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Show Page 11 THE VALLEY VIEW NEWS Thursday, September 17, 1959 School's Teaching Geared To Industrial Education SALT LORETTA YOUNG - Returning for a seventh season on the NBC TV Network, Miss Young is star and hostess of The Loretta Young Show," Sunday nights. LAKE Utah CITY, Par- ents and teachers are not the only ones caught up in the rush back to school. Utah businessmen, whose companies sponsor industry-educatio- n programs, are well aware of the sound of school bells, too. This week local companies are already busy answering the hundreds of letters that are now pouring from teachers and students who want to know and see how they make their products. The big push locally is a part of a growing national effort by American industry to provide educational materials for school use that now costs an estimated fifty million dollars each year. Final touches have long since been made to booklets, filmstrips, charts, movies, sample sets, teachers guides and hundreds of different kinds of materials now going out to Utah schools. In addition to highly developed education programs by companies like Kennecott Copper, U.S. Steel, Utah Power & Light, General Electric and Standard Oil, the Utah has Association Manufacturers come up with one of the nations best industrial education programs. Last year more than 50,000 Utah their classroom kits called How vocational information about various professions. In this regard, the students viewed the U.M.A. film Steel is Made. in on Businessmen also feel that Utah Petroleum Council last year series, Industry Parade, that was offered to 72 high schools in these days of crowded classrooms answered more than 25,000 requests the state during the 38 winter they share the responsibility to for booklets telling about the oil weeks of school. help teachers motivate students. industry. is why they open up their This Teachers say that these industrial Highlighting nearly every kind aids labs serve as a group of experts and manfacturing opof industrial activity in Utah, the research teacher-studetours on tap to answer students quesseries in- erations to national in and pro- tions. Often,' if a teacher requests exchange participate cluded a wide variety of vocational like it, companies will send their scienbooklets outlining educational re- grams tists and engineers right to the days. quirements for different types of Last year, U.S. Steels Geneva classroom to give added informajobs. Works played host to 2,054 stu- tion. Why are companies interested? On a national scale, more than dents and teachers. Over 2,000 fifth One big reason is that today and Powtelevision viewers followed visited Utah sixth 275,000 graders technological changes are taking er & Light in 1958 and more than a series called place so rapidly that it is almost 1,134 students toured UTOCOs Continental Classroom last year. impossible to keep textbooks up Sponsored' by six large, national to date. Teachers and students have refinery. is Industry quick to point out that corporations, the course in atomic learned that companies welcome the educational material offered to physics turned out to be the largthe chance to tell them whats new schools is not product advertising. est academic conclave ever put toin their industry. It is specially designed to fit into gether. like Electric General The series was so well received the school curriculum and give supCompanies and U.S. Steel, which are involved plementary information. Normally that the physics course will be rein scientific research and engineer- prepared by an educational adviser peated again this fall, together ing application, are a natural hired by the company, the material with a new series on advanced source for information too new to is usually tested in the classroom chemistry. The telecasts will begin be in any textbook. For example, and approved by educators before here on Sept. 28 over KTVT, chanby last spring, U.S. Steel had sent it is made available to the schools. nel 4. out over two million teaching aids In addition to explaining our Through their support of Amerand answered more than 41,000 American free ican schools, industries are demonenterprise system, specific requests for just one of these industry-educatio- n programs strating their conviction that the are designed to stimulate special education of our youth is the best classroom studies and to provide way to insure our future tomorrow. nt award-winnin- g Business-Industry-Educatio- n science-educatio- n FAMOUS WHITEHALL MANSION TO BE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MEMORIAL As seen in The Saturday Evening never thought Id be so happy Ml POST with a hearing aid" Unequalled hearing Radioear Hearing Aids The Worlds Finest comfort Another 6 out of 10 changed from other Y( ' I reason why Radioear Users to Radioear hearing aids! available at SALT LAKE HEARING CENTER 204 Judge Bldg. EM JEANNE BAL Featured as Jean Baker, a wife and mother, Miss Bal appears in the NBC-Twork new Monday night V The Marble Hall of Flaglers Whitehall mansion with ceiling canvasses representing The Crowning of Knowledge. Americas growing desire for beautiful as well as jmerely curpractical things is evidenced, among other ways, in most rent trends for the restoration of some of the nations beautiful historic homes. The Rathbone estate in Elmira, New York, has recently been restored as a museum will be operated as a year- devoted to a number of reund museum and will be made available for use by phases of Americana, notamemlocal, regional and national bly the exhibits and who Twain orabilia of Mark organizations and foundations dedicated to public most wrote several of his sumservice. famous works while a In addition to its Marble mer resident in Elmira. multi-gabled Hall, 110 ft. long and 40 ft. Glenmont, the Thomhouse in which wide, paneled in seven as Alva Edison lived for 45 shades of Carrara marble, years in West Orange, New the mansion includes a RenJersey, has become a U. S. aissance Library, a Chinese shrine. The Breakers, the billiard room, a dining room Newport House oi the late with seating for 150, a music Cornelius Vanderbilt, is a room in gold satin and a Louis XVI ball room whose new museum representing and Golden gilt rococo ceilings were Age, Newports taken intact from a French of Societies Preservation the Newport and Providence are working painstakingly on the restoration of several 17th and 18th century homes in the area. Now historic Whitehall mansion, world famous as Chateau. Restored as a museum, the famed Flagler residence Flaglers will illustrate years of achievement that spurred the transformation of Floridas east coast from one of Americas great show a tropical wilderness to an places and for the past 30 American Riviera. Flagler, son of a New years the luxury landmark among Palm Beach resort York minister, made his way from poor boy to a multihotels, will soon be estabmumillionaire before he had a as lished permanent memto the dedicated seum ever set foot in Florida. He oriand was 48 when he visited the ory of its builder state for the first time. He ginal owner, Henry Morrison Flagler, Floridas first died in Palm Beach in 1913 e citiand foremost at the age of 82, just a few zen and industrialist. months after his most giThe celebrated marble was completed mansion is in the process of gantic project railroad a being restored to its original state to be ready for public linking the mainland with viewing early in 1960. It Key West. - all-tim- sea-spanni- and Marriage Net- Love series. talkings more relaxed on a bedroom extension phone nine new colors . . . to order, call any business office of Mountain States Telephone One Beam family for z six generations... One Kentucky Bourbon formula for 164 years! 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