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Show Ilf UNIYERSITY OF UTAH hTR A,imrAM I - ' L1ARIES JAN NON-CIRCULATI- 31969 OQ 4 h C - ALS ORDER D..7T. f- tSOUTH SALT LABE NEWS CD J South Salt Lake So. S. 18-y- ear rs, 2, 1963 Nur Mulls County Offer in Creation of New Park Letter to the Editor Editor: I noticed with a great deal of pleasure the announcement of supold vote by the port for the Utah Election Law Study Committee and I hope Utahns and this session of the Legislature will respond affirmatively to this stand. In January of 1967 another Salt Lake high school senior and I started an organization, the Committee for to gather supActive Teen-ageport by petition for the 18 --year --old vote bill before the 67 Legislature. We were unsuccessful in our efforts, but is is gratifying to see that Utah will again have the opportunity to put this necessary statute into effect. The basic issues have remained unchanged since the last session of the Legislature, but perhaps now it is more apparent to more citizens why this change is a necessity. The American has many responsibilities of adulthood and few of the privileges. He must pay his taxes, he must appear before the courts as an adult, and he must defend his country in Vietnam if he is called to do so. In a sense, Thursday, Jaunuary the faces the same dilemma as Americans - taxation without representation. There are two more basic reasons why this privilege should be granted that are more apparent now than they were two years ago: the ability of our young people and the alienation of the young from the American system. Our high school education is improving rapidly each year and more and more young people are attending our colleges and universities. - John W. Rogers, SOUTH L. determine SALT LAKE a A 14-ac- re ble as if public hearing to South Salt Lake should Join Salt Lake County in creation of a park along Mill Creek from 350 to 500 East will be held Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. in South Salt Lake City Hall, 2500 S. State, announced Mayor O. P. Davis. Mayor Davis said the city has been Invited to participate with the county in creation of a Federal park that would douflood control project. funds win be avail- able, Mayor Davis said. The proposed park would include the property adjacent to the north side of Min Creek and would go south to Creek Avenue and Front Avenue, part of which lies in the county. It would require taking eight homes in South Salt Lake, Mayor Davis said. In this portion, Min (keek would be straightened and covered in a large pipe, tater. from smaU springs on the property would become part of the park system, Mayor Davis said. Mayor Davis said the city does not have a community park and this would be a valuable addition. Plane Finds Cobalt Source old for ARMS. No, this call has nothing to A call do with gun control. It was a call for a small one carrying highly plane specialized and sensitive equipment. The aircraft needed was equipped with ARMS, the Atomic Energy Commissions Aerial Radio- logical THE I KPNI FUN MHOML MSTITUTES Of HEALTH KTKSU.NITUM Dizziness Most people have felt dizzy at some time in their life. A simple cause, such as looking down from a tall building or getting up too fust after lying in bed could explain this sensation. However, when the spells occur repeatedly and without an apparent cause, a person is wise to see his doctor. The sense or balance, which is disturbed when a person feels dizzy, results from a combination of information coming to the brain through the inner ear, the eyes, and the muscle's sense of position. Older people, particularly. should cnange positions slowly, especially from lying down or sitting to standing or walking. This allows time for the inner ear balance system and the blood circulation to adjust to this change without dizziness. Inner ear problems account for about 8 5 percent of dizziness complaints. Many victims of dizziness are diagnosed and treated by their physicians for a mild infection of the inner ear. Often, an antibiotic is prescribed and the dizziness disappears in a few days as the infection clears up. Sometimes, however, the cause is more complicated and treatment more extensive. In some cases the patient may be sent to an ear specialist (otolaryngologist). The remaining 15 percent of patients may suffer from aging of the blood vessels or arteriosclerosis, a sensitivity to drugs, and injury to the ear, a tumor pressing on the balance nerve, or other nerve disorders. One of the commonest inner ear ailments was discovered only 100 years ago and is called Meniere's disease. It is a combination of three symptoms: ringing in the ears, dizziness, and loss of hearing in the affected ear. The disease can be very bothersome since attacks may recur several times a year although they may disappear entirely in time. Emotional stress and even certain foods k inch in diameter fell out and rolled around the truck bed. It must have dropped out of the truck onto the highway. But where? So the Commission widened the search. Measuring The AEC. The Commission put into effect its Radiological Assistance Plan established in 1958 to protect the public health and safety from the accidental loss or release of radioactive material. The AEC sent a radiological assistance team which promptly determined that the source was not in the truck or the terminal. Therefore, the AEC had to find out whether the source had indeed been aboard the truck when it left Salt Lake City. The Commissions Division of Compliance determined that it had. Somewhere the container in which the cobalt rested came only open, and the source two inches long and a half may help cause these attacks. The disease often begins with a feeling of fullness or pressure in the affected ear, followed by This may be comdizziness. plicated by temporary hearing loss and nausea. Diagnosis and treatment by a physician are important and may include medication to stop the dizziness and prevent excess fluid in the inner ear. Treatment is important since the attacks can make work or driving unpleasant or even dangerous, and the temporary hearing loss could become permanent nerve deaf-Se- e Page 2, Column 2 mile by mile while flying 400 feet above the ground. Instruments sorted out cosmic rays, natural background radiation from the e earth, and other radiation sources to identify the source. ARMS the most sensitive and accurate civilian aerial a man-mad- Beechcraft Bonanza based at Las Vegas, Nevada, and in which the ARMS system is installed, was pressed into Survey system. The orders: Find a tiny but potentially hazardous radio- cobalt source lost active somewhere along the vast reaches of 1,200 miles of highway stretching from Salt Lake City, across the Rockies and the Great Plains, to Kansas City, Kansas. The source was being shipped by truck from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Houston, Texas, via KansasCity. When the truck arrived at the Kansas City Terminal, a routine inventory was made of the cargo. It was then discovered that the shipping container had upset and opened. The interstate carrier requested assistance from the aircraft small It flew to Salt Lake City, from where it began to retrace the trucks route service. radiation detecting system in the United States plotted the exact location of the lost source; it was approximately two feet down the embankment of a limited access high-wa- y near Missouri. St. Joseph, It had been found within three and a half days of the request for assistance, and less than 48 hours after the ARMS aircraft took to the air. -- March of Dimes Gives Total Care To Help Child Walk, Talk and Learn 9 John C. Burr of subur- ban Cleveland, Ohio, was understandably rattled that day five years ago when his wife, Caroline, announced, 2Vi months before their first child was due, Honey, Im ready. Like most men, the chemist had never delivered a baby. But there wasnt time to get to the hospital in St. Paul, Minn., where they were then living, so he phoned the police for help. He also phoned the obstetri- cian who offered some words of instruction er just in time for John to the baby, who arrived in a breech position. For a beginner, John did an admirable job. The pound baby girl, who was bom with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, was rushed to the hospital where doctors kept her alive with the help of blood transfusions and supplemental oxygen. Ten weeks passed before John and Caroline were able to take little Elizabeth home. For about a year, everything seemed just fine. But the young couple began to notice that their daughter was not moving or talking like other They lawell-chos- en de-iv- three-and-one-h- alf one-year-ol- ds. ter learned that Elizabeth had been bom with a crippling birth defect. No one knows what caused it, but the pretty, intelligent little blonde has no control over her leg muscles and has serious speech difficulties. Although physical therapy was prescribed for Elizabeth at 18 months, says Mrs. Burr, it was not until she was three years old, when we moved to Cleveland, that her condition was properly diagnosed and she began to receive the kind of total care she needs. Elizabeth was taken to the Birth March of Dimes-financDefects Center at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. There a team of medical experts began a continuing pro- gram of physical and occupaed THUMBS UP. Pronouncing familiar words is net as easy as A,B,C for Elizabeth Burr, 5, born with a speech defect. Here the youngster gets help from speech pathologist Vicki Perkle at March of Dimes Birth Defects Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Metropolitan General Hospital. tional therapy, fitted the little tainly high enough for her to girl with leg braces and began benefit from a formal educaa program to correct her speech tion, is now attending nursery difficulties. school and will be enrolled Elizabeth visits the hospital next year in a school for the three mornings a week. There handicapped. she is learning to sit straight, The total treatment and edpronounce words properly and ucation of Elizabeth Burr is walk. As they do with other not confined to the hospital patients, the doctors observe and school. With the help of Elizabeth's ability to learn and her mother, the little girl extry to determine how she can ercises at home on swings and in the sand box. best be educated. Elizabeth is the perfect Many patients may have a great deal more potential for mother to her dolls, Mrs. Burr learning and achievement than points out. Although she canis generally recognized, says not walk without help, she is Dr. Irwin A. Schafer, director able to crawl between her toy of the Birth Defects Center. If stove and a little table to feed assessment is inadequate, these her dolls imaginary tea and children could be functionally crackers. The Burrs have a son, Michhandicapped all their lives and become a burden on the com- ael, 3, who is normal and healthy. There is just one munity. In our comprehensive care problem, though. While Mrs. program, these children can be Burr is teaching Elizabeth to adequately assessed. Our staff read and pronounce, she must can look at these children also help Michael, who has neurologically, medically and picked up some poor speech psychologically over extended habits from his older sister. periods of time and recom- The Burr children can undermend the kind of educational stand each other, but they need help if others are to unprograms they will need. cer is derstand them. whose IQ Elizabeth, ft H M O' M 4 M fl) Serving The Center Of Industry Volume II 09 i (D yrt- - |