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Grandmother To Be Model ForExhibition in Russia Br CAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor New York-fllPD-Mrs.' Grace Moran is 62, gray-haired, a grandma, and 173 pounds of contagious humor. She also is one of New York's most suc cessful models. Mrs. Moran is a "clothes horse" with more than 30 years on the runways and be fore the cameras and has no intention of retiring, she said, "until old rockin' chair gets me." Matter of fact, she's now preparing for her first trip abroad. She will be' one of the laodels participating in the iashion shows which will be part of the U. S. cultural and scientific exhibition in Mos cow this summer. "Certainly I'm learning some Russian," she laughed, and the laugh rang as hearty as any from Sophie Tucker. "I've found out how to say nyetV For Older Models I first learned of the grand ma-model through Foster Fer guson the last names of the two women who run it, a new model agency and one of the few who will book the over 40 women. Mrs. Moran swept into the agency's small offices with topical model gear - a large satchel from which she pulled a change earrings and shoes for the photographer's benefit. "I love to eat, cook and garden," said Mrs. Moran, who classes herself as the mature matron" of agency parlance. "They call anyone over 50 mature in this busi ness," she laughed. Tm over 60 . . . I'm genuine mature, Anytime they want to exhibit a large woman's fashions, mamma's it." "Certainly I tell my age. The woman who won't isn't fooling anybody, honey." Coir UPI cameraman, Tont Sande, was busy trying for a closeup of . the blue-eyed model. "Good morning," said Mrs. Moran, and turned on charm and smile. "I love you," she crooned at Tony, who blushed. "Young man," she told him later, "I really wasn't flirting with you. Nice thoughts just make a good picture." Mrs. Moran, a native of New York, never had any formal training, which many of today's fashion and photo graphic models get. Married when she was 16, she had to find work when her first hus band fell ill. k "A friend told me to watch the ads for models wanted," she recalled. "My first job was on Seventh Avenue in a showroom. I didn't even know how to walk ... I learned by watching the other girls." ' She has modeled consist ently since, except for a few years in retailing. She and her first husband, who is de ceased, had two sons - "Wil liam, now 43, and "a grey haired Rock Hudson;" and George, 41. There are seven grandchildren, ranging from 12 to two years. The youngest tot, Patricia Jean Hannigan, sometimes models for advertisements with "grandma." Mrs. Moran's present hus band, Steve - "a most won derful man" - is in the ship ping business and the couple lives in a seven-room house on Long Island where "I do .most of my housework, all the cooking, and entertain a lot. I just love people." Townsend Club Votes Donation For Convention Medford Townsend club has voted to donate $50 toward the coming national Town send convention to be held in Portland July 20-23, it was announced following last week's meeting. John R. Smith, who spent the past seven months in Tuc son, Ariz., has returned to Medford and was present for the meeting. A trio of the Jackson Creek Fifty-Niners string quartet entertained. . Mrs. Ethel Hartley, john McConnel, William Comstock and Albert Kissinger were honored with a birthday cake. A 'grab box" will be a feature of the Townsend Har mony club meeting to be held June 3 at Carpenters' hall. Book Review, Music On Program for Guild Mrs. Rita Miller will give a book review for a meeting of Westminster guild. First Presbyterian church, set for tonight at 7:45 o'clock in the Fireplace room of the church. Mrs. William G. Reed will sing. Mrs. Edith E. Baker is program chairman. - e Wenonah Club Wenonah club of Weatonka council, Degree of Pocahon tas, will meet at the 3 home of Mrs. Charles Dooms, 1124 Maple Park, drive, Thursda, June 4. A covered dish lunch eon at noon will be followed by a business meeting with election of officers. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford Or. Monday, June 1, 1959 Newly weds Lose Interest in Niagara Falls By CLAIRE COX United Press International . New York (UPD - Niagara Falls is running dry as one of the nation's foremost honey moon spots, travel agents re port. Glamorous spots such as Bermuda, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Miami and the Virgin Islands are taking its place. Of the more than 3 million persons who visited Niagara Falls last year, the Chamber of Commerce of Niagara Falls, N. Y., counted only a few more than 3,500 honeymoon ing couples. ; William A. Doody, conven tion director of the chamber of commerce, said his home town . had been rated : the "honeymoon city" since .the turn of the century. Historic ally, he said, it still stands as No. 1, in spite of a recent decline. Travel agents who arrange accommodations for honey mooners and the honeymoon travel department of a maga zine ("Modern Bride") put Bermuda, Pennsylvania re sorts, New York City, Florida and Canada at the top of the wedding trip hit parade list. Twelve The magazine s travel ex perts said the average honey moon couple spends $430 on its wedding trip. Only 7 per cent of all newlyweds do not go on honeymoons, they re ported. The other 93 per cent take trips averaging 12 days, most of them" in automobiles. A Chicago tour director said that honeymooners who visit Niagara Falls these days us ually just pass by on their way to another resort. "We haven't sent anyone to Niagara Falls in years," said Dorsey Richardson, of Thomas Cook & Son's New Orleans office. A spokesman for the Ameri can Society of Travel agents said: "Niagara is out and Ber muda is in. All the travel agents and tour operators we've checked already have "or are developing honeymoon specials in Bermuda. "The agencies say they're doing comparatively little business with Niagara, al though 3 million-odd people still visit Niagara. "San Juan is getting very popular. Three Puerto Rican resort hotels, El Rancho, Bar- ranquitas and Monte Mar, give Kathleen Norris Writes Last Book-Autobiography By NAN RILEY United Press International San Francisco - (DPD - Kath leen Norris, author of "86 or 87" novels, 300 short stories and more than 1,500 articles, has written her last book . . . maybe. She recently completed her autobiography, fat with anec dotes, stories and pictures. The yet-untitled book will be published in September. "I say this is my last," said the 78-year-old author, "but there's always one more in the back of my mind." A newspaper writer before the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, Mrs. Norris published her first novel, "Mother," in 1911. President Teddy Rosevelt praised it so enthusiastically that 1,500,000 copies were sold. . ; Kathleen Norris had some emphatic opinions about to day's "shocking school" of fic tion, with its emphasis on sex: "I belong to the generation before last, when young peo ple didn't gloat over such tripe. I'm not easily shocked, but I am easily disgusted." Mrs. Norris' heroines are model females good, true, honeymooners special rates. "Miami is very, very big and increasing yearly, mainly because most weddings are in June and prices then in Miami are 'thrift season' rates. Also, honeymoon couples like hotel hopping." Young Eastern couples with little money go to resorts in the Poconos, Catskills, Laur enthians and Berkshires, where resorts lure ' honey mooners with free champagne and caviar, sterling silver en graved cake knives, wedding books or. albums of photos snapped of them during their visits. The Elbow Beach Surf club in Bermuda has a special week package in winter that includes a corsage for the bride, champagne in the room and other "gimmicks." Many Miami hotels give free por trait photographs, special cocktail parties and free hair dos for the brides. Los Angeles, travel agent John Sousa, of the Travel Center, said western honey mooners are flocking to Hono lulu. Sousa also said there has been some interest in fall honeymoon trips through East ern Canada and New England, but no one even mentions Ni agara Falls. . - - JUST THE M YOU'VE BEEN WANTING lJ?L. I VS fi! I ' LAB WORKERS! ' P :V- BEAUTICIANS! 12 AlTV "" ' JJk ' WAITRESSES! - ST, f goroon : ' . -St PRICED AT ONLY ... : We have Uniforms Galore! 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"We've always heard about reckless girls," she comment ed, "but today the communi-cations-those .dreadful gossip columnists, for example are better and more widespread, so we hear 'more of them." She talked easily, infor mally and quickly, while soothing "Tommy," her excit able Pekingese pup who fuss ed about the room. ' Comfortably, dressed in a tweed skirt, the author punc tuated ' her conversation with gestures. She is a young 'al-most-80" with long old-fashioned gray braids coiled about her head. Family occupies a good deal of her time now, and Mrs. Norris uses a suite in a hotel high on a San Francisco hill as a city retreat.' Here, a block from her doctor son's home, she keeps in close touch with nieces, nephews, grandchil dren and great grandchildren. Usually Mrs. Norris writes in the book-lined study of her country home in Palo Alto. She started writing fiction soon after her .marriage to the late C. G. Norris. N"I was lucky because I mar ried into a family that knew all the ropes," , she said. Her husband had been connected with the early Sunset maga zine. His brother, Frank Nor ris, was a noted writer. , The young couple moved to New York where Kathleen Thompson Norris read maga zine serials and thought, "I can do better than that." And she did, for five .decades. Instructor falks For Art Society Benoyd S. Bayless, art in structor at Southern Oregon college, Ashland, was guest speaker at the May meeting of the Southern Oregon Socie ty of Artists, held at the Girls' Community club. His subject was "Painting Trees." Mr. Bayless brought with him paintings by famous ar tists of different periods, and showed how individualism is important in ' painting. Mr. Bayless pointed out how each artist had painted convincing ly, his own concept of a tree by his individual method, go ing from the real to the im pressionistic and into the ab stract, but in each case ex pressing his own individual ism. The guests of the evening were Mrs. Allen Smith, Mrs. Maude Codding and Mrs. Mar- jorie Olds, Medford, and Mr.. and Mrs. Earl J. wick, and Janine Wick, Ashland.' Mrs. Afton Carter became an active member, and four became new club members. They are Mrs. Jack (Bess) Mitchell, Medford, Olive C. Binker, Camp White, Mrs. Dorothy Eskew, Gold Hill and Mrs. John Pletsch of Medford. Old-Fashioned Roses Exhibited At Last Meeting A display of old fashioned roses marked the last meet ing of Medford Rose society. There, were about 100 speci mens exhibited. The society reports there is much enthusi asm in the subject of the old roses growing in this area and the members are eager to con tact the people who have the old rose gardens on their prop ties. Anyone wishing to re port on their old roses may phone to Mrs. Carl Norris whose phone number is SPring 2-4677. Mrs. Ranald Axtell gave a most informative talk on the history of the old roses and explained the development of our modern roses. The hybrid ists of Europe had used sev eral species of roses in creat ing a new class of roses known as hybrid perpetuals. Later these roses which were of vig orous growth, hardy and some with repeat blooming seasons, were crossed with the roses brought from China, which were known as tea roses. The tea roses were not so hardy but the blossoms were very fragrant. Through the crossing of the hybrid perpetuals and the tea roses our present day hybrid tea roses were devel oped. Mrs. Carl Norris gave a demonstration , on grooming roses for the' annual Rose Show June 9 at the Medford Senior High school cafeteria. She explained that one or two damaged petals may be removed if no stubs of the petals are left. With the aid of a camels hair brush, one may gently open the petals a little wider so that they may give the rose a more circular form. The foliage may be cleaned by wiping it with a soft cloth. Eldred Peyton, the show co- chairman, mentioned that the show schedules may be ob tained at Lawrence's Jewelry store and at Elton's Farm and Garden store, 217 West Sixth street. There are many im pressive trophies being offers ed this year. These will be on display in Lawrence's window. Dr. L. G. Gentner gave in structions for filling out the entry tags. The entries will be received between the hours of 7 and 10 a.m. at the Med ford Senior High school cafe teria. The public is invited to exhibit at the show. Mrs. Ruth . Simmons was awarded a prize, Ivory Fash ion rose bush. ... . Knights to Visit -In Grants Pass Talisman lodge, Knights of Pythias will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Pythian build ing. The lodge will plan for an intervisitation meeting with Thermopylae lodge at Grants Pass, Wednesday, June 3. Cars will leave the Pythian buildings at 6:30 p. m. Those wishing to attend are request ed to be on time. Refreshments will be served after tonight's meeting, ac cording to Dan Kadin, chan cellor commander of the local lodge. HILTS School Picnic Scheduled Women's Clubs Open Meeting Los Angeles -(UPD- Delegates from, throughout the world were here today for the open ing of the 68th annual con vention of the General Feder ation of Women's clubs. The five-day meeting will includes speeches by a num ber of distinguished persons and presentations of awards, including a posthumous award to the late Cecil B. DeMille. ' The group, which claims 11 million members in the U.S. and 50 foreign countries, is devoted to promoting the common interests of women's clubs throughout the world. To Meet Southern Oregon Mush room club will hold the June meeting Wednesday June 3, at 8 p.m. at the Red Cross ! building, 60 Hawthorne street. By MRS. M. F. CAVIN Hilts-The regular meeting of the PTA was held at the school Thursday evening, May 21, with president Vern Burns, presiding. . -Mrs. Al Simmen, chairman of the school picnic commit tee reported they were unable to get Twin Plunges for the day, so had contacted the manager of the Broadway eheatre in Yreka, where a special movie will be shown on Thursday afternoon, June The PTA will reserve thi theatre for that afternoon and everyone is welcome. Each person attending is to bring a sack lunch which will be eaten at the city nark in Yreka, weather permitting. Lunch will be eaten at the schoolhouse if it rains. Trans portation will be cars and the schoolbus. , . A program was presented after the business meeting. A .meeting of a number of members of the community was held Monday night, May 18, at the schoolhouse to dis cuss the need of a community hall. A committee was formed to estimate the cost of a hall that would meet all state require ments. Under consideration was the size of the building, a suitable location, what or ganizations would use the building most, whether a stage would be needed, what sports equipment would be needed, the type of seating arrange ments, and the method of heating the building. , Gino Trinca, Glenn John son, Al Simmen, Vern Burns, Aristeo Perez, Mrs. H. G. Thompson, and Mrs. Walt Laust-' it make up the com mittee. Their findings will be referred to the board of direcs torsof the Fruit Growprc Sink rply'in Los Angeles. V . While George Vieira was in San Francisco recently for a medical checkup, he fell, when his crutches slipped and broke the same leg just below the knee. Since the break was not serious he was able to return to his home. On their annual two week vacation, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. King drove to Las Vegas, through part of Arizona, into New Mexico, Texas, Okla homa and into Kansas, where they visited relatives. Returning home by the way of Las Vegas they drove to San Diego and Watsonville, where they visited with rela tives in both cities. Calendar Calendar notices and new foi 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 am. of the day of publication and for week day news is 5 P-m. the day before publication. Monday: . 7:45 p.m. - Westm i n s t e r Guild of First Presbyterian church, Fireplace , room .at church. 8 p.m. -Olive Rebekah lodge, Odd Fellow hall, 221 West Sixth st. . 8 p.m. - Rogue Valley Coin club, Girls Community club." 8 p.m. - VFW auxiliary, dance at Camp White. Tuesday: 10 a jn. - Rogue Valley Navy Mothers club, home of Mrs. C. R.' Alexander,' 110 Almond, st. .. . . ' t. 1 p.m. - Central Point Roy al Neighbors of America, home of Mrs. George Iaeger, box 628, Jacksonville. 1:30 p.m. - Gold Star Moth ers, courthouse auditorium. 1:30 pm. - Oak Grove Neighborhood club,, home of Mrs. J. W. Gustafson, 923 Park st. GIVE LASTING ft J OStOria Crystal She Will Appreciate Your Gift of LASTING SPARKLING GLASSWARE For HER Choice of Pattern REFER TO OUR . . GRADUATES CRYSTAL REGISTRY The GIRL GRADUATES of nine high schools throughout Medford and Jackson County are registering their preference of patterns. - GLASSWARE DEPT 2nd Floor to 1 BOOKS GIFTS RECORD?! Mr. and Mrs. Art Blanchard Sr. have received word that their son, Art Jr. graduated the first week in May from the pre-flight school at Pensa- cola. Fla. He has been assigned to a jet plane and is stationed at the Sauffley Naval Air Base at Pensacola. Mrs. Mildred Luper, who makes her home in Sacramen to, was a guest of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Luper, and child ren for several days recently, before going on to Oregon where she" will visit other relatives. On May 15, friends called at the home of Mrs. James Cain to help her celebrate her birthday and present her with a gift. Birthday cake . and coffee were served to Mrs. Vic Van de Weghe, Mrs. Henry De Clerck Sr., Mrs. George Ham ilton,. Mrs. Roland Rainwater, Mrs. Grady Rabjohn and Mrs. M. RZ. Silf . Mr. and Mrs. Don True and sons of Ft. Jones were recent overnight guests at the home Plan Picnic Eastwood Baptist .women have scheduled the annual pic nic for Tuesday, June 2, at 6 pjn. at Maple Grove park. Each family is asked to take their own picnic supper and service. Coffee and punch will be furnished. In the event of rain, the picnic will be at the church. . CONCERT VIOLINIST DIES Bloomington, Ind.-Ede Za thureczky, 56, Hungarian con cert violinist and former di rector of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Buda pest, "died Sunday, of a cere bral hemorrhage. of Mrs. True's parents, Mr." ani Mrs. Art Blanchard Sr. On May 17, Mrs. Glen Johnson and Mrs. Vern Burns took several of the Senior Girl Scouts for a cookout near Sheep Rock and a trip thru Pluto cave. Making the trip were Mar cia Cavin, Janet Benson and Pamela Mendes. They were accompanied by Kent John son. 4 SUMMER ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN JUNE-JULY SESSIONS WRITE OR CALL FOR SCHEDULE OF CLASSES EUGENE BENNETT 329 SOUTH GRAPE TELEPHONE SP 2-5837 Clean and Store Your Woolens NOW Avoid "Closet Clutter" . . . call today and ur routemae will bring a "Wool-Pack" container. Your fina woolen garments will be ttorad in ur refrigerated vaults, safe from mothi and weather. 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