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o o o o O SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Shoppers Buyin Says Agricultura Corvallis Food shoppers are not only paying for more con venience in ready-mixed and prepared foods, but are actual ly buying larger a.uantities of food for each member of the family, reports Mrs. Elvera Hor rell, Oregon State college agri cultural economist. Last year, the average person ate one per cent more food than in 1954 and 14 per cent more thafl)iri prewar years. But with incomes continuing upward, the big increase in food spending went for convenience. Precook ed and other time-saving food items are crowding the "old staples" off the grocers' shelves. Today's brides are in the kitchen less than one-fourth as much as their mothers. Many wives are working outside the home to earn the money to help pay for today's conveniences, the economist says. Billions Spent Americans spent an estimated O $46.3 billion for U. S. farm-produced foods in 1955. This record spending was .about two 5iirds of a billion more than in 1954 with the increase going for marketing services. At the same time, the amount paid to farmers decreased from $18.8 billion in 1954 to $18.3 bil lion in 1955 a cut of half a bil lion dollars, says Mrs. Horrell. As 1955 ended, the nation's farm ers were receiving less than 40 cents out of each dollar spent by consumers. Five years earlier they were getting 48 cents. The half billion dollar drop in amounts paid to farmers was more than made up in what it cost to get the products from the store. The cost of putting farm Veterans, Auxiliary . Plan Dinner Session Next Sunday at Hall A meeting and potluck din ner will be held Sunday, March 18 at 1 p.m. in Redman hall for the members of Colonel Sargent Camp and auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans auxil iary. Mrs. Josephine Widner and her cqmmittee will have charge -of the dinner. Mrs. James Cech, Auxiliary president, asks members to at tend the coming hobby show at the domiciliary, Camp White. Mrs. Harry Barneburg is chair man of a committee to arrange for the show judges. New DuBAltRY ..makes your hair look born beautiful! ... m r mmm mm home I Never before a home permanent like DuBarry! For the first time you can curl lano-lin-sojtness right into your hair. For DuBarry brings you the only home permanent that's lan olized all0u;ays. Lanolin waving lotion, lanolin-treated end papers, lanolin neutralized Curls are softer ... yet so strong and long-lasting you can't lose them unless you cut them off! So fast and easy! Just wind, wave, neu tralize! No test curls or drip-drying. No eye stinging ammonia fumes. You're done in min utes ... set for months with curls that look born bcautijul! P.S. There's a Perfect Pin-Curl Permanent, too ! CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central FREE Delivery g More Food, I Economist products on the market went from $26.8 billion in 1954 to $28 billion in 1955. Marketing researchers report that labor is the largest single cost in the marketing bill. Wages for employees of food manufac turing firms averaged SI. 77 an an hour last October compared iwith $1.67 an hour a year i earlier. lElk-TraiTPTA Elects Officers Elk-Trail Mrs. Arthur Hume was reelected president of the Elk-Trail Parent Teacher asso ciation at elections held March 2 at the school cafeteria. Mrs. Leroy Anderson is the new vice president; Mrs. Jouy Le Marc, secretary, and Mrs. Charles Fry, treasurer. Delegate to a state parent teacher convention to be held April 18 and 19 at Eugene will be Mrs. Hume. The next study group, con ducted by Miss Mary Ellen Bell, is planned for the afternoon of March 15 at the school. Jackson County Council of Parents and Teachers will hold the final meeting of the year at the Elk-Trail school March 21. The school is located one eighth mile from the Crater Lake highway on Elk creek, three miles above Trail. Women of the vicinity are asked to take or send salads for the luncheon that day. A game night for the vicinity will be held March 16 in the school gymnasium. The next Elk Trail PTA meeting will be held April 13 at 8 p.m. Gold HillHebekahs Accept Invitation For Friendship Night Gold Hill Plans to attend a Friendship night observance March 21 at Mt. Pitt Rebekah lodge, Central Point, were made by Amethyst Rebekah lodge members at a meeting held last ednesday. Mrs. Paul Molloy was in charge of entertainment Wednes day evening and refreshments were served by Mrs. Harry Quinn, Mrs. Fred Lester and Mrs. Harry Newnham. Ontario, Canada, has a lake and river area estimated at 80, 000 square miles. from The only all-lanolized permanent . DuBarry Perfect Home Permanent Gentle, Regular, Super $1 7 I 1 M Pl.llax Phone 2-9431 Gold Arrow Stamps Sunday. March 11. 1958 V'" f " J TW-S ' -Vs These five young musicians will be featured in the annual spring concert of the Eve Prentice Accordion band set for Monday. March 12, at 8 p.m. in Medford Senior High school auditorium. They are (left to right) Miss Sharon Roberts, Miss Karen Brition. Gerald Fanger, Miss Melody Pierce and Miss Oveta Walden. The Rev. Elcho Redding, a former member of the band, will serve as master of ceremonies. Fashion at Crossroads Irish Designer Declares By ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Correspondent New York 0J.R) A week in Manhattan: Fashion is at "a strange cross roads," Irish designer Sybil Connelly said when she arrived here to appear in various cities with her Dublin-made dresses. Miss Connelly says she could not quite decide which direction the change would taken when she worked on her spring and summer collection. But now she has made up her mind. "I feel that this easy-fit thing has been evolving for several seasons and it has reached its peak," she said. "You know, men don't like it terribly. "I think women are going to start looking very feminine. They will start dressing for men." This will rule out straight, loose daytime clothes, Miss Con nelly predicted. We'll show off our shapes from dawn through dusk. "It will happen," she added, "in next fall's collections." Most unusual visitor of the week: Wanonia Schmidt, 14. In dian girl from Chilocco, Okla., who prrived wearing a skirt she had woven and carrying a cere monial dress she said had just been cleaned with clay. The shy teenager represented her agricultural high , school cooking class, winner in Seven teen magazine's annual recipe contest. The girls put together a buckskin-bound collection of 20 tribal dishes, including Wa nonia's Indian fry bread. "It is nothing for me to go out and shoot a squirrel before supper," Wanonia said. Beaded leather dresses always are cleaned with clay, she ex plained. She brought the dress to wear on television. One famous Paris fashion de signer, 10 models, two ward robe mistresses and four other assistants arrived here yester day on one of the shortest trips for the most expensive fashion show ever held. The SI 00- per -ticket fashion show, held tonight from 8:30 to midnight in a Park Avenue hotel, features the complete cur rent collections of Cristobal Balenciaga and Hubert de Gi venchy. They must be back in the Paris showrooms by Monday morning, along with the 10 models and six helpers, to open for business as usual. This is the first time French designers have brought their entire collections here for show ing during a season. And it may be the last, since complications hav2 dogged ' the arrangements for days. Givenchy and Balenciaga both planned to come. But only Gi DOCTORS KNOW OUR PRESCRIPTIONS ARE ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE! 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Im migration officials agreed to put on an extra night shift at Idle wild Airport to speed the in spection of scores of beautiful outfits. Who pays S100 to see the results of all this trouble? Some 400 people bought tickets, in cluding Greta Garbo and Mar lene Dietrich. It is a charity function, with the American Hospital of Paris receiving the net proceeds. Signs of the times: Three of the parlor games featured at the toy fair here this week are a murder-solving game, a dice controlled uranium race and a junior tycoon game where youngsters can practice selling such New York real estate as the Empire State Building and Yankee Stadium. Club Session Set At Fichtner Home; Banquet Planned Pythian Sisters' club will meet Tuesday, at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Carl Fictner, 613 South ; Holly street, with Mrs. Audley White as co-hostess. Past Chiefs' club of Pythian Sisters met last week at the home of Mrs. Baker Yarbrough. After luncheon, cards were playec with prizes being won by Mrs Delia Watkins and Mrs. Ida Ireland. The next meet ing will be at the liome of Mrs. Watkins. Another in the series of Past Chief card parties is planned for next Thursday evening at 8 p.m. ai the home of Mrs. George Bryant, 3384 Forrest avenue, with Mrs. Ruth Dodge assisting. Pythian Sisters met last Tues day evening. It was voted to have a banquet when Mrs. Har ry Bryant, grand chief, makes her ofifcial visit, April 3. Offi cers and staff members will practice initiation at the next meeting. The refreshment committee was Mrs. Mildred Blachley and Mrs. George Thomas. DAV Auxiliary To Hold Party. A St. Patrick's party is plan ned by the auxiliary to the Dis abled American Veterans for Tuesday, March 13 at 8 p.m., in the DAV hall at 1515 North Riverside avenue. Women who attend are to take cookies or sandwiches. Flowers AH Season Assured By Choosing Right Varieties BY EDNA MANDEVILLE A sure sign of a good gardener is the ability to have '"plenty of flowers" in bloom from early spring to late fall. Actually, this ability isn't hard to acquire. Only a little extra care in choos ing varities is necessary. The earliest flowers to bloom are the perennials, whose roots lie dormant over the winter and revive early in the spring. This revival occurs even before the ground is warm enough for seeds to germinate. Of course, early blooming of perennials must be planned a year ahead. Planted in the spring, some may appear late the first season, but the real blooming takes place a year later. There are many wonderful perennials, and sometimes I think the amazing way certain varieties bloom almost before the weather warms up is one of the greatest thrills in gardening. Early Perennials Very early varieties include arabis (rock cress), aubrietia (rainbow rock cress), gold dust alyssum (the common name for saxatile), and Siberian wall flower. Other sturdy perennials that bloom quite early and continue to do so well into sum mer include blue flax, carnation, columbine, English daisy, forget-me-not, clove pinks, maiden pink, delphinium, foxglove, Rus sell lupine, painted daisy, Ice land poppies and sweet william. Mid season perennials would include balloon flower, gypso phila; hollyhock and hibiscus. Of the several fine col umbines, I personally prefer the "Mrs. Scott Elliott's", a long spurred variety with an unus ually .wide range of brilliant colors. Chinese lantern is another extremely popular perennial but not for early blossoming. Late in the fall its pods turn to an enchanting orange, looking for all the world like tiny lighted Chinese lanterns. Hanging from the stalks, one below another, there are sometimes a dozen on a single; stalk. They are long-lasting indoors and add a wonderful touch of warm color to any room. Next to bloom after the peren nials are the hardy annuals. The roots of all annuals die at the end of the season. The strength of the plant goes into the produc tion of blossoms and seeds. As a result, annual flowers tend to be larger, more colorful and more abundant than perennials. Hardy Annuals Hardy annuals are just what the name implies. Cold weather doesn't faze these stout-hearted flower fighters a bit. Their seeds germinate earlier than those of other annuals, and when sown in early spring many of them are are the first to bloom after the perennials. There are number less hardy annuals, among the most popular and earliest to bloom being bachelor's buttons, calendula, poppy, larkspur and candytuft. With plans made for the perennials and early blooming annuals, you can next turn your attention to the selection of reg And you will want to see all the cute new styles in dresses and coats for Easter . . . For "young men" there are handsome outfits too! ular annuals. These begin, to bloom in midsummer and contin ue in some cases well into the fall. Among them are such pop ular flowers as celosia, cocks comb, four o'clock, marigolds, petunia, sunflower, verbena and zinnia. Then there are some annuals that come into bloom compara tively late in the season. A par tial list of these would include asters, cosmos, African daisy, salvia, ten weeks stock and sun flower. When some of the earlier blooming annuals are beginning to look a bit the worse for wear these late bloomers will be hold ing forth in all their glory. Thus in an average to mild climate, you can have lovely, soul satisfying blossoms in your gar den from early spring until late fall almost 9 full months of blossoms! I should like to call your atten tion to two new flowers that I feel certain will interest you. They are carnival petunia and Mardi Gras snapdragon, F2 hybrids. The fact that they are both second generation hybrids means that they have plenty of real hybrid vigor. New Petunia Carnival petunia is a brilliant array of many colors of large flowering, delicately waved or fringed petunia. The wide color range includes the striking red that was first seen in fire chief. many shades of pink and salmon, a pure white, and an attractive pink and white, a rich purple and several unusual lavender- pink and raspberry colors. The Mardi Gras strain of snap- Wragon far excells standard strains in the extremely wide color range that the hybrid method of breeding affords. Its colors run from pure white to deep velvety crimson, includ ing several yellows and pinks, orange-scarlet, copper, and innu merable integrating shades. The bushy, long-lived plants are very uniform in habit. Half of the fun of flower gar dening is trying out varieties that are new to you. Be sure to try these two flowers in your garden this year. Speakers' Group To Hear Finalists Tuesday Evening Final c ontest speakers will be on the program for a meeting of Medford Toastmistress club to be held Tuesday, March 13 at 7:45 p.m., at Radio Station KBOY. They will be Mrs. Wal lace Martin, Mrs. James Van der Steen, Mrs. Edward Klimko, Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Mrs. Don ald Bergman and Mrs. J. R. Siel er. Mrs. James Welch will serve as toastmistress and topicmis tress will be Mrs. C. A. Thatch er. Mrs. A. C. Cameron will be lexicologist. Mrs. Arnold Bohnert will be hostess for the meeting. Greatest single snowfall in the U.S. was 95 inches at Silver Lake, Colo., within a span, of 32V2 hours. It really mates me HOP with JOY To know most every GIRL and BOY Would" nop with me for MILES and MILES To see the GRAND NEW. . . 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