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4.v 1 I J I 'i 'S 3 TEN The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday. October 25, 1979 Story teller turns adults into children at library ! J Pat Freehan, the Oregon state librarian from Eugene, made a group of about 20 adults turn into little children at the Heppner Library last Thursday night and she didn't even use witchcraft. She gave a seminar on the art of stor -Ming and she displayed hci effective tech niques by motivating her audience into remembering their earlier years. It is surprising what a group, composed mostly of women, will do when confronted with an effective story teller. In a participation story she told, the group ducked from swoop ingbats, climbed through cob webs, meowed like a cat and s.iid "boooo" like the boogie man. Freehan opended the two-and-one-half hour program by talking about the use of characters on a flannel board to make a story more interest ing to children. She recom mended developing a story theme and finding books to use that l elate to that theme. "Learning stories is hard work," she said. "Look at books and think of your own things to do to make them interesting to the children and yourself." When she tells stories, Freehan likes to use visual aids and participation stories. She tells stories where she draws something when telling it or cuts figures in folded paper to visulize the story while she describes it. Be tween stories, she said she likes to tell riddles and sing songs to keep the children involved. "I always tell my kids not to tell if they know the ending (to a story)" Freehan said when someone in the group hinted about the end of one of her stories. Freehan likes to use a flannel board when she tells a story. A flannel board can be made out of felt, ceiling tile or cardboard. She said felt is the most expensive but it will last long and does not rip. The material of the board mst be lightweight so it will not, "Knock you out cold if it falls over," Freehan said. Freehan said she does not like plywood as a flannel board because you cannot stick pins in it. She said she saw a flannel board with a flannel covering on it for the first time recently and so she finally figured out how it got its name. Since it is close to Hallo ween, Freehan told her audi ence the story of the "Humbug Witch." She talked with em phasis and she showed the pictures in the book and drew laughs from her pupils. "I have to like a story because if I think it is dumb, I can't do it," she said. Her favorite stories are from Mother Goose. UONA't C.I H( INZUA t U 1 V "-.' J . ... "? V' ft 3f .71 l-Z IE;. Jl "If there weren't any other stories in the world, I would want to have Mother Goose," Freehan said. "They have something for every age. Some first graders think they are too big for Mother Goose so I use a flannel board to make it more interesting for them." Freehan likes to use puppets in story telling. She makes storybook characters puppets from familiar stories. "A puppet is anything you move with your hands," Freehan said. "It does not have to elaborate. You can make a puppet out of card board, polyester, wool, a sock, felt or even a paper bag." Freehan said, when telling a story, "Keep it simple and do not lose sight of the audience." She passed out about 12 handouts on the art of story telling. One of the handouts gave some advice. It said to focus the interest of your audience in the first sentence to make them want to listen. Put yourself in the mood of the story. Phrase the story in language within the mental grasp of the audience but do not talk down to your audience. It continued to suggest that story tellers learn the art of pausing at the right moment. Gauge the effectiveness of your presentation by watching the faces of your audience. Be frank with the children about stories and never tag a moral on a story. The storytelling techniques that were taught by Freehan are being used at the Heppner Library storyhour for pre schoolers Thursday mornings from 10:30-11:00. Vietnam vets use GI Bill Vietnam Era veterans have been the greatest participants in GI Bill training with 65 percent of those eligible hav ing taken some form of training, compared with 50.5 percent and 43.4 percent, respecitively, for World War II and Korean Conflict veterans. ;-;- U I lllfx,.. - HIMM 111(11. a II WMnftupMM- " ' 5 f J- s 5 CS35 I S5E23 lone High School Fetes Homecoming SPELL-BINDING Pat Freehan, Oregon state librarian from Eugene, conducts a seminar in Heppner on story-telling techniques. lone High School is celebra ting Homecoming this week with events scheduled for every day. Monday was the "Roaring 50's" dress up day with students coming to school dressed like the Fonz and other dudes. Tuesday was "Storybook Day" with the students dres sing up like Raggedy Ann and other storytime characters. Wednesday was Hobo Day and everyone got to be a bum. Today is Halloween Day at lone High School. At noon, there will be a guzzling contest (what can they guzzle?) There will also be an apple bobbing contest and a pizza feed tonight from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. There will also be a hayride tonight at 7 and a bonfire at 7:30. Tomorrow is red, white and black day (the school colors) and students will show their spirit with a downtown pep rally at 1 p.m. There will be a powderpuff football game at 11 a.m. A continental break fast begins the day at 7:30 a.m. The marching band will perform before the Homecom ing football game at 7:10 with the game scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. The Home coming game is against Echo. After the game, there will be a dance from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the cafeteria for students and alumni of lone. The Blue Mountain Club Disco will play the music. Religious ceremony Halloween not always a time of trick or treat Next Wednesday is Hallo ween and Heppner will be filled with witches, ghosts and goblins of all shapes and sizes but Oct. 31 was not always such a scary time. Halloween actually means "hallowed" or "holy eve ning." Halloween used to be a religious ceremony but it is not considered a very reli gious time today. Today, it is thought of mostly as a fun time for children to dress up and go door to door to get goodies. The real meaning of Hallo ween has been lost, evening on the eve of the All Saints Day, a Christian festi val. In the 700's, the Roman Catholic Church named All Saints Day Nov. 1. Many superstitions have come about from Halloween. In Ireland, the tale of the origin of jack-o'-lanterns came about. The tale says that a man named Jack could not enter the kingdom of heaven because he was a miser. He could not enter Hell because he had played practical jokes on the devil. So Jack had to walk around the earth with a jack-o'-lantern until judge ment day. Another superstition, this time in Scotland, says that children born on Halloween night converse with superna tural beings during their lives. The Druids, an ancient order of priests from Gaul and Britain, believed that on Halloween night, ghosts, spir its, fairies, witches and elves came out to harm people. Druids would light fires to keep the spirits of the dead away. Other people believed cats were sacred because they had once been humans but were changed to cats as a punish ment for evil deeds. Early in United States history, Halloween was a night of harmless pranks. In later years, the pranks be came not so harmless as kids began to overturn sheds, break windows and damage other types of property. Hal loween night became one of the busiest nights of the year for policemen. Halloween today is a combi nation of the events of these earlier times, Cats, jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, tricks and treats and supernatural be ings all are still around but Halloween started as a reli gious ceremony. ail .or 1 0 '1 ;J 11 J Wm A Local Heppner stores, like the Shoe Box, are getting into the Halloween spirit. New law restricts telephone sales activity 1111 nun 11 r' I Hoctster club president Jim Swanson, Kinzua's Dan Sweeney and lone High School principal Chuck Starr congratulate each other about the new scoreboard. A new law law requires a follow-up signed contract for magazine sales made over the telephone and will require telephone salespeople to fully explain why they are calling within the first 30 seconds of the conversation. Caroline Wilkins, Consumer Services Division administra tor, said the new law (SB 133) is a major step in providing consumer protection for per sons who buy magazines and periodicals over the phone. Kinzua donates scoreboard to lone The law states the seller must send written contract to the buyer, who must sign and return the contract, before the magazine sale becomes bind ing. "Consumers now will have a chance to look more closely at a magazine deal that sounds to good to be true over the telephone," Wilkins said. The Division sought the legislation last winter when reports of losses from magazine deals in the $200-$500 range were being received every third day by the aenecv. she added. The new law also requires any person who solicits cus tomers by telephone to state within the first 30 seconds: 1. The salesperson's name and who he or she represents 2. The purpose of the contact 3. An easily-understood de scription of the goods or services being offered. The salesperson also in that time must ask the potential buyer if he would like to listen to the sales presentation and must immediately discontinue the conversation if the poten tial buyer does not want to listen further. A similar law already is in existence for door-to-door sales; The new law also requires the salesperson to disclose the total cost of the goods ' SAVE YOUR DEER ELK CATTLE FOR THE ELK HIDE PROGRAM BPOE 358 It are your fiirff s at: Jerry's Mobil Elks Parking lot Heppner Chevron Hides are used in the Vet's Hospital programs. The Kinzua Corp. donated a brand new scoreboard to lone H gh School at the beginning of the home football season. The scoreboard cost $1,700. Volunteers put up the score board and Columbia Basin Electric Co-operataive hooked it up. Jim Swanson, president of the lone Cardinals booster club, talked to Dan Sweeney, of the Kinzua Corp., about the possibility of helping to buy a scoreboard and Dan Sweeney said Kinzua would be happy to purchase it for the school as a public service. 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