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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1951

Take a Bow, Volunteers

Mrs. Ray Pack and Mrs. William Warwick . . . testing Ice-O-Rama headgear for size.

Times-Opens. Fourth Sewing Contest

. By JEANE JONES OME SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN have an opportunity to win $1460 in cash prizes plus an expensepaid trip to New York in The Times National Sewing

Contest,

For the fourth year, The Times, with co-operation of the

National Needlecraft Bureau,

sponsoring a home sewing

contest for Hoosier women, girls—and men; too. : All dressmakers who have never been employed in garment making or design, but have been successful in making clothing

for themselves or members of their families, are eligible to enter the Sewing Contest. To enter fill out the official registration blank on page 24 and send it to: Sewing Contest, The Times, 214 W. Maryland St. The contest ends in mid-April. ; This year, as in previous years, there are five groups with eight classifications. First and second cash prizes will be given in each category. First prize garment jn each classification will be entered in the national finals to be held in New York in May.

Prizes and Rules

IN THE local contest, first prize in each of the eight classifications is $50, second

prize, $20. First prize in the national contest is $100 in each classification. In addition, the first prize winners of the national finals will receive a threeday expense-paid trip to New york City. If any Times winners place first in national judging, they will receive an additional $100 award from The Times. Here are the rules: The contest is open to women and men of all ages in the area reached by The Times, except employees of the newspaper and their immediate families. Profes-

gional designers or dress-’

makers are not eligible. Contestants may submit as many garments as they wish, provided each garment is accompanied by an official entry blank which we will make available free.

Submit Garments

GARMENTS are to be sent to The Times in April at a date to be announced later.

The decision of judges will be final, and in case of ties, duplicate . - prizes . will be awarded. At the end of the contest judging, contestants will be notified by announcements in The Times{ just where and when to call for submitted garments. Those unable to call in person may send postage for return by mail or parcel post. Judging will be on workmanship, neatness, style, attractiveness, suitability of style and fabric to use.

Classifications

THE classifications are: SENIOR STANDARD PAT-

TERN GROUP: Open to contestants above 18 years of age. Every entry in this group must be made from a Standard Commercial pattern — any commercial or newspaper pattern. There are three classifications in this group. They are coat and suit, tailored dress, and soft or dressy dress. Prizes will be awarded in each of these three categories.

HIGH SCHOOL GROUP: This group is open to students in junior and senior high schools. There are two categories, one for date or school dress, and a second for coat or suit. First and second prizes will be awarded in each category.

GLAMOR GROUP: There is no age limit for contestants in this group. The garment must be for adult or older teen-age wear. This classification calls for evening clothes, lounge clothes, negligee ensembles and beach

wear, It is designed to attract “special occasion” clothes, Entries may be made from standard patterns or original designs. First and second awards will be made.

ORIGINALDESIGN GROUP: This group is open to contestants of all ages. The garments must be for

~adult or upper teen-age wear

and must be designed originally by the maker without the use of commercial patterns. The classification ‘is for dress, coat or suit. First and second prizes will be awarded.

CHILDREN'S CLOTHING

GROUP: Clothing entered in this group must be for children from 2 to 8 years of age. The garments may be made from an original design or pattern. No age qualification is made on dressmakers in this group. All garments for children 2 to 8 must be entered in the Children’s Clothing .Group. A first and second prize will be given. After the entries are received in April, a judging committee will examine the garments. The 16 local cash prize winners will be selected and the eight first prize entries will be forwarded to the National Contest Headquarters in New York City, where they will be judged with first-prize-winning garments from all parts of the country,

THERE OUGHT to be a special tribute at The Times Ice-O-Rama Thursday night. Whan the big ice show bows at 8 p. m. in the Fair Grounds Coli-

seum, the work of the volunteers will be over. But the sparkling costumes, the makeup of the skaters and the sleek production itself will be proof of their labor. The bow will be omitted because the volunteers want it that way. Take the costume committee, for example. Its job is a round-the-clock affair. Personnel works days at Clothe-A-Child headquarters on W. Maryland St. There they cut every costume used in the show. - » » THE HATS, the flowers, the “doodads,” that go with the colorful garb, take shape under their skillful fingers. Most of the workers have chiddren who skate in the extravaganza. So they often go right on to the Coliseum, many times lugging whole carfuls of children to the practice sessions. This year volunteers showed up regardless of how they felt, winter sniffles failing to take their usual toll. Once there they dispatch

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Mrs. Chester Warwick has a whole tableful of experts to decide on the cock of this hat for

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the "Fairy Tales" number. Mrs, George Muench is the model; the fashion "panel" includes Mes-

dames Paul Delbauve, Charles H. LaDuke and Norman Garwood.

Mrs. Mary McClean's son, Douglas, 4, helps mama with telephone chores. Mrs. McLean directs the Ice-O-Rama, does the choreography, trains and rehearses the participants.

other duties. Every child was measured at the rink this year; each received his costume to be carted home for his mother to stitch.

Mrs. Orville Ahring, the Ice-O-Rama secretary, is practically indispensable to the show. Unassuming, she handles all the records, the gigantic registration job, the money payments. Other volunteers are on hand to check the attendance records at rehearsals, help on the ice, see that numbers go on in the correct order. One of the most popular of the volunteers down at headquarters is an inanimate young lady named “Fanny.” She's the dress dummy on which the costumes are fitted. Mrs. Mary McClean, director of the entire business, handles her huge job so efficiently it’s easy to forget she's responsible for all the choreography, and for training and rehearsing the numbers. Another stellar volunteer of the production is Paul Van Voorhees. Although a skating

By KATY ATKINS, Times Special Writer oN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17--This is being written in Bill Hume's office, high above the financial district of the city. Betty and Jack Hume flew to England last week and by now are skiing in Switzerland. Jack’s secretary is on vacation which, luckily for me, meant an idle typewriter. Mrs. George Hume, their mother, has lived in California

for many years, At present she has her sister, Mrs. Harry Bennett, and Mrs. Bennett’s daughter and son-in-law, Louise and Albert Lord of Englewood, N. J., visiting her. Jim Holliday has been in Alameda finishing some maps for fue Mrs. Atkins published book, and our son, who has joined us here, hopes to track him down.

News of him came through the Humes since they are cousins. We met Mr. and Mrs. Howard Meeker in our hotel this morning. They are on

their way to Coronado where Mr. Meeker will attend a board meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers,

Meet Ruddells

N Colorado Springs where my husband

and other manufacturers

were guests of the Rocky Mountain Association of Distributors, we saw Marie and

Jim Ruddell,

We were royally entertained at a most beautiful dinner in the magnificent

ballroom and one noon at a ladies’ luncheon. Among the many welldressed women no one was smarter than Marie, who wore a navy wool dress cut on princess lines, Its double row of buttons and shawl collar bound in velvet were effective as was the single bright red carnation she wore with it.

We left home in the midst

of the railroad strike and found the crews on the trains lending a hand at various jobs. Chicago was cold and snow bound, but we lunched with Berkeley Gage who made many friends when he spent a week-end in Indianapolis last month.

Among the guests at his delightful apartment was Tom Fisher. It was a disappointment not to see Ruth Page - Fisher who was rehearsing and could not get away. Time being shogt I was not able to see Mar, Feeney but talked to her on the telephone and gave her what home news I could. We were fortunate in migssing Denver's big snow and found spring in the air when we arrived, It was a real thrill to see the gorgeous country tween Denver and Colorado Springs in the observation

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star in the show, he also designed all the costumes for the Ice-O-Rama. A graduate of a three-year course in dress design and women’s tailoring at the Chicago Art Institute, he’s making seven costumes himself. Like other TIte-0-Rama volunteers, Paul and his mother, Mrs. Sibyl Van Voorhees, who'll also skate in the show, have been eating most of their meals out these days. Their house is so crammed with glitter, material scraps, sewing paraphernalia and drawing boards—there's no time nor space for the pot and pan brigade.

” n ” BUT ALONG with the strained eyes and tired fingers comes fun. Down at Ice-O-Rama headquarters there's a hot plate that daily brews hot coffee. And there are special parties, too, when one of the volunteers has a birthday. > Much of the enjoyment stems from pure love of the work and the knowledge that proceeds from the ice show

the feeling I was riding in one of the Fifth Avenue busses. At the Broadmoor a few brave souls were swimming in the*™ glass-enclosed pool with snow on the ground a few feet off the terrace over the lake. While the lake was frozen solid, one small section of it was open water in which enormous numbers of ducks and huge gold fish were enJoying joint occupation though I could’ not understand why the ducks did not gobble the fish.

See Skaters

NE night we went to the adjoining Ice Palace where I hoped we might find Betsy Todd skating. She attends the University of Colorado and has a wonderful opportunity to become even more proficient in her figure skating.

We were charmed with the girls’ skating costumes of solid color, all pink or all green, with long-sleeved wool jersey tops and vefy short pleated skirts.

The wide streets and leisurely speed of traffic makes a stay in any town in Colorado a joy. We drove to the Garden of the Gods where I at last saw Steamboat and Balanced Rock with my own eyes and had even more pleasure in letting my imagination run riot in identifying the form of other rocks. Pueblo had been a familiar name to me since the days of

“ Hillis- Howie's Prairie Trek

when letters used to come

Paul Van Voorhees fits a costume to the dressmakin

Clubs. ...16, 28 Society. . ... 20 Fashion..... |7 Gardening.. 26 Food....... I8 Teens...... 27

Mrs. Paul Allison and Mrs. Paul Delbauve make up Ice-

O-Rama skater Judith Allison.

g dummy

while Mesdames Paul Delbauve,

Paul Allison and George Muench, costume committee members, watch.

Will go to the infantile paralysis fund. That's the main reason there will be no special applause on Thursday night. The costume committee includes Mesdamed Charles H. LaDuke, Norman F. Gar-

wood. George Muench, Ches- '

ter Warwick, Paul Delbauve and Paul Allison, cochairmen, and Mesdames Charles Crane, A. M. Lange, Robert Curth, Bernard Lynch, Roy Pack, Ted McIntosh, William B. Warwick and Carlton J. Wagner. The backstage staff, headed by Mrs. Paul Allison, is made up of Mesdames John Malloy, Paul T. Spencer, Delbauve, Isabelle Leuthge, McIntosh and Josephine Carter: Miss Trudy Lowery, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crane, Russell Glassford and Melville Lane. Kenneth E. Lemons and Harry T. Latham Jr. are cochairmen of the makeup committee. They are assisted by members of the backstage group,

bearing that postmark. I had not expected to find it such a large industrial city.

Camp Carson has been reactivated and is a busy place. In fact, the war has been everpresent on the entire trip. The trains are full of unhappy men going back into service, and many wives and small children have begun the old wearisome moving about the country to join husbands and fathers. Several Navy families were on the-way to Honolulu. All the small boys seem to be wearing Hopalong Cassidy suits which make most practical traveling outfits.

In Denver we admired the wonderful Civic Center and the City-County Building which we in Indianapolis need s0 badly. It was startling to find magnificent Christmas decorations still on the buildings.

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WINDOWS were covered with beautiful stained glass designs, a row of stars lit the entire second floor below ‘the windows and a huge tree stood in the plaza. It seems that the decora-

tions are left up until after

the famous stock show in January, which compares to our 500-mile race in local importance. An inscription, carved in marble over a loafers’ bench outside the postoffice, caught my eye. It said, “If Thou Desire Rest, Desire Not Too Much.” What could be more suitable? Problems are the same aH over the country.”In Denver

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Mrs. Orville Ahring, indispensable lce-O-Rama secretary, checks records with her helper, Mrs. Harold Brown.

ing Trip To Switzerland

they had the jam at the polls that we suffered in our primary election. Their solution is fewer and larger precincts with two voting machines to each precinct or some 20 new precincts. It all sounded very like home though we are a jump ahead. In Salt Lake City a newspaper editorial welcomed the League of Women Voters, stressing that it was “no garden or bridge club.” Utah has been one of six states without the services of their organization and seems properly chagrined.

» . . City Exciting ALT LAKE CITY proved so fascinating that I am still in a daze. An organ concert in the Tabernacle, an hour in the Museum on the Temple grounds, where the household objects brought across the plains in the 1840s were especilly interesting, the impres-

sive “This Is the Place” mon-

ument, the trees of which 90 per cent have been planted, the very sophisticated shops and window decorations were absorbing. We even rode in the elevator with Charles Laughton and Charles Boyer who, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke and: Agnes Moorhead, were appearing at the University Theater:

Mr, Laughton was obviously ll and- we found on arrival here, where he was due to appear with the Vienna Choir Boys, that he was held. in Salt Lake City with flu,

Counter - Spy—

A Sew-Sew Week Comes

Budget Balancing Is Its Theme

By LOUISE FLETCHER

Times Woman's Editor FIRST AID for the budget gets a boost

this week as National

Sew and Save Week is observed. Any week in the year is saving week for the home seamstress . , . but she gets even more attention this week. Smart women — smart In dress as well as thrift—know that home sewing brings them BETTER clothes at kind-to-the-budget prices, At Block's, they have a graphic illustration of the thrift angle. In the fabrics department, they're showing a casual suit, complete with lining, made for less than $10—aad that includes pate tern, findings and velvet for collar: and cuffs. Fabric used in this price miracle is wrinkle-shed rayon suiting.

The Wool Look HERE'S a variety of these rayon suitings

in Block's fabric section.

They are especially notes worthy this spring because they're designed to look as much like wool as wool itsefs, In 39- to 44-inch Wisse they're $1.39 to $2 a yard, and .. in 54-inch width, $2.25 a yard. Also suitable for suits are rayon gabardines (44-inch width; $1.39 a yard) in pins

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