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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Juna 7, 19S7 Day Camp Announced For Boys Final plans are being made for : the first summer day camp for boyj ever to be held ui the Med Jord area. The camp will be a joint tndetvor of Medford YMCA arvl Medford Ki warns dub, and will be open to boys ' 8 to 1 2 yri of age. The day camp program will Crs;t f,t two periods. Trie first will hegin Tuesday. June 13. and 1at through June 21: the second begins June 25 and will end Jjn 2X. Tuedi and Wednesday of each period campers will leave : tr Y.MCA at 8:30 a.m. for Little ; Butt crek. and return at 4:30 ! p oi. Thursday they will depart from the Y.MCA at 2 p m. and re turn at 4 30 p m. Friday after an overnight outing. - The cmp program will fea- j ture handicrafts, nature study, chapel, simple camp cooking, j hiking, archery, air guns, safe wa'er fun, campfire ceremonies nd the overnight camping. Registration is now being j taken for both periods. Since ' each period is limited to 40 j boys, it is suzgested that par-1 ents register their sons as soon I as possible. Information may be : obtained by calling the YMCA, SP-2-6295. r.-.--"''-rr f'',? .!rr.... ..v..fc J,. ... I ; " f ' . :f i I w ."7 , 1 Mi !?.v?i': More ek-nnw on the bearh is iWred fvhioa eiperu this m mr. Carrrn ml ihr trrfi mrr ibfM lavinhlj rmbrnidrml bnch companions Hcsienrd by Jantsrn in rich trhite polished cotton. The win drca fratnrra double sdjnsUible ohonldcr Mrapa. The matchina; jacket boaxU two front pockets and relf-fabric Bnm Foundation Says Graduates Would Flunk Writing Test New York The new crop ofjeial stake in eliminating the il June college and high school ! If aible scrawl of today's seniors, graduates may be chock full of ("Studies show that business , ., . -.- . firms lose tens of millions of learning in the humanities and .... , ' 3 , dollars each year because of the sciences, but the majority of j penmanship." King de- our young scholars would flunk i clares. Many losses have been out in a test for legible hand- j traced to illegible order forms writjng land sales slips and carelessly Credit this gloomy forecast i recorded inormation for com- Munro. 474 South Pacific high- , rh. HH,.i. Foundation. . ""-' ... men mat ousmess iooks anxious- j a non-profit educational group . iy at every batch of graduates," whose advisory council includes King adds. leading educators throughout the j Examinations Bad country. According to the Found- j He reports that many of this 800,000 college students I a V mu ana iwu rniiiiuu eieiueiiti y ou To Plan Meeting Of State Board Plans for a meeting in Med ford of the executive board. Ore gon Council of the Blind, will be made at a session of Jackson Council of the Blind. Sunday, June 9. Sunday's meeting will be a picnic at the home of Mr. Rose way, beginning at 2 p m. The stat executive board ses sion will he held at Redman hall Saturday, June 15, beginning at 5.30 p.m. Ail members of the county : ation council are invited to attend the pienic, tnd Tuitors will b wel MK Pitt Rebekahs Plan Anniversary Central Point Mrs. Harold Wilaon. noble grand of Mt. Pitt RebeWth lodge, Central Point, nnouncas that all Odd Fellows nd Febekahs and the general public are invited to attend the lodt i 50th anniversary celebra tion. It is st for Saturday, June S. t t p.m. in Central Point IOOf hall. Th program for the evening nill include selections by pupils ef the Muzzioli School of Ac cordion, and dance numbers by gnipil from Colleen Hope Dance aludio. Rafraehments will close the tvnt. high school students will soon receive diplomas and degrees at a time when our literacy rate has reached an all time peak. Yet only 65 per cent of them would be able to understand each others' writing. ' Considering thai America's total school population is 30, 000,000, these statistics may seem trivial. But to those with a spe cial interest in legible handwrit ing, it's a definite danger signal. In addtion to The Handwrting Foundation, and the schools themselves, local chambers of commerce and other business groups have expressed increas ing alarm about the writing habits of today's students. According to Frank King, ex ecutive secretary of The Hand writing Foundation, American business has the most vital finan- ROOKS ELECTRIC & PLUMBING 101 North Riverside Phone SP 2-5209 I WESTINGHOUSE Air Conditioner Itwtiegbous Straamllntr (shown above) in many cases runs on normal house current saves on installation, ves up to 40 on electricity! Thin ner, lower, smarter too, there's no bul'nj' overhang blends wiih your home inside and out. Has built-in ther cmostat, adjustable no-draft jrri'.les, many more big features. 1 HP 1! r-115-'n't anA 1 HP un-ro't moceli o.'ia nr.'asV. Hurry in toiay! 95 189 And Up TERMS YG8 CAW 96 SUSE...IFIT5 Wl GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS themselves severely in ant exams by turning in "blue books" with essay questions written in a sight-searing scrawl. "An instructor in economics would also have to be an Egypto logist to make sense of what these students submit," King says. But if the handwriting prob lem is serious today, it promises to be more of a challenge in the coming year. By the 1960's our already well populated colleges will be accommodating the larg est number of students in his tory. This expected peak is due to the booming post war birth rate which contrasted sharply with the low rale during the de pression years. Elementary schools and high schools will also become more crowded than they are now and experts fore see an acute teacher shortage generally. They fear that, amid all the ferment, the question of improving handwriting will be lost in the shuffle. "Other questions, of necessity, do and shall continue to take precedence over handwriting," Mr. King says. "However, since writing is a vital part of human communications, something must be done now on a wide scale." Just what is The Handwriting Foundation doing? In co-operation with educators, the Founda tion is supplying manuals, book lets, posters and visual aids for use in the nation's classrooms. It has also enrolled the support of American business which is us ing similar materials in special employee training programs. Finally, it is attempting to alert parents to the need for setting a good handwriting example in the home. "We don't expect that American students like their Chinese counterparts will look at handwriting on the same level as landscape painting," says Mr. King, "but we're hopeful that we can help literate young men and women to write legibly." Society Cake Decorating Idea Wins Award Daytona Beach. Fla. (U Mrs. Rita Beam of Dayton. Ohio, is one in a million. Or, more exactly, she is "Mrs. Homemaker of 1957'' becauseof having submitted the best home making idea in one and one-half million suggestions received in a nationwide contest. The copper-haired housewife, one of 40 finalists on hand for the judging at Ellinor Village, submitted a winning idea for brightening a child's party cake. "That special cake for Jun ior's party or birthday," the at tractive young mother of three children wrote, "will be doubly thrilling if you try this delight ful stunt: "Press an animal cookie cut ter lightly into the icing, then fill in the outline with tinted ic ing of the child's favorite color." Second prize went to another Ohio housewife, Mrs. W. H. Mc Connell of Mansfield, for her suggestion for keeping lamp cords off the floor by looping them over screw hooks fastened into the backs of dressers and desks. Lawrence Wahlstrom of Los Angeles became the first male winner in the contest with his third-prize idea of driving tacks without danger of hitting a fin ger by using drink straws. Wahlstrom suggested the tacks be pressed through the tips of ordinary drinking straws. The tacks can thus be held in place with the fingers a safe distance from the target of the hammer blows. Mrs. Alfred Droz of Denton. Tex., won fourth prize and Mrs. James E. Zumwalt of Grinnell, Iowa, fifth. Dance, Meeting Planned for Club Pioneers Square Dance club will hold the regular monthly meeting at Kershaw square Sat urday. June 8, with round dance review at 8 p.m. and square dancing at 8:30 p.m. Kenneth Howe will call the squares. A business meeting will be held and special entertainment is planned for the evening. Guests are welcome and potluck re freshments will be served. Dinner and Dance Planned by Lodge A square dance and chow inein dinner are planned at Moose hall Saturday, June 8. Dancing begins at 8:30 p.m. with dinner at 11 p.m. followed by more dancing. The squares will be called by Fran Cronin and guest callers. Live music will be furnished for part of the evening. All square dancers are invited. Shady Cove Club Announces Picnic Shady Cove. Shady Cove Garden club has made plans for a picnic to be held 'Monday, June 10, at 7 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Strothers. Husbands of members will be guests. Each member attending is ask ed to take table service and the menu item assigned by the committee. Sales of Cook Books Booming In Spite of Prepared Foods CALENDAR Fridar 6:30 p.m. Jolly Stitchers, home of Mrs. Hans Rammin, 831 West 12th st. 7 p.m. Family night pro gram at YMCA for newcomers. 8 p.m. Pocahontas council, Redman hall. 8 p.m. Southern Oregon Stamp club, home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lewis, 698 Roca ave., Ashland. Saturday 2 p.m. College club, home of Mrs. I. D. Canfield, Aloha ranch, Coleman Creek road. Help Yourself to Happiness Readerf are Invited to present their problems. All queries will receive Individual attention and should he accompanied bv a stamped, self-addressed envelope, directed to MARY HARRIS SEIFERT. M. A.. Department of Educa tion. The AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF FAMILY RELATIONS, 1287 Sunset Boulevard, Los Anfeles 2. California. I Married A Stingy Man "My husband handles all the money in our house," complains Mrs. X. "He gives me enough for food and that is all. No clothes. No new furniture. Noth ing for pleasure." After a poverty-ridden and difficult childhood, adults fre quently become hoarders col lectors of material objects, sav ers of paper and string, misers with money. Long after the need for pinching pennies has passed, the "saving" drive may remain, rooted in long-ago fear and inse curity. In moderation, the drive is called "thrift." and in ex treme, "stinginess." Men. more often than women, seem to fall into this pattern. Repeatedly the councelor hears tales ranging from actual hard ship to annoying "closeness" and in most cases, women appear 'to be more sinned against than ' sinning. "My husband acts as if he is killed when I ask him for money." "My husband hasn't bought me anything new since we've been married.' John may reason that he han dles the finance because he can t trust Mary's judgement. Basical ly he may be unwilling to let her prove her worthiness, be cause he doesn't really want to share financial control with any one. Money, to him. spells pow er, security, and self-confidence and. he will keep it for him self. Misers hoard hot only money, but themselves. They are people drawn in upon their own egos, unable to share possessions, love, or themselves. Thev have never j learned to give, only to take, to 'grasp. They are usually calcula ting friends, and unsatisfactory lovers, unable to feel sympathy and warmth. Miserliness makes a mean marriage, which destroys love that might have once been there. Only by consciously replacing habits of closeness with generos ity a painful process for the hoarder can a person acquire new ways of thinking and doing. Again and again generosity must i be precticed by the ex-miser un- til it is automatic, a part of life j and marriage. Gay Pauley By GAY PAULEY United Press Correspondent New Yark V Sales of cook books are booming, right along with sales of those foods which need little or no cooking. P u b 1 ishers happily repor ted today an undiminishing "appetite" for every type of culinary guide from such basics as the "Fannie Farm er Cookbook" to such sDecial- ized works as "Fabulous Foods for People You Love" and "Cook ing with a Chinese Flavor." And Yet. last year, we spent a record 52.106,000,000, on frozen foods alone a leader in the "less work for mother" field. "They buy cookbooks to use." not just to read or for their col lections." said Lois Cole, an edi tor at Putnam. "But a good cook book is good reading too." "Creative cooking always will be with us." said Clara Classen, cookbook editor at Doubleday. "Even with all the advance work the processors do, we women will improvise . . . will insist on developing our own specialties." "And we're all just more food conscious," she added. "Science has taught us so much more about food's role in our health and these days- it is smart to be healthy." Books That Sell Other publishers add other reasons why from 50 to 75 new cookbooks appear each year and sell. "Women have more time and more money to spend on food," said a spokesman at Prentice Hall. "They're using both to cre ate luxury dishes, instead of spending hours baking bread." "Women buy cookbooks for ideas," said John T. Lawerence, of M. Barrows, which has pub lished several dozen successes. "They want short cuts, want to know how to dress up a dish, stretch the budget, add variety. A cookbook now needs a special approach, a gimmick." Most publishers agreed the specialty cookbooks are the new est trend although the classic "Joy of Cooking" has sold more than two million copies since it first was published in 1931. Travel has increased interest in regional and national dishes, and the result is a multitude of books on cooking from our own Middle West, the West Coast, New England, and on Hungarian, Italian. French. Scandinavian, and Chinese cuisine. From The Experts Restaurants lend their names and recipes to others. Luchow's in New York, for instance, pub lished one on German dishes and sales now are nudging the 50.000 copies mark. Whole books are devoted to cooking with casserole, with elec tric skillet, electric blender. Oth ers are confined to sauces, to souffles, cheese, rice, or eggs; still others to dinner for two, or for the weekend hostess. Now publishers see a whole new culinary world to conquer in books on dict-fat free, salt free, or calorie low. One scheduled for publication in the fall will be a "his and hers" type, with the needs and amounts of calories for him and her listed beside each dish. The men are in the act too. Some publishers said man's in terest in turning chef was large ly responsible for the boom in books ort barbecuing and other outdoor cookery. v 4 Collector Prizes Antique Buttons Urbana, 111. P Buttons to Miss Grace Derter are "antiques in miniature," and "little bits of history." Whatever they are. Miss Dext er has lots of them, so many she has long since lost count. "But numbers don't mean anything, anyway, it's quality that counts in a button collection. She has tiny paperweight but tons, glass buttons, carved ivory and pearl, painted picture but tons, Wedgewood cameos, por celains and enamels from France She has many with real value. others which she treasures for sentiment's sake. 'There are buttons from my uncle's military uniform worn here at the University in 1879 which bear the words '111. Indust rial University,' and a little green satin button from my grandmother's wedding dress in 1858," she said. Another button trimmed a dress worn by Mrs- John D. Rockefeller. Miss Dexter, who formerly taught costume design at the University of Illinois, said her hobby fitted in quite nicely with her profession. "Once I got started everyone helped me," she said. She is particularly fond of her picture buttons, dating back to the 1870 s. "A classic picture button is as hostorical as a commemorative stamp and as permanent as a coin," she said. She also has Kate Greenaway group, illistrating children from the Kate Greenaway books of 60 years ago. There are other military but tons too- Her West Point but tons, she explained, are supposed to have been designed by the famous painter James Whistler for the cadets at West Point. Button collecting. Miss Dexter said, is like any good hobby, for it "improves your time, and in time, tends to improve you." Women can wear a fan in stead of carrying one this sum mer. The "fan cut" is the latest hair style brought from Paris by Guillaume for Marcel of New York. The new coiffure features extremely short hair, bangs and fringes over the forehead. Curls are swept up and out like a fan from the crown. fe.'-V-:--:;::'i f . K' :; . r Flowers set the fashion note in a style br Kate Greenaway in John Wolf Everglase floral-print eotton Dress feature gathered sleeve and crisply foil skirt. Dance Announced By VFW Auxiliary The auxiliary to Crater Lake post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will sponsor a dance tonight at VFW hall. The event is for CFW and auxiliary members and their invited friends. Dancing will be from 8 to 11 p.m. with music provided by Local 597 of the American Fed eration of Musicians. Prizes will be awarded and re freshments served. Mrs. Leota Lewis is chairman in charge of arrangements. GOOD AS NEW Indianapolis W "For Sale" sign on a model "T" Ford vint age 1925: "One Owner." Apricot Almond Hearts Make Clamour Dessert New York W) For a glam our dessert, try apricot almond hearts. Combine 1 package instant va nilla pudding and 1 cup apricot j nectar. Beat with rotary beater j for one minute or until blended. Let stand five minutes to set. Spread pudding mixture in 6 sponge cake shells and top each shell with 2 teaspoons of slivered almonds ('. cup). Place an apri cot half on top of nuts. . Beat 6 egg whites until stiff but not dry. Blend in ?4 cup of sugar and i teaspoon almond extract. Continue beating until meringue stands in peaks. Spread meringue over top and sides of cake shells in a heart-shaped pat tern. Place on cookie sheet and bake in hot oven (450 degrees) for five minutes. This makes 6 servings. COMPARE Amazo Instant Pudding with any other Pudding Instant or Cooked . V'-..A , : Costs a little more Worth a lot more because: Amazo is the only real corn starch instant dessert IOnly Amazo mixes per fectly with milk, as well aa with fruit juices, coffee, cola, all other liquids 2 Only Amazo gives you oll fashioned, cooked pud ding goodness 3 Only Amazo won't weejs in your refrigerator at form a skin CHOCOLATE .VANILLA. COCONUT CBrjA BUTTERSCOTCH WOMEN Learn To Swim WOMEN'S BEGINNING SWIM LESSONS 10 LESSONS TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS 7:30 f.M. BEGINS TUESDAY, JUNE 11th Woman's Advanced Swim BEGINS THURSDAY, JUNE 13rh Service Fee $7.00 CALL For Further Detailt . . . YMCA SP 2-6295 Save as Never Before During Crater Dept. Stores' QUIDATIOM SAL Of Ladies, Girls Cr Infants Wear AND Their GIANT Inventory Reduction Sale Of Men's Wear! ALL SUMMER MERCHANDISE! Sale Continues Until ALL LADI ES WEAR IS SOLD! MEN'S Canvas Shoes 377 Open Every Evening Until 7 p.m. MEN'S Swim Suits $1188 55 LADIES' COTTON Blouses 88' BOY'S SHORT SLEEVE SHIRTS 1 29 BOY'S LONG SLEEVE SHIRTS 99 BOY'S OXFORDS its MEN'S WHITE DUCK PANTS 2 66 MEN'S WESTERN JEANS 2 88 MEN'S KHAKIS 2 77 MEN'S CASUAL JACKETS 9.77 MEN'S SHIRT JACKETS 5 88 MEN'S WOOL SHIRTS 5 fij MEN'S FLANNEL SHIRTS 1 27 IVY LEAGUE CAPS J 'fiS MEN'S IVY LEAGUE PANTS 4 88 MEN'S LONG SLEEVE SPORT SHIRTS 2 99 MEN S LONG SLEEVE SPORT SHIRTS .88 LADIES' BETTER DRESSES 5.88 and up LADIES' SLIPS 1 44 LADIES' BLACK AND WHITE OXFORDS 2.99 LADIES' PAJAMAS 2.88 LADIES' COTTON JERSEY BLOUSES 1.88 LADIES' GARTER BELTS 1.00-1.44 LADIES' WESTERN JEANS 3.00-3.88 LADIES' SHORTS 2.29 U. S. KEDS 2.99 LADIES' MOCS 1.99 GIRLS ANKLETS .27 GIRLS' JEANS 1.77 GIRLS' SUMMER SWEATERS 1.88 and 2.88 CHILDREN'S SWIM SUITS 2.88 CHILDREN'S SHORTS 1.77 CHILDREN'S PEDAL PUSHERS 17 GIRLS' SLIPS 1-4 LADIES' COTTON SLIPS $1177 II LADIES' NYLON HOSE 69c MANY, MANY MORE ITEMS NOT LISTED LADIES' Panties 3iloo 2nd and Pine Streets T Central Point, Oregon,
