Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 29, 1959, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MeJforf, Or. Women Will Answer Most The Census will be coming around in a couple of months early April, to be exact and guess who they expect to have all the answers?' The homemaker, because she's the one likely to be at home when the census taker comes, Not only will women do most of the answering; they'll do most of the asking too, the Institute of Life Insurance re ports. The Census Bureau fig ures that two out of three of its enumerators will be wo men. What should asked? kind of questions you expect to be Actually, there will be plen ty of advance notice. Toward the end of March, every house hold in the United States will receive an "advance census report" by mail, and house holders will be requested to fill out the form and have the Information ready when the census taker rings the bell. Many Questions Census takers will want to know the name, address, sex, race or color, birth date and marital status of every soul 4a the nation, man, woman and child. And they'll also have several questions about the house you live in. Don t hesitate to answer freely and accurately. Census takers are generally assigned to houses where they do not know the people; moreover, they are forbidden by law to reveal information to anyone i but a sworn employee of the Census Bureau. Besides, the law states that Prince Reads Bible Lesson London - (UPD - The 11 -year-old Prince of Wales put on his first long pants Sunday night and in a small way be gan to take on the duties that eventually will confront him as king. Prince Charles appeared at post-Christmas church serv ice and read the Bible lesson for the congregation. ' It was a first tiny step in the growing-up process. It was his first quasi-public utterance, and he did a fine job. , r ' . . His mother, the Queen; his father, Prince Philip; his sis ter, Princess Anne; his grand mother, the Queen mother; his aunt, Princess Margaret, and a host of ordinary wor shipers were in the congrega tion. " ' It was a tough spot for a little boy. But London news papers reported he carried it off welL It also was a proud and per haps heart tugging moment for the Queen, as she watched her little boy begin to evolve bvto a man. 8 Elementary Schools Teach Three Rs in Two Languages , By GAY PAULEY UPI Woman's Editor New York-GIPD-Teaching the three Rs in two languages no longer is a novelty in elemqn- MUjr BU1UU1S. The Foreign Language Cen ter, founded last July as a clearing house for information on language 'study, estimates there are about 750,000 chil dren in grades three through six receiving lessons in French, Spanish, Italian, Ger man, or even Russian. About 500 communities have a .sec ond language program for the grades, compared with 89 in 1952, says Donald Walsh, cen ter director. Walsh, who is on leave from Choate School in Connecticut, said that within a few weeks the center hoped to circulate questionnaires in every school district in the nation to find who "is studying language, what language, in what grades, and the number en rolled. The study would be made under provisions of the National Defense Education Act. Most programs, he said, begin the second language studies in the third grade "where any language is sim ple. "Of course they don't bgin with vocabularly and sentence structure; that comes later, after the children have gotten into grammar. But they learn in a situation . . . kids invent language anyway, you know. And the fidelity of their ac cent is wonderful." Young Learn Easily "The young are not self conscious," said Walsh, in an interview. "Adolescence is the worst time in the world to begin the second language. The child is self-conscious. He is afraid he will make a fool of himself. " "He can imitate easily when he is nirx; or 10 ... at that age, he has not decided that very thing has to sound like Tuesday, Dec 29, 1959 Take Census, Questions i everyone over 18 years of age must answer official Census questions. The Census Bureau uses its information only in a general way. It cannot tell govern ment agencie or anyone else what it has learned about in dividual persons. Says the law: the Census report cannot be used for purposes of taxa tion, investigation or regula tion. When the census taker calls, he will leave a "household questionnaire" at every fourth house he visits, to be filled out by the family and mailed back within three days. This form asks for more detailed information -about the house itself, and about household members. For example, every one over the age of 14 will be asked if he (or she) is now working, and where he works; how he gets to work; how long he worked in 1959; and what his income was for the year. The Census Bureau expects that when all the figures are in, they will confirm this flourishing picture of family life in the United States: 1. Our population has in creased more in the last 10 years than in any 10-year pe riod in history. The reason: a sharp rise in the birth rate, and continuing low death rate. 2.- A higher proportion of younger people and older peo ple than ever before. The rea son: improvement in health at both ends of the scale. 3. An unprecedented in crease in the number of mar ried couples. The reason: couples are marrying young er, living together longer. 4. Fewer persons in the av erage household, even though the number of children in a family has increased. The rea son: more older folks, because of better economic conditions, are living by themselves, in stead of with their children. 5. More private homes, apartments and trailers to ac commodate families. 6. The number of people liv ing on farms is continuing to drop. 7. More women working at outside jobs. Since most of the census takers will be women, here's an inkling of the require ments: a U.S. citizen of at least 18, and able to devote full time to the two weeks or so that the job will take. Have a driver's license, and have her own car in rural areas. Good physical stamina, able to read maps and conduct in terviews. There's a written test too. Enumerators will be p a i d on a piecework basis as a rule (some will get hourly rates) and should be able to earn $12 or $13 a day for eight to 10 days and some addition al time for transcribing rec ords. All earnings are subject to income withholding tax. aWhat else would you expect, with the government the boss? English. Bread can just 'as well be 'pain' (French)." One of the first school sys tems to begin language at the grade level is Somerville, N.J., where .elective classes in Spanish and French from the third grade up have been offered since 1949. Doris Chamberlain, a teach er for 25 years and chairman of the city's foreign language department, said children "soak up" another language when started early "And by the time they're through high school," she said, "they've had at least nine years in one for eign language.'They're ready to start another." Not all educators agree with Walsh, Miss Chamberlain or other teachers who head sim ilar programs in such commu nities as Hackensack, N.J., Glastonbury, Conn., and El Paso, Tex. New York City schools have a program for gifted children. But Dr. J. Wayne Wright stone, director of education re search, said that children of average I.Q. "by and large cannot handle this additional load." Walsh said that schools in augurating foreign language courses in all cases had had full SUDDOrt of narents nnH PTA but "often have run into opposition from school boards because hiring good teachers costs money." And good language teach ers," he added, "are the big gest bottleneck." - Bread Traa The bread and cheese tree is one of the many exotic types of vegetation flourishing on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Popular as a hedge, this tree gnws to heights of slightly morevthan 20 feet. Its fruits is borne on pods that reveal a white bread-like sub stance, topped by a ring which resembles a red wrapped Dutch cheese. Women's . y I 4? Whs'' Washington Miss Nancy Humphrey, eldest daughter of Sen. and Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, poses with fiance, Bruce Solomonson, at the Humphrey home in Washington December 26 where they spent the week end. rTheir engagement was formally announced Sunday. Miss Humphrey is a nursing student in Minneapolis, and Mr. Solomonson, a long-time family friend, is also from Minne apolis. (UPI Telephoto) Open House Honors Couple On Wedding Sams Valley-Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bigham of the Sams Val ley-Beagle area were honored December 6 at an open house which observed their silver wedding anniversary. About 100 relatives and friends at tended the event held at the couple's home. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Big- ham, the couple's son and daughter-in-law,, planned the event. . Among the guests were Mr, and Mrs. Bigham's two sons, Clifford and Lyle, Portland, and Mrs. Bigham's. mother. Mrs. Agatha Stephens, Cald well, Ida. For the open house Mrs. Bigham wore a dress of aqua marine color with a corsage of red roses and silver ribbon. Mrs. Ernest Smith-made a money tree of manzanita sprayed with silver on. which gifts of silver money hung. Mrs. Smith also decorated the Two Leave Miss Shirley Rutherford and Miss Karen Paschke spent Christmas in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Paschke, 744 Dakota avenue. Both young women are employed at Occi dental Life Insurance com pany, Los Angeles; they re turned south Saturday. Some Spooning New York - (UPD Do you know 'what your most - used household item is? Spoons, says a sterling silver manu facturer. Spoons are used a minimum of 50,000 times in the course of a lifetime. and more often is passed on from generation to generation: . ' Ceiling Decor New York (UPD Turn a sloping ceiling into an asset. Paint it a gay color contrast ing with the walls. A low ceiling will appear higher if painted a light, cool color, and a high ceiling will seem lower if done in a warm tone. Beauty Aid Peoria, 111. (UPD A terry cloth beauty cape makes a cover - up for shampooing, combing hair, and applying make-up. It snaps on, is ma chine washable, and comes in a print of beauty gadgets, bows and flowers. ' - Everyone's Dish of Tea New Milford, Conn. - (UPD -A new teapot is designed to suit different tastes to a "T.", It has two spouts and two wells. Tea is put in one side and hqt water in the other for the desired strength. The tea pot has a six-cup capacity and comes in ivory, canary, or cerulean blue glazed ceramic. r-t Fish and Wine When baking salmon, hali but or other fish, baste fre quently with chablis or sau terne wine. For a change, poach sole in a white dinner wine and use some of the rich poaching liquid to make a cream sauce to serve over the fish. r Make a hat hanger for a car with a wire coat hanger. Hold it by the hook and pull the crosswire down to form a square. Hang it by the hook at the side of the car, and put I the hat in it. Mews Anniversary serving table and living room mantel with sdver tapers, silver-sprayed manzanita and fir boughs. y The serving table 'was cen tered with ' an anniversary cake made by Mrs. Don Way, Ashland, long - time family friend. Mrs. Everett Brown, Table Rock, a sister of Mr. Bigham, cut and served the cake. Another sister, Miss Grace Bigham, served punch. Serving coffee was .a neice, Mrs. Donald Anderson, Eagle Point, and another niece, Glenna Mae Brown, took charge Of the guest book. Mrs. Frank Myers, Table Rock, another sister of Mr. Bigham, received guests at the door. Assisting with serving were Miss Patricia Bigham and Miss Carol Myers. Mrs. : Bigham, who came to Grants.Pass; Ore.from Idaho with her parents in 1920, is a member of West Main Church of Christ and is active in the Sams Valley Home Extension unit and Sams Valley Ladies Community club Mr. Bigham is a lifetime resident of this area. His par ents, the late Mr. and Mrs. John Bigham, came to Oregon by covered wagon. Mr. Big ham is also a member of the West Main Church of Christ and is one of the deacons. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bigham have been active in 4H club work and Future Farmers of Amer ica. They were married Decem ber 5, 1934, at Rogue River. In addition to their three sons, Mr. and Mrs. Bigham have one grandchild,"- Kent, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bigham who was born only a week before the anniversary celebration. , Elks Lodge Makes Plans For Annual Holiday Party Medford Elks lodge is com pleting plans for the annual New Year's eve dance at the temple. Started a J o u t 35 years ago, the dance is usual ly the largest holiday party in the valjey. In 1957, about 700 persons were present for the gala event and in recent years attendance ' has seldom been below 400 or 500 mem bers and guests. Mr. and Mrs. Monte Mor ris are chairmen of the party this year and they are assist ed by the nine men who made up the last class of initiates, and their wives. On the com mittee are Mr. and Mrs. Max Paul Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon C. Stephen, Mr. and Mrs. James L. . Quincy, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griffith, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Goodman Tiger Eyes Paris (UPD French beauty stylists have responded to the call of the wild and come up with a new look tiger eyes. To create the look, draw a narrow line of blaek or brown liquid eye liner along the lid near' the lashes, extending it up and out at the corner. Then smooth on a gold liner just above, with a fleck of gold dotted inside the corner of the eye. Team the eye make up with a . gold - penciled beauty mark high on the cheek. Soc Best Seller Cookbooks Said Much Like People By JEANNE LESEM United Press International New York -(UPD-A 63-year-old American cookbook best seller is like many of us as we grow older it has gain ed weight and changed eating habits. Just what the changes were I learned by examining first and fourth editions of "The Boston Cooking-School Cook book" and the new tenth edi tion, "The All New Fannie Farmer Boston Cooking School Cookbook" (Little, Brown). The 567-page first edition weighs of a pound less than the latest 596-page, 2Vi pound edition. But its many rich recipes Americans Better Shod Than Before New York Americans are walking into the Sixties bet ter shod than at any time be fore, according to the year end report of Leather Indus tries of America. , The shoe industry statisti cians, closing the books on the Fifties, note that the aver age person buys three and a half pairs of shoes per year, as compared to three at the end of the Forties. The aver age woman bought almost five pairs in 1959, as against less than four pairs in 1949. The American adult male scrimps along with only one and three quarters pairs of shoes per year, but his lagging record is more than balanced out by his shoe-conscious teen age daughter: She treats her self to five and a half pairs of shoes annually. Small boys' and girls' shoes average out to between three and four pairs a year. The cold figures of the rec ord books struck one note to warm the heart of the con sumer. The price of shoes again remained one of the most stable items in the fam ily budget. More than 95 per cent of all shoes in all cate gories are in the low-to-medium price bracket, with few price rises over last year, and reductions in many cases. Improved tanning and shoe manufacturing methods were the main factors that have kept retail shoe prices low during the 1950 s, according to Mel Salzman, director of Lea ther Industries of America. Among the recent improve ments in shoe leathers, Salz man cites washable white lea ther, crack-proof patent lea ther, ultra-soft, easy-to-clean suede leather, vastly increased varieties of tannery "dyes that have made it possible to color match shoes with any apparel or accessory color, and revo lutionary, new chemical and curing treatments that have made leather soles lighter in weight but up to 100 per cent more durable than formerly. Looking back over the en tire decade of the 1950's, the report shows that the average price of a pair of shoes is be tween one and two percentage points above 1949. This is in marked contrast with the ap proximately 25 per cent in crease in the overall cost of living in the same 10 years. and Mr. and Mrs. Lynn R.I Jenkins. The event is scheduled to begin at 9:30 p.m., with two orchestras playing for danc ing. The Bellaires will play in the , party room downstairs, and a four-piece group will play for dancing in the club rooms upstairs. . Refreshments will be serv ed throughout the evening. 4 Island Nam Although beards have be come popular in some areas of the Caribbean, the island of Barbados has always been proud of its local variety, which sprouts on trees - and not men's chins. Many schol ars attribute the island's name to the great coastal forests of bearded fig trees which were discovered by early explorers. "Los Barbados" means the "bearded ones" in Portuguese, and it is thought Portuguese sailors named the island after the ' fig trees on its shores. The forests were cleared in the 17th: century for the plant ing of sugar cane, but impres sive specimens of the tree still stand. Wa Giv GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Mam and Central ial Events indicate that diners of the period were no lightweights. One of the longest chap ters deals with batters and fritters. In the latest' edition, only 10 fritter and batter recipes appear. Gingerbread, cookies and wafers rated an entire chap ter in the first edition. And nearly 60 frozen desserts were listed, long ' before electric freezers existed. Perhaps the biggest change in eating habits is reflected m the large number of for eign recipes in the current edition, compared with only a few in earlier editions. Recipes were fancier when great-grandma was a girl, but, surprisingly, not as elaborate as in the mid-1920's. The fourth edition, reprinted six times by 1925, went in for good disguises. ' Hard-cooked eggs some times masqueraded as apples or pears. Two recipes told how to accomplish this magic. Just press a hot, hard-cooked egg between thumb and fore finger until it assumes the desired shape. Hold it under cold, running water, of course. That way, presumably only the tips of your fingers are burned. The remodeled eggs were then tinted with vegeta ble dyes and trimmed with cloves and flower leaves to resemble fruit., Althougn . such recipes sound pretentious today, we owe Miss Farmer one great debt. She is credited with introducing level measure ments after generations of cooks had struggled with vague "teacup of flour" direc tions and wondered why they sometimes didn't have their "usual luck with the biscuit." Only one other standard American cookbook has achieved best-selling status along with Miss Farmer's. Both hers and "The Joy of Cooking," by Irma S. Rom- bauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, have sold more than three-million copies each. Other noteworthy cook books published recently in clude "The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook" (Random House), with many receipes using time-saver ingredients such as frozen and canned foods and packaged mixes, Three others . "Soyer's Cookery Book" (McKay). "Good Cooking" by Nichoals Roosevelt (Harpers) and "Ta ble Topics" by Julian Street (Knopf) entertain as they instruct. The Roosevelt book, by one of Teddy's ' nephews, is rec ommended for truly creative cooks. Many recipes are guides for the imagination rathej- than explicit direc tions. Street's book,' an anecdotal volume about food and drink. is interlarded with simple but delectable-sounding recipes. "The Classic French Cui sine," by Joseph Donon (Knopf) covers both la haute cuisine and good home cook ing. Its no-nonsense approach to the best French food is ideal for both novice and ex perienced cooks. - Diners' out who can't afford to visit some of America's top restaurants can do the next best thing make res taurant specialties at home with recipes from "The Din ers' Club Cookbook," by Myra Waldo (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy). wife Choose from our uoique se lection of New Year greet ings . . . modern . . . humorous ... and tradi tional ... all designed to express your thoughts just as you'd say them yourself. 1 New York Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson, whose recent Metropolitan Opera debut as a Wagnerian singer brought rave reviews from the critics, uses a prop "love potion" as she toasts the three Tristans who played opposite her in a performance of "Tristan and Isolde" at the Met Monday night. Originally, tenor Ramon Vinay was Christmas Party HelrJ by Guild Games and gaiety replaced business when Ruth Esther Wesleyan Service guild held the annual Christmas party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Anderson, Hillcrest road. The dense fog outside seem ed to intensify the members pleasure in the bright decor ations, the Christmas tree, gifts, the organ music and carol singing. Mrs. Melvin Ward led de votions, and " Mrs. Archie James the games. Miss Voda Brower read a letter from the former Viola Dietrich, mem ber of the group recently mar ried and now living in Ala meda, Calif. Miss Annette Gray, known to thousands of former stu dents for her ability to read aloud, gave, almost from mem ory, Myra Kelly's story called "A Present for a Lady." Refreshments were served, buffet style, by Mrs. Lionel Guy, Mrs. Anne Gorby, Mrs. Florence Gilkison and Mrs. Bernice Kunzman. Returns Miss Sara Hart returned to San Francisco by air Sunday after spending Christmas with her mother, Mrs. Robert Hart, 22 Glen Oaft court. CALENDAR Wednesday: 11 a.m. - Medford Tdwn send club, Carpenters hall, 123 V2 West Main st. "r Every weekend you will find articles and features for the entire family with your With Your lo have sung Tristan, but at almost the last minute he decided that he didn't feel well enough to sing all, three ads of the strenu ous opera. Unable to find a replacement, the Met compromised by having Vinay (second from left) Karl Liebel and Albert Da Costa (right) each sing one act of the performance. , (UPI Telephoto) Ladens Return From Mr. and Mrs. John L. La den and son, John Jr., return ed to their home on Jackson boulevard Sunday night after spending 10 days in Royal Woods, Calif., with the La den's son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Uni ack and three children, John, Julie and Mary Alice. MATERNITY SALE TOPS formerly to 7.98 fx? I IN THE MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER FAMILY WEEKLY PRESENTS WEEKEND READING THAT WILL INFORM.... AMUSE.... INTEREST.... STIMULATE.... ENTERTAIN.. Don't miss the January 3rd issue next weekend with these features What Is A Satuki, Schipperke, Kuvase, Lhasa Apsos, Basenji? k The Census Taker Wants To See You 'k Our Singing Family Visits the Lepers -k Off To A Good Start-Family Weekly Cookbook -k Quips and Quotes I Was Just Thinking k Bur! Ives Just a Gypsy at Heart k Junior Treasure Chest k Do You Really Know What You Look Like MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE It'll 11 California John Laden Jr., a junior in electrical engineering at San ta Clara university in Califor nia, will spend the remainder of the holidays here, return ing to school January 3. 4 Diced, unpeeled fresh ap pies give ham salad an inter esting flavor and texture. iM!