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MAIL TRIBUNI, Medford, t Republican Women Hear Senator Durno Report State Sen; Edwin R. Durno reported on the 1959 session of the Oregon "legislature at the June meeting of Jacksen County Women's Republican club held Monday noon at tfm Red Cross building. . The senator listed some of the accomplishments of the session. This included a new juvenile code, new electrical code, unemployment revi sions, social legislation con cerning Fairview home, Cot tage Park farm and the Mid Columbia hftne, establishment of Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath Falls as a state school of higher education, and a community college law. The senator mentioned some vl the interesting finan cial allotments as being $75, 000 to theJractical nurse pro gram; $200,000 fof education al television; teacher scholar ships for work 'with the mentally retarded; $250,000 for. the gifted child program; and $91 million to public wel fare, of which $36 million comes directly from this state. Dr. Durno said future ses sions loom as most important, since the state faces reorgani zation of state government, and severe education and wel fare problems. "The best government is that closest to the peaple," Senator Durno said. He is "op posed to federal earmarking of state funds." He also thinks that the time has come for a sales tax in Oregon. "Fifty per cent of the people pay no income tax, and few pay prop erty taxes. The labor force must be made- to realize that they are capitalists as much as anyone," he said. Senator Durno touched on the importance of party ma chinery, told how one per son's idea might become . a law, and reported on the corsmittee work to" which he was assigned and the accom plishments of these, particu larly the newly formed fiscal committee, which has resulted in the appointment of a fiscal officer for the state. Senator ; Durno was intro duced by Rep. Evelyn Nye. Mrs. Sheridan Scott . gave the invocation before the noon meeting, followed by the pledge of allegiance to the flag. The club president, Mrs. Murray Gardiner, introduced Clifford D. Ouellette, Repub lican 'county finance chair man, who explained the three phase financial campaign now being conducted. Funds will be collected as 'advance gifts; for At Lucas & Howard You Get the Most for Your Dollar and Up to 3 Years to Pay! LOW PRICES Our low overhead end large purchases Jceep our cost down. We share this savinas with you. ; HERE'S o;ie EXAMPLE Hiwey 99 - Central pX Jill sustained pledges, and door- to-door solicitations, and as sistance is urged from every Republican. Information may be had by calling Mrs. Lon Skinner, Don Stathos, or Mr. Ouellette. Frank J. Van Dyke is finance chairman for the entire congressional district. Mrs. Durno and her daugh ter, Mrs. Brian D. Stringer, were guests at the meeting, as were E. A. Littrell and his sister, Mrs. Ethel Chadwick, Phoenix, Ariz. ' Mrs. Gardiner announced that no telephoning will be done prior to the next regular meeting on July 20, but that members will be notified via the press to call reservations in to Mrs. Ernst Ruegger. Mrs. Stephen Nye will be the guest speaker on that occasion. Piero Bellugi to Symphony Concert Here A new conductor, who has yet to direct his musicians for a Portland concert, will con duct when the Portland Sym phony orchestra plays here Sunday, June 28. The concert, set for 8 pjn. at Medford High school auditorium, is being sponsored by the Fine Arts committee of the Oregon Cen tennial commission. ; The new conductor is Piero Bellugi, a native of Italy. He came to the United States first tin 1950 as Italian representa tive to the International Arts program, with the great Tos canini as his mentor. After studying with Toscanini, . he taught at Antioch college, and then at the University of Cali fornia. Most recently he has been conductor of the Oakland Symphony orchestra. He. will return to Europe from.Jime.to time to conduct such orches tras as the Florence Sym phony, the Salzburg Mozart e- um and the Milano Opera de Camera. Originally a violinist, Con ductor Bellugi found, that his proficiency with that instru-4 ment had deteriorated while. he worked for the under ground movement during World War H. Since coming to the United States he has studied with Leonard Bern tein at Tanglewood, and Wil liam Steinberg at the Aspen festival in Colorado.;., ,,,Th orchestra will play a six-concert tour in .late -June and early July and the' offi- LARGE SELECTION Each of our 3 stores has a large stock. You may choose from our combined inventories. Bilrwell SWIUEL ROCKER OPEN MONDAYS & FRIDAYS TILL 9 P.M. Air Conditioned Point - NO. 4-1226 Sj50 UUU I J lllw To Agate Flat The 90-degree temperature of the first day of summer was not enough to discourage the 14 members and guests who participated in last Sun day's field trip of the Roxy Ann Gem and Mineral club to Agate Flats. This area, located in the southwest corner of Jackson county, is well known among "rockhounds" for its beautiful specimens of dendritic agate. Heavy pick and shovel work by the group resulted in some nice finds of this mate rial. In addition many color ful speciments of jasper were located. Eexamples of both these gem stones will be on display at the next meeting of the club, to be held Friday, July 10, at 6 pan. in TouVelle State park. Everyone is invited to attend. Direct cial season for Portland will open in October. Tickets for the Medford concert are on sale now at Pu- rucker's, Swem's, Jean Hart's, Lusks', Barker's and at the Jackson County Centennial headquarters at Maple Grove park. They are also on sale at The Mart, Ashland, and the Melody House and Record shop, Grants Pass. , Son and Family Visit in Medford Mr. and Mrs.Kenneth Deg- erne6s, their son, Craig, and daughter, Dora, Spokane, Wash., spent a week of vaca tion at th home of Mr. Deger- ness' parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Degerness, 520 Dakota avenue. They were honored at a pic-nic-given- by Dr. Degerness' uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. . Keenan, Central Point. About 20 relatives were present. Mr. Degerness is a gradu ate of Medford - High school and of Whitworth college, Spokane. He is on the staff of the Pacific Natiohal Advertis ing agency, Spokane. Mrs. Degerness is the for mer Francine Woodin, Yaki ma, Wash. Relatives Visit At Foose Home Mr. and Mrs. Tom Foose, 706 Newtown street, had as guests last week Mr. Foose's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Dragoo, Tar kio, Mo., and another sister, Mrs. Ethel Cook, Waverley, Mo. Friday the visitors and the Medford couple traveled to Bandon and : other Oregon coast points and then to Eure ka, Calif., from where the travelers continued south and Mr. and Mrs. Foose returned home. New Project Announced By Mothers' Committee, New York - For the first time in its 25-year history, the American Mothers com mittee, Inc., is launching a new nationwide project. It is the publioation of an illus trated booklet, "Corner stones," a series of sugges tions to strengthen the foun dation of American family living. Realizing that one marriage out of every three ends in di- Mrs. Frank Smith Hostess for Corps Central Point Mrs. Frank Smith was hostess for the last meeting of Central Point Women's Relief corps, the group gathering at her home on Gebhard road for a potluck luncheon. Among .those attending was Mrs. Margaret Biehn, who re cently returned after an ex tended visit in Wisconsin. Also present was Mrs. Sally Musty, who is recovering from an automobile accident. Those having birthdays were remembered with gifts, cards and a cake. Mrs. Biehn advised mem bers that many of the Camp White veterans need friendly visits and interest in their wel fare more than financial help, and she suggested that mem bers make this a project. A silent auction raised a worthwhile sum for the trea sury: The next meeting will be a picnic in the Central Point city park July 21. Thursday Picnic . . Phoenix Thursday club plans a picnic at Jackson Hot springs, Thursday, June 25, at 6 pan. - . - Use scissors to cut celery, parsley, green pepper and baby's meat. Wet the scissors to cut dates, figs and marsh-mallows. Survey Says Housewives Now Using Kitchen More By CLAIRE COX United Press International New York-fOPD-Well-inten-tioned scientists, engineers, architects and husbands have been working overtime on a thankless project - trying to help housewives escape from the kitchen. The truth appears to be that1 women simply do- not want to be liberated from their pots and pans. They are, in fact, spending more time than ever in the kitchen, now that they don't have to be there so much. Evidence of this phenome non came from two widely separated sources - the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Mrs. America. . They reported that house wives are turning the kitchen into a domestic command post equipped with frozen dinners, powdered soup, wall ovens, self-defrosting turquoise re frigerators, - deep freezes, mixes, mixers, mashess, pul verizers, grinders, juicers, squeezers, toasters, roasters, bakers, hot plates, rotisseries, timers, electric can openers, dish washers, clothes washers, clothes driers, magnetic bul letin boards, desks, card files and even their own exclusive pastel pink telephones. Informants said the kitchen still is the only .room where the little woman reigns su preme. If she wants to keep on ruling the roost, they add ed, she must do it from there, i So, she sits at her kitchen desk to do her paper work, phoning and planning when she .isn't cooking or washing. . A. T. & T. statisticians stumbled on the mass return to the kitchen in analyzing figures on trends in telephone placement. Back To Kitchen -When telephones first were installed in homes, shortly be fore the turn of cthe century, nearly all were big black monsters nailed to kitchen walls. , -. Through the decades, house wives began to wander, tak ing their telephones with them, first intothe hallway, then to the living room, bed room and den. Finally the trail led back to the kitchen, where streamlined colored telephones have been install ed. In 1955, only 18 per cent of all phones in U.S. homes were in kitchens. Today, 28 per, cent of all home phones are in kitchens-more than in any other room. ' There is only one explana tion for this, so far as A. T. & T. is concerned. Women are spending more time in the kitchen, and they want a tele phone close at hand. Home economists back this up with , statistics showing that 25 to 40 per cent of a woman's day is spent in the kitchen. That's what the John's- Manville company found out vorce, and juvenile delin quency is rising at an alarm ing rate, the aim of this 1959 project is to help combat dis ruptive forces tearing the family apart. Prepared with the assist ance of experts in the field, "Cornerstones" is to be dis tributed on a nationwide scale, and may be had free on request to American Mothers committee, Inc., P.O. box 2785, Grand Central station, New York 17, N.Y. : . . Mother Chosen The committee, which offi cially designated the Mother of the Year in cooperation with its state committees, chose this year an outstand ing personality, Judge Jennie L. Barron of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. "With the introduction of its 1959 project,' the committee launches a nationwide contest open to everyone,, to' find suggestions, or a "creed" for happier family life. National ly known judges are Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, treasurer of the United States; Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale and Mrs. J. C. Penney, board members of the American " Mothers com mittee; Miss Arlene Francis, Broadway and TV star; Judge Samuel S. Di Falco of the Surrogate court of New York; and Dr. Howard Taft Behr man. State and national win ners of the contest will re ceive significant rewards. FURS Repairing and Relining Cleaning and Glazing . Restyling - Frances' Fars 610 Valley View SAME PHONE SP 2-4526 when it started to build a "Mrs. America seven-star dream home'' in Ft. Lauder dale, Fla., where the Mrs. America contest is held each year. What They Want The architect decided to find out what housewives wanted in the way of a home, so he polled all 49 entrants in last year's Mrs. America pageant. The women had sharply di vergent tastes when it came to .architectural style, but they agreed that the kitchen was the heart and nerve cen ter of the home. Architect J. K. Pownall bowed to the ladies. He re versed his usual home-designing procedure to draw the plans for the kitchen and an outside barbecue pit first. Then he arranged the rest of the home around them. The kitchen was larger than usual and was crammed with every labor-saving de vice known to woman. "We designed this house from the inside out," Pownall said. "We started with the work center. The walls came last. Usually it's the other way around." Woman Named Champion Of Supermarket Checkers By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor j New York-(UPD-The custom er supposedly ii always right -but in the supermarket she's often wrong. Mrs. Mary Kucab, 42, the internation a 1 champ of su permark e t checkers, says that packing groceri e s prop erly is som ethi n g most cashiers Guy Pauley learn in training schooK' But it doesn't help when the cus tomer insists that produce for instance should go to the bot tom of the bag. ; "We let her have her way," said Mrs. Kucab. "So what happens? Next time she's in the store, she complains that the peaches and plums and berries were crushed. J "Then there's the helpful customer. She repeats the price on the can- or, package as you ring it up . . . but some times there are specials and the marked price is higher. When you're working fast and trying to keep the specials in mind, the customer can be dis concerting. What she is doing is risKing being charged the regular instead of the special price. .. '" But the champion checker says these things - including "over helpful kids" who tag axong witn mom-are all in the day's work. A good checker never shows annoyance. "I just happen to love peo ple," said Mrs. Kucab. a resi dent of Detroi, Mich. Mrs. Ku cab is the wife of a plant guard and the mother of five children, ranging in age from 17 years-the oldest boy, who works at the same market, to 17 months. She's five feet tall, weighs 109 pounds and is af- Square Dance Class Graduation Planned, A square dance graduation party is scheduled at the Bell view Grange hall, south of Ashland, starting at 8 pan. Thursday. A class of begin ning dancers will be grad uated. Floyd Workman, Medford, instructor, will call squares. Potluck refreshments will be served, and all square dancers are invited. Return Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Feiss returned last week end to their home, 201 Windsor ave nue, after spending a week in John Day, Ore., on business. Mr. and Mrs, Feiss formerly lived in John Day. Art Instructor Award Winner Warren Wolf, art instructor at Medford High school, won second place in the painting division , of the recent art show held in Roseburg as part of the Southern Oregon Cen tennial Arts and Music festi val. The Medford artist entered landscape which was painted with a mixture of watercolors, tempera and ink from a sketch which he had made at Fish lake. The show, which will be opea through, June 27, was judged by James Colley, cura tor of the University of Ore gon Museum of Art. A total of 110 pieces were entered in various divisions, including sculpture, ceramics, weaving and painting. It was open to artists in- Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Coos and Curry counties. First place in the painting division went to Margaret Law, North Bend, for an oil entitled "Incoming Tide." Mrs. Law, who studied last summer with Mr. Wolf, is well known for her work as a sculptress. Dr. Lewis Aumack, chief psychologist at the Roseburg Veterans hospital, won $60 out . of the $150 offered in prizes, winning prizes in both the ceramics and sculpture di visions. , fectionately known as "Shor ty" to her brood. The Supermarket Institute and National Cash Register annually run the checker, con test. Mrs. Kucab, who has worked for Chatham super markets in Detroit for six years, was chosen from 25,000 checkers from Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico. In all, some 15 million shoppers cast votes at the local level. In the finals, Mrs. Kucab rang up 26 grocery items in the record time of 58 seconds. Then she bagged the food properly, keeping breakable items off the bottom of the bag and winding up with eggs and a whipped cream pie se curely packed at the top. - i snared tne champ for a talk as she was en route to bridgeport, Conn., with her family to visit relatives. The winner received a two-week trip to Hawaii. "We all hope to go next December," assort ed gifts, and a mink stole. "Now," she laughed, "I'll have to get a whole new ward robe to keep the stole com pany." K iv. i l J' 1 StM! Vt&X ''If - I'M ' Ji 111 'J W' If h t Tf " -'-;. r, if I I elf v'i4 i a & y OUNA Plans Charter Day; ' Medford Member to Attend Members of the Oregon United Nations association from throughout the .state will be in Portland Friday, June 26, for an observance of -United t Nations Charter day. Honored guest for a dinner' to be held that evening in the. Grand Ballroom of the Multnomah hotel will be Under-Secretary of State Francis Wilcox. He will also address the guests. Attending from Medford will be Mrs. Harlan P. Bos worth Jr., member of the board of directors of OUNA. Mrs. Bosworth and Dr. Jessie Laird Brodie, Portland, an-. other board member, will serve as the hostess commit tee and greet guests at the door. Mrs. Bosworth will also be seated at the head table with Under-Secretary Wilcox, and will be introduced. As part of the Charter day ceremonies, Mr. Wilcox, with Gov. Mark Hatfield and the mayor of Portland, will visit the Centennial grounds to cut an enormous UN cake. This cake, which it is said will be the largest ever made, is to be cut into some 50,000 pieces to be served to visitors to the Centennial. The cake is being made under large plastic bubble, from where it will be. served. It is being decorated with Oregon scenes - Mt. Hood, Crater lake and other well- known spots. The ' Charter day cere monies will be the beginning of a concerted effort to "tell the story of UN" and increase membership in the local and state chapters. Mrs. Rex Nic odemus, vice-president of the Students Visit Portland Uncle James E. Tizekker and his sister, Miss Margaret Tizek ker, have been spending a va cation in Portland with their uncle, Dr. Henry A. Krause, formerly of Medford. The two young people were guests at the ball which honored the queen of the annual Portland Rose festival on June 13, and later were guests of Admiral Lawrence for a visit to the Bremerton. Previously Admiral Law rence had been entertained by Dr. Krause on . the latter' yacht. Miss Tizekker is a senior in Medford High school and her brother is a senior at Southern Oregon college. They are the son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Tizekker, 2116 East Main street. Medford chapter, is drafting a letter to local members con cerning the project. Mrs. Bosworth asks that anyone in the Medford region interested in attending the Charter day ceremonies con tact her. Mrs. Bosworth, who is Ore gon Mother of the Year, will remain in Portland for a re gional meeting of the Ameri can Mothers committee to be held at the Aero club Satur day. Mothers from the Pa cific Northwest states will attend, Mrs. William B. Chandlee, Portland, is reg ional president, and Mrs. Elise A. 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