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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) HCademoiselle magazine's 1957 Merit Award winners, above, were honored for signal achievements during the past year. They are (iop row from left to right) Judith Szekeres, Hungar ian student, cited as a "symbol of courage" in her country's fight for freedom; Dorothy Lundquist, science student; Barbara Rom- Magazine Names Ten Outstanding Women New York, N.Y. Twenty-three-year-old Judith Szekeres, who helped. spark the Hungarian revolt, is today the proud posses sor of a 1957 Merit Award from Mademoiselle magazine. For the fifteenth successive year these awards were pre sented to ten young women whose ages range from the late teens to the early thirties. In making a special award to (Judy Szekeres for "courage," Betsy Talbot Blackwell, editor-in-chief of Mademoiselle, cited the part this young Hungarian jpjayed in "formulating the six-leen-point petition for govern ment reform. This petition, drawn up by Budapest students, Sparked the revolt of the Hun garian people, and the memory of their fight will remain an in spiration to freedom-lovers eve rywhere." After fleeing Hun gary, Judy, with the help of an English language course at Wel lesley, won a scholarship to the University of Alabama, where she is majoring in chemistry. Ten Named The achievements of the other 'young women of the year" range from headline perform ances i 'Sports and the lively arts to a chain of laboratory ex periments that may create new cures. All are cited in January Mademoiselle "for the outstand ing quality of their performances and the dedication that they brought to their chosen fields." They are: DOROTHY LUNDQUIST of Webster, S. D., science student. fler experiments in measuring effects of inadequate sleep Won her first place at the Na tional Science Fair for high fthool students and so impressed the American Medical associa tion that she was one of two non II.D.s invited to exhibit her project at their annual meeting. Now a college freshman, she typ ifies the welcome news from the U. S. Office of Education that, in 1957, students have reversed their half-century neglect of sci ence a field never more import ant to the U. S. and the world. BARBARA ROMNEY of Pro vo, Utah, editor. She came to N.Y. from Brigham Young U. de termined to start a poetry news paper. While rounding up money and material, she assisted at &.Y.U., gained experience work ing for little magazines. In 1957, git twenty-six, she launched Poet ry Broadside, the first newspa per'in America devoted to pub lishing new poets. Leading liter ary lights have hailed it as "a . triumph of presentation. . .an excellently edited, long-needed journal." ALTHEA GIBSON of New York, tennis ace. She started high school at nineteen, having quit years before to go to work and to keep at her tennis, was graduated in the top ten of her class, went on to finish college. After a series of uphill battles (tournament invitations didn't come) and bitter disappoint ments (defeats at Forest Hills and Wimbledon), last fall she rode up Broadway in. a blizzard of ticker tape, winner of both the national and international women's singles crowns. GISELE MacKENZIE of Win nipeg. Canada, TV star. She won a violin scholarship to the Royal Conservatory of Music in her native Canada, started her ca reer as a vocalist when' her vio lin was stolen. Working her way p through radio and TV ranks, she got her own show this past fall and critics rhapsodized that "Gisele has the refreshing qual ity0reserved for true stardom." "$est entertainer on TV," in X57 she brought to its screen the rightest new talent of the sea son as singer, musician, comed jnne. DR. CHARLOTTE FRIEND of Hew York, cancer researcher. As an officer in the Waves (after a Ph. D. in microbiology) she was in charge of chemical pathology laboratory at a U.S. Naval Hos pital before becoming a virolo gist at the Sloan-Kettering Insti tute for Cancer Research. In 1957, having already discovered the only virus that consistently causes leukemia in mice, she went on to develop the first suc cessful vaccine against cancer in MAIL TRIBUNE i , 'Vi 1 I- lir C 1 mammals, a long, solitary -step toward an eventual cure for can cer. Designer Named JEANNE ESSIG of New York, fashion designer. As a model and then as a fabric researcher, she studied the building of dresses from pattern and fabric to final sample. Today she is a master of designing and combining fabrics for a young American look. In 1957 her bold black and whites followed their wearers to the of fice and home again for cocktails. Their "no price tag" look have swept her into the top group ot American career-girl designers. GRACE HARTIGAN of New York, N. Y., painter. She grew up in New Jersey, but it was in N.Y.C. that she found her sub ject "it concerns that which is vulgar and vital in American modern life and the possibilities of its transcendence into the beautiful." This young painter really came into her own in '57 and was one of the five Ameri can painters (the only woman) invited to participate in the Sao Paulo Bienal, the most impor "Frantic Fifties" Brings Changes for World's Women By SHERI GILES United Press Staff Correspondent Chicago BPl They call this the "Frantic Fifties." Maybe they're right. , Certainly the year 1957 was frantic. Hydrogen bombs replaced atom bombs. Satelittes outspaced inter-continental missiles. Dictators replaced dictators. And the sack replaced the shape in women's fashions. Looking back, it was a year of many accomplishments in many fields for women. In Morocco, a woman wrought a change which shocked the Moslem world. No more veils, announced Princess Lalla Aisha to her countrywomen, breaking a tradition that had stood for centuries. Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady, pushed aside the Iron Curtain to report on social work, health and welfare programs inside Russia. The Queen of Britain came, saw and conquered the hearts of many Americans in October. She brought her handsome husband, Prince Philip, along and many a housewife wished for a mo ment that her man were as dapper. In September, a young girl named Dorothy walked into a high school in Montgomery, Ala., her head held high. But she was beaten down. She left school, but others in other parts of the coun try followed her lead. Thus be gan the process of integration in 1957. Mrs. Dorothy Le Masiurer, Du luth, Minn., proved the endur ance of womankind. She emerg ed from 19 grueling days on a mountainside, starving, sun whipped, but still alive. A plane crash had claimed her husband and left her stranded. A woman doctor in Philadel phia claimed to have isolated the multple sclerosis virus. Sports Gains The women made big strides in the world of sports. Althea ' Gibson, who first learned tennis on Harlem streets, smashed her way to the singles tennis championship of the United States and to the top of the heap at Wimbledon, England. Florence Chadwick, America's long-distance swimmer, ploughed through the Bristol Channel from England to Wales. Women did more than dabble in politics. Irene Dunne of the movies made a new kind of debut, as a delegate to the UN general as sembly. Golda Meir, Israeli for eign minister and native of Mil waukee, traveled the world as her country celebrated its 10th year of independence. The wo men in Switzerland won the right to vote. And Jessie Wilson did what few wives of cabinet officers would dream of doing she stood up to the President of the United States. This came about because her husband, then secretary of defense Charles E. Wilson charged that the National Guard had been a haven for draft-dodgers during the Korean war. Well, the protests were long and loud, and at his news con ference, President Eisenhower called the statement unwise. He then coupled it with praise for Secretary of State John Foster Sunday, December 29. 1957 ney, poetry editor; Althea Gibson, tennis ace; Gisele MacKenzie, TV star. (Bottom row, left io right) Dr. Charlotte Friend, cancer researcher; Jeanne Essig, fashion designer; Grace Hartigan, painter; Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz pianist; and Carol Lawrence, actress. tant international art exhibition in the Western Hemisphere. TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI of To kyo, jazz pianist. Now here on a scholarship at Boston's Berkelee School of Music, she studies mu sical composition by day and does her "homework" in a jazz spot at night. A sensation at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and at N. Y.'s Hickory House, she was the first jazz artist to com pose swing for strings. With two of her records already released and a jazz symphony on paper, fellow musicians say "she's push ing the wall with the greatest." CAROL LAWRENCE of Mel rose Park, Illinois, actress. After studying dance, voice and drama at Northwestern U., she went on to the Chicago Opera Ballet, summer musicals and then the chorus line in N. Y. Last fall she landed the lead in Broadway's West Side Story. The day after the opening this twenty-three-year-old was hailed for excelling as a dancer, singer, actress. In the words of the critics, "she can do everything . . . star stuff fell last night." Said Mrs. Wilson later: "I think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead of spending his time com menting on how wonderful Fos ter Dulles is ... I think you need a pat on the back once in awhile." It was a busy year for Dan Cu pid, although one of his famous earlier works fell apart. Actress Ingrid Bergman announced her separation from the Italian mov ie director, Roberto Rossellini. Married were two of the Di onne quintuplets; Elizabeth Tay lor and Mike Todd; New Jersey's governor Robert Meyner and Helen Stevenson; crooner Bing Crosby and starlet Kathy Grant; actor Marlon Brando and a Welsh-Indian beauty. The stork brought heirs to the throne of Monaco and Todd-A-O. He also visited Margaret Truman and her husband, newspaperman Clifton Daniels. The women established some firsts in '57. Two airline stewardesses be came the first women to fly into Antarctica, when they were as signed to a commercial flight taking military replacements in to the frozen south. One dis gruntled airman complained lotest Sonotone hidden in attractive glosses smallest hearing aid in world, worn entirely jp ear G AIL AT THE EAR NOTHING WORN ON BODY! NO CORD DOWN NECK NO "BUTTON" IN EAR! SONOTONE COME IN, PRONE OR WRITE-FREE SONOTONE C R. ADAMSON, Manager Designer Adorns Wool Sweaters With Real Gold . BY UNITED PRESS Thar's gold in them thfar cash meres designed by Mrs. August Torrez, a jewelry designer in Coral Gables, Fla. She put 24 carat gold, silver, platinum and jewels on cardigans for resort wear. The sweaters also are lined with 24-carat gold, silver lame, and chiffon. Rubies, em eralds, and sapphries are mount ed in Tiffany platinum settings. The sweaters cost from $225 to $1,135. The muff look comes to Italian-made handbags. One muff- bag is of brown suede trimmed with fringe and has an envelope on one side. The patter of little feet won't echo mommy's next year. The shoe industry has stuck to the square toe for children because growing feet need more toe room than narrow lines provide Men won't recognize their own feet in 1958. Shoe styles will be different for every occasion. For business, fashions will call for for the talored Madison Avenue look; for town, lightweight, square-toed black or brown shoes; for sportswear, perforat ed or woven leather sandals; for at-home wear, bright red or pres sed gold slip-ons; and for dress, navy patent leather slippers. One design has a stripe up the side of the shoe to match the trouser stripe. A dance called the "limbo," popular in the Caribbean Is lands, has inspired a Limbo shirt similar to the Carioca shirt. It has three-quarter ruffled sleeves and a tie front. Newest cotton' fabric for spring and summer is mattress they had ruined his record one more week, and he would have gone a year without seeing a woman. Britain's House of Lords en gaged in a battle of the sexes. Lady Astor was one of those de manding that women be allowed to become peers. Lord Argyle in sisted women were no good in politics. The girls won, ' natural ly. In fashion, the big news of the year was the birth of the sack look and the death, of Christian Dior, who for 10 years dictated styles for women from Calcutta to California. Dior's heir appar ent to the Paris dictatorship was his protege, Yves St. Laurent. The sack, or chemise, got a send-off in Paris collections last fall, and immediately swept the American markets. U. S. design ers promptly calimed they'd been making the beltless chemise for the last decade. The Russians' sputniks also were reflected immediately in fashion. Lilly Dache produced an array of satellite hats, some of which practically took off from the head. And the jewelry in dustry also went on an outer space kick. transistor 5f 3 fV 4 .-.v.vifl hdf-owKe model worn in variety of styles r DEMONSTRATION -NO OBLIGATE of MEDFORD 839 E. Jackson Ph. SP 2-5904 Smooth. Slender 111 9294 V-Jr- Beautifully figured to flatter the half-sizer! Note the smooth, slimming lines, face-framing col lar, hip pockets. Our Printed Pattern makes sewing easy ev ery step of the way! . Printed Pattern 9294: Half Sizes lVz, I6I2, I8V2, 2OV2, 2212,-24V2. Size I6V2 takes 3 yards 35-inch; yard contrast. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS froinO for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class ' mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune Pattern Dent.. 232 West 18th St.. New York 11, N.Y. Print plain ly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and sxyLiJS NUMBER. 1 1 c k 1 ng. California designer Marjone Montgomery uses this durable fabric in a slim, talored dress and jacket for next season. with the MILK M Festive New Year's Parties To Close 1957 Holiday Season Gala parties New Year's eve and day will bring the holidays to a close in the Rogue valley. The past week has also seen much entertaining, and other parties are planned for today. One of today's events is the annual New Year party of the Colony club, to be held at the clubhouse on Geneva street. It is to be a luncheon between 1 and 3 o'clock, and about 75 are expected to attend. Mrs. Lillian Salade is social chairman of the club, and Mrs. Marjorie Pitts is president. Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Watrud and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Nelson are co-chairman of the annual New Year's eve party to be held Tuesday night at Rogue Valley Country club. This traditional event, for which party hats, noisemakers and confetti are provided, will begin at 9 o'clock and a buffet supper will be served beginning at 11 pjn. Two orchestras will play. The dance is for members and their out-of-town guests only, and reservations have been closed for more than a week. Another large New Year's eve party will be held at the Elks club for members of the Elks lodge and their guests. This will be an informal event, and danc will begin at 9 p.m. Cocktails will be served from 9 until 10 o'clock, and a smorgasbord will be served from 11 p.m. until 1 a.m. Hats and noisemakers will provide a gay atmosphere. New Year's day the club will hold the annual Tom and Jerry party from 1 to 5 p.m. in the club rooms. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Geren, Long Mountain road, will be the scene Tuesday night of the annual New Year's party Speedy Cobbler Speediest cobbler yet heat a can of cling peach slices with su gar and spice to taste. Thicken slightly with cornstarch. Flatten packaged ready-to-bake biscuits, brush with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar. Bake on cooky sheet, and set atop hot peaches spooned into serving dishes. 11. V.0 KfEW SAFEST DRINK of All IK Producers lcag ue You Can Always Take an Extra for Eagle 'Point Lions club mem bers and guests. A buffet supper will be served during the . evening and enter ment is planned. Ted Flury, Stuart Hopper and Mr. Green are in charge of the event. Last night Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Deuel and Mr. and Mrs. Y. S. Christianson were hosts for a cocktain supper at the Deuel's home on South Oakdale avenue. Thirty-five guests were bidden to the event. The Christiansons, who divide their time between their homes in Medford and Oakland, Calif., are here for the holidays. Dr. and Mrs. B. Brandt Bar tels, 35 Valley View drive, enter tained a small group of friends Friday evening at a buffet din ner honoring Dr. Bartels par ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Bartels of Tacoma. The couple left Medford Sat urday after a week's visit with Dr. and Mrs. Bartels and daugh ters Christine and Kathleen. WILL BE MflDMDMVST Til Sixth & Central Medford's Bargain Corner -t, 1 ' i For GOOD HEALTH In Months Ahead! Drink at Least 3 Glasses of MILK a Drink of Milk "For the Aiaral Chapter To. Meet Thursday Jacksonville Adarel chap ter, Order of Eastern Star, will hold a stated meeting in Jack sonville Masonic temple Thurs day, January 2, at 8 p.m. All Eastern Stars are invited to at tend. Serve Dressing This Way New York (IP) Serve extra dressing in onion cups with the holiday bird. Parboil large onions, scoop out centers and fill with stuffing. Bake with the turkey, goose or chicken. Ar range on platter around the bird and garnish with parsley, endive or watercress. F.URS Storage Restyling Repairing and Relining Cleaning and Glazing 0 Frances9 Furs Formerly Frances Dallair 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Telephone SP 2-6526 .!! A 7 All the members of the Milk Producers League of Jackson County extend sin cere thanks for your past patronage and our best wishes for your health and happiness in '58 Day! Road"
