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Show Page Twelve FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1971 Experimental Program Regional Manpower Aims at Better Advisory Committee Chairman Appointed Utah Rural Schools Ft. Detrick Transfer Deferred, Lloyd Says An experimental program aimed at improving instruction in rural schools was the subject of a Salt Lake City meeting of educators from four states last week. The project which will begin operations next year involves Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. The meeting at Curtis school involved directors from these states. An entirely individualized program which allows each child to progress at his own rate is being designed now by a team of experienced educators. Next fall specially trained instructional technicians" will man a classroom in each of four experimental schools in Nebo, Park City, North and South Sanpete school districts. These personnel will do the routine work normally assigned to teachers such as checking attendance, keeping order, collecting lunch money, etc. The learning activities will be directed by a team of experienced teachers (who will also supervise the three other classrooms) and the school principal. The project is called Staffing Plan for Upgrading the Rural Schools or SPURS. It is financed by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education in cooperation with the Western States Small School Project. In charge of the project from para-professio- Na-toin- al the office of Utah State Board of Education are Russell G. Mer-re- ll and William E. Cowan. YHEN DELAY IN GETTING MEDICAL HELP CAN COST YOU YOUR LIFE W be used on research on cancer, infectious diseases or environmental problems, he said. He said the plan had been for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare would take over most of Fort Detrick for medical research but lack of funds and other problems prevented the transfer. I am advised that this is still under study by the White House but it may be a while yet before a final decision is reached. The new budget, which will be out shortly, may contain funds for another agency to take over Ft. Detrick. Meanwhile, the Army is mov ing some of its research projects to other locations, including the Dugway and Edgewood Arsenal also in Maryland. The small number of people going to Dugway are engaged in defensive biological vulnerability studies. Rep. Lloyd said the Army had told him that the research planned for Dugway did not repre sent anything new since the Utah base has engaged in some biological work for some time. The defensive research is con ducted indoors in carefully controlled labs which already exis there, he said. t Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd this week said a lack of agreement on which federal agency will take over the Armys biological research facilities at Ft. Detrick, Md., has deferred plans for the transferring some 200 scientists and technicians to the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The Utah Congressman said about 10 people would be transferred from Detrick to Dugway in the near future, but that any decision on a larger move would be delayed until agreement came on disposal of the Maryland biological research base. The $175 million base became excess to Army needs following President Nixons policy announcement in November, 1969 that the U.S. will no longer engage in offensive biological research. Rep. Lloyd said biological research for defensive purposes would be continued, however, and the Army had planned to transfer some of its personnel engaged in defensive work to other locations, including Dug- The Secretary of Labor, L. D. Hodgson, has announced the appointment of Dr. Kenneth J. Davies, Professor of Economics at BYU since 1964, as chairman of the Mountain States Manpower Advisory Committee. Dr. Davies also taught at Duke University. The regional commitee functions as an associate body of the Manpower Advisory Committee, a statutory committee established by the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962. It is advisory to the Department of Labors regional manpower administrators and the regional directors of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Its membership is composed of representatives from the public, labor, management, education, agriculture and training fields. The committee meets at least twice a year for one or two days and the chairman attends regular quarterly meetings of the Manpower Advisory Committee. way. The labs at Ft. Detrick can The committee will concern itself with manpower problems and need of the Mountain States Region consisting of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. nal THE SALT LAKE TIMES AFTER ONSET OF HEART ATTACK CAN BE FATAL. FIRST 4 HOURS ARE MOST PERILOUS. O EVEN re-electi- on Kathy Dent is a typical western beauty: tall, blonde and bursting with energy and good health. Kathy, who is 18 and lives in Bakersfield, Calif., has some concern; that perhaps one would not expect of a teenager. -lucky "I have a friend who is the mother of a mentally retarded child, Kathy explains. Knowing that child made me feel that I have so much compared to him; and then I discovered how good it made me feel to teach him something, or just to make him smile. So now that I have a chance to help other children, I want to do it. I have to do it" Feeling the way she does, it s no surprise that Kathy became a member of the March of Dimes Teen Action Program (TAP). Led by Kathy Garver. who stars in Family Affair on CBS television, the TAPs are junior volunteers. Organized in 1954, they are an inpart of The National tegral Foundation-Marc- h of Dimes. TAP groups are well-knos. for their ability as of March Each year during the particiDimes campaign, they s, pate in car washes, fashion bread sales, fund-raiser- SO. AVERAGE HEART ATTACK VICTIM DELAYS 3 HOURS BEFORE SEEKING ATTACK 7) California Teen-Ag- er Helps K Children With Birth Defects wn MEDICAL HELP. WHEN HEART The vacancy on the Utah State Board of Education created by the death of Lamont F. Toronto, Jan. 21, will be filed at a convention of school board members from District 3 Feb. 10. Since the district is the states most populous, about one fourth of Utah's 207 school board members have been invited to participate in the election. The 52 beard members from Salt Lake, Jordan, Granite, Murray, Tooele, Daggett, North Summit, Park City and South Summit school districts will meet in the Governors Board Room, State Capitol Bldg., at 7:30 p.m. In accordance with provisions the of Utah Statute (53-2-convention was called by Mrs. Helen B. Ure, vice chairman and acting chairman of the board. The former chairman of the board, LeGrand P. Backman, did not seek in the November election. The next meeting of the State Board of Education is Feb. 19. A permanent chairman will be elected then. happy-go- (Inaction and ndecision O State Board Plans To Fill Vacancy STRIKES. walk-a-thon- and just about anyof to thing they can think for dollars and dimes in bring research and for treatment of children born less than perfect shows, Clinic Volunteers PHONE DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY. But they do more than just raise money. TAP groups around the country are up to here" in community action the projects, tailored to meetcomof their needs special munities. Kathy Dent, for instance, lives in the agricultural where region of California, there are many Spanish-Amer-icmigrant workers. The Kern County Health Department has established free clinics to provide general health care for these people and to refer those with major medical problems to the apagency. propriate The teen-age- rs play with the children who come to the clinic, so that their parents can solve the medical problems while the teens solve the babysitting problems. A harassed mother can scarcely be expected to pay attention to everything the doctor tells her. But a mother who knows her an Off YOU CAN'T REACH DOCTOR 'GET TO EMERGENCY ROOM OF HOSPITAL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THIS NEWSPAPER joins your Heart Association in preeducational message shown above, senting the In and asking your support of the Heart Fund Campaign. life-savi- ng HF-- 2 Note to Editors: Suggested to accompany Article Two of three-par- t series on heart attack warning signs. May be used with or without caption lines. the motto for Kathy Dent, 18, Bakersfield, Calif. Kathy Is a member of the March of Dimes Teen Action Program (TAP), a nationwide network of young people committed to tho prevention of birth defects. Horn ehe entertain Yolanda Perez with a coloring lesson whilo Yolandas mother attends a hoalth clinic for migrant workera In Lamont, Calif. TO KNOW AND TO CARE Is children are being cared for in the park outside the clinic can relax and listen carefully. Kathy and the other TAP volunteers take their responsibility seriously. They asked for, and got, Spanish lessons from clinic aides to enable them to talk to the children. They had no funds to provide toys for the children, but that didnt stop them. We just scrounged. We collected all the toys our little brothers and sisters didn't want any more and took them to the clinic. We discovered right: the right to a healthy life. And they know that prenatal care can help provide that right Recently, Kathy Dent and hundreds of other top youth leaders from all over the United States attended a national young adult leadership conference sponsored fay The National Foundation-Marc- h of Dimes at the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. The title of the conference: Tomorrows Child-Oper- ation Equal Start. For three days Kathy and her con- to make temporaries discussed scientific advances in detection, treatment and prevention of birth defects with leading medical men and women, including author Dr. Michael Crichton. Kathys reaction to the conference was a good example of how TAPs feel about Prenatal Care Emphasis their volunteer work: Not only do their mothers Im more convinced than not mind, they are delighted. ever that its up to people my And talking to these women age to make the public aware about their children gives TAP ox the progress being made in volunteers the opportunity to prevention of birth defects, tell them about the importance and to urge everyone to take of prenatal care i ; order to have advantage of toe benefits healthier babies. Prenatal care modern medicine can offer," is a major concern to all TAPs. she says. And I cant wait to get As future par, its. they want to make sure al: of tomorrows back to the migrant worker children receive their birth clinics and start talking 1" the children lijce things, too, so now- - we make coloring books out of paper bags, and we show them how to decorate coffee cans and make jewelry out of macaroni. Its kind of messy, hut their mothers dont mind." best-selli- ng V is |