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Show 5 8B we ST VALLEY VIEW Thursday, Feb. 5, 1981 Fox Hills Poster Contest Winners Named three grades and KEARNS. Winners in the Fox Hills elementary Lets stop vandalism week poster contest were announced Monday. winner was Jason Campbell. Grade winners Locke, Stephanie strips children. An officer from the County Sheriff's Dept, visited the school Wednesday. PTA officers showed slides of vandalism that had occurred at the were John kindergarten; first Snow, school. Ras- Tonya grade; Third grade students in mussen, second; Cameo Bryan, third; Kristal Fivas, fourth; Cindy Warr, fifth and James Tranmar, sixth. Winners received art supplies as prizes. The week-lon- class sang a song about vandalism, ... Building. From left are Brent Goodfellow, Pat Latham, Neal Grover, all of Utech; Keith Aller of Ford and L. L. Smith of UTC. LIGHTS WORK . . . Utah Tech students Gary Wymore and Joe Kunz check wiring for rear lights on diesel rig being studied in automotive classes at the school. titled I Care. Kindergarten students and their parents were invited to a party Friday and were treated to a puppet show. ties included movies for students in the upper A gift of automotive parts TRAINING worth $4,000 is the topic of this group, assembled at Utah Tech's Automotive Rockwoods Marian activi- g film- for younger WCH0PS breakfast At Utah Tech Getting Job Is Goal Of Automotive Class Students by Margaret Slack minor repair, but because of the specialized JTAYLORSVILLE. equipment needed, as The bottom line is for a well as availability properson to get a job, ex- - . blem and cost of parts, it isnt feasible. plained Neil Grover, He suggested that in dean of machine trades the future, auto body reregarding the purpose for anyone attending pair shops will specialize in either Japanese or classes in automotive and heavy duty mechEuropean or American cars. He surmised that anics at Utah Technical college. equipment will be so Our main thrust is to specialized that it would offer specialized and be prohibitive to serve general skills to give a all three types of automobiles in one shop. person job-entr- y We cover the basics competency In a trade, r he said. of cars in our About 350 students this general course, he continued. Then the stuquarter are pursuing automotive and heavy dent leaves and goes to work in the trade. duty mechanics training for just that purpose, Dealerships sponsor the ; Those taking heavy dustudent for the specialty are trained in diesel-drive- n ized training hell need at their own center. units, both highway (trucks) and Training for the parconstruction ticular automobile is so equipment). The autospecialized that to inmotive class covers, clude it all in the Utech domestic automobiles. curriculum would be We dont do an awful prohibitive in time and lot in foreign cars, exequipment. If a complained the dean. We pany such as General do some brake work and Motors or Ford came in to do the training, a student couldnt use all the ENGH FLORAL information hed get. The traditional courses AND GARDEN CENTER include front ends and 2098 E. 3900 So. brakes for one quarter, fuels and electrical 272-522- 1 (tune-ups- ) for a second two-yea- . T . ! quarter and the final third of the year would be engines where the student completely tears down and rebuilds engines. the second During year, the three quarters offer advanced tune-udrive mechanism which involves transmission and differential (rear end) and during the final quarter, special equipment such as air conditioning, emission control, vacuum system and speed control. However, a student may choose specialization in any one of the subjects covered during the five previous quarters. In heavy duty, during the first year the study is on chassis, basic diesel engines and preventative mainten- ance. During the second year, the instructors cover advanced diesel engines,, heavy duty electrical and the. final quarter a student may specialize in either con- struction equipment such as bulldozers, back hoes and rubber tire tractors or highway equipment, including gasoline and diesel trucks. Utech has lab units purchased by the school to be used to instruct the heavy duty mechanics classes. The automotive students work on automobiles on a first come, first served offer to faculty, students and staff. Jobs being done on these cars must fit the curriculum being taught, however. We dont change snow tires, for instance, but we do balance them. We dont do mufflers since they are a specialized field and special equipment is needed. We do tune-upbrakes, engine overhauls and transmission work, Grover said. A class for auto body and paint was lost last year when funding was suspended. However, instruction is being offered in these fields on a third, outboard motors. , A few female students enroll each quarter, the dean said. Also some Orientals are taking courses in automotive, including Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Persians (they prefer not to be called ' ). Communi- motors distributors and related training manuals and visual aids. Utah Tech is one of 30 colleges nationwide selected to receive the special gifts from the Ford Fund, money allocated by the company for purchase of new equipment to be used in worked closely with Ford Motor Co. and was instrumental in obtaining the gift. Mr. Smith assochad a iation with the company as a factory representative . The equipment will be used at the Redwood Road campus, as well as its Skills Center. The exciting part for Mr. Goodfellow us, said, Is that we struggled with our own equipment before, and it was sometimes inadequate. college automotive cations are a problem, but special classes in training programs, said Keith Aller, administrative manager of the parts and service division at the Ford Training Center. L.L. Smith, a representative of Utah Tech, English are being provided for foreign students as part of their curriculum. The cost to attend this year is $157 per quarter, which includes supplies. However, each student must provide his own tools. Supplies are those materials that are large and cost more than $250, Grover explained. Tools are the small items, usually fitting into a tool box, that employers exr quarter-by-quarteworkers to furnish pect -basis, but with no credit.-T- he themselves. The courses run tradcost is $260 per itionally during the day. quarter for 53 days instruction, five hours a Besides the specific automotive classes, a day. Included are one student is required to hour of lecture and four hours of lab daily. complete general education classes in Recreational vehicle order to qualify for an mechanics offers trainassociate degree or diping in repair of two and e loma. engines first Six teachers instruct in quarter, motorcycles automotive and five in and snowmobiles second quarter and the heavy duty, while two WfUtE This is a ImstVuctions PLUS FLORAL others CHERLYNN'S DOROTHEA'S FLORAL FLORAL FLORAL 262-336- 467-153- 9 ; 566-515- 1560 4 E. 145 3300 So. E. Except Closed Sun. 8:00 p.m. to 5:30 Mon. a.m. 4219 W. 3500 So. improve- HOME IMPROVEMENT SUPERMART !olsREFUND on IulI tile ALLUHUSED SALE ENDS FEB. iM 1 m four-cycl- PEARSON 7753 So. Redwood Rd. Open 24 Hrs. SPECIAL of USE FREE Cafe Jq0JJTH FREE sSoBSm are teaching RVM and auto body and EBBOR great ment. Linda's & Thayne 255-681- 8 1 780 6100 So. E.' Center MIDVALE PERCENTAGES BASED ON REFERENCE PRICES! SEE BELOW paint. 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