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J MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Oregon, Tuesday, March 3, 1959 Test Kitchens Cloak -Dagger Br JEANNE LESEM United Press International New York - (LTD - The test kitchen of a major food man ufacturer takes on aspects of a cloak-and-dagger mystery when a new product is in the works. This impression is height ened at the Borden company's new test kitchens here by a small but fully equipped kitchen shut off from the reg ular four-section unit and the "quantity recipe kitchen." "We call this our 'puttering kitchen," said Mrs. Evelyn Costick, kitchens manager, in an interview. "Men in our products group use it for con fidential experiments without interruptions when visitors are coming through." It also keeps them out of the way of the four home economists who run the regu lar test kitchens, developing recipes, testing products and Member Speaks At Altrusa Club Of Recent Trip Mrs. Edna Mole, a member of the Altrusa club of Med ford, spoke to the group Thursday following a busi ness meeting at the home of Mrs. Martin C. Wood, near Talent. Mrs. Mole, who has recent ly returned from a six-weeks' trio to the Philippine islands and the Orient, told of her im pressions of the places she vis ited. After short stops in San Francisco and Honolulu, she flew to Manila, where she stayed three weeks with her son-in-law and daughter, First Lt. and Mrs. Richard Van Al len of Clark Air Force base. Mrs. Mole said there are still many evidences of World War II damage, with families living in the corners of ruined buildngs, and chil dren greeting American visi tors with a V for Victory sign and a shout of "Hi, Joe:' Accompanied by her daugh ter, Mrs. Mole arrived in Hong Kong on Chinese New Year's day. From there they toured the countryside, seeing the rice paddies, the walled ci ties, and looking down on the , fenced and guarded border of Red China. They were advised that refugees are pouring into Hong Kong from Red China at the rate of 7000 a month. Mrs. Mole and her daugh ter flew to Tokyo via Hong Kong Airways, and added that what Impressed her most in Japan was the number of people ready to serve you wherever you go there. Club members wore old fashioned clothes, in honor of the Oregon Centennial. Re freshments were served by the hostesses, Mrs. Howard Stoll and Mrs. Valton Finley. Mrs. Dorothy Donnely of Renton, Wash., governor of Altrusa Internationa l's Twelfth district, will be the honored guest at a special Founder's day dinner Aprils, it was announced by Miss Myrta Otterdale, club presi dent. The Altrusa club was organized in Nashville, Tenn., in 1917. Medford Jaycettes Announce Meeting . Mrs. Charles Henry, 349 Lindero avenue, will be host ess for a meeting of Medford Jaycettes Wednesday, March 4 at 8 p.m. An informal eve ning of games will follow the regular business meeting and casual dress is in order. Co-hostesses are Mrs. Clyde Wheaton and Mrs. Warren Hayse. Meeting Announced By Sewing Club The Sewing club of Dis a b 1 e d American Veterans' auxiliary will meet Thursday,. March 6, at 10 a.m. in the home of Mrs. Linn Elliott. 513 Oregon Terrace. A potluck luncheon will be served at noon. tcKojftoiflisravSI opens the door to Portable Model 907 $12995 Take On Atmosphere directions for new products, and preparing food for taste tests. Most new products are de veloped at the company's main laboratory in Syracuse, N.Y., Mrs. Costick said, but many new food ideas origi nate here. Once in hands of the new products committee, an idea starts on a long, labor ious route that doesn't always lead to grocery shelves. A product may be okayed by the research director and meet all taste and quality tests, only to founder in the market research department. Some Filed If the demand for a product is expected to be too small for mass production, or if the competition is too great to ab sorb another brand in the, field, the product is filed away. A company official, Milton Fairman, could not say how many new products meet this fate, but he did recall one mass production item that was developed with an im proved flavor, but had to be shelved because it cost too much to manufacture. There is no average time lapse between origin of a new food idea and mass distribu tion of the finished product. However, the company's in stant coffee took nearly a cen tury to perfect. Early reports of a coffee concentrate were traced to a Texan who visited the Borden company founder, Gail Bor den in New York in 1853. The Texan subsequently wrote home about tasting a coffee made from a Borden inven tion, a liquid coffee-milk mix ture. This product was made un til '.he late 1920s. Then, in 1941, the company-at govern ment request developed a concentrated coffee for the armed forces during World War II. It was released for civilian consumption shortly after V-E day. Many Tests Testing new products and revising old ones go on con stantly. The firm also devel ops recipes for packages, leaf lets, labels, cookbooks and advertisements. Consumers write in to have recipes checked. Such a re quest touches off a chain re action, Fairman said. It starts with the company's legal de partment, to protect both the consumer and the company. Many a formula that the writ er considers an old family recipe turns out to be a Bor den's original or an adapta tion of a company recipe de veloped many years earlier. The four home economists, working in family-size kitch ens with equipment from many major manufacturers, check recipes and create an average of 200 to 350 new ones annually, enough to fill a full-size cookbook, Mrs. Cos tick said. They use the kind of equip ment a housewife uses in her home kitchen, and test most recipes on both gas and elec tric stoves for variations in cooking directions. In spite of the meticulous groundwork, a carefully test ed recipe sometimes back fires. A cherry whipped cream pie once brought doz ens of consumer complaints. The blame was traced to a proofreader-male and, obvi ously, no cook-who didn't no tice that one line had been dropped from the recipe copy. Unfortunately, that line con tained directions for an essen tial ingredient. One recipe the company has never published and probably never will, was dreamed up by the test kitchen staff in a joking attempt to use as many of the firm's products as pos sible. The result was a cake containing mincemeat, chees, mElted milk, chocolate, con densed milk, regular milk and coffee-with a whipped cream topping. "It had an open, coarse tex ture and a brownish color," Mrs. Costick admitted. How did it taste? "Passable," she said. Nothing to add. 4 controls include individual channel control. 12-foot connecting tead between speaker units. Dual amplifiers. 8 watts. 50 to 18,000 cycles. Operates on either monaural or stereo. Has Columbia CD cartridge with sapphire needle. Plays ' cU records, better than ver. Completely automatic. Case covered in Dew pyroxylin cloth whab!e. Comes in 2-tone dark brown and eggshelL Exclusive Aeousti -grille. RECORD SHOP 217 E. Main, Medford STeREO All-American Chrysanthemums Chosen for Year Chrysanthemum growers of the United States recently an nounced three new varieties as the All-American chrysan themums of the year. The new mums are Flair, a large Cowered cushion type chry santhemum, Crimson Lady, another cushion mum, and Girl Friend, a large decora tive type. Girl Friend is described a dawn pink in color, with long cutting stems for indoors or outside beauty. It grows 24 to 28 inches in height with 12 to 18-inch spread. Flair is said to be a "lively lavender" and fully double with flowers in a blanket of bloom. It grows about 18 inches in height. Crimson Lady is said to flow er heavily, with blossoms of a brilliant red. This variety grows 15 to 20 inches in a uni form, rounded plant. Chrysanthemums are frost tolerant, and give good color to the garden in the late fall. Plants live through the win ter, and clumps may be sepa rated for a number of plants the following spring, or left alone. The 1958 winners were Ruby King, Burning Bronze, Showpiece and Yellow Em peror. Former Resident Honored at Party On Anniversary Mrs. John R. Widmer, for merly of Medford and now of Portland, was honored at a family party in San Carlos, Calif., February 22 which ob served her 80th birthday an niversary. Mrs. Widmer, re membered here as Mrs. Eliza beth Fluhrer, came to .Med ford by plane and was joined for the trip south by her daughter, Mrs. Warren Olson, 1430 Euclid avenue. In San Carlos they were guests of another daughter, Mrs. Bruce Bauer, also former ly of Medford. Present for the party were Mrs. Widmer's three granddaughters, Miss Marilyn Olson, student at Stanford university; Miss Bar bara Bauer, student at the University of California, Mrs. Donald Thorn, the former Jo celyn Bauer, and the Thorn's three young sons. Mrs. Widmer spent a few days in Medford on the re turn trip, leaving last Wednes day for her home in Portland. 4 It Isn't The Wheat ... East Lansing, Mich. (UPD Homemakers' quiz: What is the cost of wheat in a loaf of bread? Slightly under three cents, or 2.5 cents to be exact, says John Moore, extension speci alist at Michigan State Univer sity. Biggest expenses in get ting bread to market are costs of baking, wholesaling and re tailing. In spite of recent increases in the price, a factory worker can buy about 11 one-pound loaves of white bread com pared to 9.7 loaves in 1948. Calendar Calendar notices and news for the society section of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition ts 1 p.m. Friday. Dead line for the weekly calendar is 9 a.m. of the day for publication and for week day news is 5 p.m. the day before publication. 7:30 p.m. Chapter BE of PEO Sisterhood, with Mrs. C. Kennedy, 1 White Oak dr. 7:30 p.m. Medford Par ents Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. W. J. Thomp son, 1210 Smith st. 7:30 p.m. Wilson Park Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. John Haven, 1200 Le land ave. 8 p.m. Howard PTA, multi-purpose room at school. 8 p.m. VFW auxiliary, VFW hall, 42 North Front St. Wednesday: 10 a.m. , Agate Home Ex tension unit, home of Mrs. John Morgan. 10:30 a.m. Eagle Point Garden club, home of Mrs. Clarence Davies. 10:30 a.m. Lake Creek Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. Henry Meyer, Browns boro. 10:30 a.m. Upper Apple gate Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. Rolland Smith. 11 a.m. Townsend Har mony auxiliary. Carpenters hall, 123V2 West Main st. 12:30 p.m. Chapter CP of PEO Sisterhood, home of Mrs. A.R. Schoenberg, Camp White. 12:30 p.m. Contempor ary Book club, with M r s. Ralph Barnes, Old Stage rd. 12:30 p.m. Ladies auxil iary. Fraternal Order of Eagles, Eagles hall, 217 West Main st. 1:30 p.m. Central Point Garden club, home of Mrs. Arnold Bohnert, Grant road. 1 p.m. Chapter CG of PEO Sisterhood, home of Mrs. Wayne Wejty, 2940 Hillcrest rd. 2 p.m. Wednesday study club, home of Mrs. O. A. Welsh, 1300 East Main st. ' yJHr $m r$k KP" 1959 All-America Mum Elections. Crimson Lady of deepest red, above, and Flair of lively lavender, on left, newest and best hardy garden "Cushion" Chrysanthemums. Girl Friend of dawn pink, on right, Is the new large garden "decorative" winner. Available from plantsmen this season. TV Cameras Kibitzers At Bridge -Tournament New York -(UPD- The kibit zer - that much maligned in dividual who always knows the card you should have played - is about to get a new lease on life. "He's about to change his status from gazing pest to paying guest," said John B. Powers, executive secretary of the Association of Amer ican Playing Card Manufac turers. "And it's all due to the mo dern magic of the television camera, which has just proved that bridge and other card games can be exciting spec tator sports." The proof, according to Powers, came recently when a New York television station poked its kibitzing cameras over the shoulders of U.S. and Italian bridge ex perts playing in the final rounds of the International Bridge tournament. Could View Hands The players were enclosed in a glassed - in, soundproof booth where they could also be seen by the nearly 500 spectators who crowded the room in a New York hotel. The hands they were play ing were shown on a nine-foot-square electronic board called a "bridgearama." The players, of course, had to sweat it out without the help of electron 'Retarded Child at Home' Subject of New Bulletin Washington To help par ents of mentally retarded chil dren give them the best pos sible foundation for later liv ing, the Children's Bureau has issued a manual, "The Men tally Retarded Child at Home." Mrs. Katherine B. Oettin ger, Bureau Chief, in an nouncing the new publication, pointed out that it is one of only a few which are devoted to the development of men tally retarded children in their early years. It empha sizs practical suggestions for day-to-day living in the family and community. "The first few years of life are so tremendously import ant for the child; they can be also the hardest for the par ents. During these early years the child is gaining the foun dation for living with people and learning to cope with life. Attitudes and feelings have tremendous importance i n how well each of us uses the abilities we have. This is no less true of the retarded child. "Teachers know that the child who is happy at home does much better in school. When the family of a retarded child has taught him good self-help habits early, the school or institution can spend its time training him for other useful tasks." "The Mentally Retarded Child at Home" was prepared in response to requests not only from parents of retarded children but also private phy sicians, who felt that many parents needed a concrete guide in helping their chil dren grow and develop. The publication approaches the problem of retarded children from the standpoint of normal childhood growth processes, and stresses the ways in which these children are like other children ' styling self - velopment. VISIT, PHONE, WRITE FOR FREE SELF EVALUATION ANALYSIS ics. They couldn't see the board. But as each card was played in the booth, a light blinked behind the appropriate card on the electronic board, then went dark as the trick was completed. "Just like spectators at any other sports event, the kibit zers were free to cheer, boo, and shout when they felt like it," Powers said. Behind Glass "But this was one time when the kibitzers could not bother the players with their free advice. The players were safely quarantined behind soundproof glass walls like so many people-sized goldfish." Kibitzers are named after a German bird, the kiebitz. The bird is noted for both its curi osity and' the way it protects its eggs. The Kiebitz flaps its wings in the face of an egg-hunter, annoying him greatly. Powers said the Germans coined the word "kibitzer" years ago when it became apparent that the buttinsky sort of card player or spectator and the kiebitz were act-alikes. It takes a lot of people to keep the kibitzers at bay the electronic way. Not counting television crews, 14 special ists pitched in at the interna tional championship tourney. It was written by Mrs. Laura L. Dittman, specialist in home training programs for mentally retarded children in the Bureau's Division of Health Services. Mrs. Dittman consulted per sons in the fields of medicine, child psychology and psychi atry, education, social work, nursing, speech, physical and occupational therapy in its preparation. A number of parents of retarded children were among its reviewers. The publication gives par ents suggestions on toilet training, dressing, cleanliness and manners, discipline, speech, play, group experi ences for the young retarded child and discusses the im portance of psychological tests. It also discusses the re tarded child's school days and his adjustment in adolescence, and suggests toys and equip ment for home play. Copies of "The Mentally Re tarded Child at Home" may be obtained from the Superin tendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C, for 35 cents each. Beefing It Up New York-OJPT-For an easy luncheon dish, add Hi cups shredded dried beef to easy corn bread mix. Place beef in plastic bag of cornbread in gredients, mix and bake ac cording to package directions. Slice hot cornbread squares horizontally and serve with creamed peas between slices and over top of each serving. Prediction New York (UPD The prices of things consumers buy will average from 1 to 2 per cent higher in 1959 than they did in 1958, according to agricul tural economists at Michigan State university. WHETHER YOU ARE HOMEMAKER STUDENT OR CAREER GIRL Picture a charming, glorious, more successful YOU! Sound too good to be' true? It isn't! Nancy Taylor's Success Course helps you quickly learn the secrets of cosmetic application figure control fashion grooming modeling etiquette speech and conversation hair improvement personality de nancy taylor ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 40 North Riverside, Medford, Ore. Phone SP 3-4264 - SP 3-6408 Women Golfers To Open Season Women's Golf association of Rogue Valley Country club will open the 1959 season with a breakfast at the club house .Thursday, March 5. The morning's program will open at 9 a.m. with a "get acquainted" hour followed by open discussion and breakfast, the latter to be served at 10 a.m. Mrs. Fred Conrad, chair man of the association for this season, states that women of the valley interested in playing golf and becoming members of the club are in vited to attend. Reservations are to be made by calling Mrs. Reese Alexander, SP ring 3-1969. 4 Ashland Student Named to Office McMinnville-Miss Vivienne Murray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee S. . Murray, Star Route, Box 72, Ashland, is among new spring semester officers of fraternities and sororities elected this month at Linfield college, McMinn ville, Ore. Miss Murray is the new cor responding secretary of Lamb da Lambda Sigma, local so rority. Ten Greek letter social or ganizations are active on the Linfield campus-five frater nities and five sororities. Three of the fraternities are chapters of national fraternal orders. 4 Mrs. Richard Singler To Be Club Hostess Wenonah club will meet Thursday, March 5, at 10:30 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Rich ard Singler, 27 Rose avenue. A covered dish luncheon will be served at noon, with a business meeting following. Mrs. Henry Dooms will pre side. Members are reminded to take their table service. Square Dancers Plan 'Hoedown' An open "hoedown" square ranee will be held at Ker shaw Square starting at 8 p.m. tonight, Kenneth Hood, Medford, has announced. Potluck refreshments will be served, and all square dan cers are invited. Mr. Hood and guest callers will call squares. Baked Applesauce New York (UPD Baked applesauce with cider topping is a good dessert. Place (two 1-pound cans) applesauce in IVi-quart casserole. Combine Va cup each sifted flour and sugar, cut in V cup butter, sprinkle over applesauce and bake in 450-degree oven 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. Serve warm or chilled, top ped with cider-whipped non fat dry milk. Combine Vz cup each instant non-fat dry milk crystals and well-chilled apple cider. Whip 3 to 4 minutes, or until soft peaks form. Add 2 tablespoons lemon juice and continue beating about 3 to 4 minutes or until stiff peaks form. Lady Bosses Denver-(UPD-Women will be bossing men outside the home, too, say business executives. A panel of businessmen be lieves there will be such a shortage of men that lady bosses will be commonplace. The men based their predic tion on projected statistics from the labor department. 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