Medford mail tribune., July 16, 1957, Image 2

TWO MEDFORD (OREGON)
IPotpouriri
New York, July 12 Harry Chipman and Dick Jewett won't
believe this, but Potpourri went to see the Brooklyn Dodgers play
the Cincinnati Redlegs last night. What's more, we had fun.
Frank Van Dyke, Medlord attorney, in New York to attend the
annual meeting of the American Bar association, started the whole
thing. Mr. V., who brought daughter Bonnie along to see the sights
and to enjoy a taste of big city life from the Waldorf-Astoria, de
cided it would be fun if some of the Oregonians made up a party
and went to the game. He wangled the tickets and all nine of
us, by some miracle, managed to get to Ebbets field about the
same time. We had excellent seats, right behind home plate.
It was a great game. Even the Brooklyn fans thought so. The
Dodgers won and the fans had the thrill of seeing a first-class
fight among the players, as well
lesser game thrills. Knowing absolutely nothing about baseball
except there's nine players to a side and they use balls and bats,
we probably didn't enjoy it as much as either Harry or Dick
would have. But with daughter Robene helping out we managed
to keep track pretty well. She even predicted that the Dodger's
Duke Snider would make a home run, which he did two of
them.
Too, we had the expert advice and assistance of what must
have been a typical Dodger fan sitting behind us. This heavy-faced
dark man was never quiet for a single moment. He talked, yelled,
screamed, rang, cursed, handed out abuse and advice to the umpire
and players and in general had a wonderful time. He knew what
was going on every single minute and after the brawl between
the players, explained exactly what had happened. What's more,
it was just about what appeared in the Times the next morning.
The Times said the brawl started between Raul Sanchez, of the
Redlegs, and Jim Gilliam, Brooklyn second baseman. Potpourri
saw the two men collide, or something, and one went down. The
next second they ere at it tooth and claw, and in another couple
of seconds six or eight men from both teams joined in whether
fighting or trying to separate the fighters couldn't be determined
from the stands. The mess looked like a pack of angry dogs.
It was 10 or 15 minutes before the melee subsided and after
the players started to scatter, Don Hoak of the Redlegs broke
aw and ran back toward the Dodger dugout apparently with
the idea of taking cne more poke at Charley Neal, who had knock
ed him down earlier.
The roar which went up from the stands all this time was
positively frightening In the middle of all this we remembered
how Norman Cousins, speaking at the NEA convention last week
jn Philadelphia, had said that Americans enjoy conflict and were
at the height of their glory when watching somebody getting
punched in the face or trampled to earth on the playing field.
When Don Hoak was being forced over to the Redlegs dugout
a number of Dodger fans in our
own to the bottom of the stands and hung over the barrier,
screaming and cursing at the top
ed with passion. If everyone had started fighting everyone else,
ge wouldn't have been surprised.
The nine of us had planned to return to Manhattan by taxi,
fe'jt none were to be found after the game. So we took the subway
hich was a fitting climax to a ball game in raucous Brooklyn.
Only two of the nine, daughter Robene and AI Henke, former
Medfordite now living in New Jersey and working in New York,
knew about subways. So Robene led the way and the rest followed
Bonnie Van Dyke, Mr. and Mrs. John Holloway of Portland,
also here for the Bar convention, Maxine Smith, Hope Baney, tea
cher from Pendleton, Potpourri and Mr. Van Dyke, with Mr.
Henke forming a rear guard.
Before the hour-long trip with two subway changes was com
pleted, we were pretty expert at rushing madly for the door,
pushing through the crowd and getting either in or out. Other pas
sengers found us amusing, or curious, and twice helpful natives
offered advice on where to debark and what to get on next.
Mr. Henke missed the 12 o'clock train home, so decided to
spend the night with Frank V. at the hotel rather than wait for
one an hour or so later.
The breathless M"i. Holloway, who had broken the spike heel
on one of her pumps and couldn't put her foot down normally,
wondered how New Yorkers "take" the subway life and the
Army wife, who battles to and from Governor's island five days a
week, taking an hour each way admitted that it's pretty grim at
times.
The Holloways are not only attending the meeting of the
Bar association here, but will go on to London for an internation
al meeting. Mr. H. is secretary of the Oregon Bar association.
Frank Van Dyke had a busy day planned today, for he not only
was making a speech for the American Bar meeting, but had an
appointment this morning for a conference with H. T. Heald,
president of the Ford Foundation concerning the plans of the
Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education, of which
Mr. V. is a member
It's not exactly going to be a short day for Potpourri and
daughter, either. Today we plan to visit Rockefeller Center, and
later in the afternoon will embark for Stratford, Conn., to see a
performance of "Othello" staged
Festival.
Yesterday was a long day, too We made a second trip to the
United Nations building in the morning, and in the afternoon
we visited Governor's island, where daughter Robene works. We
started to make the trip exactly
seven blocks to the 51st and Lexington subway entrance, travel
by subway train to Grand Central and tranfer to Lexington
avenue express, debark at Bowling Green from where it is about
a five-minute walk to the island
and then walk or take a bus to the quartermaster's headquarters.
We were in luck, however, for an Army car drew up just as
we stood at a crossing after getting off at Bowling Green and
when the occupants recognized an employee of the post quarter
master, they gave us a lift. True, they hadn t counted on mama,
and Colonel John Guerin found that he was unknowingly es
corting a visitor on to the island, one who didn't yet have a pass.
But everything turned out well and we spent the next two
hours touring the island by foot, and meeting all the staff in
daughter's office. One man remarked, "we're like a little United
Nations here." and he was r'ght. The mixture includes 20 whites
of several different nationalities
Negro or Negro mixtures, and a Puerto Rican. It was the Puerto
Rican, in this country only a year, who had made the compari
son.
Fort Jay, on 1 Governor's island, is one of the Army's oldest
posts and we were shown "Castle Williams," now used as a guard
house, which dates back to 1807,
vintage. We also learned another interesting fact, the island was
greatly enlarged during the building of the New York subway
system for the contractors hauled the dirt out and dumped it on
the rocks, gradually making it about three times larger. O.5.
New York, July 13 Last night we saw what talent and crea
tive artistry plus money can do for Shakespeare. We saw a
production of "Othello" at the Stratford, Conn., theater of the
American Shakespearean festival
We went to Stratford with two
a performance which we knew
pare it with the Oregon Shakespearean festival at Ashland. Strat
ford, it must be admitted, has a
but Ashland provides a more authentic appearing theater in a set
tine much more inviting and with more natural scenic beauty.
The Ashland grounds are more colorful and provide more atmos
phere. Stratford lacks the gay. festival air which Ashland achieves
with the big banners around the
light fixtures and booths. At
hostesses in Elizabethan costumes
by a strident-voiced man wearing
ing and flower beds are mucn superior.
Both the stage decor and the
New York critics have agreed on
Rouben Ter-Trutunian, widely
signer, has created a stage backdrop with tiers of lattice work in
Venetian blind effect whicn gives
depth. Through the lattice work
the mood of each scene. The btrattord tneaiers ugnting artist is
Jean Rosenthal, who has. created
York plays.
Costuming for the Ashlana
Stratford: the latter may be a
but Ashland achieves the same
authenticity as has Elizabeth Montgomery t known in theatrical
circles as Motley, for Stratlora.
Now, all these are but the trappings of a Shakespeare play.
The stage, the lighting, the costumes they enrich and enchance.
But it is the actor and the director who interpret Shakespeare's
poetry, philosophy and dramatic genius. It is on the acting and
directing that the plays stand or fall.
MAIL TRIBUNE
as three home runs and various
section left their seats, raced
of their lungs, their faces distort
by the American Shakespearean
as she does every day, walk
ferry, ferry across to the island
or descent, five colored persons,
and old Fort Jay, about the same
and it was memorable.
thoughts in mind. First, to savor
would be good; secondly to com
more beautiful theater building,
theater wall, the tlizabethan
Stratford there are no charming
programs were Being sold
a business suit. Ashland's plant
lighting are artistic triumphs
this and we found it to be true.
known New York theater de
an enect or. coin neignt ana
the streaming lights enchance
lighting effects for many New
festival is on a par with that of
bit more lavisn nere ana tnere,
general richness, color and
Tuesday, July 18, 1957
Society
Prospect Lions
Hold Joint Meet
Prospect The Prospect Lions
club and auxiliary held a joint
meeting Wednesday, July 10, at
Beckie's cafe in Union creek.
At the affair, which included
a smorgasbord held outdoors,
were about 25 Lions club mem
bers. Guests included District
Ranger Rex Resler and his wife
and Mr. and Mrs. Doug Baker.
No business meeting was held,
the time being spent discussing
the Lions International conven
tion held recently in San Fran
cisco. The Prospect Lions went
to the convention as a group in
a chartered bus.
The annual Lions Jamboree
will be held in Prospect July 27
and 28.
Visitors' Leave
After Weeks Visit
In Medford Area
Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Penney
and daughter, Kemper, left. Mon
day after spending a week at
the home of Mrs. Penny's broth
er and sister-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. John D. Graff, 31 Geneva
avenue, Medford.
The Penneys, who make their
home in Daytona Beach, Fla.,
and Waynesville, N.C., will re
turn East by the northern states
and Canada. During their trip
West they passed through the
southern and southwestern
states.
One evening during their visit
an open house was held at the
Graff home to introduce them
to Medford friends.
Dinner and Bridge
Honor Visitor
Mr. and Mrs. George Rode,
Griffin Creek road, entertained
14 guests for dinner and bridge
Saturday evening at their home.
The event was in honor of the
visit of Mrs. George Dicus of
Hutchinson, Kan., daughter of
Mrs. Frank Baker, 938 South
Riverside avenue.
HEC TO MEET
Griffin Creek Grange Home
Economics club will meet with
Mrs. Winnie Brown at Eagle
Point Thursday, July 18. The
covered dish luncheon will start
at 12:30 p.m.
Stratford's "Othello" has a
submit that the final effect they
better than Ashland has produced in the past.
Earle Hyman, who has worked himself up to a point of con
siderable notice in this area, particularly in Shakespearean roles,
plays Othello. Hyman is an acceptable "Othello" as far as stage
appearance, voice and demeanor go, but in this production he
somehow seems too gullible, too willing to fall prey to Iago's
machinations. His voice has the richness so often found in the
voices of the black skinned people, but in his passionate scenes,
he tends to be unintelligible.
Alfred Drake, who plays Iago, is billed as tl?e star of the show.
Drake, who rose to stardom as the original Curly of of "Oklahoma",
plays Iago with a crisp, sardonic twist that brought him the only
during-the-play applai-.se which the audience granted during the
evening. But Drake's Iago is petty and mean a shrug-of-the-should-er
bad man. He does not achieve the truly evil Iago which
Shakespeare must have had in mind.
.
Getting to Stratford from New York proved to be something
of a feat for Potpouiri and daughter, and afterwards we wished
that we had had enough foresight to have started earlier. We
left Grand Central station at 6 p.m. only a couple of "out
landers" would have pulled a trick like that. We should have
gone up two or three hours earlier and had leisure to inspect the
town of Stratford and to arrive at the theater in good time.
The train was a typical commuters train. It was crowded,
mostly with business men carrying brief cases and reading news
papers, and since the air conditioning unit had broken down,
our car was like a furnace. Men kept getting up and going to
other cars, only to return with the word that there were no
available seats in the others.
We don't know what the company calls this particular train,
but it might be dubbed the Cocktail Hour Special. There is a
bar, and it was well patronized. Men gathered in groups on the
platform and at the ends of the cars to drink and- munch on
crackers or nuts.
It is an hour and three-quarters' ride to Stratford and when
we got off, daughter Robene sniffed the breeze like a bunny
with twitching nose and said "Mama, just smell that air!" Strat
ford is not unlike Ashland, a bit larger but the houses and tree
lined streets are very similar We chose to walk tp the theater,
almost a mile away, but arrived tj find the lobby a solid mass of
patrons trying to get tickets and only about five minutes to
curtain time. -
Since our party had dwindled from the original three to two,
we had an extra ticket to pick up and on impluse we asked a
young man standing behind us in the line if he was alone. In
another 30 seconds we had our three tickets and were headed
down the aisle. Potpourri glad to have sold the ticket and the
young man, who turned out to be Paul Nepf of Poughkeepsie,
pleased to find himself sitting down front in a first-rate seat
instead of in the balcony.
To our surprise and delight, two former Ashland festival
actors were listed on the program, Michael Kasdan and Richard
Cavett. We sent a note backstage during intermission, and Mike
met us immediately after the play's end. Since we had but 15
minutes to catch the return train, we had to chat in his car,
en route to the depot.
When we expressed regret at not being able to see "Merchant
of Venice" with Katharine Hepburn and Morris Carnovsky, Mike
reported that. Hepburn's perforrr ance is not particularly great.
He remarked '"She is the star Carnovsky is the actor."
Mike gave us the phone number of Joan Kugell, who is ap
pearing in New York in a production of "The Country Wife"
and Sunday afternoon we plan to see a performance in which Joan
will play the lead. Both Mike and Joan spoke longingly of Ore
gon and Ashland, and begged to be remembered to friends.
Tuesday morning will find Potpourri back in Medford, per
haps ahead of this tired and sleepy poorer in money but
richer in experience. O.S.
Mrs. Don Anderson
Medford Lady
Presides at
Convention
Mrs. Don Anderson of Med
ford, president of the Depart
ment of Oregon, United Spanish
War Veterans auxiliary, is pre
siding at the department's 41st
annual convention in ' Grants
Pass this week in conjunction
with the Encampment of the Vet
erans' Organization under the
leadership of Commander H. S.
Van Valkenburgh of Portland.
Sunday, Mrs. Bertha Nelson,
president of Colonel Sargent
auxiliary of Medford, was hostess
at a reception at the Redwood
hotel honoring the past depart
ment presidents. The reception
was followed that evening by
joint memorial services with the
veterans.
First business session of the
convention was Monday morning
with a luncheon for department
officers at noon and the conven
tion banquet in the evening.
Medford and Grants Pass exem
plification of the ritual will -be
a highlight of Tuesday's session.
Officers will be elected and in
stalled Wednesday.
A Clara Barton scholarship
will be presented during the con
vention by Mrs. Anderson to
Miss Carol Ernst of St. Paul,
Ore., for nurses' training. De
partment officers accompanying
Mrs. Anderson to the convention
include Mrs. Renne Grosh, sec
retary, and Mrs. Harry W.
Barneburg, treasurer. "
few well known names, but we
achieve with the play is little
Some Start Life
Early Age Recent Study Shows
A rnnnl of vears ago the
Survey Research Center of the
University of Michigan did a
monumental study to answer the
question: "Just who does own
life insurance?"
The study indicated that life
insurance is apparently a family
matter, and that people think it
is a good idea for non-breadwinners
to have life insurance, in
addition to the heads of fam
ilies, reports the Institute of Life
Insurance. -
So it was not too surprising
to find that, among families with
children under 18. over 60 per
cent of these families had pol
icies for all of their children.
Life insurance observers have
long known that one of the rea
sons why parents buy policies for
their children is to eive them an
early start toward a permanent
program of life insurance pro
tection. The intent of many par
ents is to turn over the responsi
bility for paying premiums after
the children have grown into
adulthood. This approach takes
advantage of the lower premium
rates that exist for children,
compared with adult premiums.
The size of the premium of
course, Temains the same from
year to year, once the policy is
purchased.
Many parents, aware of the
element of saving that is incor
porated in the majority of life
insurance policies, also feel they
are encouraging thrift in their
children in having policies for
them. The measure of this type
of saving is the cash or loan
value of a policy, which keeps
building up through the years.
About three in 10 "ordinary"
policies purchased today are
bought for children below the
age of 14; these are permanent
policies with growing cash
values.
In turning over an established
life insurance program to a
young person, say when he is
25 'years old, his parents are giv
ing him an accumulation of sav
ings on which he can draw if
the need arises. Young people
have used their life insurance to
help pay for an education, to
assist in establishing a small
business, or simply to help tide
over a temporary financial crisis
which may confront a young man
or woman starting out in life.
Popular as children's pol
icies are among American fam
ilies, a new development in life
insurance now points up the
California Visitor
Here with Relative
Mrs. Vivian Harlin, San Fran
cisco, is visiting her sister-in-law,
Mrs. J. R. Seiler, 1132 West Main
street, Medford. During her visit
here she visited Crater Lake Na
tional park.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carter
and four children are making
their home in Redlands, Calif.,
where Mr. Carter is music di
rector in one of the schools. Mrs.
Carter is a daughter of Mrs.
Seiler of Medford.
f- .
Arizona Visitors
Mrs. Evelyn Grant and daugh
ter, Darlene, of Phoenix, Ariz.,
are visiting in the valley and
Portland. Mrs. Grant, the daugh
ter of Mrs. E. L. Robinson, 521
Spencer avenue, Medford, and
Darlene will spend several days
at Diamond Lake prior to re
turning to their home by the
way of the California coast.
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Insurance At
possibility that this kind of pro
tection may become even more
valuable, suggests the Institute
of Life Insurance.
This development is a new
policy which has been nick
named "jumping juvenile" be-,
cause that is exactly what takes
place. To start a life insurance
program, parents buy a small
policy of this type while a child
is young. When the child be-,
comes an adult the amount of
the policy "jumps" four or five
fold. The premium is figured so
that it remains the same, even
after the"jump" takes place.
Little. Applegate
Sewing Club Meets
Applegate-Jacksonville The
Little Applegate sewing club
will meet Thursday, July 18, at
the home- of Mrs. Ira D. Fitzger
ald' 360 Stewart avenue. The
meeting is to begin at 1:30 p.m.
Miss Universe Beauty
Judging Set Tonight
Long Beach, Calif. HP Offi
cial judging in the Miss Uni
verse beauty pageant begins to
night with the selection of 15
finalists to compete for the Miss
U.S.A. title. -
The finalists will be chosen
from a field of 44 American en
tries in the beauty pageant. The
winner and the four runners-up
will be announced Wednesday
night.
Miss U.S.A. will enter the
Miss Universe finals against the
semifinalists selected from the
32 foreign beauties Thursday.
Miss Universe will be named
Friday night.
CHANGE AT ROCHESTER TJ.
Rochester, N. Y. Wi Dr.
Lawrence E. Young, a member
of the University of Rochester
medical school faculty since 1943
and widely known for research
in blood diseases, will succeed
Dr. William S. M c C a n n as
Charley A. Dewey, Professor of
Medicine and chairman of the
department on July 1. Dr. Young
who is 43, also will be physician-
in-chief of Strong Memorial hos
pital. Dr. McCann becomes pro
fessor emeritus.
CALENDAR
Calendar notices and news for
the society section of The Mail
Tribune must be submitted in
writing and deadline tor the Sun
day edition la 1 p.m Friday Dead
line tor the weekly ca!endai is 9
.m of the day of oublication and
for week day news is 5 O-m the
day before nubUcatioa.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. VFW treat night
VFW hall, 42 North Front St.
Wednesday:
10:30 a.m. Garden club pres
idents, secretaries and program
chairman, at courthouse audito
rium. 11 a.m. Roxy Ann Home Eco
nomics club, picnic, Hawthorne
park, back of Boy Scout house.
12:30 p.m. Townsend auxil
iary, at Carpenters union hall.
1 p.m. Past chiefs club, at
home of Mrs. Joe Cook, 1205
East Main street.
1 p.m. Getogether club, card
party, at Moose hall.
Keep waxed paper between
phonograph records. It prevents
scratching.
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and ENDS
STREETS
The Family Council
Editor's note: The Family Council consists ef a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each
article is a, summary ef an actual report. The Family Council does not give
advice: it merely reports on problems that have keen dealt with br
responsible agencies and counselors.
LILLIAN S Mother wants
me to marry without love.
MRS. D. S. Love some-4
times comes, after 'marriage.
LILLIAN S. I am 23 years
old and very unhappy. Four
years ago I was very much in
love with a young man and we
were engaged to be married.
Mainly because of a family dis
agreement involving his mother,
we broke up.
Since then, I have tried to be
very strong and not let my heart
run ,away with my head. I made
up my mind not to fall in love
until I decided the man was
right.
Even though my heart was
broken, I forced myself to go
out with many young men. Some
were quite nice, but I just can't
find it in myself to care for
them seriously. I think I was
hurt so badly I'll never be able
to love again. My mother is now
urging me to marry without
love.
MRS. D. S. It breaks my
heart to see Lillian so unhappy.
It was a real tragedy that she
broke her engagement. Just the
same, she bore it like a real
soldier and I never saw her
shed a tear. Sometimes when
friends of hers talk of her ex
fiance, I have noticed that Lil
lian will show no emotion. Sh?
keeps a stiff upper lip, no mat
ter what she feels.
Just the same, it seems to me
that you can learn to love a
man, sometimes after marriage.
A very fine person is now in
love with Lillian and I think she
should not let this chance go by.
All Lillian's friends are get
ting married and she will feel
very left out. She doesn t moon,
but she is very sensitive.
THE COUNCIL: Lillian
was never seen to "Shed a tear"
and she kept a "stiff upper lip.
yet she managed to put across
the idea that she was very un
happy. Such talent is wasted on
a mere mother who can be
counted on to be sympathetic
with much less reason.
Both Lillian and her mother
need to snap out of this sloppy
soap opera. Mrs. D. S. is en
couraging her daughter to keep
it up by serving as such a respon
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sive audience. Her pathetic plea
to Lillian to "marry without
love" may be taken up, and Lil
lian will do some unsuspecting
male the supreme honor of
marrying him with a stiff upper
lip and a broken heart.
Lillian is a big enough girl to
put an end to this four-year
bleeding-heart act. She should
realize she can get lost behind
this mask and may easily go
down to spinsterhood or unhappy '
marriage, never losing that
bioody-but-unbowed expression
on her face.
Lillian would not "marry
without love" if she accepts this
suitor. It is he would be deprived
of love and sooner or later he
would realize he'd cheated him
self.
Lillian needs a better outlook
even more than she needs a hus
band. (Copyright 1S57, General
Feature Corp.) ,
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