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
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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.
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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. . - -
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"But they have to get intoj
some kind of trouble or I
wouldn't have- a plot,"- she
said. . .;; .. r
Morals Unchanged
That trouble is resolved
morally for Mrs. Norris, a de
vout Roman Catholic who
feels that morals haven't
changed during the ages, even
if some authors imply they
have.
"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.
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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.
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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
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