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o o Beauticians To Meet In Medford An all-da? progrtm climaxed by a content nfl style extrava ganza In tht tveninf has been planned for meeting of Dist rict 4, Oregort Beauticians' asso ciation, to b held Sunday, No- from the Navy after 20 years of Luncheon Honors Chief Herring On Retirement Rogue Valley club. Navy Mothers' Club of America, hon ored William O. Herring at a re tirement luncheon November 5 in Girls Community club. Mr. Herring, chief engineman in the United States Navy, -will go to Seattle Monday to be released PROSPECT vember 17, in Medford. Medford unit of the OBA is the host i group and Mrs. Lorraine Miller, ! unit president, states that the j public is invited to attend the i fashion show to be held in the i Evening. The day's (program will open vt 8 a.m. at the Jackson hotel with a business session of Dist rict 4. Glenn Funk, Coos Bay, formerly of Medford, is chair man. From 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon a group of guest hair stylists will give personal instruction at Medford Beauty school. A preliminary contest is scheduled for 1 to 2 p.m. at the school, and from 2 to 4 p.m. a panel discussion on problems of the Industry and films are scheduled. A social hour will be held in the Pioneer room of the Jack son hotel from 4 to 5 p.m. and the evening's program begins at 5:30 p.m. with a banquet. The fashion show is set for 7 p.m., the extravaganza showing for 8 T.m. and contest awards will be presented at 8:30 p.m. Leons store will provide clothing lor the fashion show, and entertain ment is planned. Here for the show as guest stylists will be R. D. Burks, Ar thur Watters,, Orla Phillips and Walter Planck, all Eugene. Mr. Burks is president of the Ore gon Beauticians' association and Mr. 'Vatters is state style direc tor. All four guests are members of the OBA styling committee. Reservations for the banquet are to be made by calling the Jackson hotel. More than 75 student and graduate beauticians from all parts of the district are expected to attend the meeting. Veterans Hold Annual Event The annual banquet and meet ing of the Last Man's club was ' held at the Veterans' building, 42 North Front street Saturday evening. November 9. This club, composed of veterans, of World War 1 and Spanish American War veterans, was organized May 29th, 1937 at Medford by Ira D. Canffeld, a World War 1 veteran. The club meets once a year on the Saturday proceed ing Veterans' day, formerly Known as Armistice flay. When the club was formed, a fifteen year old bottle of cognac was dedicated to the Last Man. Jit the last banquet he Is to open th bottle and drink a toast to ill the departed comrades, thus closing the book of life and the Last Man's club. The club is unique in that very member is a life member and when the charter was closed no more members could be ad mitted. The club instead of grow ing is decreasing in membership. At the time of organization, there were 106 members; this has de creased to 45. Officers elected for the follow ing year were president, O. E. Hukill: vice - president, Lyle Thurman; secretary - treasurer, R. E. Schulz. active service. He has been as signed to recruiting duty in this area since July. 1955, and makes his home at 529 Edwards street. He will continue to live here after retiring. Other guests of honor at the luncheon were Chief Herring's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Her ring, Portland;. L. E. Kimmel, machinist, from the Navy re cruiting office in Portland; Mayor John W. Snider, Lt. Comdr. R. P. Knights, USNR, commanding officer of the Na val Reserve unit in Medford, and Mrs. Knights; Warren I. Boe, Navy recruiter in charge of the Medford station. Mrs. Boe; Chief Cleve King, USN re tired, and Mrs. King. Other guests were Mrs. Wal ter Rudick Jr., Mrs. James Stelle and small daughter, Mr. D. Steele and small son, all Win ston, Ore.: Mrs. Jean Stevens, Mrs. Kit Gates, Mrs. Judy Hub bard, Mrs. M. L. Lucas, Mrs. Georgia Cummings, Mrs. Vir ginia Welch and Mrs. Gladys Downes, Grants Pass; Mrs. Nute Tycksen, Talent; Mrs. R. E. An derson, Mrs. W. P. Daley and Mrs. R. A. Sanford, Medford. The luncheon tables were dec orated with cut-outs of tropical fish, miniature submarines and silver anchors to indicate Chief Herring's service in the sub marine branch. A Hawaiian lei was given to each one present as a symbol of farewell, and Chief Herring was presented a retirement con gratulatory card with the sig natures of those present. ' During the business meeting following luncheon, Mrs. Roy Clarke, Mrs. B. J. Sanford, Jack sonville, and Mrs. R. J. Gunther, Ashland, became club members. The next meeting of Navy Mothers is scheduled for Tues day, November 19, at Girls Com munity club. Noted Americans Topic of Program Given for Group School and PTA Announce Plans For Open House Lincoln school and Parent Teacher association will observe National Education week Thurs day, November 14. The school will hold open house beginning at 7 p.m. angj parents are invited to visit various rooms. At 8 p.m. the PTA unit will hold a business session in the (gchool gymnasium. Child care will be provided by members of Girl Scout Troop 188, under .-dult supervision. American Diaries Read for Women Dr. Arthur Kreisman of Southern Oregon college read excerpts from early American diaries at a meeting of College Women's club Saturday. Novem ber 9, at the home of Miss Eliz-! ibeth Burr. j Mrs. Charles Champlin sang, (i) group of romantic ballads, ac companied by Mrs. H. E. Marsh (it the piano. Two new members joined the club, Mrs. Marshall B. Sweet :iii Mrs. L. G. Frink. Mrs. G. L. Linn was the soc- f5l chairman, assisted by Mes dames David Baker, W. H. Sut ter. Roy Martin and Ben Schmidt. Mrs. E. W. Jermark and M.s. L. V. Watkins, gave the program for the last meeting of the Wed nesday Study club. Mrs. Jermark reviewed "The King Ranch," by Tom Lea. The story is about an 11-year-old boy, Richard King, who stowed away on a steamship outbound from New York City for Mobile Bay, New Orleans. The boy made a good impression on the captain. He was allowed to remain on board, and liking the sea-faring life, eventually became a river captain at 23 years of age. Later he was in the U.S. government service which afforded the op portunity to gradually buy up available land that established the fabulous King Ranch of 600,000 acres near Brownsville, Tex., where he specialized in fine horses and cattle. Mrs. Watkins reviewed "No Greener Pastures" by Stanley High. The author tells of a boy born in Missouri in 1864 of Ne gro parents who was taken into the home of a white planter, Moses Carver, and given the name George Washington Car ver. There was only one book in the Carver home, Webster's Speller, which the boy memor ized. He walked ten miles to the Negro grade school in Neosho, Mo., and later graduated at the top of his class at Iowa State col lege. A brilliant botanist and chemurgist, Dr. Carver was showered with honors. Thomas Edison invited him to join his staff at S50.000 a year. Henry Ford gave him a laboratory for World War I food research and he was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt medal in 1939 as "a liberator to men of the white race as well as the black." In his first ill-equipped laboratory he developed more than 300 new uses for peanuts, sweet po tatoes and other Southern pro Ham and Egger Cafe Opens After Short Move The Ham and Egger cafe. 301 South Central ave., Medford, will reopen at 4:30 a.m. Thurs day, Nov. 14, Mrs. Annette O'Neill, proprietor, has an nounced. The cafe was closed Saturday, and moved about 100 feet south of its former location. The move was necessary because Acme Hardware is constructing a new building just north of the cafe. AUGUST W. GLUTSCH, O.D. 4 WILLIAM J. THOMPSON, O.D. O are pleased to announce that RICHARD D. NELSON, O.D. will b associated with them in the practice of optometry at 209 FLUHRER BUILDING Hours by Appointment Telephone SPring 2-4001 Family Returns To Alaska By GENEIL SPRUILL Prospect Mrs. Robert Colver and children of Ketchikan. Alas ka, who have been visiting friends and relatives here the past several weeks, left Sunday, Nov. 3, for their home. They were accompanied to Portland by Mrs. Colver's mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. John Malon, of Central Point, and her sister, Mrs. Boyde Powers of Prospect. fwas given by the Church of the Nazarene. Other children of the community were invited. Mr. and Mrs. Artie Holmes and niece, Gloria Hoimes, of Med ford, visited in Prospect Saturday. Prospect hunters Earl and Da vid Bliss killed a 250 pound black bear on Hershberger mt. Kenneth Canary killed a 400 pound black bear on Stella mt. during the past week. Forest Service men at the Union creek station extinguished a flue fire at one of the homes Thursday. Mrs. Harold Anthony is con valescing at her home from re cent surgery. St. Martha's Guild will meet at the home of Mrs. James Grieve Nov. 12. The program for the afternoon will be a film on cancer. There will be a doctor or a nurse present to answer questions. Anyone interested in seeing this film is invited to attend. A party was given at the home of Mrs. Dee Hedgepeth Nov. 2. It Peter Frison, who is employed by Leo Hoag, was injured Thurs day at 2 p.m. in a logging acci dent. He received cuts about the face which required several stitches. Gusty winds, accompanied by rain, hail and lightning early Sunday morning, uprooted many trees, caused power failure and ripped roofing and shingles from several homes and outbuildings in the Prospect area. Mrs. George Govenor, who was injured in a truck and car accident near the Cascade Gorge Benson To Resign, Senator Predicts Raleigh, N.C. W A mem ber of the Senate Agriculture Committee says Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson will resign shortly after he returns from his world tour. Sen. W. Kerr Scott (D-N.C.) said that Benson had been con vinced that he is a "definite detriment" to the Eisenhower administration and will quit in the "very near future." Scott said "His departure will be graceful. I am certain the President will agree to keep him in Washington, probably as a special assistant andiadvisor on world agricultural problems or some such thing. "Instead of actually firing him, the President will prob ably 'Dromote' him to a non- active position where he doesn't ! have to come into contact with j the public, especially farmers," Scott said. 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