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Show PTA Groups Have Long Tradition of Improving Education Manti Messenger 2 Thursday, September 18, 1975 Friday Forum Series Begins at Blessed LDS Institute Events by Linnie Findlay There is a long tradition in Utah of people wanting a good education for their children, d ts Pre-Servi- Girl It's r, Visit New Grandson Mrs. Edda Cox and Mrs. Geneva Cox left by plane Friday September 12th for Selma, Alabama to assist and help welcome a new grandson. His parents are Bruce and Beth Ann (Cox) Ericksen. The baby weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces and was born September 10th. His name will be Steven Lynn. He has a sister to help welcome him also. DRAPERIES daigned with n.Jou in c'iind Practical & Economical Window Coverings or Luxurious Treatments with swags Austrians Decorative Rods, High Style Valances Bedspreads, etc. Large home. week nings To the Editor: We the people of the United States should refuse to allow ourselves to be taken in by the Local 4-H- ers Win Awards At State Fair Showing off skills was the name of the game for Utah this past week as they gathered at Utah State UniverState Contests, sity for the a part of the annual State Fair activities. The youths demonstrated their abilities in cooking, sewing, tractor driving, crop and livestock judging, public speaking, and home management arts. Approximately 350 of the youths chosen as outstanding in projects in their own communities made the trip to the Logan campus. A number of USU Extension staff members 4-- 4-- and volunteer leaders 4-- accompanied the teens. Federal Government. We ought not to bow to their enticing offers of security, wealth, and deliverance from labor. Should we continue to do so, we may someday awake and find that we have become so dependant upon the state for our support that we are helpless to do anything but stand around waiting for the next blessed handout from Almighty Government. History has shown that we tend to worship the government more than our Christmas, Columbus Day, etc., have been an integral part of the learning program through the years, often with the parents very much involved in making costumes, helping children learn their parts and then being a very appreciative audience. The role of parents has been much discussed and evaluated by the experts in recent more recently the years-a- nd to produce has been pressure focused on the schools. But whereever the pressure is, the goal is always the same: to help the child develop hisher potetuial to the fullest extent possible for each individual child. This goal, as stated to the God. What I am mainly refering to is the appalling number of students dependent on federal aid for their college education. For example, at Snow College last year, students receiving financial aid numbered 207. This amounted to $141,299 in student aid awards and $12,907 in Navajo scholarships. Financial aid is no longer regarded as assistance to the impoverished and ignorant, but rather as a competitive and . Legislative Assembly by John Taylor remains pretty much the same in all periods of time. He said: It is by this seemingly slow process of education, t, assisted by by the silent but all powerful influence and support of the family circle, by habits of industry, and aided by the Almighty, that our children can be elevated to all of the enjoyments and powers of useful citizenship. By 1897 efforts were being made on a state level in Utah to develop "closer relations between home and school, with a view to bringing these two president over parent groups from each school. General officers are President Ethelynn Higbee; Vice President protem, Ann Hill; Vice President (teachers representative) Enid Adams; Third Vice President, Superintendent Ron Everett; Secretary, Ruth Anderson; Legislative Representative, Darlene Anderson; Membership and Finance Commissioner, Lu Cheney; Historian, Helen Rosquist; with Dorothy Hunt High School President and Commissioner of Individual Development; Darlene Wintch, President Manti Elementary and Commissioner of Health and Welfare; Pat Foote, Ephraim Junior High President and Education Commissioner; Mary Jean Reid, Ephraim Elementary President and Commissioner for Services; and Gwen Dozier as Representative from Sterling. These officers are looking forward to a good year for our students in South Sanpete, and urge your participation in the organization, according to the tradition of our ancestors. Membership in your childs school unit of PTA may be obtained through October. Remember, you dont have to join PTA - You GET to. great education forces into more helpful cooperation, and in that same year a National lewis Congress of Mothers was organized. Utah organized a Congress of Mothers in 1898. Since that time an organization of school patrons has existed under one title or another, and in 1914 the State Parent-TeacheAssociation was organized. The 1975-- PTA organization in the area is organized with general officers, coordinated with a Mini-Ma- rt Gas & Dry Cleaning 259 No. Main St., Ephraim 283-456- Selection of Fabrics. Shop at Prices within your budget. 2 evedelivery. Call or anytime. 283-454- 1 'No Job Too Big or Too Small" Open for your convenience every day, Sundays and holidays, 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. 6 Groceries, Gas, lee, Newspapers, Hot Sandwiches, Fun Badges business. cut-thro- Counselors hired by college or university administrators are expected to do everything in their power to give the student as much money as possible. The student is then attracted to the particular institution on the basis of how much he can get for nothing and not by the academic standing of the Forty-seve- n of the youths attending competed in the Style Dress Revue, modeling outfits they had made themselves. The girls participating also modeled their clothes Saturday at the school. grandstand on the State Fair To parents with children Grounds. to receiving dole and to the The winner receives a trip in particular, I appeal students National for the Chicago of morality. You sense to of your the Conference, as do many other participants who are should be brought to the knowledge that federal aid to prooutstanding in their is wrong. Nowhere in education jects. is there proconstitution the The meal preparation contest made for such a is another feature of the vision contests--- a feature that is program. Government was not to one man especially enjoyed by the given the right rob child to to send another mans invited dinner guests. involved in this school. The We must stop teaching our contest prepare an entire meal for four persons. This years children that the whole purpose menues included stuffed beef and duty of the government is rolls, enchilada casserole and to look after and provide for their comforts and needs. This garlic lamb chops. Aromas from the kitchen in country was founded on the the Family Life building spread basic concept that work is a in the life of throughout the building, at- ruling principle and citizen, every citizen of every tracting many comments is to be allowed to keep what he smells sure good. "something earns. who Lets stop fooling each other. Sanpete County e State builds selfrespect, received honors in the Contests were: which in turn builds honesty, Clothing, Home Improve- integrity, and concern for ment and Related Demonstra-tions-Blu- e others. These traits buih ribbon class: Deena America and the lack of them is Bown and Sandra Bown. destroying her. The epidemic must cease. Welfare madness Insect Identification-Bl- ue ribbon class: Ron Hammond, must be cured. Denna Brown, and Kelly Frandsen. Respectfully, Home Economics Judging-Bl- ue Stanley E. Stebbins ribbon class: Deena Brown. BACK BY Public Speaking-T- op boy: POPULAR DEMAND Ronald Hammond. Specializing in (Lj) 2) and Lease Cars Semi-Nei- v 4-- t&eJc ftruceA' attcC (ay at (fawiny Blue Book Price L 'THctan Our Special Price 4-- 1973 BORN LOSERS ChevVfe-To- n 1972 Jeep CJS $3275 1973 Chev Impala $2950 A THE ORIGINAL SCREEN APPEARANCE OF TOM LAUGHLIN The Birch Log 1 as BILLY JACK Every Crop A Failure (iy John F. McManus The press is reportBelmont, Massachusetts ing massive Soviet crop failure. Accompanying these releases is the news that the Reds are engineering more grain purchases. Only three years ago, Americans saw the price of their bread, meat, dairy products, etc. shoot skyward, and the reason for the rise was of our grain crop had been sold that on credit to the Soviet Union. Every American family paid for that "deal. And the stage is set for a repeat performance. one-thir- d Should We Feed Communist Governments? When the spectre of hunger is paraded before Americans, the response is to supply food. The fact that the recipient might be a Communist government is rarely considered. Anyone caught harboring doubts about the wisdom of supplyeven to a ing food when hunger strikes is quite likely to be susCommunist nation pected of being a worse ogre than any Communist ever was. Yet, it is the height of naivete to believe that shipment to a Communist nation of goods of any kind, even food, helps those whom the ordinary American wants to help. Communism, after all, is total rule by the state. No one can deal with a citizen in a Communist state except through that state's government. So all the goods that are supplied pass first through government hands, and then go where governa situation which strengthens ment chooses the hands of the rulers and further enslaves the captives. Supplying food to a Communist government now a prevailing American custom which is no less abhorshows little sign of waning rent than supplying bullets. It may in fact be worse than supplying bullets because of the standard Communist practice of using food as a weapon to subjugate a people. But Why The Crop Failures? Consistently lost in the current reports is the 2 4-- Gay Towt's Cuito m Mary Jane Dil worth in Salt Lake City in 1847, and in the first decade after the settlers came to Manti parent discussion groups were organized. According to history, the group in Manti was one of the earliest parent groups in the state. Some may remember when teachers lived with members of the community, and school programs based on special themes such as Thanksgiving, Letter to the Editor Garth Monson, director of DaUghterWelcomed the Ephraim LDS Institute of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur (Loene) Religion announces that its Kiesel became the parents of a this for series Forum Friday baby girl. She school year will begin on was born at the Gunnison 26. Friday, Sept. 14. This is a lecture series of Valley Hospital on Sept. The little miss has and stimulating a outstanding brother, Chris, speakers from all over the state, to welcome her home. of out from and occasionally Grandparents are Mrs. Nila state. The Forum begins at Alvin 12:00 noon and it is held for 50 Kiesel and Mr. and Mrs. of Manti. both Beal, minutes. include Mr. Ivan Following are the speakers and the dates they will be Squire, Clarion; Mrs. Niels P. Nielson, Gunnison; and Mr. speaking: and Mrs. Elbert Beal, Salt Lake 26: Paul Warner, September City. The new arrival also has Supervisor, B.Y.U. two L. 3: ThomOctober Vaughn Mrs. Irene Beal of Salt Lake as, faculty member, Ephraim City and Mrs. Elizabeth PeterLDS Institute. October 10: Don J. Black, son of Spring City. seminary teacher and author. a October 17: Roger Baker, Director of Counseling & High Mr. and Mrs. Lyman (Polly) School Relations, Snow ColWillardson are the parents of a lege. 6 pound 11 ounce, dark haired October 24: General Maurice daughter, who was born SepL. Watts, Adjutant General, tember 8 in the Mt. Pleasant State of Utah. October 31: Angus Belliston, Hospital. Fifteen month old twin brothers, Ben and Burl, Vice President, Zions 1st are being cared for by the A1 National Bank, Salt Lake. Green family while the mother November 7: Special Guest, recovers from the cesearean to be announced later. section that was performed. November 14: Sue Marie Suzette is the name chosen Young, Executive Officer of for the baby. L.A. Young & Sons ConstrucMr. and Mrs. Sessions tion. Willardson of Logan now have November 21: Howard Ran-iefour grandchildren, Mr. and American Indian Services Mrs. Jack R. Crane, of and Research, BYU. Montpelier, Idaho have eight. December 5: General authorPaternal ity, speaker and subject to be Alice S. Willardson, has four announced. dark-haire- and of parents who are concerned with the progress of their children in school. The first school was organized by 1972 Ford Gal. 500 real reason for one crop failure after another in the Soviet Union. No one seems willing to publish the fact that the Communistsocialist system is bound to come up with shortages. The denial of property rights, including the right to keep or freely dispose of the fruits of ones labor, guarantees less productivity because incentive to produce is absent. And so, instead of a crop, Communists get a crop failure. 1 The Lesson Of Plymouth Colony This basic lesson has been learned over and over again throughout history. One excellent example is the experience of the first settlers of Plymouth Colony in the early 1620s. Blind idealism had led the Pilgrims to adopt a collective system, under which everyone was to work according to his ability and then draw from the common storehouse what he needed. Plymouth's collectivism (no different from Communism or socialism) resulted in failure, and even in starvation for some. So Plymouth Colony changed the system. Governor William Bradford could then write in his diary: When the system of private ownership was established became the rule, the housewife and came out of her kitchen, and the children gave up some of their play time, so the family could produce more, and have more, and live better. The people were now motivated to work harder because the fruits of their labors, and the were responsibility for their own theirs. No one has ever developed a better incentive. No one ever will. well-bein- Helping Reds Not Humanitarianism The failure of Communismsocialism is obvious, and the reason for its failure ought to be equally apparent. Yet our government continues to bail the Reds out of each problem, and the American people are told that such perfidy is humanitarianism. Its about time we opened our eyes and stopped supplying tyrants with anything. Copyright 1975 by The John Birch Society Features A.M. ON KSVC RADIO USTEN TO THE ALAN STANG SHOW, MON. 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