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Show 1 THE SALT LAKE PULSE programs. 6. Promote and support research re-search in the field of mental retardation. So much for the objectives. Now for the drawbacks. The legislature leg-islature provided $250 000 for the whole program in the state. This while monuments were being be-ing destroyed. Even the Fairmont Fair-mont center is in the path of the new Interstate highway, where sooner or later a road will be built to help people go no place faster. I'm not against roads, but we need new facilities for these youngsters, especially those who can't get in anywhere for the treatment they need.More money will be necessary and so will more taxes. W , .i -ii By BOB HICKS The other day this reporter spent an eye opening time at the center for retarded children in Fairmont Park. This project is part of a pilot study begun under authorization of the Legislature. Legis-lature. The average attendance is about 24 with 35 other children chil-dren rejected for lack of space, which means they must wait for some more suitable time to begin be-gin the road back to normalcy. To overcome any parents' apathy that this can never happen hap-pen to their child, Mrs. Alice Anderson, director of the school, states that retardness can occur at any time, not just at birth. A thing such as injury to the brain may induce this malady even in the "later" years of childhood. Affiliated with the National Association for Retarded Children,' Chil-dren,' Inc., (NARC) the Fairmont Center is maintained by the , State Department of Welfare, which supplies $5000 annually for the school, a sum matched in equal part by United Fund Its program is as follows: 1. To maintain an adequate program of parent guidance and counseling. 2. To train retarded children of school age some of whom may be accepted into public schools as the program develops. 3. To aid and encourage the ' expansion of programs for children chil-dren and adults who are retarded, retard-ed, and are over, school age. 4. To established sheltered workshop program for retarded children and adults over school age. 5. To provide an adequate program for the acceptance of mentally retarded children and adults into community life, including in-cluding recreation and social |