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2 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfori, Oregon, Monday, Dtccmbtr 8, 1958 Do-Good Hospital Visitor Sometimes Bad Medicine By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor New York - (UPD - The do good visitor to the hospital sometimes is bad medicine for the patient. I bring this up because statistically about 23 million persons are hospitalized an nually, which means many more times that total in visitors, and because having illness in my own family re cently, there has been ample time to observe viistors and their bedside manners. This column is meant to be written with kindliness, and with the desire to help both the patient and the visitor. . Sure. Call on the hospitaliz ed patient. He or she wel comes company, unless the doctor orders otherwise and the "no visitors" sign is out. My personal observation is that a little company does a lot to brighten a long day. But don't be one of those types who doctors tell me are inevitable in the hospital room. Stays Entir Day There's the long-faced visitor, who already has buried the patient although the lucky soul is being dis missed tomorrow. Another is the long-staying visitor, who apparently figures as long as he's doing his good deed, he might as well make it for the whole day. Or, the bubbly, nothing- eets-me-down visitor whose presence probably is an asset at a cocktail party, but some times is more than a sick per son can take. Strike a happy medium in cheerfulness. I often wonder what the natient. who has to be con fined, thinks when a visitor remarks, "Boy, does that bed look good. I could use some of the rest you're getting." Or, the reaction of the pa tient to the visitor who says, "You look better than I ex pected " Or, "You look worse than I expected." There also is the "I told you so" visitor, who reminds the patient that ii ne had listened to good ole Charley this illness could have been orevented. And there is fi nally, I've noticed, the "well my doctor says" visitor, who's THE imminent authority on the patient's. Illness because she has talked it over with her own physician. "I wish the visitor would quit comparing . ailments," one prominent New York phy sician told me when we were discussing this subject. "And above all quit giving free ad vice. This is the worst of all and may undermine the pa tient's faith in his own doc tor." Soma General Rules Blue Cross, the hospital in surance plan, with the aid of physicians has compiled a chart for us visitors. It in- Nevita Chapter To Hold Meeting Central Point Nevita chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will meet Tuesday, De cember 9, in the Central Point Masonic temple. Mrs. Merrill Harsh, matron, will preside. . Chairman of the entertain ment is Mrs. Elva Edler and the refreshment committee is Mrs. Wyles Berry and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Snook. Mrs. Har old Head is decorations chair man. Calendar Calendar notice and flew for society section of The Mail Tribune most be submitted in Writing and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 o.m. Friday. Dead' line for the weekly calendar Is 9 a.m. of the day for publication and for week day news is S pjn. the day before publication. Monday; 6:30 p.rrl. - MedfOrd Neigh bors of Woodcraft, Eagle hall. 7 p jn.-MarinerS Club, First Presbyterian church of Phoe nix, at Church. 8 o.m. - Degree of Honor lodge, Girls Community Club Tuesday: 10:30 a.m. - Kaffeeklatsch, Derby Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. Edward Burg. 10:30 a.m. -Oak GrOve Home Extension unit, home Of Mrs. Kenneth Williams, 1060 Stewart ave. 12:30 p.m. - Central Point First Presbyterian church as sociation of Women, at church. 12:30 p.m. - Urst Presby terian church circle meetings of Womens' association: Beth any, Mrs. Lloyd Neilfkra, 2130 East Jackson st.; Charity, Mrs. C. W. Lemery, 200 Windsor ave:; Faith, at church; Grace, Mrs. Garner Haupert, 222 Val ley View dr.; Hope, Mrs. Clar ence Young, 2418 Hillcrfest rd.; Mercy, Mrs. Otto J. FrOhhmayer, 1656 Spring st.; Temple, Mrs. Al James, 1426 Euclid ave.; and Trinity, Mrs. James Rowan, 828 Minnesota ave. ' 12:30 p.m. - Women's Fel lowship, First Baptist church, at church. eludes these suggestions to those who would speed the pa tient s recovery. -No more than two visitors in the room at a time. -Make your visits as brief as possible. A cheerful 15 min utes are ample. -Be calm, cheerful and optimistic. Avoid all excit ing, disturbing subjects. -Don't sit or lean on the bed. -If you have a cold, don't pay a visit. Speak quietly, walk quiet ly, laugh quietly. Rest and quiet are major contributions to recovery. If the patient is critically ill, only members of the im mediate family should visit Don't deluge the' patient with flowers all at once. Space them out, if the illness is long. Books, magazines and games also often are welcome. Don't bring food, unless the doctor or nurse approves. No smoking, please; in case oxygen is used, positively no smoking. Blue Cross said hospitals have their individual regula tions on permitting children to visit, but that a pretty good rule is, no children under 13 permitted. , Auxiliary Plans Christmas Party Jackson County Medical Society auxiliary has planned the annual Christmas party for Wednesday, December 10. It will be held at the home of Mrs. Theodore P. Barss, 332 Windsor avenue, and dessert will be served at 7 o'clock Mrs. John Porto will be co- hostess. 4 Party Planned Medford Home Extension unit will hold the annual Christmas party Wednesday, December 10, at the court house auditorium. A potluck luncheon will be served at noon. The program will be followed by an exchange of gifts costing no more than 50 cents each. Sheer Elegance dramatize a table setting with exquisite pineapple and shell stitch doilies. Fun to cro chet. Beautiful a luncheon set or incidental doilies. Pattern 7280: directions for doilies 12 and 21 inches in NO. 30 cotton, larger in string. Start them now! Send THIRTY-FIVE cents (coins) for this pattern - add 5 cents' for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Med fOrd Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. Our new 1959 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue has many lovely designs to order: crocheting, knitting, embroid ery, quilts, dolls, weaving. A special gift, in the catalog to keep a child happily occupied -a cutout doll and clothes to color. Send 25 cents for yOur capy of the book. ABC's 1 V m New Classes Jan. 5 7280 I j ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 40-41 N. Riverside SP i-4264 Medford, Ore. Landscape Expert Gives Program For Garden Club Mrs. Fred A. Lorish, local landscape architect, was guest speaker for the Medford Gar den club's Christmas program Wednesday at the Courthouse auditorium. Her subject was "Trees Give Us Beauty Too." Mrs. Lorish opened her inter esting talk with when is a tree not a shub and when is a shrub not a tree.". She ex plained in detail the differ ence between heavy c shade trees for use on the streets, types for the front yards and the smaller patio type, includ ing the various flowering trees. Mrs. R. T. Nichol, Siskiyou district director and past president of the club, was wel corned to the meeting. Other guests were Mrs. J. M. Chan- celor and Mrs. L. E. Bean Two new members who will be initiated into the club at the January meeting will be Mrs. W. D. Durkee and Mrs, Chancelor. Mrs. J. W. Ostrander, Camp White welfare chairman, re ported she and her committee had made 868 Christmas dec orations for Camp White out of metal can lids and painted paper bells cut from egg car tons. Meeting in the Court house Monday morning to help her in the project were Mrs. C. L. Miller, Mrs. Charles C. Stearns, Mrs. H. L. Eker- son, Mrs. Charles Cardona, Mrs. Carroll Miller, Mrs. Lulu Bartress of Shady Cove, Mrs, Clarence O. Lack, Mrs. Day ton DePue, Mrs. LeRoy Cline, Mrs. L. P. Rentchler, Mrs Reimer Peterson and Mrs. Ira Fitzgerald. Prizes were won by Mrs. N. F. Crowelle and Mrs. C. L. Goff . The annual Christmas gift exchange was held around the living decorated evergreen tree which is to be presented to a local school. Tea chairman, Mrs. H. L. Ekerson introduced her com mittee, Mrs. Reimer Peterson, Mrs. Nellie Ferris and Mrs. Olen Arnspiger. The red cov ered tea table was centered with , an arrangement of a large bowl of colorful Christ mas bells flanked with silver tinted holly sprays. The next meeting of the Medford Garden club will be Monday, January 5. There will be no executive board meeting in December. Classes Continue ; At Center Classes are continuing this week at the Senior Activity center. A gift-wrapipng class was scheduled for this after noon, and Tuesday, December 9, a class in oil painting will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday's class 'will be wood carving from 1 to 3 pm. and Thursday a review of basic dance steps will be given from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Friday the reading room and library will be open from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Miss Margaret Ossenbrugge, who teaches the Oil painting, Tuesdays, will carry on the class through Christmas and after the new year if interest continues, and Glenn Van Wickle, who teachers the wood carving, will continue that course and will add clay modeling the first week in January. The class in dancing, taught by Mrs. Gene Cham berlain, will continue through December and January. Plans for additional pro gram features after the first of the year are being made. One of these will be an "arm chair" course in "See the World," with colored slides and movies. Shuffle board and chess tournaments are planned. It is reported that 415 men and women have used the center up to December 1. AH teachers are volunteers, as also are the hostesses, Mrs. Judd Greenman, Mrs. C. A. Thatcher, Mrs. Martha Greg ory, Mrs O. A. Eden, Mrs. Clayton Walker, Mrs. Ena Toss, Miss Gladys Eaton and Mrs. Fred Rankin. The center, unique in Ore gon, is sponsored by Rogue Valley Council on Aging. . . 4 Frozen vegetables cook in about half the - time needed for fresh vegetables bcause they are partially cooked be fore freezing. For variety, cook frozen vegetables in the Oven. eneJasteMkil GeedHtuekannr Disaster . Workshop Sponsored A disaster nursing work shop was held at the chapter house, Jackson County Red Cross, December 2, with Mrs Helen Geary, volunteer nurs ing consultant and Miss Bar bara Hirsch, nursing field di rector, in charge. The agenda was based on disaster policies of the American National Red Cross. Speakers were introduced by Col. C. E. Stafford, disas ter, chairman for Jackson county. Mrs. O. A. Eden is co chairman. Also attending the meeting were Mrs. Nova B. Young, Civil Defense nurse consult ant; Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, director of Civil Defense for Jackson county; Mrs. Roy Stein, disaster nurse chair man; Mrs. Robert Stephenson, nurse enrollment; Mrs. C. E. Garrett, mass care disaster co chairman; Miss Hazel Swayne, co-chairman first . aid; Mrs. James A. Love, Mrs. Lester Gilman, Mrs. Thomas J. Dona hue; Mrs. E. S. Strothers, Shady Cove; Mrs. A. E. Con verse, Ashland; Mrs. Helen Starnes, Mrs. Barbara Hall, Mrs. Verna Ziebarth, Mrs. Eunice Candler, Grants Pass; Mrs. Lea Hathway, Cave Junction; Mrs. Allie Jacobson and Mrs. N. Gillespie, Eugene; Mrs. Frank Fairweather, vol unteer field consultant; Mrs. E. A. Littrell, chairman of vol unteer services for Jackson county, and Mrs. Helen A. Wilson, executive secretary. General Hicks addressed the group and displayed cur rent instruments being used in the Civil Defense program. A "mock" shelter was set up and a skit presented showing the problems that might occur if a disaster should occur in this area, and how the prob lems should be met. Member Honored By Bridge Club Medford Duplicate Bridge club honored Mrs. Josephine Clark at the last meeting. Mrs. Clark, who plays regu larly with all the local dupli cate clubs, celebrated her 9 0th birthday anniversary Sunday, December 7. In spite of her 90 years, Mrs. Clark is considered a formidable op ponent at the bridge table, i A birthday cake was served in Mrs. Clark's honor. The games which followed counted for master points. North-south winners were Mrs. Frank Baker and Roy Pruitt, first, 189 points; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hillary, Grants Pass, tied with Mrs. Ernest Pearson and. B. L. Sanderson for second and third, each pair scoring 172 points; and the Paul Hattons were fourth with 171. East-West winners were H. J. Boyd and Ray S. Wise, first, 224; Mrs. Thomas Ran dall and Mrs. Alto Pruitt, sec ond, 176Vi; George Polski and George Rode, . third, 176 points; Mrs. Marrs ' Gibbons and Mrs, D o 1 p h Phipps, fourth, 169 points. -t At Wedding Mrs. L. G. Frink," 1654 Thomas road, returned home Sunday from Long Beach, Calif., where she spent . four days. Mrs. Frink attended the wedding of her . daughter, Meta Jean, to Lt. Martin John Kinnaird, Springfield, Mo., which took place Sat urday in the Navy chapel at Long Beach. Mrs. Frink was accompan ied south by Mrs.. Dom Pro vost Jr., Ashland. If s m CftAf I vsli LUUUnUL SMARTER LIGHTER STRONGER 'ROOMIER Oil THE BALCONY BUY TOfflTE! Couple Returns From Vacation Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Brown have returned to Medford after spending the past two months traveling. The Browns went first to Ari zona, and later traveled and visited in several states in cluding South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas. They returned to Arizona for a- time before continuing to Oregon. The Browns are temporarily living . at 1556 Stewart avenue. Knights to Hold Annual Election; Party Planned The annual election of Offi cers for Talisman lodge, Knights of Pythias, will take place at a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the Pythian building. Refreshments will follow the meeting. Lt. Col. Charles Ord Reed, will be guest of honor. He is a member of the local lodge and also a votary of Fuhat Burkan temple, DOKK, for many years. Lt. Col. Reed, who returned recently from his duties in Korea and Ja pan, will spend the holidays with his family here. Mrs. Reed's mother is Mrs. Rosa A. Young, 509 North Riverside avenue. Final plans will be complet ed for the annual Christmas party to be held in the Pyth ian building Tuesday, Decem ber 16. A potluck dinner at 6:30 pjn. will be followed by a program of entertainment and a visit by Santa Claus, who will distribute bags of sweets to the children and 'teenagers gathered around the Christmas tree. Rae Jack, is general chair man for the Knights and Dok eys, with Emil O. Johnson, Edward Bostwick, Dan Kadin and Don Copeland as helpers. Mrs. Bostwick is chairman for the Pythian Sisters. The par ent order, Knights of Pythias, Pythian Sisters, Rosebud council, Sunshine Girls Troop 16, Boy Scouts, spon sored by Talisman lodge; members of the Dramatic Or der Knights Of Khorassan, No mads of Avrudaka; their fam ilies and friends are invited to participate in the Christ mas festivities according to Joe W. Fritsch, representing the lodge. Club to Hold Dinner, Dance Welcome Wagon club of Medford is planning a Christ mas dinner -dance Saturday, December 13 at MOn Desir in Central Point. The evening will begin at 8 p.m, with cock tails and the prime rib roast dinner will be served at 8:30 p.m. Dinner will be followed by dancing. The club has extended an invitation to all new residents of Medford to attend the dance. Attire for the evening is to be semi-formal. Reservations should be made no later than Thursday, December 11, by calling eith er Mrs. Leland L. RauCh, SPring 3-3314, or Mrs. Nicho las A. Vanikiotis at SPring 3-5650. Directions for driving to Mon Desir will be given with the reservations. 4 Guild to Meet St. Elizabeth's guild of St. Mark's Episcopal church will hold the . annual , Christmas party Friday, December 12, in the Guild halL Luncheon will be served at 12 noon. Swem's thst'c cmart v nn tho UIUIU -WIIIUIIIJ Wtl II IV AMERICAN Tli beautifully contoured design makes it the moct fashion able luggage obtainable anywhere today.; The lightest luggage you've ever carried. Actually pounds lighter than other luggage.. Fiberglass reinforced one-piece molded construction. Ounce f6r ounce the strongest luggage. rVrliianite coverings resist scratches and scuffs wipe clean with damp cloth. Packs up to. 25 more clothes than comparable size luggage. IN WHITE, BLUE OR SILVER DUSK . .. f books gifts records n ygW -Hw&imt vmm J OPEN MON. and THURS. TIL 9 P.M Applegate Unit Has Program On Candle Making Applegate Valley - Upper Applegate Extension unit was free to choose a topic for the Christmas meeting Wednes day and asked to be shown how to make Christmas can dles. Mrs. Fred West and her daughter, 'Mrs. Glenn Bailey of Phoenix, who also is a unit member here, were asked to give the lesson, because they had distributed some very suc cessful gift candles in the past. . The extension service is not giving a candle making proj est this year, so the two wom en searched for material, end ing up with a complete proj ect of their own that, more than satisfied the unit. They made roses, bowls, choir boy candles and all manner of ob jects for decorating even though it took most of the equipment from their kitchen and the childrens' balloons and crayons to do it. They gathered information from ex tension bulletins a grange co op bulletin Sunset magazine and commercial sources. Mrs. Bailey will use the demon stration as a basis for a candle booth for the Phoenix Parent Teacher association soon. The local extension units have gained county wide recognition for their joint fes tival held in the community last spring according to Mrs. Dora Krouse county commit tee representative here. The idea may be used throughout the county next spring for ex tension unite, to hold joint community festivals. Mrs. Krouse urged stronger partici pation by the units in the 4-H program. Thirty-two women attended the meeting including several guests. Mrs. Krouse and Mrs. Curtis Gearhardt were from the lower1 Applegate unit and other guests included Mrs. B. J. Sanford Mrs. Edward Kam merer, Mrs. William Roby, Mrs. Raymond Lumas, and Mrs. Clarence Roloff. The lat ter two became members. A Christmas dinner was served with table decorations of the tin can craft taught in the November meeting. Mrs. ROlland Smith is chair man of the unit. Mrs. Everett Grissom Honored at Shower Central Point - Mrs. Rine hold Boes, Robin Lane, gave a shower Dec. 2 honoring Mrs. Everett Grissom. A tall stork stood among .the gifts on the pink covered table and above the table an open um brella of pink and blue com pleted the setting for the gifts. Mrs. Wayne Vincent assist ed Mrs. Boes with the re freshments. Guests were Mrs. Lloyd Walch, Mrs. Paul Kroon, Mrs. Ray Guss. Mrs. Frank Mc- Kimmens, Miss Ila Mae Hig inbotham, Mrs. Norma Higin bOtham, Mrs. Keith Lawton, Mrs. Geqrge Rainy, Mrs. Lil lian Wright, Mrs. Wayne Vin cent, Mrs. Harvey Cassman, Mrs. Wayne Thompson, Mrs. Dick Lawton, Mrs. Claire Higinbotham, Donna Fay, Billy and Gloria Jean Thomp son, Sharon, Rose, Raymond and Teresa Boes, Mrs. Vin cent and the honored guest Mrs. Grissom. To Elect Mistletoe club will elect of ficers at a business meeting set for Wednesday, December 10, at 12:30 p.m. at Girls Community club. The meet ing will be followed by a Christmas party, with gift ex change. crnl AWA V ?j l' I K w ll PSv II II ' 3 1 New Food Basket's s7OX. ( TOP 'O Tdwe nut Butter Oat Starch mm faflffliil s. jj)!)e PRE-CHRISTMAS asl TOT MILE '5a. 25. OFF v in&lKm n wv ss t fill. w SIMM Spasl ALWAYS A lUlfM II II UII II . j vi v ii ii Sausage 2ibs. Country Style Oysters We Lead-Others Follow-Watch Our Ads and See! ' o 1 Hills Bros. Zee Paper, Giant Roll Pillsbury Orange or Yellow Pkg. 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