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Mothers to Open Session Today ; Blue Star Mothers will open the annual state convention here tonight with a banquet at the Medford hoteL A memorial ser vice at the courthouse auditor ium will follow. Mrs. Rex Note, Medford, state president, is in charge of the sessions. Speaker at tonight's banquet will be F. J. Glonning, chief of special services at Camp White domiciliary. Gen. J. H. Hicks, director of civilian defense for Jackson county, will speak at a luncheon tomorrow at First Christian church. Business sessions, with elec tion of officers, are planned on Thursday morning and installa tion will be held in the after noon. Governor's Wife To Entertain Salem (U.R) Mrs. Elmo Smith today invited women friends from all over the state to an informal tea in the Gold Room of the Marion hotel here from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., Thurs day. It will be the first social event for which Mrs. Smith has been hostess since her husband be came governor. Oregon's first lady said no formal invitations will be issued and guests are being invited through press, ra dio and television. Women Educators To Hold Annual Session in Medford Delta Kappa Gamma, honor society for women in the edu cation profession, will open the 1956 annual convention in Med ford Friday night with a meet- r Mrs. Dorothy Elliott ing of the executive committee at the Medford hotel. Epsilon chapter of the Rogue valley is host group. Chapter president is Mrs. Kathryn Stancliffe, Phoe nix, and Miss Delie Whisenant, -In Medford Its Modern- In Case Your Friends Forgot To Tell You ... Claudia Perry (Specialist in Duck Cutting) and Betty James (she has her good points, too) Are Now With 131 South Central Ave. Phone 3-5379 Medford, is convention chair man. Mrs. Dorothy Elliott, teacher in the Portland schools and a member of Iota chapter, Pendle ton, will preside at the conven tion sessions. Business meetings will be held Saturday at First Methodist church, and a luncheon and ban quet will also be held at the church Saturday, Sunday morn ing a breakfast is scheduled at Hedrick Junior High school. Speakers Listed Among the convention speak ers will be Dr. Jessie Brodie. Fortland, honorary member, will talk for the birthday luncheon Saturday noon. Her topic will be "Pioneer Women and Pro ject in Latin America." Dr. Brodie recently returned from her second trip to Latin Amer ica where she attended a con gress of women medical doctors of Latin and North America, an organization of which she is president. . Speaker for the banquet Saturday night will be Mrs. E. B. Aldrich, president of the East Oregonian Publication company, Pendleton. Her topic, "The Past is a Prologue to the Future" is also the convention theme. Among the outstanding Ore gon educators who are members of Delta Kappa Gamma and who will attend the convention are Miss Martha Shull, Portland, first vice-president of the Na tional Education ' association; Miss Margaret Perry, Mon mouth, Ore., McCall's "teacher of the year" for 1955, and NEA director from Oregon who is to be the assistant executive secre tary of the Department of Class room Teachers for NEA in Wash ington, D. C, Matilda Gilles, Salem, president-elect of the Na tional Elementary School Prin cipals' association; Miss Antonio Crater, Newberg, immediate past-president of Oregon Edu cation associatioh and recently named to serve as director from Oregon to replace Miss Perry when the latter takes up her new work in the east. Professor Coming Also attending will be Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead, Gamma chapter, Eugene, who has been appointed by Secretary John Foster Dulles to serve on a 100 member American advisory com mission to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cul tural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO. Mrs. Moor head is . an associate professor of health education for the Ore gon General Extension division. Medford women of import ance in attendance will include Mrs. Maxine Smith, senior high school teacher who is president of the Department of Classroom Teachers, Oregon Education as sociation and a past president of the Jackson county chapter, OEA, and Mrs. Ivah Dobbs Mur ray, retired grade school teach er who is state president of the Filef Chair-Set Beautify your home with this elegant set for chairs or buffet. Graceful bird - and - rose design is formed by simple filet cro chet! Pattern 7333: Charts, direc tions for filet-crochet set in No. 50 mercerized cotton. Chair back 13x6 inches; armrest 6x12 inches. 5 Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st 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. Two FREE patterns printed in the new Alice Brooks Needle craft book for 1956! Stunning de signs for yourself, for your home just for you, our readers! Dozens of other designs to order all easy, fascinating hand work! Send 25 cents for your copy of this- wonderful book right away! New York (U.R) When your spring housecleaning gets around to the kitchen, take advantage of the work-saving of liquid waxes developed especially for refrigerators, cabinets, walls and appliances. An application of the bottled wax helps restore the shiny new look to many sur faces and makes them easier to keep clean. 'Retired Teachers' association, OEA. Mrs. Stancliffe states that registration will begin Friday at 4:30 p.m. at the Medford hotel and will continue Saturday from 8 to 9 a.m. at the First Metho dist church. League " Elects New Officers . Election of officers, commit tee and project reports occupied the attention of Medford League of Women Voters at the annual meeting held last Saturday at the Medford hotel. ; Named to office were Mrs. Hugh Collins, first vice-president; Mrs. Dun bar Carpenter, second vice-president; Mrs. Don Bohnert, record ing secretary; Mrs. Paul Jan ney, treasurer; Miss Laura York, corresponding secretary. Mrs. Robert Hiatt remains as president and named to the board were Mrs. Irving Thomas and Mrs. John S. Day. Mrs. Wil liam C. Knope will serve as chairman of . the nominating committee for next year. This year's chairman was Mrs. Fred Carr. Mrs. S. E. Philips, chairman of the agenda committee on lo cal items, reported that her committee recommended two items. One is a second "Know Your Country," survey with par ticular attention to be paid to the fringe area problems and the powers of county govern ment, and the second a study of work camps for county prison ers. A 13-14 vote was in favor of the know your county sur vey. Mrs. Irvin Thomas, chairman of voters' service, announced a candidates' meeting to be held at Hedrick Junior High school May 4. Mrs. Leland Mentzer, chair man of the study of ' individual liberties, a national item, - re ported that the subject had been studied by the league in both unit and general meetings and that six other clubs of the city had used league material in pre paring programs. Miss Helen Webster, head li brarian for the public library, spoke on the importance of books and libraries to a com munity. She quoted the motto of the American Library asso ciation which is "Vote, but do not vote in the dark; be inform ed." "Nothing can take the place of books," the speaker said, and added that books are both a res ervoir and a fountain of infor mation and ideas. "Books make available to all citizens the widest diversity of thought and expression," Miss Webster said, and added that the power of democracy is strengthened by the freedom we have to choose from among those expressions. Books increase understanding, and free men from prejudices, Miss Webster declared. Miss Webster stated that a bill is now before ' congress which would make it possible for rural areas to begin library services.' Medford spends only 73 cents per capita per year on its library services, the speaker said, and added that this year there is ?. request for this to be increased to . $1.. According to American Library association Wednesday, April 25. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Show Announced In Central Point Central Point Models for the annual Blossom Time style show and luncheon of Nevita Social club have been announced. The show will be held Friday, April 27, at 1 p.m. in Central Point Junior High school gymnasium. Club members who will mod el are Mrs. Francis Russell, Mrs. Donald A. Faber, Mrs., Alma Mallery, Mrs. Frank Ross, Mrs. Wendell Vaughn, Mrs. Fred Les ter, . Mrs. Lee Merriman, Mrs. O. W. Turnquist and Mrs. Ted Flury. Miss Vicki Noel and Miss Phyllis Briggs will model 'teen age clothing, and Linda Faber, Sheryl Vaughn, Jimmy Vaughn and Stevie Note will model children's clothing. - Reservations for the event may be made by phoning Mrs. Merrill Harsh, TA6-2773, or Mrs. Wendell Vaughn, Medford 2-8924. . standards, minimum" service should require the expenditure of about $1.50 per capita per year, she said. 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