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13 A- "Quesn of Carnations'' Dcosn't Like Hr OAT PA0LET WVll Wom'i Edliet ' New York - M - Mr. Syl via MacGuftbf Valsaal help In the production and harvest ot 1.1 million carnations each year, but rue fully.' admit, "I don't have a 'r. e n thumb." i' The attrac tive, ' r e d--haired v.N e w E n g l a n der is k no w n t h r o u ghout the florist ln- faolf riiutry a th "queen of carna tion" and 1 the lady respon ible for the floral decoration for the Kennedy inaugural ball. ). Mrs. Valencia and her hus band. Eiteban, a Jovial man whose anceitor were Spanish aristocrat and ioundr of the town of Valencia, operate wholesale and retail florist tu .iittti In Westboro; Mas., SO mile from Boston. '"I know all the theories bout gardening," said Mr. Va.encla, "but I'm just not a : grower ... I don't like to dig. I'd rather arrange' '-.,,:, Farm Under alas -The couple-"farm" ' 11.5 acres, much of It "under fla" - that Is, with greenhouse -and annually harvest not only that 1.5 million carna tions but a myriad of other fit wen for their retail cus to "ers. It wa Mrs. Valencia who did all the floral arrange ment for sevin .decorator pumned room letting at this year International flower: how. V The morning I talked with1 the Valencia, they'd had only two hour of ileep - "We got C .da mtMcm and nows fas f- uun ctioo ot Ttao UU 1-tbuao rauai M .MbmlltM ta rtur t sad 4Mtiiae for Um Vim-. . Uoo Is 1 p.m rrltfsjr pood, i i t t wMklf wlmeir -U . th das of publlcouoa anil t df nowt Is s. MbiMsttoa. i pjn .-Oregon aru 1 c 1 ri, Rogue Valley durt r i, home of Mrs. Kenneth 1 "n, 1208 Queen Anne i . m. Rogue Valley Coin t i. Girl Community club. Hriiilc :) p.m. Olive Rebekah Ir ' e. lOOr hall, i pm, Carnation el u b. I :ree of ' Honor Protective oclation, horn of Mrs, t lie Johnsburg, 213 .Beatty t. day .4 ajn. Rogue . . Va I l e y Navy Mothers club, Santo 1 '. ! -! " ? ):30 e.m. ahady.Cove 1 Extension unit, home of Mr. J. 3. Sawyer. ' pjn. Medford Ladle of, X , Elk temple. .'.Vs'-wc; 1 p.m; C n tt a I Point loyal Neighbor of America, h ne of Mrs. Emm Collins, 1 S Connell avenue. ; 1:S0 p.m. American! .Gold . Star Mother Inc.... Jackson county eourthouie audi torium. , , Wonder S - P - Spandex Fiber I ; Reg.. 3.59 f i r . . v, I - ' ' , Embroidered nylon sheer - cups. . "N q m Grtton lined underbutt, 3-wy DyS back hooks. Straps adjust. White. W" . Satiai! ctkm nannteed or your monejr in t. and MONDAY. APRIL f. 1M1 Gardening in at six and up at eight," said Mr. Valencia. "No, not partying in New York, lust putting in fresn flower. She explained that' during the run of the abow at the Coliseum, cut flower were changed every other day. She and her husband had Just ar ranged 7r500 c.rnation flown from Boston, i 80,000 riowers "We used a lot more that that for the Inaugural balls, he (aid. "We : flew 50,000 white and red to Washing ton, plus a scattering of blue -white carnation tinted by an osmosis process. It was the first time Mr. Valencia had worked for the White House and she said, "I got real nice personal note, from the President." The wopan florist I third generation In .the flower busi ness, on both sides of her family. Her ' father's people had a business in - Scotland; her mother's, in New England. She' Mid 'she joined the fam ily business when she came out of school In 1S32 - "from Northlll Seminary, a school for young ladle in the Berk shire; I always liked the way thev said that.'" Her husband, s a native of Ventura, Calif.; "married" the florist business when he mar ried her in 1938.' The couple has -one' son,' Esteban Scott, who 1 14. , ' ,j, ' lossom for the Soul ' Mrs. Valencia lectures to women' club group on flor al arrangement, to men in the Industry on financial as pect of floriculture,, and has copped o many award .for her arrangement at flower shows she's about, lost track of the number. She was the first woman director of the Florist Telegraph Delivery -FTD - and It only woman treasurer. - - . ' ' . ."Flower arrangement, like fashions-run in cycle," she said. "Now there is trend toward 'living the Individual flower it, due . . We don't see many of those great Vic torian masses any more.;' And it Is nice to read all the rule - and then break them. , "For Instance, try the re verse' ot the old color rule that dark colors should be at' the base of an arrangement,' light at the top." '-' - ...... ,;. "I sometimes think," said her husband. , "that we in America are so urbanized we have forgotten the basic,-child' like toy of picking a flower, In Europe, it i different. The European buy bread ana cheese and a blossom. We all need food for the soul a well a for the body." Medical rinding . New York i- OTB-ln clinical trials. ia ' birth control ; pill seemed' to lower- ilgnlflcantly incidence or bom Dreast can cer nd cervical cancer among .womem ''-fi rr' -t-'i-f:.-i'i.',- , Dr. Oregory; PIncus, co-or-dlnator ot the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, made thl claim dur ing a recent conference re porting on experience with the pill during trial in Puerto Rico. ; A - N SEARS back" PI-M4I Iridsr T F.M. r.... ,' a l a. 'j Said Events ; Palm " Beach,! Fla. Mrs. John F. Kennedy, wearing a straw pillbox hat and a pal silk dress, smiles from- the rear, seat of the Kennedy automobile as she and the President tart home, after attending Easier church services.-! t (UPI Telephoto) Wine Cookery Coming Of Age in This Nation By JEANNE LEBEM United Press Iatarnallonal . New York-flm-Wlne cook ery is coming of age ir Amer- lea. Wlne-Ilavored recipes won y two of the top inree prizes in the 1080 na tional chicken cooking con test) A chain of counter service restau rflnfo In Npur w York feature 1; beef burgundy and other wine-cooked dishes usually found in more expensive eat erles.v Other restaurants that serve;- wine - flavored .food range! from a Colorado guest ranch and a Nevada motel to a. Texas inn and, a Missouri bank. . , - Thirty -four, of the ,. 84 branches of the world-famous Wine ' and Food ,' Society - of London are now in the United States, 18 of them J in Cali fornia. A .' new- wine cook , book. "The i Pleasures of . Cook'lhk With Wine,'' (Prentlee-Hll) is frankly American In, it wide us of time-saving canned and frozen ingredient: Some reci pe!' obviously were adapted from I European .classics, ' but marry! are original with -the authot Errilly . Chase, ' former foods consultant tor the Wine. Institute' home advisory serv ice; .with headquarters in San- Francisco.'. t ,. 1 Mrs. Chase emphasises - un complicated dishes. One par ticularly 'helpful section con tains a baker's doren of reel-! pes for leftover chicken and turkey. v , Knife-Fork Books Woman i miss Helen cudworth. a veteran speaker in her home tata-of Wyoming, will (peak tor Rogue River Valley Knife and - Fork club Thurday. April 13. Reservation must be made no later than Mou. day, April 10, with Mrs; Rich ard House; 15 Corn na- court. Miss Cudworth tnnrMl Im'. tin America in 1859 and trav eled In Japan last year. Her topic will be "A practical ap- proacn io our south American proDtems." . Thfc meetlna will hsnln with dinner at 6:45 p.m., at, nogue vauey country club. Sudent?(Sjve ' Chapter Proaram Central Point A program on oratory and speech was given oy students of th Cra ter High school speech deoart. ment'at the last meeting of Gamma XI chapter. Beta SI a. ma Phi, held at the home of Mrs. Carrol Adams, ; . Don Lacy, speech instructor at, the school,-brought Miss Patricia Dale and Miss Sally Bailey to give the program. - Mr. Wilbur Elcher was Mr. Adam co-hoates. ' Next meeting of the chap ter will be held Wednesday, April 5, at the home of Mrs. Darrel Greb. Style That'Tiafe ' New, York - (WD - Fashion now ha come to the aafety shoe ot the Industrial worker. It.now 1 available in a nar row toe last; . i. -: The manufacturer said that the conventional shoe ha a hlsm too with leather thong lace. But the newest model! ha the narrow toe, slip on like a casual (hoe, and I made of polished leather. Still pres ent: the steel plat in the toe. JOIUIBO L0S0I Although wine cookery only lately has gained wide accept ance In the United States, it is not new , here. Treasured Old World recipes - were brought by early colonists from. England, France and Spain, .-say - the institute, ' a trade association, for the Cali fornia wine industry.-- . , The first lad v. Martha Wash. ington, used' wine frequently in. cooking, i Her .cook, book Includes It in soups, meat, fish, dessert , and ,; tradiUonal puhche. . A -collection of President Thomas Jefferson' favorite recipes includes -' directions from his French maltre d'ho- tel, Etlenne Lemalre,.for lib eral use of wine in cookina. Some recipes call for as much as "V6 belnte" (Dint). Wine aa an ingredient; , is prpmlner in "The Willlams- bura; Art of Cookerv." com piled by Colonial Williams burg, inc., from reciDes nonu- lar in colonial Virginia. Some came from England, ; Others were, taken from . American printed and manuscript, cook bpok kept by priyate citizen. Early cooks had more . than flavor :.in mind: when they cooked meat and noultrv with wine. It tenderized and flavqr- ro lougn, stringy and gatney food. Like the .. alcohol; In vanilla, that -in wine Dasses off aa vapor in a few second' cooking. ' Port and sherry ' were fa vorite ".cooking ; wines with English colonists, says the in stitute, but. all wines are sult- aDie lor cooking.; ; : Almost any recme can. he adapted, with a. chart dis- iriDuted free by the jinsUtUte. " In wine cookerv. in lm. blblng, moderation and good judgment are Important. One teaspoon ner servlmr la dent for many soups, but at leasj.a euptuis are needed to oaste a wnoie baked ham. ,.. ; !, '.. 4 , , w. , Phoenix. Women To iHold Meetinas1 Phoenix Three meetlniu of interest to women of Pho nlx First Presbyterian church are scheduled this week. . Mtrtha circle will meet Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. F. P. Jarman, Colver road. The same , day Deborah circle will meet -at 12:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Arthur Atkinson, Fern valiey road, Phoenix. ' Friday, April 7, at 10 a.m. Woman's fellowship cf the church will meet at the Manse to study and discuss the Book of John. Learn StaufFer's 5 basic secrets You can learn Stauffer's five basic secrets of successful reducing . , . gleaned from more than 23 year of experience. --, -' 5 A pKone call to the number bslow will bring n trained,' flrendly counselor to your home. There's no obligation. You'll get a free figure analysis . . . and discover for yourself how the Steuffer Horn Plan of sensible ad-, lusted menus and physiologically active exercise can help trim away those unwanted pounds and Inches.. Call today and plan to be sizes smaller tor those flat tering new styles. "X (.rami 445 N. EartNrtt SP 3-7551 In Grant Pau OR 9.251 -jL MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, CRE. W omen's News Western , Style Hairdos ; Said Popular By ALINE MOSBY Pnited Pre International Moscow -'(UK - Young Rus sian girl are lining up for those bouffant Western style hairdos at Moscow's first mod ern 'beauty;. salon. '. ty-y; . For better of . Wore,- t h e "beehive'', coiffure has made it to Moscow, on a few daring customers, at least. ' . . The popular shop they're flocking to bears .the name, elegant for Moscow, of ''Hair dressing Salon,',' with the French word-"salon" spelled out in Russian letters. . In this plain, crowded shop Soviet girls with delighted grins are. trying out the. first machlneless chemical perma nent waves seen in the Soviet Union, Imported only this year from East Germany ..The hair dressers also are the only ones in Moscow to .use hair lacquer spray, alsoTa German Import, vital to pasting '.those "bee hives''; together,;; '.'', ".'j Learn From: Wl . The hairdressers at the new shop have learned Italian and other western hair styles through foreign hairdresslng and fashion magazines. They also picked up some tips from a hairstylist in Moscow for the American Exhibition, who visited the shop just after It opened in 1959. ' , ; The usual Moscow nair dressers use sticky soap, old- fashioned permanent ma chines, heavy .wave lotion. metal curlers and 1930 styles. The new shop has acquired hair nets and at least three stylists who could pass mus ter hvthe Wesli f-.p.t'-'i The director however, y a lively blonde, named . Maria Voden, insisted' that "all our style are Soviet, not 'foreign, style.?' ..'-'..'; v-v' . . The ahdp stands on Kuznet sky Most, which In Czarist days was a dressmakers' street where the elegant set shopped. In the-: large high-cellinged waiting room the day I visited where, as; always,, hordes ot customers, 90 per cent teen agers. They were waiting their turn. The system of appoint ments hasn't infiltrated. ; Machlneless Permanent I In the next room, nine hair dressers worked at marble sinks backed by huge mirrors. A' pretty girl named Tanya Konstantlna, -one , of- the best operators,, gave' me a. ma chlneless permanent (East German) and fluffy. Italian style hairdo., The permanent was a: bit dry,, but the style was as good as an average one in the west. Vw. 'Ai J'' Tanva Used western . style plastic, hair rollers which she acquired In uuaapesi. xnere she won seebnd. place in an eastern European hair stylists' competition," quite a coup for the budding Russian hairdress lng business. (The other oper ators In her shop stuck to Rus sian metal curlers.) - ; , . i ... . Drying Room ' ' The new shop has a drying room with-hood dryers, an Improvement over the three pronged open variety in other Moscow shops. ' But still the heat come 'only from the back. C uatomer have to squirm around to be sufficient ly toasted on au siaes. , Upstairs is a pedicure room where women sat next to lit tle white foot tubs to have their toenail prettied. '. f . The salon also boasts a small "cosmetic room." One woman at with her face inside a steamer to "open the pores," the director explained.' You can- also buy a "radioactive mask" for the equivalent of 80 cents, facials for 90 cents, and a makeup job tor 90 cents with mascara and ,.70 cents without. The shop charges the equivalent of 90 cents for a shampoo and set,, $8.20 for any hair cut . and permanent. Popular Place -; -t .. ' The director la proud of the shop's local tame.' She said customers Include diplomats' wives, tourists, and wives of members of various delega tions. In fact, so many for eigners clamor to get In that in Russia 26 of the 55 employee are tiidvlna Enalish. . Most customers tip double the bill, IncidenUlly. ! . v To counteract, this: bour geois tendency", "Communist brigades":; have been formed among some other . Moscow beauty shop workers. By their mirrors Is the sign,- "We . do not want tips" . . '. . jf y Calorie Counting ; To Be Unit Topic V Westslde Home Extension unit will meet at the Central Point Presbyterian i church, First and Oak streets, Central Point on Thursday, : April 6, at 10:45 a.m. .. ;.- v;;: 'j' The ; project, "Calorie Con scious Meals," will be follow ed: by a potluck 1 luncheon. Member are asked to bring table erviceys;.':'i l;i:ftf Hostesses for . the ' meeting will be Mrs. Walter Ricks and Mrs. Elmer, Reinking. ' : Child care will be -provided by Mrs. Bryce Phillips, 3307 New Ray road, Central Point. An invitation is extended to : women - residing "in the West Side area to attend the meeting. f iiv'::!- :-.V."i;? London couturier Ronald Peterson designed 'his. own hats for his spring collection. The most unusual, one was a rose nestling inside the crown of a bowler-shaped hat -made of light, stiffened net. .V- In Lodge To Hold , . Friendship Night Central Point Friendship night' will be observed by Mt. Pitt Rebekah. lodge- Wednes day, April 5, in the IOOF hall beginning at 8 pm. 4 , ' Members and visitors are to bring hats for an "Easter Parade" and a .prize will be given for the most original hat from each lodge. - : --'. Members of visiting lodges are to provide entertainment On the program committee for the event are Mr. ' Mar shal ; Weldman, ; Mrs. John Robison.and Mrs. "John Arm strong.', The Invitations com mittee is 'Mrs. Clark Mc Dowell, Mrs. Earl Obenshain and Mrs. Jerry Kime. Serving on the decorations committee are Mrs. Roy Burkhart, Miss Patty Kinie, Mrs.. Gary Sut phin and Mr. Joe Starks. The souvenir committee is Mrs, James Belter, Mrs. . James A. William and Mrs.' John Hoi. ga( and the refreshment com mittee is . composed of Mrs. Fit.nk Glenn, Mrs. James Far rar and Mrs. Ingrid Kurz. , ' During the "business meet Ing final plans will be made for the annual sourdough pan cake breakfast to be given by the Central Point IOOF and Rebekah lodges Sunday, April Auxiliary Plans Dance at Camp Tho 'Veterans- of . Foreign Wars auxiliary, - Department of Oregon,; will' sponsor -c a dance in the theater building at the: rVeterans Administration- domiciliary Monday ever ning. - April: 3. Music -will be furnished bv the Camp White orchestra. Refreshments will be served.'-'.. . . Transportation to the 8 p.m. dance will be available at the Trailway depot ai cau p.m.. lis PEAR :,: LQSSOMTIM The Rogue t SPECIAL BARGAINS In Medford Storey Pear Blossom Parade ; SATURDAY, APRIL 8 Watch for Wednesday's MAIL TRIBUNE y.; . : .' , : ::; (- ''.T; J,!: . . , 0 M AT E R N ITY S E PA R A TES TO MIX AND MATCH ... .- . '. ;i sr. t t- '. River Valley!
