PTA Program Outlined
At Workshop Held Here
Three major projects which
the Oregon Congress of Parents
and Teachers is stressing this
year are enlarging the tuition
scholarship -ogram, increasing
the number of units by 10 per
cent as well as increasing the
total membership, and a "grass
roots" legislative program, ac
cording to Mrs. J. .W. Staggs,
Milton-Freewater, president of
the Congress, who' conducted a
school of instruction for Jack
son and Klamath County PTA
workers at the Medford YMCA
October 6. .,
Mrs. Staggs explained that
when a scholarship is awarded
there must be enough money in
the fund to carry that student
through four full years of col
lege if reasonably high grades
are maintained and that since
tuition ' fees have increased re
cently this means an average of
$680 is required for each schol
arship. She stated that less than
half the unitsQiave contributed
in the past; therefore there is a
real need for the PTA units to
increase their contributions to
the scholarship fund if at all pos
sible and said she would like to
see every unit share in this
worthwhile project.
A survey shows that a high
percentage of students who are
awarded PTA scholarships do
complete their education and be
come teachers in the elementary
schools. A total of 145 new and
renewal scholarships were
awarded by the Oregon Con
gress last year to students who
may attend any state-supported
college in the state. '
... Mrs. Staggs said that application-forms
are sent to principals
of high schools early in the
school year and must be torn
pletely filled out and returned
to the state office by April 1 to
be considered for an award next
year. She called attention to the
fact that a district may benefit
by obtaining a teacher for the
school who has been aided in se
curing her education by the
scholarship plan even though no
student from that district has
been awarded a scholarship. The
scholarships are awarded on the
basis of ability and merit.
Mrs. Staggs said that a survey
is being made by the legislative
committee of the Oregon Con
gress to determine how local
units feel about legislation per
taining to education and she
urged that all units cooperate
in completing this survey as it
will form the foundation for leg
islative policies for this year
and next.
The "buzz session" method
was used to determine various
questions to be discussed by the
panel of state officers and chair
men who assisted Mrs. Staggs
with the school of instruction.
On the panel were Mrs. Leigh
Gustison, secretary; Mrs.- Cecil
Scott, Milwaukie, treasurer; Mrs.
S. W. Meserve, Portland, junior
vice-president, Region 2; Mrs. El
dred Hansen, Klamath Falls, jun
ior vice-president, Region 5; Mrs.
John Benson, parliamentarian;
and Mrs. Gordon Loomis, Klam
ath Falls, cooperation with youth
agencies.
Among the topics ' discussed
were: How to sell the Parent
Teacher magazine, PTA pro
grams, cooperation between
school boards and PTA's, coop
eration between parents and
teachers, membership enroll
ment, welfare, budget and fi
nances, youth services, hospital
ity, afternoon or! evening meet
ings and child care at meetings.
Among those attending from
Klamath Falls were Mrs. Arthur
Moore, president of the Klamath
County- council and Mrs. Emily
Priest and Mrs. Polly Merrill,
both teachers from Klamath
county. There were almost-100
in attendance from both Jackson
Shriners' Wives
Announce Dinner
Shriner's Wives will meet at
the Medford hotel Monday, Oc
tober 17, at 6:30 p.m. for dinner
and bridge or canasta. Members
are asked to call Mrs. Lee Stone,
3-3369, or Mrs. Roscoe Larson,
3-2220, by noon of Saturday, Oc
tober 15, for reservations.
and Klamath Counties.
The meeting was opened by
presentation of the colors y Su
san Gifford and Carol Hile of
Mrs. Herbert Gifford's Campfire
Girls group from Washingto'n
school, followed by invocation
by the Rev. Robert F. Burger,
of St. Marks Episcopal Church.
Mrs. D. F. Huson led the group
in singing several songs. -
Mrs. Roland Holmes, presi
dent of the Medford Council of
PTA, extended a welcome to all
the state officers and chairmen
and others attending the school
of instruction, and Mrs. C. F.
Conley, Jhland, president of
the Jackson County- Council of
Parent Teacher associations, in
troduced Mrs. Staggs and her as
sistants. A salad luncheon was
served at noon by the Medford
council; the Ashland council, Of
which Mrs. J. W. Parsons is
president, were hosts for the cof
fee hour, and decorations were
furnished by the Shady Cove
and Elk-Trail units.
Mrs. Staggs, Mrs. Scott, Mrs.
Meserve, Mrs. Gustison, Mrs.
Hansen and Mrs. Benson held a
school of instruction for Jose
phine county in Grants Pass the
evening of October 6. Schools
are still to be held at McMinn-
ville, Tillamook, John Day,
Prineville and Arlington, mak
ing a total of 25 throughout the
state.
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; Approximately 90 per cent of
the land in Denmark is produc
tive and about three-quarters is
actually, farmed.
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Plan Open House
ForG E Cowden
An open house to honor G. E.
Cowden on his 85th birthday
will be held October 16 at the
home of his daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rags
dale, Rt. 1, Eagle Point. Friends
and neighbors of Mr. Cowden
are cordially invited to call be
tween two and five o'clock.
Mr. Cowden came to Oregon
in the early 1900's and settled
on a homestead in the Butte
Falls area where he lived for
sometime, moving to the valley
in 1918 where he engaged in
farming for many ,years. He is
a 25-year member of Eagle Point
Grange and is an old-time fid
dler of some renown, holding the
state championship trophy won
at State Fair in 1951.
Weatherwood Articles
Hobby For Housewife
Akron, O U.R) An Akron
housewife hfs the unique deco
rative items from "weather
wood." The weatherwood, explained
Mrs. Margaret. Erwin, comes
from an uncle's farm in Michi
gan. Weather-beaten pine tree
stumps, with a little work, make
ideal decorations for any room
in the house, she said. '
Mrs. Erwin selects stumps,
with unusual shapes, uses a lit
tle hand saw to cut off what she
doesn't like, buffs the stumps
with a power sander, puts a fin
ish on the wood with steel wool
and waxes.
She's only been at her hobby
for a year, but already is busy
supplying friends with lamp
bases and flower planters fash
ioned from the wood.
'"Michigan has 95 automobile
plants in '45 cities. ,
Tuesday. October 11,' 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Woman Inventor Says Her Ambition
Is To Make Life Easier for Everyone
By ELIN LAKE
United Press Correspondent
New York 0J.R) Whatever !
someone needs, Beulah invents.
"Beulah" is Miss Beulah
Henry, known to her associates
as "the lady Edison."
Forty-four years and 85 pat
ents ago the creative Miss Henry
descended on the Big Town with
a thick southern accent she 4s
"from North Carolina and one
of her inventions a snap-on
umbrella frame.
New York took to both' in a
bij way, and since that time,
Miss Henry has devoted her ca
reer to making life easier for the
world in general.
Nicholas Manoilovich, her
business partner, says "Just
tell Beulah about a problem, and
she'll solve it." .
Cows to Typewriters' . -
Miss Henry figured out how to
to make the life of a sewing ma
chine operator easier by invent
ing a bobbin-less lock-stitch sew
ing machine. "
She added considerable cheer
to the day of the drugstore count
erman by inventing a unit that
has storage for both piping hot
and ice-cold foods. She produced
a toy cow which moos and gives
milk, a mannequin that talks,
and typewriter key-caps to spare
the nails of secretaries.
. But this, she said, has been
child's play compared with her
newest invention ribbon copies.
This, she explained, is a type
writer attachment which pro
duces four copies of an original
letter, without use of carbon
paper.
"It'll save the working girl
time, and the mess of carbons,"
said its inventor happily.
"My ambition is to make life
easier for everyone," she said,
with the drawl which is still with
her. She figures the ribbon
copies will come as close as any
thing yetf including her own hair
curler, and a new type of can
opener.
Miss Henry, who resembles
Mae West, is lacking both for
mal engineering or technical
training. She explained that she
gets the idea, and her partner
makes the idea a reality.
"Been inventing since I was
nine years old," she said.
The lady inventor generally
keeps a couple of ideas ahead.
She's working on one right now.
Beulah Henry says, with a
far-away look in her eyes
"I'm going to invent an endr
less thread."
Specialist Gives Advice
On Use of Vinegar to
Curtains White
Keep
Lincoln, Neb. U.R) Vinegar
now is a wash-day aid.
It will help keep nylon cur
tains from becoming grayed,
says Mrs. Clara N. Leopold,
horns management specialist at
the University, of Nebraska.
She said freshly .- laundered
white nylon curtains eventually
take on a grayish appearance,
because of static electricity; dirt
in' a room is attracted -to the
curtains as iron is to a magnet.
Most manufacturers solve the
problem by using a . permanent
anti-static finish, Mrs. Leopold
said, but fcr those curtains not
so finished", a few drops of vine
gar in the Tinse water will help.
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To Hold Meeting,
Miriam Circle of Ziori Luth
eran church will meet Thursday,
October 13 at 8 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. R. E. Wicker, 134 Ken
wood avenue. The members who
have not brought their articles
for the box work layettes, are
asked to do so for this meeting.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 crevious day.
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