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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1959)
o GkiSchoc3lCiossofl944 Hdldt Reunion in Medford More thftri 100 persons V tended tne reunion baturcgy, May 30, of the Medford Hitt school graduating class of 1944. -The event was held at the Rogue Valley Country club. Mrs. DBnald Valk, Clear water, ria., received prizes for having traveled the long est distance to attend and for being the person present with the most children. She has five children. Charles Waldron, Reeds- O sie makes such a lovely splash SEA-BELLES by Fresh as a zephyr... titled In bright, sea worthy tones ... these lovely coordinates take to the sea lit old ilHl Collar and tffs of w smart knit shirt match the shorts, side-pockefd, with little boy cuffs. re. h runic, washable cotton, . ..for care-free ploy. ; "Skipper Top" Sim 3-6X $2.50, 7-14 fZ.tt Sizw3-6X$&50.7-14fl?S . Parker Weeds' LEON'S w Tots-To-Teens 105 E. MAIN DANDRUFF INFEl apkfly. covets 12) " T Jifjjiv6IT! J 1 1 ' part, received the prize for a tnea traveling the farthest. Other prizes awarded includ ed Vernon Nygaard, Salem, married the longest time; Mrs. Roland F. Hogue, person with the oldest child; Howard Fry, Grants Pass, person with the youngest child; Jack Rose, man with the least hair; Gil bert Tumy and Ray Casebeer, men who had gained the most weight; and Mrs. Randy Hug dahl'and Mrs. I. B. Millard Jr., persons with the eldest set of twins. Mr. Casebeer was president of Associated Student Body his senior year, and Mrs. Case beer was class secretary. -Chairman for the event was Arlon Skinner; Mrs. Zachary was. co-chairman assisted by Mrs. Don Patterson, Mrs. Wil liam Gifford,'Mrs. Hogue and Mrs. Kenneth Curtis. Mrs. Hugdahl was in charge of the i decorations. Among the out - of - town guests were Vernon Nygaard, Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Don O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs. William Proppe, and Mrs. Barbara Griggs, all Portland; Mrs. Ray Casebeer, and Willard Bu chanan, both Roeeburg; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fry, Grants Pass; Mr. and Mrs. Rod Mil lard, San Francisco; and Ver lyn Thomas, Eugene. Activity Canter Lists Programs Pictures taken in the Phil ippine islands will be shown at a meeting of the Arm Chair Travel group at the Senior Activity center Monday, June 8, at 1 p.m. The pictures, tak en by Dr, and Mrs. Bert El liott when visiting a relative who was a missionary for a remote hill station in the Philippines, will show the in terior near Luzon and Leyte, as well as life in Manila. Dr. Frank Roberts, in charge of this travel series, states that several more fold ing chairs are needed for the increasing number attending these programs. An electric fan would be appreciated and would add to the comfort of the group, he reports A member of the Southern Oregon Society of Artists, Mrs. Ruby Twedell. will teach the art class Tuesday afternoon. Members have been working with oil paint ing in recent months, and Mrs. Twedell will instruct in the technique of pastels. It is stated that Mrs. Nettie Williams,' former teacher, will not be available during June. If the group is interest ed in pastel work, Mrs. Twe del will volunteer some time as instructor. A class in conversational Spanish "will begin Thursday, June 11, at 9 a.m. and will be taught by Michael Dillon, Camp White. Wood carving classes Wednesday afternoons, orchestra on Thursdays and shuffleboard games Saturdays will continue during the sum mer months. . with Dandruff BY T gaes to work Iitk pmMH!. 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SHAFFER (Editor's Note:, A startling increase of pregnancies among unmarried girls and women is causing serious concern to par ents and social workers. Pro posed corrective measures in the case of repeating offend ers range from denial of re lief payments to sterilization are reviewed here by Editorial Research Reports.) Washington-The number of illegitimate babies born an nually in this country has dou bled in the past 20 years. In fants reported to have been born out of wedlock in 1956, the latest year for which statis tics have been compiled, total ed 193,000. The actual situation no doubt was worse. Official figures do not include illegiti mate babies born dead, babies born to girls falsely register ing in hospitals as married women, children of married women by men not their hus bands. During the past ten years there has been a 40 per cent increase in the number of un married mothers between 15 and 17 years old. One of every five unmarried mothers Is un der, 18 years 6f age. Illegiti macy is most prevalent among underprivileged minority groups. Two hundred and four of every thousand nonwhite babies born alive in 1956, as against only 19 of every thou- miraculous new (mtcnt mHTt mmn) DANDRUFF DISAPPEARS...tnfeo tion goes. ..scalp is clean and healthy againl GT sand white babies, were ille gitimate. Many of the illegitimate children are born into prob lem families which are receiv ing some kind of public assist ance. There is a tendency among the women of such families to have .more than one child out of wedlock, and for the daughters to become pregnant soon after they reach sexual maturity. Because the fathers often are out of reach or financially irresponsible.Te lief usually is available under the federal - state - local pro gram of aid to dependent chil dren. Paying out public funds to support illegitimate offspring, with the largest amounts go ing where there are the most children, seems to put society into the position of subsidiz ing immoral conduct. Though it is doubtful that the avail ability of relief payments has much to do with the rise in illegitimacy, it is natural that this situation has sparked de mands to withhold relief from women who bear more than one illegitimate child. How ever, federal authorities have warned that to cut off aid to such dependent children would violate the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amend ment. ; j Calls for sterilization as the ultimate penalty for repeated illicit pregnancies have been raised here and there and were given a hearing this year by committees of the North Carolina legislature. A bill introduced there proposed to empower the State Eugenics board to order sterilization of a woman who had given birth to more than one illegitimate child and showed no signs of responding to psychiatric ther apy. There would be safe guarding rights of court ap peal, and sterilization could be staved off if the male par ent identified himself in time and acknowledged fatherhood or, married the woman. While the public seems to be taking an increasingly puni tive , attitude toward chronic offenders of this kind, it is far more talerant than it used to be , toward girls of good family who become pregnant before marriage. A young woman who gets into this pre dicament still has no - easy time of it, but she is no longer treated as a fallen "woman condemned to do pennance the rest of her days. Services are now available to help a girl have her baby without publi city, to make arrangements for the baby's future that will minimize the stigma of illegiti macy, and to do everything possible to return the girl to the community with no blight on her reputation. Provision of these welfare services has opened the way to close study of the personal problems of unmarried moth ers. Social workers are in agreement that sexual immo rality has little to do with the matter. In an overwhelm ingly large percentage of cases the girls are not promiscuous but are emotionally immature or the victims of family con flict. A pregnancy may result from a girl's compulsive de sire to have a baby in order Mrs. Randy Hugdahl, Medford, chairman of the decora tions committee; Arlon Skinner, Medford, chairman; and Mr. Casebeer, who was president of the Associated Student Body. Mrs. Don Patterson, Mrs. Carroll Zachary and Mrs. William Gifford were also on the planning committee. Agency Reviews Problem to punish her family, to at tract attention, or in some way to satisfy an irrational de mand produced by personality disturbance. One result of the change of society's1 attitude toward unmarried mothers is that the day of the "shotgun" marriage is passing. It is recognized Collector Talks For Stamp Club Topical collecting without stamps was the program at last Thursday's meeting of the Southern Oregon Stamp club. Despite a conflict " with the many school graduations held that evening, a fairly large number of members and one guest turned out to hear Elmer J. Binker speak on the subject. Illustrated with over 60 pages from his collection, Mr. Binger's presentation' on post al markings, meter stamps, corner cards, and cachets, proved his point that stamps in themselves are not neces sary to build an interesting and educational collection. It also pointed out that a large outlay of funds is not neces sary, as many pertinent items can be gathered from the waste basket. Mr. Binker is an assistant editor in charge of this type of material for ''Biology Tid-Bits," a nation wide publication devoted en tirely to biological philately. The ' stamp club meets at the Girls Community club at 8 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month. Everyone is invited to attend. more and more that forced marriages rarely work out satisfactorily and may cause harm to the child as well as the mother and father. Even the parents of an unwed moth er are apt to oppose marriage with the father of an illegiti mate baby unless he is other wise a suitable candidate for son-in-law. More adoption services and development of an extensive demand for ba bies to adopt have helped to win acceptance of the new way of looking at these questions. THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT A touch of sheer magic is this ingenious two-in-one evening gown designed hy Vogue Patterns. For those less formal occasions, billowy, short evening dress of sheer white organdy. Presto, the addition of a second skirt tier turns it into a glamorous ball gowav And for the icing, a scalloped bodice and sash of ice-blue cottoa atin. Photo by INGENUE. 6 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Sunday, June 7, 1959 Awards Court Held By Scouts Girl Scouts in Troop 80, Griffin Creek, held their court of awards recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Steinbach, 855 Shafer lane. Mrs. Otto Wirth is troop lead er and Mrs. Steinbach is as sistant. Theresa Steinbach, presi dent of the troop, welcomed guests. Serving as a back ground for the award program was a curved bar insignia made by Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Mathern. The replica, which was later presented to the Girl Scout office, was of gold and green with a trefoil in gold letters at the top and a green knot holding . 15 can dles at the bottom. Judy Youmans and Lois LeFaive introduced the girls as Mrs. Wirth presented badges. Each lighted a candle as Heather Rode read the laws and promise. Second class badges, world pins and year pins were pre sented to Lois LeFaive, Char lene McCormick, Barbara Cain, Ellen Shurtleff, Karen Waldron, Mary Wright, Kris tine Walker, Judy Youman and Marilyn Peters. First class awards were pre sented to Phyllis Overturf and Nicki Ober. The curved bar was achieved by Karen Math ern, Theresa Steinbach and Heather Rode. They were given sewing kits by the troop. Miss Mathern explain ed the duties of the troop chairmen and thanked them for their help. The ceremony was closed with the girls singing "Taps." Refreshments were served by members. The troop's last meeting of the year was held at the Wirth home, with Troop 198 and their leader, Mrs. Dick Foy, as guests. Phyllis Overturf served cake and members of Troop 80 presented Mrs. Wirth a set of glasses in appreciation of her work. An .overnight trip was planned for Beaver camp with Mr. and Mrs. Steinbach and Mr. and Mrs. Wirth as chaper- ones. - x -xx y x hTL.C. wit "Tender Loving Care" PERMANENT WAV! Handsome and Heavenly from 10.00 HAIRCUTS especially styled for ytfur from 1.50 Capital Newswoman tips Home on Historic Site By ROSE McKEE Washington - President Eis enhower and George Wash ington share major roles in the life of a newswoman in the national capital. Checking on the activities of Mr. Eisenhower is, natur ally, part of the job for Esth er Van Wagoner Tufty, head of the Tufty news" bureau and a network commentator. But for relaxation, she turns to the scenes of the First Pres- ident. i Mrs. Tufty has a home over looking the historic Potomac river on grounds, that once were a part of George Wash ington's extensive Mt. Vernon estate. Her home, she told the National Association of Home Builders, is constructed on the foundations of an old farmhouse occupied in Wash ington's time by one of his overseers. The old farmhouse burned many years ago. The present big, white clapboard house with long black shutters was built about 25 years ago. "When I got this house five years ago," Mrs. Tufty said, I was told that it must be thrilling to be buying a place where George Washington and Thomas Jefferson walked ua der the cherry trees. My son, Jimmy, reminded me that the cherry trees don't live that long. But Washington did walk about these grounds and I do have cherry and plum among Xo& old trees on my two acres." Washington Used Land Documents that came into Mrs. Tufty's possession when she bought the property iden tify an adjacent boat landing as one used by Washington when he inspected his sprawl ing acres. Mrs. Tufty has named her home "Viewpoints." She had two reasons for the plural ra ther than a singular ending. One is that her land is on a point providing the many win dows of her house with more than one kind of view of the broad river. But in choosing a name, she also had in mind her newspaper and political friends, who voice diverse views on any subject. Her living room is long, running the length of the house and facing the river. Three French doors open to the verandah and the river. Sofas and a Japanese table at the fireplace end of the room make Ihis part a cozy nook for tea with one or ..two friends. A good-sized dining room is at the rear of tkis sec-, tion of the living room. WhitePink WhiteBlue WhiteYeHow WhittOrchid if f ! n ' As beautiful as precious Dresden Qh'f$ chanting set. Delicate floral embroidery on two-toned filmy rylon tricot . . . $?irs bu? tons and frilly lac artfulfy jo?hbinl t make the prettiest stepwtpr jfteginafclg The career woman's house is filled with mementos of her many trips abroad. "I like . being surrounded by the fruits of my trips and the furniture , of my Mother and Grandmoth er," shs said. "I love the place . . . it is most satisfying after the hubbub of my business' and it takes a real good party ' to get me out at night or dur ing week ends." Long Week Ends Mrs. Tufty, known in news circles as "The Duchess." treats herself to three - day week ends. She explained: "I decided that when I turned. 50, I would take Fridays off as well as Saturdays and Sun days." She isn't telling how long she has had the three- day week ends. Upstairs she has a guest room with wallpaper of old fashioned cabbage roses and white organdy curtains at the river-looking windows. Her son's room, with a bay window to the river, is du& to, be turned into a study for her eomeflay when her son has home o his own. lefhar room, Sth candy- tiij(3 vallpaper, is set aside tor the enildren of her other eft, is currently station ed m Snfiie with his family. Mrs-. Tufty's own room is a unit by itself, with its own bathroom and hall. She has stacks of books, a fireplace and a television set in her bedroom. About the only structural change she made in the house was to add ibookcases. She has books in every room and in. the basement. As to buying the house, she said: "I wanted a place that would be my children's and their children's children's. I want to leave my children something more important, than money. I want them to have this home and long mem ories of the people that tey have met here. And if you're going to start an ancestral place, where better than with a deed that goes back to George Washington!" --. ' ' - :'' Shower by Thermostat New York -4UPD- Booby trap showers the kind that boil or freeze you - injured 41,000 persons last -year. Thermostatic shower controls are recommended to solve the problem. Thee take the place of the regular hot and cold hand valves for the shower and tub. You turn only one knob to get the prop er water temperature. i CO 4S K SjMiiir if ii ii Ci Vvif.viwi. wim n nvftitifmiffiiti UfS.fEE WE PAMPER YOUR HAIR AS WELL AS YOUR PURSE! '.3 1 o We Give dVl GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central 30 N. 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