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6 A- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST . lk MEWrOTlO MAIL TRIBUNT, WTOFORB, ORESOW Gardener Issues Lament Over Misses, Failures By Patricia McCormack United Press International Homeiront, U.S.A. IUPI) Drop the trowels, you valiant home gardeners. By ache of back and sweat of head you have earned a place in the royal order of the green thumb. Doff the sun hat and shake the caked mud from your lowly Patrlrla McCormacIf gardener's jeans. Rejoice over your successes down to earth. Then Join me in a mid-summer's lament over the near misses, the backfires and the failures. Successes on our little third of an acre include weeds the likes never seen at least not since last summer this time. But even the dandelions, though the season's supposed to be over, are bigger and better than they were last year. Bugs Winning Another mixed blessing, brown leaves before autumn, comes from heightened bug activity. The insects have munched at such a rate that at least half the leaves sup posed to be green are brown. Chalk up one for the bugs. The only catastrophe with a half-happy ending stems from a birch broken by last winter's ice storms. The Clara & Doreen Say . . . OUT THEY GO! For The Last Hoi Weather Days Don't Miss Our . . . FINAL CLEARANCE of . . . SUMMER DRESSES Values to $16.95 Nationally Advertised BATHING SUITS Crater lake Hwy. and Ave. G 826-9401 Tliough Food Cruiadi patkogti may not bt nt lo iptcific In dividual!, you may toltct from tho following doitinalionn AfghonUton Colombia Ecuador fttrlin Orooco Haiti Hong Kong Iron Yugoslavia liraol Italy Jordan Koroa Pohitfon Poland Turkey Viotnam CAKE Food Cruicde I New York 16, N. Y., or your local CARE offic I Hons is $ to send food packages In j my numv I (Nomt) (Addon) (City) ("' Make cheeks out to CARE Inc. .; fc-'s t . &rytir-f yi?v jit. noble tree, tall and obviously much too proud, failed to flex when the ice made it horse shoe shape. The failure to bend with the elements broke the tree midpoint. The tree surgeon sumoned at once gave it up for dead. He placed no stock in a branch sticking out be low the break. The thickness of a child's finger, the branch offered a slim hope. At the risk of being im pounded for practicing tree surgery without a license, this home gardener sawed off the broken part and sealed the stump from air and bugs with an empty Economy size fruit juice can. All the sap in the roots then had just one place to flow. The branch sprouted and sprung and spurted in every direction. It now supports half the greenery the un unbroken tree once support ed. It now also supports a bird-feeding station. But for every success and half-success, there are the failures to add muscle to a gardener's mid-summer lament. The saddest tale on our home front concerns the fierce miracle growing rose hedges. Much contemplation pre ceded the rainy day last spring when holes were dug nd the things rooted along a border needing a fence. A farmer of some experi Values to $19.95 Now hunger hurts . . please care 7 Sends a Food Crusade Package A cup of milk, a bowl of rice can be a feast to millions who have never known the luxury of a full stomach. You can bring them nourish ment, new life and hope, by joining CARE's Food Crusade. A dollar bill is all it takes to deliver a complete package. Contents are mainly donated by the U.S. Government under the food-for-peace pro gram. But CARE adds items for nutritional bal ance, special country needs. A message of friendship, including your name and address, accompanies every package. Re cipients in orphanages, refugee camps, hospitals, disaster areas, schools and poverty- stricken homes will America care. Your Dollars Help So Much SEND WHAT YOU CAN NOW MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE ence tried to wave down the yen to plant the things. Said he did once and the things took over the big pen they were supposed to border. It took earth-moving equipment to knock the fierce rose hedge out of pit's way. Thoughts of such aside, the fierce thorned and fast grow ing roses were planted. That was two months ago. You should see them now provided you can find them among the weeds. They are finer than the finest Irish lace. The worst tale concerns what happened when old green thumb here juiced up some aged evergreens with a miracle brew of chemicals guaranteed to send new life surging through the half brown and very limp branches. In two days, the evergreens turned brown all over. It would be unfair, of course, and cause for expul sion from the order of the green thumb. But I'm tempt ed to spray the things with green paint, add a plastic coat of clear all-weather spray and call It a season. Announce Dance Derby - A square dance will be conducted by the Derby Hoedowners Square Dance club Friday, August 10 in the Community hall. Dancing will begin at 8:30 p.m;, and pot luck refreshments will be served. Edwin Cavin will call the squares and all interested square dancers are invited. This will be the last session for the group until October, officers announce. Values to $35.00 S1 00 Vz Off know that you and 8 (yL Women's News Social Events sw. . - New York - Secretary-coordinator of the proposed Na tional Cultural center is Jarold A. Kieffer, shown here at his desk. Mr. Kieffer believes that culture is uniting fac tions up and down the land and says plans for the new center are going well. Three halls will be built in Wash ington, D. C, a 2,750 seat symphony hall, a 1,200 seat theater and a 2,500 seat auditorium to make up the cen ter. (UP1) Portland Orchestra To Audition Portland-Musical auditions for the Portlnnd Symphony orchestra's 1962-63 season will be held by Symphony con ductor Maestro Jacques Sing er from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, August 8, through Friday, August 10. Instrumentalists interested in playing with the orchestra may make appointments to he heard by contacting the Port land Symphony Society, Park Building, (Portland), CA 8 1353. This will be the last series of try-outs before the start of the season's rehearsals. Maestro Singer, who has led symphony orchestras throughout North and South America since 1938, arrived in Portland last week to start plans for his first season with the Portland orchestra. Prev ious to coming to Portland, he concluded a five-year contract as music director and con ductor of the Corpus Christl, Texas Symphony with a con cert tour of the Caribbean which was widely acclaimed in each of the five cities in which he appeared. Singer was selected by the Portland Symphony after it had screen ed 100 inquiries, and held 12 auditions of interested con ductors. The 1962-63 Portland Sym phony season hegins October 15. Guest artists scheduled to appear during the season include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Shirley Vcrrett-Cnrter, Bonny Goodman, and Clauriio Arrau. Auditions for positions in the Symphony orchestra will be held in Room E. on the second floor of the Portlnnd Civic Auditorium, 1520 SW Third Avenue. Eugene Theater To End Season Eugent - The final curtain will fall on the University of Oregon's Carnival Theater Saturday night, Aug. 11, ns the first summer season of this new theater comes to an end. Productions scheduled for the week are "Moniquc'' on Thursday, Aug. 9. "Uonny brook" on Friday, August 10. and "Little Mary Sunshine" on Saturday night. The final matinee performance of "The Emperor's New Clothes" will be given Thursday, August 9 at 1:30 p.m. (PST). Evening performances be gin at 7:30 p.m. (PST) and ate held in the outdoor amphi theater adjacent to the Uni versity Theater. In case of bad, weather, productions are given indoors. Square Dancers Schedule Picnic A potluck picnic has been scheduled for men ders of the Buckles and Bows Square Dar.ce group and is to be heid at 7 p m.. Saturday, August 11 at the Jackson Hot Springs. Square dancing will lie-in at 8.30 p.m., and guest callers and square dancers interested are invited to attend both the picnic and the dance session. MemlM'rs interested in re ceiving "square duck" badges fur dancing in the pool, should take swim suits. s Return Central Point - Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Norris, 3593 Hanley road, have recently re turned from a trip up the coast of Washington. They fished at Bremerton and made a visit to the World's Fair. They were accompanied by their daughters, Carol and Bette Jo. SWEATERS GO RUSTIC FOR FALL Sweaters go rustic for fall with big soft-knit bulkies, skirts and pants in crisp clean-cut checks or plaids in landscape blending colors. left: Classic mohair, wool and nylon cardigan in 13 assorted colors 7.98 Stitched to the hip pleated skirt in checks and plaids 12.98 Right: Bulky wool pullover with the new U-neckline and tweedy look 14.98 Lined slacks with side zipper 9.98 Woman Is Responsible for By JOAN SWEENEY Los Angeles - (UPD - Laurel van der wal Roennau decided several years ago that she wanted to work on a new "frontier" and concluded that in the 20th century, this meant the field of aeronau tics and astronautics. As a result, she is the only woman airport commissioner in the United States and her work in bioastronautics help ed prepare the way for man ned space flights. The soft - spoken Mrs. Roen nau says, "I am impatient with people who do not make full use of all their capabili ties." In addition, former occupa tions ranged from deputy sheriff, showgirl, art instruc tor, aircraft mechanic, model, railroad switch tower oper ator and gambling casino shill. Impatient Her Impatience with waste in any form led to project MIA, the mouse - in - space project which was the first ex periment with taking animals above an altitude of 100 miles. These 1958 flights were the fore runners of America's manned space effort. Mrs. Roennau conceived project MIA when she learned that rocket experiments were using ballast for payloads. This meant that when the rockets were tested, they car ried weights in place of nu clear warheads. She reasoned that this space might just as well be used to provide data for manned flights. Thus was born the hitchhiking or piggy-back concept in which ex periments are put aboard the nose cone of a missile being tested for an entirely differ ent purpose. In project MIA, the heart beats of the mice were meas ured and telemetered back to earth. The animals traveled at speeds of more than 15,000 miles an hour and reached record altitudes of 1,400 miles. Boundless Energy Mrs. Roennau's energy seems boundless. She earned her way through the Univer sity of California by work ing as a railroad switch tow er operator. For three years, her hours were from mid night to 8 a.m., seven days a week. While attending college she also worked as a photog raphic and fashion model; and for a few months she appear ed occasionally as a show girl in several San Francisco pro ductions. But she still man aged to graduate with honors in mechanical engineering with an option in aeronautics. Later she won a fellow ship to the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Swe den. Despite her space research, her work as a Los Angeles airport commission, and many public speaking engagements, Mrs. Roennau finds time for hobbies ranging from cooking Weather May Change Party The weather will dictate where Medford Sojourners will meet this week. The club has scheduled the annual garden party for Thursday, August 9, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Eden, 211 Genesee street. Since the weather has chang ed, it is announced that if the day is fair, the party will be at the Edens; if it is rain ing, it will be held at Girls Community club. The event is set for 12:30 p.m. and dessert will be serv ed. Nieces Arrive For Stay Here Kay and Christie May, Boyes Hot Springs, Calif., are guests for the week of their aunt, Mrs. Oscar Gysin, and Mr. Gysin, route 3, box 198, Medford. They will be joined this week end by their mother, Mrs. Stephen Rustei and Mr. Rusteika, who will remain for a time. They have planned a trip to Crater lake and other valley points. Mrs. Rusteika, a sister of Mrs. Gysin, is a former valley resident and this will be Mr. Rusteika's first trip to south ern Oregon. Space Age Developments and sewing to skiing and skin diving. She also is an avid baseball fan. She and her hus band, who works on space engines at North American Aviation, enjoy music and have a large record collection. Began Career She began her space career in missile propulsion and was the head of the bioastronau tics division of Space Tech nology laboratories until she temporarily retired to await the birth of her first child or children. The doctor says her firstborn may be twins. In an interview Mrs. Roen nau said, she feels her major Swm along with START ON MONDAY-SWIM ON SUNDAY Healthful living and family pleasure at a price everyone can afford. Cadillac pools are constructed with fabulous fiberglass sidewalls and poured concrete bottom, in all shapes and sizes, carries a 10 year guarantee. Priced From $2,700.00 Includes: Vin-ramlc coping Filler Syiltm 3'-8Vi' Dtp 2 V Walk Excavation Intlellailon Trvit-Loc Construction LOW MAINTENANCE CALL TODAY FOR FREE ESTIMATE! FINANCE PLAN AVAILABLE! Up to 5 YEARS TO PAY! 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