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MONDAY. JULY 8. 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORD. OREGON
Social Events Women's News
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' 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 "
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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.
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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.
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