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2 Mg. TRIBUNE, M.dford. Or. Monday, Jyn 29, 1939 Gold Hill Group Has Program on State Centennial Gold Hill - "The Oregon Centennial" was the theme for. the final meeting until September of Gold Hill Gar den club. The group met at the home of the president, Mrs. Ernest Gregory, High way 99 north, for a potluck luncheon. ' Mrs. Fred Jones, program chairman, and Mrs. Howard Burnette, reported that they had completed the planting of red petunias, blue lobelia and white alyssum at the base of the flag pole in the Gold Hill City park. The plants will be cared for by the members of the club, and this will be an annual project of the group. Interesting facts concern ing the history of the Birds . eye ranch, one of Oregon's well known landmarks, were presented by Mrs. Gregory and Mrs. Effie Birdseye dur ing the program. Mrs. Gregory is the former Grace Birdseye, whose fath er, J. B. Birdseye was born in the house at the Fort in 1854. Her aunt, Mrs. Addie Colvig, was born there in 1856. Mrs. Effie Birdseye said that the original fort was located along the creek 200 , hundred feet back of where the present historic Birdseye home stands. When the par ents of J. B. Birdseye came here in 1852 his mother brought with her some red and white peonies. Mrs. Birds eye said they have been trans planted and are still bloom ing. A green gage plum tree brought here in 1854 and planted at the Birdseye ranch is still bearing1 fruik The sweetbrlar brought here between 1856 and 1860 by relatives of Mrs. Gregory, is more fragrant than other species found growing in this area, it was said. It was reported that mem bers of the local club will donate shrub" for the new park when landscaping plans are completed. Evergreen trees growing in park were donated last fall by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boy and Arnold Boye. The September session of the group will be held at the home of Mrs. George Dor man, Second avenue. Camp Logtown Now Quiet After Day Camp All is quiet again at Camp Logtown, 12 miles west of Medford on Highway 238. The lizards and frogs can again call the woods their jpwn as nearly 200 Brownies, intermediates, Scouts, lead ers and aides return to Med ford after two weeks of out door fun. There were eight camps, each with individual names picked by the girls. The leaders and aides were given names appropriate for their camp. Camp Pine Tree had 14 in termediate girls. The leader was Mrs. Charlaine Brittsen (Rosewood), program aide Pa tricia Ray (RedwOd). They worked on outdoor badge re quirements, had cook - outs and made name pins. Camp Martian, under the leadership of Mrs. W. W. Brawn (Pluto), with her as sistant, Mrs. A. E. Olufsen (Saturn) and aide Linda Nel son (Venus), had hikes, ccok outs, bead making and deco rated their camp with alumi num foil stars, planets and rockets. Guests The last two guests, Martha and Mary Czekli lived at the camp with the Martians. They arrived a week ago from Hungary and can neither speak nor understand Eng lish. However, they quickly learned the motions of the Indian song and participated in the closing ceremonies. Camp Salamander with Mary Carrara (Queen Bee, Barbara Chitwood (Princess) as leaders and Laura Batzer (Snow White) as aide had 12 Brownies who hiked to Log town cemetery. They made invitations to the closing ceremonies on bark and cen terpieces of forest greenery. Camp Merry Makers of Logtown had Mrs. Velora Morris (Queen Velora) and Mrs. Mary Conner (Queen Mary) as leaders and Eileen Pullman (Princess Joy), and Sherry Pritchard (Tawee) as aides. Their 14 Brownies made pins for their mothers, dish gardens and paper plate pictures from things of the forest. Green Frog Camp Green - Frog was known unofficially as Camp Luxury and had Mrs. Elaine Arnold (Hoppy) as leader, Mrs. Lee Dawson (Jumpy), Mrs. Rose Garrett as assist ants and Linda Met! (Toady) as aide. They had 16 Brown ies who made name pins, cooked out every day-but two and hiked to a nearby stream for pretty rocks. Camp Girl's Parad lead Concert Given Last Night Said 'Red Letter Event7 By RICHARD D. WERNER The appearance and per formance here last night of the Portland Symphony or chestra, with Piero Bellugi conducting, was an event worth recording in red letters. The concert was sponsored by the Oregon Centennial com mission. Not only is the group a full symphony orchestra, but it has a true symphony conduc tor. Piero Bellugi is a young man of undoubted talent as a conductor and interpreter of orchestra music. He also has verve, exhuberance and com mand. That he will do fine things with and for the orches tra there is no doubt, and the members feel the same way. Many expressed the fact that he makes them work, but they love it. From the beginning of the concert with "La gazza ladra" by Rossini, instead of the ov erture to "The Abduction from the Seraglio" by Mozart as programmed, it was quite evident that thevening was going to be one oi artistry and great enjoyment. Bellugi shows the mark of hisw teacher, Toscanini, but withal a personality of his own-an engaging and ingra tiating personality. That he has high musical ideals was quite evident, and. when the real rapport between the play ers and this conductor takes place, we can expect really great music to come from them. We hope they will find it possible to make an annual Annual Picnic Held by Society At Carpenters Southern Oregon Dental Assistants society held the an nual picnic Wednesday eve ning at Topsides, the Alfred S. V. Carpenter home. Thirty four members and guests gath ered for swimming, badmin ton, and ping pong, plus lots of good food and visiting. Wieners were grilled out doors, and some of the men cranked freezers to make old fashioned home - made ice cream. The picnic was the last meeting until fall, and the group will convene again in September. ers were Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Clay Wheeler and Mrs. E. R. Lyons. The aides were Mary lee Lowry (Bambi) and Mary Ann Carnegie (Flower). They worked with 17 intermediate girl scouts to earn outdoor safety badges and . adventure badges and camped at Log town overnight. Camp Bent Pines really had a pine bent to the ground. Their leaders were Mrs. Buseman, Mrs. Green man, Mrs. Pettigrew with program aide Barbara Lewis (Full Moon). They worked with 10 Brownies planning cook-outs, hikes and learning new songs. Pine Cone Haven Ctmp 49 Pine Cone Haven with leader Evelyn Large (Wild Lily) and aides Ingrid Bergstrom (Dove), and Karen Mathern (Piney) had 10 Inter mediates and three Brownies. They assisted in making sit upons constructed of newspa pers, name tags, completed their adventure badge and parts of their second class badge. Camp No-Water was under the leadership of Mrs. Peggy Foy (Clean). She had 16 In termediate Girl Scouts with no aides or assistants. They completed adventure badges and camp craft badges and spent one night camping out and greeted visitors with songs the next morning. The camp served as a way for many girls to learn to en joy outdoor life, make new friends and learn to care for themselves while in the woods. Directors and Assistants Mrs. St. Germaine and Mrs. Norris were camp director and assistant and Mrs. Lee Dawson was camp nurse. Mr. Mathews drove the bus and made four trips daily to trans port the girls to and from Camp Logtown. Mr. and Mrs. Marrow loan ed the use of the area and cleaned the well and installed a pump for water. J.l.n.n-i.li JUMP fa M Need a Needle? See Us. tour. It would be good for the orchestra, for the audiences and for music. The great sums of money now spent on stereophonic rec ords would soon find its way into the support of this "real" music which stereo is trying to duplicate. Surely, last night's concert could not real ly be duplicated by any ma chine recording. There is that ineffable quality of live per formance that can never be put on record or tape. Bellugi's reading of Beet hoven's "Seventh Symphony" was a joy-full of life and youth-really the apothesis of the dance. Considering the disadvantage of playing from a stage overhung with heavy velvet,, the inner voices came out well. Maintaining a bal ance of timbres under such conditions is most difficult. The higher vibrations are dis sipated and the percussive are enhanced. This accounted for the strings sounding subdued and the timpani over heavy. Even the cymbals lacked ring because of it. Velvet looks pretty, but it kills sound. "The Suite Francaise" "by Milhaud was a pleasure. This Frenchman has aerated music and released it from the old jugs. Perhaps he is not pro found; but it is not necessary always to be profound. Music is of the heart-and a gay and joyful heart is a gift of the Gods. May he live long to cheer us. Tschaikowski's "Romeo and Juliet" (Overture Fantasie) closed the program and a real ly fine performance it was. The Capulets and Montagues really went at it during the duel section, and Romeo did sing his love for Juliet. Bellu gi demonstrated a real, under standing of this music, and his young heart spoke to us. His old maestro may not have liked Tschaikowsky, but Bellugi evidently does, and we would like to hear him do the symphonies of this sad, intro spective Russian. We are grateful to the Cen tennial commission for bring ing the orchestra to us, and grateful to Ernest Hood who was so instrumental in con summating the event. We look forward to a bright future for the orchestra which will place Oregon up front with the other Pacific coast states symphonically, and we believe Bellugi is the man to do it. -4- Teachers Talks For Art Group; Works Chosen Warren Holbrook, head of the art department at Crater High school, was guest speak er at the monthly meeting of the Southern Oregon Society of Artists, June 24. . Mr. Holbrook's subject was "Clouds and Aerial Perspec tive." Mr. Holbrook opened his talk with the statement that he had no need to show ar tists how to paint clouds as those in Oregon are blessed with an assortment of beauti ful clouds to use as inspira tion. Mr. Holbrook presented ev ery one with a written out line ' to follow as he talked and then with the use of col ored slides, he showed how famous artists had depicted clouds. His quotation of Cezanne was: "Nature is more in depth than in surface" and he fin ished with a quotation from Matisse, "My choice of colors does not" rest on any scientific theory. It is based on observa tion, on feeling, on the very nature of each experience." Plans were made for a Greenwich Village show to be held in a Medford park in July. The date will be an nounced later. Eugene Bennett, Medford artist, was made an honorary member of the Southern Ore gon Society of Artists. Guests were Mrs. William Dawkins, Ashland; Mrs. Don na M. Francis, Talent, and Mrs. Jeanne Fischer of Boze man, Mont. Seven members of the so ciety had pictures chosen to hang at Roseburg in the Cen tennial Music and Art Festi val, being held at the Douglas County Fairgrounds June 14 to June 27. They are Ada An drews, Gold Hill, Geneveive Ashenberner,. Medford; Vera Backstrom, Medford; Harry Marx, Medford, and Enid Rankin, Medford; Marie Starks, Central Point, and Victor Staley, Eagle Point. Summer Listening Long Play Stereo & Hi Fi Large Selection All Types . Plus Special Order Service Suem's Books Gifts Records 217 E. Main 1 Pnor Nutrition Is Discussed Fdr NFA Group The effects of poor nutri tion on infant mortality and immature functioning was dis cussed by Miss Anna Streed at Tuesday's meeting of Nat ural Foods associates. She reviewed an article, "Nutritional state of the moth er prior to conception," by Genevieve Stearns, PhD, from the Journal of the American Medical association for De cember 5, 1958. Miss Streed reported that one survey found that all still born infants, all neonatal deaths but one, all premature infants but one, all function ally immature infants, and most infants born with con genital defects were born to mothers with poor to very poor prenatal diets. The writer stressed the need for better instruction in nutrition for adolescent girls. Another review, by J. W. Reynolds, discussed "Water and the Cycle of Life," by Joseph Coccanauer. Mr. Reyn olds concluded .his talk by giving his personal experience in producing a good garden soil from a soil at first diffi cult to work with. Proceeds from a sale of vegetables from gardens of members will be used to de fray cost of preparing .a direc tory of producers of foods free from chemical contami nation. The next meeting of the group will be a potluck picnic at the Bosworth ranch in the Applegate Tuesday, July 28, at 6:30 p.m. Buy and Save -before the price raise! O Install Now or lay-away and Install Later O Easy Home Improvement T7 W7 U7 TP I FLOORCOVERING 5 PAYS MlYl 12 xl910 12x14 -12 x13 -96xl2 -15x15 -12x12 -12 x207 Discontinued Pattern Samples 2.95 27"x54" 18"x27" Good Wool Carpet This Will Give Service $795 Your Dollar's You get a better carpet Job from a Floorcovering Dealer . . . 'THEY ARE SPECIALISTS!" Eagle Point HEC -To Hold Dinner -On July Fourth Eagle Point - Eagle Point Grange Home Economics club announced plans for a Centen nial barbeque dinner when the group met recently at the home of Mrs. Ruby Stowell. Mrs. Glenn Waddel and Mrs. Paul Force were cohostesses. The dinner will be served at the Eagle Point Grange park July 4 beginning" at 2 pjn. Mrs, J. D. Brown conducted the business meeting, which followed dessert. Mrs. George McLean, Mrs. Alice Selb, Mrs. Hazel Atkins and Deborah Clover were vis itors. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Frank A. Chamberlain., Group Attends ,, State Convention Mrs. Russell Zundel, Mrs. Amy Handle, Mrs. Ben Allis son, Mrs. Fred Lawrence," Mrs. O. O. DeBerry and Mrs. B. B. Ramsey are in Eugene to at tend the state convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' auxiliary. - Mrs. Fred Lawrence is de partment essay chairman for Oregon, and Mrs. Russell Zun del is department buddy poppy and poster contest chairman for Oregon. Miss Laurene Ken, Med ford, department president, left Friday to meet Mrs. Leedy Meyers, national president of the auxiliary, who will at tend the convention. All the delegates are ex pected to return Thursday, July 2. I -CARVED WILTON (Rose Beige) 7 ROW AXMINSTER (a beauty) BLACK AND WHITE NYLON -BROWN AND WHITE NYLON . -TREND WEAVE, Brown Tweed ... -WOOL TURF (Beige -SHAG TYPE WOOL to 4.95 95c. Per Sq. Yd. Worth Designer Decl Like Sheep Ab By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor New York - (DPD Most of us women are just a bunch of sheep about fashion, said Vera Max- well, the de signer. Then she took off for five weeks in Europe before we could bleat a. de fense. Mrs. Maxwell criticized us Gj7 Pauley for lack of individuality -for our overwhelming desire to confirm to what everyone else is doing. Picnic Announced ByTownsendClub . A potluck picnic will be held in Hawthorne park Wed nesday, July 1, at 12:30 p.m. by Medford Townsend club. Each member is to take pic nic food and table service. Coffee and lemonade will be furnished. If the weather is not fair, the picnic will be held at Car penters' hall. A musical program is being planned by the entertainment committee. Last week Mrs. Florence Boussum and Mrs. A. U. Elli son were honored with a birthday cake. Mrs. Ethel West, San Jose, Calif., was a visitor. The Fifty-Niners string or chestra furnished music. Terms at and Brown and White) (Turquoise & Brown A Beauty) Rayon Broadloom It wears fine under beds and in closets $299 Better Wool Carpet Reg. $11.95 Sq. Yd. 5 DAYS ONLY $995 ft ares Women out Clothes "Now take Marilyn Mon roe," she said. "There's a girl who isn't scared to be her self" "But I'm afraid," she add ed in an interview, "that there always will be the big percentage of sheep. The few who lead, the others who feel bound to follow." The blonde, brown-eyed de signer said the way the sack or chemise swept in and right out of fashion again is a per fect example of what she means. Most women, no mat ter what the figure type -pudgy, skinny, squad or stringbean crawled into it..... Turnlo Opposite But when it dawned that the chemise and some of us weren't meant for each other we turned to the opposite ex treme. In came the shirt-waist with fitted bodice, waistline and full skirt. "So now we've gone hog wild for shirtwaists," she said. "And it's not becoming to everyone either. A woman with a wide waist and full Chapter Holds Supper Party A swimming party and sup per were held by members of Alpha Beta chapter, Beta Sig ma Phi, last Wednesday eve ning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Flakus, 612 J street. . Mrs. Thomas Cardona, hon orary member and director of the chapter, and Mrs. O. A. Eden, sponsor, were guests of the chapter. List Price 324.00 209.00 108.00 72.00 275.00 256.00 412.00 Clearance 216.00 133.00 72.00 48.00 178.50 175.00 216.00 Plush Weave Cotton You get your money's worth with this $Ej95 yd Best Wool Carpet Reg. $13.95 Sq. Yd. 5 DAYS ONIY DYKFS bust looks . . . well, just more so. The bodice is all right. for her, but she needs a slim skirt. "I personally like the coat dress," said the designer, who was wearing a collarless one in beige raw silk with three, strands of pearls at the neck. Her coat dress had th,e unbelt ed, easy lines of the better made sacks. "The coat dress is very be coming to a full figure," she said. "Some of the shapes you see today. Honestly! I wonder why women don't try to hide them. "You don't have to be sylphlike to dress smartly," she continued. In fashion, Vera Maxwell does not preach disregard of trends. She just wishes we women would retain our in dividuality within the broad framework of good style. Cites Queen Mary "Look at the late Queen Mary," she said. "Now there was a woman whose type of dress definitely was part of her character, to w e r i n g toques and all. Yet I'm, sure she raised and lowered skirt lengths as trends changed." The designer flew to Eu rope for one of her regular trips of scouting for new fab rics and new ideas. "A designer doesn't get in spiration, from fashionable women," she said. "I may get an idea from a padre's cloak . . . from the beautiful shawl of a native woman. From Tan giers, I came back with a whole flock of colors. Those people start with such bril liant colors . . . but the sun fades them into those beauti ful, muted tones." Mrs. Maxwell, once upon a time a model, has had her ' 1 MI IP Carpet 'REMNANTS Many of all Weaves Average size 3'6"xl2' YOUR CHOICE 5 DAYS ONLY YOU FLOORCOVERING 1228 North Riverside Ave. own firm since 1947. She is best known for her tweeds and jersies, her coat dresses; cardigan coats, wrapped blouses, and ensembles. "Taste is not measured in terms of money," she said. "I would advise all women to check the appearance of any outfit in a full-length, three way mirror. "And be dead honest in your appraisal. This is the hardest thing." 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