Celebrities, like trouble, come in threes. Celebrities are
trouble, too, but they're the sort of exciting trouble on which
reporters thrive. Last week we had a home-town celebrity
in the person of Marie Bosworth, Oregon's new Mother of
the Year, and the Kennedys - United States Senator John
Kennedy and his most attractive wife, Jacqueline, here for
the annual Roosevelt memorial dinner. (Of course, the two
are Jack and Jacquie to one another.)
Now Potpourri has been writing about Marie, her hus
band, her family and their numerous accomplishments and
activities for years. The matter of Mrs. B. becoming a state
wide celebrity would have been exciting, but nothing we
couldn't manage, except for the slip-up in breaking the story
already noted in the Tribune. This incident has resulted in a
new nickname for Potpourri - Scoop. The editorial nerves
and aplomb were shattered.
We managed to relax somewhat Tuesday afternoon in the
cheerful atmosphere of the Bosworth family circle. No
matter how many serious projects and causes are on the
fire by the Bosworths, they are a gay, light-hearted family
enjoying life to its fullest. While the family posed for Pho
tographer Bob Vroman, Potpourri held up a copy of the
Mail Tribune to keep the sunlight and shadows from a tree
off their faces the copy being the one which had just ar
rived and which had Mrs. Bosworth's picture and story on
the front page. v
Mrs. B. has been getting dozens of telephone calls, wires
and letters including one from a former beau. When Pot
pourri and Photographer Bob arrived Tuesday she was on
the phone and was saying to the caller "Well, after all, the
mother of the year is just a symbol of all mothers who work
hard for the things they think are right and need to be done."
Last week the new Mother of the Year visited her daugh
ter and family in Salem. One of her seven grandchildren,
small Maureen Hughes, inquired if grandma's award made
her "kiddie of the year" and brother Patrick told how he
had taken a picture of his mother and grandmother to kinder
garten that day for the "show and tell" time.
We don't know if Marie and husband Harlan plan to
celebrate her honor or not, but if they do, we can guess what
the celebration will be. Husband Harlan (who has numerous
honors and activities to his own credit including decorations
from the Belgian, English, Netherland and United States gov
ernments for his accomplishments during World War II)
will come home with flowers for his wife, which he often
does, and the two will go dancing at the Country club.
If Potpourri ever had a reputation for tact and savoir
faire, it would have gone down the drain Friday night. When
Mrs. Eric Wentworth (whose alma mater is the same as Mrs.
John Kennedy's) introduced us we just stared at the visitor
for a few seconds and finally said "Why, you can't be more
than 20 years old!" If Mrs. Kennedy was startled, she didn't
give any indication. Later we discovered that Mrs. K. is
still in her 20's. Whatever her age, the former Jacqueline
Lee Bouvier, Sorbonne student, Vassar graduate, winner of
Vogue's Prix de Paris and one-time roving photographer
reporter for a Washington, D. C, daily has surely been
stared at before. It's just as a man said at the reception which
followed the dinner "it's just pure pleasure to look at her."
In spite of the fact that the charming visitor declared
she is more interested in art and politics than fashion, she
looked like a Vogue cover both Friday night and Saturday
morning, and we hear that she has been nominated for "best
dressed" lists. For the dinner she wore a dark blue wool
dress with short jacket and trapeze-line skirt, pearls, ear
rings, a costume pin on her shoulder and plain dark leather
pumps. She was hatless both Friday night and Saturday
morning; and her hair is worn in that carefully - careless
fluffy manner with a smallish bang effect over the forehead
which is currently all the rage.
Saturday morning Mrs. K. wore a simple grey empire
style dress with a sheer scarf tucked inside the round neck
and the same costume pin. Potpourri and Pal Peg just came
right out and asked who designed her clothes, but Mrs.
Kennedy, almost as skillful as her husband at the not-answering
technique, said she just shopped around until she found
"something simple." She added that she preferred dresses
with a fit - on the sheath order, rather than the stand-away
kind.
- The two of us did get a direct answer as to why the
senator's wife hadn't worn the flowers presented to her
Friday night. "Flowers give me the sneezes and sniffles,"
she explained. It seems that she is allergic to almost all
kinds of posies, and we agreed that the hyacinths in her
bouquet Friday night might have brought on a considerable
attack.
Mrs. Kennedy says her art work is mostly watercolor and
sketches, and that she doesn't profess to be very good - just
plays around with it for her own enjoyment. Both the senator
and Mrs. K. read as much as possible even though most of this
must be done in brief periods because of their heavy schedule
Friday night Mrs. Brian Mullen, Mrs. Kennedy anc
Potpourri had a three-cornered conversation. Mrs. Mullen
formerly on the staff of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Mrs
K. talked about Wilhela Cushman, fashion editor of the Jour
nal, and the visitor recalled how she and her sister had posed
for Mrs. Cushman on a withering summer day in Washingtor,
-wearing woolen suits.
The conversation then wandered on to include how fas'
the senator talks when addressing an audience, about re
gional differences in speech and political thinking and abotrt
the traditional hospitality of the south and west. Mrs. Ken
nedy, who had been in California and Nevada, but never in
CALIEMIID Affix..
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Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sunday
edition is 1 p.m. Friday. Deadline for the weekly calendar is 9 a.m. of
the day of publication and for week days is 5 p.m. the day before
publication.
Today: i
3 p.m.-St. Mary's school
student organ recital, Sacred
Heart church.
Monday:
1:30 pjn.-Jackson County
Retired Teachers association,
Girls Community club.
7:30 p.m.-Ruth Esther Wesl
leyan Service Guild, First
Methodist chtirch.
8 p.m.-Alpha Lambda chap
ter, Epsilon Sigma Alpha sor
ority, home of Mrs. B. H. Gil
bert, 615 Oak dr.
8 pjn. - Degree of Honor
lodge, Girls Community club.
8 pjn.-Neighbors of Wood
craft, Eagles hall.
8 p.m.-St. Catherine's Guild
of St. Mark's Episcopal
church, parish hall.
8 p.m.-Scottish Rite Wom
en's club, Medford Masonic
temple.
Tuesday:
10:15 a.m.-Women's Mission
Society, Eastwood Baptist
church, at church.
10:30 p.m. - Oak Grove
Home Extension unit, home of
Mrs. William Rose, 158 Jan
ney Lane.
12:30 p.m. - Women's As
sociation circles, First Presby
terian church: Bethany, Mrs.
E. J. DeVoe, 2200 Woodlawn
dr.; Charity, Mrs. John Win
ton, Long Mountain rd., Grace,
Mrs. Dale Jefferson, 527 South
Holly st.; Hope, Mrs. Marie
Dizney, 6 Corning ct.; Mercy,
Mrs. Grace Collins, 1810 East
Main st.; Faith; fireplace room
of church; Temple, Mrs.
Wayne Safley, 2111 Hillcrest
dr.; and Trinity, Mrs. Hugh
Collins, 40 Glen Oak st.
2 p.m.-Elta Deuell Hubbs
tent, courthouse auditorium.
6:30 p.m.-American Legion,
Red Cross building.
7:30 p.m.-Women's Associa
tion circles, First Presbyterian
church: Candlelight, Mrs. L. J.
Ruhl, 2500 Capitol ave., Ves
per, Mrs. Murray Dumas, 3069
Jacksonville highway.
8 p.m.-Medford Pi Beta Phi
Alumni club, home of Mrs.
Don McGeary, Calhoun road.
8 pjn.-Nevita chapter, Ord
er Eastern Star, Masonic tem
ple, Central Point.
Wednesday:
11 ajn.-Medford Townsend
club, Carpenters hall, 123 Vi
West Main st.
10 a.m. Kiwanian Dames
kaffeeklatsch, home of Mrs.
Paul Walker, 2132 Dellwood
ave.
12:30 p.m.-Mistletoe club,
Girls Community club.
12:30 p.m. - Women of
Rotary, home of Mrs. Frances
Naumes, 2677 Kings higlrvay.
1 p.m.-AAUW Book Review
group, home of Mrs. W. K.
Johnson, 1809 East Jackson st.
1 p.m. - Roxy Gardeners,
home of Mrs. H. Chandler
Drew, Dry Creek rd.
7 p.m.-Medical Society aux
iliary, home of Mrs. Elliott
Harlow, Hillcrest rd.
7:30 p.m. - Talent concert,
Talent High school gymnasi
um. 8 p.m.-We?t Side Mothers'
club, school gymnasium.
Thursday:
10:15 a.m.-Congregational
Women's study group, parson
age. 10:30 p.m.-Howard Home
Extension unit, home of Mrs.
H. E. Peyton, 1059 Crews rd.
10:30 pjn.-Lone Pine Home
Extension unit, Roxy Ann
Grange hall.
12 noon - Congregational
Women's Fellowship, Pilgrim
House.
12 noon-Zonta club, Jack
son hotel.
12:30 p.m.-Women of St.
Peter's Lutheran church, at
church.
12:30 p.m.-Sojourners club,
Oregon before, said she was impressed with how many per
sons here had greeted her with "Welcome to Oregon." Like
most easterners, Mrs. K. pronounces this as if it were spelled
"ar-egon" and not "or-egon" as the natives do.
About then Bob Boyer wandered up and the talk turned
to airplane travel, whether night flying is preferred to day
time flights, and the scenery of the west. Mr. Boyer says he
enjoys flying in small planes in the daytime, whereas Mrs.
Mullen described a night flight by full moonlight as one of
the most exciting experiences of her life.
Saturday morning Pal Peg remembered to ask Mrs.
Kennedy if she had been impressed with the Centennial
beards of Oregon men. The visitor smiled - she smiles often
and readily - and said she had been so impressed with the
horns and leopard skins worn by the Grants Pass Cavemen
who greeted the Kennedy party at the airport that mere
beards had gone practically unnoticed.
Since Senator Kennedy is mentioned often as a possible
Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1960, his youth
fulness and that of his wife, are frequently discussed. The
first of the week Pal Peg and Potpourri plan to do some re
search and find out who has been the youngest First Lady
of the land.
There's a basket downstairs on the telephone switchboard
in which offerings for the news room are dropped. One little
unsigned note found in the basket Saturday read "The first
trillium bloomed in the woods." This isn't front page news,
but it is welcome - very welcome indeed.-O.S.
Peanut Butter Bisque
New York-fUPD-Youngsters
will go for this unusual soup
- peanut butter bisque. In a
saucepan, cook 2 tablespoons
of minced onion in 1 table
spoon butter or margarine un
til tender but not browned.
Blend in V4 cup of peanut but
ter (chunky or smooth). Add 1
can (IOV2 ounces) condensed
cream of chicken soup, 1 "soup
can of water, and V cup of
milk. Heat, stirring occasion
ally. Garnish with minced
parsley, celery or grated car
rot. Serves 3.
"Dutch Scrambled"
Serve "Dutch Scramble" for
a breakfast treat. Use 2 slices
of bread for every 6 eggs. Cut
bread into small cubes and
brown in a little butter. Add
a teaspoon of instant minced
onion, slightly beaten eggs
and a tablespoon of cream for
each egg used. Scramble to
gether over low heat until
eggs are set.
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Of Work-Saving Kitchen
Program Given
For Study Club
Mrs. O. A. Welsh entertain
ed Wednesday Study club
March 4 at her home, 1300
East Main street.
Mrs. N. T. Hodges and Mrs.
H. H. Robertson presented the
program.
Mrs. Hodges reviewed "The
Land and People of Israel" by
Gail Hoffman. She gave an in
teresting and instructive re
port of the past history and
present conditions and prob
lems of that controversial
country. '
Mrs. Robertson's review
covered "San Francisco A
pageant" by Charles Caldwell
Dobie. This report brought to
mind many interesting me
mories and experiences which
the members discussed.
Girls Community club.
7 p.m. - Pythian Sunshine
Girls, Pythian hall.
7:30 p.m.-AAUW Interior
Decoration Study group, Mrs.
Roy Elmgren, 3300 Jackson
ville highway.
7:30 p.m. - Lively Rogue
Dance club, Rogue Valley
Country club.
7:30 p.m.-Winchester Home
Extension unit, home of Mrs.
D. W. Coltrane, 1116 Win
chester ave.
8 p.m. - Reames Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star,
Medford Masonic temple.
Friday:
10:15 a.m.-Phoenix Home
Extension unit, home of Har
old G. Smith, box 454 Cole
man Creek rd.
11 a.m. - St. Elizabeth's
Guild, St. Mark's Episcopal
church, parish hall.
7:30 p.m.-Roxy Ann Gem
and Mineral Society, Girls
Community club, 229 North
Bartlett st.
Saturday:
1 p.m. - Daughters of the
Nile, Grants Pass temple.
2 p.m. - College Women's
Club of the Rogue River Val
ley, Girls Community club.
By ROSE MCKEE
Washington - Stretching or
bending for pots and pans is
cut virtually to zero in a
dream - type kitchen built by
the U. S. Government.
The energy - saving kitchen
is on display at the Agricul
t u r e Department's research
center at nearby Beltsville,
Md.
Now the research center
has developed a kitchen, de
signed for those who, because
of chronic illness or advancing
age, must conserve their en
ergy. But the step-saving kit
chen may well provide point
ers for those interested simply
in convenience.
Mrs. Leonore Thye, chief of
the center's housing and
equipment, laboratory who de
signed the kitchen, told a visi
tor from the National Asso
ciation of Home Builders that
its basic idea was to cut walk
ing, bending, and stretching
to a minimum.
To achieve this, she ar
ranged a production line from
right to left which, she said,
is preferred by most right
handed women. The stove is
in the closed end of the broken
U-shaped kitchen. Next to the
stove is a corner cabinet with
revolving shelves for supplies
and utensils used at the stove
or the pie-cake-cookie mixing
center. The mixing center is
to the left of the corner cabi
net.
Worker Aided
the work counters makes it
possible to reach for butter
or milk without bending. The
many drawers and sliding or
revolving shelves in the kit
chen work almost as if by
magic. They have castors or
metal glides which make them
responsive to the touch of a
finger.
Mrs. Thye reported that
scientific tests revealed that
shelves between 28 and 63
inches from the floor are the
most economical of energy for
women of average height.
Within this zone, the energy
used in removing a dish or
package is about the same
whether from the lowest or
highest shelf. Equipment or
supplies which would be used
most frequently are stored in
this space zone in the display
kitchen.
Cart Used
Its other energy-saving fea
tures include a cart to trans
fer a meal from range to table
(at the open end of the U) and
soiled dishes from table to
sink in one round trip. Silver
ware is kept in a compart
ment at arm's reach from the
table so that there is no get
ting up and walking across
the room for a forgotten spoon
or knife.
Behind the wall refrigerator
is a desk at which the energy
saving housewife can plan
meals, make out market or
ders, use the telephone or read
the paper. Shelves above and
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This space-saving corner cabinet is large enough to hold
a television set. It is part of a new 26-piece Early
American bedroom group called "Homestead."
Add chopped raisins to
canned chocolate or butter
scotch ice cream sauce. Serve
warm over baked custard.
Prompt return of books to
the Jackson County library
makes them available to other
readers.
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Small bins over the mixing at the sides hold recipes, bills,
counter hold sugar, flour, and a small radio, and a mirror
other supplies. There is knee i for that quick look before an
space under the 'counter solswering a doorbell.
Mrs. Thye pointed out that
for years, housewives have
been told that in doing their
chores, it is better to stoop,
bending at the knees, than to
bend at the waist. Tests re
yealed, she said, that bending
from the waist takes less
energy.
Drawings of the step-saving
kitchen can be obtained from
the extension agricultural en
giner at most State Agricultur
al Colleges.
the housewife can sit as she
mixes. Her chair, an adjust
able office type on castors, is
stored here when not in use.
A double - bowled sink is
next in line. A sliding door
compartment at its back hides
cleaning supplies. To the left
is a vegetable - preparation
counter. Perforated wall
board at each working counter
provide for the . hanging of
oft-used tools.
A wall refrigerator opposite
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