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Show The Enterprise Review ( August 4, 1976 Page 2b , i . t Handicapped Prove V aluable Continued from page lb tudes of handicapped personnel. John McGurk, personnel director for Sperry Univac described Univac's handicapped personnel as being Out of this world What he meant was, these people are amazingly reliable, very self motivated, able to learn new jobs quickly and more conscientious than the average employee.' Frank Chavez was the first employee to go from Columbus to Univac. How has he done? Great, according Frank has a great apti- tude for remembering names,' McGurk added. He remembers everybody and he knows almost everyone in the to McGurk. Hes done a entire plant. He gets on great tremendous job. He has with people and other workers carried the responsibility of think a great deal of him. Frank says the hardest opening the door for future handicapped pedple and hes part of making the transition done a good job, weve hired from Columbus to the job three more since Frank. market was adapting to an eight hour work shift and adjusting to close contacts with other workers. Frank considers himself fortunate because he likes people.' He is witty and jokes freely with fellow employees. He 3240 South 11th East attributes his success with Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 people to his training at Phone (801)486-355- 1 Columbus. My training at Columbus did help me to get along well here, he said. I do a different kind of work Lathes: Summit 11N x 32" completely tooled new . . . $3695.00 now than I did at Columbus Southbend 10" x 36 tooled like new .... $1550.00 but I learned how to get along Reed Prentice 20" x 108 with taper attachment .... $3950.00 with people there. Im still Mills: Bridgeport 9" x 42" table BRJ model .... $2250.00 learning.' 1960's. Vertical & horizontal 14" x 60 table all Utah Machine Tools . SPECIALS power feeds XLO 602 vertical 10" x 48" table, 2hp vari-ne. . . Drills . $3095.00 $Save 1974 14 spindle 26" drillpress, geared lead. . . $3200.00 Baker Bros. 26", 5 mst, geared head, production Table. . . . $1995.00 OOYA Radial, 4 arm x 13" column, all power, new. . . . $12,950.00 SaWS: Glenda Hall, floor supervisor at Univac, finds the Everett 18" abrasive cut-of$600.00 7.5hp, 1975. . . . Wells 9" x 16 horz. saw, model 8M, new price $1394--sav. . $695.00 Peerless 11 x 11" fully automatic, 27 feed table, new price handicapped worker more f, e. $17,000 More Conscientious 1 save conscientious than the average Univac employee. Hall says she moves employees around to avoid tedium and to $6000.00 She arS : Pexto Hvd. shear 52 Hercules all american. Big 12 Brakes: x 16ga fully tooled new. $2450.00 x 12 cap., new. . . . $31,900.00 Chicago Leaf Brake, 8 x 14ga. new price find the $2400.00 -- save. $1295.00 Wisconsin Press Brake 12' x 100 ton, 5 yr. warranty, new. .$14,950.00 top capacity of workers. In terms of production, Hall is very much satisfied. Like other people associated G rin der S : Brown & Sharp automatic 6" x 18", electro mag. with handicapped workers, she finds them to be conscientious and hard working. chuck. . 3400.00 Complete warehouse full of machine tools - phone for a stock list All sizes and types. Business as well as School Buy SeU Liquidate The Columbus Community Center is funded in part by the Salt Lake City school FfseDG dleffecas flDae IbeDoBcDeGSiiinKsiDDf dg flCu FGGD ?F V7FSfl ttoClDDDGJ district, the Utah division of family services and the state division of state rehabilitation. However, the bulk of the money for Columbus operation comes from work that is subcontracted from Salt Lake City businesses. We are more of a working business than a school,' Last explained Toomey. year we earned over $125,000 in contract work and our By $325,000 in wages. 200 handicapplacing about with jobs, Columped people bus has shaved approximately $47,000 off the Utah welfare expenditure for fiscal 1975. Mrs. Paul Wagaman of C and M Packaging says that her company has subcontracted out over $500,000 worth of business to the Columbus workshop over the last five We have always had years. excellent results with Colum- Mrs. Wagaman said. They seem to try just a little harder and they do a fine job. I personally would like to see every worker at Columbus go out and get a job in private bus, she industry,' has hired a handicapped Our person out of pity. workers get jobs because handicapped workers before them have proven that they over are able to do good work. earned graduates industry has been most receptive in helping him place handicapped workers. They (private businesses) hire our workers because they know the kind of work they can expect from the handicapped. I dont believe any employer added. Thats one area where I think No Tokens As Jim Martin, public relations director for Sperry Univac, put it, We dont hire handicapped people as token employees. If they couldnt do the work they wouldn't be here. Those workers who are not able to get a job with a private company are welcome to stay at Columbus and work indefinitely if they choose to stay, Toomey said. Some of their jobs with Columbus might include recycling, curling and washing telephone cords, the assembly of transmitter cups for telephones, packaging telephone jacks and various electronic components, making basketball back-boaror soldering electrode the administrators of Columbus have not fulfilled their mandate. I think all of these people are employable and controls. Most of the jobs that they could all be useful in one way or another. Theres a lot handicapped people end up of talent there going to doing appear routine or tedwaste. ious but they dont seem to Toomey agrees that some mind. In fact, they seem to be of his workers at Columbus thankful to be working in a could work in a competitive valuable capacity. Instead of job market. But most of our pulling workers off other jobs he said, will to do menial tasks (like curling students, never be able to work outside telephone cords) manufacof the Columbus workshop. turers bring the work to us, Toomey explained that many Toomey said. of his student workers simply The people we train dont have the mental capa- seem to have a change in bilities to perform useful func- attitude toward themselves, tions in competition with other Toomey said. Minor things more normal workers, but that most workers take for they can still be useful and granted are important to productive while working here them. 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