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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. July 8, 1956 Medford Memb'ers Attend Convention A group of Medford members will leave today to attend the 40th annual convention of the United Spanish War Veterans and auxiliary in Eugene. Attending will be Mrs. Don Anderson, department senior vice president for the auxiliary; Mrs. Hans Rammin, Mrs. Harry W. Barneburg, past department president and now personal aide; Miss Donna Unaer, Mrs. James Cech. president of Col onel Sargent auxiliary here; Mrs. Mabel Nicholson, past pres ident of the auxiliary and now gila monster of Cebu swamp, Military Order of the Lizards; and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew lin ger. The convention opens July 8 and continues through July 11. Chn'sfan Women Plan Picnic in Ashland Park The annual picnic of Christian Business and Professional Wo men will be held Monday, July 9, at 6 p.m. at Lithia park, Ash land. Directional signs as to the spot of the picnic will be found on the deer pen in the upper end of the park, the committee states. Those attending are asked to bring a hot dish and salad or dessert and sandwiches, as well as table service. A guest may be invited. The evening of fellow ship will close with candlelight meditations. Help in transportation may be obtained by telephoning 3-5156. Mr and Mrs. C. A. Jenks. Central Point. wer honored at an open house June 24 which observed their 251h wedding anniver sary. The party was held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Thum ler Jr.. son-in-law and daughter of the honored couple. 25th Wedding Anniversary Celebrated at Open House Central Point The home of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Thumler Jr., 332 North Second street, Central Point, was the scene of an open house Sunday, June 24, which observed the silver wedding an niversary of Mrs. Thumler's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jenks, Route 1, Box 4017. Nearly 30 guests attended the surprise party. 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Calif., where he was a police officer for 20 years, moved to the Rogue Valley in 1944. Among the guests to attend were three other former Long Beach officers, now retired, who live in the area. They are: Mr. and Mrs. George Lyon, Rogue River; Mr. and Mrs. Walt Turn er, Trail; and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Brown, Ashland. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Voss, Central Point, neighbors of the Jenks, who were celebrating their 42nd an niversary. Besides their daughter, the Jenks' have two grandchildren, Wayne and Brenda Thumler. Women's Division Republican Party Publishes Paper New York The Crusader, of ficial campaign publication of the Women's Division of Nation al Citizens for Eisenhower, made its debut June 28. The four-page monthly is being distributed to state chairmen and co-chairmen of Citizens for Eisenhower and to other key personnel of the campaign throughout the coun try. The first issue numbers 10,000 copies. Under the leadership of Mrs. Dorothy D. Houghton, national co-chairman, the publication has been created to acquaint women campaign workers with the per sonnel and activities of the na tional women's division and to serve as a medium for an inter change of ideas and projects. The first issue features "thumb nail biographies" of Mrs. Hough ton and her executive commit tee: Mrs. Edwin I. Hilson, New York; Mrs. Jerel Newbomb, New York; Mrs. Stewart Alexander, Park Ridge, N.J.; Mrs. David Peck, New York; Mrs. George P. Taubman Jr., Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. H. Chapman Rose, Mentor, Ohio; Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin, New York and Cali fornia; Miss Sally Butler, Indi anapolis, Ind., and, Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset, Philadelphia. 4 Adarel Chapter Postpones Picnic Because of conflicting Mason ic activities, the annual picnic of past matrons and patrons of Ad arel chapter, Order of Eastern Star, set for July 14 at the Ed Pease home on Vernada place, Medford, has been indefinitely postponed. Members will be no tified when a new date has been established. 'Ripleyettes' Common in Rome Writes Traveler From Medford (Editor's note: The following article is by Mrs. I. E. Schuler, Medford resident spending sev eral months in Europe. Mrs. Schuler describes a visit to an Italian "cemetery" and also writes of fashions and interest ing street scenes.) Rome I often wonder if Mr. Ripley came to Rome for his Believe It or Nots. He missed rich opportunities, I would think, if he didn't. Almost every day I find subjects which could, at least, be considered Ripleyettes. This is one. Here, they call it a cemetery. It might classify better in the "Novelty in Decora tion" department. Going down the Via Veneta, late one afternoon, an acquaint ance said to me, "Have you seen the cemetery in this Cappuccini church? If not, you might be interested." I do find European cemeteries interesting. They are extravagantly lavish, unique, and neat. One seldom finds a red Hill's coffee can vase, old milk bottles, or piles of wilted flowers. So I followed her di rections. "Go up the steps into the church, follow along the right side to the fourth chapel, open a door, and go down to the underground." After the bright sun outside, the church was dim. I passed the tiny, barefooted end bearded monk with his open money bag and went as directed. No one was about. The way led along a narrow passage, and on into a small room. Then, for one crazy, dizzy second, I felt I must be mentally seeing things. Gradu ally, however, my eyes became adjusted to the vague light and I found myself in a room of bones. Everything the human body has to offer with a large focal decorative Renaissance doorway, bounteously covered with shoulder blades, inter spersed with skulls. Designs of Bone Along the walls were legs and arms bones piled tidily, like ten and twelve-inch cordwood. Innumerable slender fibulae, bound together like little rafts,-! formed the framework of niches. In these niches stood well pre served, though shrunken, eigh teenth century Cappuccini monks brown clad and cowled. They peered out under their hoods from sunken eye sockets. They held staffs in their stiff fingers. Although somewhat faded and dusty, they were the symbols that we will all eventually reach that stage. The ceilings, Gothic in struc ture, were remarkably and in tricately ornamented like frescoes. Shoulder blades and pelvic bones, in bewildering numbers, predominated the heav ier motifs. The daintier designs were of ribs, fingers and toes. The doorways of the five rooms, which constitute the cemetery, were edged with open jaw bones. An occasional tooth, intact, created a certain realism. Large hanging lamps in the cor ridors utilized arms and ribs, with knee caps serving as dangles and prisms. Two small skeletons were astride one wall decoration. Father Time, com plete with scythe of leg bones, and hour glass of fingers, was fastened flat to one ceiling. Visitors Touch In places where visitors can touch them, many skulls were rubbed to a rich smooth ivory. Of course, there were liberal sprinklings of skulls and cross bones. These served as fillers for otherwise undecorated spots. Oddly enough, skulls semed to predominate. They peered round eyed and forewarning from every nook and cranny. Obviously there was no end of material. For some inexplicable reason, Shakespeare kept popping into my mind. If he could say all he did about Hamlet's little find, what would he have done with such profusion of specimen? As I was leaving, a guide brought down a group of gaping tourists. I heard all but the last words of what he was hap pily telling them, that "It takes ten years ..." I added to my self, mentally, "to be ready for decoration." To the more delicately con stituted this cemetery might cause a certain squeamishness. Drivers Tearsome Another Ripleyette might be Roman driving laws and Roman drivers. Curious are the laws; fearsome are the drivers. There are no speed laws. On good au thority, I have heard that the police gaze admiringly as an Alfa Romeo goes flashing past at one hundred miles per. Traffic offenses, conveniently pryable on the spot, get bargain rates. No five or ten dollar parking tickets here. Immediate payment costs forty-one cents. (For foreign cars, a polite re minder in four languages). If the cop isn't there to give the money to, the price goes up to fifty-four cents. After two years of . written notices, the cost mounts to S2.30. After that, the bailiff comes and takes the car, the piano, and anything else he wishes. Other infringements. like passing red tights, vary m price at the discretion of the policeman. For example, there is apt to be a difference between the rate for a young girl and an older woman. Americans have discovered that not understand ing the Italian language helps too. Drivers of motor scooters, of which there are millions, are not licensed. A child of twelve may operate a motor scooter. By and far the most fascinat ing of Roman driving habits is that of the man who changes his mind and turns with impunity in the middle of a four-lane block, stopping all traffic, as he gets himself into an opposite going lane. x saw a nine car Knock an old man down. The driver stop ped, leaned out of the window long enough to see the little fel low pick himself up and then roared off, full tilt.. The knocked down one dusted his clothes and walked off. Pedestrians Frustrated Naturally, my interest in Roman driving is primarily that of a most-of-the-time pedestrian At first, frustration stalked me at every corner when I had to make the decision as to whether I should attempt a crossing. In variably, as I stepped out into the street, would come honks, growing m intensity, as a big Doay ana head and his little car roared closer and seeming ly faster. Well, so far I have made it. And through experience, I've learned angles on how to handle the hair-raising exper ience of crossing a street. For one thing, a long-time resident here told me that it is always saie to cross with a mother and baby. They never kill babies. The chances are that the midget car may slow up for an instant even. Another angle, better yet, is to put up a hand, peremptor ily, as soon as I start, as though I might be Mrs. Luce or some body. Oddly enough, that works shades of Mussolini, I suppose. The car screechingly stops while I cross the street. The seemingly always pleasant policeman helps too, if he happens to be about. He has stopped traffic on several occasions to permit pedestrians to walk safely to the other side. No Parking Laws Car owners park their cars wherever they wish on busy corners, blocking the pedes trians' way, across narrow streets even on sidewalks in front of hotels. Actually the traffic problem has grown so quickly, they say, that laws are beyond coping with them. Thousands of Italians had never owned, nor learned to drive cars until after the war. That may account for the slap haDpy fast driving. Fiat is the major manufactur er of Italian cars. This year's flT PAULINE'S FASHION 337 Pine St. Central Point, Ore. Phone NO-4-1011 DUES Reg. $5.98 & $8.98 All Sizes. Half & Reg. NOW SES s398 Look At This Buy! Our New FALL JANTZEN SWEATERS Are Here! Lay Yours Away for Fall $1.00 Will Hold It Blouses ony $2 cotton SKIRTS 898 LAI Many Styles to Choose From Reduced to WE GIVE AND REDEEM GOLD ARROW STAMPS Axtells Hosts To Rose Society About fifty members of Med ford Rose society and their fam ' ilies attended a special meeting of the society at Folding Hills Ranch, home of Mr. and Mrs. Ranald Axtell of T-ail, on Sun day afternoon, June 24. A picnic was held in the grove near the river at 1 p.m. After lunch a brief business meeting was conducted by the president, Eldred Peyton. ; Mrs. Wallace Peabody and I Mrs. Axtell, who were delegates ; to the national convention of i the American Rose society i in Portland early in June, j gave interesting reports of the convention. Among the more in teresting of the events at the convention, according to Mrs. Peabody, were the garden tours. She also mentioned the stimulat ing reports given by "Young" Sam McCredy of Ireland, and of the humourous anecdotes of Mr. O'Brien, "Plain Dirt Gardener," of magazine fame. Plans for the northwest dis trict convention of the American Rose society to be held in Med ford in 1957, were discussed. A prize book. Sunset Gardens, was given to Mrs. Charles Hobbs. output is 56 greater than last year at this time. Many Milk Bars The Italian milk and coffee bar is, to me, another oddity; The only thing comparable in America would have been the old-fashioned saloon with swing ing auors. in naiy there are no doors. There are also no chairs. The customers, of which there are legion, stand at the bar and arinK coitee, milk, cocktails or brandy. They eat sandwiches, pretty little cakes, and utterly devastating fancy ice cream Coffee, in these places, costs four to eight cents depending on the location and the luxnrv m. of them are quite luxuriously modernistic. You may find one in every block. The following are little oddi ties, none of which would make headlines: Nuns on motorscooters. The lack of garlic in Italian food. In the six months I've been here I haven't tasted it. The sea soning of everything is light and aencaie. The popularity of pearl ear rings and necklaces with Euro pean women. Nine out of 10 of the Italian well-dressed women as well as the French and Eng lish I saw in Monte Carlo, wear one-string pearls and what ap pears to be real pearl earrings. Big costume . jewelry doesn't seem to be popular. Girls and women wear an al most uniform shoe very pointed toe and closed heel. Many eve ning shoes have jewelled heels. Many heels are no bigger than pencils at the bottom. The Fontana sisters, who made Margaret Truman's wedding dress, have perhaps the best known of the many fashionable shops in Rome. There, you may buy a really nice dress for $250, simple, with good lines. Mrs. Truman bought a blue cocktail dress while she was here. E. U. R. Interesting E. U. R. (European Universale Roma) is a Mussolini endeavor. He had built it with the idea of using it for a big exhibition in 1940. It is really a small city in itself, out several miles from Rome. It was a grandiose endeav or with great marble buildings of Grecian - type architecture, wide paved avenues, and parks. It is still uncompleted. Out at E. U. R. there is at pres ent a demonstration of an Ameri can supermarket. It is causing sighs of desire and envy from Italian women. And no wonder, when you consider that they must go to about 12 shops to do their marketing. They can't buy their eggs and butter, for in stance, where tney buy spaghetti. Meat is in another shop, cheese another, and fruit at still an other. The frozen food department, in the demonstration, causes the greatest sensation. That is some thing entirely new in Italy. One hundred thousand persons vis ited the exhibition during the first three days. 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