MAIL 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
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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.
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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.
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What Is A Satuki, Schipperke,
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k The Census Taker Wants To See You
'k Our Singing Family Visits the Lepers
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I Was Just Thinking
k Bur! Ives Just a Gypsy at Heart
k Junior Treasure Chest
k Do You Really Know What
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
It'll
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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.
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Diced, unpeeled fresh ap
pies give ham salad an inter
esting flavor and texture.
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