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Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 97

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ALL EDITIONS 4 The Arizona Republic rhoenix, Sunday, May 28, 19 ow Camp Is Fun! OPEN MONDAY NOON TIL 9 P.M. ITires 'Press On Regardless' For Men 4f PS. It I1JIIB I CI 4431 MIK CINTIA1 1 "When we first started, our family (lid lurvival camping. It was ghastly. I hated it.

"But with all that money tied up in camping gear, dicftft daa confess I regarded a camping trip with the same unrestrained dismay and dread of any other normal luxury-loving type who likes to sleep till noon and use ice in beverages." That's the confession of a wife-member of a closely-knit, loosely-organized little group. The group got started -how else1 with Scottsdale wives confessing to each other that tamping was a crashing bore-chore instead of an exhilarating pause that refreshes. So they banded together and named themselves FOR for Press On Regardless and refined their family camping trips from "roughing it" to something akin to "living it up." It's not survival camping any more. But the wives are surviving the trips "just fine, thanks" nowadays. Holiday weekends will find the POR's on a Mexican beach, a White Mountain top, a remote rim in the Tonto-Mogollon country, nr as this weekend somewhere near Pavson.

p-4 If '4 Corn for the children to pop. happy hour equipment for the younger High chairs for the Cregut'i babies. Guitars for the Welches. Raffia-covered one-gallon jugs. way to replenish the water supply.

We fill the gallon jugs from the big unwieldy water Deck of cards for gin rummy tournament. As for menus, sometimes a supper will be a community affair. gotten so grand as barbecued pig. complete with apple in mouth,) Such dishes as shish kabob or spaghetti are prepared jointly. "But we've learned," says one mother, "that it simply doesn't work out for one family to be eating something different from the next family at any given meal.

"So we've arrived at the routine of making out complete menus for each meal. If we have bacon for breakfast, so doe everybody else. It nicely avoids the 'why can't we have pancakes, too bit." It also, they've found, works out nicely If the children are responsible for fixing at least one community meal each trip. This weekend, f'instance, their chore will be grilling In foil hamburger patties topped with carrot, onion and potato slices. Other community meals planned for this jurtket include canned chicken fricasse and rice, shish kabob, charcoal broiled steak.

Hasn't anything happened to mar the fun of the camping caravan, the members of POR were asked. "Well there was tills time down at Rocky Point when a violent sand and wind storm came up suddenly and toppled all the tents and blew grit even into the food supplies. "But we Press On Regardless, you know." VL WW' Repuoiic Pnoros, wints Ptrerson A-Camping They Will Go With Sail And Paddle Boards Bill Drullner, Center, And Laurie And Sieve l.nndry Check Gear a nil 7 tfcv Tea Listed By Legion For Girls Girls who will attend the 19G1 Girls State will be guests of honor at 2:30 p.m. today at a tea" in the American Legion Home, 364 N. 7th Ave.

Thirty-nine girls elected fr.om junior classes in the high schools of the valley will attend with their parents and sponsors. Miss Pat Kurtz, the 1960 governor, and Miss Carson Boice, 1960 secretary, will be special guests. Luke-Greenway Unit No. 1 of the American Legion Auxiliary will host the party assisted by four other units. Mrs.

Harold Gribble of Globe, Girls State director, and Mrs. Carl Nowlin of Phoenix, department chairman, will speak to the representatives. The annual stale-wide meeting for girls will be in Tucson June 5-11 under the leadership of Dr. Robert Nugent, educational administrator. During a study of fundamentals of government, the girls will name a governor who will be a delegate to Washington, D.C.

Gov. Paul Fannin will administer the oath of office to officers named during the conclave. Judge Lorna Lock-wood and Wesley Bolin, secretary of state, will be keynote speakers at the banquet. Hear Abbv "We don't camp, in public camping grounds," says Mrs. Roger Landry.

"There are too many of us. (There were 12 parents and 30 children last time look like a tent city all by ourselves when we set up camp, as you can Imagine." Members of POR, not all of whom go on every trip, include the Landrys, the George Drul-iners, the Charles Esteses, the Rodman Mouliniers. the Peter Creguts, the Bob Cappses, the Fill Welches, the Robert Cor-bys, the Tom Dignans, the Maurice Petersons, the Hal Georgens, the Bob Snmuelsons, the Bob Broses and the Dirk Currans. Says Mrs. Druliner: 'lt never fails to amaze us the way the youngsters get along together on these trips.

"They range In ages from Infants to 17-yers-oIds. My own two squabble constantly at Kerne, are downright affable to each other and everybody else at tamp. "The group game. I guess. Is Kick the Can.

They play it for hours, then baseball, then swimming or water sports. They are busy from morning to night. "Really." she said, adding the clincher, 'I have never heard any youngster complain that there was nothing to "do or ex-press dissatisfaction of any kind." All this, of course, takes planning. And the planning sessions usually take place at a party the week before at me home of one of the camping families. Tn addition to the tents, Coleman stoves and lanterns, ice boxes, cots and sleeping bags, clothing and food stuffs, here are some of the things experience has taught them to include in the mountain of gear each family takes: A comfortable chair for each member of the family.

fold up chaise longue, for instance. Camp stools ARE NOT the comforts of A big tarp. sunshade in the daytimes, for dancing on by the A portable radio. Firewood for beach parties. Charcoal for trench-and-oven cooking.

An extra card table. "By the time you get your stove, ice box, water jugs, cooking utensils and place settings on the camp table, there's no room left to eat there. An extra table solves the "Happy hour" equipment. nothing like a cocktail to make trip camping For A Mountain Trip, A Mrs, Roger L. Landry while.

The injection is painless and easy. Get a sheet of columnar paper. Head up the columns with Income. Savings, Rent or Mortgage, Insurance, Utilities, Household, Food, Transportation, Allowances, Miscellaneous, Comments. Or use headings appropriate for you.

lake out your paid bills for the last few months Check stubs or canceled checks are even better List each expenditure under the proper heading. To those, add the unpaid bills, preferably in rH. Then put that cross-section of It's Hard To Count Noses Oi Scampering Children "Irs. Peter Cregut Misses One Mer Own Nen-Lcampcrins Lia Ann, Relatives Are Wrong: Bride-To-Be Is Right By ABIGAIL VAN BURF.N DEAR ABBY: I have a relative who was just about ready to give up when someone asked her to get rnarrird. She is 52 and he is 50.

Please don't faint, but she is planing to be married in a white wedding gown with a veil, Amazing bottles with PLAYTEX no sterili-zing disposable liner! NURSER the bouquet, bridesmaids and everything that goes with it. She has gray hair and looks every bit Winner Announced TFMPF. Miss Diane Searfoss, of Chandler, Arizona Stale t'ni-verity freshman, has won a prize in the Rm-d and Barton scholarship competition. Winner of a starter set pne for her entry in ho silver firm's annual Silver Opinion Competition, Miss Searfoss will receive, about $50 worth of sterling china and crystal. Reed Barton Silversmiths of Taunton, announced that about 15.000 university women romneted in the contest this spring.

Mountain Of Equipment Notes Her Troubles your finances under a microscope. With your spouse, examine it carefully. Check each item against, "Was this purchase necessary?" "Would we have been better off if we had bought something else, or saved the money''" This X-ray of the flow of your funds tells how' well you're handling your money. It points out the pitfalls to be avoided the danger spots, the possible tumors. It keeps any financial "lump" from becoming malignant to eat away at your happiness.

people in this town will think she has gone crazy. Don't you think someone in the family should step in and set her straight? her 52 years. I am afraid INTERESTED RELATIVE DEAR INTERESTED: I see nothing nron ith the bride's plans. Someone should set her relatives straight. Abigail DEAR ABBY: I am a high school senior and have never been in trouble before.

I have been aeeused of stealing a purse. I did not steal it, Abby. I found it on my way to school and there was no name or anything in it. I suppose I should have turned it in somewhere but I didn't know where to turn it in. so I took to school and started to ue it.

I was called into the principal's office. It was stolen from one of the girls at school. A git I whose name they wouldn't toil me said she heard me il annthor girl I stole it and not to sav Group (ampin Nets Lots Of Tun or I.veryone Agrees M'car-Old air free to help stop colic spitting up Hero's a work savar, tima taver, happiar way to feed baby. Imaging tha cftnvenianca cf never sterilizing another boHle. Tha 'pc inrer boHle it pra-iterilized, usa cor.e and fhro away.

So eaiy to insert into bottie holder. And that's net all th new Playfe Nursar forms no vacuLm so baby swallows less air. which can cajro cryinq, spitting up, colic. And for the first time, a nipple tha I01U, feels and worts natures way. Soft, broad shflpi that promotes correct mouth, jaw and teeth eerciia.

KIT INCLUDES: 6 Piastic bottla holders and caps, 65 dispesaaa bottles, 6 nipp'es, I ax-pander. 8.5 REPLACEMENT ITEMS Bottle Holder and cap 65 Roll Bottles 1.19 (2) Nipples 49c Expanders 3.95 DIAMONDS INFANTS' DEPARTMENT, STREET FLOOR Budget Checking Stops Constant By MARGE RITTLNHOL'SE A happy marnape is cery woman's dream, yet too few achieve it. For all the marriages that rnd in broken dreams or empty shells the diagnosis might be marital cancer The most deadly of all marital cancers t'rf one steirmiez from financial discord. It grows when a husband smoulders under his wife's mismanagement of funds. It spreads ith discontent over why a husband ran earn more.

It festers in arguments over where the monev went. DEAR INNOCENT: Quit trying to disprove guilt that does not exist. The word of the girl who claimed dhe heard you Ray you stole It should have been disregarded until she agreed to face you with the accusation. Forget it, my dear. And others will.

DEAR ABBY: I was born in America but have been on ships all my life. I have never seen anything like the way the American women girdle themselves in and strap themseives up. It really gets me. I do not know who they think they are kidding with all those wires, elastic devices and contraptions to hold them in place. When they get home and take their girdles off, they spread out like a baseball field.

WORLD TRAVELED BACHELOR DEAR BACHELOR: How do YOU know? Yes, Abby will answer your letter personally if you write to AEBY, in care of The Arizona Republic, Box 2406, and enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Sincr money is the No. 1 reason for divorce, what are the preventative measures1 How many bother with precauti'fis? The primary safeguards are complete understanding and agreement of what both partners want out of and how to get Less than one couple in 10 takp the time to sit down together and mutually deride on goals Less than one in 30 plan how to achieve those goals. Rpgardiess ef the current state of your marriage, a shot fif financial arnne is worth Green Stamps, Too.

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