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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1960 Auxiliary Being Formed Jacksonville - The first meeting to organize an auxil iary to the newly chartered American Legion Centennial Post 100 in Jacksonville was held recently here. Mrs. C. L. McBeth, Jackson ville, was elected temporary chairman with Mrs. R. J. Bohl to serve as temporary secre tary at the meeting and a tem porary constitution and by laws were adopted. Present to assist in .the meeting was Mrs. William Friend, piesident of District 13, Grants Pass, and Mrs. Earl B. Bigalow, department vice-president, Medford. Final meeting for organiz ing the new unit will be held Friday, January 8, at 8 p.m. at the Community Hall in : Jacksonville. Application for a charter will be signed at that time by all new members - and permanent officers will -. be elected. A17. women eligible ,.. for membership in the Ameri- - can Legion auxiliary are in- - vited to attend the meeting. Phoenix Group To Hear Speaker Talk on Russia Phoenix-Dr. Leonard May- field will speak at the Janu- ary meeting of the Phoenix P a r e n t-Teacher association Wednesday, January 6, at 8 p.m. in the grade school gym- . nasium. Dr. Mayfield, superintend " ent of Medford public schools, will talk about his recent trip to Russia, with emphasis on the USSR educational struc " ture. An invitation is extended to ' Talent parents and teachers to attend the meeting. Nikodyms Hold Family Reunion Phoenix - The Nikodym family held a reunion during , the holidays gathering in the Phoenix Community building. Following dinner there was dancing and movies, includ ing pictures of a family outing and rodeo. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Nikodym, Med ford, and also attending the reunion were Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Nikodym and family, Seequim, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nikodym and family, Cosmopolis, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. John Fairchild and fam ily, Grants Pass; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nikodym and family, Central Point; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Nikodym and family, Phoenix; Mr. and Mrs. Ver non Nikodym and family, Medford. Only one grandson was absent from the group. Automation To Supermarket Carts Chicago - Mechanization has come to the busy super market shopping cart. Shoppers no longer push their loaded carts to the park ing lot at Jewel Tea com pany's new store in Joliet's Hillcrest Shopping center. Pioneering a new super market convenience, Jewel has installed an endless chain conveyor buried in the floor that whisks loaded grocery carts from the checkout counter area through an un derground tunnel directly to a security room next to a parking lot some 200 feet away from the store. An at tendant transfers the grocer ies from the cart to the shop per's automobile. The new device is called Kartveyor by its manufactur er, Link-Belt company, and is believed to be the first ap plication of mechanization to the grocery shopping cart. The device is an adaptation - to the supermarket of the popular in-the-floor chain conveyor used in factories, warehouses and freight ter minals. ' How It Works Here's how Jewel s m e - chanized shopping cart works at the Hillcrest store in Jol iet: After the shopper's pur chases have been paid for at the checkout counter, the bagged groceries are replaced in the s h o p p i n g cart.. The shopper is given a numbered tag, a duplicate of which is at tached to the cart. Then, w h i 1 e the shopper leaves to make purchases elsewhere in the shopping center, or goes immediately to the parking lot, the shopping cart quickly gets under way. From the checkout counter, the cart is pushed by a store attendant to the Kartveyor which is visible only as a half inch wide slot in the floor. Be low the slot is the endless conveyor chain which is mov ing constantly in a trench be low the floor level. As soon as the cart is cen tered over the track, a foot pedal is depressed by a Jewel employee to lower a small W Jr. I:'- Kp-" ... - LZ3iwr New York Miss Koyoka Otani, Japan's most famous operatic soprano, and Ikuma Dan, leading contemporary Jap anese composer, are greeted by John Brownlee, celebrated Metropolitan Opera baritone, hattan School of Music and head of its noted Opera Work shop. Miss Otani will make her American operatic debut in the American premiere ol ("The Twilight Heron") to be School of Music. New Convenience Foods Introduced From Europe By JEANNE LESEM United Press International New York - (UPD - Our Euro pean cousins are said to shun labor - saving convenience foods, but you'd never know it from their exhibits at the re cent United States world Trade Fair. Especially for the soup course. Dry soup mixes turn ed up stronger than ever. Ox tail soup, long a favorite abroad, is a newcomer to this country from Germany and Switzerland. Other Swiss products new here included egg macaroni shell soup mix; chestnut puree; breadsticks; and Camembert cheese pro cessed to remain stable at peak ripeness. The rich, meaty soups or West Germany were repre sented by two new mixes: liv er dumpling and semolina with smoked meat and vege tables. Two varieties of mayonnaise were introduced a Spanish olive oil blend and a German horseradish type. The former, somewhat stronger than salad oil dressings, goes well with tuna fish or spicy sausages and sandwich meats. Spreading steel tow pin into the slot. The pin is engaged by a tow ing attachment on the chain, which pulls the cart on a 4 minute journey through the underground tunnel to the waiting or security room alongside the parking lot. Top Numbered When the shopper drives her car to the curb next to the waiting room, she dis plays her numbered tag and a Jewel attendant rolls out the cart with the corresponding number and transfers the purchases to the automobile. The empty cart is returned to the Kartveyor track, the tow ing pin of the cart dropped in to the slot and the cart re turns to the store for another round-trip. Towing attach ments on the chain are locat ed at 4-foot intervals. The system is 536 feet over-all in cluding turns at both ends, and has a capacity of 450 carts per hour. Chester H. Cole, Jewel's construction and maintenance engineer, who conceived the new retail store use for the in dustrial conveyor, predicts that supermarket cart con veyors will become standard equipment to connect super markets and parking lots when the two are not adjoin ing. Shoppers who wish, may carry out their groceries in their arms but Jewel says the new cart conveyor will deliv er purchases to the parking area as quickly as a customer could carry them. . FROM THE FRYING PAN Kansas City, Mo. (UPD Repeated heatings of the same cooking grease are known to cause cancer producing agents in the grease, it is reported in the current issue of GP, offi cial publication of the Ameri can Academy of General Prac tice. The next step is to deter mine if the agents, called car cinogens, are produced in suf ficient quantities to trigger stomach cancer, said Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, of the American Cancer society. who is director of the Man Mr. nans opera, xu-zuru presented by the Manhattan (UPI Telepholo) A new Hungarian salami needs no embellishments. This, and Danish summer sausage made from pure round steak without garlic, were shown here for the first time. The faintly spicy Danish product is said to keep five months without refrigeration. New Olives Spanish products new to the U.S. market also included manzanilla olives, which are thumbnail size, green, and less salty than other types; preserved mussels; snails; and truffled tuna. Our national appetite for TV dinners gave the Swiss sweet ideas. They molded marzipan, a ground almond confection, into imitations of hot dogs, hamburgers, Swiss cheese sandwiches, fried eggs and flounder. The growing popularity of Italian food got a boost with the introduction of Italy's leading brand of breadsticks, fruit syrups in seven flavors, spiced fruitcake in sizes rang ing from one serving to one pound packages, and hand made spaghetti twists called "fusilli." In the quick-cooking cate gory, Italy showed "risotto alia Milanese" (Milan - style rice), which takes half an hour to prepare, and "fettuccine peppino," a 20-minute dish of pasta. The Pan American Coffee Bureau said the U.S. leads the world in coffee consumption, using almost 2.7-billion pounds of green coffee beans a year. France runs a poor second, with 417-million pounds, and Germany is third, with 352 million. But it took the fourth larg est consumer, Italy with 179 million pounds to show 160 different continental coffee makers, ranging from a tiny espresso pot to a 200 cup chrome machine. For those who like the con venience of instant products, France sent an instant after dinner coffee blend. The Belgians, who last year brought over confections shap ed like flying saucers, this time turned their talents to color. One new Belgian prod uct is a purple liqueur, par fait amour, with rose and va nilla flavoring. Another is for cooks who'd like to match the kitchen sink to dishpan hands. It's a double sink with drainboard, all made of cherry red plastic. Mitchells Return From Island Stay Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Mitchell and four children, Brent, Gibb, Brenda and Shelley, re turned home Sunday after spending the holidays in Ha waii. The Mitchells made the entire trip by air, using their private plane for the trip to and from San Francisco and flying from the California city to Hawaii. They were registered at the Princess Kaiulani hotel. The entire family enjoyed swim ming and surf-boating every day of the stay. The hotel pro vided a Christmas atmosphere with a decorated tree in the lobby and a visit from Santa Claus for small children, the Mitchells report. Guild To Meet St. Elizabeth's guild of St. Mark's Episcopal church will meet Friday, January 8, at the Parish hall. Luncheon will be served at noon, and one of the guild members will be honored during the meeting to follow. Women's Mews Women's Party Boasts One Line, No Candidates By DICK WEST United Press International Washington -flJPD- The Unit ed States, as every schoolboy knows, has three major politi cal parties-Democrats, Repub licans and women. There is, of course, quite a bit of party -line crossing. Many women also are Demo crats or Republicans or, as frequently happens, both. In the news recently have been a Republican who sur prised everybody by dropping out of the presidential race and two Democrats who sur prised nobody by dropping in. In the interest of tri-partisan- Scout Director Section Delegate Miss Ruth Kilbourn, execu tive director of the Rogue Valley Girl Scout Council, leaves Wednesday by plane for St. Louis, Mo., where she will attend a three-day board meeting of the Association of Girl Scout Professional Work ers. Miss Kilbourn is the new ly-elected president of the or ganization in Section XI, which includes Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. At the meeting plans will be made for the coming year, which will include a conven tion in St. Louis in Novem ber, in conjunction with the National Girl Scout conven tion, held triennially. Mrs. Robert LeRoy, district director in the local council, is a member-at-large on the executive committee of the Section. VFW, Auxiliary To Meet Tonight Crater Lake post and aux iliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in VFW hall, 42 North Front street. The last meeting of the two groups was a Christmas party for about 60 children. Mrs. Claud Alexander and her Ha waiian band provided music. Mrs. A. D. Vosika was enter tainment chairman. Grandmothers Hold December Meeting Central Point Members of the Grandmothers Clubs of America, Crater Chapter, .met recently at the home of Mrs. Seldon Hill in Central Point. Roll call was answered with thoughts and poems in keep ing with the season luncheon, complete with flaming des sert, was served by Mrs. Roy Kelly, Mrs. Carl Hover, Mrs. G. F. Brood, Mrs. Mabel Smith, Mrs. W. J. Gebhard, Mrs. R. B. Langston, Mrs. Royal Greenman and Mrs. Charles Jantzer. A business meeting was conducted by Mrs. Ruth Foote. Mrs. Sarah Musty of Central Point be came a new member of the Crater Chapter. Miss Brenda Bennett, Miss Linda Aubrey and Miss Lynda Bennett of Medford sang, accompanied by Mrs. Hover who also lead in group singing. The January meeting of the group will be at the home of Mrs. Homer Jeffries. Co-hos tesses will be Mrs. Alma Mai lery and Mrs. Cora Card. 4 . Mrs. Enid Caster To Be Lodge Hostess Phoenix A meeting of Phoenix Neighbor of Wood craft lodges will be held Thursday, January 7, at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Enid Cas ter instead of the Grange hall. On the serving committee are Mrs. Guy Cobleigh and Mrs. Etta Smith. The Thimble club will meet at the home of Mrs. George Bourne Saturday, January 9, for a covered dish luncheon. Fellowship Plans Session Wednesday Christian Women's Fellow ship of First Christian church will meet Wednesday, Janu ary 6, at the church. Members of the executive board are to assemble at 9:45 a.m. and a business session will begin at 10:45 ajn. A missionary program is planned for 1:30 p.m. . Neighbors to Make Installation Plans Plans for the annual instal lation of officers will be dis cussed at a business meeting of Mistletoe camp, Royal Neighbors of America, set for Thursday, January 7. It will begin at 7:30 pjn. in the Py thian hall. Mrs. Carl Pearson, oracle, asks members to bring a sack lunch. Return Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Pearson have returned to their home on the Old Military road after spending the holidays in Boise, Ida., with a friend, Mrs. O. M. Brown. ship, I thought it was only fair to see what the women are up to. . Convenient for this pur pose, the National Woman's party is holding a convention here. For enlightment of their activities, I was fortu nate enough to contact Mrs. Amelia Himes Walker of Win ter Park, Fla., the national chairman and one of the nic est ladies ever arrested for disturbing the peace. Proud of Police Record I mention Mrs. Walker's po lice record only because she is proud of it. So are her eight grandchildren. One of them got up in school one day and boasted to his classmates that his grandmother had been in jail. He neglected to mention that it happened 42 years ago when Mrs. Walker and 15 other ladies were picketing in front of the White House in behalf of woman's suffrage. As she tells it, 16 burly cops one for each lady de scended upon them, herded them into the "black maria" and escorted them to the cala boose. The police, however, were unable to make the charges stick. A tiny white-haired woman who takes 7 a.m. swims with the grandkids, Mrs. Walker related the experience with relish while explaining how the National Woman's party came into being. An outgrowth of the suf frage movement, the party has no candidates and only one line-to persuade Congress to approve a constitutional amendment giving women "equal rights" with men in all legal ways. Buttonhole Lawyers The ladies have been pre senting this proposal to every session of Congress since 1923. This year they feel their patience finally will be re warded. When not sightseeing and laying wreaths before statutes of departed suffragettes, the delegates are buttonholing the lawmakers to round up the few remaining votes neces sary to put the amendment across. They also are seeking state ments of support from the various presidential candi dates of the other two parties. I asked Mrs. Walker wheth er she planned to do any picketing while she was in town. No, she said, the party doesn't go in for that sort of thing any more. But from the gleam in her eye, I gathered that she sort of regretted it. Talks on Cosmetics Planned for Club Miss Barbara Amidon will speak for a meeting of Wel come Wagon club to be held Thursday, January 7, at 8 p jn. in Girls Community club. Her topic will be cosmetics. Welcome Wagon club meets the first and third Thursday of each month and all new comers to Medford are invit ed to attend. Mrs. Mae Korner Hostess for Unit Central Point The Decem ber meeting of Central Point Home Extension unit was held at the home of Mrs. Mae Korner. Mrs. Charles Klutsen beker had prepared turkey for the dinner meeting, and she also presided over the business meeting. Mrs. Wallace West gave a demonstration. A wedding gift from the group was presented to Miss Mary Pat Lucy, Jackson coun ty extension agent, who was a visitor for the day. During the program period, the women related Christmas customs which were tradition al in their own homes. The next meeting of the unit will be January 20 at the home of Mrs. Charles L. Ghelardi at 10:30 a.m. Dinner Planned By Phoenix Club Phoenix Phoenix Garden club will entertain the fami lies of members at a covered dish dinner Friday, January 8, at Phoenix Community clubhouse. " Following dinner a 25-min-ute film, "Conquest of the Klamath River" will be shown by an employee of the Cali fornia - Oregon Power com pany. Slides taken by mem bers will also be shown, and music is planned. Those attending are asked to take a dish for the dinner menu and table service. Family Returns Mr. and Mrs. Fred Under wood and two sons, Steve and Dave, returned to their home on Kings highway Sunday after spending several days in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif. While in California they attended the East-West game Saturday. Social New York Baton in hand, conductor Konstanlin Ivanov listens as soloist Emil Gilels warms up at lb piano before the opening performance of the Moscow State Symphony orchestra at Carnegie hall concert hall was sold out for formance by a Russian symphony orchestra. In addition to a total of nine concerts in New York, the Russians will play 29 other concerts in 20 cities in the United States and Canada. UPI Telepholo' Altrusa Club Makes Award Mrs. Melvin Wonsar, Grants Pass, has been awarded the annual vocational scholarship grant of $250 by Medford Al trusa club, it was announced by Mrs. Fred Rankin, voca tional chairman. The scholar ship is to enable Mrs. Wonser to complete her training in the School of Practical Nurs ing, sponsored by the Medford Public Schools Adult and Vo cational Education depart ment. The award was made to Mrs. Wonser at the Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital by Mrs. Ranktn. Mrs. Wallace Haskins presented her with an Altru sa corsage of white and blue. Mrs. Bertha Morrill, course in structor, Mrs. Mary Vander lin, director of nurses, and her assistant, Mrs. Jean Elder were present at the ceremony. Proceeds from the annual placemat p r o je c t provide How is it you know you're taking no chances when you let a youngster take your shopping list? Isn't it for the same reason that you buy 70 of your family's food without actually seeing it? You know that A good brand is your best guarantee : : . and that the name on the label is your best buying guide. You have learned to count on good T . r 1 "".fc- ucnCODn MAM TPIRIIKJF Events here January 3. : The 2,700-seat the event, the first U.S. per funds for the vocational grants made by the Altrusa club to older' women to en able them to .complete train ing for employment. The placemats, carrying advertise ments from local concerns, are distributed free to hotels, res taurants, motels and clubs throughout the valley. Past Presidents To Hold Meeting Past presidents of the Fra ternal Order of Eagles' auxil iary will meet at the home of Mrs. George Denney, 41 Mey ers court, Friday, January 8, at 1:30 p.m. , We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main 'and Central rt (oJ send a child Calendar notices and news for the society section -of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 pjn. Friday. Dead line for the weekly calendar is 9 .m. of the day of publication and for week day news is 5 pjn. the day before publication. Tuesday: 7:30 pjn. Medford Parents Extension unit, home of Mrs. L. E. McConnell, 1401 South Whitman avenue. 7:30 p.m.-Chapter BE of PEO Sisterhood, home of Mrs. Ann Wirkkula, 157 Highland dr. 8 p.m.-Wilson Park Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. Dwight Albright, 1678 Orch ard Home dr. Wednesday: 10 a.m.-Agate Home Ex tension unit, home of Mrs. Virgil Cool, Gibbon rd. 10:30 a.m.-L ake Creek Home Extension unit, with Mrs. Grace Haskins, Crater Lake highway. 10:30 a.m.-Upper Apple- gate Home Extension unit, with Mrs. Rolland Smith. H a.m.-T o w n s e n d Har mony club, Carpenter s hall, 123!i West Main st. 1:30 p.m.-Contem p o r a r y Book club, home of Mrs. Rob ert Sleeter, Berkeley Way. 1:30 p.m. Eagle Point Gar den club, home of Mrs. Ben Gardener. 2 p.m.-Wednesday Study club, Girls Community club. MATERNITY SALE TOPS formerly to 7.98 pit I I INI THE MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER WW to the store? brand names. You know the company standi back of them. You know they protect you. The more good brands you get to know, the fewer buying mistakes you'll make. Get ac quainted with those brands in this newspaper. You'll get more value for your shopping money if you do. BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated A Non-Profit Educational Foundation 37 West 57th St. New York 19, N. Y. Snap-On Beads Have New Use . By MARGUERITE DAVIS .. United Press International Chicago - (CT8 - Beads that snap onto one another have been put to a new use-to form pictures, tapestries, and even room dividers or draperies. The product called Busy beads, comes in boxes con taining beads, rod and pat tern to form a picture, or sep arately in packages of 500 or 1,000 in any of 15 colors. The package and - pattern sets are easy to follow, and promise good rainy day diver sion for children. There are 23 subjects, ranging from an 814 by 14-inch owl, peering through big white eyes, to an 18V4 by 24-inch impression istic young girl. Included are a number of little animals and nursery characters. Sold separately, they are not cheap. A package of 1,000, which makes about one square foot, costs around 55. Used for a room divider, they could be graduated from black opaque, through smoke pearl to white pearL Or as drapes they could range from dark blue pearl through hori zon blue to light blue. When used as drapes or room dividers, the beads hang from a ceiling track. The manufacturer (Laverne) says they can be washed in a mild detergent and are fade-proof in bright sunlight. 79 Vf i
