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Birthday Party
Celebrated in
Persian Theme
Miss Mary Elizabeth Pierce,
Pierce Heights, celebrated her
birthday June 26 with a Persian
party for some 30 friends.
Miss Pierce, dressed in a silk
ari of purple, blue and gold,
n greeted each guest at the door.
- A royal Persian drink, shar
batee gulab, made of essence of
roses and rose petals was first
erved In a room smelling of in
cense and illuminated by flames
of Persian lamps and ceremonial
randies. Background music was
of East Indian theme.
The guests sat on cushions on
the floor and examined souve
nirs brought from the Orient
and Middle East during a recent
trip there by the Pierce family.
A table cloth of deep maroon
covered the buffet table which
held the many unusual dishes of
the Middle East. Guests, using
large grape leaves as plates,
filled them with the Persian
foods. Served were curry and
rice, sweet meats, beef sticks,
fried bananas,' vegetable salad
with an Oriental dressing, and
various condiments.
As la the Persian custom, the
guests sat cross legged on the
0 floor and ate with their finger.
For dessert ginger cream was
erved with Persian coffee.
Following the dinner colored
slides of Ceylon and India were
shown by the hostess.
A tiered birthday cake, gift
from Mrs. Grace Lee, was served
later in the evening. Another
cake was presented by Miss
Jeanne Compagonno as a seven
teenth birthdy gift.
Valley Students
Narfied to College
HoftW Roll atOSC
Sfcwo U?4Ur4 students, one
fatten iron Gold Hill, and one
ink- - Butts Talis are
lfnil cos Wa? flaring term scholas
tm haw rail ae'enned by Oregon
sfw ?.
KlBtfirfl siuaVmU listed are
tfc Cerstort, Charges E.
Dot. Villain J. Cooney. Rich-aj-
a Craia. lobert O. Walker,
rip 8lly i- Harris, Paul D.
0 . tferedith J. Foote, Miss
Larwra Kelley, Bruce M. Par
)M Bobert W. Sutton.
Otltr listed are Miss Gail P.
Smite f GoU Hill and Robert
E. fibftrll of gutte Falls.
T $ eligible for honor roll
l!tia unts must make at
leaS lus average for the
term.
Matr Point
Play Held by
Medford Club
Mrs. C. L. Howard and Dori
Reverman ith 140V4 points
placed first in the east-west posi
tion of the Medford Duplicate
l&idge club monthly master
point play July 2.
Mrs. Marrs Gibbons and Mrs.
Dolph Phipps with 136" i points
Qvere first in the in the north
south position.
Other east-west players and
their points were Mrs. B. L.
Sanderson Dr. J. Scott Heather
lngton and Richard House,
124' i.
North-south position players
included Mrs. Howard Boyd and
Mrs. R. Milestone, 125; B. L.
Sanderson and H. J. Boyd, 123l2;
and Mrs. Jack Love and Paul
Hatton, 119.
Mrs. Jack Barr and, Mrs. S.
Wright of Grants Pass were
visitors for the evening.
Psychologist Says Women
Ate Better at Signalling
Lansing. Mich. OH The wo
man driver received a deserved
pat on the back from Dr. Abram
M. Barch. assistant professor
with the highway traffic safety
center and the psychology de
partment of Michigan State Uni
versity. "Women drivers," said Dr.
Barch, "are better in signaling
left turns and rank just as good
as men in indicating right
turns."
The professor said he discov
ered the fact in the traffic cen
ter's exploratory study of turn
signaling behavior.
Other findings by Dr. Barch
indicated turn-signaling is in
fluenced by the type of intersec
tion. There was no relationship
between signaling and time of
day, presence o f traffic i n
front or back of the car, or the
signaling actions of the driver
ahead.
Dr. Barch said one finding
was that people do not signal
out of a desire to communicate
their turning intentions, but out
of a "subjective feeling" that an
intersection looks dangerous.
An intersection at which a
higher speed was permitted
prompted more drivers to signal
than a comparable intersection
with a lower speed. Speed is
only one factor linked to this
subjective feeling of "danger,"
Dr. Barch said.
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Return
Mr. and Mrs. Grover C.
Comm. 300 Willamette, Med
ford. returned this week from a
vacation trip to Montana, Wash
ington, and Oregon cities. While
in Montana and Washington they
visited relatives.
MilL TRIBUNE
Potpourri
Philadelphia, July 1 This centennial convention of National
Education association is a combination of three-ring circus, state
fair and political gathering, with a slight touch of nightmare for
the uninitiated. The more than 15,000 delegates ana visitors surge
from one room to another in the three huge buildings, taxis and
buses keep a continuous flow of traffic going between convention
center and down town Philadelphia and today several hundred
school children rehearsing for a performance Tuesday night add
to the din and confusion.
Hundreds of displays and exhibits line every nook and cranny:
they advertise everything from audio visual aids to text books to
insurance and the joys of serving time with the United States Air
Force. Many firms supply the visitors with large paper bags, en
velopes and cartons which they stuff with pamphlets, literature
and samples of this and that. The cost of a convention this big.
in all aspects, must be astronomical.
Let us not be misunderstood conventions must serve some
useful purpose or Americans would not hold so many every year.
And we have seen the delegates to this one hard at work at busi
ness sessions, conferences, symposiums and discussion groups cov
ering every possible phase of education.
m
When Potpourri planned this expedition to the east coast, we
promised PH, who is doubling in brass during our leave, that we'd
whip up something every day or so for the followers of this col
umn. Honestly, we could write a long column every couple of
hours. There's a lot to see, do and report on a trip like this.
Yesterday we attended services at Christ Episcopal church. The
congregation was organized in 1695 and the building erected in
1729. One presumes that changes and additions were made since,
but worshippers walking down the aisle set their shoes down on
marble tomb covers. After church was over Potpourri and other
visitors read the inscriptions on these marble 'slabs and on the
brass markers which indicated the historic pews.
Potpourri read one of the tomb inscriptions aloud while a
couple of fellow conventioneers giggled unrestrainedly. "Under
this stone lies Ann Hockley, who will ever be remembered with
true esteem by all who knew her for her good sense, sprightly con
versation, strict virtue, sincere friendship and unaffected piety,
her sickness being one continued exercise of devotion, being a
painful consumptive disorder which removed her from y 28th
day of June, 1745, at the age of 24 years singing in most devout
strains and making melody unto the Lord in her last moments."
Two signers of the Declaration of Independence, James Wilson
and Robert Morris, are buried in the church yard, which is sur
rounded by an iron grille work fence, and five more in the old
cemetery two blocks from the church building. The fiae are Ben
jamin Franklin, Joseph Hewes, Francis Hopkinson, George Ross
(uncle of Betsy Ross of flag fame) and Dr. Benjamin Rush.
Just for fun we sat for a time in the pew which George and
Martha Washington used when he was president. The lay assistant
who gave a little lecture on the old church pointed out a big double
door which he said President Washington had always used it is
now barred and opened only on special occasions. We talked for a
time with the assistant and when he put away the microphone he
had used for the lecture, he locked the vestryroom door with an
old handmade key six or eight inches long.
Before services we had breakfast in one of the numerous Horn
and Hardart cafeterias which are to be found on every other cor
ner in this city. The bronze plaque on the door gave this reporter
a bigger thrill than visiting the old church, so we whipped out pen
cil and paper and while the passers-by gawked, we copied. "On
this site were first printed the Declaration of Independence July
5. 1778; the Constitution of the United States September 19, 1787;
Washington's Farewell address September 19, 1796 and the first
daily newspaper in America, September 21, 1784, in the print
shop of Dunlap and Claypoole."
Sunday night Potpourri, along with more than 20,000 other
people, heard a concert by the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra
in Robin Hood dell. It was a made to order night cloudless sky,
balmy evening and a crescent moon slipping out of sight behind
the American flag whipping from a standard. Fireflies flitted
about on the green slopes outside the wall where a few hundred
overflow guests sat. (We saw fireflies for the first time as we
drove around Washington last week with Alex and Liz Hamilton,
and wish we could take some of the enchanting creatures home.)
The New World Symphony" will from now on bring back pic
tures of a memorable Philadelphia evening.
Musicians in the dell must cope with some of the same prob
lems that actors do when giving performances in the Ashland
Shakespearean theater. Planes flew over and every now and then
a train would drown out the music, just as the planes and big
freight trucks blot out the words of the actors in Ashland.
To and from the dell, the bus driver took us through the sec
tion of Philadelphia where one sees no whites only Negroes. The
streets were the dirtiest we ever remember seeing, anywhere. To
day we inquired how often the city cleans the down town streets,
and how often those of the Negro section. The answer was once a
week or so in the Negro part of town, and every night down town.
Convention trivia Some women delegates from south wear
or carry fans; woman from Arkansas peers at Oregon badge and
says "Why dearie, you've come a far piece"; taxi driver asks pas
senger "are you here for the jailers convention?" and then adds, in
loud voice, "I still hate my third grade teacher"; man who is dead
ringer for Benjamin Franklin and wearing the BF clothes and hair
cut always to be found in lobby of hotel talking to conventioneers;
Potpourri, contemplating Liberty Bell in Independence Hall star
tled by camera flash and realizing she'd just been marie into at
mosphere for a tourist shot. O S.
Southern Oregon Society Plans
Greenwich Village Show July 2 1
Southern Oregon Society of
ArtistsXwill hold their annual
Greenwich Village show in the
Medford library park Sunday,
July 21. The annual affair will
start at 11 a.m. with the show
closing between 4 and 5 p.m.
The public will be invited to
vote for their favorite picture
again this year. To be eligible
for the show exhibits must be
ready for viewing by 11 a.m.,
society officials said.
Another exhibit is planned by
the group the second week in
August during the Shakespearan
Festival at Lithia park.
At their meeting last week
the society chose a watercolor,
"A Bit of Old England," by Vic-
Party Honors
Sixth Birthday
Johnny Marler, son of Mr. and
and Mrs. John William Marler,
Route 3, Box 182D, Medford,
celebrated his sixth birthday
June 25.
Guests, dressed as cowboys,
played games during the after
noon and helped make ice cream.
Later hot dogs, punch, and birth
day cake were served and
movies were siiown.
Attending the party were Mrs.
C. C. Herlow of Eagle Point
grandmother of the honored
guest. Mrs. Elbert Dee Hefley
and children, Cheryl, Mike, and
Steven, aUo of Eagle Point, Mrs.
Charles Moore Jr., and children,
Christine, Karen, and Nikki, of
Central Point, Mrs. Delmer Bohn
and children, Larry. Gary, and
Dean, of Ashland, Mrs. Wayne
Gottfried and daughter. Carnel,
Mrs. Morris Tucker and son,
Tungston. and David Marler,
brother of the honored guest.
Thursday. July 1957
tor Wigglesworth as the picture
of the month. It will be displayed
in the Barker's Men store win
dow. The library picture will
be an oil by Harry Marx, "Ave
nue of Middle Harnis," while a
still life by Corinne Horton will
be displayed in Hadley's win
dow. The two pictures for the
Medford Paint and Wallpaper
company are an oil by Mrs. Eliz
abeth Sheffield, 'The Hope Pres
byterian Church of " R o g u e
River," and an oil by Mrs. Delia
Tucker of her grandchild.
A work and study meeting
headed by Ray Eyerly will be
held this month. The members
are asked to take sketching and
painting materials so actual
work may be done at the meet
ing. Following the business session
Mrs. Frank Perl showed colored
slides of famous paintings and
sculptorings of the old masters
taken during a recent trip
through Italy and parts of
France.
Five guests attended the meet
ing. CALENDAR
Calendar nottret and new fcr
the society section of The Mail
Tribune must he autynitted un
wnunc and deadline for the Sun
day edition is 1 D.m Friday Dead
line for the weekly calendar is 9
m of the dav of publication and
for week day news is 3 om. uia
day before publication.
Thursday:
7:30 p.m. Unity Center, room
203 Holly Theatre building.
Friday:
11 a.m. Unity Center, room
203, Holly Theater building.
Medford Student
Receives Award
Miss Mary Kay White, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Earold
White, 3654 Pacific highway,
Medford, has received recogni
tion for music achievements at
Oregon State college.
She has been named one of 56
winners of choral awards, given
annually to students who have
performed for two years or more
with the college chorus. The
chorus presents three special
concerts each year along with
appearing at various campus and
community functions.
Miss White will be a junior in
elementary education next fall.
Society
Preservatives
Add Life to
Outdoor Furniture
Homeowners can add years to
the usefiil life of wooden out
door furnishings by treating
them with a wood preservative,
suggests Charles Ross, Oregon
State colleg forestry specialist.
Picnic furniture, swings and
gliders, and other acessories to
outdoor living are easily treated
against wood decay by applying
a preservative to dry unpainted
or unvarnished wood. Paint can
be appied over the preservative
after it is thoroughly dry, Ross
explains.
Two excellent, easily applied
materials can be obtained in
either concentrated or ready-to-use
form, hardware stores, paint
shops or lumber yeards, accord
ing to Ross. They are pentach
lorophenol, often referred to as
"penta," and copper naphthen
ate. Both presevatives are also sold
under various trade names. The
label will indicate when one of
these chemicals is present and
give directions for applying it.
If a large quanity of preserva
tive is required, it is less expen
sive to buy, . a concentrate and
mix it, as directed, with a light
diesel oil or fuel oil.
All wood in constant contact
with the soil is subject to rot;
says Ross, although the heart-
wood of some species such as
cedar, catalpa, cypress, juniper.
black locust, osage-orange and
rewool will resist decay for a
longer period than others. The
sapwood or outer, light-colored
part of the tree trunk of all
species is quickly destroyed.
Surface treatment, such as
painting on with a brush, is not
sufficient where wood is in con
tact with the soil or where mois
ture stands, he says. Wherever
possible these vaunerable spots
should be immersed in the penta
or copper naphthenate solution
and allowed to stand until
thoroughly soaked. Copper naph
thenate leaves a slight green
stain that can be covered with
paint if desired.
For furniture-like picnic tab
les, benches and chairs, Ross
suggests letting each leg stand
overnight in a tin can or other
container filed with preservative-oil
solution. A flexible plast
ic mixing bowl makes a con
venient container for treating
odd-shaped legs or supports that
will not fit easily into a rigid
holder.
Other valnerable spots such
as points, bolt holes, cracks and
lumber ends where rain is like
ly to soak into the wood, can be
treated by repeatedly flooding
the surface with preservative
and allowing it to stand until it
disappears into the wood.
Washing Instructions
Should Be Followed
Fargo, N. D. IW It's smart
to follow the washing instruc
tions on the hang tag of a gar
ment, a college clothing special
ist says.
But if no instructions are giv
en, here are some from exten
sion agent Julia Brekke.
Remove any trim such as rib
bons and bows that may not be
washable, she said. Pre-treat any
badly soiled areas by rubbing
thoroughly with a paste of syn
thetic detergent or soap and wa
ter. And don't wash white gar
ments with colored clothing
Miss Brekke warned.
For hand-washing, use warm
water (100 degrees F), and a
synthetic detergent or soap and
a water softner. Squeeze the
suds gently through the gar
ment. Rinse thoroughly without
wringing and hang on a non
staining hanger to drip dry.
Californians
Visit Here
Mrs. R. David Holmes and
children, Richard Donald and
Holiday, of Modesto, Calif., are
visiting in Medford with Mrs.
Holmes' mother, Mrs. Ruth B.
Simmons, who is hospitalized at
Sacred Heart hospital.
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KIWANIS PRESIDENT H.
Park Arnold. Glendale, Calif.,
was elected last week as presi
dent of Kiwanis International.
The lumberman and manufac
turer will succeed Reed Culp,
Salt Lake City, Utah, in Au
gust. Arnold, who has been treas
urer of the international organi
zation this year, was elevated to
president at the Kiwanis annual
convention at Atlantic City, N.J.
He is a former governor of the
California -Nevada -Hawaii dis
trict. There are now a quarter-
million Kiwanians in 4,350 clubs
in the United States, Canada,
Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands.
Airport Mistaken
For Wide Sidewalk
Atlanta OP) Joan Poss, 26,
was serving a 15-day jail sen
tence today because she mistook
an airport runway for a wide
sidewalk.
Miss Poss was found guilty of
drunkenness in city court after
several pilots and a control op
erator testified that the young
woman strolled onto the busy
runway Monday night and dis
rupted air traffic.
A light plane taking off bare
ly missed the woman and then
she sat down squarely in the
middle of the concrete ramp
and eventually reclined there.
Two Army helicopters were
radioed to the scene and hovered
over the spot where she was
resting to shed some light on
the strange situation with their
powerful spotlights.
The lights apparently disturb
ed Miss Poss and she started
running down the runway. One
helicopter followed, keeping the
intruder in its spotlight and the
other landed and its two pilots
gave chase.' One finally caught
the young woman with a flying
tackle.
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James Main Named
To Interim Group
James M. Main, Jackson coun
ty district judge, has been ap
pointed to. the legislative .interim
committee on judicial adminis
tration, according to G. W. Kel
Iington, president of the county
bar association.
Main received one of three ap
pointments made by Chief Jus
tice William M. Perry of the
Oregon Supreme Court.
The committee is made up of
21 members, three of whom are
appointed by the chief justice.
State law provides that one Su
preme Court justice, one circuit
court judge and one district
judge be appointed by the chief
justice.
Others on Committee
Named to the committee In
addition to Main were Randall
Kester, justice of the Oregon Su
preme Court, and Ralph Holman,
circuit judge from Eugene.
Representative Robert B. Dun
can termed the interim commit
tee "one of the most important
committees existing." He said
"the appointment of Judge Main
as the one district judge selected
from the entire state recognizes
his outstanding ability as a stu
dent, practicing attorney, muni
cipal judge, and more recently,
Jackson county's district judge.
The citizens of this county
should be proud of their local
jurist."
State Senator Philip Lowry,
who introduced the original bill
creating the committee, noted
that its importance is indicated
by the fact that the appropriation
for it was the largest single sum
for an interim committee in the
last legislature.
Lowry Delighted
Lowry said he was "delighted
to hear of the appointment of
Judge Main" and is "certain he
will make an excellent contribu
tion to the work of the commit
tee, especially due to his judicial
experience in federal, district
and municipal courts,' and his
experience as a practicing at
torney." The committee's job will be to
study existing judicial problems
and make recommendations for
legislation.
Problems the committee will
study include increasing the size
of the Oregon Supreme Court,
creating an intermediate state
appellate court, recodifying ju
venile laws, creating a public de
fender system throughout the
state, creating summary judicial
boards, improving the adminis
tration of criminal law, improv
ing salaries and reviewing pri
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attorneys, increasing jurisdiction
of district courts as courts of
record, and improving judicial
methods to prevent congestion
and delay in administration of
justice.
Described as Honor
Kellington described the ap
pointment of Main as "a singular
honor for the judge, Jackson
county and our local bar associa
tion." Judge Main has practiced law
in Medford for seven years. He
served 'as municipal judge for
two and one-half years prior to
his recent appointment to the dis
trict court bench by Gov. Rob
ert Holmes upon the death of
former Judge Rawles Moore.
Before practicing in Medford,
Main served as chief administra
tive clerk for Federal Judge
Alger Fee.
Nixon Abandons
School Bill Hope
Philadelphia (W Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
said Wednesday night he has
abandoned hope for enactment
this year of a federal school aid
bill.
"There is at best a 50- 50
chance that the bill will pass
the house during this session,"
Nixon told the National Educa
tion Association convention.
"There is virtually no chance
that it will pass the Senate be
fore adjournment."
Nixon read a message from
President Eisenhower, who said
millions of children are suffer
ing from lack of adequate class
rooms. The President recalled
that he had repeatedly urged a
temporary program of federal
aid to help build more schools.
"This legislation should en
courage greater state and local
efforts for school construction
and provide federal help with
out federal control under a lim
ited program with a definite
date of termination," the Presi
dent said.
"I am deeply anxious that the
House of Representatives
promptly pass such legislation.
The important point is that this
should be done now."
Nixon said the school legis
lation had made slow progress
because of the segregation Is
sue, "fear of federal control,"
and debate over the formula
for allotting funds to the states.
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NOW IN PROGRESS
Mike Todd and Liz
Average Fight Hourly
London 0P Hollywood pro
ducer Mike Todd said today
that he and wife Elizabeth Tay
lor average a fight an hour.
"We don't even kiss and
make up," the flamboyant
movie mogul said. "It's getting
monotonous. We just love each
other."
Todd, who Tuesday hosted
2.000 people in this city's big
gest party, indicated he was fed
up with , gossip column reports
of Mike and Liz spats that night.
"Look, I fight with Liz every
hour," he said. "I've never been
so happy in my life.
"This is no Hollywood ro
mance. We don't put on floor
shows. We don't call out the
photographers and stand around
beating each other with spoons.
"It's ridiculous. Some of these
'America's ' sweethearts' make
me wanna throw up."
"Neither of us are intro
verts," he said. "Liz just walked
out of the room because she
didn't want me to work our last
day in London. So I gotta work.
So she's pouting."
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was moved from Omaha to Lin
coln in 1867.
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