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.
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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.
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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-
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Take his advice and his medicines faith
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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. Here's one
j that's different and delicious,
i Combine 2 pounds ground beef,
1 2 cup chopped celery. i cup
; chopped green pepper, 2 chop
ped onion: salt, pepper, ground
dill seed to taste, 1 cup bread
crumbs. 1 can condensed cream
of mushroom soup. Bake in loaf
pan at 350 degrees in oven of
your gas range for an hour and
a quarter.
! "atoms for peace" and "equal
I rights." At the side of the skirts
are representations of the White
House and a sign which reads.
"No Vacancies."
On the Democratic items are
found cutouts depicting "small
business." "the farmer," the man
on the street" and a donkey
kicking an elephant.
mm $8
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