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TEN The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday. October 25, 1979
Story teller turns adults
into children at library
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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Local Heppner stores, like the Shoe Box, are getting into the Halloween spirit.
New law restricts telephone sales activity
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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
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Elks Parking lot
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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.
The previous scoreboard
was an old wooden one and the
numbers were hard to see,
Swanson said.
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