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Show Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1972 Young People Finding Jobs Are Scarce This Summer The attempted assassination of Gov. Wallace led to renewed demands for additional controls on firearms. If controls were the answer to such crimes, a majority of citizens would probably favor them, but they are not the one of the most fundamental of all U.S. rights the right of the law abiding to own guns for sport and protection of homes General Maxwell E. Rich, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, in an NR A Official Statement following the attempt on the Governors life, again stressed the basic principles involved when he said, Certain well meaning, but misguided individuals suggest that additional gun laws are the cure-a- ll for attempted assassinations and crime. This thinking is a fallacy. The man charged with the shooting of Governor Wallace was in violation of local and state firearms control laws before he fired. As the NRA and many thoughtful leaders have constantly stressed, let us rigidly enforce those laws now on the books and invoke mandatory penalties for the criminal use of a firearm, such as those now part of the Federal Gun Control Act of 1968 and those called for by many bills presently before the Congress. We call for swift and stringent punishment of the criminal and we will support any legislation which is meaningful in the fight against crime but which also protects rights and privileges of law abiidng. Law abiding gun owners who An evening school version of a fulltime day electricity course at Utah Technical College at Salt Lake will be offered at the college this coming fall quarter. It is the first time the course answer. Computer Assisted Instruction (Continued from page one) variety of instructional strategies can be provided by CAL Potenially it can enhance the teachers productivity and improve learning. Such instruction has already been used to enrich regular classes and relieve the teacher of routine educational chores. However, current usage of computers in primary education has been limited and largely experimental. This is caused by institutional resistance, which has trareladitionally placed high emphasis on teacher-pup- il tionships and to the high cost of computers. There are several approaches to computer use in the elementary schools. Dr. Seymour Papert of MIT believes that mathematics and other formal concepts can be taught through the experience of writing computer programs to control physical devices. His method employs a mechanical turtle wliich can be controlled by means of simple commands in Logo an English based computer language. Students iind out for themselves how to make the turtle draw polygons on the door, and thus learn the concept of the angle and how to construct geometric figures with a computer. Another approach is that of Dr. Patrick Suppes of Stanford University. He has the computer drill students for short periods of time and keeps a record of their progress. Ho help coordinate a students past performance with the amount of repetition and difficulty of the exercises he needs, psychological learning theories are applied. Several universities have had entire courses taught by computers. More frequently, however, they are used to teach part of a course for example simulating a physical sysetm for laboratory courses. Vocational and technical training is also being attempted with CAI. Dr. F. F. Frick at MIT is exploring the potential of microfiche (a sheet of microfilm) for storing visual and audio course material. With a small computer the microfiche system allows display of diagrams, written text and the instructors spoken directions without the need of a large computer memory. Dr. Frick believes that this system will eventually be used not only for vocational training, but for children with specific disabilities. High costs, unreliable sysetms and noisy terminals are major criticisms of CAI. Proponents of CAI admit these faults, but describe them as characteristics of first generation efforts in a new field, which they hope will he overcome. have borne the brunt of the emocrusade are in tional anti-gu- n the first to support workable laws aimed at controlling criminal use of firearms, just as they are first to oppose undercutting and persons. Electricity Course Opens at Utah Tech has been offered in the evening, and Joseph Brinkerhoff, division chairman of electronics and electricity, says it is being made 20-year-- old I EASED GRAPEVINE V- Salt Lake City budget makers requested $1.5 million for projects from the City Capital Improvement Fund. Only $400,000 is available. City Auditor Lawrence A. Jones trimmed requests and City Commisioners approved the cuts. The Public Safety Department was awarded the largest part from the capital improvement fund. available to those who want the ' electrical training, but have been e A unable to get it because of presCommittee recommended that $610 million ent employment. He said the course, a normal be authorized to complete the three quarter program in the Upper Colorado River Basin day school, will require 5 quar- Project. The House voted for a ters to complete in night classes. $352 million interim financing Cost of the course will depend arrangement that woud have rean an individuals class load. The quired reauthorization again in course will fully prepare stu- 1976. dents to take the state electricity House-Senat- examination. Student numbers in Utah Tech electricity course have tripled over the past two years, due primarily to good job opportunities in the state. Registration for the evening school electricty course and for other Utah Tech classes will be from 8 a.m. to 4 held Aug. p.m. weekdays at the colleges main campus, 4600 So. Redwood Road, and Aug. 21 to Sept. 25, weekdays, from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Utah Techs fall quarter class work starts Sept. 25. 1-- 18 years? This is a good unoffending human beings is 7 question and no doubt explains why there are some 10 bills in the present Congress to repeal the Gun Control Act of 1908. One of the latest of these proposals would, in addition to repealing the Gun Control Act, make the use of a firearm to commit certain felonies a federal crime. A similar proposal in Congress would also help strengthen the penalties for comitting a federal felony with a firearm. The sponsor of the latter measure, Hep. Jack F. Kemp of New York drew attention to the role of the nations shooting sportsmen in supporting wildlife programs, conservation and safety. As ltep. Kemp points out: The founders of our nation the right to bear and keep arms so important that, in our Constitution, this right is second only to free The speech, press and worship in the Kill of Eights. kind of permissiveness that accepts with hardly a murmur the taking of a human life by criminals and, at the same time, turns with wolf pack ferocity on the right of the law abidng citizen to keep a firearm in his home for his own protection is an insult to the American heritage of freedom. Low Price for Murder Two incidents have been reported in the press that eloquently explain the rising trend of crime and lawlessness. One was the release of a person convicted of killing a policeman dining prohibition. The prisoner regained his freedom after 40 years. He is now 85. The other incident was the conviction of a man of the off-dushooting of a store manager and an policeman in a holdup attempt. He received a sentence for the double murder at about the time the killer of a policeman 40 years ago was set free. However, the young man will be eligible for parole in 7 years at the age of As one observer comments, Of how much use is a stricterhand gun law when the price of murdering two the 860 The Small Business Administration said it has been authorized to grant economic injury disaster loans in 13 Utah counties as a result of the damages caused by prolonged drought, infestation and freeze. The counties are: Beaver, Emery, Iron, Garfield, Juab, Kane, Millard, Piute, San Juan, Sanpete, and Washington. Political candidates who dont want to pay $200 for a computer printout of the Salt Lake County voter registration rolls may put the raw information on their own magnetic tape for about $50. The county will process the tape but will not furnish the tapes. The continuing problem of dancing on Sunday is in the laps of the Salt Lake City Commission. City tavern owners sought to have a legal opinion as to the dancing in the city because it is permitted in the county. The city attorneys office said that it is a matter of public demand, and returned the decision to the city commission. The Salt Lake City impound show a profit of $12,000 in its operation for lot is expected to the 1972-7- 3 fiscal year. Income of $60,000 can be expected this year. This total amount allows the wrecker service and administration cost of the lot. Previously the city contracted out the service to a private company. for Janies L. Barker, Salt Lake City Public Safety Commissioner, jumped into the long debate battle between City Mayor E .J. Garn and the president of the local Firefighters Union, Jim Fisher. Mr. Barker says that the city is wrong in not negotiating with the duly elected representatives of the Firefighters Union because state law requires is to bargain with them. Mr. Fishers services were terminated a while back because of alleged political activity while he was serving as a fireman. ty 30-ye- ar 85-year-- 27. old Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! Quail arc ground feeders, usually roosting at night in bushes or trees. During fall and winter, they live in coveys containing several family groups. Coveys break up in the spring as the qual pair off for nesting. About a dozen creamy white eggs make up the average clutch. Hatching time is 22 days. |