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o o o o o o 2 .ft Wta-fc, July 24, 1958 Have Men Lost Manners? Utters Say Yes and No O 3ZVX Vomtn'i Xir o 9f lork (CPU fTell, all X pit tU th.t w Tot. 3 &4ttncii 'U subject of JJl chivtlff pouted In croin oth m$ &9 U partf SC at tion, cornsseirtinf an dter ytctnfc irijt tAat taut tttmi ii foe ct, iabwy cHMtf, 'vttcr 4 )pAan ofcxth, Xht, i acft, men f(OS ehiRt like $Uma)n. Or, 1iM fti Jirl A t litU fjrtftep otn u n Jilt nhttten, frfS frova v) trrfctint thont to. Yhinfeicf 1 lttf, nra ot them in rhymt, cam. eros the desl.3Bo 8i lcttt fs .free q ing thJ) "100 Je cant Am.ri . can bcs" no lonjt feA toe viMuA of jt&ei mtnittn, but ing w Women coulft Ul f omef thblmf bectua. v cmped tn antfl 9 jot and we'd left torn at our 9?a femininity. tn Siqftt at U, letters from irtt males cttu- gating m) for cffC- samples: "Go Hoftie From "ln" ie $fn dDitfo who signtd ftSnSJl ' Yoriter? VI tfOuH lit. t. complent ou on btinf the biggest blowherd in New York City quit a fe.t in ft city so far j . . . "Having worfced in New York for t8 last decide, leav ing your wonderful chivtlrous South fc do so, it must have become tAed in your feeble little mind that you0weren't th only one to leave the hills in Mrlh of civilizttion . . . '. "ll4 ld, go home and ur playmates with V' o . 4 Mtfler ngmed Steve Ben ftt, 80, -ho signed his let ter "t American, an Okla homaa, ind gentleman" agreed mtnner were gone but Safil it wq bEcause wo men "have beegme too inde pendent. They are trying to place themselves on the same level as men socially, eco nomically and every other way . . . When women start acting like ladies, then men will start acting like gentle men." Both At Fault ; "I agree that there j is a dearth of good manners," wrote Theodore H. Frieden berg, in "Letters to the edi tor" in the Philadelphia Bulle ton. "But she this colum-nist-Q-should have been more accurate to address her re-" mark, te both men and wotnta rather than only man . . . "On countless occasions, vftil. Bitting on a bus or sub way, I have been banged by myma omn's pocketbook without so much as a 'Sorry' or 'Xxcuse me . . ." Another Philadelphian de voted three pages to tell me tht "chivalry is indeed dead . . . Where we part company, however, is who killed it . . ." "ut try protecting one of Close 'weak' females," he wrot. "If you don't end up on you? back in a gutter, you'll t least need a couple of Philadelphia lawyers to get you out ef the pokey. Gener ally h. male is too busy pro tecting himself from some fe nl te have time being chivlrou . . ." "Lt me tell you New Torfc dossn't have a corner eat ad manners by any means," Ted Krec wrote in his weekly column in the Lontf Beach, Calif., Indepen dent - Presa - Telegram. ". . . Boorishness is running ram pant in the good old U.SA.." In 20 lines of poetry on to day's not so fair maiden, W. C. Clement Jr., of Abernathy, Tex., complained: "No gallant deed her knight will try . . . On chivalrous road he'll pass her by And hold within that wistful sigh .'. . Until she mounts her ped estal high." Shortest blast of all came from L. L. Peterson of St. Paul, Minn. Said he, via post card: "When you got the right to vote and -the right to hold a man's job, you also got the right to stand up in a bus. "Stay home and scrub the kitchen floor." Dinner Planned For Pocahontas Pocahontas lodge has planned a potluck dinner Fri day, July 25, at 6:30 pjn. at Redman hall. A business meet ing will follow at 8 p jn. and a card party will close the evening's program. Members are privileged to take guests for the dinner and card party. Return Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Agard, 222 King street, re turned recently from a trip to Santa Barbara, Calif. The Agards, accompanied by their son, David, spent a week in the area. John Day Home To Be Scene of League Party Medford League of Women Voters will hold the annual summer party Tuesday, July 29 at the home of Mrs. John Day at Gold Rey. Guests are invited to attend from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 pjn., or from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. A tour of the Day home is sched uled for both morning and afternoon guests. Swimming is planned for the morning and bridge in the afternoon. A brief comedy skit and re freshments for members and guests is planned for both sessions. The league cordially invites anyone interested in the pro gram to attend. For reserva tions call Mrs. Homer Marx, SPring 2-6845. A charge will be made and the funds added to the league's treasury. Special Dance To Be Saturday Bruce Johnson, Santa Bar bara, Calif., will be featured caller at a square dance start ing about 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Square Corral, off Highway 62 at Camp White. At least three area clubs have cancelled dances Satur day night in order, that mem bers may attend the special dance. Clubs which have can celled dances include the Star Promenaders, Waggin Wheel ers and Jeans and Janes. Mr. Johnson is en route to Quinault, Wash., where he will be on the staff of a square dance institute next week. Sunday, he has an en gagement in Portland. He records for Windsor records. Local square dance repre sentatives said there will be no potluck refreshments served. . Hittle Family Visits California Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Hittle, and children, Diane and Da vid, drove through California recently on a ten-day vacation trip. Traveling south through the Redwoods and along the coast highway, the Hittles stopped in San Francisco where they attended a baseball game be tween the San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Braves. From there they visited with friends in Pasadena and Flint ridge before spending several days in Disneyland and Mar ineland. On their return trip they visited relatives and friends in Culver City. 1 i Children's Play Shoes BAREFOOT SANDALS, CANVAS OXFORDS, CANVAS 'SLI PONS and STRAP SANDALS f REGULAR PRICE TO $3.99 $1199 U Finest - quality sail cloth used in all canvas play shoes, in oxford, slipon and swivel straps. Many colors and patterns. Soft and flexible leather used in all leather san dals. All styled for"FUN IN THE SUN." White, red, brown & multi color. SIZES SMALL 4 TO LARGE 3 MEDFORD IPtfprairrii In case any of Potpourri's readers are thinking of moving to the country because it's quiet don't. It isn't. Not on South Stage road, anyhow. Sometimes we think there must be a greater variety of noises in our neighborhood than any where else. Take yesterday morning, for instance. The noisy log truck woke us up before 5 o'clock. Not just "a" log truck, but "the noisy" log truck. Most of the big trucks using South Stage road make quite a commotion with their pow erful motors, but this one sounds as if it had gravel in the motor instead of oil. Not long afterwards three birds flew across the patio, one giving an urgent call sort of a hurry up or we'll miss breakfast cry. This morning it was a tiny noise that woke us the hum of a mosquito. After the nasty little creature had roused us, two log trucks completed the job pf completely shattering our sleep. About half an hour later when we had just about dozed off, a spray plane came roaring over. The pilot made six or eight trips right over our heads while dusting the pear orchard across the road. All this wakens Tippy the Terrier, and he adds his voice. Of course, the neighborhood sounds aren't so noticeable if one sleeps indoors, but we happen to enjoy sleeping out under the stars. And so far the beauty of the stars and the moon and the soothing sound of the water in the irrigation ditch have outweighed the nuisance noise of the cars, the planes, the spray machines and the barking dogs. (The man who makes records of "dog symphonies" should try our neighborhood some time.) Some of the early morning sounds we enjoy, and don't mind being awake at 5 a.m. to hear. Earlier this summer a cheerful meadowlark served as our alarm clock. Practically every morning for three or four weeks, the lark perched on top of the barn next door and woke us with an early morning concert. He had other listeners, too, for frequently a blackbird would answer. But since last week's storm the meadowlark and his pretty song have been missing. One was running back and forth in Neighbor Meyer's yard yesterday afternoon, but he sounded worried and distracted, and his chirpings weren't the usual meadowlark song. There is much talk about the unusual season the un usual humidity, the persistent thunder storms and other un seasonable manifestations. Perhaps these affect the birds, too, for George, .the humming bird, has been around the patio but once during the summer. In past years, hardly a day passed but that he did not treat us to the sight of his shim mering little body as he dipped into first one flower and then another. However, the blue jays have remained around the neigh borhood all summer, which is unusual. And Neighbor Harold Meyer reported yesterday that the young ones look almost large enough to start flying lessons. Earlier this summer the Meyers befriended a wounded bird which Mrs. M. found under a tree one day with one disabled leg. It was decided that the bird was a pigeon, although no one could remember having seen one with this particular coloring, or with a crest. Mrs. Meyer fed and doctored the bird, which was perfectly tame, and made a little splint from some bits of wood and soft cloth. But about the time she decided the leg was almost healed the pigeon if it was flew away. Now the neighborhood wonders if it was someone's pet, and if so, if it returned home safely. A most charming and gracious woman called a couple of days ago to register a complaint her very first with The Mail Tribune. Would the paper please, please, please quit using the word "lady" and instead use the proper word "woman." The caller, like ourselves, had been taught that the word "lady" is the designation for a titled Englishwoman, or in a religious sense, is used as a designation for the Virgin Mary. After a conversation with the youngest reporter on the staff, a" university student who said that nowadays "lady" and "woman" are used inter-changeably, the two of us con sulted the dictionary. Webster's New Collegiate says, for "lady": First, the mistress of a household; second, a woman having proprietary rights, rule or authority or the feminine correlative of "lord"; third, specifically, the Virgin Mary, usually with "our" Our Lady; fourth, in the British Empire a title prefixed to the name of women of certain ranks; fifth, a wife, now applied to one of recognized social stand ing; sixth, a woman of social distinction or position; seventh, a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart! Under the word "woman? the dictionary says: First, an adult female person; second, womankind; third, distinctively feminine nature; fourth, a female attendant; fifth, a paramour or mistress. Regardless of what the dictionary says, the composer of newspaper headlines has this answer: "Lady" will often fit into a headline when the" worn "woman" won't. O.S. Relatives Arrive For Rites Friday Prospect Mrs. Ethel E. MacHenry, Philadelphia, and Machios and Caroline Mac Henry, both of Texas, have ar rived in Prospect to attend the coming wedding of Mrs. MacHenry's nice, Miss Joan MacHenry, to Dale M. Chap man. The wedding ceremony has been set for Friday, July 25, at seven o'clock at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Pros pect. The bride's father, the Rev. W. Bruce MacHenry, will officiate. DeArmonds Home From California Central Point Mr. and Mrs. David DeArmond, 3571 Oak Pine Way, Central Point,, returned recently from a trip to southern California. The DeArmonds, accompanied by their three older children, drove south through the val ley visiting Mrs. DeArmond's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Evans, Calistoga, Calif. They visited Disneyland and returned to Medford along the coast. DAV, Auxiliary Plan Ceremony Jackson County chapter, Disabled American Veterans, and auxiliary will hold joint installation of offcers July 25 at 8 pjn. at the Red Cjoss building on Hawthorne street. The annual picnic will be held July 27 at TouVelle park beginning at 1 p.m. Women attending are asked to take chicken, a basket lunch and table service. . Ice cream, coffee and cold drinks will be furnished. - Add extra flavor to an ome let by stirring a heaping ta blespoon of sour cream into well-beaten eggs. Sour cream also gives finer texture and flavor to batter for cookies, pies and pastry. Mrs. Richard Garrett Honored at Party Mrs. Richard Garrett was honored on, her birthday re cently by members of the Fri day Sunshine club at the home of Mrs. Reimer Peter son, Beatty street. Mrs. Harry Wright was a guest of the group. Colorful bouquets of dahlias and other summer flowers decorated the rooms. Gift and cards were presented to Mrs. Garrett. The next meeting of Friday Sunshine club will be held at the home of Mrs.. Garrett on Taylor street. Calendar Thursday: 6:30 p.m. Golden "Link class, First Baptist church, at N. A. Mead home, Grant rd. 6:30 p.m. Zonta club, home of Mrs. Edith Gifford, 419 South Oakdale ave. Roman Miscellany By MARGARET SCHULER Rome Of one thing you may be reasonably certain in ;Rome. You don't decide you need a new dress for the party tomorrow night, and go down town and buy it. Here, there aren't racks filled with sacks, sizes 12 to 44. Maybe 8 to 11, but that doesn't help, and any way, American figures differ from Italian figures; what fits at tone end wouldn't fit at the other. You have a choice, when you are in the mood for a new dress. If you are riding high and are tempted to throw dis cretion to the wind, you might set out for the dazzling Fon tane Sisters on the Via Sis tine. In the plush salon you make known your wishes, and sit back in the gilt chair with a friend. (It is good to have moral support in this shopi) Shortly, two models demon strate two deceptively simple dresses, then, two more, and two more. But you want some thing not quite so youthful; not quite so modish. The Fon tane Sisters are not, however, prepared or such unprece dented complications, and as you are not prepared, either, for the simplest gown costing $280 American dollars, or an evening for $800, you do not. dawdle. The alternative is the "little dressmaker." All women do not go to the likes of the Fontane Sisters, and scatter ed about the environs of Rome mostly, the periphery, you discover are innumerable dressmakers (usually girls who have "apprenticed," then married, and wish to earn money while taking care of the babies.) These women are quite capable of making good looking and stylish clothes. The problem now .is to dis cover who and where the seamstresses are. You run into a snag here, in the form of women's worser natures especially American women's. When they have found their little dressmaker, they feel compelled to keep it secret, lest their own patronage suf fer. Eventually though, s,ome charitable soul gives in and tells you, and off you go. In variably, the address is on the opposite side of town from where you are, invariably, on a little known street, and in variably, on the third floor of an apartment house with out a lift. But she can sew for you, next week. Few dressmakers are aware of how painful it is for the average American woman to envision a dress, buy material and give instructions for its creation. Nor do they realize we are not accustomed to nu merous fittings. However, af ter laboriously discussing it, she, in pure Italian and you in English, you go off to buy your pattern, and material A pattern that should be easy.'So you go to the pattern shop where there is nothing but patterns. High counters are all around the walls, with pictures and pattern books on them, and dozens of women searching (from morning un til night) and buying patterns. Down the center of the large room and out into an annex are what Americans called (when I was a girl) dressmak er forms. These have paper pattern dresses pinned on them what size? Because Italian sizes, are hot the same numbers, a size 14 is some thing else. Having worked that out, you proceed to the yardage shop. These are Rome's largest shops vast storehouses of fabrics, from the plainest of cottons through silk prints to rich taffetas. They are of every conceivable color, many shades of every color and many gradations of every shade of every color. Such stuff as dresses are made of. Actually, this is the most difficult of the problems of acquiring the new dress. Such wealth of selection causes light-headedness. That, and knowing you must translate yards into meters, and dollars into lira. At the arithmetic, you must be clear-headed, too, and adroit, knowing that in decision often means short change. A little shaken, and inse cure, after this, you go into the button and thread shop, which is, fortunately, small and you can also buy your zip per here. Actually, these are the way things seem the first time you attempt to have a new dress. There are shops, and right down town, where, for ap proximately the same ' price as you would pay in the bet ter stores in America, you can have lovely things made, in a week. But, supposing they don't look right when they are finished? I'll wear the old one! The fate of the sack whether 'or not it will sur vive in Italy, has already been decided. Twelve top design ers know, but they aren't tell ing until July 17, when they will present the fall styles in a four-day preview. For me no sacks but on the lovely, pencil slender, stylish Italian girls they are wonderful, and I can't imag ine them giving them up after so short a trial. ' Miss Oregon Hopefuls Arrive at Seaside Seaside (UPD Ten young ladies, contenders for the "Miss Oregon 1958" title ar rive here today to begin ac tivities that will see . one of them named and crowned by last year's winner, Jo Hansen oh Sunday. Tomato Relish New York (UPD Tomato relish doesn't have to be made over a hot stove. This fresh relish is a good side dish for meat, fish or poultry course. Combine 3 cups fresh toma toes with V3 cup finely chop ped onion, 1 tablespoon each of fresh lemon juice and cider vinegar,. VA teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon sugar and V tea spoon ground black pepper. Chill at least two hours. Makes about 3 cups. Nursery Should Be Checked for Safety Milwaukee (UPD Check the nursery for safety hazards before the baby arrives, ex perts say. ; Electric outlets should be made safe from prying fin gers. Cover base plugs with spring-mounted safety outlets. When an appliance plug is re moved, these mountings spring over the opening. Also study outlet to determine if they can supply all light need ed. When painting walls, bassi nets or , cribs, use lead-free paint. Check paint labels to be sure the paint does not con tain lead or lead chromate, which has toxic effects. PICKED TO REPEAT Los Angeles (UPD A mag azine poll of sports writers has picked the world champ ion Detroit Lions and the Cleveland Browns as favorites in the National Football League conference races this year. The magazine, Pro Foot- Camping Vacation Taken by Family Mr. and Mr. Richavi M. Davis, 2649 Roberts road, and their three childrdh, Diane,' Marilyn, and Scott, returned recently from a two week camping trip throughout the state. . - The Davises visited rela-j tives and friends in Odell and Enterprise and camped at Wallowa Lake state park near Enterprise. From there they traveled north to tie Viento state park on the Colimbia highway, then to Humbug Mountain state pak on High way 101 near Port Orford. Prior to returning home they camped in the Jediah Smith Redwoods state prk, Crescent City, Calif. The Davies have g 15-foot house trailer and -commelted on the "well kept" trailer parks throughout Oregon and neighboring state ball polled 12 sportswriters. contributing CHUCK'S MARIO 838 McANDREWS ROAD . ROUND lb. 0 RIB ............... lb. 6C T-BONE ....... ... . lb. m Boneless Rolled RUMP . lb. 05 SHORT RIBS .......... lb. 39 10 lbs. GROUND BEEF .$3.95 locker Beef Cut and Wrapped 12 BEEF .............. lb. 45 Maple Bart or Raised Donuts Danish Filled Pasteries or Butter Horns Right Out of the Oven to You HERE ARE OUR REGULAR EVERY DAY PRICES l60e dozen 6 . 36' Large Cakes, 98c ea. - Cookies, 25c doz. Dinner Rolls, 35c doz. Large Assortment of FRESH BAKED BREAD WEDDING CAKES All Sizes Made to Order 4 tier . . . $25 Serves 200 People Bearden's Bakery Ross Lane and West Main Open 8 A.M.-7 P.M. Monday Through Saturday Mid Summer Summer Play Clothes A great Once-a-Seascn Clearance on the Northwest's Top Sportsline . . . all sizes and all types go on sale . . . sizes from 1 to 6x 7 to 14 and sub teens. Shorts . . . Pedal Pushers . . . Pants . . . T-Tops . . . Overblouses and Jackets ... ygoff Just Look at the Tremendous Savings! "Regular Price" "Sale Price" Was $1.98 Now..:. $1.33 Was $2.98 Now..... $1.99 Was $3.50 Now.. ..$2.33 Was $3.98 Now . ... $2.65 Was $4.98 Now .... $3.32 Was $5.98 Now $3.99 Leon's Tots-to-Teeris 105 East Main O
