV FABRIC BY , Embroidered jewel spray on floral printed Everglaze cotton satin by Wamsutta. Scoop neck and circular; skirt. Sizes 10 to 20. -V , - - I 21 N. Central Violinist, Soprano To Be Featured On Radio Programs The distinguished violinist, Isaac Stern, and Lucine Amara, Metropolitan opera soprano, will appear on week end radio pro grams. Violinst Stern and the noted actress-dancer, Vera Zorina, will be featured artists on the KYJC radio broadcast of the New. York Philharmonic - Symphony Sun day, February 26. Local broad cast time is 11:30 a.m. to 1p.m. Mr. Stern will be soloist in the Prokofieff "Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major." This work, begun in 1913 when the com poser was barely in his twenties, was first performed in Paris in 1923. - Vera Zorina will join the orchestra as narrator for the first American broadcast of a recent work by the contempo rary Swiss composer, Rolf Lieb ermann, his "Musique" for nar rator and orchestra. The new work consists of three poems by Charles Baudelaire, to be nar rated in French with the ac companiment of full orchestra. The titles of the poems are "Le Voyage," "La Musique," and "Enivrez-vous." The program will ' include Glinka's overture to "Russian and Ludmilla" and the sym phonic poem "Les Preludes" by Franz Liszt. . The music program of Radio Free Europe will be discussed by Donald Diamond, chief of 'the music department of Radio Free Europe, and by Fereno Kor mendi,, distinguished Hungarian novelist, as guests of James Eas sett, music commentator. '':: G i s e 1 e MacKenzie,. singing star, and Jean- Fenn, soprano of the Metropolitan opera,-will be featured artists on KYJC Radio's "The Woolworth Hour" Sunday, February ,26 from 1 to 2 p.m. ; . Miss Fenn, who is a protegee of the famous coloratura, Ame nta Galli-Curci, will sing one of the arias for which Galli-Curci was 'famous, the "Baratella" from "Pagliacci." With Percy Faith and the Woolworth orches tra nd chorus she will sing "When Children Pray."-. ' Percy. Faith will conduct the orchestra. . Lucine Amara, will be soprano soloist on the Telephone Hour, Monday, February 27, at 9 p.m., over the NBC radio . network and KMED. The broadcast, on which Miss Amara will be ac companied by Donald Voorhees and the Bell Telephone orches tra, originates in Carnegie Hall. Miss Amara will present songs by composers from three nations. Her principal selection, which closes - the - broadcast," will ; be "Depuis le jour" from "Louise" by the French composer; Char pehtier Her' first, number . will be "Em .Traum," into .which Edvard Grieg wove the beauty of his native Norway, and her other two selections will be tra ditional Scottish folk songs, "Loch Lomond", and "Charlie Is My Darling." Donald Voorhees and the or chestra will present numbers by composers' from three' other na tions. They will play the "Waltz" from Tchaikowsky's "Eugen Onegin,'? ."Scotch. Poem" by the American ". composer, .Edward MacDowell and sparkling dance from Spain, "Zapateado" by Pablo Sarasate. ' Friday, February 24, 195S Mrs. John B. Richardson (right) and Mrs. Malcolm Reybold, an-, nounced as attendants for the April wedding of film star Grac Kelly and Prince Rainier(of Monaco, get together in Mrs. Rich ardson's New York apartment. Mrs. Reybold and Miss Kelly met when ihey were both models. Mrs. Richardson attended school, with the actress. '- ' ..' i Grace Kelly's Attendants Confused About Two Matters MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE By ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Correspondent New York U.R) r Two of Grace '. Kelly's attendants ' con fided in a conversation aboui the wedding that they are in the dark on a couple of vital mat ters. '' -i. " - . The girls have no idea what kind of dresses they'll wear, and they are frankly confused as to what they should call the bride groom, Prince Rainier, HI. "When she introduced Prince Rainier to us the first .time she just called him 'darling' all the time," Mrs. John B.' Richardson, who used to share a Manhattan apartment with Grace, said,. ' Anything You Want. "I heard her refer to him in conversation as 'His Highness'," Mrs. Malcolm Reybold said. "My husband asked the Prince what we should call him, and he said, 'anything you want tq,' which wasn't much help." The two young wives sat in Mrs. Richardson's living room over a mid-morning cup of cof fee Their affection .for , Miss Kelly was obvious. She emerged in their conversation as. a gay companion and a staunch friend. - .The three-month-old baby who slept in the next room is one of a very exclusive circle of males who possesses a sweater and booties hand knit by Miss Kelly. His first family ' pictures ' also have the words "photograph: by Grace Kelly" on the back.;, She spent New Year's afternoon with the Richardsons, taking the pic tures, even though she was newly engaged and unusually excited. The minute I heard her voice on the phone that . day, "t after Christmas, and she said 'I have something to tell you,' I knew she '. had fallen in love," Mrs. Reybold said. "That would be the only thing that would bring any suspense to Grace's voice." Mrs. Reybold, a striking bru nette model who had a room ad joining Miss Kelly's in. the Bar bizon hotel for women, and Mfs. Richardson both agreed that the romance itself caught them by complete surprise. Miss Kelly had never mentioned having "a crush" on Prince Rainier.' after she met him in Monaco last May. . -"' ' . ',.'.. . .. ."I always knew, though, that when Grace said 'This is it,' then that would be it,", said Mrs. Rich ardson, which ' should interest doubters who insist the wedding . will never happen. :. ' Plans Announced By Hedrick PTA j For Box Social ' Hedrick Parent-Teacher as sociation has planned a box soc ial for Monday,' February -27, at Hedrick Junior High school. All parents of children attending the school and their friends are in vited to attend. . . . Women attending are to take a box supper for two persons, and these will be sold for : $1 each. The name inside the box will determine the dinner part ner for the man purchasing it. The committee states that the boxes are not to .be decorated. Dinner will be in the school cafeteria and dancing in the gymnas.ium. Partners will also be interchanged during square dancing and ballroom dancing later in the evening, in order for all to become acquainted. Square dancers will sit out while the other . dancing takes place, and vice versa, it is stated. Entertainment and prizes are' being planned by . Aetna Carr and Wayne Jamison, with a floor show to start at 8 o'clock. This will be followed by dancing, and the squares will be called . by Doug Forsbury. ' - Dr. Lee Mellish, president of the group, has stated" that this fund-raising project for Hedrick PTA will contribute primarily to the school ' welfare fund, and a state Convention delegate. PTA membership enrollment for. the current year, of 50 cents per per son, closes March 1, according to Mrs.- Ray - .Mencke, member ship chairman. . - . - ;. ;;'; ' '.-:: '"'.; Andrew Jackson was the first U.S. President to travel by a railway train. ... Butte Falls HEC To Hold Bazaar Butte Falls The Home Econo mics club of Butte Falls Grange held the last meeting at the home of Mrs. Ernest Smith. Mrs. Minnie Green, chairman, pre sided for the business meeting. Plans for the annual - bazaar were discussed, and Mrs. Ever ett Moore was authorized to pur chase materials. . The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs.: Elga Abbott, March 21, at 1 p.m. . At the close of the' meeting, re freshments were served by the hostess. The Grange social night was well attended, with Mrs.' Bruce Pingle in charge of the. games. Cards and square dancing also was enjoyed by the group. Among those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Lester Abbott, Eugene, Ore. The next regular Grange meet ing will be March 5, at 8 p.m., in the high school auditorium. .' Sorority To Give Farewell' Party Mrs. Russell Torbeck will be guest of honor at a coffee tomor row, February. 25', at the home of Mrs. Lyman Smith, 317 How ard Street, from two to four o'clock. Mrs Torbeck and family are moving to Coquille and mem bers of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sor ority have planned the event as a farewell gathering. The sorority's regular meet ing will be Monday, February 27 at the home of Mrs. Thomas Makris, 602 Stewart ' Avenue. Following the business meeting, officers will conduct the pledge, jewel pin and transfer ceremon ies for those eligible. . . . Mariners'! Club Of Rogue River To Meet Monday Rogue River The Rev. John O. Reynolds, assistant pastor of First Presbyterian church, Med ford, will speak for a meeting of Mariners' club, Hope Presby terian church, Monday, February 27. It will be held at 7 p.m. in Fellowship hall. - The :Rev. Mr. Reynolds will show slides and speak about Protestant missions, and political and social tensions of the Arabic peoples. The minister spent two years in Beirut, Lebanon, under appointment by the Presbyterian board of foreign missions. His work was that of student evangelist, working particularly with students at the American University of Beirut, the Beirut College for Women, and with high school students. ,' All married couples of the community are cordialy invited to the potluck dinner at, 7 p.m. Those attending are asked to take a hot dish or salad and table service. YOU CAN'T KEEP A SECRET FROM.. 6Mh Watch for exciting news in this paper and on YP LAST CMAMCE TO START NEW CLASSES-FEB. 27 FOR NIGHT SCHOOL THIS YEAR! Hour Mr. Robertson Mrs. Robertson Mr. Gwaltney Miss Pugh Mr. Strom 7- 7;55 Bus. Machines Spelling Elem. Acctg. Beg. Shthd. Beg. Typ. 8- 8:55 Bus. Machines Bus. Math. Inter. Acctg. Adv. Diet. Int. Typ. 9- 9:50 Bus. Machines - English I Adv. Acctg. Int. Shthd. Adv. Typ. ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 40 North Riverside, Medford Phone 3-4264 CALENDAR Calendar notices ' and new" lor the society section of The Mail Tribune- must be- submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 p.m. Friday. Dead line for the weekly calendar is 9 a.m. of. the day of publication and for week day news is 5. pjn. the day before publication. Friday " ' ' :;': ;i';: 6 p.m. Homemakers class, First Methodist chifrch, at church. .' : '. ' 7:30 p.m. Lincoln school car nival, at school. t 8 p.m. Linfield College Chamber - orchestra, Eastwood Baptist church. .' . : ; Saturday . 12 noon Altrusa club, Elks' club. ':-. -1 p.m.Crater Lake chapter, DAR, Medford hotel. . 2 to 4 p.m. Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, Mrs. Lyman '. Smith, 317 Howard st. . 7 p.m. Jaycettes card party, TeePee dance hall. . PRESBYTERIANS MEET San Francisco U.R) Ap proximately 1500 Presbyterian men from 11 western states opened their third annual West ern area meeting here today.- Grand Rapids,' Mich. (U.R) Members of the Past Command ers Club of the American Le-gion-'s fifth Michigan district meet only on any Friday the 13th. S -r-il Per. Mo. " ", NEW or USED, On Rental Purchase Plan Well be glad to give you Particulars. 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