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0 ttAU. TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Monday, Mirch 21, 1960 OSC Home Economists Say Textile Label Law Good Corvallis-S hoppers can plan on getting more from buys on spring wardrobes with the new textile fiber law that requires labeling of all fibers by -"family" and 'fiber trademarks. Some of the benefits of the new law are explained by home economists of the Ore is gon State college extension service. In the past, they say, the shopper almost had to be trained as a chemist to ident ify" some of the 16 fiber "fam- Go!d Hill Women Plan Smorgasbord April 1 at Hall Gold Hill Final plans to sponsor a smorgasbord dinner on Friday, April 1, at the Gold Hill Grange hall were made at a meeting of the Woman's Society of the Gold Hill Community Methodist church. It was held at the home of Mrs. Frank Carter, Upper river road. Co-hostesses were Mrs. Don ald Thumler, Central Point, and Mrs. John Novak,- Med ford. The business session was conducted by Mrs. E. C. Hoff man, president. Mrs. Thomas Z. Smith, gen eral chairman for the dinner, said the menu will include fish dishes, as well as turkey meat balls, baked ham, baked beans, salads, etc. Serving owill be from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m Assisting Mrs. Smith on this committee are Mrs. Roy Es kew, Mrs. S. M. Christensen, Mrs. Lawrence Smith and Mrs. J. Raymond Ritter. The opening devotions were presented by Mrs. Melvin Burnett, assisted by Mrs. Dol ly Arnold. Mrs. Lawrence Smith was In charge of the lesson "how total is my stewardship?" Others participating were Mrs. Eskew, who gave the definition of stew ardship, Mrs. Ferd Jones, who ex plained the stewardship of time. Mrs. Thomas Z. Smith, or possessions ana Mrs. Blance Merriman, talents of stewardship. A slate of officers for the ensuing year was presented by the nominating committee, headed by Mrs. Thomas Z. Smith and with Mrs. Merri man and Mrs. Earl Moore as members. Election will be held at the April 8 session of the group. Mrs. E. C. Hoffman has an nounced that a sub -. district meeting will be held in the Ashland Methodist church be ginning at 9:30 a.m. on March 31. Luncheon will be served at neon. ilies" and more than 60 trade names given to manmade fibers. In some cases, experts could not tell by look or feel the 'make-up of many fibers. With the new labeling law, the required labels must con tain the fiber "family" name and percentage of fibers, by weight, in the product. In ad dition, the label must contain the name-or other registered identification-of the manufac turer or other persons mar keting or handling it. Home economists offer la beling of rayon as an exam ple. Rayon, a manufactured fiber, is now sold under about 45 trademarks, which vary greatly and differ in suitable uses. Yet, regardless of the trademark, all rayon should receive about the same care. Under the new law, the "family" nam e-rayon-must appear on the label in equal size print with the fiber trade mark. Articles of wearing ap parel, costumes and accesso ries, draperies, floor cover ings, furnishings, bedding and other textile products com monly used around the house must be fully labeled under the act. Furs and woolens have been labeled for several years under previous laws. Once the shopper knows what she's buying, she's in a better position to care for her purchases, say specialists. To aid shoppers in understand ing the new law, Mary Routh, OSC clothing, specialist, has written a new bulletin, "Read the Fiber Label for Clues to Clothing Care." Oregon resi dents can obtain free copies at their county extension of fice, or from the OSC bulletin clerk. Corvallis. Women's News Social Events &Ahday Party Set lownsend Club Medford Townsend club ?irman, Leon Rusho, has nnounced that all club mem bjrj having March birthdays will bj honored at a meeting 4t fcr Wednesday, March 23, at Cerpenters hall at 12 o'clock. Th Jackson Creek Fifty- Niners string orchestra- will furnish entertainment after the. business hour. Last week John R. Smith was present after spending a winter vacation in Arizona. A letter from Mrs. Ray Ahart was read; her husband - is a patient at the Veterans hospital at Portland. The meeting closed with a penny march followed by mu sic by the Jackson Creek orchestra. Fair Colleen Is Chosen Miss Marsha O'Sullivan. freshman from Medford, was dubbed "Fair Colleen" at Marylhurst college St. Pat rick's day festivities. Her black-haired, blue-eyed Irish beauty, coupled with her warm-hearted personality and unmistakably Irish name, won for her the shamrock crown. The dubbing climaxed an informal celebration stag ed by the freshman class. Members of the St. Pat rick's day committee includ ed Misses Mary Clevier. Carol Depner, Laurene Espey and Peggy Schnack, all of Med ford. Miss O'Sullivan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. "R. J. O'Sullivan, 518 North Barne-1 burg road. She is a graduate of St. Marv's Hieh school anri I an art major at Marylhurst college. Honey is Topic For Herb Society Mrs. Otto Natrl Farl Point, will lecture on honey Dees and honey at a meeting oi togue valley Herb society to be held Tuesday,. March 22, at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Vern Shangle, 1445 Kings highway. Roll call will be answered by honey producing herbs, and herb of the month is thymus serphllium'. Mrs. Leslie Lingscheit is chairman for a display which the club will have at the Med ford Garden club's show May 14. When you look at your Y.M.C.A. the Future Looks Good! 7 YOUR FAMILY Can belong for at little a '0 77 Per Week JOIN TODAY! SP 2-6295 Calendar 7:30 p.m. - Priscilla circle, Talent Methodist church, church annex. 8 p.m. - Disabled American Veterans chapter and auxil iary, Girls Community club. 8 p.m. League of Women Voters, with Mrs. Thomas Rut ter, 1033 Queen Anne ave. 8 p.m. - Olive Rebekah lodge. Odd Fellows hall. Tuesday: 9:30 a.m. - Siskiyou district, Oregon Federation of Garden clubs, Girls Community club. 9:30 a.m. - Westminster Women's association, West minster Presbyterian church fellowship hall. 10:30 ajn. - Willow Springs Home Extension unit, home of Mrs. Ray Guss. 109 Kings Way, Central Point. 10:30 a.m. - Woman's So ciety of Christian Service, First Methodist church. 12 noon - Kiwanian Dames, home of Mrs. Larry Horton, 509 Barneburg rd. 1 p.m. - Howard Garden club, home of Mrs. Clarence Black. 2662 Howard ave. 1:30 pjn. - Rogue Valley Herb Society, home of Mrs. Verne Shangle, 1445 Kings highway. assy Stop Heart Gas 3 Times Faster Certified laboratory test! prm BELL-ANS tit lets neutralize times as much stomach acidity in one minute as many leading digestive tabltts. Get BELL-ANS today for the fastest know, relief. 35 at druggists. Send postal to BELL ANS. Orantcburt, N. Y. for liberal fret sample. Nine Washington Wives Content To Stay Out of Capital Limelight By PATRICIA WIGGINS United Press International Washington-!UPl)-At least nine wives in Washington are perfectly happy staying out of their husband's limelight: the wives of the justices of the supreme court. While the nine women are quite different from one another, they share a common way of life, one in which the high court is almost like a presence around the house. It domin ates their hubsand's hours at home as well as at the office; exercises time-limits and dis cretion on outside activities and discourages publicity. Unlike many groups in Washington's social strata, the judicial families are not glimpsed frequently on soci ety pages. Chief Justice and Mrs. War ren find more "obligatory" engagements on their calen dar than do most. And Justice and Mrs. William O. Douglas are perhaps seen more at such things as embassy affairs than the others, chiefly because of his world-wide travel acquain tances. Justice and Mrs. Potter Stewart, the newest and youngest members of the top judicial circle, usually man age at least a Saturday night "out." But in the main, the jus tices and their wives lead fair ly quiet lives, out of the main stream of politics and party going that dominates the capi tal. As a result some are as little known here as they would be in say, Topeka, Kans. Following are thumbnail glimpses of the nine women behind the justices: Mrs. Earl Warren - Swed ish born, graying strawberry blonde ... at 65 still young looking enough to be mistak en for an older sister to her six children . . . met her hus band at a swimming party when she was running a dress shop and he was a deputy dis trict attorney in Oakland, Calif., en route to the Califor nia governor s mansion . . . with only one daughter, Vir ginia, now at home. The War rens live in a comfortable three-bedroom ground floor suite of a residential hotel with small garden plot and private drive. She frequently attends teas, charities, lunch eons and fashion show bene fits. Mrs. Warren prepares his breakfast and dinner each day . . . likes to bake cakes . . . has a passing yen to take piano lessons with new-found leisure from children and from duties at governor's mansion. Friendly and cheerful, she's described by newer court wives as -"sweet and under standing" in helping them feel at home. ! Mrs. Hugo L. Black-Eliza beth Seay DeMeritte was Jus tice Black's secretary for 18 months before becoming his bride in 1957. He was 71 and she, 49, when wed in his Alex andria, Va., home. Black commented at the time: "She's been running the office and I thought she might as well run the house." Quiet and self-effacing, she came to Washington after 15 years as deputy clerk m tne U. S. District Court in Bir mingham, their mutual home town. Black's son, Hugo,- Jr., a Birmingham lawyer, inadver tently acted as cupid by re cruiting the secretary for his dad, a widower. The Blacks "don't go out much" and when they do, it is usually to a small gather ing with Black's, old friends or with other court couples. Between them the Blacks have eight grandchildren from previous marriages. . . . Mrs. Black is a gardening bug until hot weather hits. Mrs. Felix Frankfurlor-the former Marion Denman, cred ited by her husband with be ing responsible for much of his success. Now an invalid who has not left their home in some years, Mrs. Frankfurter is de scribed as a woman of intelli- j gence, wisdom and conviction . . . not awed by her husband's brilliance and prepared to make him prove his points. She is the daughter of a Congregational clergyman of Longmeadow, Mass., and from an old New England family. Justice Cardozo performed the marriage in 1919 between her and the Vienna-born Frank furter. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith college, Mrs. Frankfurter is a one time journalist, avid reader, and co-editor of "The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti." She is distinguished look ing: white hair, blue eyes. The justice read her his writings for many years to get her criti cisms. Mn. William O. Douglas attractive pert blond ... re search worker for two of Douglas' books before their marriage in 1954 . . . second marriage for both, when he was 56 and she, 37. She once worked as secre tary to former Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas and is ac tive in groups such as League of Women Voters. She is the daughter of Sheriff and Mrs. C. E. Hester of Tallulah, La. Mrs. Douglas has accom panied her husband on trips abroad during court recesses. Prior to their 6,000-mile jaunt through the Mid-East in 1957 she took an auto me chanics course to prepare for back country travel hazards. Mrs. Douglas walks with husband along historic C&O canal tow-path . . . can keep up with him for as long as 15 miles. They have four children be tween them by previous mar riages. Mrs. Tom C. Clark - was Mary Ramsey, daughter of Associate Justice 'William F. Ramsey, of the Texas Su preme Court . . . met husband at the University of Texas ... . her sorority house was across from his fraternity house . . . married in 1924 . . . two chil dren . . . live in modern apartment and she does much of her own housework. Mrs. Clark is slender, youthful-looking and friendly. . . . sentimental over birth days and special occasions. Her husband likes to buy clothes for her, especially evening clothes. She likes canasta . . does work for the Washington Home for Incurables. Mrs. John Marshall Harlan -Daughter of Prof. Charles M. Andrews, history author and former head of Yale's his tory department. She studied one year in Lausanne, Switzerland, and one year at Bryn Mawr be fore quitting to concentrate on dramatics . . . did summer stock, acting as well as play ing the piano and painting scenery. She met husband at an of fice party of his law firm where her father also worked. Mrs. Harlan is a courtroom fan who- spent hours in New York courtrooms listening to her husband's cases. She visits the supreme court when she can . . . feels trials are like "going to the theatre." She kept diary-form notes on many cases with the idea of writing about them but never has . . . loves gardening and horseback riding. Mrs. Harlan is patrician looking, attractive with re laxed manner . . . likes to en tertain informally. The Harlans have one daughter and one granddaugh ter. ' Mrs. William J. Brennan- the former Marjorie Leonard of Belfast, N.Y., brought up by older sister and father af ter mother died . . met hus band when in high school . . . married 18 months later when she was working for the Or ange, N.J., Daily Courier and he was heading for Harvard Law School after graduation from the University of Penn sylvania. During the law school years she lived with her sister in Orange and continued work ing (in classified ads and then as proof reader) on Courier: ."Not to support him but to support me." He lived in a boarding house in Cambridge . . . they met on weekends . . . her first reaction to her husband's appointment to the Supreme Court was - "What .shall we do with the stuff in the deep freeze?" The Brennans have three children; Bill, 26, at Yale; Hugh, 23, at George Washing ton, and Nancy, 10. Mrs. .Brennan likes Wash ington because "you can al most do what you want . . . people assume your husband's always busy." - Mrs. Charles Evans Whit taker - the former Winifred R. Pugh, of Kansas City, Mo. . . . met Justice when he was in law firm in same building where she worked . . . mar ried 1928 . . . three sons and three grandchildren. Leaving Kansas City home of 24 years was a "real up rooting" but Mrs. Whittaker feels "adequate" here in a four-bedroom and three-bath house with "space and large rooms." Her husband would rather read in the evening than go out and she is likely to .be sewing on clothes for grandchildren as he reads. Mrs. Whittaker is interest ed in Gray Lady work, Christ Child Society and Trinity Col lege Auxiliary. Her husband has "homework" every night and sometimes discusses with her as means of "thinking out loud." She often doesn't under stand because "things get complicated by the time they reach the Supreme Court." But she disagrees "often" based on "purely emotional and personal factors." v Mrs. Potter Stewart-young-looking, attractive and viva cious ... former Mary Ann (Andy) Bertles of Glen Cove L.I.; met her husband when he was a serviceman on leave in Washington and she was a researcher assigned to the Pentagon by Life Magazine. They were wed in historic Bruton Parish Church, Wil liamsburg, Va., in 1943 when she was 24. The Bennington College graduate found magazine work "wonderful fun" and would like to be a writer some day. She's now too busy with Harriet, 14; Potter, Jr., 12; and David, 8. The Stew arts are renting a house in fashionable Georgetown just around the corner from the house she lived in during the war, prior to marriage. They hope to find a house here to compare with, the 5Vi acre country home they left in Cin cinnati - one with room for 12 cats, a dog, goldfish and parakeet. She likes tennis, golf and swimming. They play bridge, like to dance and fish. The Beauty Operator Gives Demonstration For Sams Valley Unit Sams Valley A lesson on hair styling was given at a meeting of Sam's Valley Home Extension unit at the home of Mrs. Earl Bigham. The lesson was given by Mrs. Maxine Hammond of Rol land's Beauty salon. Using Mrs. Dalton Straus as a model, Mrs. Hammond dem onstrated a "mobile hair cut" and told how it could be ar ranged in different styles. She also showed the proper way to set pin curls, and helped the women decide on becom ing styles for their hair. Mrs. Hammond's mother, Mrs. J. W. Bigham, was a visitor. Other visitors were Mrs. Agatha Stephens, moth er of . the hostess, Miss Grace Bigham and Mrs. Frank My ers, Table Rock; Mrs. J. W. Pech, Dwight and Darryl, Medford; Mrs. Burl Burreson and Susan, and Mrs. E. J. Kelly, Sams Valley. The Irish menu, to celebrate St. Patricks day, included many green foods and an Irish dish called "Colcannon," a baked mixture of mashed po tatoes, sauted onions and cook ed chopped cabbage. Mrs. Stanley Hall gave a report on Irish foods, men tioning that whiskey was served as a beverage for holi day meals. The Irish believe that "A day without potatoes is a day without nourish ment," she said. Lenten Season Topic for Group The Rev. 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The school ac commodates the first through eighth grades. ' Mrs. Clarence Free man, president of the Circle, con auctea tne business session during which time plans were made for a rummage sale May 5. Those who have suitable items to donate for this purpose may telephone either Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Wallace Neece or Mrs. An drews. Following the business ses sion a luncheon was held with Mrs. A. J. Castillo, Medford and Mrs. Andrews as Hostesses. The next meeting will be held April 8 at the church. Election of officers for the ensuing year will be held and a work day is planned for that date to do some needed yard work and painting in one of the Sunday school class rooms. Everyone will be asked to bring a sack lunch. Turquoise gems have been produced in the Sinai region of Egypt since about 4,000 B.C. To Visit Bethel Shady Cove - Mrs. Joe Rog ers, inaepenaence, gtauu guardian for International Order of Job'i Daughters in Oregon, will be a guest at a meeting of Bethel 56 in the VFW hall, Shady uove, Wednesday, March 23. Inspec tion and initiation will be held. Class Meeting Set Golden Link class of Fir Baptist church will meet at the home of Mrs. Edith H. Whillock, 1003 West Main street. Thursday, March 2L. Dessert at 1 o'clock will be followed by a business meet ing. Each member is asked to h-a towel for the Medforfl Gospel mission. MATERNITY FASHIONS A fina selection ot very l e LaPomte't pnees. Its A Wonderful btore Baby sitting provided. service will Jackson County chapter, Disabled American Veterans, and the auxiliary will hold a combined business and social meeting at Girls Community club tonight at -8 o'clock. Women attending the meeting are asked to take sandwiches. Stewarts have not had time to get involved in outside activi ties here yet, but in Cincin nati interests included parent- teacher, Red Cross and Coun cil of World Affairs. 1 res. I Hi B la Organ Concert Frank Stitt Nationally known artist will present an organ concert f classical and popular music. Tuesday, March 22 8 P.M. Medford Senior Hi Auditorium No Charge to the Public Courtesy BALDWIN PIANO CO. & LUSK MUSIC CO. Trade that old cooking device now for a modern electric range and get a r"J DON'T BE SADDLED WITH AN OLD-FASHIONED RANGE See the latest electric ranges cool, clean, fast, safe, and almost completely automatic at your favorite electric dealer's. Ask for details of Reddy's bonus offer, good for a limited time only. mm allowance, in addition to your favorite dealer's allowance, for any old range, traded for a new, modern electric range! See Your Favorite Electrical League Dealer
