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TOira MEDrORD (OREGON) mail tribune
Sunday April 21, 1957
Homemakers Festivals
To Feature Annual Week
Corvallis How homemaking, program. Of these, two-thirds
skills fit into the pushbutton
age will be demonstrated and
displayed at homemakers fes
tivals in 26 Oregon counties
this spring, according' to the
state home economics extension
office at Oregon State college.
At the festivals, Oregon wom
en enrolled in home extension
units will review spme of the
past year's accomplishments in
foods and nutrition, clothing,
home furnishings, home beauti
fication, home management and
other related fields.
Festival programs will fea
ture speakers from homemakers'
groups, public offices and OSC.
Seven counties will hear about
family life in other countries
from Mrs. Armas Jakku, Hood
River, and Mrs. Floyd Fox, Sil
verton, who recently returned
from extensive travels abroad.
Most of the festivals will be
held during National Home
Demonstration week, April 28
to May 4. President Eisenhower
has supported this observance
with a special proclamation in
which he encouraged women to
learn new homemaking prac
tices and share them with oth
ers for better home and com
munity living.
According to state extension
agents, the home economics pro
gram is planned to meet the
needs of the family and home,
with subjects of interest to both
men and women. Last year's
program included the "Great
Decisions" program, recreation
for the family, mental health,
law for laymen, traffic safety,
sanitation and taxation as well
as the more traditional study
of nutrition, clothing, home fur
nishings, and home manage
ment. Last year in Oregon, 141,650
families were contacted direct
ly by personal visits, telephone
and letters and through the ex
tension service home economics
were urban and suburban fanv
ilies. Information was also made
available through newspapers,
television, radio programs and
bulletins.
Extension agents and special
ists trained 18,812 project lead
ers, who volunteered to help
others in their community learn
homemaking skills. These lead
ers held 4662 meetings, where
they passed on their knowledge
to nearly 70,000 persons.
Miss Judith Hall, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Hall,
Route 2. is lha newly elected
president of Associated Women
students at Southern Oregon col
lege. Miss Hall, junior in elem
entary education, is also treas
urer of the student body, a mem
ber of the choir. Student Oregon
Education association, Sigma
Epsilon Pi, Delta Phi Alpha and
Robes, honor society for out
standing upperclass women on
the campus. Miss Hall will be
installed during Mothers' Week'
end and lake up her duties in
the fall. She succeeds Miss Bar
bara Javlina, Malin, Ore., a:
head of the women's group.
Mrs. Elwood Hedberg
To Entertain Chapter
Chapter AA PEO Sisterhood
will meet Wednesday, April 24
at the home of Mrs. Elwood
Hedberg, 1206 East Main street,
for luncheon and a program.
Mrs. M. D. Jones and Mrs.
Gordon Hudson will give the
program, "The Easter Parade,"
with. Mrs. J. A. .Cunningham
reading the PEO record.
Mrs. Leland Mentzer and Mrs.
G. R. Ringo will assist Mrs.
Hedberg.
The Jackson county festival
will open Tuesday, April 30
with open house at the Legion
hall in Central Point from 7
to 9:30 p.m. The main program
will be held Wednesday, May 1,
in the Central Point Grange
hall.
DAR Congress
Closes Session
Washington (U.R) The
Daughters of the American Rev
olution left behind 25 unmatch
ed gloves, a dozen stray earrings
and a boxful of other lost ar
ticles at the end of their 66th
Continental Congress.
The lost and found desk in
Constitution Hall, which success
fully returned a $1,000 diamond
bracelet, $160 in travellers
checks, a train ticket to Califor
nia, and a leopard skin cape,
still was looking for owners of
other left-overs.
Among the collection were lip
sticks, jewelled brooches, hand
kerchiefs, fountain pens, belts to
dresses, fake flowers, and two
pairs of rain boots.
During the sessions the DAR
members asked congress to re
ject all pending civil rights bills
and to cut the federal budget,
described as "incredible." The
convention also approved reso
lutions advocating that the Mc-Carran-Walter
immigration act
be continued without change
and asked congress to take this
country out of the United Na
tions if Red China is admitted.
The civil rights resolution drew
a lone "no" vote.
President Makes
Corps Inspection
Central Point Mrs. Lillie
Watts of Portland, state depart
ment president of the Woman's
Relief corps, made her regular
corps inspection of William H.
Harrison post in Central Point
April 16.
Other visitors at the meeting
were Mrs. Mary Ferns, past de
partment president, and Mrs.
Vickie Davis, color bearer from
Grants Pass.
Three generations were repre
sented in the officers present.
Mrs. Bessie Henderson, was as
sistant conductor, her daughter,
Mrs. Phil Griggs, was color
bearer, while Mrs. Henderson's
granddaughter, Mrs. Phil Du
rante, was guard.
Plans were made to hold the
district convention at Central
Point May 21 with Mrs. Griggs
in charge. Mrs. Watts spoke on
the state convention to be held
in Portland in June and dele
gates were elected. They include
Mrs. A. Hermanson, Mrs. John
Foster and Miss Josephine Whal-
ey. Alternates chosen were Mrs.
Edd Pence, Mrs. Maggie Bean,
and Mrs. Phil Durante.
A rummage, plant and food
sale will be held April 26.
At the last meeting which was
preceded by a noon potluck
luncheon decorations were on
the Easter theme.
British Daughters
Announce Meeting
Daughters of the British Em
pire will meet at the home of
Mrs. Everett Sybrant, 520 South
Peach street, Friday, April 26,
at 8 p.m. Mrs. Frank Perl will
show pictures to the group.
Women of British ancestry are
invited to attend.
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Mrs. David Shearer is pictured on the desk of the Holland
American liner, S.S. Maasdam, just- before leaving New York
bound 'or Bamberg, Germany. Mrs. Shearer will join her hus
band. Pvt. David Shearer, assigned to duty there with the
United States Army. The couple will remain in Germany for
about 14 months. Mrs. Shearer, the former Shirley Rice, is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Ronald Rice, 215 Saginaw drive.
Medford Bethel
Trophy Winner;
Member Named
Presentation of a trophy and
second place winner ribbon for
drill team exhibition at the an
nual grand session of Job's
Daughters was made by Miss
Sue Knight, drill team captain,
at a meeting of Bethel 14, Inter
national Order of Job's Daugh
ters Wednesday night.
. -Nineteen girls from the bethel
participated in the drill compe
tition which they entered as an
exhibition drill entry, class A
division. Thirty four members
and chaperones attended the
convention which was held in
Portland April 11-13. Miss Sue
Knight was named as grand
bethel representative to the state
of Montana at a grand bethel
business session.
Reports were made , by mem
bers of grand session activities.
Wednesday night's meeting
Was under the direction of Miss
Susan Hubbard, senior princess,
and was a junior bethel session.
Members of Order of Demolay
were invited to attend the clos
ing ceremony and were enter
tained with refreshments and a
dance following the meeting.
The girls were reminded of
the annual spring rummage sale
held by the bethel, which is to
be opened at 9 a.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday, April 23 and 24 and
will be held in the Fehl building.
Rummage can be taken to the
homes of Mrs. Chester Hubbard,
2451 Lyman avenue or Mrs.
Douglas Hinesly, 1032 Murray
avenue on Sunday or delivered
to the Fehl buildings between
2 and 5 p.m. Monday, April 22.
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Group Honors Medford Woman
On 91st Birthday Anniversary
Mrs. R. H. Paxson was hon
ored on the occasion of her 91st
birthday by the members of Col
onel Sargent auxiliary, United
Spanish War Veterans, at a din
ner meeting Sunday, April 14,
at Redman hall. Two of Mr?.
Paxson's fellow charter mem
bers, Mrs. Rosa Young and Mrs.
Ida Hollars, were also honored.
Mrs. Paxson received many
gifts and greetings and a cor
sage was presented to her by
the department president, Mrs.
Miss Nancy Jennings, daugh
ter of Dr. and Mrs. George S.
Jennings, Saginaw drive, has a
long list of campus activities lo
her . credit. She is president of
Susanne Homes hall, women's
dormitory of Southern Oregon
college, is an honor roll stud
ent, takes part in college plays
and stage work, is a staff mem
ber of the Siskiyou, school news
paper and is active in Westmin
ster fellowship. She belongs to
the school choir, holds an office
in Student Oregon Education as
sociation, belongs to Delta Phi
Alpha, music honorary, lo
Alpha Psi Omega, national hon
orary and Robes, the all-school
service honor society for upper
class women of SOC. Miss Jen
nings will receive her bachelor
of science degree in elementary
education in June.
Demonstration
Given by Pupils
A gymnastic demonstration
by pupils of the fifth and sixth
grades was presented for mem
bers of Lincoln Parent-Teacher
association at their recent meet
ing. Square dancers, tumblers
and rope jumpers all took part
in the demonstration. The pro
gram was under the direction
of Morris Jiminez, school coach.
The business meeting was
opened by presentation of the
colors by Cub Scout Den No. 2.
Mrs. L. C. Viles, second grade
teacher, offered the invocation.
Roy Gilbertson announced a
TV puppet show under the su
pervision of Mrs. Dean Hohen
see. He also announced that the
pens purchased by the PTA for
the teachers' use had arrived
end were being put to immedi
ate use. He also announced that
Lincoln school had taken third
place in the American Legion
auxiliary poppy poster contest.
The risers constructed for the
school by the PTA were i on
display.
Refreshments were served by
mothers of the first grade pupils.
The room count was won by
Mrs. Mary Coffin's fifth grade.
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Speaker to Talk
On Edible Weeds
Earl Rogers will speak on the
food value of edible weeds at
the Monday evening meeting of
the Natural Foods associates.
The meeting will be held at
8 p.m. in room 28 of Medford
High school.
Verne Shangle will play a
tape recording taken at the na
tional meeting of Natural Foods
associates at Little Rock, Ark. in
February. The recording will in
clude a talk by Dr. Ehrenfried
Pfeiffer on soil balance. Dr.
Pfeiffer is a biochemist and has
worked on the crystallization of
fluids of plants, animals, and
humans in order to detect dis
eases that may be present. In
his talk he explains the relation
ship between well balanced soils
and the production of food cap
able of maintaining the health
of animals and humans.
To Hold Practice
Degree of Honor will meet
Monday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m.
at Redmen hall. Inspection proc
tice will be held as inspection
will be May 13.
Oregonians
Win Awards
San Antonio, Texas (U.R)
Top Oregon winner of national
awards announced here Friday!
night by the National Federation
of Press Women for their annual
contest was Kay Lundeen, wom
en's editor of the Eugene Register-Guard.
Mrs. Lundeen placed first in
the women's department pages
for newspapers with more than
2500 circulation; she placed sec
ond in the Sunday women's sec
tion class, and third for a fea
ture story in a daily paper. She
had won five first places in the
Oregon phase of the contest and
one second.
Other prize winners from Ore
gon included Claire Elaine Ly
on, Portland, second in display
advertising in a daily newspap
er, second in display advertising
in a magazine, and third for a
commercial on television.
Mary E. Brown, editor and
publisher of the Redmond
Spokesman, won first place for
a special edition of a newspap
er edited by a woman.
Patricia Dayton, associate ed
itor of St. Joseph magazine at
Mt. Angel Abbey, won second
place for a news picture in a
magazine and Marge Thomas of
the Lebanon Express was third
for a feature picture in a news
paper. Doris Gunderson of Leb
anon was third in the newscast
division.
Evening Study Group
Cancels April Session
The evening study unit of
Medford League of Women Vot
ers will hold its next meeting
Monday, May 27, at the home
of Mrs. G. A. Dierdorff, 2631
Hillcrest road.
The unit will not meet in
April, having substituted a wa
ter conservation tour 'for its
regular study session.
Party Announced
By Wenonah Club
The final plans for a smorgas
bord and card party to be held
May 2 at the Redman hall were
made at the last meeting of the
Wenonah club Thursday. Reser
vations may be made by. calling
Mrs. Floy Lewis, 2-5352 or Mrs.
Hans Rammin, 2-6609.
Women's Classes
Planned at YMCA
Several new gym classes for
women will be held Tuesday
evenings at the YMCA from
7:30 until 8:30 p.m. Classes will
be offered in badminton, volley
ball and calisthenics.
All women are eligible for the
classes.
Girls from 9 through 12 years
of age may enter gym classes at
the YMCA on Tuesdays starting
at 4 p.m. and on Saturdays from
1 until 2 p.m. The classes offered
will include game relays and
trampoline.
Fvee swimming for girls in
this age group will be available
at the YMCA pool from 4:45 un
til 5:15 pjn. Tuesdays and from
2 until 3 p.m. on Saturdays.
For further - information re
garding any of these classes call
the YMCA at 26295.
Work of Students
To Be Displayed
At Crater School
Central Point A large dis
play of the, creative work of stu
dents in the art department, un
der the direction of Warren Hol-
brook, and the shop department,
taught by Charles Moore, will
be featured at the meeting Mon
day, April 22, of Crater High
School Parent-Teacher associa
tion. The whole community is
invited to see this exhibit.
A short business meeting, in
cluding installation of new offi
cers, will begin at 8 p.m., in the
cafetorium. Refreshments will
be served.
Electa Club
Electa Social club will meet at
the home of Mrs. Nina Chandler,
532 Plum steet, Friday, April 26
at 1 p.m. for dessert. A business
meeting will follow, with the
new officers presiding. Cards
will be played after "the meet
ing.
College Announces
Mothers7 Week End
Corvallis Mothers of Oregon
State college students will be
honored on campus May 10 to 12
at the 34th annual Mothers
weekend. More than 1200 moth
ers ares expected to attend.
Visits to classrooms and cam
pus tours will be highlights. Spe
cial events will include fashion
and flower shows, performances
of the musical, "The Merry
Widow," interfraternity sing
competition, ROTC drill compe
tition, dance demonstrations,
firesides and dinners in student
living organizations, and church
services.
Mrs. H. K. Lounsbury of Eu
gene, president of the ObU
Mothers club, will conduct the
annual business - meeting at
which winners of club scholar
ships for 1957-58 will be an
nounced. Seventeen full-tuition
scholarships were given this
year.
Birthday Night
To Be Observed
Reames chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star, will celebrate
birthday ' night at a meeting at
8 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at
Medford Masonic temple.
Charter and fifty-year mem
bers will be honored by the
chapter.
Refreshments will be served
in the dining room, with the
new 1957-58 officers acting as
hostesses.
Mrs. Frank C. Roberts will be
general chairman. .
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Dr. Arthur Kreisman
To Speak for Society
Dr. Arthur Kreisman of South
ern Oregon college will speak
for a meeting of Southern Ore
gon Society of Artists Wednes
day, April 24 at 7:30 P.m. in
Building 218 at Camp White.
Anyone interested in art
invited to attend.
Don Anderson. Her birthday
cake was baked and decorated
by the auxiliary president, Mrs.
Bertha Nelson. Mrs. Nelson also
presented corsages to Mrs.
Young and Mrs. Hollars.
Mrs. Nelson presided at the
business meeting following the
dinner. A report on the rum
mage sale held ' April ' 10 was
given by the chairman, Mrs.
Harry Barneburg.
. Mrs. . 'Winifred Vail wa ap
pointed chairman for the annual
McKinley carnation sale to be
hekfMay 10-12. Plans were dis
cussed for the official visit of
Mrs. Anderson May 19. Depart
ment Conmmander H. S. .Van
Valkenburgh, Portland, is' ex
pected, to make his official visit
to the camp at this time. .
Mrs. Josephine Widner and
her committee were in charge
of the dinner. Mrs. Henry Barne
burg and committee decorated
the tables and hall.
11 Mrs. Anderson returned last
week from an ' official trip
through the northern part of the
state. The department president
visited Edward Young auxiliary
of Astoria, Scout Harrington
auxiliary of Hillsboro and Gen
eral Lawton auxiliary of Eu
gene. She was accompanied on
the trip by the department sec
retary, Mrs. Renne Grosh, Ashland.
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