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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1958)
8A MAIL TRIBUNI, Madfeni, Orejoii, Sunday, May 23, 1958 IP(OitpoiiniPiPn Today's Potpourri is written by guest reporter Mrs. Ha Gnnt, society editor for the Bend Bulletin. Mrs. Grant, who is on her two week's vacation, is taking a busman's holiday by joining The Mail Tribune staff for two weeks. To a visiting reporter from the hinterland, Medford seems to be a very friendly, cosmopolitan city. Transplanted from Central Oregon, so short a distance in airline miles, one seems to be in a different world, here in the Rogue Valley wonderland with its ancient oaks, lush flowers and beautiful homes. Bend has trees and blossoms and attractive houses, too, of course. Junipers and pines, wild chammise and lupine, gardens that are unexpected in a climate with short growing season and cold nights, have their own special charm. So it is not that southern Oregon is "better," merely that it is "different." And many have said before now, that variety is the spice of life. Olive, when she writes this column, uses the journalis tically correct editorial "we." With her permission, I will digress. It is a singular idiosyncracy, but I dislike being plural. If you know what I mean. Always I am more interested in people than in things, and I feel sure that the people in Medford have a high "FQ" (friendliness quotient). And giving Oscars for friendliness in Oregon, where all of us pride ourselves on our tradition of Western hospitality, must be like giving prizes for being able to swim, in a colony of deep-sea divers. Just like the man says at the carnival, "A prize in each and every pack age." Or like the staff in the news room here at the Tribune. "No Indians, all chiefs." Got lost the other evening on the way to a dinner at the Rogue Valley Country club, and stopped at an impressive home to get directions. No one answered the ring, but I heard voices in the back yard and walked around the house. Eight or ten people were having a swimming party in the pool. The host (I assume) popped his head out of the water, celled a cheerful greeting and listened while I told my sad Story. He told me exactly how to get where I wanted to go. "But if you don't find it, come back and we'll feed you," he offered. Got lost again last night looking for Hedrick Junior High school, and stopped at a service station to get straightened out. Bought some gas and oil while I was there, and the friendly attendant told me the car had a gas leak. "Needs a new gas line, I think," he said. "Don't have the parts tonight, but I'll get them first thing in the morning." I told him I couldn't get away from the office for very long, on such a busy day, and wouldn't be able to wait while the repairs were made. This morning he came to the news room to get the key, left his car on the lot and took mine, made the repairs, delivered the car and brought my credit book for me to sign. And I didn't so much as stir out of my chair! (Got lost again trying to find the hotel, and when the friendly policeman flashed his light and sounded his signal, I thought the jig was up. It seems I got fouled up in a barricade. I left the car where it was parked, not far from my home away from home, thank goodness, and the hotel clerk put it in its stall. No use pushing friendliness too far.) . . Marvin, the night bellboy at my hotel, is one of my new Jriends. He didn't bat an eye when he unloaded the car. Tour suitcases, a box of hats, a dozen or so dresses on hang ars, assorted coats and jackets, not on hangers, my umbrella, the portable typewriter, two TV tables, the electric coffee maker and the steam iron. (Olive supplied the ironing board later.) Marvin dug around and found a couple of extension cords, helped while I rearranged the furniture (after the third move) and seemed to have the proverbial patience of Job, taking care of such little chores as sending out my dry cleaning, mailing my letters and rounding up extra towels in which to wrap my ironing. The story of getting settled at the hotel is sort of like the one about the three bears. The first room was too big. The second one was too small. But the third one is just right. The first move was Marvin's idea. The room had been reserved for someone else. The second move was my idea. The room had a two-piece bathroom. "How could you do it?" I asked Marvin, almost in tears. (I was almost in tears, not Marvin.) I told him it was per fectly obvious that I couldn't wash my teeth in the bedroom, and then walk that long distance to the bathroom to take a shower. Marvin had a solution, as usual. "Wash your teeth in the shower," he suggested. "That's what I do." I was glad to read in the MT the other day that the Diamond Lake cut-off has been opened to travel. Now I won't go on harboring a guilty conscience. Like most women, I pay for advice and then don't take it. Actually, the service station attendant at Chemult didn't charge me for advice. He gave it to me free. He marked a map, cleaned the bugs off the windshield and advised me to go by way of Fort Klamath. "They've been going through by Diamond Lake," he said, "but it's one way, and it's no drive for a woman alone." Then he said I needed a new windshield wiper blade. It was only $1.65. After all, I reasoned, the $1.65 is deductible. Legitimate travel expense. This is a working vacation. I handed him two one-dollar bills and he put the new blade in the wiper and was back in a flash. I held out my hand and he said, "Seventy-five, two, and lunch," putting a dime, a quarter and a candy bar in my outstretched paw. I thanked him and ate the candy bar. Unfortunately, it is not deductible. Candy bars never are. You know the saying. "In your mouth a few minutes, in your stomach a few hours, and on your hips forever." The nice thing about the coffee shop in the hotel "where I stay, they give you lots of jam. Not just a thimbleful in one of those little paper cups. A whole great big gob, on a butter pat. I remarked about this the other morning at breakfast, and the man on the next stool said that he felt the same way. Never bothers to eat the jam at all, if they serve it in one of those little cups. We got to talking, and he shared his newspaper with me. I always like to read "B" somebody-or-other, in a city journal, name of which I don't recall. Found something amusing, and read it aloud to every one at the counter. This city columnist, in his latest com plaint about sack dresses, was telling about how the new look is ruining business at the amusement parks. The chem ise doesn't have the desired reaction, over the air jets in the fun houses. The man next door had something to say, too. "Well, I told my wife, I don't think she can afford a sack. If she buys one, she'd better see a lawyer first. And besides, I can't afford the alimony." Aren't men funny? I.G. 5 Days Left To SAVE at the Big "Change of Ownership" Sale at Lucas & Howard With National Brands YOU Know Hiway 99 South of Central Point North of Medford-Phone NO 4-2243 i pir iin -u-'-;-i How To Hang A Cake Recipes for sponge-t y p e cake (angel food, chiffon and sponge) say to invert the pan as soon as the cake has finish ed ' baking. Literally, that means you should "hang" the ( neck of a salad oil or wint cake upside down to keep it bottle. For cakes baked in loaf from resting back in the cake or layer pans, arrange custard pan and shrinking. It is easy cups or jar lids so two corners to hang a cake baked in a tube of the cake pan can rest on pan as the tube fits over the the edges. GET ABOARD THE "bexel special, tier (fe I Steft Winners Name Will Be Posted in The Store Monday, June 9 Three young people who will spend the next few months in Oregon under the International Farm Youth Exchange program were in Medford Friday night. Pictured here with John Ouster hout, Jackson county farmer, are (center) Khin Hwe, Burma, Nwe Nwa Tun, also a Burmese college student, and Chang Chun-Pang, from Taiwan. The three, chosen on the basis of rigid examinations, including their knowledge of English, will spend part of the summer with Wasco and Linn county families. En route here they spent three weeks with families in Hawaii, and later will travel in" the mid-west and eastern states. The visitors were met at the bus station by Glenn Klein,. 4H, agent, and met a group of interested persons in the home of Miss Mary Lou Garner, 4H agent. The Ousterhouts were par ticularly interested in meeting the two students from Burma since a Burmese IFYE student lived in their home in the summer of 1955. The travelers continued north by bus Saturday morning. Bargain Night Planned at Club Women's Golf association of Rogue Valley County club will hold a "bargain night" party Wednesday, May 28. It will be the annual fund-raising project of the lady golfers and the committee has plan ned f'lots of fun and surpris es. Social and golfing members of the club and their guests are invited to attend. A soc ial hour will begin at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m. Those planning to attend are asked to make reservations by calling the club. To produce one bushel of corn requires about 40 min utes of work on the part of an averagge American farmer. Strawberry-Rhubarb Sauce Said Tasty New York (IP) Strawberry-rhubarb sauce will make a big hit for breakfast, brunch or dessert anytime. 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