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o ot Society Camp Fire Girls Will Send Seeds To Foreign Lands Thousands of seed packets will be sent by Camp Fire Girls of America to foreign countries as the special service project of Camp Fire's 1956 birthday week. Birthday week activities, March 11-18, will be geared to the theme, "Plant Seeds Reap Friendship" and will set the pace for the expansion of this slogan during the year accord ing to Mrs. Harold H. Hartman, national president of Camp Fire Girls, Inc. More than 400, 000 Camp Fire Girls will ob serve the anniversary. "To 'Give Service' is the third point in the Law of the Camp Fire Girls; to fulfill their re sponsibilities as citizens of a great nation is part of their Credo," Mrs. Hartman said. "This year's birthday project offers unlimited opportunities !jQf developing their ideals. .Ser ving the less fortunate of other countries will instill a greater appreciation of what it means to live in this plenteous land of ours. By sharing the fruits of their country with fam ilies in faraway places, Camp Fire Girls will enrich their own lives and bring physical and moral strength to their friends across the sea." Packets containing vegetable seeds chosen for their suitabil ity will be sent by Camp Fire Girls to the Philippines, Burma, Ceylon, and East Pakistan, and shipped through the Asian foundation. Birthday week will also be highlighted by open house par ties featuring foreign dishes, and guests of Asian background will tell Camp Fire Girls about the customs and crafts of their countries. Members of educa tional organizations will be in vited to participate in the activ ities. Camp Fire's three-age groups, Blue Birds, 7-10; Camp Fire Girls, (j.0-15 and Horizon clubs, 15-18, will have adult guidance in carrying out their ; birthday project. There are more than 4,000,000 interested "alumnae" oiCamp Fire, as well as thous ands of leaders, councilors and volunteers. The oldest nod-sectarian youth agency in America serv ing girls from seven to eighteen, Camp Fire Girls was founded in 1910 by Dr. and Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick and a group of progressive educators. President Dwight D. ' Eisen however is honorary president of Qamp Fire Girls. Honorary vice-presidents are former pres idents Harry S. Truman . and Herberi Hoover. Camp Fire Girls are a mem ber of the Medford United Crusade. League Supports Present Plan Of Legislative Apportionment Support of the present plan of apportionment of the Oregon legislature was discussed at a recent meeting of the League of Women Voters of Oregon State Board in Portland. A threat to this plan is the initia tive petition being circulated by Giles L. French of Moro county which would invalidate the pres ent constitutional method of ap portionment voted by the people in 1952, if it appears on the ballot and is passed at the gen eral election in November. The wk ' i; ' " $. I , !:isi:.s.- i LATEST Russian style, direct" from Moscow, day dress of wool, is modeled by San Fran cisco's Lee Ann Meriwether for New York fashion experts who say it resembles U. S. model of 1936. (International) present apportionment amend ment was passed by a vote of 357,550 to 194,292. A fact sheet on the present apportionment plan and the changes which would be made by the passage of the French plan of apportionment is avail able to other interested organ izations by writing to the state office of the league, 210 Madi son street, Corvallis, Ore. A" state-wide committee to support constitutional apportion ment will be organized. The first meeting held January 27 was attended by Mrs. Charles Ford, state board member from Eugene, who was appointed tern porary chairman, James Marr, AFL-CIO representative, Doug las McKean of the Journal, Mal colm Bauer of the Oregonian, Mrs. William Hagensteon of the League of Women Voters, Miss Shirley Field, representing the Young fiRepublicans and Jack Beatty, representing the Young Democrats. Permanent officers will be elected when other rep resentatives have joined the group. State board members voted to recommend local league status for the provisional league, at Coos Bay and provisional status for the newly formed league in McMinnville. The national board of the league must pass on these recommendations before status is granted. Other cities being con sidered for the formation of new leagues are Springfield, Leba non, The Dalles and Bend Plans for a survey, of local league interest in taking a stand on methods of revising the con stitution of Oregon were made. This year's study is being made on those sections of the consti tution which deal with county government and it is planned that action on the ballot meas ure, HJR 7, which sets up cer tain qualifications for the coun ty offices of surveyor and cor onor, will be taken at the coun cil meeting to be held in April. The Beaverton league has been appointed hostess league for the council meeting. High Styles Now Available To Home-Sewing Markets Annual UMC Dinner At High School Today Awards for outstanding ser vice during the fall campaign will be presented at the third annual dinner meeting of the United Medford Crusade at 6:30 p.m. today at Medford High school cafeteria. The program also includes el ection of five directors and music by Medford High school boy's octet. The Rev. Charles A. Epple, pastor of the United Lu theran church, Eugene, will be principal speaker. Russell DeForest, chairman of the dinner, said that anyo,ne making contributions to UMC have the privilege of voting dur ing the election. By GAY PAULEY United Press Correspondent' NEW YORK (UP) High fashion has come to the home sewing market but still has a long way to go before it takes over. . . The woman who . makes her own wardrobe now can, if she wishes, wear a Paris design just as readily as the woman who goes all the way to Paris to shop. One pattern company said it can. have patterns ready for a new French fashion- within a week after .it is shown in Paris. Several companies boast of the "name" designers they work with in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Rome, Ma drid, Dublin and London. But two firms, Simplicity and Butterick, are big exceptions to the pattern makers who feature a "haute couture" styling. Simplicity said it does not go to Paris for ideas; that the American woman who makes her own clothes couldn't care less about what Paris is doing. "I doubt if 20 American wom en out of 1,000 know who Chris tian Dior is," said a Butterick spokesman. -"Certainly we keep track of the trends in the ready-; f o-wear market. But we think women want good style, fitted to their figures. They are not in terested in a label for label's sake." But other firms Vogue and Advance, to ', name a couple have contracts with top design ers in America and Europe for line-to-line copies of certain of their originals. Advance said it keeps a representative in Paris, just to cover openings of the top houses, relay the trends to New York, and put the company's own design staff to blue-printing the latest for the American seam stress. Advance said it can have the pattern for a new design on the counters in a week after it first is hown, if a trend is important enough to warrant the rush copy. "We stick our neck out with a style, the same way the ready-to-wear, market does," said Eric O. Dick, a vice president.. All the pattern : companies have their own design staffs. Their contracts with couturiers might be called a supplement to their overall production. Simplicity alone comes out with 40 patterns each month, or about 500 ' annually. A top de signer may have only 30 or 40 numbers in a collection, and there usually are two collections a year. But the American woman' uses up a lot of designs. It has been estimated that 38,000,000 women sew, using more than $1,000,000, 000 in fabric yearly, and that if the pattern envelopes were placed end to endj they would cover 12,000 miles. - - ' ' - Top-selling size is 14, indicat ing that the American woman is slimmer these days. Size 16 was the best seller before World War Two. Student City Council Proposes Change in Pedestrian Crossing An ordinance oermittine di agonal pedestrian crossing at the intersection of Sixth st. and North Central ave. was passed Tuesday night by a city council composed of Medford high school students participating in Student Government Day activi ties, i A proposal designed to pro tect Medford merchants ana residents from undesireable practices by peddlers was re ferred to the regular council for study. Student counterpart of the mayor, councilmen and other city officials participated in the regular council meeting. When city business had been complet ed Mayor Earl Miller presented the gavel to student Mayor David Bosworth. Debate Crossing Students debated , "scramble amble", pedestrian crossing be fore the' ordinance was passed by a vote of six to two. The ordinance provides that all traffic would stop while pedestrians cross in any direc tion, including diagonally. .Simi lar crossing are in effect in many cities, including Eugene. Student Public Works. Direc tor David Drummond stated that about. 50 per cent of people cross ing at the intersection would cross diagonally according to a study made last December. Only 14 per cent would cross di agonally at the. Central ave. and Main st. intersection he said.' Proposal Criticized . The proposal was criticized on the grounds that it would slow traffic and that in other cities.it had encouraged. jay-walking be cause of the longer wait between light changes.. Student Chamber of . Com merce Manager Meredith Foote asked the council to , consider a DroDosal asking for an ordinance to control peddling in the city. She suggested an .ordinance Vocational Education State Study Asked Salem U.R) The State Board of Education decided yesterdav to ask the Legislature for a state-wide study of vocational education. - The study would be designed to find out what should be done because of expected enrolljnent increases in the trade field. It was substituted for a request for expansion and renovation at Oregon Technical Institute : of Klamath Falls. The board authorized the state department to make necessary arrangements for acquiring full possession' of OTT property, a former Navy air' base, -for the state. It also authorized OTI to give free scholarships to the ex tent of two per cent of previous year's enrollment to needy stu dents on the same basis as per mitted the state's colleges and university. Korea Orphans En Route To Hollywood for Film Portland flJ.R) Twenty-five sleepy Korean war orphans passed through Portland yester day, en route to Hollywood for a movie appearance. 1 The children, 2 to 8 years old. will appear in a movie called Battle ; Hymn," about the life of Col. Dean Hess who organized an airlift to Cheju island during the Korean war and helped save the lives of 800 orphans. Col. Mess was reunited with the 25 orphans in Seattle yesterday morning. 0 Tom to CALENDAR Calendar notice and news for the society lection of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 pjn. 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. Thursday 6:30 p.m. Medford chapter, UN association, Mr. and Mrs. George Rode, rout l. box 364A, Medford. 8 p.m. Reames chapter, OES, Medford Masonic hall. 8 p.m. Past Noble . Grands club,. Girls Community club. 8 p.m. FOE auxiliary, lodge hall. .. 8 p.m. Gold Hill PTA, school gymnasium. Friday 10 a.m. Eagle Point Grange HEC, at Grange hall. 10:30 a.m. Willow Spring Home Extension unit,, home of Mrs. R. J. Savage, Old 99 high way. 11 a.m. Medford Truth cen ter, "Unity," Room 203, Holly Theater bldg. 12:30 P-m. Junior Service league,, fashion show, . Rogue Valley Country club. 1 p.m. Phoenix Garden club, Girls Community club. 1:30 p.m. FOE auxiliary past presidents, home of Mrs. Lyle PickeU, 328 North Oakdale avenue. 2:30 p.m. Roosevelt PTA, school auditorium. 2:30 p.m. Jefferson PTA, school cafeteria. might be drawn up similar to one now in effect in Pendleton. The ordinance would provide for bonding, photographing, fingerprinting, registering and payment of a license fee by all peddlers. Miss Foote pointed out that such a move would protect residents from illegal practices by peddlers and protect mer chants who lose in excess of $100,000 a year in business to merchants. Proposal Discussed ' It was asked whether or not the proposal would be constitu tional. Student City Attorney Bruce Kellington stated that he could . not render a decision on the question t without further study. ' " . ' ' Councilmen also attacked the proposal on the grounds that it would tend to eliminate com petition, that the license fee would be excessive for local firms and that the cost of en forcement would be excessive. The council adopted a resolu tion expressing thanks to the regular city officials, the Elks club and the radio and television stations -for giving them the op portunity to participate in Stu dent Government Day. Candidate Files In Third District . Portland U.R) State Rep resentative Robert J. Jensen yes terday announced that he would be a candidate for the Republi can nomination for congressman from Oregon's third congression al district. Only other Republi can who has declared for the race thus far is Peter W. Welch, Multnomah county surveyor. Jensen will seek the seat how held by Congresswoman Edith Green, a Democrat who is ex pected to gain her party's pri mary nomination, uncontested. Welch said yesterday that he may decide to withdraw from the third congressional district's race and instead seek the state governorship, v Thursday, March 8, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE INSIDE NOTE I vict at the Nebraska reformatory Sidney, Neb. (U.P.) When where, the plates were made. Dave Thies unwrapped his 1956; The note read: "You are sure motor vehicle license plates here he got a surprise. Between the plates was a note from a con- lucky to be on the outside, get ting these, instead of making them." BIG CHANGE Paradise, Mich. CU.R) Ranger Harold Peterson was transferred from a park at Hell, Mich., to one near Paradise. f4 Fri.&Sat. ONLY! 150 PAIR TOP SAIL Pedo ONLYh 2 PAIR TO A CUSTOMER! T -ALL SIZES ' Wonderful Array of Colors. 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