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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, April 22. 1956 , v.. d TV i 4 Miss Ann Padgham, Medford, was among the women itudents on Ihe Universily of California campus at Davis who gars an aquacade last night as one of the windup features of the 195S Cal Aggie Picnic day. Pictured above are Miss Donna LeStum, Palo Alto; Miss Joan DeCarli, Stockton, and Miss Padgham. Miss Padgham is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Padgham, and is a sophomore in the college of letters and science. Miss Padgham's brother, Henry, was Picnic day chairman in 1953. Zinnia Most Popular Annual Has Many Varieties and Sizes By EDNA KING MANDEVILLE Everybody (well, most every body) loves zinnias. They are perhaps our most popular an nual, colorful both in the garden and in the home, blooming over a long period and lasting for sev eral days after being cut. Then, too, zinnias are so easy to grow. They not only with stand hot summer weather so harmful to other flowers, 'but also are not subject to the rav ages of insects or plant disease. In fact, about the only trouble ever experienced with Zinnias is some "mildew" which can usually be quickly controlled by dusting with surphur, or by thin ning the plants to allow for greater air circulation. In addi tion, zinnias can be transplanted readily, and do surprisingly well in almost any soil. "But they must have their faults," I hear you say. True, they are not fragrant, and they will not climb a trellis, but out side of that they're just about perfect. Though most everyone is acquainted with zinnias, many people do not realize how many varieties and sizes there are of this popular flower. Each year new ones are added. Standbys Named The old standbys, of course, are the giants of California zin nias. They are very large flow ers, measuring 5 inches across and up to three feet high. They are available in a wide variety of mixtures and colors, such as the Miss Willmott (soft pink), purity (white), daffodil (canary yellow), salmon queen (salmon rose), and cherry queen (red). Next in popularity come the dahlia flowered strains, so called because of their resem blance to giant dahlias. In this group we have such well-known varieties as Will Rogers (red), exquisile (two-tone pink), and meteor (deep red). Among the large zinnias an other important type are the giant hybrids, or cactus flowered zinnias. The twisted petals of this strain make it much less formal in design than the other giants. Leading colors are the blaze (a recent all-American winner fea tured by Mandeville and King company), the floradale scarlet, and ice cream, a truly cream colored zinnia. In the slightly smaller class, the cut and come again zinnia, seems most popular for bou quets. Its name, of course, comes from its ability to bloom and bloom again. A slightly lighter color in this group is known as sunshine tints. Another type worth noting is the fantasy, whose petals are curled and twisted. The fantasy comes in several attractive col ors such as Stardust (golden yel low), wildfire (scarlet), and mel ody (lavender). Next in size come the lilliputs, attractiveJittle button flowers oh plants growing about two feet tall. Some of the outstand ing colors are black ruty (crim son), little red riding hoodjscar let), rosebud (soft pink), and Va lencia (burnt orange). Tom Thumb Smallest The smallest of all zinnias is the torn thumb, whose flowers are usually as large as the lilli puts, but whose plants are much smaller. Occasionally some plants are found growing taller than the others, and about the only thing to do with these is to pull them out, and let the dwarf ones fill the intervening spaces. It might be well here to men tion one of the most interesting and unusual new zinnias. It is called Peppermint stick. Its flowers are striped red and white, red and yellow, and purple and white. Although the strain does not run 100 per cent striped flowers, the few solid colors do not detract from the bizzare effect of a bed of pep permint stick. A most unusual bouquet can be had by filling a case with just the red and white striped flowers. A final word about two varie ties that really aren't zinnias at all. The Haageana, one of my own favorites, is usually called a zinnigold because of its resem blance to both the zinnia and the French marigold. And the creeping zinnia is really a San vitalia Procumbens. Both varie ties are interesting and well worth getting acquainted with. f NEW SWITCH Production has started of a new type of household light switch that turns light on and off through the use of a dial instead of the normal button or flip switch. The switches are equipped to glow in the dark. They are also space-savers, with three small dials requiring no more plate area than a single lever switch plate. Greatest part of Canada's elec tric current is generated by water power. President Honored At Banquet Members of Colonel Sargent auxiliary. United Spanish War Veterans, gave a banquet at Red man hall Sunday, April 15, in honor of their department presi dent, Mrs. Fred Schwietering, Eugene. Mrs. Schwietering made her official vist to southern Ore gon at this time. Other guests included Depart ment Commander B. S. Boland, Portland; Department Senior Vice-Commander Ray Antrim, Aloha; Mrs. Mary Gates, Eu gene, department secretary; Mrs. Margaret Holt, Creswell, depart m e n t musician; department aide Fred Schwietering, Eugene; Past Department Commander A. J. Bush, Portland; Mrs. Hattie Bush, Portland, department guard. Department officers from Med ford were Mrs. Anderson, depart ment senior vice-president; Mrs. Harry Barneburg, department aide, and Mrs. Hans Rammin, de partment color. Guests from Grants Pass in cluded Mrs. Kathryn Sweetland, president, Rogue River auxiliary; Mrs. Sallie Cotter, Ernest Cotter, Mrs. Ted Cotter and two daugh ters Nancy and Susan, Miss Vir ginia Wallis, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wallis, and Mrs. Margaret Os borne. Mr. and Mrs. Renne Grosh attended from Ashland. Mrs. Grosh is department song leader. Medford guests included Mrs. Mollie Keene, Harry Barneburg and Don Anderson. Mrs. James Cech presided at the meeting of the auxiliary after the banquet and Commander Carl Thompson for the camp. Final plans were discussed for the annual carnation sale to be held on the streets of Medford May 11-12. Mrs. Winifred Vail will be general chairman of the sale, with Mrs. Barneburg co chairman. Mrs. Sweetland stated that there would be an officers and drill team practice in Grants Pass Sunday afternoon May 6 in the VFW hall. Mrs. Schwiet ering' was presented a green orchid corsage and a gift from the auxiliary. Miss Donna ling er presented the department president with a gift and sang. a solo. Monday, April 16, Mrs. Barne burg, national hospital chair man and her alternate, Mrs. Grosh, arranged for the depart ment officials, Mr. and Mrs. Schwietering, Mr. Boland, Mr. Antrim and Mrs. Gates, to visit the domiciliary center at Camp White. They were accompanied by Mrs. Cech and Mrs. Bessie Johnston. They toured the build ings and visited with the veterans. PEO Chapter PEO sisterhood, chapter AA will meet April 25 at the home of Mrs. C. E. Hedberg, 1206 East Main street. Promptly at 12:30 p.m., Miss Verna Cingcade will give a religious message. For luncheon following the program Mrs. Hedberg will be assisted by Mrs. S. C. Watkins and Mrs. G. R. Ringo. For Graduation start a set of luggage D itSti III LAY-A-WAY NOW!! JL Small deposit will hold the fML CuVCf Small deposit will hold the sizes and colors you wont. TIME PAY PLAN IF DESIRED mmpnBn.nflKDHJ . - "The Store of a Thousand Thoughtful Gifts" 2 1 Br i s. J Mr. and Mrs. Jay R. Williams, Shady Cove, try their hand at gold panning in a desert wash near the vacation capital of Phoenix, Ariz., and the Valley of the Sun. This was their first visit to the Phoenix area. (Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Photo) Committee Women at Work On Homemakers7 Festival Names of committee women, who are working on the annual Homemakers festival set for May 1 and 2 were announced last week. The event will ' be held again at the Central Point Legion hall and this year for the first time a public open house will be held so that all interested may view accomplishments of work done by unit members dur ing the past year. The Central Point unit and county alumnae committee wo men, with Mrs. Arthur Straus in charge, will conduct the open house activities which will be held from 7 to 9:30 p.m., May 1. Refreshments also willbe serv ed under direction of Mrs. Charles Jantzer and Mrs. Paul Snook. Organ music will be fur nished through the courtesy of the Music mart. A list of the exhibits and ex hibiting units for the festival also were announced. Woven baskets and trays will be shown by the Lake Creek and Shady Cove units; baskets, and fabric lampshades will be from Prospect, New Applegate unit, Medford Parents, Howard, Wil low Springs, Evans Valley, Val leyview, Eagle Point; gifts, and wrappings, Butte Falls, Lone Pine and Westside, while hobby work and cake decorating will be shown by Oak Grove mem bers. Baskets and uses of color in the home will be furnished by Shady Cove; draperies and lamp shades, and art of pressing, Reese Creek, Lone Pine and Sams Val ley; new fabrics, Ashland; rugs and baskets, Upper Applegate; Ceylon study materials, Central Point, and candles by Griffin Creek The Medford unit will exhibit all projects of the year in the form of a May pole to be shown in Mann's Department store win dows. On May 2, the festival day, registrations and assembling pro grams will be done by members from Reese Creek, with Mrs. Ben Gardner in charge. Ushers will be from Westside; name tags will be furnished by Shady Cove and Butte Falls; songs will be led by Mrs. Leola Edge; pianist will be Mrs. Pete Rosenbaum; table decorations furnished by Ashland; flowers for the stage, Oak Grove; plan ning program, county committee, and luncheon will be served by the Home Economics club will serve the luncheon which will be held at the Central Point Grange hall. FRUIT SALAD DRESS-UP New Ycrk (U.R) To vary the dressing for. fruit salad, com bine Vz cup fresh orange juice with V cup of fresh lime juice, 1 cup of salad oil, teaspoon of salt Vi teaspoon of sugar and a dash of ground black pepper. Beat with a rotary beater. Stir in Vt. cup of grated raw apples, if desired. This dressing also is good- on head lettuce. Butte Falls PTA Elects Butte Falls Mrs. Harry Dal ton was elected president of Butte Falls Parent Teacher as sociation at a meeting Monday evening. Mrs. Charles Capello is the new vice-president; Mrs. Charles Ferguson, secretary, and Mrs. William Edmondson, trea surer. The next and final meeting of the organization for the cur rent school year will be May 7. The junior and senior classes of Butte Fals High school will present a play, "Tiger House," May 4, it was announced at the meeting. Students of the high school who took part in a student gov ernment day in Medford re cently,' gave reports on the com mission to which there were as signed. Miss Patty Irwin served on the welfare commission; Dale Ray Smith acted as chairman of the dog control commission; Vernon Arnold took the county clerk's position, and Donald El lis was on the court house custo dian committee. The students were introduced by Art Backlund, sponsor. Reports on an amateur night program held March 30 was given and revealed that the event was a success. Apprecia tion was extended to those who worked on the program and re freshments. - Girl Scouts Give Tea for Mothers At Wonderly Home A Mothers' tea honoring the memory of Juliette Low, found er of Girl scouting in America, was recently given by Troop 130, McLoughlin Junior High school. The tea was held in the home of Mrs. Kenneth Wonder ly on Palm st. The program for the tea was planned by Mickc Noble and Deanna Russell. Linda Wicker told the mothers about the Juli ette Low world friendship fund. A pantomime was presented by Sandra Gross, Diane Griffith and Barbara Donahoo. Two musical numbers were played by Connie Paulsen, Mil dred Boyd and Deanna Russell on their clarinets. Marjorie Won derly closed the program by telling the mothers about the work the troop has completed towards their curved bar rank. Table decorations were yel low daffodils and green leaves. Each mother was presented with a yellow daisy corsage. Present for the tea were Mrs. Gilbert Gross, Mrs. Howard Boyd, Mrs. Byron Griffith, Mrs. Donald Paulsen, Mrs. Kenneth Wonderly, Mrs. E. Wahlstrom, little Karen Wonderly and Mrs. John Russell, leader of the Valley Women Invited to Show At Mann's Store Valley women are invited to see Gloria Swanson designs known as "Conservation Pieces," which will be modeled tomorrow at Mann's Department store. The shows will be given twice, one at noon, and the last at 3 p.m. The styles are furnished by Puritan Dress company of New York City. Details will be given by Rob ert Collins, commentator, him self a designer and stylist. Pro fessional models will show the apparel. He has been with the dress . firm for eight years and has worked closely in the de signing with Miss 'Swanson for some six years. Mr. Collins also has designed evening clothes for custom dressmaking. The shows are informal and the department store personnel stresses that all women interest ed should feel free to attend. The human eye is said to be 30,000 times more sensitive to dim lighfthan is the thermopile, one of the most sensitive physi cal instruments devised. Howard Garden Club Announces Program For Tuesday Session Howard "All About Birds," will be title of the program for Howard Garden club members Tuesday, April 24 when they meet at 1 p.m., in the home of Mrs. J. R. Campbell, route 2, box 379D, Merriman road. Mrs. Charles May and Mrs. Wayne Smith are cohostesses for the afternoon and members are to take plants for an exchange. Mrs. Albert Stocks was hostess for the club's last meeting held in March. The Community's Biggest Marketplace E Sales Rentals folding WHEEL CHAIRS Open Sunday! and Holiday! 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. f 10 p.m. HUDSON'S PHARMACY 613 E. MAIN PHONE 3-5345 i Block East of Hawthorne Park 7m crrn tiij j nrnn 0n Protective film tbo f P If" $ with ALL NEW S Silver Sheeld The Anti-Tarnish Spray For ALL SILVER Keeps your silver mirror-bright just spray on a protective film of anti tarnish SILVER SHEELD. my, JJ- Just spray a light film of Silver Sheeld on any of your silver and it forms a coat that will prevent tarnish yet is transparent. Silver Sheeld is non-toxic, non-abrasive and it can be easily and quickly removed. JUST ADD IT TO YOUR WEISFIELD'S ACCOUNT Phone 3-5348 122 EAST MAIN ST. 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