Extension Service . Assists Youne Brides
With Homemaking Th
Corvaflis - The girl who
marries "to get away from it
all" is in for a surprise.
Chances are, she'll hold a full
time job until children arrive;
then recess from the labor
force only to return again
after her children are in
school.
Home economists at Oregon
State university find Oregon's
young brides eager for all
homemaking help they can
get according to this year's
enrollments in extension spon
sored study groups. With all
the work savers available
now, why does a homemaker
feel any need for homemak
ing help? Extension special
ists who develop many of
these programs list several
reasons.
As family purchasing
agent, U. S. women handle
billions of dollars a year. This
takes know-how especially on
a budget. A trial and error
system is costly, but educa
tion provides an economical
shortcut, they believe.
Hard Work
Present divorce statistics in
dicate that good marriages
don't just happen, but are the
result of hard work. There's
every evidence that young
marriages require some ex
tra help and skill. The mar
riage in which the bride is
under 20 is three times as
likely to end in divorce as
one where the bride is 22 to
24 years old. Since nearly 60
per cent of Oregon brides are
under 20 at time of marriage,
some special help for young
marrieds is in order.
OSU extension programs
are attempting to eliminate
some of the "guess and by
golly" in keeping house and
in buying furnishings for the
first home with sound unbi
ased information.
Young Mother
A typical young mother of
two launders an average of
200 articles of clothing, walks
30 miles in her kitchen, shops
for, stores, cooks and serves
150 pounds of food each week.
She's nurse, chauffeur, inter
ior decorator, seamstress, pur
chasing agent and many other
things to her family. (This
may explain why she gets up
set when her husband asks
"What did you do today?")
"These are the homemakers
who've asked OSU for new
est homemaking aids and are
getting them through a unique
type of educational program,"
says Esther Taskerud, coordi
nator of home economics pro
grams for the cooperative ex
. tension service. More than 21,
500 Oregon homemakers are
enrolled in study groups
which get together once a
month for a demonstrated les
son that centers on the fam
ily. .
Here are a few types of
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their groups: j
Clothing. A few years ago i
buying clothing or yardage
presented four choices of fi
ber - cotton, linen, wool or
silk. But now that number
has zoomed to more than 70
fibers. Shopping, serins,
laundering, and care of all
these fibers and their respec
tive blends is being presented
in several lessons throughout
the state.
Last year 2,500 women took
OSU extension classes for al
teration of ready-to-wear. A
conservative estimate would
be that learning this skill has
saved them between $5,000
and $7,000 on alterations,
alone.
Foods. A fourth of the fam
ily paycheck goes for food.
U. S. families spend $50 bil
lion dollars a year on food.
Virginia Weiser, OSU's exten
sion nutritionist, says home
makers charged with this re
sponsibility seek all kinds of
help in food buying and meal
planning.
Families Eat Better
New programs in foods and
nutrition are designed to help
families eat better for vibrant
health. "This has always been
our aim," says Miss Weiser,
"but we are constantly shift
ing our approach in keeping
with the changing family, new
foods and marketing trends."
"There are two lines of
'attack'," says Miss Weiser.
"One way is to 'catch them
young and start them right'
before they marry." She re
fers to the assistance she gives
the 4-H club department in
developing foods and nutri
tion projects for more than
10,000 boys and girls in ex
tension's 4-H youth program.
From every side, the young
homemaker hears about diets,
health foods, drug products
all promising to be a boon
to liealth, beauty and trim
figure. Last year ten mil
lion people in the United
States spent a total of half a
billion dollars to buy unnec
essary diet preparations and
drugs. Is the expense justi
fied? Home economists don't
think so. Nutrition workshops
and special programs pointing
out truths and untruths in
food advertising is a popular
extension lesson.
Home Management
Home Management and
Equipment. A popular activ
ity for young homemakers
was a series of home manage
ment workshops that are be
ing held last fall and winter
in seven Oregon counties.
Bcrnice Strawn, home man
agement specialist, who devel
oped the subject matter, be
lieves that "good managers
are made, not born."
First, women learn to an
alyze simple jobs around the
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house applying some manage
ment techniques used by in
dustry. Then they develop
time-saving ways. Gradually
they are able to see shortcuts
in more complex jobs
More than 1.000 women ;
have already attended these
home management work'
shops. And they've asked for
more. They want more help
in making a time schedule for
getting work done and organ
izing their jobs so that chil
dren can help.
They learn how to iron
their husband's dress shirts in
5 minutes or less. They learn
how to re-arrange their stor
age areas so they reduce the
amount of purposeless energy
put forth. Perhaps as import
ant as anything is the morale
boost these homemakers get.
It's reassuring to know their
families and problems are
"normal."
Finance Problems
Family Finance. Dorothy
Sherill Miller, OSU's family
finance specialist, believes
that if a young couple can
adopt a sensible attitude about
the use of money early in
marriage, the easier the ad
justment will be. She tries to
teach couples, regardless of
their income and age, that
everybody has 100 per cent
of income to use to get what's
wanted from life. Deciding
what they want money to
do for them in- the present
and future is sometimes one
of the most important links
of communication a couple
can establish.
Mrs. Miller develops sub
ject matter for teaching bet
ter understanding of insur
ance, savings, social security,
credit, and money needs at
California Couple
Visiting in Valley
Derby - Guests at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Porter W.
Allen, Eagle Point, are Mrs.
Allen's brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Smith,
Pomona, Calif.
While vacationing in south
ern Oregon, the California
couple also will visit Mr.
Smith's brother and sister-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smith,
Mcdford, and a sister and
brother-in-law", Mr. and Mrs.
William L. Stockson, White
City.
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Past Matrons
Mrs. V. A. Turpin, 3027
Old Military road, will be
hostess for the Past Matrons
club of Reames chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star,
Monday, June 11. A covered
dish luncheon will be served
at 12:30 p.m., and members
are requested to bring their
service.
New officers for the en
suing year will be selected.
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Groups
various stages in an Individ
ual's or family's life period.
Family Life. Off-campus
educational work with em
phasis in family life was
launched in 1959 when Mrs.
Roberta Frasier was appoint-
ed to develop this area. Pro-
erams nave rjeen conmicipri in -
all but two counties to help i
ed as a familv hoc ins py. I
rami me mopi nna iifnar-c nnc.
pands and contracts. Special 1
emphasis is placed on help
ing members share feel
with one another
Understanding Each Othc
A man and ms wife may ifc
live together for 30 years or i S
inure wiwiuui miuwiiik vcttii
other," says Mrs. Frasier. It s
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young couples understand one !
anuincr s iceungs early uiit
marriage so that they won 1 1 f
have 30 or 50 years of mis-
understanding. i
Mrs. Frasier says that every i
stand his children better
than he does now. Last winter
Morrow county couples held
a series of meetings on under
standing teen-agers, a popular
subject.
Parents attending the meet
ings focus on teen-agers as
people. They learned that
they can apply principles of
psychology to their own
family.
Essence of much of Mrs.
Frasicr's teaching is that to
improve behavior of children,
parents often have to change
their own behavior. Parents
working with the specialists
find a down-to-earth approach
to every day living with chil
dren. Experience she's had
rearing three children keeps
her on the practical side.
Understanding Children
Prep arin g parents for
understanding children really
needs to start before mar
riage. Extension 'starts with
youngsters of 4-H age. Be
cause families now have chil
dren so close in age, today's
youth often grow up without
the experience of caring for
a baby brother or sister. New
4-H projects in a Child De
velopment series help boys
and girls to learn to care for
babies and have fun with
younger children.
Social Recreation. The
nleasure that comes from en
joying individuals within the
family has to be learned by
some of today's families.
Schools and organizations of
ail kinds compete for a fam
ily's time to the extent that
Sunday breakfast may be me
only time they are together.
Developing with families
recreational interests they
can carry out with little ex
pense at home is a welcome
respite from the television
set. says Jessalee Mallalieu,
OSU recreation specialist.
Handicapped Groups
Miss Mallalieu also works
with handicapped groups
! throughout the state. Teach-
ing craft projects that develop
j imagination and artistic tal
i ents of our states citizens, is
helping people use leisure
creatively, says Miss Malta
I lieu. She holds workshops for
I local would-be-crafters who
j then serve as teachers to
! others.
J Oregon families can receive
; help on all types of problems
related to family life nutri-
lion, clothing, recreation, fam
I ily finance, and home man
! agement, child development
and family relations by call
ing their county extension of-
i fice. The Jackson county of
fice is located in Mcdford
' near the county fairgrounds.
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Signal flags inspire cotton
duck trunks and after-swim
jacket by Jantsen. Panels of
blue, green and while follow
the trend to bold, unabashed
colors in men's swimwear.
Designers Use
Nautical Colors
For Sports Wear
Men will doff their tradi
tional grays, blacks and
browns this summer when
they take to the water in the
brightest splash of color and
cotton swim styles to come
along in many a season, re
ports the National Cotton
Council.
Designers have turned to
the vibrant, unabashed colors
of the nautical signal flags for
inspiration and used them in
a riot of stripes, horizontally,
vertically and diagonally, and
in bold plaids and checker
boards. The warm, intense oranges.
reds and yellows promise to
be the most popular with
blues and greens close behind
No summer for shrinking vio
lets.
Styles are almost as varied,
ranging from the Jamaica-
length boxer trunks to the
knitted briefs. The Bermuda
and calf lengths so popular
for the past several seasons
have virtually disappeared.
Most are cut low-rise to rest
snugly on the hips and many
have webbed waistbands.
For after-the-swim, toppers
range from terry cardigans to
chambray pullovers. Some
have a sports jacket look
while others take inspiration
from the famous wartime Ike
jackets. Cotton, the tradition
al swimwear fabric, appears
this summer in all the classic
constructions and treatments,
plus a couple of new twists.
Scottish Rite
Women To Meet
A business meeting of the
Scottish Rite Women's club
will be held on Monday, June
11, at 8 p.m., at the Medford
Masonic temple, according to
Mrs. Charles F. Hoppc,, pres
ident Club projects and sum-,
mer activities will be pre- j
sented.
Mrs. Hazel Graten, chair
man of the refreshment com- j
mittce, will he assisted by
Mrs. C. C. Milotta and Mrs.
W. G. Meyers.
Daughter, Family
Guests in Ashland
Ashland - Vacationers visit
ing at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Gallatin, 148 Cen-
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Gallatin's daughter and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Joris
and son Terry, Fort Robinson,
Neb. Mr. Gallatin accom
panied them to Alameda,
Calif , for a few days visit in
the Bay area.
Postpone Meeting
Prospect Because of the
annual convention of the Ore
gon Federation of Garden
clubs to be held June 18
through June 20 In Salem,
the regular Prospect Garden
club meeting set for June 19
has been postponed to June
26. officers have announced.
The June 26 meeting will be
a workday session at the
Prospect Community park.
Visits "
Michael Hartley, son of
Mrs. Jack Hartley, 1408 For
tune drive, left Saturday
after visiting several days
with his mother. He is em
ployed at the misiile base at
Lowry Air Force field. Moses
Lake, Wash. He Is a Medford
High school graduate and has
attended University of Den
ver in Colorado.
Luncheon
Jacksonville--Past Matrons
cluh of the Adarel chapter.
Order of the Eastern Star,
will meet for a barbecue
luncheon at 12 noon. Monday.
June 11 in the home of Mrs.
Gertrude Winningham, 105
Prrrydale avenue. Mrs. John
' Pond will assist.
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MANOR-ISMS . . . .
By ETHEIYN EVANS
Rogue Manor Sunday ves
per services will be conducted
by members during the sum
mer months. Mrs. Howard
Mann, from Atherton, Calif.,
excellent artist on the
Hammond organ, will play
for our 15 minute meditation
period, we have our own choir
to lead in hymn singing, we
have six retired ministers and
several retired missionaries
and a number of laymen will
ing and able to take over the
devotional service. However,
we are so very glad that all
the valley churches, in rota
tion, plan to continue con
ducting these services next
season, as they have been
doing since the Manor opened.
Wc enjoy their services and
the fellowship and friendship
that developed as a result of
their coming. And our mem
bers reciprocate enthusiasti
cally: Manor members always
fill quite a large section at all
church services in the valley.
Our members not only scat
ter themselves throughout the
business, professional and re
ligious life of the valley, but
they are taking an ever in
creasingly active part in many
organizations like Rotary, Ma
sonic Orders, book clubs, etc.;
and at the DAR district con
ference there were 12 to 15
Manor members present. The
majority of the new officers
elected by Crater Lake chap
ter, DAR, for the coming term
seem to be Manor members,
and a number of those who
have not been here the re
quired year for office, have
been appointed on committees.
At this district meeting, slides
shown and lectures given
proved the worthwhile work
being done by the DAR in the
southern mountain schools
they have supported and main
tained for many years, and
the unceasing efforts of this
organization in behalf of our
western Indians.
There is one form of rec
reation in the Manor which
members refuse to suspend
for the summer dancing.
No need to do so, of course,
since our auditorium is air
conditioned. Mr. and Mrs. Jo
seph Day, Palo Alto, have
organ ized an enthusiastic
crowd for ballroom dancing
Friday evenings and attend
ance keeps growing, because
beginners are encouraged and
helped. Mr. Day enlisted the
help of members and the rec
reation committee and some
how produced a wonderfully
efficient electric player, so
the music is good.
Several sets of equally en-
thusiastic square dancers ake
over on Monday evening.
Stanley Jones, Medford, is
the ringleader here, with Gor
don Kershaw a very excellent
guest caller and instructor.
Mr. Jones also conducts a
class for beginning "squares"
on Wednesday mornings.
Manor members if and
when they do organize some
sort of a garden club should
name it "The Weeders." That
happens to be the name of a
very famous, century old
garden club in Philadelphia,
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but I suggest that name be
cause that is the thing to do
on Barneburg Hill if you
weed, you are "in." Since
hundreds of ground cover
plants set out by the nursery 1
are starting to thrive, so have
tne.wceds. Our members in an
unorganized but militant task
force rush out each day to do
battle with the weeds. I must
admit that the distaff mem
bers are in the majority. One
reason for that could be the ,
chance to wear unusual, far-1
out, pretty or becoming sun'
hats. This weeding, of course, '
is a grand way to get exercise
in the open air; but it is also
a labor of love. Members are i
anxious to have the grounds
as beautiful as the plans tell j
us it will be, eventually. '
One of our maintenance
men, worried about the tons '
of good magazines thrown out
after the subscribers place
them in library and lounges
a certain length of time, ar-i
ranged with Mrs. Kay Crowell.
Jackson county juvenile offi
cer, and Frank Glonning,
Camp White, for passing the
magazines on to tnom. Our :
cooperative police department ;
cars pick them up and deliver 1
mem. The Manor is haDDV
about this arrangement.
Grand Officers
Visit Court;
Activities Held
A meeting of Roxy Ann
court, Order of the Amaranth,
was held June 2 at the Ma
sonic temple in Medford in
honor of Mrs. William Apia
nalp, grand royal matron, and
Gerald Laurens, grand royal
patron, both of Portland.
During the evening they
were escorted to the throne
and given honors. Also escort
ed was a largo group of grand
ouicers and royal matrons
and patrons visiting from
other courts throughout the
state.
After the business session,
which was conducted by Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Mayficld,
royal patron and matron, hon
orary membership in Roxy
Ann court was extended to
Mrs. Aplanalp and Mr. Apian-
alp, grand marshal, and to
Mr. Laurens and Mrs. Laur
ens, grand marshal in the
East.
An addendum was present
ed for Mrs. Aplanalp and Mr.
Laurens.
The meeting was preceded
by a dinner served under the
irfction f M!;' and Mrs' "al
Bishop, Mrs. Lawrence Mcs-
sal was in charge of a member
participation flower show.
Ribbons and prizes were given
to Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. Merritt
Swing and Mr. Mayficld.
Sunday morning a break
fast was held at Stanley's for
the honored guests.
Back Interest
The back of the wedding
gown is as important as the
front, for the back is what
everyone will look at through
out the ceremony.
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