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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. Or it may mean
"miscellaneous" stops checking
prices at a barber shop, two shoe
repair shops, a lumber yard,
paint store, plumber, and a doc
tor's office.
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Teenagers Diets Said
Worse Over Week Ends
Washintgon 0P1 The week
end off from school only helps
lower the rating of a teenager's
diet, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture reports.
The department said an Idaho
experiment station study of 15
and 16-year-olds found them
missing more noon and evening
meals on week ends than during
the school week.
"The lower food intake at
week end meals was not made
up by an increase in the amount
eaten. as snacks," said the sta
tion. Snacks usually were some
form of sweet, the station report
ed. "They were high in calories
but usually furnished few of the
essential vitamins and minerals.
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is out with its own version of
sputnik.
One manufacturer features a
"satellite launcher," which fires
disc-shaped satellites into the
stratosphere well, anyway a
distance of 75 feet or so.
The same firm has introduced
the "sky sweeper," a searchlight
projector to track "satellites"
and "aircraft" which sweep
across the sky. If the plane is
"hostile," the toy shoots them
down with "nike" rockets.
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