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8 A Americans of Like Games of Br DOROTHEA M. BROOKS United prut International New York - fUM - From pre-chooleri squealing de lightedly in a game ol Three Little Pigi to adulta engroued over a Scrabble board. Amer icans these days are playing cames. : They plunked down more than 16 million last year for board games alone - the clas sics such ai checkers and chess. Monopoly, parcheesl and Scrabble, and (or the lat est games based on topics ol . the times - the stock market, space, politics. . " i Some SO or 60 companies manufacture board games. Many of these have experts armed with years of accum ulated experience working full-time on game ideas. Nev ertheless, some . of the best games have been thought up by amateurs; many an inven tive school teacher, -doctor, lawyer; housewife has earned enviable returns for his ideas. .' And at least one game man ufacturer, the 92-year-old Sel chow & Righter Co., offers encouragement to the individ ual with a new game idea. ? . ' Along with the encourage ment it points out some hard facts that face the inventor. The, company: manufactures Scrabble, one of the most suc cessful games ever introduc ed. n ; 1 i Scrabble is the brainchild of Alfred M. Butts, an archi tect, who worked out his "crossword puzzle game" "during idle time in the de pression years. For ten years he worked to perfect it and to market it but could arouse no interest among manufac turers in a word game. Even crossword puzzle popularity had waned. Games involving money were more timely, fill ing people's need to feel pros perous. -In 1948 'James Brunot, a Calendar - Calendar notlcea and new fat the society McUon of The Mall Tribune must be eubmitted in writing end deadline for the Sun day edition la I om frldav Dead line for the weekly calendar Is S a m of the day of pubUcatlon end for week day newi la t -wm. the day before oubUcattoa. Monday! , : 6:30 p.m. - Netgbhors of Woodcraft, Eagles Hall. ... - 6:30 p.m. - Scottish Rite Women's club, Masonic tem ple. - : -. . : V . 7:30 p.m. - Civil Air Patrol, CAP building, Medford alr- . port. - ":45 p.m. - Medford Rose Society, courthouse auditori um. ; . - 8 p.m. - League of Women voters, with Mrs. Thomas Rutter, 1033 Queen Anne ave. 'Tuesday! ., , 9:30 a.m. - Legaue of Wom en Voters, with Mrs. Sid Alns worth, 1135 Fern ave., Ash land. 12 noon - Howard Garden club, with Mrs. E. A. Walton, 35 Cottage at. 12 noon - Kiwanian Dames, home of Mrs. Chester Wednt, Old Stage rd. 12:30 p.m - Women's As sociation of First Presbyterian church, Fellowship hall. 1 p.m. - Travel Study Club of the Oregon Federation of Women's clubs, Girls Com munity club. , , 479 i ll 379 3.7 MATERNITY SEPARATES TO MIX AND MATCH MONDAY. MAY 22, lltl All Ages All Kinds friend who had been in trigued by the game, deter mined to make a fresh effort to launch it and negotiated an agreement to pick up where Butts had left off. For five years he carried on the strug gle, producing and selling the game himself, with Selchow & Righter manufacturing the board for him - a courtesy which was to be repaid many times over. In 1952 the game finally caught fire "over night,'.' and Selchow & Right er was successful bidder for rights to manufacture and distribute Scrabble. Kenneth Kunhardt, one of the company's games experts, has some pertinent advice for would-be game inventors. The big market today is for games that can be played by the entire family; games for only two opponents rarely at tain great volume sales. Games must be of their time. Today the emphasis is on ac complishment and learning. People want to know. They want to excel, Games have to be challeng ing and knowledge testing as well as diverting. Howev er, an educational game that is not also fun will not sell. There are no completely new games, just as there are no completely new story plots. The experts said all games fall into five catego ries; board games, card games, action games, chess or checker types and the mod ern .quiz or word games. What makes a new game dif ferent is the theme and the accessories used to carry it out - the board, pawns, tiles, blocks, cards (standard play ing cards should not be used since special expensive stock and taxes will add to manu facturing cost). As a final bit of advice, the firm emphasized the impor tance of offering the game to a reputable manufacturer and selling it on a royalty basis instead of outright. If the game succeeds, royalties will roll in for years. Wbrfien's Council Gives Campships Mrs. Thomas H. Gerety gave a program for the May meeting of the Women's Council of Medford Board of Realtors, held at Kim's res taurant. Mrs. Gerety, executive di rector of the Rogue Council of Camp Fire Girls, presented a film "Girls In Camp Fire" produced by the Seattle-King Council of Camp Fire Girls. The president, Mrs. Mary M. Fasel on behalf of the Women's Council . presented campships to enable . two girls to go to summer camp at Dead Indian Soda springs. The project was financed by a rummage sale held earli er in the year in order to aid the national program of "Build America Better." During June, July and Aug ust business meetings of the Women's council will be held on the first Tuesday of each month. . . .. . , Plana Luncheon Mistletoe club. Royal Neigh bors of America, will hold a covered dish luncheon Wed nesday, May 24, at 12 noon at Girls Community club. Ini tiation will be held. FT l J w i SHEER LOVELINESS 8 tj led or Bummer coolness is tnis lovely cotton voile dress, floral printed in tones of pink, blue, or lilac The dress by Shroyer has a scalloped neckline fin ished with a bow, short sleeves, and a ellihtly flared skirt. Officers Elected For Association; Group at Session Mrs. Peggy Lewellyn was Installed president of Rogue Valley Beautician's associa tion at a banquet held recent ly at Kim's restaurant.' Taking office with Mrs. Lewellyn were Mrs. Miriam Ward, first vice . president; Mrs. Ida Austin, secretary; Mrs. Jo Rennlck, treasurer and Raymond Byrd, sergeant- at-arms. Mrs. ' Lorraine Miller, a member of the board of direc tors of the Oregon Beauti cian's association, was install ing officer. Four membe.'s of the Rogue Valley association attended the 40th annual convention of the Oregon Beautician's asso ciation held in Bend earlier this month.. In the delegation were Mr and Mrs. Raymond Byrd, Mrs. Lewellyn and Mrs. MiUr. Mrs. Miller was reelected to the board of directors of the state group as third vice presi dent. The Rogue valley unit will be hosts for the 1962 conven tion to be held in Medford. . , - . Pixie Hat Teen Rage f United Press International The pixie hat is making a fashion hit with teenagers, Many of these .'hats come in kidskln. Some are fringed or trimmed with silk braid. Col ors are bright: orange, violet, sea green and jonquil yellow. Some of the hats are priced as low as SI. ; , ' . The chatelaine type neck lace, which is clasped together by two pins is being worn on suits and dresses, as decreed by the Paris designers. The pins connect either a gold chain or string of pearls. This arrangement allows the neck lace to be worn collar-style or across the front of a dress, or even at the waist. - , . , i a The Broadway musical "Ca- melot" has made its Impact on wardrobes across the Atlantic. The London collections show ed the medieval look fit the form of high-waiated dresses with flowing skirts, old-fash ioned Jewelry and paga boy bodices. . . . see Now that seamless stockings are popular it is wise to re member to rinse out nylons every time that they are worn. Laundering "tightens" the stockings so that the tubular type will cling attractively to your legs. 1 e ; - Culottes will be seen in the garden this summer. Cotton ones with garden motifs on their pockets (which allow plenty of room for utensils) now are being shown in sports departments. a i . Tea Given Talent -The Junior Metho dist Youth Fellowship of Tal ent Methodist church recent ly honored mothers at a tea given in the church annex. Members entertained their mothers with a play which they had given at one of their meetings. Take her to show! and do a little shopping at Barker's besides . . . " , ft OPEN EVERY NIGHTI ft MAIN and Reading Is Tool For Education, Woman Stresses The responsibility of the adult reader in encouraging the youth of the community to use reading as a tool of their education was diaussed by Mrs.- Ann Fisher, well known author, at a meeting of the Friends of the Library last week. Mrs. Fisher, a Rogue Valley Manor resident, believes that the privilege of helping young people to learn to read well and thus become an informed citizen is the duty of every adult who en- Joys reading. Mrs. Fisher was introduced by Robert Heffernan, chair man of the Library group, who gave a brief sketch of Mrs. Fisher's background. The seven - year research that led to the writing of Mrs. Fisher's best-selling nov el "Cathederal in the Sun" was related to the audience. She became interested in the Carmel Indians through assist ing a friend of her husband's family from the Smithsonian Institute who was an expert in the field of Indian dialects. Her flshest source of infor mation was a woman, born June 6, 1846, whose father was an English cabin boy and mother a Carmel Indian, Many persons Mrs. Fisher con tacted for information were reluctant to tell what they knew as previous authors, they felt, had distorted the material obtained from inter views. Through constant visiting, and -such things as presenting small gifts on the subjects "name day" Mrs. Fisher even tually , was allowed to learn information that had been de nied other researchers. At the time the research for 'Cathederal in Sun' was begun Mrs. Fisher was work ing on another book, "Wide Road Ahead" and, even after she had completed her work had intention of using it in a book. Sometime later, touched by the words used in refusing to attend a dance in a Monterey Valley town by a member of the once wealthy, proud Car mel tribe Mrs. Fisher deter mined to use her research material so that the history of the tribe would not be lost. So well did she use her material that after 20 years "Cathederal In the Sun" is used by anthropologists study ing the Carmel Indians and, also, is studied in college Eng lish literature classes. - . . Woman's Society1 Installs Officers ". 'Yreka - Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Yreka Methodist church recently held Installation of officers on the lawn at the home of Mrs. John Brazle. The Rev. Harold Coleman was installing offi cer. About forty members were present for a potluck luncheon and the ceremonies. Mrs. Helen Penney, the new presi dent, presided at a short busi ness meeting. It was decided to hold one fellowship meeting a month, preferably a lawn party. The meeting will be held in the mornings and brunch 'will be served. The first meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Clarence Robinson on West Miner street June 20 at 10:30 a.m. All-Plastic Jugs And Portable Chests Good for Picnickers New York - IHTD - New all- plastic Jugs and portable chests will lighten the load for summer picnickers. Both inner shell and outer liner of the jugs and chests are plastic, providing insula tion to keep food and bever ages hot or cold for at least 12 hours. A half-gallon jug weighs only 8 ounces, features a pour spout cap and a swing-handle. A one gallon size comes with plastic faucet and turn-in han dle. Other models Include a plain cap unit and a shoulder spout design. A 4Vi-gallon capacity chest, which doubles as a shopping basket for frozen foods, weighs only one pound. Oth er chests have 8 and 6W-gal- lon capacity. Aluminum pic nic chests also are available with plastic liners that In crease Insulation and dura bility. (Skotch cooler). CENTRAL MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Social Events Women's News Jacksonville Gardeners Hold Election; Make Tour Jacksonville - Jacksonville Garden club elected new offi cers for the ensuing year at the May meeting. Mrs. A. G. Motschenbacher was re-elected as president, Mrs. Ray Coleman, first vice-president; Mrs. Everett Ravenor, second vice-president; Mrs. Glenn E. Recreation PTA Topic An expanded summer rec reation program for children In the Eagle Point area will be discussed at a meeting of Ea gle Point Elementary Parent Teacher association to be held Tuesday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m. Richard Wolgamott will give a detailed report concern ing the program. Mrs. John Benson will in stall new officers. . Parents of children who are completing the eighth grade this year, and of children who will be in the first grade next fall will be honored. Parents of children In the first grade will be hostesses, and child care will be pro vided. ' t "Secret Dads" Night Planned By Bethel 55 Bethel S3, International Or der of Job's Daughters, will meet Tuesday, May 23 at 6 p.m. at the Masonic temple. It will be "secret dads' " night, The early meeting time is set so that the girls may reveal their identity to their secret fathers at a potluck dinner preceding the regular business meeting. At the last meeting Miss Barbara Mitchell was elected honored queen for the fall term. She will succeed Miss Jane Ward. Initiation ceremo nies will be held June 11 in the hall. . , Other officers elected were Miss Laurl Beth Buonocore, senior princess; Miss Pamela Trowbridge, junior princess; Miss Lynn Langston, guide, and Miss Patty Selby, mar shal. ) i Russian Women Won't Wear Red Moscow-fllPD-The well-dress ed Russian woman won't wear red this summer. Soviet fashion designers have issued their commands to Mrs. and Miss Russia sub dued colors, combing elegance with practicality. Radio Moscow, in its home service program, added the Soviet tailpiece to the recent ly concluded European fash ion shows. 'Various shades of brown, beige, grey and blue are in vogue this season," tha broad caster said. "They predomi nate in the new dresses of the all-union collection of 1961." Lifting the veil on what goes on behind the Soviet fashion scenes, Radio Moscow said the new fashions have been created by designers of The House of Fashions, who met at a conference held in Moscow. The broadcaster said that albums of the collection will soon go out to all fashions houses. "Very soon," said the broad caster, "clothing enterprises will offer the customer ele gant and practical dresses, costumes and coats." The broadcaster did not say what the new Soviet line would be. Egg size has nothing to do with egg quality. Quality is based on the interior condition of the egg, not the shell color. Each Additional Pound Only 12c USE OUR CONVENIENT DRIVE-UP SERVICE Dumas Domestic Laundry and Dry Cleaners 30-32 N. Rivertida Phono SP 2-61 65 Tuttle, secretary; Mrs. Fred W. Edens, treasurer; Mrs. J. B. Noble, historian; Mrs. Dee Hendrickson, librarian. The club met at the home of Mrs. Fred Edens, with Mrs. Leonard McKee as chairman. : Roll call was answered with names of plants native from England. Members of the club voted to sponsor a Junior Gar den club in Jacksonville; Mrs. Harold Reed is chairman. Mrs. R.,T. Nlchol introduced the speakers. Mrs. Motschenbach er spoke on old fashion roses and Mrs. McKee talked on the various species of ferns. Mrs. Nlchol distributed question naires on roses and Mrs. Edna Evans won the prize for hav ing the most correct answers. Visitors for the afternoon were Mrs. C. O. Long, Talent, director of the Siskiyou . dis trict, Oregon Federation of Garden clubs, Mrs. Sarah Edens, Mrs. C. L. Hickey and Mrs. Ona Paul. An award was won by Mrs. Arthur Roberts. The table was laid with a white lace table cloth and a round floral arrangement made of pink dianthus and Si berian iris, with maiden hair fern and pink tapers. Mrs. C P. Smets and Mrs. Hickey poured. Arrangements of iris, stocks and lupine decorated the home. The arrangement of the month, made by Mrs. Smetz, was entitled "Horizontal" and was of white snowballs and pink roses. After adjournment members viewed Mrs. Edens' flower garden. She has many iris. May 19 a group of the mem bers toured the gardens of Mrs. Kenneth Farley, Mrs. H. J. Stout and Mrs. Motschen bacher. 4 Concert Announced Ashland -The Southern Oregon Little Symphony or chestra will present its annual spring concert at 3 p.m. Sun day, May 28, in Churchill auditorium. John Drysdale, vlollst, willl be the featured soloist and will play "Concert for Viola and Strings" by Handel as ar ranged by John Borbirolli. Mr. Drysdale is director of the Medford High school orches tra. The orchestra will open the program with the "Overture to II Signor Bruschino" by Rossini. Other selections will include "Toccata" by Fresco- baldi-Klndler, the prelude to I Act I of "La Traviata" by Verdi, "Eugene Onegin Waltz es" by Tchalkowsky, and "Es- pana ' by Chabrler. The program will be under the direction of Dr. Herbert Cecil, assistant professor of music at SOC. There will be no admission charge although I an offering will be accepted! for the benefit of the music scholarship fund. The public is invited to attend. Chew Making Circular Available Corvallis Modern home makers who'd like to make cottage cheese like "grandma used to make" can find direc tions in a new Oregon State university circular. Ruth N. Klippsteln, OSU extension nutrition specialist, advises not to expect cottage cheese with curd size and tex ture as uniform as that made in modern dairies. But home makers should soon rival grandma's best if they follow Instructions carefully, she adds. Copies of the circultr, "Mak ing Cottage Cheese at Home," are free to Oregon residents. They are available at county extension offices or from OSU bulletin clerk, Corvallis. Save Tim . . . Stapt . . . Coins! Laundry Chore Art Easy If You Um Our Finish All flat Pieces Flnlinea All We.rlne Ae.ar.1 Neatly 'Med Reae'r Te Irene 10. 120 Writer Bewails Loss Of New York Glamour By GAY PAULEY UPI Woman's Editor New York -iUPB- Maybe the years finally are telling. But continually I find myself ask- l n g, "W h a t- ever happened to the glamor that used to give this city the title, 'glamor capi tal of the world'?" The ques tion never Gay Pauley hauls me up short in Indianapolis or San Francisco or Dallas. But here in this town, there isn't a day goes by without my clucking my tongue as I walk up Park or Fifth Avenue, observing the younger set in passing. . What has happened? Beat up ballet shoes or soiled sneak ers. Black stockings. Soiled "ankle" socks pulled up to mid-calf. Or, trousers, ill-fit ting and non-belonging on a city street. Cigarets dangling from purposefully pale lips. No rouge. Hair that rats wouldn't use for a nest. It used to be a consistent matter to consider Fifth Ave nue and 57th Street the best- dressed corner in the whole world. It was the cross-roads of chic. But now, when this corner looks its smartest, who makes it so? The women in their 30s, their 40s, and their 50s. Pasty Look Favored What has happened to the ones who have youth going for them? Those who should be wearing the glowing faces and blossom of early woman hood don't seem to care any more. The pasty look has taken over. - Not so, thank heavens, in Indianapolis, Dallas, San Francisco, my home town of Charleston, W. Va., and other cities I visit frequently. In them, neatness and the well scrubbed look still prevail. At one- time, in this, my adopted, town, glamour was personified by the vitality of Jinx Falkenburg, the peach- bloom complexion of Georgia 1 Clean and Store 3)flf I Your Woolens NOW . . . If And li i . i i "Tfiinni-irzirH am -i; wniNc w m mm wwb warn 1 . M I MWPIK: In the Bio I flW f 'a Mm ral Contqmer : i S ll REFR,GERATED' I iC FOR ONLY... f 1 L 1 i Avoid "Closet Clutter" , , call today and our routeman wlH bring a "Wool-Pack" container. Your fin woolen garments will be stored In our refrigerated vaults, tale from moths and weather. All garments will be Sanitene cleaned . . beautifully finished, fresh and ready for wear when you need them this Fall! Pay Next Fall! At Your Charge Plato Storo ... Carroll, the cool aloofness of Candy Jones, the flawless facial bone structure of Anita Colby. But oh my, how times have changed! And how those four I Just mentioned are missed! Missed, especially, when you look at black stockings and stringy hair. Missed, because now we have shrill voices and heavily smudged eyes to go with the girls who should be our glamour candidates of to day. Just Don't Car . I've concluded that the girls of our city just don't care anymore. In any store here, or in any other town in our country, one can buy clothes of excellent line and of ex cellent taste at any price. Then why the messes? I just don't understand. That is why I always feel better and have my faith in femininity restored, when I get away from my adopted city and visit Dallas and In dianapolis and San Francisco and Charleston. So far, our young women in other parts of the nation have not adopt ed as their ideals the young New Yorkers of whom I write. Thank goodness the "don't-care look" has not yet crossed the Hudson River and moved West. Would that some of our other cities would lend us some examples of cleanliness and neatness and good man ners and chic which once made our town, New York, the "glamour capital of the world." - PORTABLE WASHER New York - (UPD A tuck away portable clothes washer looks like a soup kettle with a drain outlet at the bottom. The handy gadget is for small laundry loads usually done by hand. Although it has a three pound capacity, this washer fits into the average kitchen sink for easy filling, rinsing and draining. It can be ac cessorized with' a portable wringer which is sold separately. . Yon ran Sfnro Thorough, gentle Sanitene cleaning is best for all your garments, woiltsi and household fabrlcsl H. D. CHRISTENSEN Lake Creek Unit ; Installs Officers ' : Lake Creek Mrs. Walter Ricks, Central Point, installed officers for the Lake Creele Extension unit at the last meeting, held at the home of Mrs. William Harper. They are Mrs. Leland Charley, chairman; Mrs. Fred Oster man. vice-chairman: Mrs. Wil liam Harper, secretary; Mrs. Henry Meyer, treasurer. Mr. Ricks and Mrs. Char ley reported on thf recent meeting of the Oregon Exten sion council, held in Corval lis. ; Mrs. Murray BarUing, re tiring chairman, was present ed an extension pin with min iature gavel. Th nrniort lesson on small electrical appliances was given. by Mrs. Joe Arens and Mrs. Foster Swigert. This was the final meeting; of the year. Teen-agers Like learning To Type in the Summer! 1 Parents one of the best gifts you can give your son or daughter is the ability to type. ; Typing is essential in today's mechanized world. Learned young, it is learned more rap idly. Typing will constantly be used: In doing schoolwork, get ting on the school paper staff, letter writing, part-time work, perhaps a career! - Write or phone today for details on Summer Teen-age Course for boys and girls, ages 11 to 18. 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