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Mothers Attend College Week End Among mothers who attended the annual Mothers Week end events at Oregon State college last week end were Mrs. John Graves, 920 East Jackson street, who visited her daughter, Miss Bonnie Graves; Mrs. Robert Rukovina, 11 Almond street, who was a guest of her daugh ter, Miss Pat Rukovina; Mrs. Charles W. Coyle, 708 Park street, who visited her daughter, Miss Janet Coyle; Mrs. Norman Neathamer, 119 Jeanette street, who visited her daughter. Miss Dizie Neathamer, and Mrs. Alex McDonald, 146 North Mountain street, Ashland, who was a guest of her daughter, Miss Jeanette McDonald. The women returned home Sunday night. Ladies' Auxiliary Plans Box Social Ladies' auxiliary to Jackson County chapter. Disabled Ameri can Veterans, will hold a box social tonight at DAV hall, 1515 North Riverside avenue. Each woman attending the event is to take a box lunch, and these will be purchased by the men. Proceeds of the project will be used to defray expenses for a delegate to the state conven tion to be held in Salem June 13-16. Visitor Here Mrs. M J. Tupman of Red Bluff Calif., is in Medford to visit her son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. James, 1426 Euclid avenue. Mrs. Tupman will be here for several days. t Club to Meet Mistletoe club will meet Wed' nesday. May 9, at Girls Com munity club. Dessert at 12:30 o'c'ock will be followed by a business meeting. 21 Scouts Initiated Into Order of Arrow Twenty-one Boy Scouts were initiated into the Order of the Arrow last week end at the an- nual spring initiation ceremony ' near Trail. The candidates were nom inated for the order by a ma jority of the members of their respective, scout troops. Later. they passed an "ordeal," part of which included cleaning up the Boy Scouts conservation area located on Trail creek. They worked under the super vision of Larry Hammond, past lodge chief. Ceremony team for the initia tion consisted of Dick Clark, Mazama lodge chief; Bob Glo ver, lodge treasurer; James Boyd, lodge secretary; Wilson Gilinsky, secretary of the Big Pines chapter; Wayne Breeze, chapter chief, and Charles Rob ertson, senior crew leader of Post 8, Medford. Candidates who were unable to attend the initiation will par ticipate in the ordeal at Camp McLoughlin this summer. The Order of the Arrow is a part of the Boy Scouts of America and is composed of scouts and lead ers who have shown exceptional leadership and scoutcraft ability. GRACE TO GERMANY Heppenheim, Germany (U.R) Village officials disclosed that Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco will come here next year to visit the birthplace of the bride's grandmother. Society Camp White Chaplain To Speak for WCTU The monthly meeting of Med ford Woman's Christian Temp erance Union will be held at Girls Community club Thursday, May 10, at 2 p.m. Chaplain A. S. Feller of Camp White will be speaker.' Music is planned during the devotional period, and refresh ments will be served during the social hour. GIRL SCOUTS Tea Gircn A Juliette Low tea was held recently by Phoenix Neighbor hood Girl Scout troops at the Phoenix Community club, with Mrs. Merle Simmons in charge The tea raised money for the Juliette Low world friendship fund, by each scout and leader giving a penny for each year of age, in memory of the birthday of the founder of Girl scouting, Juliette Gordon Low. Through an exchange program the fund brings Rangers and Senior Girl Scouts from all over the world to live, for a while, in the United States; and United States Senior Scouts have the same chance to live for a time in other countries. The exchange of camp counselors and trainers be tween countries has also become an important activity of the fund. Each troop in the neighbor hood took part in' the activities of the afternoon, starting with members of sixth grade Troop No. 18 presenting the colors. They are led by Mrs. Bill How ard. The second grade troop, led by Mrs. John C. Kesler, and the fourth grade Troop No. 87, led by Mrs. A. W. Tomlin, each sang several songs. Mrs. Chester Keene's third grade Troop No. 35, did the sing ing dance, the hoky-poky. Troop No. 169, fifth grade, led by Mrs. Simmonds played the singing game, "Fair Rosy." Mrs. O. J. Miller acted as mis tress of ceremonies; the decora tions were made by Mrs. Kesler. All the troop leaders aided with the serving. Court of Awards Jacksonville Neigh borhood Girl Scouts will hold the annual court of awards - and Brownie fly-up on Friday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the elementary school all-purpose room, under the di rection of Mrs. Pete Zimmer man, neighborhood chairman. Mrs. Michele Rossi, president of the Rogue Valley Area coun cil, will be the speaker and will pay a special tribute to the girls of Troop No. 128, eighth grade, led by Mrs. Wendell Matheny, who will be receiving the curved bar award. A Juliette Low can dlelight ceremony will open the program, and each troop will contribute to the program. It is also planned to show a short film on troop committee organization. Troop No. 168, fifth grade, will receive the second class badge and also several proficiency badges. It is led by Mrs. Zim merman. Troop No. 179, fourth grade, will fly-up. They are led by Mrs. R. R. Crowley. Mrs. H. O. Peterson's sixth grade troop, No. 199, will re ceive several proficiency badges. The second grade Brownies, Troop No. 23, led by Mrs. A. A. Griffin and Mrs. Al Pawlowski, and the third grade, Troop No. 64, led by Mrs. W. H. Dunlap will also take part in the entertainment. other will be thrilled with a Persian Princess by PRINCESS GARDNER The Continental FRENCH PURSE ...with roomy, leather-lined coin purse. Pastels, also Navy, Red, Blade In kitten-soft polished cowhide, igleam with tiny jewels. Matching Key Gaids from $2.93 1 tpbttax A II plus tax I CD Tuesday, May 8, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Science May Be Close in Finding Poison Ivy Preventive Knowledge By DELOS SMITH United Preis Science Editor New York (U.R) With poison ivy about to rear its treacherous leaves all over the country, poison ivy addicts can take com fort in the knowledge that science may be close to acquiring the know-how which could put an end to their spring and sum mer miseries. Years-long studies at Colum- Medford Soloists, Ensembles Receive Superior Ratings Twenty-three Medford junior division soloists and ensembles were rated superior Saturday at the Solo and Ensemble Contest, sponsored by the Southern Ore gon Music Educators at Fruit dale school. ' Superior ratings went to Mc Loughlin school string ensemble, Clinton Stiger, coronet soloist; Janet Merrill, clarinet soloist; Hedrick school, John Frohnmay er, trombone soloist; Bill Mauer, baritone soloist; Sidney Smith, coronet soloist and flute trio No. 2; and Medford High, Dick Brown, trombone soloist; Sonja Peterson, violin and piano solo ist; Carol McKinley, saxophone soloist; trombone quartet; french horn quartet; coronet quartet; baritone quartet; brass sextet No. 2; brass quintet; woodwind quintet; saxophone quartet; clar inet quartet No. 1; clarinet quar tet No. 2; string ensemble and boys octet. Excellent Ratings Receiving excellent ratings were, McLoughlin school, Randy Peterson, piano soloist; Diane Franklin, piano soloist; Robert Allen, violin soloist; Donna Dem mer, clarinet soloist; clarinet quartet No. 1; coronet trio;- flute quartet; saxophone quartet; horn quartet; and Lynette Shaw, clarinet soloist; Hedrick school, flute trio No. 1; horn quartet; saxophone quartet; brass quar tet; woodwind quintet; and trumpet quartet; and Medford Senior High school, Terry Brer ton, clarinet soloist; brass sextet No. 1; clarinet quartet No. 2; clarinet quartet No. 4; Jim Cor um, trombone soloist and Ruth Philips, violin soloist. Good ratings went to the Mc Loughlin clarinet quartet No. 2 and Williard Harwood, tuba solo ist; Hedrick school clarinet quar tet; and Medford Senior High trombone trio. A fair rating went to the McLoughlin brass sextet. , Judges included Joseph Brye, Oregon : State college, vocal and piano; George Lotzenheimer, University of Oregon, brass and percussion; Norman Street, Ben son Tech, Portland, woodwinds, and Milton Dietrich, University of Oregon, strings. UO To Present Play 'Carousel' May 23 Eugene University - theater's annual spring musical will be Rodgers and Hammerstein's pop ular "Carousel," which opens here May 23. Directing will be Horace W. Robinson, associate professor of speech. The play, which includes such favorites as "If I Loved You" and "June Is Bustin' Out All Over," will star Gordon How ard, Eugene, as Billy Bigelow, and Arden Jaeger, Portland, and Ann Stearns, Prineville, v.-ho will share the role of Julie. Directing the chorus and or chestra for the musical will be Max D. Risinger, assistant pro fessor of music. Dancing will be directed by Jean .Cook, instruc tor in physical education. String Quartet to Be at University Eugene An opportunity to study under members of a world famed string quartet will be pre sented through the University of Oregon school of music dur ing the 1956 summer session. The Hungarian String Quar tet, recognized as one of the fore most string ensembles of our day, will be in residence on the campus from July 2 through July 21 and will be available for a limited amount of private teaching, according to Dean Theodore Kratt. The quartet will give a series of lectures and demonstrations during their stay and will give one formal concert each week during the three-week period. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport bia University under the direc tion of Prof. Charles R. Dawson have bared the chemical secrets of the poison ivy. Dawson now suspects that it takes two things to produce the itch and blisters the poison and the right kind of skin, chemically. That would explain why there are people who wallow in poison ivy and are no more affected than anyone would be of clover. It would follow that chemicals in the skins of some people (but not all people) combine with the poison of poison ivy and then, brother, they have it Dawson and his colleagues suspect that these combining skin chemicals are varieties of proteins which are produced by the body chemistry of poison ivy subjects. Protein and poison combine into a "complex that initiates the events leading to the typical clinical symptoms of poison ivy dermatitis," he re ported to the New York Acad emy of Sciences. The skeleton of the molecule of poison ivy poison has long been known. Chemically it is re lated to carbolic acid a shud- STEVENSON WINS Washington U.R) A slow starting stable pony named Stevenson won the presidential primary sweepstakes Monday at Laurel race track in nearby Maryland. Kefauver placed sec ond, Johnson third and Syming ton, Russell and Harriman were also rans. dering fact! Dawson and his colleagues have succeeded after many trials, in elaborating the skeleton in detail. "Side" chains of hydrogen and carbon atoms doubly and triply bonded attached to .these mol ecules make up the active "poi son ivy principle." What re- Thunderstorm Causes Outages in Portland Portland (U.R) A brief but violent thunderstorm last night inundated streets in the subur ban area east of Portland and caused numerous power outages over a - wide area. Camas and Washougal were hit hardest by the storm but damage appeared to be slight. A bolt of lightning struck the 66,000-volt line of Pacific Power & Light Co. at 6:20 p.m., caus ing two separate outages. The 230,000-volt North Bonneville Ross line took three separate hits by lightning but was not damaged. The storm dumped -.38 of an inch of rain on Portland airport but grew in intensity as it moved eastward. Pendleton had 1.13 inches of rain in a 24-hour per iod. At least two main intersec tions in east Portland, were flooded for a time when storm drains were unable to handle the load that fell 'on them in a few minutes' time. mains to be done is to separate these bonds in pure and also chemically active form from the plant extract. - When that is done, they will then be studied as to their "mode of action" upon human skin. When the mode of action is once established, chemists will be able to work out chemical ways of interfering with it and then some easy way of prevent ing poison ivy poisoning of the persons susceptible to it would be at hand. At present, they can build up a large amount of immunity by taking pills containing a - small amount of the chemically modi fied poison in advance of the sea son. The Columbia laboratories have produced in pure form one component of the poisoning "principle," a-pentadecylcatechol or PDC which when injected into muscles repeatedly for several weeks, will bestow a high -degree " of immunity that can be "renewed" with two to four in jections annually. Dawson said that poison ivy was the best known plant in America, and you know why. It is a native American. Captain John Smith was one of the first to describe it to the world, but the Indians were only too famil iar with- it.. Animals, however, are immune. If only they weren't, Dawson said, science would know much more about how to handle it, since it could then experiment with animals. As for poison oak; It is so close to poison ivy that the apparent differences are duo only to it growing in different types of soil and in different climates. Poison oak is largely a Western plant. Either poison ivy or poison oak grows in every state with the ex ception of Nevada. 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