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Show A J "LEGISLATORS FAMILY NIGHT" brought many visitors to the Utah State Training School. Looking at one of the pieces of handout material given to the guests are Representative Arlo James, left, Mrs. George B. Wilcox, of the Division of Family Services Board, and J. Dean Jones, assistant superintendent of the training school. Legislators Attend Training School Christmas Program refreshments, the visitors attended at-tended the performance of "A Christmas Carol." Capacity crowds attended each of the six performances of this program, with some people turned away due to lack of seating each performance. Members of the Utah State Legislature and other special guests and their families visited visit-ed Utah State Training School Wednesday evening for "Legislator's Family Night." Tours of the new Mark K. Allen Epilepsy Center were conducted under the direction of medical director Dr. Jack A. Madsen, who answered questions que-stions and with his staff, demonstrated some of the modern, new equipment that has been placed in the building. build-ing. Demonstrations of the closed circuit television monitoring moni-toring system and the new electrophysiology laboratory, with split-image video record- , ing capability. This new equipment equip-ment enables the medical staff Common Last files t)f ifets Cause Adm. emma Ever think what it would be like to have Christmas around all year long? In the process of automating its files on veterans a few years ago, VA discovered nearly 3,000 who do have reminders of the holiday no matter whether its July or December -- their family names are Noel and Claus. That many former servicemen service-men and women with common last names illustrates Veterans Veter-ans Administration's dilemma when an ex-GI writes in with a problem but neglects to give VA as much pertinent information infor-mation as possible - the old "name, rank and serial number" numb-er" bit. As of November 6 of this year, the agency had 32,491,197 names of living and deceased veterans on file. About 1,200 of these veterans were named John Smith, with no middle name or initial. Another An-other 11,000 John Smith's in the file had middle names or initials. When John Smith inquires about his GI Bill eligibility and sends in no other information about his military history, this puts VA in a quandary. But John Smith's are fairly few and far between when you consider that VA's vast files contain over 202,000 individuals indivi-duals named Johnson, almost 150,000 named Williams and almost that many named Jones and Brown. There are about 55,000 veterans veter-ans named Young on VA's rolls, around 53,000 Robinsons, 46,000 Hills, 38,000 Stewarts, 30,000 McDonald, 28,000 Howards, 24,000 Wagners and approximately 23,000 Schmidts. VA points out that 35 percent of the veterans in its files have the following given names: John, Robert, William, James, Charles, Joseph, Richard, George, Edward or Thomas. , With more names being added ad-ded daily, it's easy to see why VA needs as much specific information as possible about a veteran's service record so that his or her claim for benefits bene-fits can be processed and com pleted as rapidly as possible. With Christmas approaching, approach-ing, however, VA can give assurance as-surance to any children concerned con-cerned about name confusion: a search of its files confirms there's only one Santa Claus. to record a coincident study of a patient's physical activity with electroencephalographic and other physiological data. The EEG laboratory also has video monitors connected with the nursing station to enable following a patient under special study, during his normal nor-mal activities at the Center. The new facility is expected to open soon with ten patients. The building is equipped to accomodate up to 20 resident and the population count will be increased as soon as staff is available. Following the tour and The Utah Valley Care & Training Center is a member agency of the United Way of Utah County. Dear Santa Clause, Thank you for the Sesame Street Toy you gave me last year. Please bring me an Easy Bake Oven, a F.P. Hospital and Barbie Things this Christmas. Christ-mas. Jess would like cars, trucks or tractors. Also a new set of blocks. Daniel would like a rattle and a musical Bird. Thank you very much!! Love Jennifer Green " ' lT'f fren 0 m mumJF Alpine Fabrics American Fork I 35 West Main - Lehi CLEARANCE SALE ! Brides. Fantastic Long Dresses h Blouses $4.98 Pant Suits Large Sizes 20-48 Save 30 Large Size Bouses 25 Off Pants Spotlighting American Fork Senior Citizens Grant Ingersoll At age 73 it is hard to believe Grant Ingersoll can be as active ac-tive as he is. "I've always been healthy," says Mr. Ingersoll. Inger-soll. "I guess it is because I was always so active in sports," he continued. Presently serving a term as Justice of the Peace in American Ameri-can Fork, Mr. Ingersoll has two years left in office after serving four. Yet, Mr. Ingersoll seems to be known more commonly as "Coach" throughout the area. He was coach and instructor at American Fork High School from the fall of 1929 until the spring of 1941. "In those days that's about the only job there was. I graduated from college in the depression," said Mr. Ingersoll. Inger-soll. Undoubtably his extensive high school and college experience exper-ience led Mr. Ingersoll into the coaching field. Born in American Fork on December 16, 1903 to Joseph E. and Minnie B. Ingersoll the ex-coach attended American Fork High School for three years and participated heavily in sports. Back then they didn't have football on the high school level, but Mr. Ingersoll participated in track, basketball basket-ball and baseball. Once graduating from high school Mr. Ingersoll went on to attend Brigham Young University. Uni-versity. There he played basketball bas-ketball for four years at center and also played two years on the football team. He was a member of the 1924 BYU IV" 4 A 1 GRANT INGERSOLL championship basketball team. After college Mr. Ingersoll spent some time playing circuit cir-cuit amateur baseball. He played in the Utah Central League, the Copper League, and the Industrial League. While in the Copper League he played for Utah Apex Mining Company. Mr. Ingersoll attended at-tended the AAU (Amature Athletic Union) championship in baseball at Kansas Missouri while on the Apex team. In the 1920's Mr. Ingersoll also served a mission for the LDS Church in Hawaii. On June 19, 1928 Mr. Ingersoll married LaBell Anderson, also of American Fork. According to Mr. Ingersoll they were childhood sweethearts, going to both high school and the BYU together. In addition to teaching at American Fork High School, Mr. Ingersoll also taught at Pleasant Grove High School for 14 years. He was principal of the school for the last nine of those 14 years. Mr. Ingersoll said the thing he enjoyed most about coaching coach-ing was, "participating with and serving young students." "We had a lot of boys who wouldn't have finished high school or college if it hadn't been for sports," remembered the ex-coach. "I have a lot of respect for those I've played with and coached; be they members of winning teams or losing teams." Another past time of Mr. Ingersoll's during the years has been to take tour groups on the hike up Timpanogos Mountain. "I've taken people up Timpanogas 39 times and I don't care to make it 40. I almost did make it 40, but a blizzard stopped us. Besides being a Justice of the Peace, coach, teacher and principal, Mr. Ingersoll has served as a bishop, a postmaster, postmas-ter, but he has also played the roll of father and grandfather. Mr. Ingersoll has two children; chil-dren; Carl Ingersoll and Mrs. Maryl Richards. He also has 11 grandchildren. Says, Mr. Ingersoll In-gersoll about his son Carl, "I tried and got several second places at the state championships. champion-ships. One of the greatest thrills of my life was to see my son Carl do what I couldn't. AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN WEDNESDAY. Dec. 22. 1976 3 M The American Cancer Society Socie-ty is not a member agency of the United Way of Utah County Coun-ty but does receive funds from United Way through a partnership partner-ship agreement. 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