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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structor of brass instruments at the
University of Oregon, will be in Med
ford this summer for a limited time
to give private instructions. He is
offering a series of 5 lessons on any ,
. brass instrument at the total cost of
$15.00. These lessons will be given
at the Purucker Music House Studios.
Applications for lessons must be made
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