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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
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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.
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