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Medford Woman Describes Work of UN Food Agency High-Priced Designers Tell How To Make Over Old Dresses Sunday, July 29, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN til fcu'epp i , rod Vit Mri ! F 5,ht:ir. M-dfnrd rifi-nt p-ndinr I .! V'Tpr-fl hv Th vlmlf bf !r (pfmr of M" Franklin urtM Tra-.ri Tn viir IS n-nn !inir vmtlnK In B? Mis. I. E. Schuier Ro"-e F. Tar.:? I.'. There he Bread ' A large, ra'-f-? rrTrat of god looking Or2o.i!n rarg; in the eerr! r y of Rorr. Proud. y j g.,.-d locking at it, po-jt)Tjf 'He i5 from rev horn jna'e" I d:dn t jav teat until : that momert I hadn't known there was a Norm Dodd of east-; r.-o Oregon, to mv nothing f : bow high he rated here in Kume ji The head of what i popular-: ly known as FAO, (Food and Agricultural Organization of the World I prohah!',- never would have beard of him i Olue Starcher . bado t wr:"ti to rre to visit I" .AO. It ix quite s'ory. I had s much difficulty getting into, FAO as one might encounter in! trying to Rain admission to Alca t.az or the United States mint. I went from one place to anothrr nd was passed on to some one j pipe for prrrnissi(,n. Out at head Ouarters I was treated like an undesirable aheri. Finally, went ' to the U S. Embassy. I present- . ed my magir letter from the Mail Tribune, "an official repre- tentative 'if this newspaper and nv courtesies, e'r." Press Powerful Never underestimate the pow so far as the Fnod and Aj'ir1;! ture Organization of t'ne World could provide I was given the v.nrks M:s Boire walked rre mis through the buildings, up and down elevators. mo arious conference rooms (b:g and beau tiful like the United .Nations through .some of the 295 offices, and down to the 350.000 volume library and. at long last, i.p to the seventh story penthouse terrace, where is the FAO res taurant. It was then that I con cluded it was worth all the effort it had cost of FAO. FAO Combats Disease Near F-ast and Africa FAO s exper s'udy and wage war on the age old plague of iocusis. teach ad test wa s to raise grain which :s rcsis'ant to dis ease; test range land frr good grasses, corr.nat animals dis eases; root out nu'ri'ional dis eases rf cii:lrirrn; s-unula'e ef forts at rrforesaMon. Japan aud the East FAO'f experts helped form an inter national rice commission, trad ing seeds of various countries; teaching better milling, market ing, e'c. Fishing, being one of Japan's biirgest industries. FAO sent experts to train people to me. I chose carrv out food from an international menu, and we at and drank cocktails, looking down onto the ancient ba'hs of Caracaila and o er the Cltv. From one of the original insti gators of FAO Mr. F. L. Me Doiigall of Australia. I heard what FAO is. what it has ac complished in 12 years, what its problems are and what t'ne future might be. These are the facts. FAO History Before tile war was ended. Mr. Roosevelt had railed the Alhed Nations to a conference at Hot Springs. Vs., In talk about, food and nutrition. He said. "Freedom from want is one of the basic freedoms." Out of this confer- prngrams ior oetter fishing. They studied ponds, lakes, streams; taught how to use motors in boa's; how to re. pair the motors, how to market hotter. They .stressed the fact that millions of people need more protein, and that fish can supply it. India There are 198 million buffalo and cattle in India. FAO is helping teach how better to feed them; how to improve grass for forage: how to produce more sanitary milk. FAO experts are helping to teach how to treat hides and skins for export. This in turn creates more work. FAO experts trach the value of ma nure as fertilizer, rather than burning it for fuel. Brazil FAO s experts are er of the press. The red carpet ence of 44 countries grew FAO; helping solve the problems con- rolled out; I sailed into imDor-I with its motto, "Fiat Panis tant looking offices, meeting im- ' Let There be Bread " Now. 72 I'Oitant looking people. Tele- i phone calls discussed me as a j "writer from the States who j wished to visit FAO." A limou- sine awaited my pleasure, and ' I rode in state out through the ; Embassy gates, out. past the j Colosseum and Forum, right up 1 to FAO. I drove through Ihe gardens, right up to the front door of one of the big buildings housing FAO. It all took about one-half hour. But that wasn't all of my im portance for a day. Sir Herbert Dudley, acting secretary gen eral, and his assistant, knew mv ! nations belong to FAO not Rus sia, not China. They work under the United Nations. They aim to raise living standards, by leach ing belter methods of raising food, distributing and handling food, and all its branches. More than 1000 employees from all over the world live here in Rome. These include ex perts in agriculture, food, for estry, the fishing industry; sci entists in engineering, econom ics and nutrition. They are sent to whatever country requests help. The following are examples name, were awaiting me and in showing the scope of the work Discover hidden treasure in your jewelry box 7? let ui remount your diamonds and precious stones j Grabow's Jewelers V--l tcnga G. Grabow . . . Jeweler and Watch makr 35 ears . . . 35 Years of Diamond Knov-iedga Stones Set in Our OWN Shop. for 108 EAST MAIN ST. PHONE 2-7554 fronting Brazil in connection with their forests. Half the trees of South America grow in Bra zil, and only the choicest have been cut. the hard woods. The people have used only the most 'primitive of tools, the axe. Sci entists are surveying plans to make forests more accessible. : food easier to obtain. They are studying the problem of timber marketing and wood industry. I Burma FAO's experts from Austriaxhad 60 tons of a certain : wood, for house construction, sent from Burma to Austria where it was processed and re turned to Rangoon to be built into houses to see how they slood up under monsoons. Examples Typical And so it is with all countries : whatever the problem. The above examples are typical of hundreds of others. The buildings housing FAO are donated by Italy. Mr. Musso- ; Iini had started them for a verv : different purpose. He had ! planned to use them for his , Eumpean-African empire. FAO problems and future: i The program is colossal and hampered by a small budget, i and the lack of trained techni cians to go to all the countries requesting help. There are also the difficulties which occur when people are from such varied backgrounds and speak ing such different languages. But the mere fact that the blue flag of the United Nations flies over FAO, that any effort at international understanding is made, is a step forward. After all. ancient civilizations I died because they frustrated man's inherent desire for a really human existence. It seems fitting the flag flutters over this ancient city. Br ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Correspondent New York !U.P A week in Manhat'an: The new look every husband approves of j t'ne one a woman manages to give an old dress. And the happiest thing a wom an ran near who's in the midst of making over old clothes is that some of the highest priced designers approve. The young men whn are mak ing names for themselves as partners in a cus'om dressmak ing salon, where women can af ford to pay si 75 for a simple wool dress, sat down this week to discuss old clothes and how to make them look new. "We do it for our customers." said Frank Martier. "We just finished rhanging a dress with a high neck and long sleeves into a sleeveless dress with a Y-neck-line front and back for one of our customers.'' "The best way to change a drpa is the neckline." added Raymond Rivenbrugh, his part ner. The two men put Martier Raymond labels in their custom made clothes. Suits Difficult The two most difficult things to make over, both men agreed are suit jackets and skirls. They dnn't advise it unless you have an expert seamstress or are very clever with a needle yourself. ' We sometimes cut a long suit jacket off and make a bolero of it, hut we rarely try to make over a jacket any other way." Martier said. Here are several ideas they recommend for Riving a 1356 look to 1!)55 or older clothes: Cut off the top (if a dress, either silk or wool, and huv a matching or contrasting sweater to wear with the skirt. Sweater topped dresses are one of the new fall fashions. If you knit, try knitting sleeves for a slim wool dress. Add back fullness with a panel fastened to a belt, or as the two designers do it. graduated layers of lined fabric strips that are looped and fastened to a single strip, which is then hooked at the waist of a slim dress. Make a bolero-length F.dward ian jacket of tweed to wear over a plain wool dress to give it the new high-waisted emphasis. One word of caution added by the two experts don't try to buy identical black fabric to add panels or jackels to a black l dress. Black is almost impossible ; to match, they say. They advise buying a different black fabric taffeta to add to silk for in stance. Campaign Skirls Women can now support their favorite political parties by wearing campaign skirts. The first 1356 campaign skirls ap peared this week in Saks Fifth Ave., designed by Cnlifornian Juli Lynn Chariot and priced al an impressive 549.95. The circular black felt or, black poplin skirts are deco rated with slogans. ' Go lo hat for the Democrats." advises the Democratic skirt. 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