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Mortarboard Gowns Come i New York -(CPD- They'vt modernized tht mortarboard. It used to be of pressed cardboard. Today, non-curling plastic shapes the flat tops worn by May and June gradu ates. Gowns also are of lighter weight fabrics and in a wider variety of colors. Otherwise, while chemises come and trapezes go, this sea sonal fashion has changed lit tle in its long history. Even Paris and New York edicts on hemline changes affect the gowns not at all. Seven inches from the floor is the standard length. "Poplin once was our num ber one material," said T. G. Clark, general manager, east ern division, the Collegiate Cap and Gown company. "Now, we use more of the cool, porous materials-rayons and acetates." White Popular In color, he said, both sexes wear white for kindergarten graduation. Kindergarten? Yes, said Clark, his firm which calls itself the nation's largest in the field, started the robes for the small fry in 1946. He said "about 90 per cent" of all girl graduates choose white. But grade and high school boys are .wearing "at least 12 shades of blue ranging from royal to pale, kelly green, pale gold, maroon, or - bright red. For college gradu ates, black is standard." , Rental on cap and gown runs from $2.75 to $4.25, de pending on the type of mater ial. One outfit may "gradu- Goes Modern; n More Colors ate" three times in a season. It will be shipped first to the south where early commence ments are the rule, back to a regional office for steriliza tion and pressing, then on to the Midwest or West Coast, back for cleaning, and final ly to the East, where late June graduations prevail. . Clark said his company fig ures the life of a gown from three to five years, which is on the average of nine to 15 commencements for one cos tume. The history of cap and gown dates to the church-supervised schols of the middle ages, says a release on my desk, which quotes Dr. Ben G. Henneke, president of the University of Tulsa. Because these medieval uni versities were chilly and damp, priests and monks wore heavy robes for warmth. Hoods kept their shaved pates warm. Gradually said Hen neke, these clothes became a symbol of scholarship. Jefferson PTA To Hold Session Friday at School Jefferson Paren t-Teacher Association will meet in the school cafeteria at 2:30 a.m. Friday, May 8. Installation of officers will be held. To be installed are Mrs. C. W. Harvey, president; Mrs. Fred Wilkins, vice presi dent; Mrs. Herbert Roberts, secretary; Mrs. Michael Szpak, treasurer. The school band will play and the charter for Boy Scout Troop 105 will also be i-re-sented. Refreshments will be in charge of mothers of first graders. Child care will be provided for pre-school chil dren under the supervision of the Girl Scouts at a cost of 10 cents per child. Carnation Safe Set For Downtown Area Members of Col. Sargent auxiliary. United Spanish War Veterans, will sell McKinley carnations in downtown Med ford Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9. Medford Woman Elected President of College Club Family Arrives From Argentina Mr. "and Mrs. James F. Moore Jr., and small son, Michael, have arrived in Med ford from Buenos Aires, Ar gentina, and are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Callahan, 128 Highland drive. Mrs. Moore is the for mes Sharron Callahan. The Moores will spend two months in the United States before returning to South America. - Mr. Moore's mother, Mrs. James F. Moore, Seattle, Wash., has returned home after also being a guest of the Callahans last week. Last Saturday night a fam ' ily dinner was held at Rogue Valley Country club, the party being in, the nature of a de layed celebration of anni versaries which had passed while the young couple has been out of the United States. This included the silver wedding anniversary of the Callahans, " which was . ob- - served at a dinner at the .Country club September 27. After a couple of- weeks here, Mr. and Mrs. Moore will visit in Seattle and other parts of the Northwest. They .plan. to return here in June to spend some time with Mrs. Moore's sister, Miss Jeryl v Lynn Callahan, who is attend ing college at Mount St. Mary's, Los Angeles. " Fifty Plus Club Plans Luncheon Medford Fifty Plus club will hold a . covered dish luncheon at 12 noon Friday, May 8, at St Mark's Episco pal Guild hall. Members are asked to bring their own table service. Cof fee and rolls will be furnished. Games and dancing will follow. .-" Nautical Misses Ann Arbor, Mich. (LTD Three coeds at the University of Michigan are breaking tra dition's boat by studying nav al architecture. Their presence in what used to be all-anale classes at at times caused consternation among those accustomed to livening up classes with a salty once in a while. The nautical lasses are Judy Robinson, Monroe, Mich.; Da rien Pinney, of "Libertyville, HI.; and Susan Ott, of Dea born, Mich. Calendar Calendar notice and news for -the society section of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 pjn. Friday. Dead line for the weekly calendar is 9 a jn. of the day of publication and for week day news is S pan. the day before publication. Thursday: . 6:30 pan. - Adarel chapter, Order of Eastern Star, Jack sonville Masonic temple. 7:30 p.m. - Royal Neighbors of America, Pythiaa hall. 8 p.m. - Welcome Wagon club, Girls Community club- 8 pjn. Writers' session, home of Mrs. J. R. Price, 701 South Modoc avenue. Friday: -12 noon - St. Elizabeth's Guild of St. Mark's Episcopal church, parish hall. 2:30 p.m. Roosevelt PTA, at school. . . . In case there is someone who doesn't already know, it's still possible to acquire land in the United States through the Homestead Act. Perhaps there isnH any land in Oregon to be given away by the government in that fashion, but there seems to be plenty in California. Traveling through Barstow last week, we were puzzled to see scores of what seemed to be one and two-room houses, or trailers, scattered on the- rolling hills immediately adjacent to the town. It didn't seem possible that the housing situation was so desperate that the houses were being built as rentals, so that evening we asked the operator of a road-side cafe about them. Homesteaders, was the answer. Pappy and Potpourri were also told that land for many of the lonely and aban doned looking tiny houses scattered here and there on the desert have been acquired in the same fashion. It seems that many are the week-end homes of residents of the Los Angeles area, particularly those who suffer from asthma, sinus, arthritis or other ailments where the patients find relief by going to a hot, dry climate and one where the air is not filled with the fumes of millions of automobiles and the smoke and gases thrown off by industrial plants. Not that the desert air isn't being polluted also - and filled with noise as well. Shortly after the travelers had stopped at the little town of Boron on the Mojave "desert, an ear-shattering noise boomed out. Think nothing of it, said the motel owner, it's just the testing that goes on Jit Edwards Air Force base all the time. He further added that the largest of the testing devices, whatever it is, had exploded by accident a couple of weeks before that, rocking the desert for miles around and practically shaking buildings apart. Since that, only the smaller noise we had just heard was going on, day and night. ; The next day, while driving along a short way out of the town of Mojave, a huge balloon of smoke rose suddenly into the air on the flat below us. It couldn't 'be a fire, we decided it must have been an explosion. Sure enough, at the next stop for coffee and gasoline the young lady at the counter said nonchalantly, "Oh, that happens all the time at the Navy testing grounds down there. They're testing something they call a snork." Whatever is going on at this Navy base doesn't seem particularly secret, for the counter girl talked of visiting the tract and seeing the equipment. However, at Boron we were told that it is impossible for visitors to get beyond the guards at Edwards. In addition to the service personnel, . we were told that hundreds of civilians are employed on the base. Last fall, Potpourri talked to a Medford man home on leave from Army service who said this: "All my life I've heard it asked 'how can the Army spend so much money?' Now that I'm in the Army and see the inefficiency and waste and extravagance, I wonder how there's enough money, anywhere, to foot the. bill." Pappy and Potpourri came to about the same conclusion. Traveling through Nevada, Arizona and California, we passed about eignt xsavy, Army ana jviariue turya oases, icauug grounds and storage depots. Thousands of acres of land are taken over by them. Multiplying this by similar operations carried on by this nation all over the globe, we, wondered how even this rich country can bear the expense. . "Dress for where you're going and not for where you're leaving," says a book for travelers. This turned out to be good advice. When the two of us left Medford, at. night, it .was raining - Potpourri wore woolen slacks and down-filled jacket and was glad we had while driving over the cold mountains. Continuing south, we discarded the heavy cloth ing for .light slacks and a sweater, and later put oh cotton pedal pushers and blouse. Thursday, when we drove across the Mojave desert, it-was 108 degrees in the car (we took along an excellent thermometer) and the wind was blowing hard. By Friday night we were in Carson City after driving through a dust storm (the dust was a chemical off a dry lake bed and mighty darned unpleasant to breathe as well as obscuring the beautiful mountain chain of which Whitney is a part) and the weather was cold again. The temperature fell to freezing and when we woke up Saturday morning it was snowing. There was fresh snow on all the surround ing mountains. We were glad to be able to put the wool slacks and jacket on again. We were guests of the Earl Parsons family Saturday night in Tulelake - the Parsons formerly lived in Medford. Earl said the thermometer had been around the mid-twenties Friday night, which is pretty cold for May even in that unpredictable spot. Sunday noon when we drove over the Green Springs, there was fresh snow on the road sides and the lower tree limbs. Whatever the weather and the scenery in the rest of the West, it was a pleasure to arrive back in the Rogue valley Sunday afternoon. In fact, the hills which unroll to the view as the Green Springs road winds down into Ashland are' more lushly green than we had ever seen them before. When Potpourri became practically ecstatic over the varied hues of green and the new little oak leaves, what did her spouse say? "Remember, all that grass crowds into the flower beds, too." The sight the garden presented proved he was right. How can grass grow that much in only eight days?-O.S. Mrs. Wallace Haskins, Med ford, was elected president of the College Women's Club of Rogue River Valley at a meet ing held May 2 at Bell view Grange hall in Ashland. The meeting followed luncheon, served to about 50 members and guests. Also named to office were Mrs. D. N. Sloan, vice presi dent; Mrs. B. J. Holland, sec retary; Miss Ruth Nye," treas urer. Mrs. Ruth MacCollister, chairman of the nominating committee, presented the slate. Hostesses were Mrs. Arthur Peters, Mrs. M. A. Ring, Mrs. ,R. F. Nye and Miss Mary Andrews. Dr. Arthur Taylor of South ern Oregon college,' spoke on the life of Dr. Bethenia Owens Adair, the first licensed phy sician in Oregon, who was well-known in southern Ore gon. At the age of three, she crossed the plains with her father and mother in the Ap plegate train of 1843. The Owens family settled in the Willamette valley, but moved later to Clatsop Plains, where the father arrived with fifty cents in his pocket. After only a few years when her family decided to take up a land claim on Deer Creek near Roseburg, he had managed to amass $8,000. At the age of 14, Bethenia married Legrand Hill and fwith him moved to Jackson county, settling in Bellview near Ashland. Here she formed lifelong friendships with her husband's family -the Hills - and with the Russells and the Dunns. ' Later finding that she must make a living for herself and her son George, Mrs. Hill "took in" washing, which was the only work open to her since her few months of schooling did not fit her for teaching school, the only oiher field considered respect able. To remedy the situation, she began to study under a local schoolmaster who pro vided her with texts. In the meantime she had returned to Clatsop Plains, where she de cided to open a fee school. She was permitted to use the Hotel Manager Attends Session Mrs. Betti Boyle, manager of the Jackson hotel, left Wednesday morning for Seattle, Wash., where she will visit her son, James Adam, and friends. Before returning to Med ford Mrs. Boyle will go to Spokane to attend the Oregon- Washington State Hotel con vention May 7-9. Mrs. Boyle will extend an invitation to the Oregon State Hotel asso ciation to meet in Medford in August, so that they may at tend the Shakespearian fes tival. Mrs. Boyle is a past sec retary of. the Oregon State Hotel association, the only women to ever hold office in the group. . Mrs. Boyle will return by way of Walla Walla, Wash., where she will visit her daughter, Sherry,, who is at tending school there. In choosing plastic uphol stered furniture, look for fabric-backed plastic for greater durability.'' local Presbyterian church, the first built in the Oregon coun try. She had 16 students, each of whom paid $2 tuition for a term of 3 months. She was learning as she taught, for she had three pupils more ad vanced than she. By getting up at 4 a.m., the teacher was able to keep ahead of her best "scholars." By washing and teaching, Mrs. Hill man aged to save enough money to go to Philadelphia, where she enrolled . in the Electic Medical college, from which she was graduated two years later with a doctor of medi cine degree. When she "hung out her shingle" in Roseburg, there' was a terrific uproar, for the practice of medicine was not a proper field for a female. Because of the un pleasant situation, the woman physician moved to Portland, where she practiced her pro fession and also opened a bathhouse. Returns to School Realizing her -inadequate training and having earned enough money, she closed her office and went back to Phila delphia, but this time chose Jefferson Medical college, thinking that it was the best in this country. To her dis appointment, she found that it was barred to women, and went instead to the University of Michigan Medical school from which she was gradu ated. After her graduation, Dr. Hill returned first to- Port land, but later to Clatsop Plains, where she married a Colonel Adair. She continued to practice as a country doc tor in Clatsop county, and in spite of meager facilities and the difficulties of travel, car ried on a wide and success ful practice. With Abigail Scott Dunni way, a well-known early ad vocate of woman's rights, Dr. Adair was a crusader for woman suffrage. She also wrote her autobiography in her later life from which Dr. Taylor gleaned many of .the facts that he gave. She died in 1926. Students Sing Music for the program was furnished by students from Ashland High school. Jerry Miller and Ruth Wyant sang, accompanied on the piano by Mary Bishop. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, May 7, 1959 Scripts Classified 'Secret' j Ashland - Scripts for "The j Mousetrap," the Agatha Chris- j tie brain teaser to be present- j ed by the Southern Oregon College SOC Players during Mother's Weekend, May. 7, 8, 9, have been classified "top secret." Rehearsals for the second act are closed to visi tors and the production staff has been sworn to silence so that the patrons -will be able to do their own "arm-chair detecting" while viewing the play. . Molly Ralston' s dream of converting an old English manor house into a guest house turned to a nightmare as a murderer attempted to change the one-time monas tery, Monkswell Manor, into "The Mousetrap" to catch his victims. Soon after their first guests arrived Molly (Swan James) and her husband, Giles -; (James Boyd) realized that . running a guest house was more complicated than collecting the weekly fee of seven guineas from each guest. A blizzard which confined the occupants to the house added to the difficulties of the young couple with their first business venture. The occu pants of Monkswell Manor were not exactly congenial' They were: an eccentric young man (George Brown); a spinsterish woman (Dorothy Lewis); a London detective in vestigating a murder (Bill Gregory); an older woman with a caustic tongue (Doro thy Deckard); a retired army officer (Bill Black); and a traveler without a reserva tion (Jim Conningham). Tickets will be on sale at the SOC information office and at the door with the per formance to start at 8:15 p.m. f Plan Party Pocahontas lodge plans a public card party Friday, May 8, at 8 p.m" in Redman hall on Apple street. Refresh ments will be served. A business meeting at 7 pjn. will precede the party. 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