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Show Page Twelve i FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Blind Federation Leader Calls For Evaluation Convinced that if work for America's blind goes on another ten years as it has in the last twenty the national government will take over the task of polic-ing agencies for the blind, M. Robert Barnett, Executive Direc-tor, American Foundation for the Blind, has called on more than a 1000 agencies for the blind to consider the possibility of volun-tary self-evaluatio- n. "We must consider the needs for self-evaluati- on now before it it too late," Barnett said in a statement announcing plans that may lead to a system for accre- - and the repeated expression of criticism and confusion on the part of the general public which is asked to support the nation's health and welfare programs in-cluding the area of blindness." "The American Foundation for the Blind itself," says Barnett in his call to the agencies, "through facts and figures accumulated through survey and research, as well as the constant collection of opinion, adds to these expres-sions its conviction that all too many blind persons are not re-ceiving the type and quality of service which are their privilege in this democracy." Pointing out that some efforts have been made in the past to establish standards and to prac-tice self-evaluati- on in some phases of work for the blind, Barnett affirms that the Foun-dation intends to assist all ap-propriate groups to accelerate their studies. It will expedite the creation of a national structure under which such groups could coordinate their efforts and co-operate for achievement of com-mon goals. The aim is to evolve an accr-editing system which would be respected by all legitimate agen-cies and organizations in work for the blind, and which even-tually the general public would recognize as a guide for finan-cial support and a source of as-surance of sound services for blind people, according to Bar-nett- 's statement. Barnett concluded by stating that present misrepresentations and ineffectual activity in work for the blind make it urgent that all organizations interested in America's estimated 355,000 blind people join together in a pioneering effort to reduce these confusions to the greatest pos-sible extent. The American Foundation for the Blind is a private, non-prof- it research educational and service agency acting as a clearing house for problems concerning Amer-ica's estimated 355,000 blind per-sons. ditation of service programs for the blind. The alert went out to all national and state level, pub-lic and private agencies for the blind, all public and private schools for the blind, libraries, Vpecialized national and local organizations, including all those listed in the official Directory published by the Foundation. The decision to send out this new challenge dates to a recent annual meeting of the Board of Trustees where it was approved unanimously under the direction of its president, Jansen Noyes, Jr. "The necessity for clarifica-tion of the needs of blind people and setting of standards of pro-grams which attempt to meet those needs has been stimulated in general by awareness of opin-ion from' two important segments of our population," the announ-cement states. "They are, the growing expressions of concern by leaders of service programs about the absence of standards and the distortion of the public image of their agency activities; Memorials Established For Local Residents Memorials have been estab-lished with the Utah Heart As-sociation in the name of the fol-lowing late residents of Salt Lake City and County during the past months, according to Dr. James F. Orme, association president. Honored were: Mrs. Alice La-Ru- e Healey Hall, Buelah Curtis, Ray Malstrom, Mrs. Lillian P. Haws, Nick Konlas, James Wil-liam Maycroft, May Larsen Brad-ley, Charlotte Clark, Frances D. Maycroft, Frank C. Barnes, Wes-ley Moore, Melvin P. Simpson, A. E. Ted Anderson, Oscar Han-son Sr., Fern S. Nielson, Dr. James Z. Davis, John Spencer Clawson, John F. Stanfield, Mrs. Anna Reeves, Earl W. Pinney, Wililam D. Shipley and Maurice D. Larson. The announcement was made 'n the form of a quarterly re-port released by the Heart As-sociation. Dr. Orme pointed out that memorial gifts to the Heart Fund are used to support re-search to gain new knowledge about the heart and blood vessel diseases, and to make that knowl-edge available to the practicing physician. Today, more than 10 million Americans are afflicted or dis-abled, including 500,000 school age children. In addition, 50,000 children are born each year with congenital heart defects. Many of them can be cured by new heart surgery procedures. Through scientific research man will ultimately gain control of heart disease. Many persons have found deep satisfaction in making memorial contributions to the Heart Fund. In this way, they have both served the living and paid thoughtful tribute to the memory of a friend, associate or relative. Memorial gifts to the Heart Fund are to be addressed to the Utah Heart Association, 250 East 1st South, Salt Lake City. Acknowledgements to the family of the deceased are made prompt-ly, and a receipt is sent to the donor for the purpose of income tax deduction. State Chairmen Named for Meet State chairmen of the Program Committee for the 1962 Mining Show and Convention of the American Mining Congress, to be held at San Francisco September 24-2- 7, have been appointed by National Program Committee Chairman C. D. Michaelson, Vice President - Mining, Kennecott Copper Corp., New York. They will meet in April to develop plans for this annual gathering of the industry. Working with the state chair-men will be a large number of Committee members from all mining areas and all branches of the industry, who are being asked to submit specific sugges-tions as to the more important developments and issues facing the industry which should be considered at the nationwide meeting in September. The Convention sessions will cover every phase of mining exploration, underground and open-p- it mining and quarrying, minerals beneficiation, safety management techniques, and general economic, legislative and policy matters. Members of Con-gress, prominent Government officials, and industry leaders will discuss national mineral policies, taxation, trade pro-grams, public lands, labor rela-tions, monetary policies, and the economic position of the various metals and minerals. Technical sessions will deal with advances in methods and equipment for doing a better job in all phases of mineral production, with the objective of cutting costs and raising the efficiency of industry operation. Weston Suggests Monorail System for Downtown Salt Lake Speaking from the floor as a citizen, Joseph H. Weston, Demo-cratic candidate for the United States Senate, recomended to the Downtown Planning Associ-ation, at their town meeting in the Salt Lake City commission chambers Tuesday night, that serious thought be given to the construction of a monorail sys-tem to solve the problem of rapid interurban mass transportation. No other candidates for office were present, although it was a meeting of such vital civic im-portance that Major J. Bracken Lee and all members of the city commission honored it with their presence, as did several other elected officials currently hold- - ing office. Mr. Weston observed that it is time that Salt Lake City started thinking of itself as a big city and as being the center of a huge metropolitan area. His brief talk suddenly has be-- 1 come one of the main topics of conversation among many of the business, civic and political lead-ers of the state. Part of it fol-lows: Some American cities have somewhat conquered the limita-tions of automobile traffic. About three years ago, New Yorkers suddenly realized that auto traf-fic congestion was costing them too much lost time, and so they began to flock back to their sub-ways, which they had neglected and all but abandoned for a period of about 20 years. Now the subways are again flourish-ing, and downtown New York, which had begun to decay when dependent upon auto traffic, has made a remarkable comeback in property values and in business transacted. If downtown Salt Lake City is ever to be able to offer the resi-dents of this metropolitan area the same sort of service as Macy's in New York, for example, or the same sort of cultural leadership as to be found on New York's Broadway, we must provide a cheap, swift, safe and efficient means of conveying the popula-tion into and out of the city from points as far away as Brigham City on the north and Payson on the south. The answer is a monorail sys-tem, which could bring a Brig-ha- m City housewife into down-town Salt Lake City in half an hour. The fare would be cheap. She would travel in safety. A world-famou- s musician or speaker could be profitably billed at a place as large as the LDS tabernacle, and half the v population of Utah, if they cared to, would be able to come hear him in person and return to their homes the same evening. The downtown merchants would tend gradually to increass their traffic in valuable, light-weight goods that could be car-ried in the arms, and the smaller town merchant would tend to-ward dealing in the heavier types of merchandise that require local auto or truck delivery. So all businesses in the entire metro-politan area would profit. Los Angeles Finds oca I Beauty Profitable Once considered the dirtiest and ugliest city in America, Los Angeles embarked on a volunteer beautification program which has made it internationally famous, Andrew Hamilton writes in the Reader's Digest. More than 400 Los Angeles civic and business leaders have invested their time, energy and money in a program which groups in other cities are copy-ing. Banks and office buildings have been garlanded with flower-beds. More than 200,000 trees have been planted. Freeways have been kept clear of bill-boards Even parking lots are being landscaped. The 12-ye- ar effort, spearhead-ed by a group named Los Angeles Beautiful, has proved that, in the words of Harold Quinton, Chair-man of the Board of the South-ern California Edison Company. "Civic beauty is good business." A clean-u- p campaign brought in-surance rates down, as rubbish fires declined by 55 per cent. Quinton's comment was chosen for the title of the article, which is condensed from National Civic Review. A spokesman for Los Angeles Beautiful, Mrs. Valley Knudsen, said one of the reasons for her group's success is: "We have kept our budget at a minimum. If the budget is plush, people do not have the satisfaction of giv-ing of themselves. SCHENLEY brings you "the Scotch they prefer in Scotland" SCOTCH BLENDED WHISKY, 86 PROOF IMPORTED BY LONG JOHN IMPORTING CO.. N.Y. Wallace Jenkinson Seeks Demo Nod For Utah House Bid Wallace H. Jenkinson, Magna, a former member of the Utah State Legislature, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for state representa-tive from Legislative District 21. Mr. Jenkinson was sponsor of the Unemployment Compensa-tion Act in the 1939 session and served as House sergeant at arms during the 1949 session. He is a veteran of World War I and has been active in the American Legion. He has held numerous posi-tions in the Democratic Party. 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