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FRIDAY. AUGUST 24. 19Si MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. Ml DFOBD, OREGON PTA Organizations Said Valuable to Education Process By DAVID NYDICK UPI Education Specialist The Parent-Teacher associ ation (PTA) is an important part of the school organiza tion. Many PTAs are extreme ly active and valuable to the educational process. The basic part of any PTA is its membership. Interested and cooperative parents com bined with good leadership usually will lead to the type of PTA which is most desir able. A most important factor is the philosophy within which the organization operates. Working Relationship PTA activities should be ed ucationally sound. Teachers should be represented on the executive board. A close work ing relationship between the school and parents is the be ginning of the kind of organ ization which is an asset. A great deal of caution must be practiced. Political activity might cause a split in the membership which could lead to a lessening of its effective ness as an educational group. As in most organizations, the more each member con tributes to the well being of the group the more value each individual member will re reive in return. Willing To Help There are many educational organizations which will be pleased to forward informa tion of help to PTAs. The two major groups are the National Education Association (NEA) MJB COFFEE Mb. 1.29 Mb. 65c 6-oz. Instant 79c Herb & Ned's Mkt. 534 lair Main and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Botn are located at 1201 Sixteenth St., NW, Washington, D. C. They offer consultant services in addition to many publica tions. Neighboring PTAs and lo cal school officials also can be helpful. The PTA will be most pleased to have volun' teer workers. Contact the school principal, who can di rect you to the PTA president Nudist Colony Visit Embarrassing Torquay, England -(UPD- Of ficials said it was "all in the line of duty" when three un suspecting firemen were dis patched to a local nudist colony. The firemen, sent to the Holiday Camp to fill a swim- ming pool, realized it was a naturalist retreat when they were admitted by an lncloth ed woman. The men set to work, but. faced a crisis at lunchtime when they had to line up with the carefree sun wor shippers at a cafeteria-style counter. "If you are embarrassed at being the odd ones you are quite free to disrobe," sug gested one woman. The firemen reported they declined the offer an-" decid ed to go without lunch. YOUNGSTER SIGNED Los Angeles -(UPD- A four-year-old boy was signed to a $100,-a-week television con tract Thursday. James Brad ley Jr., who plays the drums, will receive his $100 salary for 26 weeks with ten 13 week options at salaries up to $200 a week. The three year contract with Para mount Television Productions made the boy the youngest performer ever signed to a long-term television pact. I M THE I lm pig Featuring Our Own Home Grown Fruit THE FINEST IN FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Hiway 99 At The Talent Junction WE GROW IT - YOU SAVE! x 1' j j iXi BUILDING DEMOLISHED This was a solid fuel curing building at the Hercules Powder Company in Bacchus, Utah, before it was demolished by an explosion Thursday. The violent blast left three men missing and presumed dead and three injured. (UPI) Prisoners of Pathet Lao Tell Stories of Brutal Treatment Washington - IW - Two Americans, released last week, had been subjected to brutal treatment while they were prisoners of the Commu nist Pathet Lao in Laos, the Army said today. The Army said one of the men was kept in pitch dark solitary confinement for a full year. The other was led like an animal with a rope around his neck. The two were identified as Maj. Lawrence R. Bailey, 39, Laurel, Md and Sgl. Orville R. Ballenger, 28, Spring Lake, N.C. The Army revealed the bru tality in an announcement lhat the men were being flown home and would arrive al Andrews Air Force Base, Md., today. Due Hospital Treatment Both will be treated al Army hospitals in the east. The Army said neither will be available for press inter views until they have recov ered from the effects of their imprisonment. Bailey, who fell into the hands of I he Communist Pathet Lao in March, 1961, when he parachuted from a C47 transport disabled by ground fire, was subjected to the "black box" solitary con finement. Both he and Bal lenger resisted all efforts to break their will and turn them against the United Stales. "Major Bailey, suffering from malnutrition, lnlestinal parasites and malaria, told Army authorities of spending a full year Imprisoned in a pitch blark room under heavy guard." the Army said. Saw No Light "At no time during this period of black box incar ceration was natural or arti ficial light permitted to enter his room." The Army said his guards allowed Bailey outdoors only at night. He usually was taken outside four time3 nightly for periods of from one to three minutes each time. "Thus for a full year Bailey spent but a few minutes out of every 24 hours away from the total darkness imposed on him by his captors," the Army said. It said Ballenger "received equally brutal treatment, though of a different type." Though suffering from ma laria, parasites, a bone dis ease and malnutrition, Bal lenger resisted repeated at tempts to get him to compose Medford Man Found Guilty in Court Ira Herschel Imhausen, 22, of 911 Beatty si., Medford, was found guilty this week by a Jackson county district court jury of failure to remain at the scene of an accident. Imhausen is scheduled to be sentenced on the misdemeanor charge Sept. 4,' in district court. The charge resulted from an accident July 8 on Table Rock rd., Medford. District Court Judge L. L. Sawyer found Laura Settell, 205 West Ninth St., guilty of drawing a bank check with insufficient funds to pay in full. Imposition of sentence was suspended for 12 months on condition she make restitu tion and not open a checking account for one year. She made restitution. We Are Participating In The CAL-ORE ELECTRICAL LEAGUE Promotion Of Electric Heating MINIMUM SAVINGS OF sggoo See the Cal-Ore Ad on Page 7A as Southern Oregon's Exclusive Franchisee! Dealer for'. . . J', :i HTr- ELECmOVECTOR ELECTRIC BASEBOARD HEATERS - 50 DISCOUNT ON BOTH TYPES OF EQUIPMENT On modulating, finned type, hermetically tailed baseboard with the lifetime guaranteed ele ment. All steel construction. Over 20 square feet of radiation surface per 1000 watts. Com pletely silent in operation. On nonmodulating, finned type, 10 year guarantee. 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Later, Ballenger was held in a room with other Ameri can prisoners where sanitary facilities were "abysmal" and "filth and stench sickened the prisoners," the Army said. They had their feet locked in stocks while lying on their backs and were forced to re main in this immobile position for 12 to 14 hours daily," the announcement said. Accidents Checked By Medford Police Two accidents were invest! gated by Medford police Wednesday; No citations were issued, police said. A car operated by Blanche Olive Moulton, 64. of 101 West Clark St., struck a park ed truck registered to Burnath Maurice Morgan, 609 Dakota St., about 7:22 a.m. on Cedar st. between Clark and Bliss sts. Laura Barbara Wicker, 809 Adams lane, reported to city police that an unknown truck had struck and damaged about eight mail boxes near her home sometime before noon Tuesday. The driver fail ed to leave information al the scene of the accident. Farm Marketing Receipts Figured At $17.4 Billion Washington -(UPD- The Agri culture Department estimates cash receipts from all farm marketings during the first seven months of 1962 at $17.4 billion, up 1 per cent from the January-July period of 1961. Crop receipts accounted for nearly all of the increase, the department said in a review of the demand and price situ ation. Farm output in 1962 is ex pected to be down 1 per cent from 1961. While livestock production is expected to be about the same as for 1961, crop production is expected to be less. Expenditures Figured Consumer expenditures for food in the first half of 1962 were 3 to 4 per cent greater than in the first six months of 1961. This was a continua tion of the trend for consu mers to use higher priced foods and foods with more packaging and services. Con sequently, they have '-o pay a higher marketing bill. 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