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Show LADIES FROM MILFORD, BEAVER ATTEND USU LEADERSHIP SCHOOL By Sofia Ann Yardley "Leadership School for Women" was held at Utah State University at Logan Oct. 2 to 5. Attending At-tending from Beaver County were Ruby Grim-shaw Grim-shaw and Sofia Ann Yardley, Beaver; and Hilda O'Leary and lone Baxter, Milford- "Home Management Your Home, the Background for Gracious Living"; "Foods and Nutrition; New Trends in Food Technology and Your Family's Food"; "Clothing Modern Fabrics Fab-rics Are Different"; "What's New" and "Clothes for the Handicapped"; and Safety "Traffic Safety" "Safety for Older People" and "Organizing "Organiz-ing an Action Program." As a special treat the final night Leon Techinin, University Univer-sity of California Extension Service, talked on his trip to Russia during the World's Fair, when he went over to talk to the Russian people about the Americans. He stated the main questions they asked about Americans was "Why do the American people want wars?" and "Why do you need three cars"? "They are looking for the same thing we are," he said, "peace and freedom." l w p i . i I II , ! itsiwhwiii The theme for the 4-day event was "Values "Val-ues in Living." Monday evening the group had the privilege of listening to Mrs. Esther Peterson, Assistant Assist-ant to the Secretary of Labor. She talked on "The Outlook for Women's Employment." The average working woman works to supplement the family income, in-come, and not for the love of working. The lower income brackets produce more working work-ing mothers. Young wives working for a while after they are married is popular also Tuesday morning a symposium sympo-sium of three working women talked on how they were able to manage home, family and work outside the home. Mrs. Bessie Lemon works as a home agent. She has support of husband hus-band and children in maintaining main-taining their home. They plan special nights together so they have the companionship they need. Each member having a specific job had a feeling of importance and belonging. Mrs. D. Wynn Thome is a social worker and has been able to work in community positions po-sitions such as being president of Logan City Board of Education Edu-cation by having cooperation of family in doing specific jobs. She does her community work in the mornings and cleans her home in the afternoon. after-noon. Each stated the importance of deciding what standards in housekeeping are important and still keeping the spirit of "gracious living in the home." Dr. Gene S. Jacobsin in one meeting on gracious living, told how with his wife also working work-ing they were able to achieve "gracious living." The two older children practice their music in the morning. One gets ready as the other practices. prac-tices. His wife gets younger child ready for school as Dr. Jacobsin gets breakfast with help of son. The family as a whole planned meals together and the wife did the shopping. By achieving the things they wanted they thought nothing of leaving the dishes in the sink to be on time for school. In" the afternoons the women went as different groups to |
