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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1956)
tlX MEDFOKD fOUEQOK) MAIL THIBUNK Sunday. July 22. 1958 Potpourri Centralis Today (Thursday) had to quit insisting to Cen rsl;ans that they don t really know what hot weather is just wait until they live in Jackson county, Oregon. Wednesday was reildiy hot and when the natives, accustomed to coolish summer days, complained, we just pooh poohed and said it wa n't really hot. But today was really a hot tiny, urder any definition, and if v had our sleeping baz here, ia d spend the right outside in the garden, as we no at home in Medford. Tre family chose this day to drive to I.ebam, v. here ail of us hed at one time, and then to Raymond to visit other relatives. As the car bowled alone, the years rolled back, as they always oo when we visit Pacific coun-tv. day, we deeply enjoy watching the scenery unroll benea'h the plane. If anyone wants to fully savor the vastness and majesty of Oregon-Washington scenery, fly be tween Medford and Portland. When the mountains ar com pletely snow-covered, as they were for a trip in April, is a better time than summer, but even so. the sight of the moun tain peaks, beginning wi'h little Mt. Pi" and ending with im pressive Mt. Rainier in Wash ington, is something to stir the soul. Beginning about Eugene. passengers are able to see three or four mountains most of the tune and this thrilling exper ience alone is worth the fare. Potpourri had but one really had monment during the trip. The plane was droning along. One of the oddities of growing rather earlv in the flight, when oldor is the change in perspec tive. As a child we thought that the white building which stood near the railroad tracks at Mc Cornnck in Pacific county, and which housed the offices of a lumber firm, was just about the most magnificent tiling imagin able today it was just another building; Pluvius hill was once a mountain tip which a Model T could hardly crawl in low gear today it scarcely can even be called a hill. Forty years ago the trip from I.ebam to f'hehalis or Centralis was a thrilling adven ture today it was a routine and pleasant excursion accom plished in less than an hour. However, not everything is changed. The little Catholic church at Frances looked the same, as did some of the homes and the Baptist church in Lebam. ; We stopped for "Mother Mondt," who has lived in the same house for more than 40 years and who says that she knows almost ev eryone from Chehalis to South Bend. When she asked if we re membered the Baptist church across the street, we said truth fully that we certainly did. For It was at that church that a boy first asked us for a date. That winter night we had on what we thought was the most beautiful hat in the world it was deep red shirred velvet worn with a brown coat. Probably the coat was a hand-me-down, since mid dle sister, in those days of small incomes, usually inherited most of her clothes from older sister. In fact, this has persisted through the years and some of our best suits and dresses still originate In the wardrobe of "big nister." At Raymond, Potpourri spent most of the day at the home of a friend we had not seen since high schools days and that s a long time. It was a strange feel ing to meet this girlhood friend after so many years and find that after all, she was really the same. Grey hair and added pounds do not change the calm, friendly sweet disposition which are characteristic of friend Ida and her family. The whole day was filled with "do you remember . . ." and ''whatever became of Alice . . .'' and "did you know that Tom so and so died last month." We con tinued one of those wonderful and silly family arguments which involved a lot of wrangling over when we moved from Portland to Labam. and was it 1312. 1913 or 1914 that the family home burned, along with almost all the rest of the little mill com munity of Lebam. Sister thought one thing, mother thought anoth er and Henry and Mother Mondt added their ideas, and of course, nothing was settled. As for us, we have no idea what year it was or exactly how old we were, but this we stub bornly insisted that we certain ly did spend our first Christ mas in'Lebam in a certain house, for we have never forgotten that It was that Christmas the family had no tree just why no one eems to remember now. And one of our presents that Christmas was a little stone carving of three little monkeys which ex emplify the oriental teaching of "hear no evil, see no evil and upeak no evil." In our memory today we can see the three pairs of monkey hands over ears, eyes and mouth of the three little tone creatures which so excited our imagination then. The little carving was lost years ago, and we wish it had not been. the smell of smoke suddenly became very strong. Unable to control our uneasiness, we asked the young steward if he smelled the odor. lie pointed out that the plane had merely fiown over a small forest fire, and that what we i smelled was wood smoke from ' the fire. Whenever we travel, by plane or car, we're always distressed by the bareness and devastation : left by the loggers. Potpourri fully realizes what lumber has meant to the economy of the west after all. we were raised in loggitig camps and mill towns, hut always wish that trie beauty of the land did not have to be o rn,-rrd However, nature does her best to cov er up the ugliness left by the logging industry and j during the trip from Centralia to Raymond it was noted that the second growth timber has gradually re-forested much of the land and that the natural beauty of the hills and valleys has been restored in many sec tions by the trees and under brush. Eariler in the week we wand ered across the alley for our yearly visit with sister's neigh bor, Mrs. Dave Berry. Mrs. B.. who has a wonderfully "green thumb", raises the biggest pe tunias and the tallest delphinium we practically ever saw and this year her fuchsis are a breath taking sight. Four baskets are filled with the all-pink South gate variety, and there must have been four or five hundred blossoms on the four plants. Fuchsias are also a favorite with business firms who use the hanging baskets for street-side beauty in Centralia. and Mrs. Berry said if we called Mrs. Nell Jones, she could tell Pot pourri the names of those at the Weyerhaeuser building. Mrs. Jones could, and did. The large darkish one in the north basket was Cherokee, she said, and agreed that it is especially lovely. It is paired with a variety called Mamie, while Lilibet and Potent ate had been planted in the south basket. We added five to our collec tion year, including the delicate little pink Countess of Aberdeen. Pudget Sound and Yonder Blue, and would like to look forward to buying Southgate and Cher okee next year. But sometimes we have the uneasy feeling that if we buy any more plants. Pappy is going to become re belliois He likes flowers, too. but he knows when enough is enough. Potpourri doesn't. Notes from a new GI: " I was going to call you today but found they scorned it. so I guess tht letter will have to do." "Well, 'tis Saturday and we only had a 'half day of work up at 4 o'clock and start at 4:30. then busy till 12. And they call it half a day" "The food here is lousy, but we don't work as hard (same lousy hours, though), so it works out about the same. So far, only half of the guys on our roster have had KP and they've pulled it two or three ! times. They have so far only j pulled KP from the first of the I alphabet." "Well. I'm on strict regulations again. I now have a permanent address and start ! basic Monday .... I checked yesterday on mailing out a package and found I can only write letters. Can't even phone till after the first week of basic They've already been telling us when to get up. when to use 'American Girls Crisscross Ocean On Unique Jobs There's no telling where a girl'i career will lead nowadays. American working girls criss cross the Atlantic Ocean on tin iaue job errands which even a ' mere male executive would ! have termed remarkable a gen eration ago. ! One pretty young blonde just j returned from Russia where she !went on al-expen.cs-paid shop , ping trip. A wrl known woman designer left this week for I- ; rael to act as advisor to that i country's growing fashion in- dustry. The Moscow shopper was Jean Gammon. who travels ! around under the name of Sally Ann Simpson for the Scandin avian Airlines system. Miss Gammon wan'.- to help you and me pick up sensible souveniers when we make our first trip to Russia. And that isn't easy, as her own shopping proved. She found some picturesque L'kranian blouses of white linen, for instance. The price was 300 rubles, or about ST5. The smallest size was 44. The Israel fashion advisor i Carolyn Schnurer. known for her causual clothes and bathing suits. CALENDAR Calendar ncuce and new for the society section of The Mail I'rihune must be submitted in wnunj and d.adlin- (or the Sun day edition ts 1 p m Friday Dead line for the weekly calendar is 9 s m of the dav of publication and for week dav new is 5 p.m. the day before publication Designers still are determined to return women to some of their Edwardian elegance of 50 years ago. Hat designer Mr. John says this fall and winti-r will see the full-fledged return of the elegant hat big. feather or (lower-trimmed and extremely feminine. He previewed his own collection of Edwardian hats this week. We're living in a plastic kilchen age. exhibitors at the International Housewares show proved this wek. They intro duced everything from a 20-gal-lon plastic trash can, non-clang for early morning pickups, to a lastic. battery-driven clothes brush with vasuum cleaner ac tion. The suction-powered brush is approximately the size of a flashlight. 4 Something Different Baked grapefruit is an easy dessert to prepare. Just cut in half, cover with honey and cin namon. Place in a greased bak ing dish and brown in the oven of your range for about twenty-minutes. berry pie so delicious that we ate three pieces during a iour hour period; road sign with single word on it "Bump"; small boy having a wonderful time on plane but admitting that his "belly was rolling"; a moth er who had just aTtended the funeral of the second of her three sons staring into space, sad-faced and unmoving; young repairman telling housewife ex actly how to run new automatic washer and then admitting that he had never put out a washing i.i one; plane passenger settling into seat by emergency exit door and then remembering how once upon a time a man made histroy by hanging outside a plane by his seat belt when such a door ripped open during the flight of a trans-continental plane; ex-GI, who hated Army routine with all his might, now arguing that it's all right and then thinking how he could make life miserable for serg eants if he had to do it all over again; same ex-GI, working in plant freezing peas all day every day coming home to find that mother has cooked peas for din ner; new word for cowboy pic ture a "giddy-apper." O. S. Sunday: 1 p.m. Jacksonville Masonic bodies. Gienn Abbott home on Lake Creek. 1:30 p.m. Medford chapter of the Oregon Schoo' Employees assocation, TouVelle Park. Monday: 12 noon Grandmothers Club number 113, home of Mrs. Clay j ton Walker. 129 North Oakdale for all day meeting. Tuesday: 10 to 12 noon Grace Circle of First Presbyterian church, ; home of Mrs. Veldon Diment, 213 Portland street, i 10:30 a.m. Woman's Society i of Christian Service. First Meth : odist church, home of Mrs. John . Kent. 922 South Oakdale. 7.30 p.m. Unity Truth Cen ter meets Room 203, Holly Theater building. 8 p.m. Pythian club, home ; of Mrs. Joe Cook, 124 King ; street. Wednesday: 12 noon Evans Valley Gar j den club, home of Mrs. John Goldt, West Evans creek road. 12 noon Medford Harmony Townsend club. Carpenter Union hall, 123' 2 West Main street. 1 p.m. Getogether Club. .Moose Hall. 7: 10 p.m. Southern Oregon Society of Artists, building 218. Camp White. 8 p.m. Women of the Moose, chapter 834, Moose Hall, 11 New ton. Thursday: 9:30 a.m. Christian Worn ens Fellowship, Circle 4. home of Mrs. Herb Sims, 47 North Peach. 12 noon Fleet Reserve As sociation picnic, TouVelle Park. 1 p.m. Christian Womens Fellowship. Circle 1, home of Mrs. A. W. Denny, 2995 Ma drone lane. 1 p.m. Christian Womens Fellowship, Circle 2. home of Mrs. May Ayers, 722 West Fourth street. 1 p.m. Christian Womens Circle 3, home of Miss Nora Straus. 2208 Table Rock road. 1 p.m. Christian Womens Fellowship, Circle 5, home of Mrs. Carl Pearson, 108 Clark. 1 p.m. Christian Womens Fellowship, Circle 6, home of Mrs. Price Shafer, 412 Union. 2 p.m. Tea for interested persons in Central Point kinder garten. American Legion Hall, Central Point. Friday: 11 a.m. Unity Truth Cen ter meets. Room 203, Holly Theatre building. Handweavers Meet The regular summer monthly meeting of the Rogue Valley Handweavers guild was held July 17 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton A. Loros. 1862 Delta Waters road. A social eve ning was held including a din ner. The next regular dinner meet ing will be held August 19 at 6 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Loof. 3476 South Pacific highway. Grants Pass. Macaroni and Cheese Let left-over macaroni and cheese chill and firm up in an oblong pan. Cut in squares. Roll squares in seasoned beaten egg then in bread crumbs and brown 1 ghtly on the top burner of your gas range in frying pan. Serve with a sauce of condensed tomato soup. It's so good you'll be inaking a double recipe of macaroni to be sure of this second-day dish. 4 Use Mail Tribune Want Adl Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; in a.m Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day i the bathroom, when to eat. how Our need of haste overcame! to wear out clothes, when to our sense of economy this vaca-j smoke and when to go to bed. lion and we took the plane on ; for the last three weeks . . and our annual trip north. As usual. ! I have two more months of it we enjoyed everything except to look forward to. It's after the take-off from the various j hours and I have to sit in the petrts when once the plane is j latrine to write this letter. And in the air we relax and if the j this cement floor is cold!" day is fair, as it was last Sun-1 Trip Notes: A fresh logan- Appetite Gone? Choose Fresher and More Tasty Foods at . . . f MARKET 1 : 1202 North Riverside I t OPEN EVERY L NIGHT 'TIL J MIDNIGHT Yes, it makes a whale of a difference what you do when your health isn't up to par. Don't waste precious time with self medication. The wise person goes to one who KNOTS. So, hunt up a doctor in whom you have confidence. Take his advice and his medicines faith fully. And, of course, bring; his prescriptions here for careful compounding bv our experi enced, Registered Pharmacists. Thank you! Central j?att Drug Main & Central Phcne 2-9431 Open 8 a.m. 9 p.m. Closed Sun. ej-niihij rU Miin;,i-iyi fc' v:-fjtv Kb .t. I 1 ... " i i j" 'n...j Mechanical "Brain" The thermostatically top burn er heat control, first introduced last year in connection with built-in griddles, is now adopted for wider top-of-the-range use. This mechanical "brain" is now available with one or two top burners and two manufacturers offer a converto grid so that a thermostatically heat controlled griddle may be converted to an extra large top burner, also thermostatically heat controlled. Lunch Box Sandwich For a new sandwich fftihg combine together a 3 - ounce package of cream cheese. 3 ta blespoons apricot jam and 2 ta blespoons chopped nuts. A filling of raisins and lightly spiced, sweetened canned apple sauce thickened with plain gela tin and chilled in a gingersnap crust makes a refreshing sum mer pie. Top with whipped cream. MANY FLOWERS Laddie Northridge has designed a hat of hundreds of lilies of the valley in a trellis arrangement accented with crystal dewdrops. It can be worn straight on or back on the head as is shown here. Mr. Northridge recommends this type of hat for summer weddings and formal afternoon parties such as teas and receptions. Party Slogans Bedeck Clothing Los Angeles (U.R) A new line of women's and men's ap parel, bearing slogans of the two major political parties in the United States, are on sale in stores throughout the nation. Manufactured by the Los An geles firm of Juli Lynne Char lot, the clothing displays such campaign savins as "More Than Ever I like Ike'' and "Go To Bat for the Democrats." The line includes felt and poplin skirts, felt cocktail aprons and men's felt vests. Prices in the East range from approxi mately S15 for the vests to ap proximately S6() for the felt skirts. Poplin skirts are priced in the $50 range. The GOP skirts bear inter spersed abstract felt cutouts de picting "full employment," I Meat Loaf Recipe ! Every cook has her favorite meat loaf recipe. 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