P-TA GIVEN TIPS ON
MENTAL HYGIENE BY
GUIDANCE DIRECTOR
“Adolescent" parents and
teachers who spend all their class
period in talking so that students
are forced to do all their work at
home were rapped by Mrs. Ernes
tine Danielson, guidance director
for the Anchorage schools in her
talk to members of the Parent
Teacher Association at Palmer
School Tuesday evening.
Stressing the fact that the pres
ent educational trend gives em
phasis to the maturity of the in
dividual child, she insisted that a
child shouldn’t be forced into a
given educational procedure until
he is ready for it. Parents and
teachers who wouid “push” chil
dren into a pre-coneeived sched
ule were equally guilty, she said.
“What difference does it make
whether a child reads at age six
or seven?" she asked. "A child's
education begins when he wants
knowledge.'
An educated person was de
scribed by Mrs. Danielson as one
who has a good fund of informa
tion about what has gone before
and knows how to meet the prob
lems which come in the future.
Parents who are adolescent in
the treatment of their children
could be recognized by the fol
lowing symptoms, according :.o
the guidance director: They want
to make their childrens’ deci
sions. They call their children
time after time in the morning
instead of letting them develop a
sense of responsibility. They are
still dressing their children at
the age of six.
However, guidance is needed
from the wise parent during the
pre-adolescent period in the ju
nior high school age group and
the adolescent period in the high
school group. The benefit for out
lets such as athletics and dra
matics during these critical pen
ods, particularly with the high
school set in the full throes of the
" religious-philosophical phase of
development.
“Children who are understood
and have a good interest to ab
sorb them will not get in trouble,”
Miss Danielson said. “There is
more sense of security when there
is a firm sense of discipline. The
well disciplined child has a dis
ciplined mind — the discipline
comes from within.”
In her concluding remarks she
emphasized that Alaska’s most
( pressing juvenile need is a school
for handicapped children, or a
place in the individual educa
tional systems for such children.
Miss Rumball's Room Wins
Prizes were announced during
the business meeting which fol
lowed Miss Danielson’s talk for
the room having the highest per
centage of parent members of the
P-TA following the membership
drive which closed Tuesday night.
Miss Barbara Rumball’s third
graders won the $15 first prize
with 187 percent. Fred Stassel’s
fifth grade was a close second,
winning the $10 prize with 130
percent. Miss Virginia Carle’s
^ fifth graders won the $3 third
prize.
Mrs. Pearl Moyer’s first grade
won the $2 prize for parents’ at
tendance.
Fun Night for Fund
Following Miss Rumball’s re
port on the Valley Hospital Fund
Raising campaign, the member
ship voted to hold a special “Fun
Night” with a little square danc
CONSERVATION
NOTES
I have received information
that the amount of money al
lowed under the Conservation
Payment Program will be some
what less next year.
The practices that are eligible
for payment will be about the
same as before. The Soil Conser
vation Service is now required to
inspect the site of permanent
practices such as land clearing, :
both before and after the job is
done. These are orders from the
Secretary of Agriculture. The
prior inspection is for two rea
sons. The first is to determine if
your soil is deep enough to be
farmed after clearing. The second
purpose is to determine if the pro
posed clearing will open up your
fields to wind erosion. You won’t
be paid for clearing woods that
protect from wind, unless you
establish new windbreaks in bet
ter locations.
The inspection after clearing is
to see if you did a good job and
also to measure the land cleared.
If topsoil is pushed into the
stumprow by a dozer blade, the
clearing cannot be approved for
payment. If most of the humus
and decomposed moss at the soil
surface is pushed into the stump
row the clearing cannot be ap
proved. At least part of the top
soil clinging to the tree roots must
also be left on the field. This is
easy to do if the field has been
slashed beforehand and the brush
burned. Then the stumps can be
rolled around a bit as they are
windrowed. If the trees are tipped
over the season before, the dirt
on the roots dries and is easily
shaken off. In other words, extra
effort must be used to do a con
servation job of clearing before
conservation funds may be used
to assist farmers in doing this
work.
We would appreciate knowing
early if you intend to clear under
the Conservation Program next
year. That will help us in sched
uling the prior inspections neces
sary. Applications should be made
through the Extension Service of
fice.
1951 School Tax Bills
In the Mail This Week
School tax bills for 1951 will be
in the mail this week, district as
sessor and tax collector, William
Head, promised this week.
Taxes may be paid at the as
sessor’s office in the Neal Wright
building any time after receipt
of the tax bill. They must be paid
on or before February 1, 1952, oi*
they become delinquent.
The total Palmer School District
tax bill amounts to an increase
of 50 percent over last year, the
assessor said. This increase is dud
largely to the picking up of prop
ex-ties hithei'to untaxed.
ing, cards, an auction and other
features conceived by the com
mittee in charge. Mrs. Russell
Felzien, Mrs. Gloria Bengow,
Paul Martin, Bernard Bouwens,
Erwin Doyle, Mrs. John Linne
bur, and Mrs. Richard Mohan are
members of the committee for the
fund raising celebration. All pro
ceeds will go towai-d the hospital
fund.
New Secretary
Mrs. Paul Martin was elected
secretary of P-TA following the
resignation of Mrs. John DeVries.
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