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t o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON News lirman Gives ising Report Jew Project ksonville - Committee for the recently Peter Britt Gardens I and Arts festival have Issessing the past season lutlining plans lor the leason. Since the 1963 was a new venture, problems which had not anticipated arose, but d most part, Jackson- residents interested in Itival apparently believe Liken as a whole the was a success. Donald Wendt, hous- liairman, states that nt the families who pro- I housing for the festi- husicians found their I friendly and entertain- hd the experience an le one. Some have ex a desire to continue rangemcnt for the next The musicians were mainly in Jackson- hut some were provided rnodations in Medford. I list of festival patrons lovided housing includ- Charles Walker, Mr. Ilrs. Vinson Vaughan, Mrs. Kenneth Allen, lid Mrs. Fred Edens, Id Mrs. Ronald McCay, Mrs. Wendt, Mr. and ohn Kcaveny, Mr. and H. Hocks, Mr. and talon Jordan, Mr. and lames Skog, Mr. and E. Reinking, Mrs. IStone Salyer, all Jack- Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Mr. and Mrs. John Ind Mr. and Mrs. Rob- Id, Medford. Representatives from schools in Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties attended the annual school luncheon workshop held in Medford Monday under the auspices of the Oregon School Food Service association. Mrs. Virginia M. Wait. Medford. (at left) presided over the general assembly which opened the sessions. Pictured with Mrs. Wait are (left to right) Mrs. Pauline Clark. Klamath Falls, president of the Klamath County chapter of the Oregon School Food Service association; Mrs. Darley Craig, pres ident of the Medford chapter; Mrs. Edith Ingram, president of the Una B. Inch chap ter, the Jackson county unit of the associa tion. One of the demonstrations given dur ing the day concerned decorating of cakes themed to special school days or observances. Manufacturer Visits Russia; Says Soviet Teachers Brilliant Fabrics Fashion York- IUPD - The in fabric form a ma- It of the warp and woof ncn's clothes for fall Inter. Iiany new materials are and so many familiar offbeat roles, a wo- I eds a fabric Beadcker the goes shopping for Intcrtime wardrobe. fabrics are lush and brushed, piled, twisted, shagged, looped, rip- Ind long-haired. Every- there is the three - di- Inal look of surface tcx- Il'he smooth finish, ex 1 the melton cloth, re- For fall and winter and cr present crepes, is In Weight ds are bulky looking Idem weaving methods Ithcm light in weight. Ivools are equally light, their deep piled sur O n e manufacturer ll that a combination Ivool coat and dress for weighed in at less h e pounds complete. rside Club Scheduled September master point for Riverside Bridge layers will be conduct- Idncsday, September 4, officials have an- ng the group s August lular play, 28 members ed. Richard Milestone and Kinncll scored first with loints in the north-south Other winners in Iosition were Mrs. H. iroy and Paul A. Hat- and Mrs. F. R. Baker Ilrs. C. C. Anderson, west winners were red Rchling and Mrs. IClifford, 103; Mrs. A. I: nd and Mrs. M. E. Lan- 90 and Roy Pruitt and lliouscn, 8fl'i. tnians uesti Cove - Mrs. L. H. and daughter, Shir- Oakland. Calif., are luosts of Mrs. Wolters Ir-in-law and sister, Mr. Ilrs. O. L. Williams, Cove. By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor Princeton, N.J.-(UPI)-A cre ative toy expert who has com pleted an around-the-world tour studying and gathering toys says he returned from the Soviet Un ion with one major impres sion. "The thing that b o t hered me was that their oay Pauley tea criers are brilliant, their toys are mis erable," said Frank Caplan, president of Creative p 1 a y things, Inc., the world's larg est supplier of toys aqd other playtime equipment for nurs ery and kindergarten schools. Caplan also is associate di rector of the Creative Play things Foundation, financed by his firm to do research in improving education m early childhood. Currently, the foundation is acting as consultant to a Harvard group of scientists who with a grant from the govern ment's National Science Foun dation are studying means of upgrading elementary educa tion. Caplan said he talked with planning committees in the Soviet Union - there is one for each republic - about toys and playground equipment, they exchanged catalogs, and "there is evidence they are trying to set some standards for school equipment." "Not Up To Par" "But all admitted that their toys are just not up to par, compared with those of the western world," said Caplan in an interview. He visited toy plants, stores, nurseries and kindergartens in Moscow and Kiev of the Soviet Union and Budapest in Hungary. There were two things in their favor in toys, Caplan said. One, their folk toys are of high quality even though their "modern ones are miser able," and two, they at least give a child a chance to ex ercise his own creativity with children's world" in Mos cow where children can pur chase the makings of a toy. 'Maybe it's nothing more than a piece of wood, a motor, a wire, some string," he said, "but they're there for the imaginative child. No blue prints or model-making kits as in this country which a child can put together in two minutes and the toy is done." Caplan complained about some U.S. toys too "unfor tunately," he said, "too many manufacturers are thinking Ashland Announcer Speaks in O'Brien O'Brien - Mr. and Mrs. Charles MoFarlan and their son, Ashland, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hilton. Sunday. Mr. McFarlan, a ra dio announcer, was a guest speaker at the First Baptist church of O'Brien. Big Dogs Gain In Popularity, Poll Shows Chicago - (UPI) - There are signs that large dogs, after be ing rejected the past few years in favor of apartment sized canines, are staging a comeback. Tne German shepherd, on the tasis of a 13 per cent gain, displaced the poodle during th'- past year as the most ex hibited dog in championship competition, according to a poll. The increasing popularity of big city "K-9 corps" and other factors connected with protection of life and prop erty combined to hoist the shepherd into the top posi tion. In the champion competi tion category, poodles drop ped to second place despite an increase of four per cent, while dachshunds showed a six per cent loss to retain third place and cocker span iels registered a five per cent loss to remain in fourth spot. Poodles, however, continue to be the most popular dog in number of stud book registra tions. Another big dog, the boxer, solidified his fifth place ex hibition ranking with an in crease of four per cent. Collies showed a small gain to hold the sixth position. The powerful dobcrman clung to seventh place, hold ing on with a minor gain, while great dancs registered a six per cent gain to streng then their grip on eighth posi tion. Chihuahuas stayed in ninth, with shetlands moving up one place to tenth. Couple Leaves For California Shady Cove - Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Freeman have left for their home in San Jose, Calif., after vacationing in Shady Cove as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Biddlc. FormerOregonian Designs Unique Character Dolls of the adults who want to see the quick, finished product. Not of the need for the child's imagination to be stirred." "We should encourage our children to play, to discover," said Caplar,, a 52-year-old grandfather and former teach er who holds degrees from City College of New York and Columbia University. I am convinced, he con tinued, "that the child encour aged to create, to explore, to find things out for himself grows into the creative adult . . . he gains a confidence in his ideas which carry all through life. Scratch a genius and usually you'll find that as a child he often lived to himself, with his imagina tion. "Today's urbanized society doesn't give a child a chance to explore the trees, the wa ter, the insect world. So we have to substitute with labo ratory experience. "And a mother in the Unit ed States doesn't take time to explore with the child. But the Soviet teachers do." Caplan said the Soviets "take over" a' child from six months on with day care pro grams or ones even more em bracing in which parents see the youngsters only on week ends. But the little ones take trips, visit factories, muse ums - "They're constantly ex posed to new things." The toy manufacturer's tour also took him through the Middle East and to the Orient. He gathered representative toys - and toys of good design - for exhibit this fall in mu seums in Kansas City, Den ver, Philadelphia, Houston, New York, Newark, Cleve land, Los Angeles and Wil liamsburg, Va. Group Visits In Shady Core Shady Cove - Dr. and Mrs. Harold Rcith, Shady Cove, re cently had as their house guests, Elder and Mrs. Otto Schnepper, Placerville, Calif., and Mrs. Marie Kruger, Loma Linda. Larry Micheis Visits Relatives O'Brien - Larry Micheis, Hornbrook, Calif., is spending some time with his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Micheis. Nathan Hallocks Have Visitor O'Brien - Mrs. Alma Steeg, Twenty Nine Palms, Calif., spent two weeks with the Na than Hallocks of Takilma at their home on Page Mountain. By JOAN SWEENEY North Hollywood, Calif .-lUPli -The dolls Virginia Black makes are not the kind that little girls are likely to dream about, except perhaps in nightmares, but they have gained nationwide use. Among the North Holly wood housewife's creations are bearded beatniks, bedrag gled bums, fallen angels, ladies of the chorus and naughty little boys. Many of them look as though they are in throes of the morning after, a condi tion inherited from their an cestors. Mrs. Black sold her first dolls to local liquor stores. But the dolls have come a long way since then. They are probably familiar to many Americans who have never seen them except in photo graphs. They have decorated the pages of a national mag azine and illustrated a scries of ads for a department store group which appeared in New York newspapers. Currently, Mrs. Black is under exclusive contract to a greeting card firm which is bringing out an entire line of contemporary cards built around the dolls. Dolls Vary The dolls are characterized by captivating expressions ranging from the wistful to the smirking, from the joy ous to the glowering and by costumes so vivid they would make a gypsy look conserva tive. Sometimes the lids of their wide round eyes are half closed as though weighted down by the bags beneath them. Since most of the dolls are approximately six inches high, some of the costumes details are most intriguing: the tiniest of flowers atop a hat, playing cards the size of a thumbnail, inch long necklaces, a tiny strip of fur or a minute derby or a bright pink bowtie atop an orange shirt and kelly green jacket. How did Mrs. Black start making the dolls? "I've done all sorts of crafts, but when I started the dolls and found I could sell some of them I decided to stay with them," Mrs. Black explained, as she sat in her large, sunny work room. It might be called the room the dolls built. She used money she earned from the dolls to build the addition. The petite, blonde grand mother and . wife of Robert J. Black, the owner of a Los Angeles advertising agency, first began her craft work in Portland, Ore., where she made dolls for children and church bazaars. Have Personality Each of her dolls has a per sonality. Because of the size Calendar Saturday 8:30 p.m. - Square dance, at Country Square, Talent. at the Hrmiton; and Pilneeeset Kir Brunner. Round- Mary Ann Stone and Jn) Home, all Pen center) dleton. The noni Round Up will be held WINDOW SCREENS at really moderate cost PIUS: facilities to serve your every glass need. AGALITE BRONSON shower and tub enclosures . . . beauty and functional durability. 5HAT-R-PROOF autoglass . . . with written warranty. FRt ESTIMATES... Guaranteed low-cost installation PADGHAM GLASS CO. 1309 Court St. San Franciscans Visit Montague Montague - Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Erminio Colla for the past two weeks were their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Pierinoc Bernidi and their two daughters, Suzanne and Laurie, San Francisco. and the importance of the ex pression, the faces are par ticularly demanding. Some times for photographing, she must make two heads, one: smiling, the other frowning. She uses textile paints to draw the faces. "Getting one just right is exacting work," Mrs. Black said. "A slip of a fracton ot said. "A slip of a fraction of head." She has a box filled with heads that did not quite satisfy her. Still more boxes, drawers and jars in her workroom are , stuffed with every conceiv able object that might be of use to her one day scraps of material, tiny jugs scarcely bigger than a pencil eraser. sunglasses. Often, however, she must improvise. She made cowboy's spurs herself. Perhaps the proof that Mrs. Black's dolls have "arrived," is that they have been copied by Japanese dollmakers. Make Cleaning Accident Free, ; Says Expert By MARGERY McELHENY Chicago - IUPD - Falling i the most common accident during house cleaning, report!! Phylip Dykstra, director of! home safety for the National Safety council. He has some suggestions to make cleaning accident-free: -Make sure your ladder is in good condition. Don't try to build a substitute from furniture or boxes. The ladder is long enough if you don't have to use the top rungs of step. Move the ladder rather than try to reach far to one side. -Rinse floors clean of soap or detergent before applying wax. A thin, even coat of wax buffed to a high polish is harder and safer than a heavy coat. -Paint only in well venti lated rooms. Use paint con taining less than 1 per rent lead for all indoor use. K:ep oily or paint-soaked rags in tightly closed metal cans in a cool place. -Do not use carbon tetra chloride cr flammable liquids for cleaning. -Avoid touching electrical appliance; when your hand or floors are wet. -Keep walking lanes open. Arrange storage spaces in an orderly and safe manner, with a place for everything. -Don't 'try to carry heavy or bulky objects that obstruct your view or are too heavy. -Use non-skid mats under rugs. If rugs are badly worn or torn, have them repaired! or replaced. -Keep pesticides, medicines and poisonious cleaning ma terials out of reach of chil dren. Always keep such ma terials in their original con tainers. Get rid of old pre scriptions and medicines in unmarked containers. -Keep children and pels away when spraying insecti cides. After spraying, wash all exposed parts of your body. ri Swing along with umsmate. Casuals In! j 1 Swingin'est shoes of all! jfS.P'' I Casual , . , soft . , . r J 1 comfortable. You like J$ ff J the look; Dad and A vi S Mora like the Jf'i price. They're tkti ' f the greatest! ; C? )ft , tf 7 95 l0 Open Tonight Until 9 p.m ituiV;: 0 : ' Moett, September 1 104. T u
