Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 28, 1956, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) Officers Elected By DAR Chapter At Last Meeting Mrs. George R. Carter was elected regent of Crater Lake chapter, Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution, at a meeting held February 25 at the Med ford hotel. The meeting follow- ed one o'clock luncheon. Other officers named were Mrs. V: J. Bolton, vice-regent; Mrs. O. H. Brenneman, chap lain: Mrs. S. Chirgwin, record ing secretary; Mrs. G. O. Taylor, corresponding secretary; Mrs. C. O. Lovejoy, treasurer; Mrs. C. E. Bradfish, historian; Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini, custodian; Mrs. J. L. Houck, registrar; Mrs. J. W. Harbison, Mrs. T. J. Gifford and Mrs. W. W. Holt, directors. Mrs. B. G. Harding and Mrs. Brenneman were hostesses. Mrs. Ray K. Bailey presented a patriotic program. Mrs. Bailey spoke of some of the lesser known accomplishments of the men who guided the destiny of this nation in its early his ' tory. She also stated that the deeds of the women of the earlier period of this country have not been fully recorded as women were not allowed to take their rightful place in the affairs of the nation. A history plaque which is to ' be given to Hedrick Junior High school and on which the names of outstanding students of Amer ican history are to be engraved, was on display.- Mrs. Vernon Patten, Mrs. O. T. Heyerman and the Misses Maryi Martha and Claire Han ley were voted into membership pending acceptance by the Na tional society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Marion Wood, Mrs. Cliff Goss and Mrs. Lestey E. Wilson were guests. '' : ' Initiation Held By Zonta Club ; Miss Dorothy Collard, Mrs. Ann Rice, Mrs. Bonnie Wilson and Mrs. Pearl Robinson were initiated into Medford Zonta club Friday evening at a treas ury dinner given at the home of Mrs. Robinson, 409 Ardmore avenue and Mrs. Ethel Tenant led the ceremony and Mrs. Effie Kurtz, president, officially ac cepted them as members and presented each with a corsage. Miss ' Collard is supervisory nurse of the Jackson County Health department,-Mrs. Rice is co-owner of the City Appliance company, Mrs. Wilson's classi fication is homemaker and Mrs. Robinson , is of the Hub Men's shop. ,' - ' " ; The treasury dinner is one of the club's annual fund raising projects and sponsored by the finance committee. Mrs. Jean Fish, chairman, was assisted by Mrs. Edith Gifford. ' The next major activity of the club will be the Woman of the Year banquet. Ladies' Auxiliary To Meet Thursday Ladies' auxiliary to the Fra ternal Order of Eagles will meet Thursday, March 1, at 8 pjn. A "white elephant" auction will follow the business meeting, with" proceeds to go to the memorial foundation fund." ; This fund is used to assist wives and children of Eagle members who lost their lives in the last war. GARY COOPER tells all! - This week "Coop" tells how - he fell off horses and into stardom. He tells why, at first, actresses hated appearing with him , why he changed his name, ! and how his Montana boy hood was a big head start. He -: describes his early struggles as a cartoonist ... his failures as a salesman and his hair-raising " adventures as a bus driver in K Yellowstone Park. You'll en ' joy it all in "Well, It Was This Way" by Gary Cooper himself " in the Post. Be sure to get your , copy early! . . . ' Out today at all newsstands A CURTIS MAGAZNI "pjLw MAIL TRIBUNE j(D)(cneity Smart Separates! 1 llfajllW Stars of your spring wardrobe are these mix-match separates! Sew them in bright contrasting colors or one-piece dress effect. Blduse with its graceful yokes; three smart sleeve versions too. Skirt is your favorite; fashion ed for flattery and walking ease. Pattern 9298: Misses Sizes 12, 14,16, 18, 20. Sizes 16 blouse, 2 yards 35-inch; skirt 2V4 yards. This easy-to-use pattern gives perfect fit. Complete; illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. Send Thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern- add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plain ly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. McLEOD Servicemen Visit on Leave Br CAROLINE L. HARDING McLeod' Mrs. Walter Hill- man of Los Angeles, and neph ews Jackie and Bob Darrohn and Maurie Jones arrived Wed nesday, Feb. 22. Maurie and Bab are stationed at Parks Air Force base in California and ; are on a furlough home.. Jackie- and Bob are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. ; Robert Darrohn of Butte Creek. Mrs.; Hillman is visiting her sister and family, Mrs. Rob ert Darrohn. . Friends of Mrs.1 Arthur Hume are. happy to ' see her out , once more ; . after, being '. confined to her bed for several days. She was injured in a fall from her porch on account of icy steps. . Word has been received here that Mr. and Mrs., Carl Stearns and Mr. and Mrs. George Kerns all of . Santa . Cruz, Calif., lost their automobile in that city re- Tacy Lynch Observes Fourth Anniversary Tacy Lynch celebrated her fourth birthday anniversary with a party at her home for some of her little friends last Thursdayl Tacy is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lynch, 139 Kenwood avenue. Games were played before re freshments were served. The lit tle guests were Peggy Lee Fleeg er, Mary Ann Bolton, Ann Sanr ford, Ann Barny, Debbie San born, Robin Safford, Curtis Rob erts, Gregor Jones, Duane Chan dler and John Knope. ' 1 Bakers Return '., From Trip East Mr. "and Mrs. Floyd Baker, Coker Butte road, have returned home after a six' week's trip south and east. They went first to New Orleans where they at tended the annual convention of the Fresh Fruit and. Vegetable growers. . ' They also spent some time in Florida,, visiting Jacksonville, Tampa and .. Miami, and later were in Atlanta, Ga., Washing ton, D.C, New York and Chi cago. Mr. Baker visited fruit markets in various cities." SOS Club SOS class of First Baptist church will hold the monthly business and social meeting on Friday, March 2, at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Maud Chap man,' 19 Mistletoe street, instead of the church annex. Mrs. Edith Arnold is co-hostess. '. ' ..United Press has sent. a writ ten dispatch from London to Honolulu at the speed of light. Letters of words typed in Eng land reached. Hawaii less than one ten-thousandth, of a' second later., ... . . ,. Tuesday, February 28, 1958 Shady Cove Unit To Give Parties; To Aid Hospital Shady Cove Mrs. M. . J. Hawks and Mrs. D. Larson are; L chairmen of. a series of card parties planned by Shady Cove Home Extension unit. First of the parties will be held March 1 at the hoifte of Mrs. T. R. Daw, unit chairman. The oartv nlans were dis cussed at the last meeting of the unit, held at' the home of Mrs. R. A. Pfeifer, Shady Cove. Mrs. Daw presided. Mrs. Cora Lane reported on Associated Country Women of the World and while the poem, "Song of Peace" was read.mem bers placed their "pennies for friendship in a container. . Mrs. J. R. Bartus, Mrs. "R; J. Lane and Mrs. Ed Houston were appointed to the nominating committee. Mrs. Daw . and Mrs. William Shepherd are to be leaders for a lesson on draperies, and ' Mrs. William Croucher reported on a food sale given for the March of Dimes. " ". Mrs. T. M. Littlefield reported on a dance and card party given at the Fire hall and Mrs. Lane reported on the flood control meeting in Grants Pass which she attended. - . Mrs.- Larson announced a pre school clinic in Shady Cove March 5 at the school house from 9 ajn. to 12 noon, and also reported on the recent visit of the Red Cross Blood bank. The group' voted a $25 dona tion to the proposed Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital. Mrs. Shepherd and Mrs. Daw will attend a program planning meeting. Mrs Isobel Underlick made and donated the main dish for the noon luncheon.;. . . The afternoon was devoted to a lesson on "Identification of New Materials given, by -Mrs. Joanne Weatherford, county home extension agent. . - - Next meeting of the unit will be at the home of Mrs. Bartus on Rogue River drive. Mrs. Lane, ACWW chairman, will give the program on Ceylon in the fore noon and Mrs. Shepherd will give a demonstration on basket ry in the afternoon. '-' "'4 xenuy Dy tne nooas mere.-mr. and Mrs. Stearns and Mrs. Kerns are former residents of Mc Leod, Mrs. Kerns being the for mer Mrs; Dean Tate. ; . , : Many neighbors have received cards from Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barber from Mexico City. They are on a two months' vacation trip," -having visited in' "Holly wood, San Diego and Wash ington. ... " v CALENDAR Calendar notices and news for 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. ; Tuesday 7:30 "p.m. Medford Truth center; "Unity". Room . 203, Holly Theater bldg::, 7:45 p.m. . Medford Toast mistress club, radio station KBOY. ; . 8 p.m. Pythian club, Mrs. James Cech, 2877 Springbrook rd. 8 p.m'. DUV, courthouse auditorium. 8 p. m. Nevita chapter, OES,. Masonic temple, Central Point. . 8 p".m. Medford Nutrition Study group, Dr. George Jen nings, Saginaw dr. -Wednesday . 1 p.m. Eagle Point Grange HEC, home of Mrs. Dan Hick man, 3 West Sixth st. 1:15 p.m. Fidelity club, Mrs. E. E. Cuff el, 909 South Central ave. . .': - ' ' J; : :l.Tp'P- VALUE'S I ' ' ' 1 1 1 1 TOP RESALE I Mi ll qtBSIVipBILE I W ' I I Lowest-Priced if it I I ' Rock'e Engine Car I. M. M P fJp SSI YOUR OLD8MOB1LI DEALER i LET'S SEE, WHATTL WE WEAR? Actress Rita Gam (right) and Mrs. Jay Kanter ponder fashions in Mrs. Kanter's New York apartment. They have-been invited as attendants at Grace Kelly's wedding in Monaco in April. Rita and Grace have been friends since Miss Kelly's model ing and TV acting days in New York. Mrs. Kanter is the daughter of Barney Balaban, head of Paramount Pictures. Rainier's Yacht Being Readied for Wedding Toulon, France U.R) Prince Rainier's yacht, the 80-foot Deo Juvat II, is due at the Navy, yard here today to undergo a com plete overhaul before Grace Kelly boards it April 14. - -- The prince plans to take the yacht to sea on that date to meet the liner Constitution off the "Flower" Apron "Flower'' apronsuch, a love ly style for. serving guests! Use colorful fabric to form its pretty petals; sew-easy to make for gifts, best sellers at the bazaar! Pattern 7176: Embroidery transfer, directions for making a "flower" apron, 16 inches long. . Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst class . mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chel sea Station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, "ADDRESS AND" PATTERN. NUMBER.; , Order our ALICE . BROOKS Needlecraft Catalogue. Enjoy paes and pages of exciting new designs knitting, crochet, em broidery, iron-ons, toys and nov elties! Send 25 cents for your copy of this: wonderful book now. You'll want to order every design in it! . . Riviera coast- and claim, his bride-to-be. Miss Kelly will board the yacht at sea and re turn ; in it . to. Monaco for . her wedding. -. Legion Auxiliary To Start Project t ' - Mrs. Herbert Gifford,. presi dent of Medford American Le gion ' auxiliary, today tirged all past' presidents of the auxiliary to. attend a sewing meeting to night at the Legion, home at 8 o'clock. Work will be started on the paper flowers to be sent to a " Portland hospital, a pr oj ect of the past president's parley.. .. Because '...- . We Are Installing : ::M THE NEW ZEPHYR ACCROMATIC CHECKOUT SYSTEM : to complete SfcfflMep fimwetiace' You'll have no long impatient waits. The wonderful thing about this system is that every "customer helps speed up the checkout for themselves. It's so effortless you're sure to appreciate it. - - - You'll be pleased with the accuracy. This automatically controlled system does not crowd or rush our checkers-so they're less apt to make errors. And a coitrol bar assures : that the same item can't be charged twice. Yeu'ii Semcemen Wed British Girls - Eight Every Day London -r- ;U.R) American servicemen are marrying British girls at the ratfr of eight a iay a higher rate than during World War II. ; '.."- - ' Every month some 250 GI's march to the altar and promise to love and honor a British girl. There have been more" . than 5,000 Anglo-American weddings in the past two years, according to records of the Third U. S. Air Force, which represents the bulk of the' 45,000 American service men in Britain. . "Maybe when they see' that figure the girls back home will feel they're losing out,", one air man said. "But there's no real cause for: them to get madi I - t. "Itls not ."that ; the ..girls here have -anything over -the- girls at home." It's just that they "happen to be here." The rate is higher now than during the war, seemingly for two major reasons: ' ' (1 At present airmen' serving in Britain remain for. three years,, compared with - the few months they spent in any one place during the war. (2) People are more inclined to think about marriage ' during peace than during war. Ask the Americans who mar ry here why, and their answers are the same. i; "I was here for a while . .Yl felt lonely : . . I started taking a girl out to the cinema and dances . . . we fell in love . v . " TSgt. Ronnie L. Hall of San ford, N.C., met his wife in Sep tember, 1948, and married her in February, 1949. "I'm one of those guys who married an English girl, and 1 couldn t be happier," he said. ' The pursuit is not all one-sid ed, however. Mrs.. Elsie Dunbar, an official of the-British Women's Volun teer service, which devotes much of its time to making Americans in Britain feel at home, said that "most English, girls regard, an American, serviceman as being a pretty good catch. "There is the widespread idea that Americans make wonderful husbands and are more devoted to their wives than Englishmen, she added. - - Mrs. Dunbar referred to a re cent statement by Maj. Roscoa Wilson of the Third U. S. Air Force that many of the marriag es were the outcome of-improv- your last stop in our Supermarket 1$ the most important This Modern System of Checking Yovr Purchases Gets You Through Faster... Even Helps Our Checkers Prevent Errors ; - - leava very much pleased after you check ing Anglo-American relations. "It is true," said Mrs. Dunbar, "that relations in many of these villages have improved and now it is possible for the American servicemen to go . into - homes where they will meet a; ; better type of girl." . y American authorities ' h e, re take every possible precaution to see that marriages contracted in Britain will work .out. : i -. - - Any U. S. serviceman wanting to .'marry must first present .'his fiancee, to his chaplain;' .".There both or them are told Of the im plications' of the-; step ' they 'pro pose . ..: . -. ; ; The girl is told the realities of life in America. . ' '' "A lot of the girls get rather exaggerated ideas about the ease . LAN TURNER Ce-SUtring in M.G.M. S "DIANE" Is dntowScov Md Color l ;:::?:-: " 'j. Special Formula BREAD Hollywood Bread Is Baked Exclusively In This 'Area By Your items won't get, into someone else's bag.-As the' checker registers each of your items they move automatically to a packing section'assigned only to you. 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