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i: 8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Mrs. U.S. Savings Bonds Prepares for ByROSEMcKEE Washington - "Maybe it .' will be a good thing for my " " children for me to be out of town so much of the time." " This unusual view - for mother was expressed by Mrs. Robert Lemons who is scheduled- to tour the country one-fourth of the time in the 1 coming 12 months in her role ; as "Mrs. U.S. Savings Bonds of 1960." " Her three children - Karen, J 10. Robert, 8, and Kristin, 6 - . will remain at their Wichita, ' Kan., home with their father, a 'pharmacist. Explaining why -Two Clubs Plan Dances - Two square dances are plan ned for Saturday, December 26. ' Star Promenaders Square Dance club will hold a dance at Roxy Ann Grange hall Sat urday at 8:30 p.m. Kenneth ' Hood will call the squares and all square dancers are invited, ' Applegaters Square Dance club will have a guest caller 'for a dance. Saturday since Byron Dibble, the usual caller, will be out of town for the .a . holiday. Floyd Workman, y Phoenix, will substitute. The club dances at the Provolt Grange hall and the party be- gins at 8:30 pjn. All dancers y are welcome to attena. Christmas Dinner Held by Riders Medford Trail Riders held - the annual Christmas dinner Saturday. , evening, with 50 members and guests attend ing. Stanley Foley, past presi dent; Mrs. Bert Beck, past secretary and Mrs. Robert Jacks. past treasurer, were presented belt buckle trophies for their services to the Rid ers. ' Santa Claus made a sur prise visit to the group, and gifts were exchanged. The Trail Riders will meet at Willow Springs , school house Saturday, January 9, at 8 pm. for the first regular session of 1960. Students Hold Caroling Party Many holiday parties are planned by students home from school and college for 'the Christmas vacation. . -Last night Miss Claudia Hoover and Miss Lou Elsa Voegtly sponsored a caroling party. After the young people had sung carols at various lo cations in the city, they re turned to the home of Miss Voegtly's parents, Mr. and s Mrs, Robert Voegtly, 2012 Westerlund drive, for refresh- ments. Miss Hoover, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hoover, Vilas road, and Miss Voegtly, - are both freshmen at the Uni J versity of Oregon. jti 1 1 ; Christmas Cards Make Decorations New York - (DPD Wonder " what to do with Christmas . cards you receive? Here are some imaginative suggestions: Tuck cards into a holly " wreath on the front door. If you live in an apartment where the door is protected, tie a red ribbon bow with long . streamers, place little branch es of evergreen into the bow, 'SI and pin cards to the streamers. Attach cards to mirrors or - windows with cellophane tape. Make a folding screen of cards. Cover the screen in al ternate rows with inexpensive red or green cloth which can - be stapled. Attach as many cards as possible with colored, thumb tacks. i New York - (UPD - Make an ornamental receptacle for dis carded ribbons and wrappings on Christmas morning. ' Cover a large grocery car- ton with brick-patterned crepe paper, wall paper or self sticking plastic. Add a handle of metallic gold cord, and a "collar" of "snow" at the top. To make the snow, mix sev eral cups of packaged soap or - detergent and a little -water with an electric or hand beat- , er until the suds are stiff. CRATER GREENHOUSE 1048 Crater Lake Ave. Sp 2-4401 Or. Wedneadar, Dec 23, 1959 Hectic Year i her absence need not occas ion regret and tears, Mr. Lem ons said: "I hope it teaches my chil dren responsibility and lnitia tive. I think a mother does her children a great injustice if she shields them from re sponsibility." She said her absences also should "strengthen the bond between the children and their father because they will have to lean on him more." Mrs. Lemons and her hus band have worked out what they hope is a good schedule for her absences. Since he has regular 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. hours. he will get the . breakfasts, The oldest girl will pack the three lunch buckets for her sister, brother and herself. A "sitter" will come at 3 p.m wash the breakfast dishes, get the dinner and stay until the childrens father arrives to take over with the serving of the dinner. Back-stopping the operation will be a neighbor, who has of fered to take any ailing child into her home. . ! Stocks Freezer Mrs. Lemons will have sev eral weeks in Wichita - be tween tours. Undoubtedly, she will spend most of that' time re-stocking the freezer. Before leaving for a kick-off, three day visit to Washington, she baked for the freezer." The baking included two meat loafs, a chicken casser ole, 48 cup cakes, 72 cookies, a layer cake and pecan rolls She also stocked a frozen sal ad, a dozen ham patties, bread and a new supply of ice cream. It's a losing battle know it will all be gone by the time I get home," she said, indulgently. For her tours, "Mrs. U. S. Savings Bonds" wears red, white and blue. She speaks to women's clubs, school chil dren, industrial groups and various organizations, always advocating the savings the Treasury Department select ed her to personify. The selection of the viva cious, strawberry blonde Kan- san couldn't have been very difficult, in view of her thrift record. She has been a bond buyer for years. . Her World W a r U salary as a school teacher a nd her husband's Navy earnings went largely into Savings bonds. The bonds enabled them to buy their first postwar home. They sold it at a modest prof it, bought 1 a second home which thev also sold for a slight profit and now they have a three-bedroom rambler with an early American fire place that opens to both the living room and the kitchen. ''We use the fireplace a lot and it's wonderful to build a fire and have it in two rooms," Mrs. Lemons said. Her thrift program has in cluded buying much old fur niture and refinishing it for her homei She once bought a piano stool for only a quarter because it was in such disre pair. Now it could be taken for an heirloom piece. In her Savings Bonds tours, Mrs. Lemons is collecting keys to cities and photographs which will be saved for her children. In Washington, she had her picture taken with Mrs. Dwighf Eisenhower, Mrs. Richard Nixon and other no tables. She will never forget her brief chat with . Mrs. Eisen hower. The First Lady admir ed her' red, white and blue Savings Bond hat because its upswept brim gave height. Mrs. Eisenhower said she her self was always looking for hats that suggest height, Mrs. Lemons reported. The Kansasn was at the White House just before Mrs. Eisenhower was to receive a group of women, and she was invited by the First Lady to join the line. She did, but removed her hat and the Savings Bonds streamer she usually wears on her blue dress. "Oh, you've taken off your hat," Mrs. Eisenhower ex claimed as Mrs. Lemons came down the line. ' Mrs. Lemons thought this "most observant" on the part of the First Lady, considering the brief time the two had been together and the many women Mrs. Eisenhow er was greeting. Living Plants for Christinas Poinsettias, African Violets, Cyclamen, Azaleas and many others. Good choice of colors. Small planter plants. Large Philodendron and Rubber Plants. i Women's Mews The Shah of Iran and his at the Ivory Hall of Geleslan here December 21. The Shah did not breakfast with his bride on the first morning of their honyemoon, but met with a group of advisors to discuss a growing border crisis with Iraq. (UPI Telephoio) Rockette Director Says Girls Are Getting Bigger By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor New York - (UPD - Girls are getting' taller, their feet big ger, and their derrieres broad er, says the man who directs the famous Rockettes, Russell Markert for three decades has screened .show business hopefuls - at the pace of 300 to 400 a year - for mem bership in this unique group of precision dancers at P.adio City Music Hall. "When I first started a pre cision troupe in St. Louis there were only 16 girls then . some of the dancers also modeled for shoe manufac- Quick Brush-Off Not Too Good .'-; For Furniture By JOYCE SCHULLER United Press International Chicago - (UPD - Don't give your furniture a quick brush off if you want it to last. That's the advice of a large furniture manufacturer on the care of upholstered pieces. The company warned that dust and dirt left in fabrics gradually wear them out; that almost any fabric suffers from the constant rubbing ac tion of grit and, sand particles. It recommended vacuuming upholstered furniture at least once a week, especially un der seat cushions. The com pany advised reversing cush ions frequently to keep their fabric coverings smooth - fit ting. Remove spots and stains immediately but carefully, especially if the "stuffing" is of foam rubber. "Be sure the cleaning fluid has a water base or is a non distilled type of cleaner," the company said. It suggested using cleaning fluid in small areas at a time and never al lowing it to soak into uphol stery. ' Recommended cleaning fluids for foam rubber uphol stery include soaps and deter gents, a mild solution of car bon tetrachloride or ammor nia, glycerine and denatured alcohol. ' ' Because foam rubber is sturdier than many ot the fabrics covering it, the com pany advised testing an un exposed area of furniture to determine whether the mate rial would clean without dis coloring. A final word of caution: Check the label on a cleanine fluid to make sure it has no ingredients harmful to upholstery-vinegar, chlorine, tur pentine, acetone, peroxide or acids. Toothpick Tree New York (CPU Tooth pick Christmas trees are un usual centerpieces which can be made quickly. . Stick as many round tooth picks as possile in each of 16 styroform balls which mea sure Vt inch. (You probably will need about eight boxes of toothpicks.) Arrange seven of the-balls in a circle to form the base. Add a circle of five balls, then three, then one. Spray thoroughly with snow spray. Deck the boughs with brightly colored orna ments. If Christmas dinner left overs are destined for the freezer, chill them quickly, re move bones but leave meat or poultry pieces as large as pos sible. Pack compactly and store. bride. Queen Farah, are shown Palace after their wedding turers," said Markert. "Sizes ranged from two and one-half to four and one-half. "Now," he said, "there isn't a two and one-half shoe in the whole line. They start at four and one-half, and officially go up to eight and one-half." Some Unofficial Nines "And I suspect," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "that unofficially there are a few nines in there too." "In height today, a girl who's five feet two looks like a flea on stage. ' "The range now is from five six to five eight." Bust and waist measure ments have changed little. But hips? "Well, the ones we don't hire -no matter how good a dancer are the ones who come in for a tryoiit in sloppy flats, , black leotards and skirts," he said. "Maybe they have a 21 inch waist. But what's below rules them' out." Markert believes that the girl who grows up strictly in flats develops a ; thickened ankle and feet "which look like pancakes." . The dance director, a native of New Jersey, has been hoof ing ever since he came out of the Army -World War I and went to a dance and acro batic school, to lose a ' few pounds military . life, had added. Dances Wiih Troupe Markert, a perfectionist like- Fred Astaire, an old friend, still choreographs the routines of the 36-member troupe by dancing with them, "I used to get nightmares worrying that the girls would lose precision," he laughed, "Now, if they lose it, they lose their jobs. Actually, Markert is hardly a harsh' master. He confesses that he and his assistant, Emi lia Sherman, act as counselors on many occasions when a girl is having money, housing, boy friend or husband trouble, To the theater goer, the Rockettes dancing . is perfec tion, but Markert recalled one big blooper when Diana "DinkV Mayer, now the wife of a Warner Brothers execu tive, missed a cue and came out with the' ballet. -She couldn't get off stage because the entrance was-one way; so for 15 minutes, she was a startled member of the corps. -'So Darned Obvious' , "She knew enough from seeing their rehearsal to keep up," Markert said. "But what irked me was the way the corps wouldn't let her work into the ranks, so she wouldn't be so darned obvious. "She came off stage with them, and went right back on with the Rockettes. By the time she was through, she was a tired female." Says Mrs. Mayer of her un usual claim to fame? "Actually, I don't think I missed a step. But it was the longest 15 minutes of my life." : If berry, fruit or wine spots soil your best white cot ton, linen or synthetic table cloth at holiday time, don't waste a minute. While the stained portion is still damp, stretch it over a bowl and pour boiling water through it from a height of 2 to 3 feet. Use a household bleach solu tion to remove any stain re maining.' White poster paint thinned slightly with liquid detergent decorates windows smoothly and washes off easily. It gives a frosty effect to designs such as wreaths, snowflakes, stars or snowmen. Social Christmas Season Untidy Time; Housewives Advise Br JOYCE SCHULLER United Press International Chicago - (UPD - Santa, the j oiliest visitor of the year, also can be the untidiest, in the opinion of a large home clean ing company.- Women who secretly share this view should welcome the company's .suggestions for coping with the bearded gen tleman's sloppy, habits. If Santa steps right over the door mat, stamping dirt and Flaming Dessert Is Festive Dish F-lamirig desserts add a fes tive touch to holiday enter- .taining. , A favorite -is Cherries Jubi lee.. For this use 1 can bing cherries, Vi teaspoon cinna mon, and about Vi cup brandy or cognac. Pour juice from cherries into top pan or blazer of chaf ing dish, heat to boiling and boil rapidly until the liquid is reduced by about one-half. Stir in cinnamon. Add cher ries; heat. Heat brandy or cognac in a ladle or warming pan. Ignite; pour over cher ries. Spoon the flaming sauce over the cherries and serve still flaming over vanilla or eggnog ice cream. Serves 6 to 8. For the flaming oranges use 6 to 8 large seedless oranges, 6 to 8 maraschino cherries, 1 tablespoon .corn starch, yz cup sugar, 1 cup orange juice, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon lemon rind and cup gin. Peel whole oranges, remov ing all of the white membrane. Arrange oranges in a chafing dish and top each with a mar achino cherry; secure with a toothpick. Mix cornstarch with sugar; add juice, water, and lemon rind. Bring to boil; simmer 10 minutes, stirring frequently, until sauce is thick and clear. Spoon over oranges. Heat gin in a ladle; ignite; pour flaming over oranges. Serves 6 to 8. To California Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kosht and sons, Randy and Jon, 1106 Ross lane, will leave Thurs day for Los Angeles where they will spend the holidays with Mr. Kosht's parents. They plan to return Jan uary 3. Club Cancels Medford Fifty Plus club has canceled the meeting for this week since it would be on Christmas day, it was an nounced today. However, the club will meet Friday, Janu ary 1. - Mincemeat and cranberries combine to make a holiday pie with a past in the great tradition and a bright future ahead. It wouldn't do to spoil the flavor or color of this special pie, so quick-cooking tapioca is used to thicken the fruity, luscious filling. Pastry leaves and cranberries simulate holly for a final festive touch. Cranberry Mince Christmas Pie 3 tablespoons quick-cooking l'i cups moist mincemeat tapioca Pastry for two-crust 9-inch 1 cup sugar ' pie Y2 teaspoon salt 15 to 20 Pastry Holly Leaves 2 cups fresh cranberries Few whole uncooked . cup water cranberries Combine quick-cooking tapioca, sugar, salt, 2 cups cranberries, water, and mincemeat in saucepan. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boiL Cool, stirring occasionally. Roll half the pastry inch thick. Line a 9-inch pie pan and trim pastry at edge of rim. Roll remaining pastry inch thick and cut several 2-inch slits or a fancy design near center. Fill pie shell with fruit mixture. Moisten edge of bottom crust To adjust top crust, fold pastry in half or roll loosely on rolling pin; center on filling. Open slits with a knife. (Well-opened slits are important . to permit escape of steam during baking.) Trim top crust, letting it extend Vi inch over rim. To seal, press top and bottom crusts together on rim. Then fold edge of top crust under bottom crust. i Press edges together on rim using tines of fork. Bake in hot oven (425F.) 45 minutes, or until syrup boils with heavy bubbles that do not burst. , - Before serving, arrange baked Pastry Holly Leaves around edge of pie, overlapping leaves slightly to form a holly wreath. In the center of the pie, arrange whole cranberries and 2 or 3 pastry leaves in a cluster to resemble a sprig of holly. . Pastry Holly Leaves: Use pastry recipe for one-crust pie. Roll pastry V inch thick and cut holly leaves about 1 to 1 inches, long. (Make pattern from paper, then cut out pastry leaves with a sharp knife.) Brush lightly with cream. Bake on a cooky sheet in a hot oven (425F.) 8 to 10 minutes,' or until very lightly browned. . . pUN FOR A D b t lr a e. ooy or wins - swimming rooi-ring rong f fcft flft Trampoline Game O ' . Tumbling Much More M Youner Men's fihrklian AccAriaf ir.it O . - w wbisib II 522 W. 6th St. Events mud across the carpet, try hanging a "Merry Christmas" sign on a boot rack outside the door or in the foyer, the firm (Servicemaster) said. Santa's pack of heavy gifts won't hit table lamps and dec orative objects if furniture is rearranged for holiday enter taining. It's also a good idea to put away temporarily fine china figurines and other breakables. - As a gentle hint to Santa not to empty his pipe on the carpet, decorate outsize ash trays with sprigs of holly and small ornaments. ' Keep a ready supply of spot ting and cleaning fluids on hand to cope with Santa's hab it of grinding sticky candy into upholstery or spilling cherry soda on the carpet. Tne . paper wrappings, strings, orange peels and rib bons that Santa leaves behind will find their way into a big grocery box if it's decorated for Christmas and placed in a strategic spot. .txtra guests wno arrive with Santa will be less trouble if there are hangers and space in the hall closet for their coats. Clean Ornaments Perk up Christmas-tree or naments by soaking them in a solution of baking soda and water. Line the sink or pan to be used with a rubber drain mat as protection against breakage. Rmse ornaments and dry. Annual Dinner Held by Group Grove Garden club held the annual dinner and Christmas tree party recently in the cafeteria of Oak Grove school, The tree was decorated by Mrs. B. H. Bedknap and Mrs. G. C. Wimer. Girts were. ex changed. Mrs. Noel Erskine conduct ed a business meeting follow ing dinner, and the group vot ed to subscribe to a nature magazine for Oak Grove school. - The January meeting of the club will be held ih the Wimer home, and members are asked to be prepared with program ideas for the year. - Tne dinner committee was Mrs. Walter Wilson, Mrs George Armstrong, Mrs. Alex Connell, and Mrs. L. M. Ham ilton. 4 . Holiday soups become more interesting when lightly fla vored with sherry wine. Stir a little sherry into cream of mushroom, oyster, chicken or potato soup. Add a spoonful to onion soup or bouillon. FULL YEAR! .. . . o D o a IVIIMII nvvvviHiivil SP 2-6295 Loneliest Woman Likes Living in Wilderness By ALFRED McCORMACK JR. United Press International Ely, Minn. -DPD A timber wolf howling on a snow-covered hilltop is a familiar sight to the "loneliest woman in America" who lives deep in the north woods wilderness along the Minnesota-Canadian border. . uorotny Moiter, 5Z, is a trained nurse, graduate of Calumet High school in Chi cago and a nursing school there. She became fed up with city life in 1937. This will be the 22nd win ter she has spent alone on her three connecting islands in Minnesota's famed "canoe country," where planes are forbidden to land on the lakes and travel is by canoe or snowshoe. Dorothy, as she prefers to be known, has prematurely white hair. Her face has been tanned by years of outdoor living to the point where she sometimes is mistaken for an Indian. She is stronger than most men. She dislikes formal ity and fancy dress, wears blue jeans and a shirt with only minor variations for the sub-zero winter. She must bring all her sup plies , over a series of lakes, streams and canoe portages which run north to her Isle of J Pines of Knife Lake. She can make the 36-mile round trip to Ely in a day by canoe, bringing back seven 60-pound packs a trip few others, in cluding Indians and trappers, would attempt except in an emergency. It is not uncom mon for campers and guides to take three days making the trip one-way. Operates Post During the summer, when Canadians paddle down -from the north and Americans come up from Ely or Grand Marais and Gunflint, Minn., Dorothy operates the closest thing to a trading post this side of Hud son's Bay. She has dehydrated food, candy, beer, homemade root beer, canoe paddles, canned meat, sugar, salt, flour, axes and just about everything else that could pos sibly come in handy in the woods. Her best customers are those whose canoes have turned over and are left with out supplies. , She considers herself more the "Florence Nightingale of the ' Northwoods" than the "loneliest woman in America. Dorothy keeps her nursing certificate up to date, which means traveling to Chicago every few years to work in a hospital for two weeks. "About the only thing I haven't had happen is some woman having a baby," she recalled. ' Most patients are victims of canoes which overturned in the rapids, or persons who in jured themselves scrambling around on sharp rocks on shore or cut themselves with an axe or knife. Occasionally, in a serious case, Dorothy paddles a canoe 15 miles down to the Canadian Customs sta For Your f ast Minute Shoooioa A Wide Selection of , Gifts for Everyone Shop All 3 Floors MAIN FLOOR, BALCONY and SECOND FLOOR OPEN NIGHTS 'TIL 9 P.M. !The Store of a Thousand Thoughtful Gifts" tion on Basswood Lake, where a U.S. Forest Service plane is summoned by two-way radio. The last of the guides and canoeists disappear early in October. Then Dorothy gets ready for winter. Ready For Winter T. 1 . . .. " ia.e5 aoout tnree or four real good trips to bring in the food," she explained, "and then I have to start the wood chopping." Meat is ob tained later, courtesy of the Minnesota-Ontario deer popu lation. During "freezeup," when canoe travel is impossible and the ice is too thin for snow shoeing, Dorothy is confined to her islands. The rest of the year she takes trips through 'the woods and along the lakes, angles for the fish or takes moving pictures. Winter evenings are spent inside her cabin, built years ago by old-time loggers, mak ing drawings of birds or other wildlife and catching up- on her reading. . Is she lonely in this silent land of the hybernating black bear? "I don't know that I'm ever lonely," she said. "There's so much to do and I know I can always snoeshoe into Ely. ' "I like to get out and look at 'sunsets from the top of a hill or watch for wolves and deer." As for city life, Dorothy prefers the wolves, bears and mink to the crowds. The tall buildings are no replacement for Jjer giant pines, rippling water and fish-filled streams of which she is sole custodian for more than eight months a year. One thing is certain. She does not plan to return to the city to live. ' "This is my home, and I think this is where I'll die," she said. Canned undiluted consomme is a good substitute for stock as a poultry baste. i S&H Green Stamps on 1 iliill s mmm Cjf Q j 'MU 5-8771 ) if - its... Medford Students On Holiday Visits A number of students at tending eastern schools have" arrived in Medford to spend Christmas with their families. Frank Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Peterson, 914 South Stage road, and Robert Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Allen, 981 South Stage road, are among those home. Mr. Peterson drove to Port land and met the young men, who came by plane from the east. Young Peterson attends Cornell university1, and Rob ert Allen is a student at Har vard university. Also home from Harvard university are David Frohn mayer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Frohnmayer, Spring street, and Jim and Dick Cor um, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Corum, 30 Willamette street. Ted Lawsoh, son of Dr. and Mrs. Earl ...M. Lawson, 301 Windsor avenue, is here from Lawrence, Kan., where he is a freshman at the University of Kansas. ! Snow Job New York -(UPD- Hard sauce snowmen make festive gar nishes for holiday desserts such as plum pudding. Cream 13 cup butter or margarine and 2 cups confectioner's 10-X powdered sugar. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Form into balls of 3 different sizes and put them together to form the snowmen. Stick in whole cloves for eyes and nose and bits of candied cherries for a mouth. Stand the snowmen around the platter containing the dessert. 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