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Show Page Twelve FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1972 Utah Technical College at Provo Announces Registration Jan. 3 Richard W. Wells Students entering Utah Technical College at Provo for the first time this year may register for winter quarter day school on Jan. 3, President Wilson W. Sorensen announced. Winter quarter classes will begin Jan. 4 and continue until March 16. President Sorensen said the openings will be available in some 20 vocational technical areas, plus 176 classes in the general academic field whereby a student may fill groups during his Utah Tech years and go on tc a four year institution by transferring Utah Tech credits. Vocational technical area? open to new students for the winter quarter will include Secretarial, legal secretary, marketing, accounting, clerk typist' data processing, fashion merchandising, hotel motel management, service station management, supermarket management auto mechanics, professional and buses) trucks driving (large machine shop, welding, instrument and business machines repair, electronics, electro and mechanical technology (a two year course in the installation, maintenance and repair of computers television and radio repair. In the general academic filed Utah Tech is offering 176 courses in everything from anthropology to zoology, said President Sorensen. He pointed out that a student could fill college groups ir general academics during his first two years transfer his credit and go on to a four year institution as a junior. Utah Techs credits are now transferable to all Utah four year public colleges and also BYU. Utah Technical College at Provo is now fully accredited by the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, the same association that accredits' everything in Utah (and other western and mountain stiates) from high schools to Tuition for day school at Utah Tech is $103 per quarter. The college now has financial aids and student loans available on a par with any college in the state. Prospective students wishing information before the Jan. 3 winter quarter registration may inquire a Utah Tech any time during the school day. Mountain Bell Officers Urge Day Telephoning Pre-Christm- as Telephone customers who will make long distance holiday calls .his year will have better luck ?alllng on Saturday or Sunday before Christmas, according to Mountain Bell District Manager Cliff Totten. Totten said customers can take advantage of weekend rates md low use of telephone circuits by calling on Saturday, Dec. 23, or Sunday, Dec. 24 before 5 p.m. By calling before Christmas Day, you not only take advantage of low rates but also have a better chance of having your call go through on the first try, ie said. He explained that Christmas ind Mothers Day are the two busiest calling days of the year. Hveryone tries to call at certain :imes, overloading long distance urcuits and causing fast busy signals. Utahns will place an estimated 100,000 long distance calls n Christmas Day, a 15 per cent ncrease over last year. He offered some tops to help people complete their holiday rails: Dial Direct. Its faster and cheaper than calls put through in operator. Call on Saturday, Dec. 23, or Sunday, Dec. 24 before 5 p.m. If you do call on Christmas Day, place your call in the afternoon. The circuits are less busy then. hriyoCOl proudly presents the METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCASTS Appointed to Chamber Board of Governors Richard W. Wells, president of Wells Distributing Co., has been appointed a member of Board of Governors of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. His unanimous approval was ratified by the Chamber Board Tuesday to fill a vacancy left by former board member Don L. Mackey, Grand Central stores, who resigned earlier this year. Mr. Wells has been active in the appliance distributing busi14 of which ness for 28 years were with Leland B. Flint Co. In 1965 he formed his own company and is presently General Manager and President. Wells Distributing is an appliance outlet for Zenith radios and television, Gibson ranges, refrigerators and freezers. Currently, Mr. Wells is chairman of the Chamber Wholesale Trades Committee; a past president of the Salt Shakers, and president of the Utah Wholesalers Association and a member of sales and Marketing executives of Utah. During Holiday Dont Forget the World Give to CARE Charity begins at home, but when the world is our doorstep as it is in this day and age, the quality of life around the world directly affects own own, said Miss Molly L. Farmin, regional CARE director. She made these comments to remind area residents that contribution to CARE is income tax deductible. Taxx deductible donations sent to the international relief and development agency are transmitted into CARES worldwide operations to support feeding, self help and health programs in 35 countries . Partnership is a major factor in CAREs operations. The people are partners because they contribute whatever they can in supplies and labor. Their governments share operating costs; CARE supplies the balance of materials made possible by contributions from American and Canadian donors. Plain old fashioned charity is obsolete. However, CAREs goals are to use tax deductible dollars to help people in developing countries anxious to help themselves reach selfsufficiency. It is only with the compassionate concern expressed by donors through CARE that this can become a reality. The Regional CARE office is located at 444 Market St., San Francisco 94111. It is difficult for persons with normal hearing ability to understand the frightening experience of not being able to hear clearly. Because we depend on our cars for so much communication deafness can cut a person off from his family, friends and business associates. dial KWHO 860 Saturdays at Noon from New York Live Gas and heartburn? contains a unique antigas ingredient, Simethicone. Di-G- el This unique discovery breaks up and removes painful Your relief is more takes complete because Di-Gthe acid and the gas out of el acid indigestion. Get tablets or liquid today. Product of Plough, Inc. gas-bubbl- es. el Di-G- THE SALT LAKE TIMES Two U of U Psychologists Claim Xmas Toys Inferior and Unsafe In an era when Christmas toyr are stacked almost as tall as the tree, only antique collectors and a few nostalgic grandparents remember when Santas standard surprises were rag dolls and whittled wooden trucks. Toys are a $4 billion businesr in America today (with doll sales representing 18 per cen' of that figure), in which more than 900 manufacturers compete to palm off products which, according to two University oi Utah psychologists, are often in ferior and unsafe. Professors Donna M. Gelfand and Donald P. Hartmann have examined scores of toys in theii research on childrens imitation of aggressive play. They have found that exposure to aggression will cause youngsters to play aggressively when allowed to choose their own activities and they have also discovered that many toys on the shelves today encourage aggression, greed and sexism. In a toy department tour this season, I found that a third to a half of the merchandise consisted of aggressive toys (war games or guns), racing cars and dolls, comments Dr. Hartmann. Not uncommon were products like rock em, sock em robots, who were turned on to annihilate each other. Toys that pervert the young psyche are no less prevalent than items which destroy the physique, according to Dr. Gelfand. She says that despite the 1970 Toy Safety Act which authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to clamp down on unsafe toys, the U. S. Public Health Service reports that 700,-00- 0 children are injured each year in accidents caused by toys (excluding bicycles and play ground equipment). A number of toys banned by the FDA have not been removed from the shelves. Parents mus! inform themselves, through the publications such as Consumers Reports, about dangerous toys. Everyone should know enougl to avoid uninspected electrical toys and toys made of glass or nl unto in the (Ahrahaml plains of Mamre: and he .sat in the tent door in he heat of the day' (Genesis 1R:1). I! is sig- nt that this appearance of the Lord to Ahraham was not in a time of crisis but in the orH?- - y affairs of life. One of the curses of our clay him Arid the I,orcl up pea plastic that shatters. But how many parents realize that certain cap guns trigger a noise equal tothat of a jackhammer or that there are toys that can blind the children or pierce their skulls? Dr. Gelfand asks. Professor Gelfand says toys play a vital role in the childs development. They give children a chance to practice the roles theyll play as adults in a protected environment, she remarked. Dr. Hartmann believes tcys serve three functions in the irowth process: They are a primary socialization tool by which kids learn skills and social roles, they are sources of entertainment, and they are a primary vehicle for learning how to interact with other children. The Utah psychologists, both of them parents, buy toys which anocurage creativity and invent-- . tiveness (arts and crafts supplies), learning (seed sprouting kits, terrariums, pets), cooperation rather than aggression guns are taboo for this reason and fun for the whole family games are ideal), and individuality rather than sexism (why must girls always receive nurse outfits and boys be given chemistry sets?) The items need not be costly, claim the U researchers. Roll ends from newspaper backshops can stimulate budding artists or are fascinated by chalkboards and measuring depre-schoole- rs vices. Its crucial that you help the children develop a keen sense of cynicism with regard to television advertisements, stresses Dr. Gelfand. In large measure, ads determine childrens toy preferences and they must learn that most toys are not as glamorous as depicted on TV. Drs. Gelfand and Hartmann offer a list for wise top shopping next Christmas: Is the toy safe? Is it durable? Will it be intact the day after Christmas? for Him; you will hear and will follow His Voice in the routine of everyday life. Notice that the Lord appeared unto Abraham, but Abraham saw three men. Often God Ilimself. as well as His messengers, appear to us in strange disguise. Some special blessing is sent through one of Gods servants or through His providential interference or directive in our lives. But too often our attitude toward these visitations is such that we recognize not the Hand of God but simply circumstances or events or people. Carlyle said of his mother, She has been an angel of God and unfortunately it reaches Into the household of God is the love of excitement. We have gone crazy on motion, on noise, on the spectacular So accustomed have we become to the excitement oi the crises that we cannot endure the quiet of the routine. My friend, if you live for the crises and look forward to to me. Whether it be a cononly the great occasion, you tact at home or church, or even will miss the blessing of God a casual contact on a public in the ordinary Scripture re- conveyance, in a place of busiminds us that it is not in the ness, or in school it can open rushing mighty wind, the to us an avenue of blessing earthunake. or the .ire but in and encouragement. It can be the still small voice that God a means whereby God can often speaks (I Kings 19:11-13)- . touch and deal with our own If your heart is open to lives and also a means by God, you will not depend on which we can bless the lives of the unusual to move vou about others. |