Collages
Exhibited
By Artist
Eucene Bennett, well known
Medford artist and instructor of
art at New Trier High school,
Winnetka. III., is exhibiting over
35 new "Collages from Italian
Billboards" at the 414 Art
Workshop gallery, Chicago, dur
ing October.
October 6 more than 100 Chi
cago area artists and friends at
tended a reception given for Mr.
Bennett at the gallery and view
ed this first exhibition of his
collages inspired by Italian bill
boards and completed while he
toured Italy for nearly a year.
The collages are unique be
cause they were made from var
ious scraps of paper collected
from one end of Italy to the
other. An ardent saver of assort
ed souvenirs from every place
he visited, the artist created his
compositions from train ticket
stubs, passes to games and ex
hibits, bits of telegrams, cigar
ette packages, lodging bills,
train schedules, envelope can
cellations, guide books, fruit pa
pers and actual strips from
many Italian billboards.
Although the majority of the
collages are his interpretation of
Italian billboard advertising,
there are four other groups in
the exhibition. One group was
inspired by the beautiful and fa
mous stained glass windows of
the churches and cathedrals of
France and Italy. Some devel
oped as a result of flying over
Italy and being impressed with
the pastoral scenes viewed from
the air. Mr. Bennett combined
scraps of colored Italian paper
with paint to present his impres
sions of Italian cities as he wan
dered the narrow streets of
Henna Florence. Venice, Rome,
Naples and visited towns and
villages of Sicily.
Another series of collages of
every size and shape is con
nnseri enti'relv of numbers from
minv Italian lotteries that
amused the artist. A special
group of collages of particular
interest tn Oreconians are those
he created from aerial views of
his native state as he returned
each year to spend the summer
in Oregon.
The 414 Art Workshop gal
lery is open to the public from
3:30 to 10 p.m. weekdays. With
in the first ten days of the
month more people have visited
the gallery to view Mr. Ben
nett's exhibit of collages than in
any previous month in its his
tory. This is attributed to the
quality and popularity of his
work.
Certified Washable
Week Proclaimed
Mayor Earl Miller has pro
claimed the week of Oct. 14
through Oct. 21 as Certified
Washable week in Medford.
The observance is sponsored
by the American Institute of
Laundering. Local members are
the Chrystal White Laundry and
Dry Cleaners, Medford Domestic
Laundry and Dry Cleaners.
American Laundry and Me
chanics Laundry.
Tn issuing the Droclamation
Mayor Miller pointed out,
"These sponsors have dedicated
themselves to the development
of better washabies ana launaer
ing techniques for these wash'
ables ..."
Potpourri
Newspapering brought two interesting women across our path
last week. The first was Dr. Ida Bailey Allen, dietitian, columnist
and author of books on food (49 in all) and Mrs. Wayne Morse,
wife of the senator from Oregon.
Naturally, everyone talks about eating and food when with
Dr. Allen. And so it was Sunday night out at Mon Desir when
Dr. Allen and her associate, Charles Premmac, and a small group
of Medfordites were guests of Julie Tummers for dinner. Dr. Allen,
notebook in hand, and Mrs. Tummers talked and talked, and the
former jotted down information about food combinations and
seasonings which the latter has found are popular with customers
at the inn.
At dinner we tried Mrs. Tummers' new special dish, Rollini di
Vitella, or rolled veal, having its "world premiere" that evening
and which we found delicious. Since Dr. Allen was particularly
interested In collecting recipes for pears, Mrs. Tummers served a
dessert of pear topped with ice cream with port wine poured over
both. This also brought praise from everyone at the table.
Dr. Allen proved most adept at asking questions. She wanted
to know about women's groups in Medford and since Potpourri
had just brought the women's department files up to date, we
told her that between 200 and 250 organizations of various sizes
and purposes were submitting news. Being a New Yorker, and
not knqwing about small city organizations, sne was asiounaea
at the number.
Trying to inform her about these various groups we men
tioned the Home Economics' clubs of the Grange and discovered
that Dr. Allen, who has traveled all over the United States and
Canada, did not know they existed. She wanted information, and
Potpourri promised to find out all about them and write her a
letter.
Next day at luncheon Dr. Allen repeated what almost every
dietitian in this nation keeps saying Americans eat too much
starch and sugar, should eat more proteins, drink more milk and
eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.
Light-hearted Chef Premmac, who helps Dr. Allen gather
recipes and acts as unofficial "taster", declared that he ate "every
thine that doesn't eat me first." Said he had tried fried grass
hoppers and declared they weren't so bad. He recommends eating
the small button mushrooms raw, said many connoisseurs ot iooa
use them this way in salads.
Mrs. Wayne Morse we met at the tea given in her honor in
Ashland Thursday. She is petite in size, but there is nothing
small about her personality. Dressed in a simple wavy blue suit,
Mrs. Morse leaned against the back of a sofa in the R. D. Lamb's
interesting new ultra-modern home and chatted about the life
of a U. S. senator's wife and the campaign.
"If you genuinely like people, you don't really mind cam
paigns," Mrs. Morse said. When we inquired if the two of them
weren't Just bone tired she said no, that "we gain strength from
those around us." Mrs. Morse added that many tninK tne me oi a
senator and his family murt be very glamorous, but added soberly
"it isn't." She said mostly the life of a senator is just hard work
and sometimes loneliness.
Mrs. Lamb, hostess for the tea, is formerly of Tennessee and
has a sweet southern accent. Dressed in a printed dress with
rhinestone trim, Mrs. Lamb seemed to be enjoying the party as
much as the many guests.
"Hugh says every woman should have a safe place to put
things," said Susie 'Collins Monday night at a party which followed
the Knife and Fork dinner. It seems Hugh has heard a lot about
women putting things in a "safe place" and then never being able
to find them again. If this "safe place" was just one room or
closet, then the happy housewife would always have the same
safe place to put articles and she could always find them, bounas
simple.
The party was at the home- of Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Dierdorff
and Mrs. D. looked pretty in a cafe au lait lace dinner dress
which was designed on sheath lines with a wide net ruffle at the
bottom of the skirt.
Dr. Gerald Wendt. speaker for the dinner which preceded the
party and honored guest, interested the group by talking about
synthetic flavors. Dr. Wendt said the French had made a fortune
in perfumes by being the first to abandon the idea that perfumes
must smell like something which nature produced lilacs, or
roses or spices, and coming up with synthetic perfumes like
Chanel No. 5 which entrances the femmes. The world may be able
to solve its food problem by using either a synthetic combination
of nutrients with a pleasant taste, or using something like algae
which is abundant, and giving it a wonderful taste which every
one will enjoy.
Potpourri has quoted the following before, but election is a
good time to put it into print again. It is from Herbert J. Muller's
"The Uses of the Past and ends the chapter on The Fall of Rome
"For us, the last word is a challenge to the educated, privileged
classes. The problem today is not merely a matter of improving
the minds and tastes of common men. It is also a question of
whether the elite can provide better political, intellectual and
spiritual leadership than it has in all previous societies. For if the
creative achievements of civilization have been due primarily to
the elite, so too have the failures of civilization. 'No civilized
minority,' observed Leonard Woolf, 'has yet been found willing
to make the necessary sacrifices'." O.S.
Howard PI A Plans
Buzz Session Tuesday
Howard Parent-Teacher asso
ciation plans a buzz session Tues
day, October 16, at 7:30 p.m.,
for all parents of children in the
third grade. Parents are asked
to attend, meet the teacher and
acquaint themselves with the
school activities.
Parents are asked to meet in
their child's room.
Antarctica waters now supply
about two-thirds of the world
whale catch.
Sea water evaporates more
slowly than fresh water.
Leaf lettuce provides 10 times
as much vitamain A as head let
tuce and most fresh vegetables
contain greater amounts of vit
amins and minerals then canned
vegetables.
Stains should be removed
from clothes before washing and
preferably, when the stains are
fresh. Soap and hot water may
set stains so they never can be
removed.
REJUVINOL is the answer
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O summer sun
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Sunday. October 14, 19S8
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Dr. Sampon Will Lead School Talks
Dr. Bill Sampson, Southern
Oregon college, will lead dis
cussions of southern Oregon
school board members here Tues
day evening. The meeting will
be held in Jefferson school.
Members of school boards in
Jackson and Josephine counties
are expected to attend to learn
of pending or proposed legisla
tion affecting school administra
tion, organization and finance.
In addition, officers will be
elected by members of the Rural
School Board association and for
the district of the State School
Board Members association, ac
cording to Mrs. Stephen Nye,
district president of the SBA.
In addition to Dr. Sampson,
other discussion leaders will be
County School Superintendent
Alf B. Mekvold, on proposed re
vision of the rural school law,
and Medford School Superin
tendent Leonard Mayfield, on
current thinking regarding pro
posed changes in the basic
school support money distribu
tion formula.
Other matters affecting school
districts will be considered at
the meeting, Mrs. Nye said.
West Virginia mines about 30
per cent of the nation's total
coal output.
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