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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
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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.
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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.
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Women's News
Social Events
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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.
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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
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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
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contribution to space science
has been her vocal cords.
"I'm a loud mouth," she
laughed. "I tell people what
I think. I attempt to spread
the gospel and convince some
of our voting citizens of what
we ought to be doing in the
space field."
She believes Americans do
not sufficiently appreciate the
Russian challenge.
"Americans must wake up
to the fact that we have very
real competition and they
must be willing to make the
sacrifices necessary to see that
we win this competition," she
said.
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