2 MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford. Ore.. Thuridiy. September 25, 1958
Three-Year-Old Ann Thomas
Featured in Alaskan Film
By GAY PAULEY
UPI Women's Editor
New York (T?D Even the
tots in the Lowell Thomas
family get around.
Three-year-old Anne Tho
mas, granddaughter of the
traveling newscaster-author-
lecturer-film producer, is just
back from two months in
Alaska, roughing it with her
parents as they made a film
about the 49th state.
Now, Anne's mother, Mrs
Lowell Thomas Jr., is just
waiting until son David, 15
' months, grows out of diapers
so the whole family can take
off for more far-away places.
"We want to travel as much
as we can as a family," said
attractive 29-y ear-old Tay
Thomas, a tall, blue-eyed bru
nette. "But I don't think It's
fair to keep children constant
ly on the go." That's why she,
Anne and David will remain
at their home in Princeton,
N.J., while Lowell Jr. visits
the Middle East this fall.
Film Features Daughter
He is producer of his fa
ther's "High Adventure" se
ries, which CBS will televise
this fall, starting with the
Alaskan story October 8
Daughter Anne is featured in
the film which is built around
one family's visit to our new
est and largest state.
Travel comes naturally to
Mrs. Thomas as well as her
husband. Her father is vice
president of Pan-American
World Airways. She grew up
in Greenwich, Conn., "where
we had a small plane at the
dock right along with the
boat."
Since their marriage in
1950, she has been with her
35-year-old husband to every
continent, seeing most of
them in detail. "But I've just
barely touched Europe," she
aid.
Her last big jaunt with her
' husband, in 1954, took them
by light plane they own a
Cessna-100 named "Charlie"
all through Africa, the Mid
dle East and into Asia. That
was some 50,000 miles of tra
vel over mountain, jungle
and desert, to some areas
where a white woman had
never been before.
Mrs. Thomas has taken fly
ing lessons but said she
wouldn't get a pilot's license
because "I might turn into a
backseat driver ... one pilot
in the family is enough any
way." She does the navigat
ing. Her mother baby-sat with
young David while the rest of
the Thomas, plus a bush pilot
and second plane with camera
crew, did the Alaska film. A
great part of the time the
group camped out, with the
adults using sleeping bags,
but with daughter Anne on a
pallet on the tent floor. "She
refused to use a sleeping
bag," said her mother. "I
guess I should have broken
her in before we left Prince
ton. "I also had planned to dress
her in corduroy pants for the
trip, so I'd have very little
ironing. The day before we
were to leave, she announced
firmly she wanted dresses. I
did some hasty shopping and
of course spent half my time
in Alaska doing laundry as a
result."
Former Resident
Now on Faculty
Col. and Mrs. William H.
Bartlett are at present mak
ing their home in Gardena,
Calif., where Colonel Bartlett
is on the faculty of El Camino
Junior college as an instruc
tor in mathematics. The Bart
letts made their home in
Medford in recent years fol
lowing the officer's retire
ment from active duty with
the United States Army.
During his Army career,
Colonel Bartlett taught math
ematics at the United States
Military academy at West
Point, New York, and also at
an Army gunnery school.
The Bartletts, whose Med
ford home is at 131 Valley
View drive, were in southern
California in recent months
while Colonel Bartlett took
courses at the University of
California at Los Angeles. Be
fore taking up his work at the
junior college, the couple
spent a vacation in Medford
and were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Barnes, Old Stage
road; Mr. and Mrs. C. Rease
Braley, Valley View drive,
and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jor
dan, Talent. They plan to
spend part of ne,xt summer
in the Rogue valley.
The Bartletts are living at
15712 Shadron in Gardena.
Waqqin Wheelers
Announce Dance
Waggin Wheelers Square
Dance club will hold the reg
ular club dance Saturday,
September 27 at the Square
Corral, Camp "White, at 8:30
pjn.
Caller will be Douglas E.
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Potluck refreshments will
be served, and the public is
invited.
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Wednesday, Oct. 1, 7-10 p.m.
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Lone Pine PTA
To Hold Carnival;
Plans for a fall carnival
were made at the first meeting
of the 1958-59 season of Lone
Pine . Parent-Teacher associa
tion. Norman Jahn, president,
conducted the session.
The president named a com
mittee of past presidents to
revise the group's by-laws. Ap
pointed were Mrs. Walter
Stroup, Mrs. George Paul,
Mrs. E. J. Lindstrom and Mrs.
William Underwood.
Mr. Jahn introduced school
board members and teachers.
Board members are William
Fish, W. E. Edwards, Norman
Thomas, Clifford McGinty
and William Underwood.
Teachers are Mrs. Mable
Hundley and Mrs. Opal Guetz
laff, first grade; Mrs. Edith
Thornton and Mrs. Jane Rus
sell, second grade; Mrs. Doro
thy Rix, fourth grade; Mrs.
Ruth Brodstad and Mrs. Mil
dred Schwendener, fifth
grade; Mrs. Beatrice Lindsay,
sixth grade; Mrs. Frances
Henry, seventh grade; Donald
Mitchell, eighth grade and
Richard Michaelis, music.
Lee Merriman is principal
and Mrs. Estelle Ballard is
school clerk and secretary.
The board members and
teachers were presented ' cor
sages and boutonnieres by
Mrs. G. Simmons and Mrs. E.
P. Edwards.
Mrs. W. C. Breese super
vised nursery care and Mrs.
Schwendener's fifth grade
room won the attendance
prize.
Refreshments were served
in the cafeteria by parents of
children in the fourth erade
under the direction of Mrs.
Archie West.
The next meeting will be
October 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Corps Makes Trip
To Grants Pass
Central Point Members of
William H. Harrison post,
Woman's Relief corps, recent
ly met with the Grants Pass
corps. The visitors aided in
initiating a member into the
order, with the president,
Mrs. Anna Harmon, presiding.
Making the trip from Cen
tral Point were Mrs. Edwin
Jones, Mrs. E. C. Faber, Mrs.
Sally Musty, Mrs. O. T. Wil
son and Mrs. Wallace Mc
Dowell. Mrs. John Novak, president
of the Central Point corps,
conducted a recent meeting of
the group. A potluck lunch
eon preceded the meeting.
The group voted in favor of
the Grants Pass order which
discontinues the annual dis
trict corps convention, due to
the small numbers in the
southern district.
A birthday party was held,
and honored were Mrs. Jones,
Mrs. A. B. Maple and Mrs.
Emma Jones.
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We don't really blame the weather man-he usually is
right. But he put Potpourri and Pappy to a lot of trouble
for nothing Tuesday night. The weather man, bless his
soul, said it was going to frost-maybe. Taking a look at the
thermometer outside at 8 p.m., we thought so too. So
Pappy took a flashlight and went out, and picked the ripe
tomatoes and cantaloupes.
Potpourri scurried around and found some old sheets
and a couple of discarded dresses with full skirts (they're
wonderful for spreading over a large plant) and an armful
of newspapers and we covered up the fuchsias and the
petunias and the geraniums and a lot of other stuff. First
we picked a big bouquet of the petunias, and snapped off
some branches from the big varigated geranium since
we promised a start to George, the proofreader.
Non-gardeners probably think we're crazy.. And we
are, too, when it comes to flowers. For we just can't bear
to see the first frost come and nip the annuals. We know
that the autumn leaves will be gorgeous, and that the
chrysanthemums and even the roses will continue to bloom,
but nevertheless, we know that another year is" almost gone
as soon as the first frost comes.
But back to Tuesday. It didn't frost, after all.
We went moon-watching Saturday night. We often spend
an evening looking at the sky, but this time we had expert
and scientific guidance. Shelby Tuttle and Mrs. T. invited
us to their home on Valley View drive to watch the moon
through their telescope. It was just the right night for such
an adventure, since to see this heavenly object to best
advantage one must pick a time when the sky is not only
clear but the moon is in an early phase.
Mr. Tuttle has been studying the skies for many years
and has charts and maps and books and magazines galore.
He knows a very great deal about the moon, and we re
member some of his information, most of which was new
to Potpourri, if not to Pappy.
The side of the moon which astronomers and scientists
can observe has been more thoroughly mapped than some
parts of the earth. Scientists know the location of the
thousands of craters, have calculated how deep they, are
and how high are the mountains and have drawn con
clusions about how the craters were formed, deciding that
they were caused by the impact of meteorites throughout
the ages.
Many of the craters, clearly visible through the lenses
and fascinating to see, have been named (we wondered how
the astronomers agreed on what to call them) and some
have hills or mountains inside them. Potpourri marveled
that this body has no atmosphere, and therefore no winds
or rains and no life.
After watching the moon for a time, Mr. Tuttle turned
the telescope around and we took a look at other planets
and stars. The men tried , to locate the Great Nebula of
Andromeda, but with little success because of the brightness
of the night. To many sky-watchers, both professional and
amateur, this is the most fascinating of all the objects' in
the sky, for it is the farthest away of anything which can
be seen with the naked eye.
Actually, to look at Andromeda is taking a look at the
past, for the light which a human on earth can see left the
Great Nebula thousands of years ago. With the sky-watching
fresh in our minds, Potpourri read a little more in "A
Primer for Star-gazers" by Henry Neely, and found that
he wrote in a noetic vein about Andromeda. "You must
forgive this speck for being so dim and tired-looking,'
wrote Mr. N. "And you will when you realize that, as you
see it tonight, this light has been traveling well over 750,000
years-possibly 1,000,000-to reach you-traveling all that
time at the tremendous velocity of 11,000,000 miles
minute.
"As you look at the Andromeda Nebula tonight you
cannot say 'It is of such-and-such a shape. You must say
'It was.' Because you will be doing something that no one
else in the world except a star-gazer can do; you will
actually be seeing the past. In this case, it is, or was, in
the very remote past as we count oiir chonology here on
earth, for tonight's light left Andromeda in the days when
apelike creatures here had only recently begun to evolve
into the form that we now call man.
"The light that you are now getting is more than 100
times older than the Pyramids; the distance that it has
traveled is so inconceivable that even to write the number
of miles in figures is meaningless. Yet, in that dim little
speck, we have an entire system of worlds with a total
mass that it would take some 100 billion of our suns to
equal." ' .
Potpourri's vocabulary failed us while looking at the
heavens Saturday night. When first we saw the beauty of
the moon through Mr. T's telescope we said, in truly awe
struck tones, "It's out of this world!" This brought a hearty
laugh from Mr. Tuttle, who agreed that we had spoken the
truth, in more ways than one. .
As for Andromeda-neither our imagination or vocabu
lary can cope with AndromedaO.S.
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Major and Wife
Guests in Valley
Maj. Curtis E. Hopkins,
U.S. Air Force, and Mrs. Hop
kins are visiting his father
and mother here, Mr. and
Mrs. Curtis L. Hopkins.
Major Hopkins flew in to
Medford Tuesday night in a
private plane to visit his par
ents. The major is a bomber
pilot in the Strategic Air
command and is stationed at
Ellsworth Air Force base in
Rapid City, S.D. The couple
will be here until Saturday.
Gold Hill Unit
To Hold Session
Gold Hill-Mrs. Virgil . M.
Ladd will be hostess Friday,
September 26, at her home,
973 Second avenue, for the
first meeting of the newly
organized Gold Hill Home Ex
tension unit.
Mrs. Thomas Gray, co-chairman
of the group, stated that
child care will be provided
by the unit. The children will
be cared for by Mrs. Alan
Phillips at her home, the
former Robert Bowan resi
dence across from the Del Rio
orchard. It is stated that Mrs.
Phillips is experienced in car
ing for groups of children.
Mrs. Scott Davis
Home From Idaho
Mrs. Scott Davis, 1914 East
Main street, returned Tues
day from Boise, Idaho, where
she spent the week end visit
ing family friends. ..
Also visiting in Boise at
the time were a sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie Frambach, Richmond,
Wash. . They were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Randolph
and Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Ran
dolph, brothers-in-law and
sisters, of Mrs. Davis and Mrs.
Frambach.
Mrs. Davis also visited Mrs.
William Hutchinson, former
Medford resident who moved
to Boise several years ago. ,
Women Attend
Church Session
Three Medford women are
in Forest Grove to attend the
sessions of the executive com
mittee of the Woman's So
qiety of Christian Service,
Oregon conference of the
Methodist church, being held
there September 25 and 26.
Of the 30 members attend
ing from all , parts of the
state, three are from Medford.
Mrs. C. R. Adamson, confer-.
ence ' secretary of the Wes-
leyan Service guild, will pre
sent guild plans. Mrs. George
Lawless, conference secre
tary of student work, will
give a special report on the
activities in the field of stu
dent work. This report will
cover her trip with Oregon
students, members of the stu
dent group named Methodist
Student Movement, to thei
northwest regional meeting
held in Luccock Park, Mon
tana, earlier this month.
Also attending from Med
ford is Mrs. Oliver P. Taylor,
press and publicity chairman
for the Oregon conference.
Mrs. Adamson will remain
through Saturday to assist
with the Forest Grove District
Wesleyan Service guild meet
ing. Lodge to Hold
Dinner, Party
Pocahontas lodge will hold
a potluck dinner Friday, Sep
tember 26, at 6:30 p.m. in
Redman hall on Apple street.
A business meeting will fol
low at 8 pjn. and a card party
will close the evening's pro
gram. Members are privileged to
take guests for the dinner and
card party.
A mink coat requires 700
hours of labor and seven
miles of thread. '
School Conducted By PTA
More than fifty parent-
teacher leaders from Jackson
county units attended the an
nual school of instruction,
held recently in the YMCA.
Mrs. John R. Boe, Grants
Pass, audio - visual services
chairman for the Oregon
Congress of Parents and
Teachers presented a film
"Teachers in Print," to illus
trate methods, and the most
advantageous use of materials
by executive committee mem
bers. Mrs. Boe, who has prior
experience in this field with
the Kansas Congress of Par
ents and Teachers, was for
merly in professional televis
ion work, and has a wealth of
program -suggestions of inter
est to local units.
Commenting that "Any ex
perience is educational if
properly interpreted," Mrs.
Boe stressed that we must
help parents realize they are
the audio-visual teachers in
the home. A child's reaction
to, or interpretation of, a poor
television program, radio pro
gram, or movie, can be de
termined by the parent who
will accept his natural re
sponsibility for tempering the
experiences seen or heard to
conform to accepted areas of
behavior in our society, i.e.
make-believe for dramatic ef
fect, true happenings, unfor
tunate circumstances, etc.,
Mrs. Boe stated. "In this man
ner we can help the child
learn to properly evalute pro
grams for himself," she said.
Mrs. Leigh Gustison, first
vice-president of the Oregon
Congress, re-emphasized the
four basic policies of all parent-teacher
associations: (1)
An educational program car
ried out by study, informa
tion and act; and a parent ed
ucation program through
study-discussion- groups; (2)
non-commercial, non-partisan,
non-sectarian; (3) non-iterfer-ece
with school administra
tion: and, (4) working rela
tionship with cooperating
agencies.
President Speaks
. The responsibilities and
privileges of executive board
members were discussed by
Mrs. Owen A. Kunkel, Jack
son County Council PTA pres
ident. PTA publications, and
those of related fields, that are
available for use by local
units were displayed by Mrs.
Chester Fitch Jr., Ashland,
council family" life chairman.
Mrs. Arthur Moore, Oregon
Congress vice president, Re
gion V, and Mrs. Eldred Han
sen, Congress historian, both
of Klamath Falls, assisted
with the school.
Mrs. Gustison announced
that the conference called by
Governor Robert D. Holmes to
report the findings of the high
school curriculum study in
Oregon, has been set for No
vember 6 and 7 in Salem. Dr.
William H. Burton, director of
Curriculum and Publications,
state department of education,
will give the report of the
Oregon study. The conference
will include a report of the
national high school curricu
lum 'Study by Dr. James B.
Conant, former President of
Harvard University.
Invitations to the confer
ence have been mailed to
selected representatives
throughout Oregon. Addition
al representatives may be al
lowed to attend by "special
request" invitations. ,
The next meeting of the
council will be October 15,
and a president's Workshop
will be conducted in Medford,
October 21, by Mrs. Russell
Case, president of the Oregon
Congress. She will be accom-
Leaves
Howard Harper, ion of Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Harper, 716
East Jackson street, Medford,
left Sunday for Corvallis
where he will resume his
studies at Oregon State col
lege. Young Harper will be a
sophomore this year majoring
in pharmacy.
panied to Medford by Mrs.
Joseph Edmiston, Milwaukie,
Congress vice president of
Region III.
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