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Show Page Sun Chronicle 2 Thursday, February Height hazards must be The Sun Chronicle and Clearfield Courier are published weekly at Roy, Utah, 5388 S. 1900 W. Mailing address, P.O. Box 207, Roy, Utah 84067. Telephone stressed to protect young New York girl falls 17 floors to Four year-old from her death apartment window. She was alone. Her parents were out attending a movie. Virginia boy seriously injured in a fall down an elevator shaft while playing games in the freight lift. d Chicago girl opens up the incinerator chute near her 15th floor apartment, falls in and plunges to her death. A Mount Vernon, N.Y. girl put her head through an unguarded opening in the elevator door on the seventh floor of her apartment house, apparently to see if the elevator was coming. She was decapitated when the elevator passed. Reports of these occurrences appeared in the nations newspapers during the last half of 1974. Whether they live in luxury condominiums or public housing facilities, the safety problems of young high rise tenants are very special, noted Sharon Wildermuth, child safety consultant for the National Safety Council. The high rise environment has inherent architectural characteristics that can be very hazardous to the young. Balconies, elevators, incinerator chutes, open engineering service rooms and unprotected windows are just a few of the high rise hazards that can endanger childrens lives, said Wildermuth. She offered these suggestions to help keep your tot safe in todays vertical dwellings : First, take a close and careful look at the structural charcteristics of your building. Are all windows where a child could possibly fall from great heights well screened? If not, insist that management provide you with screening, tighten loose or easily dislodged screens, or install some other safety device which would prevent a child from falling out an It is feared by disaster experts that starvation and epidemics will envelop Guatemala in the aftermath of earthquakes that have killed at least 14,000 people by official estimates. Some death toll figures have ranged as high as 16,000. Powerful aftershocks that hit on Wednesday, Feb. 4, just two days after a killer earthquake that left at least 5,000 dead, spread panic through the battered country. Reports from the interior said entire villages were razed by Wednesdays quake and starving survivors were eating rats. One man, perplexed and grief stricken by one of the worst human catastrophies in modern times, screamed, Porque, Dios mio! Porque Dios mio! !Why, my God! Why, my God!) Stockholm - Igmar Bergman, one of the worlds most original and acclaimed film directors, has been hospitalized with a nervous breakdown after his arrest for tax fraud, it was learned Wednesday. who Actress Liv Ullman, the directors starred in Persona and Scenes from a Marriage among other Bergman works, said, I am afraid how Ingmar will react after he has been singled out this way. ex-wi- fe In the biggest antiBarcelona, Spain government demonstration held in Spain since Civil War, tens of thousands of people the 1936-3shouted for political amnesty and automony for Catolina on Sunday. Hundreds of riot police fired rubber bullets and smoke bombs to disperse the demonstrators, who ran up side streets and quickly regrouped. Eyewitnesses saw police smash the windows of several cars with rifle butts and drag the drivers from the vehicles to club them. 9 NATIONAL Washington Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, in a speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco that was billed as a major foreign policy address, said Tuesday that the United States must not paralyze itself in world affairs this election year by withdrawing into ourselves to heal our wounds. American-Sovie- t detente policy is justifiably an important part of our national debate, Kissinger said. He added, Let us end the defeatist rhetoric that implies that Soviet policy is masterful, purposeful and overwhelming while American policy is bumbling, uncertain and weak. t San Francisco Since the California scales of tipped justice favorably for pot smokers with new liberalized marijuana laws, sales of pocket-sizescales used to insure against possessing more than an ounce of the weed have skyrocketed. The law, which went into effect Jan. 1, states that persons caught with an ounce or less of marijuana will get a citation like a traffic ticket with a fine of not more than $100. d New York Daniel P. Moynihan, the colorful, flamboynant, and often controversial Harvard professor who abruptly ended his seven-montcareer as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, said Tuesday he was leaving the door open to run for the U.S. Senate. h San Francisco Last Thursday during the trial of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, a darkened courtroom watched a silent movie of an armed Tania wheeling a carbine at customers who tried to enter the Hibernia Bank branch while members of the Symbionese Liberation Army staged their holdup. On Monday, the court heard a tape in which the defendent said she robbed the bank of her own free will. The recording, released nine days after the 1974 robbery, was titled Greetings to the people, this is Tania. In the tape, Miss Hearst said, My comrades and I expropriated $10,660.72 from the bank. My gun was loaded, and at no time did any of my comrades intentionally point their guns at me ... As for being brainwashed, the idea is ridiculous to the point of being beyond belief. The defendent is expected to take the stand in her defense sometime this week. 825-166- 6. delay. Familiarize babysitters with the fire building's plan. Teach your children the basics of fire prevention. This is good insurance against high rise disaster. Need outside help? Contact your local fire departments Fire Prevention Bureau. Some bureaus have available special presentations including slide shows, games, etc., to teach youngsters fire safety. Teach latch-ke- y kids usually older children who have their own keys, to let themselves in and out of the apartment the imof safe while behavior portance parents are outside the home and how to handle emergency situations such as fire, power loss, medical emergencies, etc. They should know whom to contact and how to report the situation lucidly. Proper training can literally make the difference between life and death. Never leave young children alone either inside or outside the apartment. Leaving a child alone in an apartment, even if the door is locked, does not insure safety and is a dangerous practice. Tragically, too many parents have found out how short a time it takes for a child to die in a fire, drown, poison himself while the parent went to the mail box, to the laundry room, or to visit a neighbor. If you leave your apartment, even for a quick errand, take the child along. He will be happier and so will you. Also make it a habit never to let the child play in the hallways. Elevators, garbage chutes, fire extinguishers, and heavy corridor ashtrays make deadly playthings. Machinery fascinates many children. They may be especially drawn to the large and coim plicated machines tended by your engineering services department boilers, central air conventilation ditioning units, devices, electrical open window. refuse equipment, disposal apparatus, etc. Are there any special architectural features be a killer. If your children insist can Curiosity of your building such as balconies or open exlet them but viewing these devices terior hallways where a child could harm him- upon under See if a only professional supervision. self? See if these areas can be protected with member of the engineering services friendly safety devices. staff will give them a tour and answer their Are elevators maintained and inspected questions to help quench the mysteries behind regularly? They should be its the law. Is the the doors. Ask that the engineering and mainbuilding well maintained and free of debris? tenance staffs keep all service rooms locked if Once you have done this, its time to do your this is not already the case. parental duty to make sure your children aree Recreation areas such as swimming pools, safe. Make sure your children know the buildings health, sauna, game rooms, etc., should have atfire plan. Rehearse it with them. If the plan in- tendants on duty. This is especially important cludes a fire captain, introduce your children to where water or steam are concerned. If him or her so that if an emergency does arise, management does not supply this cautionary they will respond to this leader without fear or help, tenants may want to take over the job on ad volunteer basis to make sure children are super-viseor kept from these areas. Growing up in a high rise can provide a child to Washington and New York on a trial with many interesting and varied experiences. basis. with myriad lifestyles, He becomes d In explaining his decision, friends of acquainted walks of life. Safety and ages many Coleman said, In reviewing the environmental man-mad- e environment can of his awareness costs of six daily Concorde flights, I have conand his might just be the enjoyment cluded ... that the impact on air quality, the heighten in turning a possibly fatal exdeterminingvfactor effect of low frequency noise vibrations and the into a fascinating one, summed up climatic impact of stratosphere emissions are perience Wildermuth. not significant reasons for denying limited operations. -- INTERNATIONAL Guatemala City, Guatemala news and photographs for Thursdays paper must be in the news office before Monday at 5 p.m. Pictures may be included without charge, either taken in the office or submitted by you. AH 15-sto- ry Fifteen-month-ol- J. Howard Stahle M. Glen Adams Mrs. Bonnie Stahle six-year-o- ld th long-awaite- Owner-Publish- er Mrs. Pat Sutter Bonnie Cantwell Keith Duncan Lonnie Reid Peggy Jo Adams Assistant Publisher Advertising Mgr. Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor Typesetter Staff Correspondents: Roy LDS Church and Roy' Sunset News, Virginia Wursten, News and Sunset LDS Church News, Denise 825-664- Hammon, Marijane Adams, 825-947- Cincinnati - James Earl Ray claims he did not shoot Dr. Martin Luther King, and contends his guilty plea was illegally coerced, an attorney for Ray argued before a federal appeals court Tuesday in an effort to get his client a new trial. The three judges hearing the appeal are expected to take several weeks before deciding if Ray will get a new trial. Washington Despite stout objections from environmentalists, Transportation V School and Home T VfM 7 C by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association I remember vividly a sixth-grad- e student who showed up at school with a wide assortment of bruises. The child had flunked a test. Those bruises were theresult of severe physical punishment by the students parent. There are obviously better ways to help students . Among the things parents can do to help their children take tests and otherwise find success in school are : 1. Provide a quiet, study area without distractions. 2. See that there is adequate time for study and review. 3. Dont force a schedule on the child that is too rigid, but encourage acceptance of responsibility in getting the task of studying accomplished. 4. See that your child gets enough rest, relaxation and well-light- proper food. 5. If a test is failed, dont scold or intimidate. Rather, review the test discussing the errors and the correct answers. Use it as a learning experience. 6. Commend your youngster for successes in school, but make sure such commendation is sincere and deserved. Tests are important and serve several worthwhile purposes. They help the teacher to find out how well students are doing in school, pinpoint areas where students can use ad- ' " 1 ditional help, and are used to assign grades. Tests also help teachers to perform better. If a teaqheft notices an excessive number (Sf tridorredt answers to aceP tain test question or area of study, this may say something significant. The teacher may have felt that students had mastered this area of study. But, the test results may be telling the teacher that a review is in order, important concepts were missed, etc. Excessive punishment of children who fail tests can be a gesture. This could cause unnecessary fear of tests and a dislike for school. After all, very few, if any,' people go through life without failing some tests. Tests should . be part of a positive learning experience. Its better to raise a childs level of excitement for learning : than to raise welts! Secretary of State on Wednesday that admitted Kissinger Marxist forces in Angola are on the verge of winning the civil war against Laramie, Wyo. Henry A. pro-Weste- factions. Speaking at a news conference at the of University Wyoming, Kissinger said, It may be very late in the day to do anything in Angola. tn- The famed Tokyo Rose, made propoganda broadcasts for Japan during World War II and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for treason in 1949, is having her case appealed by Japanese-America- n group seeking a presidential pardon. Rose, Iva Toguiri dAquino, is now 59 and works in a Japanese import store in Chicago. Her defenders hope to show that Mrs. dAquino was no traitor, but an American patriot. San Francisco who More Americans are finding Washington jobs according to new unemployment figures which show a dramatic drop in January from 8.3 percent to 7.8 percent, as 80,000 more people went to work last month. The half-poidecline in the unemployment rate was the steepest since 1959. Secretary Washington Officials from Lockheed h Air- craft Corp. admitted paying cash ranging into millions of dollars to government leaders or political parties in Japan, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany. The payments, which were described by Sen. as bribes, were exFrank Church, A.C. Lockheeds chief Kotchian, plained by as attempts to improve the operating officer, climate for the sale of Lockheed military and commercial aircraft. The largest snow fall in 89 San Francisco years hit the Bay Area on Thursday morning leaving as much as seven inches in some spots. Although the storm brought welcome relief to the Sierra ski resorts, it did little for the states farmers and ranchers who have been plagued by William Coleman, Jr. cleared the Concorde supersonic transport Wednesday to fly .the worst drought in years. Anglo-Frenc- News, 825-063- 8. researcher. Dr. Joan Lockard, professor of neurological surgery and psychology, said experiments she conducted last year showed women doubled the number of rides they obtained by using padding to increase their bustline by two inches. 6; Clearfield 4; nt Seattle - If you are a woman hitchhiker, the bigger your bust is the better your chances are of getting a ride, says a University of Washington 12, 1976 THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL took ten years to build and seated figure of Lincoln, carved in Georgia marble. contains a colossal |