Medford Woman Describes
Work of UN Food Agency
High-Priced Designers Tell
How To Make Over Old Dresses
Sunday, July 29, 1958
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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,
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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
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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. The opposition
skirt is lettered. "More than
ever. I like Ike."
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