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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1960)
Clltli "Work never hurt anyone" was one of mother' favorite expressions when she was raising her three daughters. There was always plenty of work to be done around the house, garden and little farm, and sometimes the girls needed a little parental urging. Back in those days, no ong)ceuld have made us believe how much downright pleasure we would lome day find In work. Yesterday was Wednesday, yesterday was a day In June and yesterday there was lots of work to be done. There was ironing and washing in that order because in the summer the basket Is never empty and gardening and houseclean- Jng and cooking. When the first batch of clothes was on the line, we dug tulips and pulled weeds and grass and planted some castor beans. At least we hope they're castor beans somehow or the other, they appeared on our desk last jUfiter, prickly pods with three or four beans In each on. Someone said they were castor beans, ud since the plants have always intrigued us, and we'd W!ver grown ny, we decided to plant theseC J) We watered the fuchsias and some other little plants (Pappy wishes we didn't have the bad habit of growing this nMullar assortments of little plants in pots) and helped cb? out part of a. tree which had grown over the roof in a threatening fasHWi. The two of us carried out the last of the patio furniture and made further preparations for summer living. In the late afternoon there was a quick trip to town, nd hour's sorting of pictures and mail and stories at the office, an even quicker tour through the grocery store and after a dinner, we planted some white petunias. Durine dinner the voice on the radio predicted that Thursday the thermometer would be in the high nineties. The two of us stared at one another just a week ago it had poured down rain and was so cold that Mrs. Trost at the nursery had said gloomily that we needn't worry about not getting our annuals in the ground. "A lot of people haven't planted them," she assured us. "It s been too Quid. And now, a week later, It's too hot. O Ever since Sunday we'd been trying to find the name of a little blue flower blooming on the desert near Camp White. We came upon them vyteile cruising around in the vicinity of the drag races the patches looked like puddles of blue water, so thick were the little flowers with the yellow Dot in the middle of the lower broad petal. We tried to call Mrs. R. T. Nlch, who knows about flowers of all sorts, but she didn't answer her phone; neither did the Centners. We asLed Pearl Coverdale, and Pearl who lived in that vicinities a child, said everyone called them "wild pansies" buVshe was sure this wasnnot the correct name. Sarah Hayes said she had seen them many times, but dldn t know tharsname, and at length we called Dorothy Glnn. Mrs. G. sard she had seen them growing, year after year, but had never heard the name. "WhQdon't you 11 Xrnel Butler", she suggested. "He knows a lot about wild flowers." Mr. Butler listened a bit and before we had the flower half described said "That's Downingia Pulchella. There's a similar variety growing in the Antelope section which is Downingia Elegans." Mr. B., we discovered, is a kindred soul when it comes to wild flowers, except that he is keeping rfiirds and Crying specimens brought back from trips all over the west The Butlers spent the week end in the Crescent City area, and Mr. B. was very elated because he had found some specimens of mniv orchids which he had been unable to locate before, and a Darlingtonia, commonly called pitcher plant M cobra lily. In bloom. Mr. Butle said it is rare to find one of these blooming, and that they are almost impossible to grow after trans' planting. Pal Peg bought two this spring, which came in plastic bags filled with moss. The one she gave us promptly died, but the one sue planted is still struggling. If it lives, it will be a rarity. Mr. B. and Potpourri agreed that we were perfectly content to let others play golf, go bowling, fishing, or do tvnatevthey want to do. We'll just stick to wildflowering. U.S. Senior Citizen Housing Studied by Association Many Visitors In Jacksonville Jacksonville - The Memor ial day week end was the occasion for Visits from rela tives and friends from out of town, and trips for residents to other points. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Roberts, 10 Valley lane, ar rived home Monday evening after being in Bend and Prine ville. Mrs. Roberts is Jack aonvllle librarian. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lyman, Spokane, Wash., are here for the week to visit Mr. and Mrs. Eichard Heln, Walker creek road, Jacksonville hill. The women are sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Mack G. Grif fin, 611 East California street, with their family visited in Weiser, Idaho with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Trimble. The Trimbles are former Jackson ville residents and for several years operated the Fifth Street market. Mr. Trimble is Mrs. Griffin's fatWr. While on the trip they made a visit to Brownlee dam in Hell's canyon. u Mr. and Mrs. Simon John ton, with their children, Su- an, Karen, Frank, Henry, James and Betsy, 107 North Third street, arrived home Monday night from Los Mo linos, Calif., where they visit ed Mrs. Johnson's mothcj Mrs. Claude Posey, a former Jacksonville resident, and Mr. Posey. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Snow, Crannell, Calif., visited Mrs. Snow's sister, Mrs. William Snow, and Mr. Snow, at 308 South Fourth street. They were accompanied by their children, Marie. Carolyn, Billy Mack and H6y jr. Tela That Btj Chicago -dsn- So you think you carry out a lot of garbage? You're right. Nearly 1,000 pounds a rear. Researchers at an automat ic disposer manufacturing firm figure the average home maker with two children emp ties about 49 pounds of food waste Into garbage cans. And he - or her husband - walks 16 miles a year to and from the garbage can, taking about 80,000 steps. That's the num ber of steps needed to walk up and down the Washington Luncheon Slated By 50-PlusClub; Open House Held Medford Fifty Plus club will hold a potluck luncheon Friday, June 3, at 12 o'clock noon in st.THark's Guild hall. The club reports that about 175 guests attended an open hoiue he'ld last week by the club. Edunrd Root, who directs the Senior center orchestra, played a violin solo and di rected the orchestra in group of numbers. Mrs. Fran ces Barrett gave tpcal solos, Stephen Odonald also present ed solos and the Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Millard sang Danau were presented under the supervision of the Arthur Murray studio. Mrs. Rilla Norris, president of the club, lighted the cand les on a large birthday cake and Mrs. Mary Fredricks, vice-president, cut the cake Mrs. Pearl Spackman spoke on the meaning of the anni versary celebration and the Senior ochestra accompanied the group in singing the birth day song. - The event was concluded With dancing, Cfcards and games, with the camp white orchestra playing for dancing, Balret Swarift'leli New York - (DTD - Bfied swordflsh steaks combine well with olive dressing. Cook for 5 minutes over low heat Vt cup of chopped parsley, 13 cup of chopped pirn lento-stuffed green olives and 3 cloves of garlic, crushed, in 2 table spoons of salad or olive oil, Add 1 bay leaf, crumbled, Ya teaspoon of saffron, salt and pepper to taste, and V4 cup each of fine dry bread crumbs and water. Mix well and spread over two 12 -ounce packages of frozen swordflsh steaks, thawed. Bake in 350 degree oven 25 minutes, or until fish flakes with fork Serves 4. t Outdoor cooking equipment grows fancier each season, One manufacturer Introduced a combination barbecue-rotis- serieMnounted on rubber-tire wheels and topped with a cop per canopy copied from the hood of European stoves. The motor-driven spit has handles protruding over the side of the firebox for convenience and 0 o 1 i EASY-GOING GOLKKKS Comfort and imurt good looks are eombinmin these cotton goiters. Left, diagonal stripes focus attention on center front clotting of dre. aUo accented at the Beck with one large button. Right, bo)iiarlt the cMkllne of the other drese in a woven shadow checliChe Evergraeb cotton fabrics have been treated for easy canrequire litUo or no t trailing. Washington The "old folks home" need nc(Jnger to be an isolated, dreary place where the aged "wait it out," feeling by-passed and for-gotton. Some of the most exciting things in building are being done in the field of housing for senior citizens, according to Martin L. Bartling, Jr., president of the National As sociation of Home Builders. "Symbolic of this happy turn of events," Bartling said, is the fact that we hardly JLer hear the phrase, old folks," anymore. We speak in stead of senior citizens and retired people c e r t a 1 n 1 y terms more in keeping with the 20th century their role in it." O A survey by the NAHB re vealed a wide variety ir hous ing for this mounting part of the population and a(j-Sire by builders to meet the ever growing challenge it offers. Bartling said the interesting, completely modern new hous ing for seniors is true both as to individual homes and mul ti-unit centers. Q Survey Mod The surv.-y Indicated a trend towards ,-onstruction of housing which enables senior citizens to play active roles in community affairs. Mrs. Mary Cleverley, the Federal Housing administra tion's expert on housing for retired groups, said that one of the successful projects on which the FHA has insured the mortgage, is a non-house keeping center of 87 units at Audobon, la. It has a central dining room and the usual re creational facilities. But what gives it distinction is a large meeting room with complete separate en trance and lis own kitchen equipment. The room is avail able to organizations in the area for their meetings. "This means," Mrs. Clever- ley said, What the community is brought to the senior citi zens. It makes It easy for them to belong and to participate In various civic projects and they do and love it." In explaining that retired workers have much to offer a community, Mrs. Cleverley said. In 1880 when the retire ment age was set at 65, the average life expecfSncy was 50 years. Now it is 70 with two additional years for women. Instead of being expected to die at 50, we are living be yond this age. Not only that. but medical science has im proved ouO health so that while we have people cut off from income in the labortnar- ket, they are able-bodiecT peo ple who have muchQo offer. They have time to serve on school boards, civic Aganiza- tlons, and in other ways to contribute to community life. Project Explained A 132-unit project for sen lor citizens at Omaha, Neb., sponsored by the Omaha Edu- cation association, is in the heart W the city. Douglas Gardens, an 83-unit project in Miami, Fla.Jj be ing used foi research Cjh the field of geriatrics by the Uni versity of Miami. Their con tribution to the field of medi cine dealing with advanced age and its diseases, helps give purpose to the lives of the elderly at this housing center. (J Mrs. Cleverley said that in Louisville, Ky., a church in the heart of the city is being torn down and is to be re placed by a high-rise building. Its basement and first two floors will be used as a church and the top eight stories will contain housekeeping apart ments for retired persons if plans work out. Right now the project is battel held up by zoning seulSTions but they could be changed. Among home builders who have done outstanding con struction for senior citizens is Carl T. Mitnick, Merchant- vllle, N.Jr immediate past president Uf the NAHB. He said: 'From the hundreds of homes I have built for retired persons, I know they enjoy living in the midst of younger people and being a parVof the community. I am glad we no longer are shutting the door on this importaftDpart of our population." Womef? Taking Over Job Of Door-to-Door Selling (OOjri'd niiytH- successes in rect si'lliiVey have boon R Reames Chapter Elects Off By CLAIRE COX United Press International New York -4'PU- There is al most a 50-50 chance that the next solicitor who rings your bell will stick a high-heeled shoe inside your door. Of the one and a half mil lion door-to-door salespeople traveling uf) and down the land, 650,000 are women -and nearly half are over 40. The National Associari&n of Direct Selling Companies re ports that house-to-house can vassing is drawing more and more women. O O Many women ring doorbells in their spare time to sell items ranging from lipstick to vacuum cleaners just to earn a little pin money. Others plug away fulltime, earning as much as $50,000 a year. Some have become so success ful that their husbands and other members of their fami lies have gone to work as their partners. s A survey maoe by the Uni versity of Indiana's marketing department showed that di rect selling is a tremendous lure for persons who want to engage in really free enter prise without making an in vestment in a business. They simply go to work selling an already established and well advertised product. The survey also showed that many women, especially middle-aged and over, have been successful from house-to-house, although employers had told them they were too old for office work. Direct selling has come a long way from Colonial days when the Yankee Peddler sold his wares. Shoslly after the Civil War, it reVly came into its own with sales of Biblts and sewing machines on a house-to-house basis. To day, somewhere between 1V4 and 3 per cent of jjl retail sales are made or: fMit steps and in living rooms. Some 2,700 direct selling com panies do an annual business of between two and three bil lion dollars. The door-to-door sales com panies thrive in the Middle West, on the Pacific Coast and in Mjithern states. They are handicapped only wherrNhe limnln io c,..- icers V I . . &iecuot oi officers was held by Reames chapter. Or der of the Eastern Star, at the last stated meeting. Mrs. Roy Nordwick was elected worthy matron. E. G-Jtandolph, worthy patrejni Mm. Lloyd Caton, associate! matron; John Eddy, associate patron; Mrs. Florence Bailey, secretary; Mrs. D. A. Hutch ison, L-easurer; Mrs. Gene Dyke, conductress and Mrs. Stewart Per.ington, associate conductress. Installation of officers is scheduled for June 25 in the Medford Masonic temple. Final Program Given at Camp The last Wednesday night program of the year was pre sented for the veterans of the V. A. domiciliary by the Red Cross May 25. Entertainment was provided by the Jackson ville Hillbilly band cQnposed of Mrs. Gertrude Winning ham, Mrs. George Mero, Mrs. Earl Brewold, Mrs. Wallace Brill, Mrs. Ernie Kessler and Mrs. F. H. Evernham. Also on the program were dancers from the Thurston School of Dance. Refreshments were fur nished and Q;rved by Red Cross volunteers under the leadership of Mrs. . Fred C. Rehf);, program chairman. di Mrs. Eva Cottrill, 53, of Bourne ville, Ohio, and Mary Christy Stewart, of Saltsburg, Pa. M r s. Cottrill supervises jtreen demonstrntionp a r 1 1 e s In homes to fjllny various cleaning Items. She supple ments heiVjftusband's income in helping to provide for seven children. ( Mary Stewart is 73. She taught school for 45 years, but when she retired she felt too active just to sit still. For '(fbe past seven years, she has home demonstration party giver for the sajtth cleaning equipment company. Mrs. Ellen Thompson, 50, of Kansas City, Mo., quit her job as an aircraft riveter because the work became too tiring. After 10 years of selling jewelry house-to-house, qiy has an income of $40,000 a year, 5A pairs of shoes and a mink W-e. Her husband quit his $45-a-wc((T)job to go to work for his wife, along with their daughter and son-in-law. Door-to-door selling is a field for rating women, too. Elise (Pepper) Mitchell, 28, abandoned her job of selling MAJUTRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thundy, June 2, 1960 .7 popcorn in movie houses in Iowa to sell jewelery. She ex pects to have an annual in come of $50,000 by 1961, and her husband, Jack, is joining her team. Mrs. Mitchell plans to add a new touch to house-to-house salesmanship. She is going to buy an airplane so she can cover her lf'a - Nebraska route faster. "O" o MOW ! Tkw, MvuWQ. Milk, Nwlim (fh o ImrniKmmMm-y.. n y jr- rMrai.HaHaaat' ntrTOYW'-s a N YV .VAN 7 m f 1 I A sbtcially offr houst with 'IS1 ,o climate is severe. Among wome. who have Dance Changed . By Teen-Agers A special meeting of the Twistin' Teens Square Dance club will be held Monday, juihv e. The meeting, orig inally scheduled for tonight, was postponed due to final examinations. Teen agers interested in joining the roup may obtain further information by call ing Miss Karlene N e 1 1 1, SPrlng 2-7611, or Don BieghJ ler, SPring 2-8862. All memM bers and other interested teen agers are invited to the meeting. Here are two scrumptious recipes for your outdoor parties you will serve again, and again. Delicious! You'll be dtjghted with these easy-to-make recipes made with double-rich Mor ninc Milk. You'll be pleased. too, to know Morning Milk has far fewer calories than cream yet costs less than half as much. Other exciting Backyard iflffet recipes are being offered FREE at your grocer s display ol Morning Milk. Be sure to get yours! Morning Milk (Mdal to6stninis) I cup ( wnon) tomato MUCt O 1 cup (4-i.) tl pioM- rype Amtricon Chute 3Y, ip (2 1 -pound com) draiiwl kloMy oooni 1 pound frankfurttrt frankfurter hunt Dice b in large frying pan. Add onion and grn Pppcr. Cook ..... i uZ.. mm mtn rrine conslanllyda Itour.cllin d7.nd "h. Mix well. Slowl, add Morning M and I c Krring over low heat until mixture Ih.ckcns. Add tomato mug , c ee,e and bean.. Mix thoroughly. At .erv.ng ,,me cook franks m broiler or on ouldoor-gii". Cul bum in half and toa.il! Heat lauce. Cut ho? frank, in h.U.QI.c on bum. Serv; jbean x.ureer franks. (Jarnuh witn graico. nnw . S slice becon Vi cup chepped onion 1 cup chopped cjrecw pepper 1 loblMfwen flour 1 tablespoon chill powder Vi teaspoon salt H cup taspoll can) undiluted Menilfta mi Looks . . Pours . . Whips like Cream Tastes tven Belter! A do-ahtnA 4n,: w.. . v,wy, miiKjavoriU (Maku Utupejosoanoi,. Poralfgt Mix mevoffiiiu. M' i... . mixing bowl Add po,al0;emn juice and mustard in fa 1'Sh.lv ,i wel) ng., onion, celery and t2? " icuy O O I teaspoon sell lZ,5'"'"'l'plw 'eSSHffi mm toierve. I gamut, CO Calendar Thursday 8 p.m. - Phoenix Neighbors, of Woodcraft, Grange haVfc 8 p.m. - Welcome Wagon club, Girls Community club. 8 p.m. - FOE and auxiliary, Lodge hall. 8 p.m. - Mistletoe camp, Royal Neighbors of America, Pythian building. 8 P.nicA - Adarel chapter, Order or the Eastern Star, Masonic temple, Jacksonville. 8 p.m. - Southern Oregon Stamp club, Girls Community club. Friday: 1 p.m. - Getogether club, Girls Community club. 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