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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, January 15. 1938 started on one "because I never could find a subject, a story, format I liked." This time, Menotti had the story idea and offered to write the libretto. The locale of "Vanes sa" is a northern European country, around 1905. "We are going to io 'Vanes sa' at the Salzburg Festival next August," Earber said. "It will be the first opera written by an American ever to be given there. There are many American composers who should be having the same experience I am having, of writing an opera. In Germany there are some thing like 40 opera houses, all subsidized, and I wish our country could have one in each state, with federal and state support. That's the way to bring opera to the Ameri can people." American Opera Composer Is Calm On Eve of Debut of Latest Endeavor By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York OP The cur tain at the hallowed Metro politan Opera house rises to night on the first full-length opera by a native American to be staged at the Met in 24 years, and the composer a West Chester, Pa., boy says he's not nervous. -He sounds convincing, too: "Nervous? No. No more than normally so. It has been go ing very well in rehearsal." Although the world pre miere tonight of "Vanessa," a four-act opus, will be Samuel Barber's first staged opera, he is a veteran of musical premieres. For 40 years he began coming when he was seven he has been turning out songs, symphonies, bal lets and other works. Barber's Second Opera This is his second opera. He wrote his first as a boy of nine. It concerned Gypsies In his native Chester county and a Metropolitan Opera tenor. The boy composer al ready was steeped in Met GOLD HILL Meeting, Program Set By MRS. CLYDE KELL Gold Hill Mrs. George A.'Loftin will be hostess for a meeting of the Sams Valley Home Extension unit at her home in Sams Valley begin ing at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21. Members will take a sack lunch. Coffee will be served by Mrs. Loftin. Consumer buying was the title of the lesson presented at the December meeting in the home of Mrs. Milton San- lore because his aunt was that derson. Leaders were Mrs. company s famed contralto, banderson ana Mrs. j,ouin. j Visitors at the December meeting were Mrs. Donald er rd., is among those from here attending the winter quarter at Southern Oregon college at Ashland. T.Aiiico Wnmpr I Turning out the words to young Sam's opera was the family' cook, a musical char acter from Ireland named An nie Brosius Sullivan Noble. Unfortunately, she departed the family kitchen before she finished the libretto, and only the first act of the thing has words. Sitting at rehearsal of "Vanessa," in the dark and empty opera house, while the soprano voice of Eleanor Ste ber (a Wheeling, W. Va., girl) swelled above the softly drip ping orchestra music, he told rre about hi3 boyhood opera venture: - "Aunt Louise had got me ' Interested in opera. Annie, the cook, had been sent over here by my grandmother. When she wasn't busy chasing me out of the kitchen, she would work on the libretto to my first act. She had other talents, too a remarkable collection of Irish songs and a habit of naming new dishes she had concocted. Words by Menotli -All four acts of "Vanessa" have words a-plenty, written by an old hand at opera words and music. Barber's longtime friend, Gian-Carlo Menotti. Menotti also is its stage manager. Barber has been commis sioned several times before to write an opera but never Elder, Mrs. Elmer Korner, and Mrs. A. Stevens, all of Sams Valley, and Mrs. L. Wiley of Medford. A program on hunting safe ty will be given by the Ore gon State Game commission at a meeting of the Gold Hill Explorer Post 43 Wednesday, Jan. 15, according to Willard Waterhouse, senior crew lead er of the post. He said the program will consist of a movie and short talk. Officers for the ensuing year, of the Gold Hill Odd Fellow and Amethyst Re bekah lodges will be installed at a joint installation cere mony Tuesday, Jan. 21, in the local Odd Fellow's hall. In stalling officers will be Mrs. Clarence Parsely, Gold Hill, district deputy president, and John Black, Jacksonville, dis trict deputy grandmaster. The installing team is from the Jacksonville Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges. Mrs. Paul Thompson is noble grand elect for the Amethyst Rebekah lodge and Jerry . Herrington is noble grand elect for the Gold Hill Odd Fellows lodge. Retiring noble grands are Mrs. Lester counties Parker and Wilbur Martin Mrs. Bessie Henderson, Pa cific Highway 99, north, was hostess Jan. 10 for a meeting of the Women's Missionary Group of the Gold Hill Chris tian church. Mrs. Rex Allison, president of the group, presided at the business session and read an article on Israel. Mrs. Alfred Castillo gave a reading. Plans were made for a work day at the church on Wednesday, 'Jan. 15, begin ning at 10 a.m. Painting and decorating in addition to gen eral clean up work will be done at this time. Two visitors were present at the meeting. They were Mrs. Nick Giesch, Blackwell Hill, and Mrs. Alfred Castillo of Medford. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Wal lace Neece on Lampman rd., Feb. 14. Mrs. H. V. Munday will be in charge of the program. m "" " 1 jMtec ,,; ?:::!. -y- M Ji-J- jv-w"? , - ,CaHk3fe Mtetl, JET 1 ILLINOIS VALLEY Fire Destroys Home REUNION Air Force MaJ. Howard E. Curran, who w.as secretly detained in Communist Albania for 19 days after making a forced landing, is shown as he was reunited with his three motherless children in Chateauroux, France. Children are, left to right: Patricia, 8; Mary Lou, 4. and William, 12. Maj. Curran plans to make an issue of the detainment because the Albanians had played a cruel trick on his children, who believed he was dead. TL. U.ll J C Br VERNON SCOTT lie I lUliyTTUUU United press Writer By HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction A four- room furnished house at Fos ter Court on the Redwood highway south of Cave Junc tion was destroyed by fire late last week. Loss was esti mated by owner Hugh Foster at 55,000. Occupants were Mrs. E. T. Grubbs and her two children, Terry, 10, and Laurie, 8, daughter and grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Foster. Mrs. Grubbs' husband died Oct. 23, following a long illness, at Portland Veterans hospital. Mrs. Grubbs and the chil dren were at the Foster home when a neighbor, Jimmy Mc Kinnon reported the blaze. Fire trucks and volunteers from Cave Junction and O'Brien arrived in time to save other buildings in the court, but everything in the burning building, including the family's clothes and per sonal belongings were lost. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Eroll Miller and Mrs. Blanche Merriman have returned to their homes here following the holidays spent in Fresno, Calif., where they visited Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Piening and Mrs. Flor ence Piening. Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Merriman and Mrs. Florence Piening are sisters. Of interest to many people in southern Oregon is the pro motion of Mrs. Vernon (Doro thy) Taylor to district man ager of Avon products. Mrs. Taylor is the former Dorothy Smith, who attended the Gold Hill school. Her territory will include Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Curry and Coos Airman Third Class Rose Walter Doherty, Upper Riv-1 Drake of the Women's Air Hollywood 0PI - Affable Art Linkletter is the nation's Number One matchmaker, determined to marry a couple on his show at any cost even if it means sup plying a step- Is ladder for an . ClUCIUCIil. When his Vernon Scott Univac g i m- mick for bringing "ideal" couples together on his "Peo ple are Funny" show failed to ring the wedding bell, Link was beside himself no mean feat for a man .his size. In a frantic attempt to lure a couple to the altar, Art im ported a hypnotist to mes merize a couple into tying the knot. A Little of Barnum Linkletter has taken to heart the saying "All the world loves a lover" and com bined it with Barnum's phil osophy about the birtji rate of suckers. "Most people are incurable romantics," he said. "When we started introducing young couples on the show we ex pected abuse and criticism. Force left Monday, Jan. 13, for Sheppard Air Force base at Wichita Falls, Tex., follow ing a visit here with her par ents and brother, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Drake, and Mike. Before her arrival home on Jan. 5, she completed basic training at Lackland Air Force base, San Antonio, Tex. But there have been remark' ably few letters complaining about 'nothing being sacred. Millions of lonesome people get a lift from our little TV romances." The odds are one couple out of ten brought together by Univac will be married, ac cording to Art. He vows that contestants aren't bribed or pressured into off - screen hand-holding. His eyes light up like a short circuit in a pinball machine when he talks about a recent pair of Linkletter love birds who became en gaged via the program. Positively in Love "They are Shirley Saunders and Bob Kardell," he gloat ed. "Of the 20 or so couples we've teamed up I'm positive they're really in love. They have ben dating five or six nights a week. "Some of the other couples continued to see one another desultorily, but Bob and Shir- ely have set the wedding date for some time in May or June. They won't be married on the show. The kids thought it wouldn't be in good taste.' Doesn't that louse up Art' big finale? "No," he frowned. "We'll have pictures of the cere mony. And they've promised to visit us after they settle down. Don't worry, there will be plenty of excitement about it on the program. "The high point would be if they name their first baby after me," Art grinned, "un less, of course, it's a girl!" agriculture instructor at the high school, gave an informal talk on fitting students' for life at the Illinois Valley Farm Bureau meeting Thurs day evening. Colored slides of Hawaii, taken by Mrs. Fred Nelsen, and pictures of the southwest, taken by Mr. and Mrs. Harry O. Smith, were shown by Smith. Dr. Joseph Meyer, Cave Junction dentist, showed two films on fluoridation of water as a tooth decay preventative at the joint meeting of Illi nois Valley Parent-Teacher association groups Thursday at Evergreen school. Laurence Cushing, Cave Junction attorney who is do ing the legal work in connec tion with the Illinois Valley Irrigation district election, plans an early meeting with bureau of reclamation Engi neer Lee McAllister to make further studies on descrip tions of properties within the proposed district. A potluck dinner and be lated Christmas gift exchange was held by 20 members and guests of the Illinois Valley Mineral Hobbies club recent ly at the Selma cafe building. Dale Tucker was reelected president; Frank Loosley, vice president; Sophia Bunch, secretary, and Doris Boyd, treasurer, at a business meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spitz en tertained as dinner guests last Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Earl Boyd and Mr. and Mrs. Mike Smith. Visiting in the valley Thursday were Air Force Lt. and Mrs. Bill Kaster and chil dren, Kim and Bill Jr., who had been in southern Califor nia to spend Christmas with Bill's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hall at Claremont. Joyce Riblett, of the Del Rogue Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary, was a visitor at the local VFW auxiliary meeting Thursday nieht. As district chairman for poppy sales, Mrs. Riblett outlined preparatory work necessary for Poppy Day in May. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT William Richard Edwards, dis obeyed stop sign, S5. Barbara Jean McCormick, dis obeyed stop sign. $5. uiue Hover Hover, Violation of basic rule. $10. Sarah D. Phillips, failure to maintain proper lookout, S10. Helen Irene Mandie. violation of basic rule. 10. Theodore Lincoln Reaves, dis obeyed traffic signal. $5. Anna Mae Scalberg. violation of basic rule, S10. William C. Piper, failure to yield the right-of-way. S10. i-ioya oroy iMiKoaym, violation of basic rule. $10. James Understeen, violation of basic rule, S10. Kenneth Delbert Lawrentz, de fective equipment. $5. Marvin Rose, disobeyed stop sign $5. Elmer Ellsworth Kyle, violation of basic rule, S10. Dennis Perry McCoy, racing with another vehicle. $25. Kenneth Gary Woods, failure to yield the right-of-way. $10. Ed. H. Day, disobeyed traffic signal. $5. Alan James Beaton, disobeyed stop sign. $5. Glen Evert Wilson, violation of basic rule, S10. Richard F. Arndt, violation of basic rule, $10. Imogene Thomas Thoren. failure to maintain proper lookout. $10. Irene Clarabelle McGuire, im proper lane usage. $5. Kenneth Gene Morris, disobeyed traffic sgnial, $5. Mrs. Frank Rauber, as a member of the steering com mittee for the Extension Serv ice leadership classes to be held Feb. 10-14; is planning to make up a carload of per sons to attend from the Illi nois valley. New residents of the valley are Mr. and Mrs. Dale Ack- erman and family who have moved from Medford to the Ira Hall home on Old Stage rd. Ackerman is employed as a saw filer for Forest Green Lumber company. Gordon White, vice presi dent and manager of the Bank of Illinois Valley; was elected a director of the Illi nois Valley Chamber of Com merce at a recent meeting. He replaces Orville Meredith who resigned shortly before he left the valley for the win ter. DISTRICT COURT Eugene Earl Lawson, defective emergency brake, S6. Floyd Clifford Evernden, over width, $10. Orval Otto Oliver, defective sie- nal device. $6. Ernest William Oden, no opera tor's license. $10. Chester J. Thomason. driving without headlights, $6. Joseph Leroy Cooley, failure to dim lights.' $6. Edward Henry Close, overheight, $15. bail. Karl Merritt Proctor, passing when view ahead is not clear, $15, bail. Truman Lee Milton, improper muffler. $15. Raymond Joseph Cyr, failure to signal. S6. William Anthony Cobb Jr., no brakes, $4. NO BEAR Madison, Conn. (in A frightened woman motorist telephoned police that a "big, black bear" was walking along the highway. Police found a big, black shaggy dog. , CIRCUIT COURT Arthur Wliliam Bath vs. Doro thy Bath, divorce decree. Lola E. Edwards vs. Roy E. Ed wards, divorce decree. Alton L. Crow vs. Aubrey Crow, divorce decree. Marvin Gordon vs. Helen Jane Gordon, divorce decree. Vonnie T. Bowman vs. Alfred E. Bowman, divorce complaint. Judith Marlene Cooley -vs. Keith Allen Cooley, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Marvin Celo Harkey and Mar garet Ann Townsend, both of Ash land. Wilbert Andrew Tharp. Ashland, and Joyce Ann Kiefer, Talent. 1 ,.1NTKE Histaru rnarmacy by ED HALL In ancient times the mort the materia medica increased, the more complicated the phar maceutical technic increased, the more the skilled prepara tions of medicine became nec essary . . . In 1865, the first Interna tional Pharmaceutical Confer ence was held in Brunswick, Germany and in 1912 the first Assembly of the Internal Phar maceutical Fe deration was held at The Hague, Holland. These two organizations have done much to further a greater professional atmosphere and professional activity in the in ternational pharmaceutical pic ture ... JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES. It takes so little to help so much. The need for research, care and education is great. Let's finish the job. Our favorite customers are Medford's babies. We have a complete stock of BABY NEEDS and of course we give your PRESCRIPTIONS our most exact attention. CENTRAL REXAll DRUG Main and Central Frank Knight landed a big steelhead just below Pomeroy dam last week, indicating the fish are beginning to move into the upper Illinois river. Several other catches have been reported. First meeting of the newly reorganized Illinois Valley High school advisory group will be tonight at the school. . 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