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About; 30 mothers "who art members of
the Eagle Point Parent-Teacher association
have been .spending many hours in recant
months on a. book-mending project. The
women are repairing books in the libraries
of the city's two grade' schools as a PTA.
Eagle Point PTA Mends
Schools' Library Books
Eagle- Point- - When the
Eagle Point Primary school
was btiitt last year, the grade
schoor library- was- divided
into fwo libraries and both
were 'ih need of extra help
In mending and processing .f
books. 'Eagle: Point- Parent
Teacher association members
voted to' have' this as a serv
ice project for the' year in
stead of giving fund raising
events.
For a' time 'the libraries
were close'd while the divid
ing took 'plade'. They how are
open with close to 4000 books
on the she'lves for student
use. 1
At the present time about
1450 books are in the mend
ing work 'rooms and some 30
Shqcj.y Cove PTA Members
Discuss Changing Group
Shady Cove-trail Is "the
present-day - Parent Teacher
association 'on national level
becoming outmoded and out
dated for the needs of the
comnfunity" and is too much
emphasis placed on the asso
ciation' as ' a money-raising
bodyf- ' ' '
Shall Shady Cove Parent
Teacher association, a branch
of the . national organization,
be discontinued in, the Shady
Cove Sfhofl and. an attempt
made to, ,ojgarize4 a Parents,
club to. jjctter. meej . t'le need
for exchange, of. ideas between,
parents .qod teachers, and lp
more fully take care .of. loca'
problems? i ...
These were among pertin
ent questions discussed before
a large number of parents and
students at the Shady Cove
unit's, meeting March 11 in
the sjlipol. .
Following a spirited discus
sion led by Mrs. Chester Cal
loway, .president of the unit,
with views of members ex
pressed from the floor, a com
mittee . was . appointed- .to in
vestigate the possibility of a
change .from the; association
to a Parents club. t -
Named, chairman of the
committee,, was Mrs.. Arlene
Walsh .' -
A report on, the committee's
work and iindings will be
given, at . .the. next . regular
meeting.
Announcement was made
of the forthcoming entertain
ment fit the Mississippians set
lor April .16 at the snaay
Cove school. gymnasium. Ad
mission will .be charged with
rates for students. The. event
is the nionpy-raising project
for the. year by . the Shady
Cove association. .. .
Richard ..Ganuiway, music
and band .instructor, . present
ed the Shady .Cove band mem
bers in a t practice session,
showing how they practice to
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service project. Pictured here at work are
(lelt to right) Mrs. LeeRoy Draper. Mrs. El.
mer Harnish, chairman of the project.- Mrs.
William Short. Mrs. Glen Burrill and Mrs.
William McCracken. Mrs. LeRoy Beding
f ield is president of the association. . - -
mothers are spending one day
a week, some two or three
days a week, in this service
project. -
When mending a book five
steps are necessary before it
can be returned to the shelf,
making it a lengthy process.
The primary school group
has completed the shelf list
and now are working on the
catalog list.
When the project is com
pleted about 5000 books will
have been mended. .
" This project has been con
sidered a challenge by the
association members. If time
allows, when the library
books are completed, the
group may mend text books
now in class room use.
gether and pointing out mis
takes as they were made.
Reports of the nominating
committee were made, elec
tions to be held at the next
session. . . ...
Mrs. Ganaway, program
chairman, introduced Nat Et
zel, a teacher at Eagle Point
High school, who; showed col
ored slides of- Czechoslovakia
taken last summer when he
and Mrs. Etzel toured Iron
Curtain Countries with the
Future Farmers of America
group from this area. -. s, ,'
Refreshments were Served
in the cafeteria. ,
. The program for the next
meeting, Monday, April 8 it
7:30 p.m., will feature selec
tions by the Shady Cove
Grade school chorus.
Doctor Durno
To Be Speaker
Dr. Edwin R. Durno will
speak at a meeting of Jackson
County unit, Oregon Federa
tion of Womens Republican
clubs, at noon at Ping's Gar
den, Monday, March 18.
Dr. . Durno's topic, will be
"Life in Washington, D. C."
The Oregon Federation of
Women's Republican clubs
will hold their 25th anniver
sary meeting at the Village
Green, Cottage Grove, March
28. Registration will begin at
8 a.m. and luncheon will be
served at noon. The meeting
will adjourn by 4:30 p.m
Members are to call Mrs. Ed
mund Hass, 772-8273, for in
formation or reservations on
cither meeting before Mon
day. To make ribbons look like
new after washing, starch
them with a diluted mixture
of starch and wrap them
around a clean drinking glass
to dry
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Women's
School Lunch
Program Cooks
To Attend Meet
Fifteen school lunch1 pro
gram cooks from Medford
plan to attend , the' Oregon
School Food Service associa
tion conference to be held
March 21 and 22 in Salem. In
cluded will be Mrs. Virginia
Wait, school lunch coordina
tor for Medford schools, and
Mrs. Frank Craig, president
of the Medford School Food
Service association,. '
Various" other county
schools also will be represent
ed at the conference.
The meetings will be held
in the South Senior High
school. Speakers will include
Philip Lovejoy, world travel
or and educator from Ormand
Beach, Fla., and Miss Carolyn
Cason, director of food serv
ice at Rice university, Hous
ton, Tex. Section meetings,
demonstrations and a Polynes
ian luau are also planned.
President of the group
which includes 652 state
members is Mrs. Garnet Dra
per, Eugene.
Anniversary
Dinner Set
The Relief society of the
Church of Jesus Christ , of
Latter-day Saints, is holdinr a
121st anniversary dance Fri
day, March 15,. in the cul
tural hall of the church, 648
South Ivy street; ,
Theme for the " event will
be an Italian .sidewalk cafe.
Dinner will be served at 7
p.m. with dancing to start at
9 p.m. The Armstrong orches
tra of Grants Pass will pro
vide the music.
The event is for adults only,
it was noted.
Medford Woman ,
Honored at Ruch
Applegate Valley - Mrs.
Donald Rasor, Medford, was
honored at a layette shower
March-12 given by women of
the Missionary' . society of
Ruch Community church. The
event was held at the church.
Devotions were led by Mrs.
Phillip Lewis and a vocal
quartet was given by mem
bers of Mrs. Rasor's Sunday
school class. Members of the
quartet were the Misses Judy
Best, Linda Hackworth, Don
na Main and Retha Sample.
Other members of the class
also attended. Twenty-nine
women attended.
To Meet
The Epsilon chapter of the
Delta Kappa Gamma society
will meet Saturday, March
16, at the Girls' Community
club at 2 p.m. Mabel Hundley
will show pictures of Russian
schools.
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Thursday)
6 p.m; - Table Rock en
campment, IOOF lodge, at
lodge hall..
8 p.m. - Jackson County
Medical assistants, Girls Com
munity club.
8 p.m.-Past Noble Grands
club of Olive Rebekah lodge,
Girls Community club. .
n.m.-Reames chapter, Or
der of Eastern Star, Masonic
temple.
Unit Announces
Festival Plans;
Lesson Slated
Lake Creek Members of
the Lake Creek Extension
unit will be in charge of reg
istering attendance for the
annual Spring Festival pre
sented by the Jackson county
extension units, it was an
nounced at a recent meeting
of the unit. The group also
will display mosaic articles at
the festival. ' . '
The recent meeting was
held in the home of Mrs. Ed
mond Armitage. Mrs. Carl
Vickoren spoke regarding car
seat belts and Mrs. Armitage
reported on 4-H clubs of the
area.
Mrs. Leland M. Charley,
chairman, appointed Mrs. Ted
Bloomberg, Mrs. Vickoren
and Mrs. Ira Woolfolk on the
nominating committee. "
A kaffeeklatsch and lesson
will be held on March 20 at 1
p.m., in the home of Mrs. Vir
ginia Bruce.. Miss Joan Beas
ley will be a guest of the unit
and conduct the lesson.
Mrs. John Benson conduct
ed the lesson on wills and
estates. Guests were two
member of the Derby unit,
Mrs. Floyd Burg, chairman,
and Mrs. John Terrill.
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Applegate Unit
Completes Series
On Widowhood
Applegate - Mrs. Roberta
Frazier, family life specialist
of Oregon State university
spolce to the Applagate home
extension unit recently
through a series of record
ings on "When Widowhood
Comes," earlier recorded by
Mrs. Frazier.
The recordings were done
in f our parts and the group'
discussed each part as it was
presented.'
Among suggestions given
by the specialist were to
know the problems faced
when left alone to be better
able to cope with them; to
strengthen religious back
grounds as an aid in the ad
justment to bereavement; to
work in community projects;
perhaps acquire a pet, and to
know the family financial sta
tus and how to balance books.
-The last meeting of the
group was held recently in
the home of Mrs. Lester Rich
on Thompson creek. Mrs.
Howard Piete presented the
lesson.
Sister Speaks
For Musicians
Sister Miriam Joseph spoke
on the works of C. P. E. Bach
and J. Bach, sons of Johann
S. Bach during a meeting of
the Oregon Music Teachers
association March 11. The
session was held in the St.
Mary's school activity room.
Pupils of the sisters at the
school illustrated the various
types of composition. Dem
onstrating were' Signe lusk
Charlotte Brown, John Stong
and Cheri Aldrich.
Mrs. Darell Huson, presi
dent, appointed a nominating
committee to present a slate
of officers for the April elec
tion.
Canadian Guest
In Applegate
Applegate - Mrs. Eva Allen
Mundee, Toronto, Canada,
spent the past week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Lorsung. Mrs. Mundee is a
former Grants Pass resident.
She and Mrs. Lorsung attend
ed school there together.
The group visited friends
In Medford and drove through
the Rogue valley noting many
changes since Mrs. Mundee
had lived here 40 years ago.
Medford Couple
Visits Valley
Illinois Valley - Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Brown and fam
ily had as week end visitors
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Taylor,
Medford. The Taylors were ac-
companied by their house-
guests, Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Roughton, Urbana, III.,
who are making an extended
stay in Medford. Mrs. Taylor
and Mr. Roughton are broth
er and sister.
The Kenneth Browns are i
son-in-law and daughter of the
Annual SOPEX Exhibit
Planned by Stamp Club
Lone range plans and the
third annual exhibit of the
Southern Oregon Philatelic
society were made at their
March 11 meeting in the home
of Mrs. Irene Cordier, 2584
Lucky lane.
The annual SOPEX '63 ex
hibit is set for September 21
and 22 with Dr. W. B. Giles as
exhibition chairman. Tenta
tive plans include an exhibit I
also from a foreign country
and the institution of a rotat
ing award for the best in
show award.
A review of the member
ship classifications under the
new constitution and by-laws
was made. For the first time
the club has a membership
open for young pepole from
ages 12 through 17, as junior
members, and anyone in this
age group interested in join
ing is invited to attend any
meeting.
Several members of the so
ciety are planning to enter
exhibits in the Talent Hobby
show, Saturday, March 16,
and Dr. Giles was appointed
club judges to aid the com
mittees in awarding prizes to
the philatelic exhibits. Mem
bers were also reminded to
have their exhibits at the
show room not later than 11
a.m. Saturday.
The program committee re
Delta Gammas Schedule
Luncheon, Installation
The Rogue Valley Alumnae
chapter of Delta Gamma has
scheduled its Founders day
luncheon and installation of
officers for Saturday, March
16 in the home of Mrs. W. S.
Cobb, 42 South Barneburg
road. A planned covered dish
luncheon will be served.
Those who attend should
make reservations with Mrs.
Cobb, telephone 773-6429.
All - Delta Gamma mem
bers in the area are invited
to the luncheon meeting.
Transportation arrangements
may be made by calling Mrs.
T. J. Tinsley, telephone 773
4834, or Mrs. Archer Watson,
telephone 773-4436. -
New chapter officers are
Mrs. Kenneth Bartlett, presi
dent; Mrs. George Hammond,
vice president; Mrs. Charles
Martin, secretary; Mrs. Rob
ert Venter, treasurer; Mrs. W.
S. Cobb, public relations
chairman; Mrs. Sanf ord
Bishop, Pah Hellenic repre
sentative, and Mrs. Tinsley,
city recommendations chair
man. A commemorative service
will
be held to honor the
ira. nf iVta f m i rH orb s-if
memory of the founders of
the fraternity and other late
Delta Gamma members.
Members are to take birth
day pennies for the Interna
tional Student Scholarship
fund, officers stated. The in-
Fifty Plus Club
Plans Program
A program oi entertain
ment with readings on St.
Patrick's day is planned by
Medford Fifty Plus club mem
bers for their Friday, March
15 meeting. The group meets
in St. Mark's Episcopal
church Guild hall on the cor
ner of Fifth street and North
Oakdale avenue.
A sack lunch will be served
at 12:30 p.m.
Cards, games and dancing
also are on the program.
All .interested persons are
invited.
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Card Party
Get Together club will hold
public card party at the
Girls Community club Friday,
March 15, at 1 p.m. Dessert
will be followed by cards.
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ported that the April meeting
of the club would feature a
set of slides from the Amer
ican Topical association, "Re
ligion on Stamps", and urged
members who have a collec
tion of this type to bring it to
show the members.
The March society meeting
was a social evening, with a
stamp auction and swapping
of stamps. On display were
several frames of stamps by
Mrs. Adolph Sterton, Dr.
Giles and Mrs. Milton Schu
hard. . .
Mrs. Schuhard's collection
featured stamps of the Unit
ed States and foreign coun
tries issued to honor the Con
stitution of the United States
in 1938 on its 150th annivers
ary. Dr. Giles presented two
frames showing the inflation
ary issues of Germany after
World War I. Mrs. Sterton's
collection featured stamps of
many countries, with a story
behind the issuance of each
one.
Mrs. Edward Leach also
asked the society if they
would furnish judges for the
philatelic exhibits at the
Camp White Hobby show, to
be held on Saturday and
Sunday, April 20 and 21.
Refreshments were served
by Mrs. Cordier, Mrs. Robert
Guthrie, and Edward Butcher.
gathering is to occur at future
Founders day meetings rather
than each regular meeting as
in the past, they added.
Mrs. Tinsley, who is the
retiring president, and Mrs.
Bartlett, the president-elect,
will speak on highlights of a
recent meeting of the Oregon
coordinating committee of
lumnae chapters held in
February in Portland.
St. Patrick
Event Chairmen
Are Announced
A feature of the annual St.
Patrick's day ham dinner
Sunday, March 17 from 12
noon to 5 p.m., will be a
choice of homemade pies.
These will be wheeled about
on tea carts among the din
ers so they may make their
choices, cbchairmen, Mrs.
Everett Gosch and Mrs. Je
rome F. Hunter, have an
nounced. The event will be
held at St. Mary's Grade
school.
Working with Mrs. Gosch
n preparing ;the. dinner are
1 n tth t-i i l k a -n
Mrs. Fritz Betchart, Mrs. Don
ald Grosch, Mrs. Cecil Read,
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Fricl, Mrs,
Robert Ashenberner, Mrs,
John Hockstettcr, Mrs. Ted
Marcisz and Mrs. Jack Batzer.
Assisting Mrs. Hunter in
the dining room are Mrs. Ed
ward J. Guldan, who will su
pervise the hostess and serv
ing committees, and Mrs.
Thomas Gass, Mrs. Gene Hcb
rand and Mrs. Clarence Hil
debrand, who are in charge of
decorations. Mrs. Alberta
Hass is in charge of cashiers
and Mrs. Dan Hull is publicity
chairman.
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Weatonka Council
Plans Cake Walk :
A cake walk will be con
ducted following the meeting
of Weatonka council, Degree
of Pocahontas lodge Friday,
March 15 at 8 p.m., in Red
man hall on Apple street.
Members are to take cakes for
the event.
Refreshments will be served
by Mrs. Charles Dooms, Mrs.
Ruby Hicks and Mrs. Virginia
Wicker.
In spite of the fact that our
home don't look like it, we're really neat and orderly by
nature. It's just that we don't have time to work at It. if we
had more time (we keep saying) we wouldn't have to snonH
so much of it looking for things that we want and need.
On the other hand, every
we hunt for one thing, we
Just today when we were delving In the depths of our big
hDnknl, in fin.4 " . i..: :
a.iuuDA wj 4iu aumc cAua nonplus, we came upon an ear
ring which had been "lost" for the last couple of weeks.
When we went looking in the pockets of our heavy wool
jacket for soiled hankies to go in the wash, we found the
colored glasses which had been "lost" since the Sunday we
went driving up Prospect way earlier this spring, and only
last week we came upon a pamphlet about trees which be
longs to Wallace Robinson while we were hunting for a
packet of greeting cards. We never did find the cards. If
Mr. Robinson can wait another
of the two or three years he's
tne pampniet.
And so it was last night.
ping about Civil Defense, and instead came upon a copy
of the Manchester Guardian with an article which we had
saved because it seemed unusually challenging. Therefore
this column, which started out to concern Civil Defense,
about which we've learned a lot in recent days, is going to
be about the Christian religion.
The article, printed in the
of The Guardian, and entitled
Monica runong, about whom we know nothing. She wrote;
The best thing about being a Christian at the moment is
that organized religion has collapsed. I know, of course, that
the Vatican Council meets, that in churches and chaDels ud
and down the land people still
splendid tarce ot established religion still continues, and that
the Mothers' Union continues unabashed.
I am deeply involved in
an overwhelming debt and am only brash enough to scoff at
it 90 per cent of the time. But for those who have ears to
hear and lips to tell, it is common knowledge that the foun
dations have shivered, that there are cracks a mile wide in
the walls, that the hot ashes
piety, and tnat tne lava is curling about our sacred objects.
Lnacun a son gout, of course, but I cannot imagine a more
enjoyable time to be a Christian, except possibly in the first
few centuries of the Church. For while the great holocaust
is sweeping away much that is beautiful and all that is safe
and comfortable and unquestioned, it is relieving us of the
methods of Christian bric-a-brac as well, and the liberation
is unspeakable. Stripped of our nonsense wc may almost be
like the early Christians painting their primitive symbols
on the walls of the catacombs - the Fish, the grapes, the
loaves of bread, the cross, the monogram of Christ. - confi
dent that in having done so they had described the neces
sities of Hie.
And before every religious
to me abusing the Church or the churches, and hailing me
as a long-lost sister, let me quickly add that I am not advo
cating do-it-yourself religion, and I don't believe you are
nearer to God in a garden, and that the clergy are not (neces
sarily) a lot of wicked old men.
What has happened is
wide open by much that is new and brave in human thought
most notably by science
instruments which are old and
political pressure. Within the
there is dust and emptiness
derful, breath-catching thing
their faith is the teasing thing Saint Peter himself had to
learn at Joseph of Arlmathaca's tomb. The truth la not safely
mouldering In the grave, but is marching on as valiantly
as ever. God, one suspects. Is a great practical Joker.
The new catch-phrase-, In.
"Christianity without religion." Nobody ye knows exactly
what it means or into what
who try to make sense of it.
all the denominations there Is a new mutation or cnnstian
(as yet only faintly discernible from the inert mass) who is
willing and eager to question
bored to death with the old
thA errant hrrd of jtacred cows,
able either his mind or his
On the one hand he demands
being professional moralists, uttering' windy useless plati
tudes to indifferent hordes of semi-believers; on the other
hand he talks (the phrase is Dietrich Bonhocffer's) of "find
ing Christ in the centre of life." This way for my money,
evolution lies. ' ' '
We'll get around to Civil
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"Out of the Depths," is by
meet to worship God, that the
formal religion myself, owe it
are falling like rain upon our
crank in the country writes
that religion has been cracked
and psychology as. well as by
ugly, such as persecution and
dingy sarcophagus of piety
and death. But the risible, won
Christians have to grasp about
intelligent Christian quarters
deep waters it may sweep those
What seems clear is that within
every item of his faith, who is
cliches, the old humbug, and
and who believes that to dis
senses is to dishonour Christ.
that Christians should give up
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Officials
Are Guests
Dr. A r t h u r Flemmlng,
president of the University of
Oregon, Mrs. Flemmlng; Lea
Casanova, football coach at
the university, and LeRoy
Klemm, a professor there,
were guests at the Initial
meeting of the Rogue Valley
University of Oregon Alumni
association held last week in
North's Chuck Wagon res
taurant. Dr. Edward R. Durno was
master of ceremonies.
Mr. Klemm, the evening's
speaker, had for his subject
the pure research concerning
the develoment of cancer and
the chemicals that will cure
cancer. A social hour preced
ed the dinner meeting.
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Farewell Party
Honors Woman;
Now in Salem
Central Point - Mrs. Don
Braund, former owner of
Pauline's Dress Shop in Cen
tral Point, left Sunday for
Salem vhere she and Mr.
Braund will make their home.
He is a state employee there.
' Mrs. Braund was guest of
honor at a going away party
given March 7 at Melba's cafe.
Mrs. Melba Donner was host
ess. Twenty-two guests at
tended. Mrs. Keith Williams Is the :
new owner of the dress shop.
She took over the. operation
of the store March 11.
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Cancel Dance
Derby-The dance original-'
ly scheduled by Derby Hoe
downers club for Saturday,
March 16 has been cancelled
because of the Southern Ore
gon Square Up session to be
held during the week end at
Southern Oregon college in
Ashland. '
The next regular dance for
the club Will be on the first
Saturday In April.
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Shady Cove Club
Meets Tonight '
bnady cove Officers of
the Men's and Ladies' club of -the
Lady of Fatima-Catholic
church in Shady Cove will be
installed this evening In the
parish hall.
A potluck dinner will be .
served at 7 p.m. All interested
adults are invited. .
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