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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES Canners Assn. Chief Cites Dangers in Packaging Legislation Guide for Parents Tells How to Encourage Child's Schooling Parents who feel stymied by new teaching methods can find comfort in the advice that you can help 'your child in school without becoming .expert at the new math. There are many ways of encouraging a childs learning and they dont necessarily mean helping him with homework. An illuminating discussion of this subject in contained in "How to Help Your Child in School, by Robert Sunley, a new Public Affairs Pamphlet. It is available for 25 cents from the Public Affairs Committee, 381 Park Ave. Page Thirteen FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1966 best in the home. But home, too, is where the child experiences the stresses and tensions of everyday family life. These need not be destructive experiences, for the child "can learn that conflicts do occur, but that his parents are able to handle them. . . . In contrast, when a parent handles problems by evasion or avoidance or scorn, the child too begins to follow the pattern . . . (which may be reflected in) difficulty in school as well. While Mr. Sunley stresses the contribution to a childs learning which takes place in the life at home, he considers parents contacts with the school important too. "Most parents now do go to school conferences, welcoming the chance to discuss their child with the teacher . . . (through this) the child senses that his parents care about his school life and feel responsibility for it; and that his teacher is trying to develop more of a feel- Creativeness and ingenuity in the packaging field, and even variety of selection, could suffer to the disadvantage of the consumer if "fair packaging and labeling legislation pending in Congress were to become law. This warning was issued here by W. Ennis Parker, president of the National Canners Association and president of Pomona Products Company, Griffin, Ga., in a talk before the annual convention of the Rocky Mountain Canners Association. Mr. Parker was referring to S. 985 (Senate bill), which was introduced in the last session of Congress by Sen. Philip A. Hart and which is being studied by the Senate Commerce Committee behind closed doors this week. Besides possibly curtailing efforts to appeal to the buyer through packaging innovations, the "Hart bill could result in higher costs, thus bringing a disservice to the very person the bill purports to benefit the consumer, Mr. Parker asserted. He pointed out as an example that the bill could require packaging in even weights. If applied to the canning industry, he explained, the result would be many more can sizes and higher unit costs. For instance, he said, a pound of canned applesauce would take a different size can than a pound of cranberry sauce, because of the varying specific gravities. Mr. Parker declared that adequate law is already on the books for the government to act against "any who are not fair and truthful in packaging and labeling activities. He pointed to the canning industrys outstanding record of close cooperation with government in fostering voluntary compliance in packaging and labeling matters, recalling that Sen. Hart and other legislators have complimented the industry on such achievements. "However, though the Hart bill may not be aimed at our industry, we could be caught up in the uncertainty of interpretation, the writing of new regulations, and other unknown elements which could greatly disrupt the splendid relationship we have had with the appropriate government agencies in the past. He continued:. "Our industry has devoted enormous amounts of time and larjge sums of money to work in the interest of the consumer in the packaging and labeling fields. He said that such a sweeping measure as recommended by Sen. Hart "could undermine the constructive work done through years of painstaking effort by the National Canners Association. South, New York, N.Y. 10016. Mr. Sunley, assistant director of the Family Service Association of Nassau County, New York, touches oh some questions that parents ask: Should I help my child with his homework? What do I do about a bad teacher? What do I do if I dont like what the teacher teaches, or the approach of the school generally What can I do when the teacher says my child is imma- ing for him as an individual ture, or not working up to po- child. . . . Another area of partential? ental contact with the school is He is, however, primarily con- through school-base- d activities. This mean PTA cerned with how parents use may work, being their unique opportunity to help a class mother, assisting on trips. the child "bridge the gap be- .... The child needs to see and tween what he is taught in school feel that his parents do care, and the real world around him. however little he understands of This can be done through such this at first. "How to Help Your Child in activities as visiting parks, factories, construction work, muse- School is No. 381 in the Public ums; through learning at home Affairs Pamphlet series, now in from hobbies such as rock col- its 30th year. The series inlecting and word games and cludes many other distinguished other games that stimulate titles covering family relations, thinking, vocabulary, the power social and economic problems, of association. Such learning can health and science, and interbe fun, without concern for "set group relations. All pamphlets standards of progress or achieve- sell for 25 cents each; a list is available upon request. ment. In such activities, and in considering a childs progress in Permanent Press Must school, Mr. Sunley reminds par- Iron Out Wrinkles ents that children learn at varied Permanent press is a paces and in different styles. It boon to the textile industrygreat is important for parents to be still has some wrinkles to but be flexible in their expectations, to ironed out and shouldnt you "sense their childs individuality throw iron. So conaway your and style. At the same time he cludes "A Built-i- n Press for Your recognizes that "schools can be Clothes, a recent Readers Diflexible only to a point. Children to Consumers. who cannot in some way master gest Report Says the article, by Don Wharwhat is required must be con- ton: "Two years ago there was sidered 'learning problems. The not even the name permanent help of the teacher and other press. Today the term is domiprofessionals may be indicated nant in mens casual and work then. pants, has spread into mens a challenge Others see think dress and sports shirts, women's s, ing as a taxing experience and and childrens garments, attito it. avoid Similar rainstruggle jackets, pajamas, tudes prevail about learning: coats. some use it to show off; some Permanent press (or durable see it as hard, unpleasant work; press, as its sometimes known) some feel it is a joy and privi- got its start about a dozen years lege. ago when a small San Francisco All these attitudes, which can sportswear manufacturer, Koret "Responsibility in the form of of California, set out to make chores, Mr. Sunley believes, "is womens skirts with lasting one way in which parents try to pleats. They made a skirt from develop good work habits in their cotton fabric, impregnated it children. As a child advances in with a mixture of special resins licensed to use Koratron. It is school, his ability to do his work, and baked it in an oven. The estimated that nearly half of to plan time, to apply himself chemical reaction caused the all mens and boys slacks sold meaningfully, to give up at times skirt to retain its pleats and re- this year will be permanent-pres- s, as will more than one other activities for work, all be- sist wrinkle formation. Koret patented the process fourth of all dress and sports come increasingly important. undue under the name Koratron, then shirts. But he warns against But the new process is not exteamed up with a South Carolina stress on orderliness at the without problems, notes the Dig firm, the grasp and pense of good over-a- ll Co., and with Levi gest article. Permanent press spontaneity, for 'that can take the spark out of the free and Strauss, the famed manufacturer fabrics lack absorption qualities, spontaneous process necessary of Levis. The three companies thus may not be ideal for work worked for more than a year clothes if the job is a sweaty for creative work. Permanent press can deThe relationship between par- and spent well over a million one. alent and child is the, key to how dollars to perfect ttfe process. crease wearing of qualities,needthe lack iroping the child develops responsibility. The result: in February 1964 though can ed permanencompensate. And permathe first "Perhaps of crucial importance, t-press nent press items should be tumblegarments began ap- -dried Mr. Sunley believes, is the value or hung up dripping the parent places on thinking pearing in retail stores. wet for best results. Today business is booming. and on the conditions necessary for thinking. . . . For some, think- All 17 major U.S. fabric producOurs is the only country dein permanent ing is an exhilarating exercise, ers are involved founded on a good contribute significantly to class- press, and by last fall 190 gar- liberately room achievement, are learned ment manufacturers had been idea. bed-sheet- Gra-nitevil- fabric-producin- mass-produce- d, le (D-Mic- h.) so-call- ed Soil A Vital Resource Moss Amendment Of Farms and Cardens Would Benefit Roads for Forests Soil; deep, fertile and well-drainis needed for profitable farming arid productive gardens. Flowing water following rains carries away soil,, forming ditches in fields and garden plots. At homesites, even when you start with good soil, bulldozers push it ruthlessly aside, or bury it deeply under construction debris. Regardless of what you have or started with, you can do much to improve soil fertility. Add ground limestone as a conditioner. Increase water holding capacity by mixing in organic ed Sen. Frank E. Moss said Tuesday that he will offer amendments to the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1966 "so that adequate funds can be authorized to greatly increase the construction of Forest Development Roads and Trails. Sen. Moss last year wrote to the President asking that approval be given by the Administration for an increase in the biennial authorization to provide an annual expenditure of $150 million for forest roads and trails and development roads."The Administration has instead asked only $85 million for fiscal year 1968 and $110 million for fiscal year 1969, Sen. Moss said. "I will ask the Senate Committee on Public Works, of which I am a member, to increase this (D-Uta- h) - . materials. Keep sloping land in sod to prevent erosion. Feed your crops In late commercial fertilizers. manure summer, plant green crops, like domestic ryegrass, for winter cover. Follow these practices a few years, and you'll get rich, friable soil in fields and gardens. To teach, you more about soil care, The Pennsylvania State University, offers a correspondence course called Soil Fertility and Management. Anyone can enroll by sending his name, address and $2.50 to Soil Fertility, Box 5000, University Park, Pa. 16802. The entire course will be sent to you by mail. ' authorization to $150 million so that such important forest roads as the Skyline Recreation Way in the Manti and LaSal National Forests of Utah can be improved. This road is passable now only in good weather if driven carefully, but it by no means meets the road standards required for a scenic highway which carries heavy travel, Sen. Moss said. "The Skyline Recreation Way traverses, in its length, the broad summit of the Wasatch . He also noted that the develPlateau, and presents a pano- opment of valuable Federal timrama of five mountain ranges ber reserves is slowed because through three states. There are of a lack of roads into prime some 17 lakes timbering areas. and numerous streams with exThe Senate Public, Works cellent recreation potential Committee has scheduled hearwhich can be reached only by ings in May oh the Federal Aid packing in, Sen. Moss said Highway Act of 1966, Sen. Moss said. At that time,. he will ask Tuesday. Sen. Moss said that funding the Committee .to accept his the forest roads program is now amendments.. $18 million below its planned I think all ihis talk about age level, and that "the 89th Conmust move to correct now foolish. Every time Im one is gress the deficiencies in this impor- year older, everyone else is too. . , 100-mi- high-mounta- le in . , tant program. Glori aSwanson. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY 86 PROOF O DAHT NSTIUnS 00, H.Y, VL |