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6 A MONDAY. JULY 8. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORD. OREGON Social Events Women's News MOT fcitfftia'iW'lliiiMiaiilil ' Three member! of Southern Oregon So ciety ol Artlili, who with othen of the group, ere making lut minute preparation! lor She annual Greenwich Village art ihow. Shown (left to right) are Mri. Emil C. Xnution and Mri. R. M. Mole, publicity chairmen, and Mri. Ralph Hixon, general . chairman in charge of brochurei. The ex hibit will be held Saturday, July 13 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., in the library park on Weit Main ilreet. Two viiiling groupi will take part xhli year, the Medford Senior Ac tivity center and the Proipect Art club. Other ihow chairmen are William Walwyn, banner; Mri. Keith Francii, hoiien; George Johnson, name platei: Mri. Elisabeth Shef field, beretit Mri. Tommy Griiiom, voting boxen and Mri. Victor Lentil, Mri. Leonard Andrew!, Mri. Lucille Jackson and Mri. Richard Malum, picture iiilei. Trinity Noons Schedule Listed For 1963 Season in Ashland Ashland A full slate of readings, lectures, and criti cism is scheduled for the 1963 series of Trinity Noons, sponsored by the Institute of Renaissance Studies', affiliate of the Oregon Shakespearean festival, i Actor Philip Hanson directs this year's series of readings, scheduled for noon each Tues day at Trinity House, 44 North North Second, across from Second street, across from the Ashland post office. Mr. Hanson offered to plan and upervise the annual Trinity Noon schedule following the leecnt death of Dr. Margery Bailey, institute director. The 1003 activities will be gin July 30, with appearances by Festival Producing Direc tor Angus L. Bowmer and actor Tom Vail. Mr. Bowmer will present Francis Bacon's essay. "Of the True ureat- ness of Kingdom's," and Mr. Vail will read from Thomas Dekker's "How a Gallant Should Behave Himself in a Playhouse." The August 6 program will feature selections from George Bernard Shaw's Criticisms of Shakespearean Performances, read by Robert Loper, direc tor of this season s produc tion of "Romeo and Juliet." Poems and Letters On August 13, actor Rich ard Graham will present poems and letters of Sir Walt er Raleigh. Mr. Graham is In Ashland tor his twelfth Ash land season, following four year's absence for work in New York. Two Tales from Geoffrey Chaucer s "Canterbury Tales " Rejuvenate your lovely summer dresses at NU-WAY'S COTTON CLINIC Whites come white, colon toy bright. Trim and drape ounty ai new. e Exclusive Sonitone Style-Set finish keeps fabric tissue-crisp, e No home-ironed thine, no starchy stiffness. Yes, your best cottons deserve this complete prolttiional fabric care . . . it's so much more than just drycleaning. Stop In or call today! Famous Fashion House recommends th Stnitono Dry Cltanlns process Phone 772-9169 for Fre Pick-up and Delivery & 601 East Main irk Free) at the Door H. D. CHRISTENSEN will be read on August 20 by Director Edward Brubak er. Brubaker stages "Merry Wives of Windsor" for the 1963 Festival company. Director Jerry Turner and actor Stacy Keach will appear on August 27, presenting se lections from Holinshed's Chronicles of Henry the Fifth. Turner directs the 1963 staging of Shakespeare's play, and Keach will be seen In the title role of "Henry the Fifth."- September 3 will feature actress Miss Elizabeth Hud dle and director Rod Alexan- d e r reading Shakespeare's sonnets, "The Passionate Pil grim" and "A Lover's Com plaint." Miss Huddle is ap- pcartng this year In her third Ashland season. Mr. Alexan der directs "Love's Labour's Lost." Climaxing the 1963 season of Trinity Noons, on Septem ber 6, will be an evaluation and summary of the Festival's current and 23rd season. Par ticipants in the critique will be announced. At the conclusion of each Trinity Noon program, coffee will be served by Beta Sigma Phi for the benefit of actor's scholarship funds. Drapery Making Directions Are Available corvalils summer s a good time to replace faded draperies in children's rooms, or give kitchen windows a spiffy new treatment. "Spe cials" on drapery fabrics plus a new Oregon State Univer sity extension circular can help the most Inexperienced seamstress with drapery mak-. Ing. The new circular "Make Your Own Draperies" helps the shopper select appropri ate fabrics, figure yardage required, and construction techniques for both lined and unllned draperies. Author Evelyn Funk, an OSU state extension agent, hv eludes step-by-step diagrams for the drapery making pro cess including tricky french pleats. Miss Funk was for merly home furnishings spe cialist at Oklahoma State university. The last few pages of the circular are devoted to drap ery hardware. Miss Funk shows some of the books on the market and suggests how they be used. She nlso dis cusses drapery and weight ing shots used to make cor ners hang evenly. Copies of the new publica tion may be obtained from county extension offices or from the OSU bulletin clerk. Group Sponsors Italian Girl Y r e k a Rotaryanns of Yrcka decided to continue with the foster child program next year, at a recent meeting held at the Ernest Johnson home. This group sponsors an Ital ian girl In Foggla, Italy, send ing money, gifts and letters. A Christmas box is being planned for her. Mrs. Tom Preece li In charge of sending gifts and letters from the club. Lander, Wyo. In three days the Road Runner has brought us some 1,200 miles and in that time we've passed through some of the most magnificent scenery imaginaDie The literature says that Wyoming and the Grand Tetons cannot be surpassed, in the united states, at least, lor grandeur and we certainly would not argue against the state ment. This series of mountain peaks tower some 7,000 leet above Jackson Hole Grand Teton peak is more than 13,000 feet. In the surrounding area are lesser mountains and peaks, many snow-covered, richly forested slopes and green meadows filled with wild flowers. Everything is on such a grand scale that sometimes it seems almost unreal we had tne sensa tion that if we returned tomorrow, it would be gone entirely or else somehow reduced to a scale that mere man could better comprehend. For vears we wondered what travelers meant when they talked about Jackson Hole. It seems that the early explorers and settlers in the west referred to the territory Deiween two mountain ranges as a "hole" and so Jackson Hole Is simply the low area between the Grand Tetons and the Gros Ventre range of mountains. Gros Ventre (Grow Vont) is French for "great belly, someone naving namea me moun tain after the bis-bellied Indians in the area. One of the great scenic delights of the Teton National forest and the Grand Teton National park is the Snake river, which has its origin in the region. The river winds through the valleys, now here now there, and U a source of great pleasure to those who like to go boating or fishing. At one vista point this morning we saw seven craft some canoes and some rubber raft-type floating along over one of the rtlacid bends. When we breakfasted at Alpine Village, one of the guides was at the counter and he talked of the daily trips down stream. When Potpourri regretfully said that such a trip was probably too much for this traveler, he Insisted that "every one floats down the Snake." We took this with a grain of salt, the same as his statement that bears in Yellowstone are perfectly safe. Especially when he described how he once fed two cubs jelly beans and coaxed them to crawl up his pant legs so a photographer could take pictures, only to have mama bear come along and swipe at him taking most of the trouser material away in her claws. The guide went on to sav that some people have no sense about bears and told how he once saw a couple encouraging their two small chil dren to try to ride on the back of a cub bear much the same as they would a large dog or pony. In this instance he said the mother bear was Indifferent and paid no attention to the capers. One of the most breath-taking sights In Grand Teton park Is Jackson lake, a large body of water of about 25,000 acres, with the Tetons as a backdrop. It was while on the Jackson and Jenny lake tours that we began to see what the Sunset magazine writer meant by bumper-to-bumper driving. It was literally that and when the signs read "Congested area drive slowly" the cars are parked row on row in a solid mass. There are many viewpoints arranged along the highways and at every one there are cars and tourists taking pictures with every conceivable sort of camera. At some spots the cameramen even get in each other s way. One young man aiming at Grand Teton peak yesterday said "move over, pop, I'm trying to take a picture of the" mountains, not you." Whether he was addressing his own father or a stranger we'll never know. Thank heaven, and the government, for our national park system. They are well run, so far as we can determine, and give the travel-hungry, recreation-bound American a chance to see the wonders of his own country. Yesterday we watched a small herd of bison, including a couple of young ones, feed ing in a meadow near Oxbow Bend, and earlier in the day We had passed a meadow in Jackson Hole where elk grazed. Pappy had hoped we would see at least one moose, but no luck. Wild flowers are everywhere. The rosy-pink wild gerani um, yellow mule ears and sunflowers are abundant and many roadside banks are covered with blue and red penstemon. When we left the Teton park and entered Togwatee National Forest the roadsides were covered with masses of dandelions. These aren't even classified as wild flowers nothing bat a common weed, but nevertheless the sight was beautiful. In this park one crosses the Continental divide. The pass Is about 10,000 feet high and at the summit a big sign explains that to the west is the Pacific watershed and to the east the Atlantic watershed. Somehow or the other this impressed us greatly and Pappy, always informed about such matters, promptly gave a little lecture about the divide and its mean ing. At this point the Wind river begins as a tiny stream and we followed its course with interest as many other streams flow into it and it becomes larger and larger. The map shows that It turns north at Riverton, flows into Montana, eventu ally joins the Missouri which in turn flows into the Missis sippi. This stretches the imagination. We are enjoying Wyoming's rivers, mountains and lakes very much - at one point as we drove along Highway 26 yes terday more than half of the horizon showed snow-capped mountains, which to us is remarkable. But the settlements. such as Jackson in the park, are pretty tawdry, especially ai nigni wuti ineir "ersatz- pioneer buildings, blazing neons ana urigntiy ngntea shops, many offering cheap merchandise. Pappy was a bit disappointed to find that even at the museum there were trays of arrowheads for sale never made by an inuitin. Shopkeepers, who must do a year's business in about three months, are pretty weary by the end of the day and must come to practically hate the tourists who provide their Income. Walking along one of the board sidewalks In Jackson at closing time we heard one man say to another, as he locked the front door, "Well, only 61 more days of this!" O.S. Rawlins, Wyo. - Driving across Wvomln tndnv wo began to appreciate what the pioneers did when they settled the West. For years we've been hearing about those "who crossca tne plains'- but all ol a sudden the full magnitude oi wiibi iney am was impressed on us. As the Rnnrf Bun. ncr swiftly covered mile after mile of Wyoming territory, wo luuuwEd our progress on a map oi the state which noted the route of the old Oregon Trail. The two of us talked about how little train would have covered in a day, of what manner the pioneers bound for Oregon and other far western trriir carried supplies of food, water, clothing and other necessi ties and how tortuous the trips must actually have been. Since wagon trains could go no faster than animals and humans could walk, only a few miles progress was made each day. If someone was taken 111, what medicines would there have been? How did pioneer mother manage to keep herself and her family fed, clothed and clean-this last we decided must have been quite Impossible, at least for cer tain portions of the Journey. As we stood reading the various historical markers, beating off the swarms of mos quitoes all the while, we decided that these horrible little insects must have made life miserable for the slow-moving travelers. Indeed, one marker at Ice Slough mentions that at least one pioneer man took Ice from the slough (the ice was protected by a layer of bog) to make himself juleps which helped him forget the torment of the "mosquit" bites. What prompted those people to make the terrible Jour ney? Somehow we doubt that anyone was fired with a great ambition to settle the west, or that many had a great and wonderful vision. Possibly the missionaries did, but others must have just been hopeful that somehow life would be better in the Oregon territory than it was back In New York, or North Carolina or Ohio. The two of us made numerous stops today between Lan der and Rawlins. We noted big Split Rock, a landmark used by the explorers and early settlers, and not far out of Lander an Oregon Trail crossing over the Sulphur river is noted on the map. A few miles beyond we stopped to read about Capt. Edward Martin who led a band of Mor mons from England west in 1856. For some reason or the other this party of men, women and children had no horses or oxen, they walked the entire distance (to Utah one supposes) pushing carts. The marker states that 576 started but because the carts were poorly made, because some of the group were elderly persons and children, and because of an early winter, about 160 died en route. The marker is at Martin's Cove- on the Sweetwater river, where the deep snow finally trapped them. At Devil's Gate, a cleft in a rock dike through which the river runs, three interesting markers are located. One notes the Oregon Trail of 1841, another is dedicated "To the pioneers of 1830-1870 burled at that point on the Tom Sun ranch" and was erected by the Oregon Trail Memorial association. The third was of particular interest to Potpourri because it read "In honor of pioneer women buried here in unmarked graves, 1836-1870" and was placed there by the Business and Professional Women's club of Casper. Still standing are some very old, small buildings, and newer ranch buildings, as well as a new, modern ranch type home on the slope overlooking the spot. Pappy took pictures while we used the field glasses on the opening in the rock wall, wishing there was a path or trail over to the river and rocks. We tarried quite some time at Independence Rock. This landmark and historical spot were not new to Pappy, who has read a great deal of Western history, but was completely new to his spouse. The rock itself is a huge outcropping of igneous material like a big inverted bowl. One of the nu merous markers now attached to the rock at one point (and belatedly protected from vandals by a high fence) says that it was probably discovered by- the Astorians in 1812 and that eventually It was given the name Independence Rock by a party of emigrants who celebrated the Fourth of July there in 1825. The rock was then used by various persons traveling along the Oregon Trail - it is presumed that they scratched messages for those who might pass that way, or those with a sense of history may have lettered their names on its surface. Weather, time and the growth of lichens have mostly erased the early writings. Seven or eight metal tablets are now grouped together behind the protective fence. One bears a likeness of Jason Lee, early-day Methodist missionary, and another was placed there in memory of Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, first white woman in Wyoming, and Eliza Hart Spalding, first woman over the Oregon Trail (1835). Both the big wooden marker at the site and a smaller metal one notes that pioneer Masons held the first lodge meeting in Wyoming at that spot on July 4, 1862. In 1840, Father De Smet gave the rock the title of "Register of the Desert" because of the messages and names written on it. Since July 4 has come to mean only a day to go on a picnic or quit work early to work in the garden, this reporter was pleased to learn a little more western U. S. history on July 3, latjj. And regardless of their motives, how glad we are that the west was settled and that we are privileged to live here. -O. S. Calendar Calendar notlct ana ntwi for the aoclety section o( The Mali Tribune muit be lubmitted in wrlttne and deadline tor the Sun day edltlun la 1 p.m. Friday Cead line for the weekly calendar la 9 a.ra of the oay of publication and for wees day newt la 5 P-m. the day before publication- Monday 8 p.m. - Neighbors of .Woodcraft, Eagles hall. Tueiday 10 a.m. - League of Wom en Voters, social room, Med ford and Jackson county pub lic library. 1 p.m. - Women's Fellow ship of the First Baptist church, Girls Community club. Visit Mother Ashland - Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Busse and four chil dren of Grand Rapids, Mich. spent last week visiting Mrs. Busse's mother, Mrs. Hazel O'Brien, and her aunt, Mrs. Alice Willits, 129 Almond street. They returned east by way of California. -4 Fellowship To Meet In Community Club Women's Fellowship of First Baptist church officers have announced that the group will meet Tuesday, July 9 at 1 p.m. in the Girls Community club instead of the new church building as previously announced. "Send Us Help in Italy" will be the missionary program topic. 4 RNA Lodge Will Meet Royal Neighbors of Amer ica will meet Wednesday, July 10 at 8 p.m., in the Py thian building, corner of Fifth and Grape streets. 1953 Graduates Plan Reunion, Some of the members of. the 1953 Medford High school graduating class have not been contacted in reference to the group's tenth anniversary reunion set for Saturday, July 13, those in charge an nounced. Class members who have not been contacted or friends who may know where mem bers are located are invited to call Mrs. Loren Soderlund, 773-3229. The reunion banquet and festivities will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Rogue Valley Country club. Tickets for the event may be purcnasea at. the club the evening of the party. All members of the class whether graduates or not are invited. Yreka Pythians Plan Potluck Wednesday Yreka A potluck dinner will be held at the next meet ing of Aurora temple, Pyth ian Sisters and Knights of Pythias. The dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, at the home of Mrs. Hugh Welsh, 417 West Miner street. Theme for the last meeting of the order was "A Night in Reno." Tables were decorated in keeping with the theme. Driftwood and flower ar rangements served as prizes for games. To conclude the evening, Mrs. Ernest Johnson showed slides of the 1963 Portland Rose festival parade. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Earl Fiock and Mrs. Norman jmock. CHLiDR EN'S POIrfTlAOT Photos Taken by an Artist Photographer From Portland's Famous "Jack and Jill" Studio SKILLED . . . DEPENDABLE . . . BONDED HOII.-TUES.-WED. Mantel Size ... 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