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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on the mantlepiece pink glad
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flanked by pink candles in sil
ver candelabra. An archway
was formed of silver bells and
pink streamers in front of the
serving table.
For the open house Mrs. Jenks
wore a dress of aquamarine faille
accented with a corsage of pink
rosebuds.
The Jenks, who were married
in Long Beach. 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.
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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
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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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