MtDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30. 1963
A 7
Girl Scout Councils
Study Merger Proposal
Representatives of live Girl i cils on how the merger idea
Scout councils in central and is being received,
southern Oregon and northern I representatives who
..,.. . ,. met in Medford were Mrs.
California have been discuss-G w Thornburg and Mrs.
lng a proposed merger in the i Bill Van Cleave, Lake county;
nast few months. The latest of
a series of study meetings
about the proposal was held
recently in the Girl Scout cen
ter, 431 West Ninth street.
The merger idea came from
national Girl Scout headquar
ters. The meeting heid here was
the last to be held by the
area -wide study committee
before the separate councils
vote on boundary lines sug
gested in the proposed consoli
dation. The Rogue valley delegate
council will vole at a meet
ing April 10. The other (our
councils involved are sched
uled to vote by April 20. The
five councils are Rogue Val
ley, Western Waters, Lake
County, Three Rivers and Jun
iper council.
If the majority of the coun
cils vote in favor of the en
larged council, an organiza
tional committee will be form
ed to consider recommenda
tions which the study commit
tee has developed at three
meetings. If a council votes
against the enlarged council,
it has the right to appeal to
the national board of direc
tors. Geographically, the area be
ing talked about for merger
includes the counties of Lane,
Douglas, Coos, Curry, Jose
phine, Jackson, Klamath,
Lake, Deschutes, Jefferson
and Crook in Oregon and
West Siskiyou, Del Norte and
Modoc counties in California.
Similar merger programs
are being considered in north
west Oregon southwest Wash
ington and eastern Oregon.
The moves toward merger
are part of a national Girl
Scout program called council
coverage which aims to pro
vide total coverage of the na
tion by contiguous councils.
Council representatives who
met in Medford were reluc
tant to speak for their coun-
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Mrs. Don Wolgamott and Mrs.
Janet Stulz, Western Waters
council; Mrs. Glenn Johnck
and Mrs. Harriette Brother
hood, Juniper; Mrs. Donald
Dickey, Mrs. C. B. Lamen
and Miss Joyce Hainsworth,
Three Rivers; Mrs. Scott Da
vis, Mrs. M. N. Hogan and
Mrs. B. E. Culy, Rogue Valley;
Mrs. Wilson Mulheim, region
al committee; and Miss Laura
Mae Hammer, council adviser
of Region XI.
Roxy Ann HEC
Cancels Session
Roxy Ann Grange Home
Economics club announces
that a meeting set for tonight
has been canceled due to a
conflicting meeting at Cen
tral Point.
Manor Residents
Making Plans
For Island Trip
A group of Rogue Valley
manor residents will leave
Medford February 18 for a
brief vacation in Hawaii. The
travelers will make the trip
by air out of San Francisco,
and will return to the main
land February 27.
In addition to their stay in
Honolulu, the travelers will
visit the islands of Maui,
Hawaii and Kauai.
Twelve m a n or residents
make up the group, and a
number have expressed the
idea that it would be interest
ing to have other valley resi
dents join them for the ex
cursion. Arrangements are be-
ing made through the Rogue
Travel service, and anyone
interested in joining the group
is asked to call George Lewis
of the service.
Roxy Ann Grange
To Hold Dinner
Roxy Ann Grange has
planned the annual Ground
Hog day dinner for Saturday,
February 2, at the Grange
hall on Spring street. The pub
lic is invited.
The menu will be hot cakes
and sausage, and serving will
be from 5 to 8 p.m. Mrs. Clar
ence Pfnister, chairman, states
that patrons will be served
"all they can eat."
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wall freshly painted with
enamel, rub a clean cloth
dipped in turpentine over the
painted surface
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Ground Hog
Day Means
Sausage
Ground Hog day is desig
nated on tlie calendar as
February 2. This year, it will
be on Saturday, a time when
most persons, especially the
school children and students
may gather with their fami
lies for more leisurely break
fasts. Whether the furry little
animal will sec his shadow
and thus return to his den
as a prediction of many weeks
of unfavorable weather, will
not be known until the day
arrives.
But we can predict that
ground pork sausages, a pop
ular dish for observing
Ground Hog day. will make a
hearty, winter breakfast.
Country sausage with
Fried Apples are sure to
please, or Sausage-Corn Frit
ters will have everyone ask
ing for seconds.
SAUSAGE AND
FRIED APPLES
Two pounds country style
sausage; two tablespoons wa
ter; six red apples; one-third
cup sugar.
Cut country - style sausage
into 4 inch pieces. Place
sausage and water in cold fry
ing - pan. Cover tightly and
cook slowly five minutes. Re
move cover and brown lightly
Remove to warm platter and
pour off all but one-fourth
of the drippings. Quarter and
core apples and brown in sau
sage drippings, turning occa
sionally. Sprinkle with sugar,
cover and cook slowly until
tender. Place apples in cen
ter of platter and arrange
sausage links around apples.
Six scrvinRs.
FRITTERS
One - half pound pork sau
sage; one tablespoon water;
one and three-fourth cups
sifted enriched flour; two
teaspoons baking powder;
three - fourth teaspoon salt;
one cup milk; one egg, slight
ly beaten; one cup drained
whole kernel corn; lard for
deep - fat frying.
Place sausage and water in
cold frying-pan. Cover tight
ly and cook slowly five min
utes. Pour off drippings. Sift
flour, baking powder and salt
together. Mix milk with egg,
and stir into sifted ingredi
ents. Add sausage and corn.
Drop by tablespoonfuls into
deep hot lard (360' F. for
four to five minutes or until
golden brown. Yield, 15 to
18 fritters.
Tips on Clothing
Qualities Given
University Park, Pa.-OIPD-Bernice
J. Tharp of Pennsyl
vania State University says
knowing how to check work
manship can be a big factor in
determining quality of cloth
ing. No amount of alteration can
fix a grament that is not cut
ion the straight of the fabric.
Miss Tharp said. Stripes and
plaids should run true and be
matched at seams. The nap of
pile fabrics must go in the
same direction on each part of
the garment.
Straight and smooth stitch
ing, not puckered or too loose,
and threads fastened at points
where stitching ends are signs
of quality workmanship.
Fasteners, trimmings, bells
and buckles that can be clean
ed and ironed at the same as
the garment cut down on time
and cost of upkeep. A color
fast lining and one that can be
cleaned the same way as the
outside fabric are good signs
of quality.
Discussion Group
Has Style Show
Yreka - The Prc-Schoolcrs
Discussion group gave a fash
ion show during the January
meeting held in the Pacific
Power and Light company
social room.
Mrs. Jerome Churchill Jr.,
was commentator. The young
models were Julie Churchill,
Janet Grace, Kathy Stockton,
Barbara Clayton. Lenny
Sayles., Keith and Kcrsten
Bachinan and Joseph Lavag
nino. After the show, Robert
Reynolds, superintendent of
the Yreka Elementary schools,
spoke about the school over
ride tax bill which will be
brought before the voters on
February 19.
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done by a pre-Civil War artist
named John Banvard. He did
many .sections of the Missis
sippi river. Then he put them
all together to make a pan
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check that the cultured pearls are genuine. Cultured pearl
necklaces may be purchased for around $30, officials of the
Cultured Pearl Association of America report. (UPI)
Mass Pearl Production
Is Now Growing Industry
By GAY PAULEY
UPI Women's Editor
New York IUPI) The femi
nine love for pearls plus
man's ability to turn oysters
into mass producers of the
gems have combined to create
a multi-million dollar industry.
And, it grows larger each
year, says Joseph D'Elia,
president of the Cultured
Pearl Association of America.
D'Elia said that exports
from Japan, which produces
better than 90 per cent of all
cultured pearls, totalled S47
million in 1962, a gain of 30
per cent over the previous
year. This is the wholesale
value.
U.S. importers take 52 per
cent of the culture pearl pro
duction. There are about 80
importers in all.
All of this big business is
an outgrowth of something
the ancient Chinese learned,
and the Japanese commer
cialized. Started in 13ih Century
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife
service publication on pearl
culture in Japan (it was is
sued during the U.S. occupa
tion) says that the Chinese
about the 13th Century A.D.
found that an oyster could be
irritated into creating a pearl.
But commercial production
of the gems really began in
the early years of the 201h
Century in Japan.
The Japanese to succeed
first with large-scale commer
cial production was Kokichi
Mikomoto. and today the
name Mikomoto and cultured
pearls arc synonymous.
But there are numerous
other large and small produ
cers. D'Elia, whose firm deals
in cultured pearls only, said
the two main growing areas
arc the old Ago Bay waters
of the Mia Prefecture and
since World War II, as de
mand for the gems has in
creased, the waters around
Hiroshima, Kyushu, and Shi
koku. Some also are grown by
Japanese methods in Austra
lia and Burmese waters.
Oysters are Farmed
Oysters are "farmed" just
as carefully for pearls as, say,
chickens arc for eggs.
Divers, most of them wom
en, collect oysters from bays
where they grow naturally.
Or, they are grown from the
spat (oyster larvae) collected
from the waters with a pat
ented cage technique. The
cage is inserted in the sea
during the spawning period,
which in Japan is from July
to September.
1 The spat-collecting cages
remain in place until Novem
! ber, then the infant oysters
! are transferred to rearing
I cages. These, which protect
the young oyster from its nat
ural enemies, are cither dis
tributed over the sea bottom
in sheltered areas or .suspend
ed into the water from rafts.
The age at which the oys
ter is ready for insertion of
the pearl-creating Irritant va
ries, but usually it is ready
by the time it is three years
old, says the publication on
pearl culture.
Skill of a Surgeon
Described in the simplest
of terms, technicians operat
ing with the skill of a sur
geon, open the oyster shell
slightly, make a slit in tissue,
insert the irritant, then add a
live skin graft from another
oyster.
The graft eventually heals,
and the oyster starts produc
ing the nacre to surround the
irritant which in most in
stances is a bit of shell from
the pig-toe mussel taken from
the Mississippi river, D'Elia
said.
It takes an oyster from two
years on up to develop a
pearl, and growers will
sample beds to see if the pearl
has reached the size they
want before they start a
harvest.
After the harvest comes
grading and sorting, for form,
color, luster and perfection of
surface. The cultured pearl
has a special texture. D'Elia
said a women can give the
pearl the tooth test to tell the
difference between it and the
simulated one with glass or
plastic bead beneath. Rub the
pearl against the front teeth
thc cultured pearl feels un
even, not absolutely smooth.
And of course nothing rubs
off.
Natural Pearls Noted
Natural pearls arc formed
in exactly the same way, but
the oyster as an act of self
defense against some tiny, but
accidental intruder.
D'Elia said that a cultured
necklace could be purchased
for around $30 anything
sold as cultured pearls for
less is "trash," he contended.
And the price range goes
right on up, depending on
size, quality and matching of
pearls. Last year, one double-
strand necklace while D'Elia
had assembled for a Fifth ave.
jewelry store sold for
$140,000
It will lake an importer
three, four or five years to
assemble such high quality
necklaces.
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