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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IS. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Home Gardens Should Be Designed for Families in House, Not as Showplaces Corvallis Home gardens and yards should be designed for the families who live in the houses and not as show places for passers-by nor as museum pieces based on what was good 50 or 150 years ago. Richard Blakcley, Oregon State university landscape de signer, believes Oregonians can make better use of con temporary ideas, plants and man-made materials in plan ning their gardens. He said past cultures don't provide a workable pattern for landscaping today's homes. The English formal garden re quired a lot of care and looks out of place in Oregon, yet many new homeowners follow the English. They plant large expanses of lawn, formal flower beds, and hedges, put shrubs at corners of the house, on each side ot the front door, or on two sides of the walk, and ring the foundation with more shrubs, many which out grow their useful size. Can Steal Ideas Blakeley agrees that we can steal some ideas from other cultures but does not recom mend copying another's de sign. The Japanese garden was meant to be looked at but not to be used, he notes. Yet some things found in Japanese gardens lights, sculpture, water, rocks, gravel, sand and many plants, bamboo and nan dina are useful. Considerations in designing the garden are given by Blake Icy. 1. Fit outdoor areas to needs of family members. Plan an area for children's play that fits their needs. What looks good to an adult is not always useful to a child. Pre-schoolers love to climb be hind, into, and over things. Avoid plants with thorns, pois onous berries, and those that attract bees. 2. Plan outdoor areas in re lation to interior of the house The patio or eating area should be somewhere near the kitchen. Divide outdoor area into Imaginary rooms some will be used for eating and conversation, others for play, others to view. Conversation Areas For conversation areas, use canopy type trees to contain the space and provide some shade. A silk tree, amur cork tree, tea crab, redbud, shirof ugan cherry and yellow wood are possibilities. Check with county agent or nursery man for those hardy in east ern Oregon. Coloring Book Lampoons Buyer New York - lUI'U Coloring books have come into their own for adults since one pub lisher dreamed up the JFK coloring book. Now, a Kansas City, Mo., dress manufactur er is out with one called "The Dress Buyer's Coloring book." Its producers, Gay Gibson, Inc., have sent it "with apolo gies to everybody." Excerpts: "This is my mer chandise man, He's smart. He knows everything. He keeps records. I hate him. "This is a markdowri. Mark downs are bad numbers. My assistant bought it. "This is a customer. She asks for things I haven't got. She makes me ill." TEARS BOOTH DOWN Clophill, England-tUPIl-Rcsl-dents complained today that a town crew tore down an outdoor telephone booth two days after other workmen gave it a new coat "of paint. "I can not explain the painting," said the official in charge of the wrecking. "It was not our department." 3. Consider maintenance. Large expanses of lawn gen erally require more regular care than areas of gravel, ground cover or concrete. However, ground covers and gravel areas are not altogther maintenance free. Blakeley recommended that new homeowners plant grass immediately to provide a quick ground cover, solve win ter mud problem, and give time to plan yard design. Be ware of package deals oh shrubs. They probably won't fill your needs, Blakeley. 4. If planning a patio, make a dry run of activities you will want to carry out on it. This will give you a more ac curate idea of the size needed. 5. Plan for circulation from one area to another. Know how much space a tricycle re quires along a path, where benches might be placed for rest or to view. Keep Things Simple 6. Keep things simple. A few basic plants, materials, and geometric forms repeated throughout the yard, are eas ier to work with and look bet ter in the end than a confused mixture, says Blakeley. 7. Keep plantings in scale with the house. A low-style ranch house usually looks best with trees that don't grow ov er 50 feet. Be selective in choice of plants. For example, don't plant a silk tree near a drive. The blossoms are acidic and may take paint off ears. Apple, cherry, black walnut and birch trees are not good street trees. Dropping fruit or aphid drip is messy. Certain trees may not be desirable near a patio unless it's easily cleaned. Madrona and willow drop things most of the year. Elms and birch trees attract aphids and are not recommended for use where people will be walking or eating underneath them. -CaBalSS&gSf WHAT GIVES? - Heifers and mares are one thing but queens are something else again as cowboys Bob Edison, left, and Wick Perth wonder what gives as they watch attractive Linda Kcnnon apply a bit of makeup from a kit built into the horn of her saddle. Linda, a consistent winner in beauty contests and an accomplished horsewoman, will reign over the Rodeo World Series in Los Angeles Dec. 4 through Dec. 0. (UPI) WHISTLE DELAYS MATCH Skipton, England - IUPII - A soccer match between two po lice teams was delayed 15 minutes Wednesday because neither the players nor the referee - a policeman - could find a whistle. They solved their problem at a nearby po lice station. FALL PROVES FATAL Gloucester, England - IUPII - Leslie Dally, a gardener at Prinkna?h Abbey, died Wed nesday of a broken spine. 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Charles McNary gaining the GOP vice presi dential nomination in 1940 is enough to stimulate and justify the hopes of any able Oregon political leader. Morse's handicap now, as before, is his damn-the-party-politicians approach which may delight many voters but chills the politicians whose support is essential in a con vention. Moreover, the sen ator is now 62, and so his age becomes an added adverse fac tor. May Be Chairman When the returns were coming in from Alabama elec tion night, Morse was entitled Dr. Bartlett Attends Willamette Conference Ashland - Dr. J. Kenneth Bartlett, associate professor of science at Southern Oregon college, attended the Confer ence on Cnrricular Problems of Small College Chemistry Departments recently at Wil lamette university in Salem. The conference consisted of group discussions of problems faced by small colleges relat ing to facilities, curriculum, staff, and specific handling of chemistry courses, particular ly laboratory, Dr. Bartlett said. to wonder whether he hadn't come closer to what is his brightest prospect for greater glory: Chairmanship of the Senate Labor Committee. The present chairman, Sen. Lister Hill, trailed his GOP chal lenger much of the night and narrowly escaped defeat. As No. 3 Democrat on the committee, Morse now is chairman of the education subcommittee; but because his elders, Hill and Sen. Pat Mc Namara (D-Mich.), are near ing 70, it is quite possible that Morse will outlast them both and reach this powerful full committee chairmanship. Hatfield has attracted much national attention as a good vote getter, a reputation he reinforced In this election. Much political comment now centers on the new faces in the Republican gubernatorial stable - Romney, Scranton and others but at 40, Hat field can afford to be patient. Perhaps the governor's greatest handicap is not geog raphythe tendency of ticket-makers to look first to the large states for their candi dates but the fact that his experience has been limited to the problems of the Late house at Salem. Credentials Wanted Today the voters, and the convention delegates, want more impressive credentials, if they are available. McNary, after all, was the Republican leader of the Senate; Garner was speaker of the House; Truman, Nixon, Sparkman and Kefauver were senators when they were tapped; Lodge was an ex-senator serv ing as UN ambassador; and Vice President Johnson was his party's leader of the Sen ate. So, while lightning strikes in strange and unexpected ways, Hatfield's prospects are probably greater via the Sen ate. 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