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o lPnitpiLnriri Sunday, December 29, 19S7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE The Mail Tribune society department has a "Believe It or Not" story this week. Four ot the weddings reported in today's issue were performed by relatives of the couples two by fathers, one by an uncle and one by a brother. The Rev. D. Kirkland West, pastor of First Presbyterian church, officiated lor the weaaing oi nis aaugmer, rnma, iu Christopher Williams; H. O. Martin, an elder of West Main Church of Christ, read the ceremony which married his daughter, Eleanor, to Burton Lloyd Clifford; when Betty Joan Hershiser became the bride of Leroy Nicholas Martin. of Portland her uncle, V. L. Hershiser of Eugene, performed the rites of the Christian church for the couple and John Bigham of the Church of Christ, Crescent City, California, officiated for the ceremony which married Ellen Elizabeth Hansen to his brother, David Bigham. Dr. West is telling this story of the wedding. Just before the ceremony was to begin Priscilla asked her father if she could speak with him. Thinking the bride had some confidence to im part, or wanted some last-minute advice, the minister took her aside onlv to hear her say. "Now daddy, don't be nervous." However, Dr. West, who has performed hundreds of weddings, aimitted he did have to stop a couple of times to remind himself that he was performing the ceremony as a minister, and not as a father. The Rev. George R. V. Bolster took over that part of the ceremony where the father gives the bride in marriage in oraer that Dr. West might say "her mother and I do." Mrs. H. S. Ingle and Mrs. W. E. Bartelt, Ashland guests at the Provost-Bearden wedding, shook in their shoes when confronted with the wedding cake they were to cut. Made with loving care by the bride's father, it was one of the largest and most elaborate ever served at the Country club. However, Hostess Ethel McGraw briefed them efficiently, and the two women made out famously. During the reception the bride and bridegroom shared atten tion with the bride's appealing little nephew, Johnny Skyrman. Orphaned by a tragic accident, Johnny calls his Aunt Joyce "mother" and her new husband has long-since been known to the littleboy as "Daddy Dom." One of the best Christmas presents at our house was a long letter from the Army Wife in Berlin. "There is snow on the ground,' about three inches," she wrote, "and it has been below freezing for several days. It is a dry cold, and not too bad. "Kenny had guard duty Saturday just after the snow fell, and it was pretty cold. He was lucky, though, because he was on the vehicle gate and had a little brick house to sit in which had a heater in it. The man on the pedestrian gate has to stand out side all through the shift, which is on 2 hours and off 4, week days and on 2 and off 6 week ends. Really, it's a little silly to have American guards, because the Army has a complete staff of German guards, and many of the posts are duplicated. "Christmas preparations have not been too different from tho in the states. The stores are crowded, trees are for sale everywhere you look, and there are decorations up in the stores ahd on the lamD posts. "One custom which I have not noted in America is the burn ing o Advent candles. A wreath of greenery is arranged to cover ,. S'rount wooden stand which is built to hold four candles. On 5 th firft Sunday in Advent and during the week following, one OtHnl is burned. On the second Sunday, another is burned with -.9 rst, and so on until the Christmas tree takes over. (By this (tjm she should have her copy of the Tribune with the picture 0li. Thomas Cardona and her Advent wreath, believed to be ar of the first ever used here.) "&nce the space in our room is limited, we bought a very small tr6 growing in a pot for $1, and put it on top of a cardboard box that we are using for a cupboard iif front of the window. Kenny wrapped the pot in aluminum foil and has contrived tinsel and a star from left-over bits of Christmas paper. Really, it doesn'.t look as bad as it sounds! Our only trouble is that we can't make -the star stay on. We even have presents under the tree. "I recently invested $6.75 in a gadget called a West Bend Ovenette. It looks like a big cake tin, and is designed to be used on top of a gas stove. It has a thermometer in the lid, and it works very well. It is all aluminum, and comes with a heavy base, lid, rack, cake pan, pie pa$i, roasting pan and 7 muffin cups. So far we have used it to bake potatoes, short cake and cookies, and to hoftt rolls and bake biscuits. "Ptrt of my Christmas present from Kenny was a Wearever cocfti8 gun, which can be used to make cookies, and both of us hM9 eotten big bang out of it. We found that the Lunch Basket cogjio rjcipe from your old Sunset cookbook is excellent for it 14 fcft iep the dough fairly cool. "tomorrow night we will become parents temporarily. The Qnfl is having a Christmas party for a group of orphans ranging in &g fpom 3 to 19. Our orphan is a 5-year-old girl named Monika Frenzel. "Vm bought her a small stuffed dog; if, is stuffed with foam rubbOr fcnd is so cute and cuddly we hate to grve it away. He looks lopsided, because one ear sits out and the other lies flat, and he has g red bow around his neck. "We had a perfectly marvelous time at Berchtesgaden. In fact, we decided that it was the honeymoon we didn't have two years ago. Out of the eight days we were there, three were clear, and we took quite a few pictures. The Bavarian Alps are beautiful'; on a clear day it is exhilerating to just look out the window, and the air is like a shot of Vitamin B complex; it makes you want to go out and climb mountains. That's just about what you have to do to see Berchtesgaden, because the town is built on the side of a mountain steeper than the Lewiston (Idaho) grade. At the higher levels the streets are nothing but paths, with drainage troughs cut across them. We walked everywhere we went, and somehow we never seemed to get tired. There are many guided tours to places such as Hitler's Eagles Nest, the local castle, etc., but we only went on the one to the Salt Mines. Our money just didn't go far enough, and we couldn't have seen anything on the foggy days, anyway. We spent quite a bit of time looking at the shops, and I bought two butter presses in a tiny shop that sold nothing but articles hand-carved from wood. "We stayed at the Deutsches Haus, which is a hotel for EM's, although officers may eat there. The food and service were excel lent the hotel is run by Germans, and the headwaiter was mar vellous. They have a tank full of lake trout just outside the hotel dining room, and when I ordered a trout dinner, he went out in his tuxedo, netted a trout and brought it in for my, approval before they cooked it. It was very good, too." Christmas postscripts: The Ansley Hutchinsons and daughter, Potpourri's Pal Peg, included In their Christmas decorations at their home on South Holly street what the people in New Mexico and Colorado call "luminarias." Used outdoors, these are medium sized brown paper sacks folded down and filled with a couple of inches of sand or soil in which a candle is placed. The candle lights up the paper, giving a glowing effect. The Hutchinsons de scribed how these are used by the thousands in that section of the U. S. and was originally a Spanish custom whereby the Christ child is lighted on his way when he visits the earth during his birth week. Our nomination for man of the year: The husband who gave his wife a Christmas check made out . for "One Free Morning Each We$." They have three small children. O.S. Women Make Better Shoppers Than Men, Says Branch Head By PATRICIA WIGGINS United Press Correspondent Washington (W A look be hind the government's soaring cost of living index indicates something the men have long suspecter: women like to "shop", even if they don't buy a thing. All but a handful of the 245 persons checking price tags across the country every month for Uncle Sam are women. The few males who help col lect rent statistics only a job that entails some evening work in sometimes rough city areas. Miss Fay M. Bean, chief of the program operation branch of the sion, said "women seem to like the job better than men and they do a better job." Men Too Impatient Miss Bean noted that shopping for all manner of items is part of a woman's "upbringing." A man might feel embarrassed at getting specifications and prices on girdles, for example. But a woman accustomed to shopping for sons, husbands and brothers would feel no qualms at ap proaching the men's furnishing department. The ,fair sex also willingly takes on for Uncle Sam the pric ing of items in such spots as Bureau of Labor Statistics lumber yards, barber shops, and Prices and Cost of Living Divi- second-hand car lots. Miss Bean said women do a better jom at the price gathering because of the "detailed nature" of the work. Men get impatient with the details. One look at the specification table a "pricer" must check for the cost of a can of peas or a "woman's cotton street dress" shows how "de tailed" the job can get. About 300 items are included in the tally. All of the Bureau's 125 food pricers are women working part time. Most of them are housewives. Another 100 part-time work ers collect rent statistics (75 per cent of them women). The re maining pricers all are women working on a full-time basis In the 36 cities which are- sampled each month. Two of the full-time workers are Ann McDermott and Mar jorie Partridge, both stationed in the capital. Eight-hour Day Ann does pricing here. Mar- jorie . more often heads for another city as a substitute or as extra helper. In the past five months, she has "shopped" Pittsburgh, Pulaski, Va., Seattle, Portland, Sands Point, Ida, and Rawlins, Wyo. What kind of pricing is most fun? "It depends on the weather," Marjorie said, with as mile. "It is lovely to do the suburban stores on a nice day. But a rainy day a department store is a hea ven" she explained. "An average day" may mean all eight hours in one depart ment store. 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