TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON)
Longer Skirts
Make News at
Fashion Shows
By BARBARA MILLER
United Press Fashion Writer
Pans 'M .R) Skirt lengths as
low as eisht inches from the
floor are the most startling in
novations of the week-long fash-1
ion shows which ended here i
Tuesday.
To a lesser drgree, the new
roundness and volume of the
1956 Paris silhouette, was also
revolutionary fns,hion news. So,
for autumn and winter clothes,
the "shape" as French dress
makers ee it. should he:
Shoulders: Wider and rounder.
Sleeves are set in on the arm
rather than the shoulder or rag
Ian style.
Bu.st: More or less normal al
though the ample fullness of the
shoulder also rounds the bust.
Waist: Never at home. High
waists are still fashionable but
the beltline sometimes drops
down just below the normal
level. However, most styles are
at least eased in at the natural
waistline.
Hips: Rounded by shirred or
gathered skirts but otherwise
slim.
Two types of clothing made a
sensational, comeback the dress
, and the cape. American buyers
think the dress will be the big
gest fashion news in the states
this year, according to Miss Betsy
. Blankweil of Madamoiselle mag
azine.
Thus a typical outfit in the
Paris collections was a coat-cape
and a dress, or jacket and dress
ensemble. In past season sepa
rates, suits, and two-piecers
were most popular.
Skirts made news not only
with their new length but also
with the fullness which rounded!
the hips. Accordion pleated skirts
went out of fashion, unpressed
pleats came in.
Teacher Honored
at Kecenr tea
In Central Point
Central Point A tea was
given by the Central Point Lady
Lions July 26 to introduce the
new kindergarten teacher, Mrs.
C. L. Miller and to register chil
dren eligible to enter the Cen
tral Point kindergarten this fall.
George Johns spoke on the
need of a kindergarten and Mrs.
Miller explained the operation
and future plans of the kinder
garten. The kindergarten will open in
September and registration is
still open. Children who are 5
years of age up to November 15
are eligible. The registration fee
is SI, and parents may register
at the home of Mrs. William
Saxbury at 263 South Second
street in Central Point. Addi
tional information may be ob
tained from Mrs. Saxbury at
NO 4-2248. from Mrs. Donald
A. Faber at NO 4-2908 or Mrs.
Gay Anderson at NO 4-2958.
Central Point Lady Lions will
hold their next meeting at the
home of Mrs. Bill Abbott, 115
South Fifth street at 8 p.m.,
August 7.
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Miss Patty Berg, recently named "Miss Oregon" in a
contest sponsored by Eugene Junior Chamber of Commerce,
was greeted by Medford Jaycee officers and a representative
of the Oregon Shakespearean . Festival association when she
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arrived in Medford yesterday by United Airlines. Miss Berg
was one of the honored guests at the opening performance
of the festival last night in Ashland. Pictured with Miss Berg
ar (left to riaht) Glenn Jenninas. treasurer of Medford Junior
. Cnsmber of Comerce: Charles
and Robertson E. Collins, members of the festival board of
directors. Miss Berg will represent Oregon at the nation-wide
beauty contest to be held in Atlantic City, N. J., later this
summer. (Landis-Shangle photo).
Society To Hold
Annual Exhibit
During Jubilee
The annual art show of the
Southern ' Oregon Society of
Artists will be held at Jackson
ville August 4 and 5 during the
Golden Jubilee celebration. Pic
tures will be on display in the
city library from noon to 5
p.m. and the public is invited
to view the paintings.
All valley artists are eligible
to enter exhibits which will be
accepted until 7 p.m. August 3.
Clinton Smith is in charge of
the exhibition.
Bethel foHo!d
Hay Ride, Dance
Shady Cove A hay ride and
dance have been planned for
members of Shady Cove bethel.
International Order of Job's
Daughters. It will be held Satur
day, August 4, and members and
escorts are to meet at the Upper
Rogue Grange hall at 7 p.m.
The girls are asked to take
doughnuts, and soft drinks will
be provided by the bethel.
Kansans Here
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Eppin
ger, Norton. Kan., are visiting
relatives in the valley this week.
Mr. Eppinger is a brother of
George Eppinger, 1250 Wood
land ave. Mrs. Eppinger is a
niece of Harvey Harper, 2684
Crater Lake highway.
Garden Notes
Br
C. B. CORDY
County Extension
Agent for Horticulture
Each year at this time there
is considerable complaint about
tomatoes developing a black spot
on the blossom end. This trouble
is referred to as blossom end
rot. It is a trouble which is as
sociated with the growing season
and because of that it would be
futile to attempt to control it
with any spray.
The trouble is a result of a
distnibance of water relations
within the plant. During our dry
days many plants have difficulty
supplying ample water to the
leaves, even though the soil may
be fairly well supplied with
moisture. "
As a result of this we find that
after a severe hot spell such as
we experienced last week some
varieties will suffer. Those
varieties which can not with
stand this hot weather will devel
op malformations in fruits. Other
varieties growing along side of
these will continue to produce
fruits which are perfectly nor
mal. In First Fruits
Generally speaking this blos
som end rot is most severe in the
first fruits which ripen al
though occasionally it continues
to be severe throughout the
tomato season.
As this is a condition which
arises each year it would be well
for home owners to look over
their patches and any varieties
which show blossom end rot
should be noted and in another
year those varieties should be
discarded in favor of ones which
have little or no blossom end rot.
Maintaining good soil moisture,
that is not allowing the plants
to begin to dry and still not
giving them an excessive amount
of water will help keep this con
dition at a minimum.
Thursday, August 2. 1338
Jones, president of the group
Ceremonies
Announced
By Theta Rho
Plans are being completed
this week for the institution of
a chapter here of Theta Rho
Girls, youth organization spon
sored by the Rebekah lodge. The
group, which was active here in
the late 30's and then ceased to
operate for a time, was recently
reorganized by a group of inter
ested members of Olive Rebekah
lodge.
Initiation will be held Satur
day, August 4, at 4 p.m. in Med
ford IOOF hall. Members of Ash
land Theta Rho chapter will con
duct the ceremony, which Is
open only to those participating
in the organization and Rebekah
members in good standing.
Institution of the chapter and
installation of officers is set for
8 p.m. in the IOOF hall and is
open to he public. Miss Lou
Ann -Thomasson, elected presi
dent of the new group at a meet
ing Monday night, vill be in
stalled into that office. Taking
office with her will be Miss
Kathryn Stewart, vice-president;
Miss Joyce Gilinsky, secretary
and Miss Barbara Burton, treas
urer. The president of the Oregon
Theta Rho assembly will con
duct the institution and installa
tion. Members of the state joint
youth committee of the Odd Fel
low and Rebekah lodges are ex
pected to be here for the event
as well as Mrs. Roy Gibbs,
Oceanlake, president of the Ore
gon Rebekah assembly.
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Alcoa, Aluminum Workers
Reach Settlement in Strike
Pittsburgh (U.R) Alumin
um Company of America and
the Aluminum Workers union to
day signed a three-year contract
which stopped the spread of a
nationwide aluminum strike.
The package 46 cents an hour
agreement keeps 15,000 Alcoa
workers on the job. But some
28.000 United Steelworkers con
tinued their two-day strike which
has. shut off 50 per cent of the
nation's aluminum production
and has closed down 21 plants
of Alcoa and the Reynolds Met
als Co.
No Strike Settlement
The Alcoa-AWU pact, reached
Wednesday night minutes be
fore a midnight strike deadline,
is patterned on a three-year, no
strike settlement reached in the
basic steel industry. The AWU
contract was signed early this
morning.
No hope was seen for a
quick settlement of the USW
strike against Alcoa and Reyn
olds. Alcoa officials said the
company's talks with the USW
had "completely broken off with
no meetings planned."
Reynolds negotiators planned
to resume talks with the USW
in New York. A spokesman said
the bargainers met for "several
hours" Wednesday but "nothing
came of it." He said there was
"no basis for further discussion."
The AWU. had agreed earlier
to continue work at Reynolds on
a "day-to-day" basis. The com
pany employs 3,000 AWU mem
bers at three locations.
12.000 Workers Covered
The AWU contract directly
covers some 12,000 workers at
seven Alcoa plants. But some
Juliet and her nurse confer in this scene from the Oregon
Shakespearean festival production of "Romeo and Juliet"
which opens at the festival shell in Ashland Friday. Curtain
time is 8:30 p.m. Alice Lauterer, Mills college student, plays
the role of the nurse and Rosalyn Newport, student at Carne
gie Institute of Technology in Pennsylvania won the coveted '
role of Juliet in the pre-season tryouts. Tonight's play is
"Love's Labour's Lost" and' Saturday night will bring the
opening of "Cymbeline."
Gleasons Return
After Vacation
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gleason,
2684 Crater Lake highway re
turned Saturday from a vaca
tion. They visited Mr. and Mrs.
Royal Gleason and family at Al
bany, Ore., and also called on
relatives in the Portland area
before returning via the coast
route. They visited Jimmie Glea
son in Crescent City.
Grange Notes
Central Point Grange
Central Point Grange will
hold its regular meeting on Fri
day at 8 p.m. The Lecturer,
Delmar Smith, expects to show
pictures of his recent trip to Can
ada' for the program, and Cleo
Young will be in charge of the
display table.
Serving committee will be the
John Niedermeyers, Melvin Halls
and Mrs. Frances Hedgepeth.
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3.000 workers at two plants rep
resented by AFL federal unions
follow the pace of the AWU.
Federal union bargainers post
poned a strike scheduled for
Boston Newspaper
Having Salary Trouble
Boston (U.R) The Boston
Post missed its first two editions
today but finally hit the streets
two hours late to climax a night
during which the newspaper's
800 employees walked out for
lack of back-pay.
The 11 unions representing the
employees issued a flat "no pay
no work" edict and told pub
lisher John Fox to "remove him
self from the picture" and sell
the 125-year-old Democratic
daily.
The Post suspended publica
tion for one day less than one
month" ago, July 7, but resumed
printing the following day with
its Sunday edition.
Wednesday night's financial
crisis arose when Fox failed to
meet .terms of an agreement
made with employees Friday to
pay all overdue salary and bene
fit obligations by 4 p.m. Wed
nesday. The obligations were
said to total $131,000.
The Guild ordered the em
ployees back to work pending
further developments.
When the summer months are
over, don't forget to store your
outdoor lighting units where
they can be conveniently reach
ed for the Christmas holidays.
Veterans Get Chance
To Reinstate Policies
Washington U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower has signed a
bill giving World War II and
post-Korean veterans a chance
to reinstate their GI insurance
which lapsed for nonpayment
of premiums.
The Veterans Administration
urged the thousands of veterans
affected to wait at least a month
before making inquiries on their
status.
It said it is searching records
to obtain the names of all veter
ans whose policies lapsed so it
can send them application forms
with "instructions on how to
proceed."
A flood of premature in
quiries, it said, would delay the
We are Happy to Announce . .
that
Idah M. Wood
Will now have her Bra and Founda
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modeled Store!
Wednesday midnight until local
issues could be settled and the
contracts signed.
The Alcoa-AWU no-strike pact
provides for a three-year pack
age increase of about 46 cents
an hour, including a direct pay
hike of 24.5 cents an hour. The
AWU workers would get a 9.5
cent an hour hike the first year,
7 cents an hour the second year
and an 8 cents an hour pay raise
the third year.
The average aluminum work
er pay before the pact was S2.22
an hour.
Students Attending
OSC Should Make
Housing Plans
Corvallis Students planning
to attend Oregon State college
this fall who have not yet made
housing arrangements are urged
to do so as soon as possible by
college officials.
All college - owned campus
housing is already taken for the
coming year, according to E. B.
Lemon, dean of administration.
This includes dormitories for
men and women, college mar
ried student units, and coopera
tive houses where students share
housekeeping duties.
No more applications will be
accepted for these. Lemon said..
This means, . he explained,
that students who have not made
reservations in college units
must make arrangements to
live in rooms or apartments in
private homes, rooming houses,
and apartment bouses . in and
around Corvallis.
Will Help Students
The college housing office
will help students find available
community housing but students
themselves must make final ar
rangements with the homeown
er or landlord. . .
Women students who need
help with housing should check
with the dean of women's office
when they come to Corvallis,
Lemon said. Men students and
married students should contact
the housing office maintained
by the dean of men's office.
Both offices are in the com
merce building.
To help meet increasing num
bers of students expected this
fall, the college has added 114
places for men in its dormitories
by remodeling and adding bunks
to various rooms. Eighty addi
tional spaces for women have
been made availabe by establish
ment of a new coed cooperative
house and by adding an extra
bed to 40 rooms in one of the
dormitories. The expansions,
however, bring the dormitories
up to 'ultimate capacity.
Two new dormitories for men
are now under construction but
will not be ready until the fall
of 1957.
Southern Democrats
Warn on Civil Rights
Atlanta U.P.) Southern
Democrats, feeling themselves j
"unified as never before," ;
warned the party as a whole 1
today to keep its civil rights
aims within bounds that South
erners can accept.
Party leaders of 11 Dixie
states having 336 of the 1,372
delegates votes at the National
Democratic Convention Wednes
day night geared a strategy for
resisting any strong civil rights
platform.
Gov. George Bell Timmerman
Jr. of South Carolina, chairman
of the caucus of Southern gov
ernors and other party leaders,
afterward said they would in
sist on recognition of the South
ern viewpoint. j
To insure concerted action by ;
Southern delegates they set up j
a committee of liaison teams to ;
work with each delegation of
the 11 states during ahdy after
the National Convention next j
week. I
checking process "to the detri
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Sightless Boy May Be Free
Of Cancer, Father Believes
Orlando, Fla. (U.PJ Mike
Sibole. the brave little boy who
treated his blindness like a "new
adventure," may be free of can
cer because of operations that
took his eyes.
"The doctor tells me it's just
too early to be sure of anything
but he is hopeful at the mo
ment," said Mike's father, the
Rev. James W. Sibole.
Mike lost his first eye two
years ago because of cancer and
the remaining eye was removed
two weeks ago after the disease
had spread to it.
New Life without Whimper
Four-year-old Mike courage
ously began his new life in dark
ness without a whimper. He
plays with other children and
is looking forward to his first
swim since the operation, pos
sibly this Saturday." . .
But the biggest concern of
Mike's parents and doctors is
whether the operation halted
the cancer. They feared it may
have "jumped" through the
optic nerve into other parts of
Mike's body.
"As far as the doctor knows
now, we got there in time. But
Langley Suit 'Call'
Date Set for Oct. 8
Portland U.R) Clerk of the
federal court here has set Oct.
8 as "call" date oh a $1,000,000
civil suit filed by District Attor
ney William Langley against At
torney General Robert Y. Thorn
ton, The Oregonian Publishing
Co., and James Elkins.
Langley charged the defend
ants conspired to deprive him
of his civil rights.
Thornton and officials of the
newspaper were served with
papers Tuesday. Elkins accepted
service yesterday at the U. S.
marshal's office. Like Langley,
he is free on bail after a grand
jury indicted him in connection
with an investigation of vice
charges in Multnomah county.
So far the defendants have
not filed an answer to Langley's
suit.
ESTES, HEADDRESS, EXIT
Washington U.P.) Sen. Estes
Kefauver, who campaigned for
the Democratic presidential nom
ination with a coorekin hat as
his political symbol, left- town
Wednesday with the headdress
of an Indian chief. The Tennes
see Democrat explained the
headdress was presented him by
an Osage Indian chief in Okla
homa during a political tour.
Since his withdrawal from the
presidential race, he has no fur
ther use for it and was taking it
home to his son.
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he told me we didn't waste a
day having the operation per
formed," Mike's father told the
United Press.
Never Can Tell
"We can't be sure of course,"
he said. "When you're dealing
with cancer, you never can
tell."
"Mike is an inspiration to us
all every day," the minister add
ed. "He is just as happy and
cheerful as ever and never com
plains. He plays as hard as he
ever did."
"Even when the other chil
dren forget and yell to Mika
to "Come see this,' he never gets
embarrassed or depressed.
"He just tells them: 'Aw, you
know I can't see.' "
NAACP To Present
Integration Plans
At Conventions
Washington (U.RU- Th Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
will call on both parties to "
adopt platforms pledging the
full power of the government
to end racial segregation in the
South, it was learned today.
The Negro organization will
ask both the Democratic and
Republican national conventions
to endorse strongly the Supreme
Court's decisions outlawing seg
regation in the public schools.
The demand for an all-out in
tegration plank, which will be
supported by some northern
"liberals" cquld trigger a north
south 'fight at the Democratic
convention in Chicago.
Informal Talks Held
It is known that informal
talks have been conducted by
Democratic leaders seeking some
formula for a compromise civil
rights plank that will be accept
able to both north and south.
Some Southeners insist that the
platform must not mention the
Supreme Court's decisions.
The propose ed integration
plank is one of six controversial
platform recommendations that
NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy Wilkins will make to the
two conventions. He will appear
before the Democratic platform
commmittee in Chicago next
week and before the GOP plat
form in San Francisco two weeks
later.
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