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Study Glub Installs Officers Ashland - The luncheon meeting of Fortnightly Study club held last week at the Prospect avenue home of Mrs. Herbert E. Specht marked the close of the club year and the installation of new officers. Garden flowers and a Ha waiian decorative theme combined with spectacular valley and mountain views made the day a memorable one. Assisting Mrs. Specht as hostesses were Mrs. Frank Davis, Mrs. Raymond Lininger and Mrs. Oscar F. Silver. Mrs. Alice Willits conducted the business session preceding the installation and the afternoon program. Serving as Fortnightly club president for the ensuing year will be Mrs. Specht. Other officers installed were Mrs. William Beagle, vice presi dent and Mrs. P. Malcolm Hammond, secretary-treasurer. The 1963-64 committees will include Mrs. Ruth King, Mrs. R. L. Crosby and Mrs. S. J. Bailey, program; Mrs. Silver and Mrs. M. P. Dunn, membership, and Mrs. Herbert Lewis, publicity. Rachel Carson's controver sial book "Silent Spring," was reviewed by Mrs. Frances Worth, reading the report sent by Mrs. Melvin Yates who was out of town. Best Seller The biologist-author spent more than four years doing research and collecting data for the appalling material con tained in this book that has become not only a best seller nut a focal point for investiga tion. She claims the wide spread use of deadly chemical pesticides has defeated its purpose by unbalancing nat ural control. However Miss Carson presents a positive viewpoint in advocating non chemical insecticides and greater public care in their ; use. ; The subject of Mrs. Lin i inger's half-hour topic was the i writings of a beloved Dr i A. W. Chase, who lived in Anr Arbor, Mich., during the last ; century. His notes and dis courses on medical, mechan leal and agricultural mic tions together with household information for "everybody" - is a rare and absorbing com 1 pilation for modern readers. A generous dash of nutmeg tastes good on cooked asparagus. MEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JUNE S. 1S63 A 9 L,. T K j Miss Judy Hueners, named an outstanding senior in clothing classes at Medlord High school, made this oat meal colored wool dress and jacket as a class project. Miss Hueners, an alternate for the Sears Foundation award and winner of an Future Home makers of American award, plans to enter Oregon State university in the fall to study home economics. (Knackslcdt photo) District Townsend Club Meeting Set; Picnic Planned The Mt. Pitt chapter of the Townsend club will be the host group to the next fourth district council meeting sched uled for July 14, officers of the chapter have announced. The group plans a picnic Sunday, June 9 in Hawthorne park when the members will pass on resolutions to be sent to the twenty-third national convention to be held July 1 through July 4 in Chicaeo, 111. For the 12 noon picnic lunch eon those who attend should take food contributions and table service. Peasant Embroidery Newest Trim Put fun into the fashions you create by adding the dis tinctive touch of peasant em broidery. A new method of applying trim, it's simple and easy to do, and offers endless possibilities for the woman who sews. Peasant embroidery is cre ated with a simple zigzag stitch across rows of cotton rickrack. Using cotton em broidery floss in a contrasting color, all you do Is run the needle in and out of a bit of fabric at each "V" in the rickrack, crossing the rick rack from side to side. The stitch secures the rickrack while creating an intricate looking design. Different Effects You'll be ama??d at the many different effects you can obtain with peasant em broidery. Equally attractive on solid colored fab-ics and checked cotton gingham, it can be applied to children's clothes, sports outfits, and daytime dresses. In addition, peasant embroidery is suitable for cafe curtains, tablecloths, pillowcases, and towels. Delicate or bold motifs can be created simply by varying colors of embroidery thread and rickrack and by alternat ing sizes of rickrack. For fine detail on infants' and toddlers' clothes, use dainty baby rickrack in white or a delicate pastel shade. Regular size rickrack will work well on anything from girls' dresses to cafe curtains, while big, bold, and colorful designs can be achieved by stitching over jumbo rickrack. Alternate rows of rickrack in varying sizes for still other effects. Variation Another variation results from combining rickrack with cotton bias tape. You can use quarter-inch double fold tape or single tape which comes in one-half or one-inch widths. Just place the rickrack over the tape and embroider it in place. Each combination creates a new trim effect. Have fun with this new idea, and create your own original designs for fashion with a flair! Visits Stones Prospect - Mrs. Daisy Ol I sen, Bker, Ore., is a guest of her dauBhter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Stone. Mrs. Olsen nhns to remain for sev eral wof.'is. Peasant embroidery lends country girl charm to these simple mother-and-daughter aprons of pink checkered cotton gingham. Cotton embroidery floss in shades of white, pink and rose is used in a running sigiag stitch over rose and white rickrack to create an intricate-looking design. Inslruc tions available from the National Cotton Council, P. O. Box 990S. Memphis. 12, Tenn. Couple Returns From Trip East Ashland Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Magness, 1132 Oak street, recently returned from a six-weeks cross country trip that took them to Washing ton, D.C. where they visited with Mr. Magness' sister, Miss Mina Magness. They spent some time in Annapolis and stopped at Niagara Falls. Re turning, they visited in Mis souri. They were accompanied west by Miss Magness who visited other relatives in Ore gon before coming to Ashland. Wenonah Club To Nominate Officers will be nominated at a meeting of Wenonah club of Weatonka council. Degree of Pocahontas, set for Thurs day, June 6. The session will begin at 10 a.m. in Redman hall on Apple street, and those attending will work on now regalia. A covered dish luncheon at noon will be followed by a business meeting. Keep washed celery in alu minum foil in the refrigerator to keep it crisp. Former Medford Resident Writes of Alaskan Camp Life in an isolated logging mp on an island off the coast of Alaska is described in a letter to The Mail Trib une from Mrs. Kenneth Brown, former Medford tesi- dent. The Browns were active in Crater Lake aerie and auxiliary, Fraternal Order of Eagles, while here. Mrs. Brown wrote; It took me much longer to get here than we originally expected. The three vcks dragged out into three and one-half months. I finally got here on Mothers day. Even then our house wasn't ready to move into so I stayed with another family for about 10 days. I ate at the cookhouse with Kenny. Then, our stove came and we moved in. None of my freight has arrived so I'm cooking with a borrowed ket tle and borrowed Dutch oven and gallon cans from the cookhouse. Our plumbing and wiring haven't come either so we carry water and use a gas lantern. The radio isn't here yet, so we don't even know what's going on anywhere but here. Twentieth century pioneers, I guess. But we like it. Kenny works six days a week, and Sundays are even busier, what with maybe re pairing a power saw, (that comes first) and working on the house. Our windows final ly came and yesterday he got the picture window in and two others Just nailed in until some lumber gets here from town so he can make frames Don't laugh at a picture win dow in a shack. When we get this all put together it will be nicer and more convenient than lots of houses I've seen in Oregon. Wonderful View We have a wonderful view. The camp is nt the head of Whitewater Ba which is about four miles long. It is off Chatham straits which is a part of the Inland passage We are 70 air miles from ! Juneau and about 23 air miles j from Sitka. We have had a lot of sunshiny days - not too warm, very seldom gets much above 60 degrees, if at all, but the nights have been pretty cool. We had frost early yes-1 terday morning. Today the sky is clear, clear blue, with a trace of fluffy clouds on the horizon. The water in the bay is a i tically tamed a family of ot- deep blue and of course it is ter. They are getting so tame lined with the green trees and , they get in the way of the overlooked by snow-capped logging. The cutting crew has Wedding Gift Dilemma Solved By Registry New York - OTIi - Tell one person what you want for a j wedding present and you can j bet you'll got no less than three of the same item - by the time the word spreads. And without telling any one, it's safe to assume you'll be gifted with half a dozen toasters andor coffee pots. Which way out of the gift dilemma? Check in at the wedding gift register)- center of de partment or Jewelry store. The service is designed to help the bride get what she wants and needs. Services differ from one store to another, but the Idea is this - when you become engaged, you visit the store's gift consultant and talk over your preferences in china, sil ver and glass. The constultant will make up a file card listing your pat tern choices, plus how many pieces of each you would like. Then when friends and rel atives ask you and your fam ily for gift ideas,' you sug gest that they talk to the gift consultant. She, in turn, keeps a running tab on what gifts have been bought for you through her service. Some stores have expand ed the gift registry service to include linens, appliances, accessories and. In some cases, homo furnishings. mountains. We're at sea level and those mountains aren t much more than high hills. Out in the bay a log raft i setting. waiting, till they get a couple more ready to take into town. And alongside it, is a barge with a house on it that got out here by mistake and now doesn't seem to have any place to go. On one side of the bay, right close to camp, a pair of bald eagles have a nest and it is interest ing to watch the parents swoop down, catch a trout and take it up to the babies On the other side, about one-fourth mile away is a small meadow. You can walk started to carry guns to work with them because of the bear. They don't think he will bother them when the saws are running but rather when they are walking in and out at lunch time. Of course, they are always out ahead of the rigging crew. This is Admiralty island and is supposed to have as many as 1000 bears on it. Need I say, we women don't go far from camp? There are twe other fam ilies here and the cook is a woman so we have a little so cial life. It usually consists of scrounging a cup of coffee and a hot cookie or doughnut from down the road and get to it. i the cook, or meeting to see but not me. I'm a coward. There is a big brown bear grazing out there several times a week and I'm close enough right where I am. The deer come down there to feed too and to play. Some times there will be six or seven of them. A flock of about 20 geese are over there a lot too. The other day one of the deer was teasing an old goose. Not hurting her. Just following her around. She must have a nest there because every once in a while she would turn on him and he would back up. and shortly would be follow ing her again. There is a mother mink that must have babies close by; she runs all over camp raiding garbage cans. Up at the dump, the men have prac- Newcomori In Prospect Prospect - Mr. and M r s James Gorum, Bakersfield Calif., and Miss Diane Sawyer are now making their home in Prospect. Mr. Gorum is employed by the Louis Biden Logging com puny. if we have any mail when a plane comes in, or "Gee, I'm all out of something, can you let have some until my gro cery order gets here?" Our groceries come out by plane. Just like before, fresh produce is sky-high. Of course, it was high in Eugene when I left. I paid $1 for two medium-sized heads of lettuce the other day. Potatoes wera high, 10 pounds for 08 cents; bread, 44 cents; mayonnaise is 79 cents; butter, 73 cents. Ev erything else is higher than down there but not excessive ly so. One of the women told me I could not afford fresh vege tables and I said I felt I had a right to what I wanted to eat. Well, I didn't mean to write a book. I hope you are all well. Remember me to Fcg. , And if you can find lime in your busy schedule drop me a line. You have no idea how wel come mail is. We even read each others home town pa pers, even though we don't know a soul mentioned. Keep your page going and I'll probably see you "when the work's all done this fall." wiM Medford .V.-X, .... 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