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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOPD. OREGON SUNDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1962 A-p W U r m iim Minli ifcaAi a . - i i iiwiiinnummJ In i8n .I'.Lam i Guild Holds Election Th annual Military ball alwayi attract! officer! and retired officer! from leveral town! in louthern Oregon. Among those at tending the 1963 event, held December 8 at Rogue Valley Country club, were (left to right) Lt. Cmdr. R. E. Bridemtine USN. and Mrs. Bridenstine, and Capt. Eldon Ever ton. United Stales Army, and his wife. Both couples are from Grants Pass. Vmi-Vidl By MARGARET SCHULER Koma Suddenly it is win ter. The trees bordering the avenues are bare and the leaves have been whisked into little dustpans and car ried away by the hundreds of blue-smocked street sweep ers. The chrysanthemums on the Via Veneto have been yanked from their dying beds and supplanted by thousands of primroses all up and down both sides of the boulevard. Santa Clauses, looking exact ly like the American prod ucts, and baubles looking straight out of Japan, are in evidence in all the ten cent stores. Many Italian women are in fur coats these crisp days, and it may be that Mrs. Ken nedy's influence is felt here, as there are leopard skins all over the place. Or, it might be that she bought hers over here. Men and women, even in December, do not wear hats at least the young, and near young. Cinemas are crowded. Guess who are the movie go ingest people In the world? Statistics prove the Italians to be. By the end of this year, so the paper stales, 750 million tickets will have been cold, A booming film indus try also reached an all time high; 270 pictures were made in Italy, and 183 foreign films with Italian voices dubbed in, were shown. There must be almost as many cinemas in Home as churches and that is a lot. Certainly there are many more than in Vienna. People there bypass movies to go to the opera especial ly young people, and in Vi enna you can go to a concert, or symphony, or good play any night of the week. Dur ing the winter months here there seems not much good music. Opera season does not begin until late in December. I saw George Peppard re cently. I wanted to say to him that I knew when the "when" being, when he went swimming in the Barnum pool the summers he worked with the Shakespearian festi val. One could not guess then that the skinny, not too, pre possessing youth, would climb to consort with such as Audry Hepburn. He is now making a picture in Italy 6tar studded also. The jamming of Italian roads is going to get worse. In Rome there is an average of one automobile for every nine persons. In considering traffic, that docs not include motor scooters, motorcycles and the obnoxous little three wheelers, nor the govern ment, military and postal ve il i c 1 e s. The Fiat 600 the pigmy of them all is the most popular, and wait until the olher nine persons all get them! However, some progress in the traffic situa tion is being made. The num ber of traffic fatalities de clined from January this year to July. Instead of killing 4R48. "Lorn" (llicy in Italian) onlv killed 4790. The best news n( all to those who will be fortunate enough to be here is that great road con ctriiction is under way work which will cost $ l.nnn.ooo.oon The cost of living in Rome, unlike fatalities, is going up and up. Coffee jumped five lire more a cup. and Italian State Railroads announced re cently that on the first of January, travel will cost fif teen percent more for train trip Even though it is against the law to advertise cigar ettes, the prices are increas ing And all food will cost more than ever before. The European Common Market is beginning to be frit in Italy, in such things as the marketing nf a new ci garette. u.ing tobacco from the countries belonging It i will cost less than other for eign brands, (41 cents as com pared with seventy cents for top imported brands). In Italy, the state monopoly con trols tobacco sales arid fixes prices. That is the reason one goes to the "tobacchi" shop to buy stamps and salt. In Play Ted Lawson, son of Dr. and Mrs. Earl L. Lawson, 301 Windsor avenue, took the part of Gryphon in the University of Kansas Children's theater presentation of "Alice in Won derland," given in the uni versity theater December 6 through 8. The student is a senior at the university. Group Meetings Planned Tuesday Group meetings for the Women's Fellowship, First Christian church, will be Tuesday, December 18. Gifts for a Beaverton home, Beaver ton, Ore., will be collected. Clark group will meet with Mrs. Frank Chapman, 1041 West 14th street, at 10 a.m. with a luncheon following at noon. The following will meet at 1 p.m. McCracken group with Mrs. George Breece as hostess at the Rogue Valley Manor; Swander group with Mrs. Har old Ottosen, 109 Geneva street; Mrs. Chester Peterson will host the Troxell group at her home, 907 Beall lane and Weare group with Mrs. Herb Sims at 47 North Peach street. Mrs. Eloise Winklebleck was elected president of West minster guild of First Pres byterian at their Christmas meeting. Other officers are Mrs. Robert Brewer, vice presi dent; Mrs. Stanley Jones, sec retary, and Mrs. George Tucker, treasurer. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Merlyn Harvey, 612 Newtown ave nue. She was assisted by Mrs. Eva Marsh and Mrs. Clara Zicgler. A program was presented by students from Jackson school. Catherine Watson was soloist and songs were sung by the Fourth grade chorus. The stories were told by Christine Bell, Michele Kennedy, Donna Wells, Mari lyn Z i n n e r s, and Linda Powers. Coordinator for the pro gram was Mrs. John Medley wth Mrs. Norene French and Mrs. Joanne Sousa in charge of the chorus. School princi pal is H. Bruce Metiger. Salem Orchestra Plans Concert Salem-Oregon's capital city will have its own symphony orchestra Monday, December 17. when the premiere con cert of the Eroup will be given at Leslie Junior High school auditorium. Conductor is Haimo Haitto and more than two-thirds of the orchestra members are professional musicians in Sa lem and surrounding commu nities. Tickets to the concert may be purchased at the door. Orchestra rehearsals are each Monday at 7:30 p.m. at South Salem High school. SPECIAL 8 SPICE to GIH SETS EGGS ELEGANTS ii Contains Old Hiekorv Salt. Fine Herbs. PjDrika. 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