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Show x, The Payson Chronicle, Payson, Utah NationallP.T.A. Finds Varied Ways To jMeetlRange of CliildreiTs Needs Major goals are the same in some 47,000 P.T.A.s of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, even though ways of approaching them are as diverse as the various communities. In Alaska, where children leave for school in the dark and return home in the dark, every child carries a flashlight. To attend P.T.A. meetings the president of the Alaska Congress of Parents and Teachers frequently travels hundreds of miles per day in country where temperatures may stay around 25 below zero for weeks at a stretch. She can reach many communities only by small plane. In Hawaii, the autumn ripening of the coffee crop makes fall the season for summer vacation from school. The stateB locale makes the Hawaii Congress president an accessible consultant to parents and educators who fly in from Southeast Asia to learn more about the P.T.A. American schools in Europe take advantage of their location to offer foreign language studies in elementary grades and to hold joint classes with native children. P.TA.s in the European Congress of American Parents and Teachers are concerned, too, with problems of establishing residence for children of U.S. servicemen and government employes applying for admission to stateside colleges. areas g Here in these as well as in all the areas where 47,000 P.T.A.s serve, each local unit of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers adapts its own program to fit the needs of its youngsters. This is the way of the P.T.A., savs Mrs. Clifford N. Jenkins, of Koslyn Heights, L.I., N.Y., who now heads the organization as National Congress president. We have one essential objective as an organization, she mid-oce- an far-flun- Mrs. Clifford N. Jenkins, president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. . Phone CLIP-O- MICROPHONE see and hear the new Concord 107 tape recorder priced at only. . . Children of every age and heritage are the concern of the P.T.A., as the National Congress of Parents and Teachers this fall schedules a new membership effort aimed at adding more workers to the P.T.A. team that now includes more than 12,000,000. notes. It is the welfare of dren. But our individual chilap- - proaches to promoting their g may vary as widely as do the children themselves. Thi3 fall the National Congress is scheduling a new membership effort to enroll more well-bein- parents, teachers, other in P.T.A. people interested persons QpflVlflPfl They will find local pro- grams challenging and vital, Mrs. Jenkins promises, because P.TA. activities center around the needs of each community and the children who are its future. In Alaska, for example, the Congress of Parents and Teachers, concerned about education for children of homesteaders, is currently urging a study of road maintenance in outlying areas, so that children in isolated spots may be assured of passable routes to school. Getting to school is a real problem, even in areas, according to Mrs. Robert C. Cole, who heads the Alaska Congress. Her home in Spenard is only eight miles from Anchorage, but morning and evening she sends the family dog along to protect her two children from wild moose that roam the woods area between in the quarter-mil- e home and bus stop. P.T.A.s in the nation's newest state are seeking to preserve' Hawaiian culture in terms of dances, language, and music. Mrs. Teruo Yoshina, of Honolulu, president of the Hawaii Congress, sees this interest as an important segment of Hawaiian P.T.A. activity. Another aspect of the states P.T.A. program its emphasis on adult education is of special interest to the groups from Thailand, Pakistan, India, Cambodia, and Indochina who have been enterwell-settl- ed nations where the European Congress of American Parents and Teachers functions; but its president, J. Gordon Smock, finds that educators abroad are anxious to cooperate in joint programs to help American youngsters learn more about the culture and people of the countries in which they are living. Meeting problems of a more conventional nature is typically P.T.A. as well, Mrs. Jenkins points out. For example, The parking problems of some 500 students who drive to school daily at Elkhart (Ind.) High School recently gave rise to a P.T.A. survey of available in the Earking spacestudents now have maps showing free and metered space, all within easy walking distance. Lack of a library in one of the elementary schools in Fords, N. J., was corrected through P.T.A. effort. Nearly 1,000 books were collected, indexed, and installed in shelves built by a P.TA.. father. Library serviceis dispensed by some of the P.T.A. mothers, Firearms safety is taught in special classes arranged by the Scottsdale Tavan (Ariz.) P.T.A., with safe hunter badges awarded to youngsters who complete training given by expert riflemen. An unprotected walk on a highway bridge, a twice-dail- y hazard in Boise, Idaho, for some 75 Whittier School pupils, got the P.T.A.s attention. Now a protective railing, erected by the state highway makes the safe department, route a well-travel- ed one. In any of these situations, says Mrs. Jenkins, the P.T.A. first sees and then serves a local need. Service to communities and to children everywhere will tained there during recent continue to grow as more and more persons join the P.T.A. lomonths. Parent-teachcooperation is cal, state, and national something new in most of the er CASE The new Concord 107, a great new advance in tape recorders, is lightweight (only 20 pounds) . , . really portable. Yet it has true sound qaulity, performance, and more features than tape recorders selling for many times more. high-fideli- ty Outstanding quality and performance. n Equipped with the Concord direct drive mechanism no belts. Electrimatic remote control adds to ease of operation and versatility. Dual-tracdual speed . . . plays 4 hours on single reel of tape. ... ultra-precisio- k, GEAN'S PHOTO SHOP Phone 465-222- 4 754-3- 621 November It is our stakes remember? month We are half way through the how are we doing, month do you suppose, in our percentage of attendance to our meetings and other church assignments? Lets more than try this last half, shall we? Thanksgiving is today - Thursday, November 23rd. 1 hope we are all thankful for all of Gods blessings, and in tiie enjoyment of a Thanks giving repast, let us not for get to thank God for His ever watchful care and kindness to us! This week I have been thinking of missionaries. When awoke to a white world of I thought of them splendor again and prayed for their comfort and warmth. The snow is glorious and beautiful, but can be uncomfortable and discouraging to a missionary. Cun we help? Why not cheer them up Cy gettirg that -- EARPHONE CARRYINB Stake 1007c REMOTE CONTROL MONITOR Growth Notes in By Beulah G. Bradley these iccessories included at ne extra cost: EXTRA REEL 23, 1961 Santaquin-Tinti- c the new 107 tape recorder with electrimatic remote control PATCH CORD Thursday, November Pavson. Utah long-delay- like motors. They start sputtering before they miss, and start missing before they finally quit. Hope aU of our motors are of the reliable kind, dont you ? Attention! Ward Genola Relief Society Bazaar is to be held Dec. 1 at the Ward house, with a free Turkey Dinner at 6:30 p.m. A special colored film for all will folliw at 8 p.m. and Bazaar items, including hand wark, aprons, ither Christmas gifts, and candy and baked goods departments A fish pond will .be also featured. Sister Ruth Drapper, president, urges all to be in attendance. Heres your opportunity for lovely gift We are asked to remind each of you that it is urgent renew subscriptions to the Improvement Era now, if you to receive the glorious November issue featuring 16 pages of color on the Holy Land, pictures, maps, etc. of our Savior. Remember, this a fine missionary itself. Why not give it for Christmas and Birthday gifts? We are urged to order 6 weeks prior to expirotion dates. Well heres a note to remAll officers and ember teachers of the stake and wards of Sunday School, Primary, MIA, and Relief Societies are urged to bring their partners and be at the Organizational Party and Christmas Social on Dec. 16, at Stake Center at 7:30 p.m. Plans will include a wonderful social evening. Please circle that date, and reserve that night. Stake Rcl. Soc. Leadership meeting was held Thlrsday, with Prea. Jennie Murdoch presiding. Counselor Helen Smith conducting, and at ional thought. Department; work followed. Weve had the opportunity this week to go to the temple on Wednesday and Friday We are far from filling our assignment for the year quota, Lets go to the temple on day-i- s time and evening excursion Dec. 1, leaving Stake Center at 5:45 Tuesday is always High Priests Assignment Day, and Wed. Dec. 13, is a daytime excursion. Last Tuesday, Nov. 21, the First Ward Relief Society held a Visiting Teachers Social in connection with the regular class period. A good crowd attended. Newly organized, their officer personnel is: Sister Marie Peterson, president, with counselors, Naomi Greenhalgh, Wanda Sorensen, Sec. LaDora Brady, Work Director, Nellie Nelsen, assistant Adele Stanley, Work Lesson, Alberta Ferre, Theology, Lave r n Johnson, Literature, Helen Backman; So. So., Kate Ella Armstrong; Magazine, Miles; Garment, Harriet Hudence Lamb giving the inspir- - son; Food Chairman, Larue Jarvis; Program, Dorothy Jas-t- o person; Gifts, Emma Wall; Quilts, Florence Smith; Choir-wis- h ister, Ida Greenhalgh, Organ- ist, Sandra Armstrong; and Visit Teachers Topic, Olive Greenhalgh. Newly organized officers of Second Ward Relief Society are: Myrle Butler, president; and Mary Helen Butler, Roberts; sec. Dot York; Theology, Dessa Horrocks; Lit, Florence Lamb; Visiting Teacher Topic, Idonna Crook; Social Science, Josephine Crook; Work Lesson, Laura Westover; Work Director Thora Ross; Food Chairman, Wanda Greenhalgh: Flowers Edith Tischner; Garments, Leah Opensbaw, Choirister, Viv ian Roberts, Organist Sherla Bingham. Thought For The Week: Tho eyes of the world are upen us as a church we must be the very best type of people we cm be living close to the principles we are taught. Flor-givin- g. Z TRY THE CHRONICLE WANT ADS w ed letter of encourage- ment off to them right away? You can go with a mission-ai- y by helping him financially and with spiiitual love and kind personal letters. In our column this week, I wanted v.:y much to list our missionaries names and addresses, but since this fell through, wont you please contact your missionary committee or Bishopric, and get the names of those you should write to, and get that Christmas message and card off to them now? Overseas cards can be airmailed later but packages must go now! Dont be sony that you procrastinated too vZ7 INPAYSON A Contest About Your Neighbors THIS WEEK'S PRIZE MONEY - long. Yesr-Ware enjoying our let us temporal blessings others needs of the with help and continue to build our Eternal Home. We must stir our hearts in passion, for the needs of Gods childrei in Let us, this Ththe world and month, Day anksgiving both joyously and willingly give to the downtrodden, the afflicted. God needs us to help His special emmissaries, His missionaries. Wont you s20.00 e DEPOSIT THIS WEEK'S ENTRIES WITH V V V V help? Speaking of Missionaries, a lovely Farewell Testimonial was held last Sunday, Nov. ember 19, in Genola, for Elder Richard Murdoch son of Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Murdoch. He leaves Nov. 27 for the Mission Home. May his efforts prove fruitful and heart satisfying. Remember Richard a happy missionary is a working missionary! Recently at a Farewell Testimonial I had the opportunity to hear the words, In 1955 we had 21,000 converts to the church. If that rate of increase continues this year, we will have 100,000 converts. Zion, is indeed growing. May all of you who serve as missionaries for the church have joy and satisfaction in your mission labors, and may we help them with a letter for Christmas. An Individual Award Banquet was held in Sai.taquin Second Ward recently to honor these award winning girls Parents of the girls were also in attendance. Special speaker for the evening was Mrs. Grace Fielding, of Payson, whose theme was centered around the This is scriptural thought, Life Eternal, that they might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. She challenged the girls to cleave to the teachings of Christ as a pattern of living, Live your life as saying, though Christ were walking by your side." President Carl A. Patten spoke to the girls on values of achievement and presented Individual Awards to: Kathy Higginson, Diane Smith, Janice Tischner, DeAnn Bolt, Eileen Cloward, Kathleen Hudson, Marie Martell, Carol Van Ausdal, Becki Fowkes, Vicki Fowkes, Velda Greenhalgh, Nila Peart, Ann Butler, Sally Chadwick, Shirley Johnson, Shirley Lamb, Betty Ann Robbins, and Leila Greenhalgh. MIA Joy awards were presented to: Becki and Vicki Fowkes. Junioir Laurelette awards were given: Ann Butler, Sally Chadwick, Shirley Johnson, Shirley Lamb, and Joyce Robbins. Leila Greenhalgh was presented with the outstanding Golden Medallion Award, which she received from having 7, Individual awards previously. I truly liked the Straight Is The Gate message this month from our sake presidency, It says, Quitters in church are 7 |