Church Women Organize
Slum Clearance Project
By LOUIS CASSELS i "come and see tour." In An
Uniled Press Correspondent napolis, church women en
Since the days of Carrie countered strenous opposition,
tjx ! Nation, public officials have , ridicule, even threats when
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thel 55 April 22, at the Pyth-
Council
Installed
For Bethel
A new guardian council to
erve tne coming year was
lan building. The new coun
cil members are: Guardian,
Mrs. Harold Gordon; Associ
ate guardian, Herbert Sam
pert; guardian secretary, Mrs.
Charles S. Turner; guardian
treasurer, Harold Gordon;
guardian of music and epics,
Mrs. Paul Selby; guardian of
paraphernalia, Mrs. Charles
Coggins; assistant, Mrs. Clyde
Lees; guardian of hospitality,
Mrs. Harry Myers; assistant,
Mrs. Alice Dell; assistant
guardian of publicity, Mrs.
Alan Jewett; guardian of soc
iability, Mrs. Galen Sanner;
guardian of fraternal r e 1 a
tions, Al Brown; guardian of
telephone, Mrs. S a m p e r t;
guardian of merit system,
Mrs. William Knips.
A past queen, Miss Marcia
Spence, presided. Guests in
troduced were Miss Kay Ask-
w i t h, queen of Bethel 38,
Central Point; Miss Sharon
Blickenstaff senior princess
Bethel 14, Medford; Miss Don
na Burnett, junior princess of
Bethel 38, Central Point; Miss
Penny Sampert, newly elect
ed grand bethel representa
tive to Utah, Bethel 55; L. H.
Manning, grand inner guard
of Oregon and a past associ
ate guardian of Bethels 14
and 55; Mrs. Paul Selby, past
guardian of Bethel 55; Fred
Purdin, royal patron of Roxy
Anne court Order of Ama
ranth.
Mrs. C. D. Elhart, a past
grand guardian of Oregon
and past guardian of Bethel
22, Ashland, and Mr. Mann
ing installed the guardian
council. Assisting were Mrs.
Vernon Turpin, past royal
matron of Amaranth, Mrs.
Marshall Day, matron of
Roxy Anne court, Mrs. I. D.
Canfield, a past matron of
the court; Mrs. Frank Little,
associate matron of the court.
Spence announced elections
would be held May 13, and
initiation May 27th. A guard
ian council board meeting will
be held May 6 at 430 O'Gara
street.
Mrs. Turpin presented Be
thel 55 with a queen's tiara to
be worn at social functions
by the queens of Bethel 55.
The tiara was the one Mrs.
Turpin had worn during her
term as royal matron of Roxy
Anne Court.
After the meeting a short
addendum was given in hon
or of Mr. Manning and Miss
Sampert. Refreshments were
had a healthy respect for the
organized wrath of American
womanhood.
It has become one of the
axioms of U.S. politics that
the surest way to get action
on a social reform is to get
the women and especially
the church women aroused
about it.
Fair warning is hereby
served on civic functionaries
that this potent force is again
being mobilized in communi
ties across the nation.
Its target this time is slum
housing.
The mobilizing is being
done by United Church Wom
en, a department of the Na
tional Council of Churches,
which represents some 10 mil
lion women in 34 major
Protestant denominations.
Ladies Aids Help
United Church Women has
called on all of its local
affiliates the ladies' aid so
cieties and women's auxilia
ries of 200,000 church con
gregations to take on the
job of "alerting their commu
nities to the urgent need" for
slum clearance, low-cost hous
ing, and neighborhood reha
bilitation projects.
Next Friday, May 2, church
w o m e n's organizations
scores of cities will sponsor
"come and see tours" of the
slums. This idea was orig
inated by the church women
of Annapolis, Md., several
years ago.
Church women have learn
ed that the actual sights and
smells of the slums are the
most eloquent arguments that
can be made for community
improvement programs.
If any civic leader remains
unconvinced after a first-hand
inspection of blighted areas
of his city, the ladies are
armed with facts and figures.
These show how the slums
serve as breeding grounds
for crime, juvenile delin
quency, ' narcotics addiction
and disease. They document
the incredible overcrowding,
the lack of privacy and sani
tation, the generally subhu
man living conditions that
prevail in the run-down sec
tons of the city.
Needs Continuous Effort
No woman's organization
which joins the battle for de
cent housing should expect
to win a victory with one
they began badgering the
city council to clean up the
slums. With the help of a
local newspaper, however,
they managed to get the issue
before the public. Annapolis
is now undertaking a S500,
000 slum clearance and low
cost public housing project.
Similar victories have been
won in other cities. Municipal
authorities in Columbus, Ohio,
credit church women with
putting across a bond issue
which will open the way for
a major slum clearance pro
gram.
In Grand Rapids, Mich
and in Portland, Ore., church
women have directed their at
tack primarily at racial and
religious discriminaton in
housing which forces minority
groups into high-rent ghettos,
New Space Age
Affects Colors
The space era influences
men's slacks. New colors for
the slacks come with fancy
names, such as "space blue,
which is sky-blue; "missile
gray," described as "dove
gray shot with Stardust;" "jet-
stream white; "rocket navy;
in 1 "eclipse black;" and "comet
World's Costliest Negligee
Advertises Brussels Fair
By GAY PAULEY
United Press Correspondent
New York (IP) Around
Manhattan:
The world's costliest negli
gee embarked this week on a
"tour" of U.S. department
and specialty stores to help
call attention to the Brussels
World Fair.
The negligee, valued at
$10,000, is cut on Empire
lines, is of pale apricot silk
chiffon, skirted in antique
white bruges lace. Inter
national Latex commissioned
a New York theatrical costu
mer to make the glorified
housecoat. It didn't disclose
the ultimate fate of th gar
ment, but pointed out the
lace is "muesum worthy."
brown."
The trapeze silhouette has
left its mark on all suits by
the Paris salon of Christian
Dior. Spring and summer
suits have short skirts and
two-piece look even if they
are not true trapezes. A few
straight skirts are shown, but
most are bell-shaped or flared
at the hem. Shoulders are
narrow and tapered, and
backs are loose.
served;
hall.
lilacs decorated the
New York designer Sophie
shows spring dresses which
suggest new silhouettes but
follow the lines of the figure
"I will not create designs that
have only newness as their
raison d'etre," she says. "Fash
ion should be changeable
should have newness, but it
must be flattering to the
wearer. If not flattering,
don't consider it good
fashion."
Black headbands are back
for formal wear. The bands
come in velvet, decorated
with bows or jewels. They can
be worn well back of the hair
line with bangs in front, or
slightly back of the hairline
with an upswept bouffant
hair style.
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For a change, there's favor
able comment about woman
talk. One authority on charm
says the gift of intelligent
gab is a requisite for feminine
beauty.
Anyway, that's one of the
lessons a former schoolmarm
is giving her newest pupils
the 350 stewardesses for Pan
American airways. The air
line hired Ann Leinbach, of
Reading, Pa., to give its host
esses lessons in charm and
also keep them hep to current
events.
"Intelligent conversation is
the secret ingredient of being
beautiful," said Miss Leinbach
this week as she went to
work. The instructor, whose
teaching career has included
both grade school and charm
school, said today's steward
esses should "know what is
going on on the world we fly
over." '
One Paris shoe designer
predicts a long life for the
pointed toe and skinny heel
in women's footwear. Roger
Vivier, designer for 25 years,
says no other type of shoe is
quite so becoming with either
the chemise or trapeze silhou
ette. Vivier designs the Dior
shoe collection. He came to
New York to preview the fall
line. He showed the medium
height heel, shaped . to look
higher, for both daytime and
evening.
A veteran fashion editor re
ports that with her masculine
readers, the vote is nine to
one against the chemise. Vir
ginia Pope of Parade said she
invited the men to write in
what they thought of the sack
New Record
Talks Baby
To Sleep
By JOHN LOWRY
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood Iff) - Look
what's new in getting baby to
sleep. A wispy, soft - voiced
young lady who has been pre
scribing methods for making
adults sleepy for several years
has put her talents to work in
marketing a long-playing re
cord that is virtually guaran
teed to soothe junior to slum
ber.
Miss Verta O'Dell's new re
cording, "Standin for Sand
man" is the end product of
study and experimentation in
what sounds and words will
provoke sleep for a youngster
in the 2 to 8-year age bracket.
The Sounds
There are the friendly tink
ling of a music box, a grand
father's clock tick-tocking in
the background, quiet sounds,
the sounds that bring comfort,
and Miss O'Dell's persuasive
voice:
The little fluffy white kit
ten whose eyes are bareiy
.i - i - ai
open . . . tne animais in i
barnyard dozing ... a soft,
furry puppy dog. . . ."
"And So To Sleep," a deep
therapy record that has lulled
a legion of adults to sleep, was
produced by Miss O'Dell in
1955. The record starts with
soft orean music and then the
soothing voice of Miss O'Dell,
backed with prop sounds oi
surf and rain, stills the nerves
of listeners as she nteraiiy
talks them to sleep.
You are thinking of a soft,
white cloud, floating along in
a dreamy fashion and over the
quiet countryside to a peace
ful valley . . . "this is a time
for tranquility ana relaxa
tion. . ."
Radio Program
Miss O'Dell studied at tne
Havward Art academy in De
troit and the American Acaa-
emy of Art in Chicago. At one
time she had a radio program
Miami, Fla., where she
talked midnight listeners to
sleep. The success of the pro
gram was such that when she
signed off an hour later, hard
ly any one was listening!
She has made many individ
ual records for theatrical peo
ple, buisness executives and
others who work under ten
sion.
In making these personal
ized records she takes the in
dividual, in conversation, back
to the happiest recalled times
of his life.
Everyone thinks in terms of
pictures and the recording des
cribe happy scenes, says Miss
O'Dell.
silhouette which has taken
over the garment industry. In
one week, she received 3,000
letters from Maine to Hawaii.
"I havn't had such an ava
lanche of mail in 40 years in
fashion," said Miss Pope.
Comments ranged from
"absolutely ridiculous" to
"hideous" to "somebody
goofed." One man wrote "if a
fashion makes a woman look
like an abandoned silo, she
should have sense enough to
reject it."
Another irate male com
mented "makes a potato out
of a tomato."
Two Groups
Meet in
Grants Pass
A large delegation from
Medford attended a joint
meeting of Celonel Sargent
camp and auxiliary, United
Spanish War Veterans, Med
ford, and Rogue River camp
and auxiliary, Grants Pass
Sunday afternoon, April 20
at the VFW hall in Grants
Pass. Mrs. Iva Mae Hardisty,
Oregon City, president of the
department of Oregon, USWV
auxiliary, and Department
Commander and Mrs. M. H,
Broughton, Aloha, made their
official visits to the two
groups. Over 55 members and
guests attended a banquet be
fore the meetings.
Mrs. Willie Cooper, presi
dent of Rogue River auxiliary
served as toastmistress at the
banquet. Mrs. Bertha Nelson
president of Colonel Sargent
auxiliary, presided at the
meeting assisted by Mrs
Cooper and the officers and
color team of Colonel Sargent.
Among those introduced by
Mrs. Nelson and honored in
eluded Mrs. Hard.isty, Com
mander Broughton, the de
partment assistant conductor,
Mrs. Broughton; the depart
ment guard, Mrs. Hans Ram
min, Medford; two past de-
partment presidents, Mrs
Harry Barneburg and Mrs
Don Anderson, both Medford;
Department Historian Albert
Wallis and Rogue River Camp
Commander Robert Carter.
The appointment of Miss
Carolyn Vandersteen and
Miss Donna Unger as depart
ment platform aides was an
nounced by Mrs. Hardisty
She also discussed plans for
the department convention to
be- held ip Corvallis July 13
to 16. Final plans were also
made for the annual McKin-
ley carnation sale May 8 and
9 in Medford and Grants Pass
Medford chairman is Mrs
Winifred Vail and the head
quarters for the sale will be
the Home Appliance store in
Medford.
Among those attending the
meeting from Medford includ
ed Mrs. Nelson, Col. W. H.
Paine, Mrs. Vail, Mrs. Barne
burg, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs.
Rammin. Mrs. Bessie John
ston, Mrs. James Vandersteen,
Miss Vandersteen, Mrs. Jo
sephine Widner, Mrs. Gloria
Preim and two daughters,
Mrs. Rosa Young, Mrs. Mar
garet Davis, Mr. and Mrs.
Audley White and Mr. ana
Mrs. Z. N. Agee.
Mr. and Mrs. Barneburg en
tertained the members of the
department Sunday evening.
Mrs. Barneburg and Mrs. Nel
son took the department presi
dent and the commander on a
tour of the domiciliary at
Camp White Monday morning
and after a luncheon at the
Hotel Medford, the visitors
returned north to their homes.
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Today:
10 a.m. Medford Trail
Riders, Willow Springs school
Central Point.
Monday:
I p.m. Rogue chapter, Fed
eration of Grandmothers club,
home of Mrs. Clayton Walker,
129 North Oakdale ave.
7 p.m. National Office
Managers association, Med
ford hotel.
7 p.m. Pi Beta Phi
alumnae, Medford hotel.
7:30 p.m. Jackson County
Licensed Practical Nurses,
Sacred Heart hospital.
7:30 p.m. Oak Grove
Parent Teachers association,
school cafeteria.
8 p.m. Medford League of
Women Voters, home of Mrs.
Justin Smith, 21 Geneva st.
8 p.m. Neighbors of
Woodcraft, Eagles hall.
8 p.m. Degree of Honor
lodge, Redmen hall.
8 p.m. Scottish Rite Wo
men's club, Masonic temple.
Tuesday:
8 p.m. Pythian club,
home of Mrs. Teresa Schell,
154 Oak St., Ashland.
Wednesday:
10 a.m. Mothersingers,
Hedrick cafetorium.
II a.m. Townsend club,
Carpenters hall, 123V West
Main st.
1:45 p.m. Nurse - Pa
tient Relationships lecture,
Nurses' classroom, Veterans
administration domiciliary at j
Camp White.
Thursday:
10 a.m. Medford Garden
club, home of Mrs. Hanley
Hefferman, Ross lane.
10:45 a.m. Westside
Home Extension unit, Central
Point Grange hall.
12:30 p.m. Nevita Social
club style show, Central Point
Junior High school gymnasium.
7:30 p.m. League of Wo
men Voters, candidates' pro
gram, Hedrick Junior High
school.
7:30 p.m. United Nations
chapter, Red Cross building.
8 p.m. Adarel chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star,
Jacksonville Masonic temple.
8 p.m. Mistletoe Royal
Neighbors, Pythian hall.
Friday:
11 a.m. Griffin Creek
Home Extension unit, home of
Mrs. Ralph Marlatt, 2724 Or
chard Home drive.
1 p.m. Getogether club,
Girls Community club.
2 p.m. Golden Age club,
Red Cross building.
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Try this for a breakfast
that's really special! Drain
canned cling peaches and ar
range each half on a medium-
thick slice . of ready-to-eat
ham. Drizzle a little peach
syrup over the ham, and bake
in a moderate oven (350 de
grees F.) until the peaches are
hot. Arrange the ham and
peaches on a-warm platter
around a mound of scrambled
eggs.
To repair dents in furniture,
dampen the affected part.
Fold a piece of brown paper
several times, soak it in warm
water and put in on the dent.
Then apply a warm, not hot,
iron until the moisture evapo
rates. Repeat until the dents
disappear.
About Fish
According to home econ
omist with the Gas Appliance
Manufacturers a s s o c iation,
there are substantial price
variations in canned fish
items. Canned tuna, for in
stance is available in solid,
flake or grated form. For
sandwiches or hors d'oeuvres,
choose the grated form which
is usually lower in price, rath
er than the solid. which re
quires mashing. Salmon comes
from deep red to sliver or
white in color. The lighter
colors are the least expensive
and may be used in casserole
dishes or corquettes. The deep
color is desirable in salads and
dishes dependent on color.
Split Pea Casserole
Dry split peas offer more
protein than most vegetables
and are one of the most in
expensive sources of energy
this season. One pound will
serve 7 to 9 people and they
combine well with ham and
other meat broths. For a sub
stantial casserole dish, add 1
cup of split peas to IVi cups
ham or other meat broth.
Place over high heat for 5
minutes, then turn off heat
and let the peas stand for
30 minutes in a covered sauce
pan. Add Vt cup of chopped
ham V cup chopped onion
and a little mustard. Place
in a greased casserole, cover
and bake at 350 degrees .for
25 minutes. Serves 3 or 4.
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