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MLDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. ftEDFOFft), OREift)N THURSDAY, JULY S. 1962 Social Events Women's News JULY NORFIELD'S "Tea!" ii tht rtply which Hal Apple ' baum it making to the inquiry of Sally t Broadwater who. in her role oi Siiter Roie. in the current Footlighler play, asks the op erator o a Lai Vegas night club it he will have tome refreshment. The comedy. ' "Seven Nuni at Lai Vegas," ii playing nightly through Saturday. July 7, at the Footlighleri' Fairground! theater, with cur tain time at 8:30 p.m. A portion of the pro ceedi will be given to the building fund of Sacred Heart hospital. Director is Frank Buchter. Spanish Weddings Are ;Costly for the Brides By PAM MIXTER ; United Press International . Madrid-iUPIi-If you're think 'Ing of nailing that man and 'castle, don't do it in Spain T'hat is the advice of this re porter who has lived here. . Furthermore, if you don't helicve in long engagements, don't touch a toe to Spanish soil. In Spain, getting hitched for a girl is generally costly be cause often it is the girl who pays toward furnishing her iulure home. Generally a girl must buy all of the furnishings for the bedroom and the kitchen. In some parts of Spain, the girl foots the entire bill. It is the groom's lot to pay for the rest of the home, usu ally the living room furniture. The housing problem is an other reason for long engage ments, unless the ncwlyweds care to move in with rela tives. In parts of Spain where the bride foots the bill, the father-nf-the-bride is not left out of tilings. Not only must he pay for the wedding ceremony it self, hut supply a dowry as well. This can be a new car, stocks, or land. A an average wedding, $27 will buy one organist, two vi olins, a red carpet down the center aisle, flowers and lights for the church. If the bridegroom happens to have a few extra pesetas in his pock et, he can throw In an extra violin or two. Hire Limousine if he can afford it, two lim ousines arc hired. Both are decorated with white flowers around the inside and with white lace on the outside door handle. The richest relative or friend Is picked to fool the bill for the reception. But a good many Spaniards are becoming more practical and dispensing with the reception, leaving for their honeymoon immed iately after the ceremony. If the couple is really poor, they can be married free-if they are willing to be married before eight in the morning. There is no church fee for weddings performed before that hour. The bridegroom pays for wedding rings, an engagement present, the bride's complete wedding attire and wedding pictures. It is traditional for the bridegroom to give the bride 13 pieces of money. If he can afford it he gives her 13 pieces of gold, otherwise pesetas. This custom dales back to the old custom of buying the bride from her parents. The old timers claimed that in the days before the Civil War tilings were much more romantic. Then in the prov ince of Andalucia, the man would steal his bride-to-be. This was especially the case if the parents had refused to Rive their consent to the match. Then would stal l nego tiations for parental consent, followed by the scene in which the couple returned and demanded: "Now do you give your per mission?" No one can ever remember that it ever was denied. Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Z H. Smith and Miss Bonnie June Fran cis recently returned In their home in Spokane, Wash., aft er visiting here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon E. Craft, 178 Winenia Way. Fifty Plus Club Elects Mrs. Martha Bowker was re-elected president of the Medford Fifty Plus club dur ing semi-annual elections held June 29. L. C. Davis was elected vice president; Miss Jane Moroney, secretary; Mrs. Minnie Von Bergen, treasurer; Mrs. Bertha Penwell, chair man of ways and means, and Mrs. Bertha Konzella, chair man of membership. The members voted during the meeting to donate $25 to the Salvation Army in Med ford, for the new building program. The next meeting is sched uled for Friday, July 6 in the Episcopal Guild hall, West Fifth street and North Oak- dale avenue. A potluck lunch eon will be served at 12 noon, followed by a brief business session. A program, card games and dancing will be diversions of the afternoon. Members of the Alexander string band assisted by Mrs. Maud Arnold, pianist, will furnish dance music. Persons over 50 years old are invited to attend as guests and to join to the group. Robert Michels Returns to Ranch O'Brien Robert Michels has returned to his ranch above Takilma for the sum mer. He arrived last week to visit his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. George Michels, who reside cast of O'Brien. Mr. Michels has a winter home in southern California. Anderson Family To Move Soon O'Brien - Gordon Ander son, his wife and family plan to occupy their newly built home on Leonard road, near Grants Pass, soon. Last Sunday's page of old-time Fourth of July pictures brought a wave of nostalgia to the newsroom. Some remem bered town celebrations such as those in the old pictures, others talked about picnic feasts of fried chicken and baked beans, and others remembered what fun it was to shoot firecrackers and set off sky rockets and Roman candles. Sports Editor Dick Jewett said regretfully that of course, fireworks are dangerous and many persons are injured when their use is not controlled, but that he and his brother and sisters had had lots of fun with them and he half-way re gretted the fact that nowadays fireworks are mostly some thing which the youngsters just watch when some group or town sponsors a controlled display. The kids can still play with sparklers, but even these can cause trouble. FB recalled that the last lime sparklers were used in their neighborhood, someone tossed one into a pile of sawdusl and it burned inwardly for days. Then it blazed up and the fire department had to be summoned. As a result of the old pictures, one family decided to have a picnic at home, somewhat in the old-fashioned man ner, and resurrect the 40-ycar-old freezer and make a batch of homemade ice cream. Photographer Bob Vroman, whose uncle took some of the pictures used on the page, reported that talking about bygone days had inspired his parents, the Elwin R. Vromans, to plan such a day. Strange, isn't it, that few of us seem to remember what the ficry-tongued young lawyer had said during the pro gram given from a bunting-draped stand in the park, or at the school ground? What we remember is the fireworks and the homemade ice cream and the races, and the wash tub full of lemonade. It was made with juice from real lemons, laboriously squeezed by hand, and not from processed juice poured from a can, or frozen juice, or worse yel, from the synthetic junk that bears little resemblance to lemons. The ice cream was made witli eggs and milk cooked into a thin custard for the base, with lots of thick cream and flavoring added when the mixture was put into the freezer can. At first the crank turned easily, but later as the stuff began to freeze, it would be harder and harder to turn, and at length one of the kids would have to sit on the freezer to hold it down while father worked away at the crank. When the long-awaited moment arrived and mother fi nally dished out the frozen cream, it was a dessert fit for the gods. That's what we remember. Not what the orator said. When we took the engravings and layout down to the shop, the makeup man, Herb DeVos, looked at the pictures and sighed. "I almost wish those days were back again," he said, also with a note of regret. "Life wasn't so complicated when I was a boy." This morning while doing the pre-breakfast stint at the ironing board, we thought aboul the days when mother iron ed dozens and dozens of dresses and shirts and petticoats and little-girl panties all with a heavy iron healed on the wood stove. This morning we zipped over the pieces with an elec trically heated Iron which in almost nothing flat steamed out the few wrinkles left in the drip dry material. We'd hate to keep house without electricity, refrigerators, vacuum clean ers, drip-dry no iron materials, and to live without radio, tele vision, cars, milk in germ-free cartons and all the other long list of the things that make up the modern world. But then, we'd gladly do without atom bombs, the cold war, the East-West struggle over ideologies, the rising tide of juvenile delinquency and the feeling that somehow along the wny the nation and lis citizens have lost some ot Iheir integrity. Will those who run the United Stales In the year 2.000 look back on 18H2 with nostalgia as a time when life wasn't as complicated? O.S. m. j t , h , Mi f hi. )ti 9 L -:, -. ' Dull Two Medford churchwomen. Mrs. Charles Adamson and Mrs, Oliver P. Taylor, participated in a training section for the Methodist Western Jurisdiction School of Missions and Christian Service, held in Forest Grove. Pictured during the session are (left to right) Mrs. Adamson, who is chairman of spiritual life for the Western Jurisdiction, Wesleyan Ser vice guild; Mrs. Clarence Jones, Reno. Nev., Western Juris diction secretary for the guild; Mrs. Taylor, Oregon confer ence chairman of Christian social relations and Miss Lillian Johnson, New York, executive secretary for the guild. Church Women Attend . Week's Training School Recently returned from a week o training in the West ern Jurisdiction School of Missions and Christian serv ice, Forest Grove, are Mrs. Charles Adamson and Mrs. Oliver P. Taylor. This school was attended by 135 women from the 12 far western states; with faculty and re source persons from as far as New York and Alaska. Mrs. Adamson, chairman of spiritual life for the Western Jurisdiction Wesleyan Service Interest Is Spurred Abroad in Americana CHRYSTAL MEATS The House of Personal Service 4th and Fir Phone 772-7315 Bacon Squares J 9 Pork Steak cr ,b 39 AMP in $100 Top Sirloin VEAL VEAL Smoked boneless Bar-B-Oue Special $109 I i SMOULDER STEAK . S "AH ROUND STEAK. I . 1 ! tea V KLAMATH FEED LOCKER BEEF Vz or WHOLE Cot Wrapped Quick Froien LOCKER SPECIAL 25 ibs. BEEF s1298 47- By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor New York - IIIPIl - Mrs. John F. Kennedy has spurred new interest at home in Americana with her program of refurbishing the While House in authentic furnish ings from various periods of U. S. history. Abroad, a similar interest in Americana gets a giant as sist from a unique museum started by two men who be lieve t lip cultural image over seas of the United States could stand improvment. The two are founders of the American Museum in Britain, which has just open ed its latest addition a de tailed replica of the flower gardens at George Washing ton's Mount Vernon home. The gardens are the gift of ihc Colonial Dames of Amer ica. The museum is located at Claverton Manor. Bath, Km: land. 107 miles west of Lon don. Sir Winston Churchill is supposed to have made his Vrst political speech at Clav erlon ri!i years ago. Old West Next When we heard of the gai den presentation, we hied our selves off to the headquarters of the Friends of the Ameri can Museum in Britain, where we found Mrs. Norman Walk er, widowed mother of four grown sons, presiding The chic Mrs. Walker, with a background in fashion sales and magazine work, is the cxeeutne secretary The Friends chairman is Mrs. Thomas S. Lament of the Mor gan and t.amont banking families "I'm the lookout girl for more items of historical in terest to add to the museum." said Mrs. Walker "Our next hig project will be the Old West and we'll have lo add a wine to the museum to house it " Big Interest The site of the museum Is SS acres of rolling i-ountr-side including the manor house of some 3;l rooms and galleries built m for one of England's landed gentry. The architect, Sir Jeftery Watvilh worked for George IV and helped restore Wind sor Castle, one of the homes of the British royal family. Mrs. Walker said the mu seum opened last July 15 for three months and that 20.000 persons visited it. This year, il will be open for six months and the number of visitors is expected to triple. "There is a tremendous in terest in Americana all over Europe.'' she said. The museum rooms range through furnishings and olher antiquity of Ihe first three centuries of the United States. Included is a candlestand which helonc'i'd to PfMp0rin While, the first American child, born on the May flower's voyage to Plymouth Rock. The Museum curator is a Briton lan McCallum. an architect who has traveled extensively in the United States. And there's one other British touch, a tea room where all visitors may stop for a refresher traditional of England. "Of course," said Mrs. Walker, "the cakes and cook ies served with the Ira are typically American " North Dakorans Leave for Home Mr. and Mrs Ferd Sunrl burg and children, Julie and Paul, of New Rnekford N. U., were lo leave for their home today after visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Jens Myhrr. 1070 Spring street. Mrs. Sundburg is a sister of Mr Myhrc. On Tuesday evening the group were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs. Robert Klumph al Central Point, the Klumphs being (ornier neighbors of the Sinihurgs in New Itocktord The Mlues also formrrlv lived there Mrs. Myhre is Mr Klumphs sister The Sundluiii:s arrived here from Seattle where thry at tended the World s Fair. Galen Roberson Enters Academy Ashland Galen Roberson. son of Mr and Mrs M. E. Roberson. ITIri ',arker street, left Saturday (or the United States military academy, West Point. NY, which he was to i enter July I. He made the trip j by jet plane, ! Attend Convention Medford delegates to the convention of the Oregon de partment, Veterans of For eign Wars auxiliary held re cently in Klamath Falls were Mrs. Ben Allison, Mrs. E. G. Hcim. Mrs. Russell Zundell and Mrs. Lester Card. During the session Mrs. Lil lian Hawkins, Portland, was elected president of tht de partment. Formerly of Glad stone, Mrs. Hawkins has serv ed for 19 years in such offi ces as department junior vice president and senior vice pres ident, as well as treasurer and chaplain. Mrs. Janet Bennett, Port land, was elected senior vice president and Mrs. Edna Face, Prineville. junior vice president. Mrs. Harriett Shoe maker, Portland, is the new secretary, and Mrs. Helen Reed, Milwaukie, treasurer. Elected chaplain was Mrs. Helen Clemens, Salem; Mrs. Gerry Musselman, Portland, conductress, and Mrs. Fred Mandclla, Klamath Falls, guard. Twirlers Slate Saturday Dance Medford Y-Knol Twirlers' regular first Saturday square dance will be held on July 7 at the Phoenix Community hall, located a few blocks west of the main intersection in Phoenix. Dancing will com mence at 8:30 p.m.. accord ing to caller Art Shoemaker of Central Point. Potluck refreshments will he served midway through the evening of square and round dancing. Visitors lo the Rogue River Valley who are anxious to compare local square dancing with that "back home" are especially invited to join in the fun. ac cording to Twirler officials Breakfast The annual outdoor break fast for members and friends of Roxy Ann court, Order of the Amaranth, will he served Sunday. July 8, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 1 P m., in the garden of the Charles lloppe residence on Lozier lane. The meal is prepared and served by members of the court. guild, was leader of the open ing worship for the school, using the school's theme, "O Send Us Forth." She will be using her training as she works throughout the year with officers in her line of work in western United States. Mrs. Taylor, Oregon con ference chairman of Chris tian social relations of Meth odist Wesleyan Service guilds, will continue the use of her training as she appears on the program of the conference an nual weekend to be held at Camp Magruder, north of Tillamook, July 27- 29. The hours of the school as signed to leadership develop ment dealt especially with missionary personnel and pro gram development. Mrs. P. Malcolm Hammond, Ashland, Western Jurisdiction secre tary of missionary personnel, directed and moderated the Monday evening program in this area of work. Purpose Overall purpose of the School of Missions was to give emphasis to the world mission of the Christian church through an integrated pro gram of missionary education, Christian social relations, spiritual life cultivation, and program building, and to train leadership for the total pro gram of the Woman's Society of Christian Service and Wes leyan Service guild. Dr. Gertrude Boyd Crane, retiring professor of religion at Pacific university, Forest Grove, was local chairman of arrangements and also con ducted the outdoor morning watch service. The Rev. Richard R. Gay, professor of religion and phil osophy and chaplain of Alas ka Methodist university, was present throughout the week and conducted a daily Bible hour. On the faculty was Miss Lillian Johnson, executive secretary. Wesleyan Service guild, New York. Miss John son spoke to Methodist wo men in Medford three years ago. Guests of the school were Miss Thelma Maw, mission ary on furlough from the physical therapy department of the Severance hospital in Seoul, Korea; and Miss Eunice Allen, deaconess, director of the T a co ma Community house. Tacoma. Wash . and president of the Western Ju risdiction Deaconness hoard. Calendar Thunday: R p.m. Mistletoe ramp, Poval N'eicbhorn pf America, r.vtluan Innlrium. R pm - Mothers nf Twins club, home of Mrs. Don Tar ton. I 18 Western ave R p m Neuhbors of Wood craft of Phoenix, Community hall Friday: 1J ;0 p m Phoenix Thim ble eluh. M.tple Grove park. 2 M) p m Christian Wom en's elub, Rofiue Valley Coun try eluh A PERFECT GIFT FOR MOTHER! 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