i MAIL TRIBUNE. Mtiteri, Ore., Thuno'iv, Nerembtr 27. 1958 f
Eagle Point Mother of Year
Candidates Named by Group
Eagle Pjunt Six entries at a tasting tea and style show
for the "mother of the year"
contest which is being spon
sored by Eagle Point Jaycettes
have been submitted to the
chairmen, Mrs. Donald Kim
mel and Mrs. Harry Hanscom.
The candidates and their
sponsors are Mrs. Lottie Van
Scoy, Eagle Point Garden
club; Mrs. James C. Lusk,
Missionary Society of Com
munity Bible church; M r s.
Edward Chamberlain, Eagle
Point Home Extension unit;
Mrs. Raymond Briggs, Bethel
56, International Order of
Job's Daughters, Shady Cove;
Mrs. Glenn D. Hale, Eagle
Point Lions auxiliary and
Mrs. Lester Wertz, Eagle
Point Home Economics club.
Three out-of-town judges of
the contest are Mrs. Ann Gor
by. First Methodist church,
Medford; Mrs. Mabel Winston,
registrar and dean of women,
Southern Oregon college, Ash
land, and Mrs. Olive Starcher,
women's editor of the Med
ford Mail Tribune.
The women will be guests
Moose to Hold
First Jamboree
Medford Moose Lodge plans
a Moose jamboree night for
Saturday, December 6. The
event is for Moose members
and guests.
The evening will start with
a steak dinner served from 7
to 9 p.m. and will be followed
by dancing from 9 p.m. to
1 a.m.
Music will be by Bill
Glomb and His Thunderbirds,
a 5-piece band.
This is the first Moose jam
boree night, but it is planned
to make it an annual event,
according to lodge officers.
Pathfinders
Help Needy .
Medford Pathfinders met
last night to distribute about
20 Thanksgiving food baskets
to needy families in the Med
ford area. The youngsters,
who collected cans of food in
place of a treat for them
selves during the Hallowe'en
season, were able, to make the
baskets large enough to give
substantial aid for several
days due to the generosity of
donors throughout the com
munity. The boys and girls prepared
and delivered the baskets
themselves, obtaining names
of families in need of assist
ance through the local wel
fare agency, personal con
tacts, and the Seventh-day Ad
ventist church's welfare so
ciety. Names were carefully
checked by unit leaders be
fore distribution of the baskets.
CALENDAR
Friday:
-12 noon Fifty Plus club,
Pythian hall.
1 p.m. Electa Social club,
Order of Eastern Star, Girls
Community club.
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Friday, December 5, at the
Grange hall, and the winner
will be announced.
Fashions from Town and
Country will be modeled by
Shady Cove Job's Daughters,
and women of the commun
ity. A musical program is
planned.
Baby sitting will be pro
vided without charge, and
women attending are asked
to take their children to the
side entrance of the hall.
Concert
Changed
To Hedrick
The frist concert this sea
son of the Philharmonic So
ciety of Southern Oregon will
be given at Hedrick Junior
High school instead of Med
ford High school it was an
nounced today by Richard D.
Werner, conductor. The con
cert is set for Sunday, Novem
ber 30, at 3 pjn.
Tickets are being sold by
both Philharmonic guild mem
bers, and members of Tudor
guild, since the net proceeds
of the concert will go to the
building fund of the Oregon
Shakespearean Festival asso
ciation. In addition they are
available at Purucker's Music
house, the Music Mart and
Swem's Gift shop.
The program will feature
Conductor Werner and Mrs.
Audrey Bartlett, concertmis
tress, in the "Symphonia Con
certante" for solo violin, viola
and orchestra. Bruno Pellegri
ni, assistant director, will
conduct this number.
Another feature will be the
widely known number,
"Peter and the Wolf' with
Angus Bowmer, Shakespear
ean actor, as narrator. This
was written by Prokofieff in
order to teach children how
to recognize the various in
struments in an orchestra.
Talent School
Status is Topic
Of PTA Session
. Talent A panel discussion
on the present and future sta
tus of the Talent school dist
rict was held at the last meet
ing of the - Talent Parent
Teacher association. Many
factors regarding the proposed
consolidation of the Talent
and Phoenix school districts
were explained.
Lynn Newbry, moderator of
the panel and a member of
Talent school board, intro
duced the members of the
panel. They were Keith Hock
ersmith, chairman of the Jack
son County reorganization
committee, Allen Harris,
chairman of Phoenix school
board, Roy Parr, superintend
ent of Talent school, Mrs. P.
J. McAbee, chairman of Tal
ent school board, Mrs. V. L.
Goodrich and Bill Gleim,
members of Talent school
board.
Mr. Newbry invited anyone
with questions or suggestions
regarding the situation of the
school, to attend meetings of
the Talent school board or call
Mr. Parr, or a member of the
school board.
Mrs. Neil Stockebrand, PTA
president, presided at the
meeting. The opening cere
mony was conductd by the
Brownies. A report on the
Halloween party was given by
Mrs. Ray Burnett, PTA repre
sentative. The party, spon
sored by all of the civic and
service organizations in Tal
ent, was held at the Talent
city hall.
Following the meeting re
freshments were served by
mothers of children in the sec
ond grade. Child-car was pro
vided. Sams Valley Unit
To Hold Workshop
Sams Valley A toy work
shop will be held by Sams
Valley Home Extension unit
December 1 at the home of
Mrs. Milton Sanderson. The
workshop will begin at 10
a.m. and those planning to
attend are asked to take a
sack lunch and a cup for cof
fee. Mrs. Sanderson may be
called for a list of equipment
needed for the workshop.
Staple food items and a
child's toy, or both, may be
taken to a meeting of the unit
set for December 16. The con
tributions will be given to ft
needy family at Christmas.
Traditional family observ
ances, favorite cookie recipes
(with a sample) or other holi
day ideas, will be shared at
the meeting. It will be held
at the home of Mrs. Jerome
Fitzgerald, and no project
lesson is scheduled.
The last meeting of the unit
was held at the home of Mrs.
Edgar Pleasant. Mrs. Dalton
Straus and Mrs. Jerome Fitz
gerald presented the lesson,
"Improving Ourselves as Host
esses." Mrs. George Bush was
a guest
Yesterday as we worked our way through the aisles
of the grocery store, which were jammed with shoppers all
bent on buying the makings for a Thanksgiving dinner,
Potpourri wondered what a Pilgrim would think of the
scene. In autumn of 1621, the Pilgrims had only what food
they had raised, or could garner from the country-side and
near-by forests. Frankly, we're thankful that this is Novem
ber, 1958, and not 1621.
The turkey we bought was all ready for the oven - we
didn't kill it, dress it or do anything but stuff it and put it
in the oven. The cranberries and celery' came in collophane
bags, the yams we picked out of a bin, (they could have
come from a can), the broccoli was in a package in the
freezer cabinet and so was the pie for dessert. Even the
rolls were packaged.
Sounds wonderful. But is it? Many a dietitian, dentist
and doctor believes that for all the "good" food we have
in the United States, that we are still undernourished, and
such groups as the Natural Foods Associates are so sure
of it that members have gone back to the practice of grow
ing their own food whenever possible, grinding their own
flour, baking their own bread, etc.
Food habits acquired while young are hard to break.
We've read many times that the soy bean is almost a perfect
food that it is easy to grow in almost any part of the
world and that it is a better food than rice or wheat. But a
home economics teacher from Korea once told us that a
campaign in that country to start the Koreans eating soy
beans had failed almost completely and she had decided
the only way would be to introduce soy bean foods into
the diets of infants and small children.
At any rate, the problem of foods for the world's growing
population is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing.
And every time Potpourri attends a banquet or dinner and
sees the great quantity of food which is wasted, as well as
eaten, we uneasily and guiltily think of the millions who go
hungry daily. So far as we know, there is no good reason
why one person is more entitled to sufficient food than an
other. Why does a family in the United States sit down
today to a table loaded with an abundance of food, while
one in India or Greece goes hungry?
.
There's one delicacy Potpourri isn't eating today - and
that is wild rice. A conscientious checker, bless her soul,
asked if we knew the price of the package of wild rice
which was among the food we had collected. We'd looked,
but didn't find it - even with our bifocals on. "The price
is on the bottom of the package," she said, "And it's $2.49."
We thanked the good woman warmly, and hastened off to
pick up stuffing bread. Anyhow, we love good, old-fashioned
bread stuffing with oodles of sage, rosemary, onion and
celery in it.
But to get back to the Pilgrims - some doubt that they
actually ate turkey for the first Thanksgiving, and some
writers even say that the early colonists brought turkeys
with them from England. The November issue of the Aramco
World, publication of the Arabian-American Oil company,
says that "some of the turkeys that adorned colonial tables
may have come not from American woods, but from English
barnyard stock."
The English, it seems, were raising turkeys as early
as 1500. Aramco World says that the English raise two kinds
of turkey, the Norfolk, a -small, black turkey, and the Cam
bridge, a more colorful type. The' Norfolk turkeys look
like the wild turkeys which still are to be found in remote
sections of the Central United States, and the Cambridge
resembles the "peacock" turkeys found in the American
tropics. "Early tropic explorers took these toothsome birds
to England; and some other voyager, possibly John Cabot,
is thought to have taken the northern variety there about
the same time - just before 1500 A.D. (The fatter tropical
turkeys had long been domesticated in Mexico).
However, the Aramco writer concludes that the first
Thanksgiving dinner menu did include what has become
the national holiday bird, and quotes from an early writing
which said that the Pilgrims had "four wild turkeys, shot
in the nearby woods," for the first Thanksgiving dinner.
The pumpkin pie, a traditional dessert for Thanksgiving,
probably was added to the menu later. The early settlers
learned about pumpkins from the Indians and also picked
up from them the habit of planting pumpkins between the
corn rows. Aramco notes that "after the first frost, when
the cornstalks have been cut and stacked, theigolden yellow
pumpkins match the sun's color, a last light of the growing
season before the white snows and long nights of winter
close in."
The pumpkin, which is a fruit and not a vegetable, got
its name from the Greek word, "pepon" which means
"mellow." A single pumpkin seed in 24V$ weeks of growing
time puts out nearly 2,000 feet of vine and 20 pumpkins,
enough for 500 pies.
Ever use the expression, "some punkins" or call anyone
a pumpkin head? Aramco's writer says that New Englanders
are called "pumpkin heads" because of an early blue law
that required men to have their hair bobbed to the edge
of a cap. It is said that instead of a cap, a half pumpkin
was often used. New Yorkers of the 1860's thought it clever
to express admiration for a leading citizen by acknowledg
ing, "He's a pumpkin" and Henry Ward Beecher is credited
with coining the phrase "It's some pumpkins" in order to
denote excellence.
The Eleventh Commandment (from the pen of Dr. Walter
Lowdermilk) - "Thou ,shalt inherit the holy earth as a
faithful steward, conserving its resources and productivity
from generation to generation. Thou shalt safeguard thy
fruitful fields from erosion, thy living waters from drying
up, thy forests from destruction and protect thy hills from
over-grazing by the herds, that thy descendants may have
abundance forever. If any shall fail in this stewardship of
the land, thy fruitful fields shall become sterile stony
ground or wasting gullies, and thy descendants shall decrease
and live in poverty or perish from off the face of the
earth." - O.S.
Hilltoppers Plan
Dance Saturday
Hilltoppers Square Dance
club will be hosts for a
square dance Saturday night,
November 29, at the Old
Wagner Creek school. Danc
ing will begin at 8:30 p.m.
Admission is free and all
square dancers and guest call
ers are invited. Potluck re
freshments will be served and
coffee is available all eve
ning. The school is reached by
turning on to Wagner avenue
in downtown Talent and driv
ing for two miles on paved
road. The school will be floodlighted.
Pocahontas Lodge
Cancels Dinner
Pocahontas lodge has can
celed a potluck dinner
planned for Friday, Novem
ber 28. The lodge will hold
the usual business session at
8 p.m.
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Woman's Auxiliary
Cancels Meeting
The meeting of the St.
Mark's Episcopal church aux
iliary previously announced
for Friday afternoon has been
cancelled. The meeting will
be held December 19.
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Average annual rainfall in
the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley of Texas is 27.62 inches.
MILITARY BALL
Saturday, December 6th 7:30 p.m.
ROGUE VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB
Fermer, Present or Retired Officers of the Armed Force
are Invited to Attend
Tickets may be purchased at Swem's 0
Tickets
On Sale For
Brigadoon
Tickets for the musical play,
"Brigadoon," to be given by
Medford High school Decem
ber 4-6, are now on sale. They
may be obtained from the
high school office, from mem
bers of the choir and cast, or
from members of the school's
Future Business Leaders'
club.
"Brigadoon" is a haunting
musical fantasy about a Scot
tish town that has gone to
sleep and awakes for a single
day once each hundred years.
John Frohnmayer, George
Koch and Rosemary Doolen
play the leading roles which
were sung in the movie ver
sion by Gene Kelly, Van John
son and Cyd Charisse.
Written by Alan Jay Lerner
and Frederick Loewe, who
also wrote the greatest suc
cess of the century, "My Fair
Lady," "Brigadoon" won the
New York Critics' circle prize
as the best musical of its first
season, 1946-47, and has
grown in popularity through
out the years.
It is a wistful tale of two
Americans whose plane lands
near a Scottish village, a
quaint place that appears on
no maps. It is a community of
idyllic peace where the in
habitants know no strife; it is
an oasis of dreams which ap
pears once in a century.
The large cast includes
Marianne Samuelson, Paul
Moore, Dennis Barr, Susan
Baker and the school choir.
The scenery and costumes
have been designed by War
ren Wolf and Mrs. Ruth Hock
ersmith; Mrs. Lenore Zappell
is dramatic director and Lynn
Sjolund is musical director for
the production.
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Special Election
Held by Court
Roxy Ann court, Order of
Amaranth, held a special elec
tion for an associate conduc
tress on November 20, and
honored supreme and grand
officers.
Mrs. Fred Graten was elect
ed and installed associate con
ductress.' Appointive officers
installed to ' fill vacancies
were Mrs. Lawerence Messal,
marshal in the east and Mrs.
Clarence Milotta, wisdom.
Jack Kennedy, deputy su
preme royal patron of the
Supreme council, Order of
Amaranth; Mrs. Ira D. Can
field, grand representative to
New York, and Clarence Har
wood, member, of a grand
committee, were escorted and
honored.
Carl Gilbert, assistant grand
lecturer of California, was
also escorted and introduced.
The royal matron, Mrs. Mar
shall Day, and royal patron,
Fred Purdin, announced a
Christmas dinner will be serv
ed to all members of the
court before the December
meeting. Reservations are to
be 1 made by calling Mrs.
Frank Little, SPring 2-4225.
Black mourning clothes
were supposed to make the
wearer invisible to ghosts.
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