SUNDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1963
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MEDFOKD .MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD. OREGON
'Nylon's 25th Anniversary Is Noted
Gingerbread houses have keen used lor
"keeping Christinas" by many generations
and no doubt are as popular today as they
were in the long ago. Easily prepared, these
cakes make gay holiday centerpieces and
are fun to eat as well.
Gay Gingerbread Houses
Add to Holiday Spirit
What adds lo Ihe holiday i flour two (eight by eight by
spirit more than h real honest-1 two-inch) pans; pour in halter,
to-goodness gingerbread house? Bake in moderate oven (MO
It is s easy lo prepare and , degrees) for 50 minutes. Cool,
for the holiday table it is a gay ! Remove from pans.
ccn'.e.-piccc. I lo make the gingerbread
Ingredients needed arc one ; """so cut sides of one layer on
cup shortening; four eggs; four a sllin'. ,or base. Mice top lay
cups sifted all - purpose flour;
two teaspoons baking soda; one
teaspoon cinnamon; one - half
teaspoon salt; two cups sugar;
one cup dark molasses; two
teaspoons ginger; one teaspoon
allspice; one cup buttermilk.
Cream together shortening
and sugar. Add eggs, one at a
time, beating after each. Add
dark molasses. Sift together
flour, baking soda, ginger, cin
namon, allspice and salt; add
alternately with buttermilk lo
creamed mixture. Grease and
School to Give
Annual Program
ASHLAND - The hich school
chorus and orchestra will pre
sent the annual Christmas pro
gram Tuesday, December 17, at
B p.m. in the high school audi
torium. Sacred music, instru
mental numbers and choral se
lections are included in Ihe pro
gram that is open to the public
without charge.
or triangle shape for roof. Place
on top of base. "Snow roof
with white frosting. Use pastry
tubes to outline floors, windows
and doors with frosting.
Olympic Towels
The firm which has been se
lected to design and produce
towels (or the U.S. Olympic
teams for 1964 has been given
permission to produce a facsim
ile version for household use.
The terry towel is in red, white
and blue stripes with the Olym
pic insignia of lighted torch
and laurel wreath printed at
both ends. Also lettered on arc;
"Tokyo 19M . . . Innsbruck
lflM." (Morgan-Jones, Inc., 404
Filth Ave., New York, N.Y.)
A new metal cleaner removes
encrusted grease from electric
trypans and other aluminum
cooking utensils. The compound
is "painted" on and is safe lo
use on any aluminum conking
surface. (Metal Mean, Sun
beam Corp., Chicago.)
Toastmistress
Club To Install
Mrs. W. G. Beard will be In.
stalled as president of the Med
ford Toastmistress Club Wed
nesday, December 18, at 7:30
p.m., at the home of Mrs. W. G.
Beard, 1702 Itidgcway Avenue.
Other officers (o be installed
are Mrs. Kenneth V. Phillips,
vice president, and Mrs. Dennis
E. Garcclon, secretary.
Three speakers will be intro
duced at the meeting by Toast
mistress Mrs. Phillipr Mrs. C.
E. Goodwin, Mrs. Glenn Clymer
and Miss Voda Brower will
speak on the theme "Quiet
Thoughts."
Mrs. C. H. Redmond will act
as topic mistress.
Mrs. Alfred Babcock, Mrs.
Richard Wodke, and Mrs. Eliza
beth Lund, members of (he
Grants Pass Toastmistress Club,
were guests at the December 11
meeting. Other guests that eve
ning were Mrs. Frank Proulx
and Mrs. Oliver Guss.
Sports ninnrular
Not much lamer Ihnn n nni'k
of king size cigarettes yet car
rying lots of magnifying punch
is a super sports binocular with
an optional yellow filter that
penetrates fog ' and evening
haze. (Walinus k Co., 11(1 East
2.'lrd St., New York, N.Y.)
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RWOW for Rj&
1N YOU" HO" fel.
For extra fun Santa
Claus in full regalia
will deliver your
Lowrey Christmas
Eve.
10 m.lf?Rflifc&.-V- ifc
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CONSOLES
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You can play right away!
TjV.e advAnUqe of (his special Christmas otter
today!
Wt II h glad lo put any Lowify modrt In
your home tor only J25 00 dnn , , . and
furnish th music (and Irssom) you need lo
3fl Martfd.
Vrtu'll h playing ca'oU for Ihe (.tmi'v by
Christmas morning , , . il's thai cav to play'
Tli Lowrfy Qtt son a widff ;lvuf of in.
Urumrntat voufs. plus tnmp'rlr iyhichi'ii en
hnlh tevhoatds. Arid it givrv suth rraU-m . . ,
r thing from thp sinV of a tromhone lo the
3 'id "f a MMaitan guitar'
Lei us pfuvf , . . the Low tv oh, in is (he
easiest in p'av of alt musical instruments , , .
and wonderful fun for the whole family Com
in or phont ui today.
MUSIC CENTER
ARCADE BLDG.
126 E. MAIN
772-2211
NEW YORK (UPI)-A golden
haired tot named Shirley Tem
ple was the movie queen of the i
day. rlorello Lauuardia was
the fiery little mayor of the
nation's largest city.
It was the year Douglas
(Wrongway) Corrigan flew from
Brooklyn lo Dublin. It was the
year Hitler invaded Austria.
And, it was the year a Wil
mington, Del., industrialist
stood before an audience at
tending the New York Herald
Tribune forum and announced
the news of "a new word and
a new material", nylon.
The man was Charles M. A.
Stine, a vice president of Du
Pont, developers of the first
fiber to come strictly from the
test tube. Rayon, ahead of it,
is a fiber made by forcing a
solution of modified cellulose
through minute holes and dry
ing the filaments. The year of
nylon's birth publicly: 19:18. The
fiber was to provide the im
petus for today's mammoth
man created fiber industry,
amazing in the number of ma
terials available and the uses
to which they are put.
23th Anniversary
This year, observing its 25th
anniversary, nylon itself is be
ing produced by 112 companies
in 120 plants and in 38 countries.
In the United States alone,
the one miracle fiber is pro
duced at the rate of 600 million
pounds, at a value close to $900
million. More than 19,000 per
sons are involved directly in
its manufacture; an estimated
750,000 workers in thousands of
business firms depend on it in
one way or another (or a live
lihood. DuPonl says II years of re
search and $27 million were
spent in pioneering Ihe fiber.
The man whose research cre
ated it was Dr. Wallace H.
Carothcrs, who died some 18
months before the first public
announcement of the fiber was
made, October 27, 1938.
Nylon is created from atoms
in coal, air and water. And a
lady who snagged her first
stockings made from the fiber
returned them to DuPont, noting
acidly, obviously somebody
put too much air in this pair.
Commercial production of the
fiber did not begin until late
1939 and its early uses were for
toothbrush bristles, fishing lines
and surgical sutures.
But the real impact of the
invention came with production
of hosiery in 1939. The first
stockings were sold to DuPrit
employes in February, 1939.
And in October. 1939, a tew
went on sale through retail
stores in Wilmington. In May,
1910, they went on sale in stores
throughout Ihe country.
(In Us Way
The synthetic was on its way.
A giant, shapely leg modeled
by movie star Marie Wilson was
used to advertise the hosiery in
Ihe Los Angeles area. The ad
was 35 feet high and weighed
two ton.
But nylon did not remain
available lo the public ,'or long.
Willi the beginning of World
marked for parachutes, glider
War II, nylon went In war, ear-
New Bulletin
On Food Facts
Now Available
CORVAI.I.IS A new bulletin
on "l'"ood Pacts Versus Fads"
has been published by Oregon
Stale University Kxtension
Service. It points out some of
the fallacies that may exist as
the result of food quacks and
faddists.
People are spending needless
millions every year (or special
foods, vitamins or reducing for
mulas (hat will keep them
"young, slim and healthy," ac
cording to the bulletin.
Copies of the new bulletin are
available on request at county
extension offices or bv writing
the OSU Bulletin Clerk, Corval
lis. Kood faddists and quacks are
apostles of pet ideas, it is noted.
They partially quote authorita
tive information or misuse it lo
(it Iheir purposes, the booklet
reveals.
The bulletin conlains answers
In common questions about foods
and nutrition as supplied by nu
tritionists, dietitians, research '
workers, and the Council on
Foods and Nutrition of (he
American Medical Association.
According to Ihe bulletin all-:
thors, (nod fads become popular !
when people want a simple an- j
swer lo food and health prob-j
lems. They want special foods'
that have magical properties. :
I'nfortiinatcly, il's not quite that '
simple, say nutritionists. Foods j
(rom Ihe daily (our food groups!
meal, vegetable - fruit, bread j
cereals, and milk, are still the i
best way to asure a good diet, j
the bulletin emphasizes.
The bulletin discusses fallout
in milk, dieting and other ques-i
tions commonly asked about
food supplements and special
foods, cookery and storage, food ,
additives Hiul processing, weight
control, and food safety and
health. It also tells how to use !
the basic tour fixni groups to
plan meals (or different mem
bers of the family.
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marked for parachutes, glider
tow ropes, jungle tents, tarpau
lins, and tire cord for heavy
bombers and fighter planes.
Women were asked to turn
their old stockings over to the
scrap drive so they could be
converted into yarn for mili
tary use. Those who did not
still remember darning and re
darning to preserve one pair.
Nylon stockings became like
shoe ration coupons and steak
and butter, if you were unpa
triotic but had a good supply
you could make a killing on
the black market.
In Tulsa, Okla., HO girls were
asked what they missed most
during the war. Twenty said
men. Forty said nylons.
The first post war nylons be
gan to appear early in 1946 and
the reaction often was riotous.
In Philadelphia, 15 foot pa
trolmen and five mounted po
lice were on duty when a store
offered nylons for the first time.
Thousands Storm
A Cleveland press headline
read: "Thousands storm coun
ters for nylons."
Reported the Los Angeles
Times: "Robbers carry off ny
lons in safe."
is the first lime congress ever
got 50 million letters petitioning
if tn ahnlich Ortnhor anH Vn.
Bob Hope noted in September i vember."
nylons were due back by Christ-1 And so went the first 25 years.
mas. He added, "I won't say What of the next 25?
the women f-e anxious, bet this ! DuPont said research prom
ises nylon's future may surpass
its past.
Recently uie company
yarn with a special self crimp-,
ing property which puts resili
ence or "give" into stockings
j ,m. u- to give a new kind of leg flattery
nounced "the biggest news in asKwell as great freBedom $
hosiery since stockings, became fit." stockings of the new yarn
nylons" development of a I will be available by early 1964.
300 Barnett Road
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CHRISTMAS BONUS BOARD
STRETCH YOUR GIFT DOLLARS!
10 to 50 MERCHANDISE
BONUS ALLOWANCE ON ALL FURNITURE
PURCHASES OVER $49 -UNTIL DECEMBER 24
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