New Britain herald., 1927-11-03
PaiinuiM News
.PARENT.TEACHER SOCIETY SOUGHT Attempt at Organization to Be
 Made on Tuesday Night FREEZER WINS H0N0RS

Local PouItryman's PuIlcts Lay Well
 Junk Yard Reported Sought on i Central Sitc-Lecture Course for
 Teachers-C. of C. Meeting. An attempt to organize q parents and teachers association in PIain- vile will be made Tuesday night, i when meeting of those interested d will be held in the high school audi ! forum. The forming of such an or | ganization has been one of the goals or Superintendent of Schools Leon (. Staples, who has called next weeks meeting in the interest of i education as a feature Of American
 Education week. The session will commence at 8 o'clock. There win
 be several musical numbers by the ! high school glee clubs and an ad- dress by MT. Staples.
 In answering the question. Why a parent-teacher association Mir. Staples today made the following statement:
 Parents need 10 understand more
 fully the aims of education and
 what is being done by the state and
 need to study the local schools, their needs. their plans. their meth
 ods of procedure and to find out the
 most effective way to cooperate. They need 10 understand that in the
 interest of the child. the teacher
 must have an established place in
 the community and be sustained
 when she is doing right. They need
 to know what efforts the town school committed is making to i'm
 prove tho schools and to find means i Of supplementing these efforts. The special field Of work of parent teacher association is the study and
 promotion of the welfare of chill dren of all ages.
 "All who want part in this pro- gram should plan 10 help celebrate 1 American Education week"
 Trcibcr's Pullcts Win Honors George 4. Treibcr. Cnionville ave nuc poultryman, is rejoicing over the splendid showing made by his 1 pen of white rocks bullets in the Storrs egg laying contest which just closed. Mr. Trelber'S pen of ten birds finished second among all the white rocks entered, laying a total of 1862 eggs. Only a Massachusetts pen exceeded their record in this, a record breaking year.
 ] The showing made by the Plain | vile poultry fanCicr was even better
 than appears at first glance. Ac- cording to the rules of the contest
 each man entered ten birds, wit one died. When hen died the re- serve bullet was placed in the pen and new reserve bird, one just be- ginning 10 lay, was sent. The win ming pen finished with only two of the hens which started the year. tight rcplacements being necessary during the 51 weeks. On the other ! hand. Mr. Treiber's ten starting birds survived the entire year, and | he has received back his entire en- Itry and his reserve bird. In other l words, his ten hens competed i against IS. Their ruggedncss won 1 for them a great deal of praise ! from the contest authorities. and they are considered better birds than those which actually won, 1 Five of them laid more than 200 eggs apiece.
 | There were 20 egg-laying contests in the United States in which white rocks competed. According to the last bulletins issued to cover the whole field, Mr. Treiber's' pen was sixth in the entire country. The pen which defeated him In the Storrs contest stood second.
 Junk Yard in Center:
 The possibility that the plant of thc Bristol Mfg. Co. on West Main street may be resold and converted into junk yard and automobile cemetery has aroused local resi- dents 10 protest against the preS- cnce of such an undesirable busi- ness in the center of the town. B. Q. Barnard of Bristol. who recently purchased the property. has given an option on 1t to a MT. Wisk of New Britain. the price being said to bc s3o,oo0. The option. Mir. Bar nard says. is only verbal and not absolutely binding. He believed that the land would be used as the building site for business block If purchased by the New Britain man. Efforts 10 get in touch with Wisk today were unsuccessful.
 The townspeople are determined to prevent the presence Of a junk yard in the center and a conference with First Selectman James Simp- son was held yesterday afternoon MT. Simpson did not believe 1t pos sihle to establish a zoning ordinance here but will take the matter up