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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, No Place Wednesday, February NV5 5, 19111) lor Dangerous Gaines Non-Verb- al Messages Risky on Highways By Sgt. Gary Whitney I'tah Highway Patrol We don't usually talk to other drivers as we cruise down the highway, but we do indeed communicate wiih them. Whether it be an expression of outrage with an obscene gesture or a flash of the eyes into the rear-viemirror to show our displeasure, we arc actively telling someone something. COTTONWOOD der Pre-Schoo- l, Students at the Small Won- 3422 E. 7000 South, enjoy dressing and act- HEIGHTS i visited and taught the students some of the finer points of clowning. ing like clowns. Wobbly the Clown, This Weeks Calendar ii Wednesday, Feb. 5 Women In Jeopardy A confiden- tial counseling and education group for victims of domestic violence to share experiences and acquire information and resources to help them live a life free of battering and psysupchological abuse. This port group will meet every Monday and Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the YWCA. 322 E. 300 South. Child care is available and reservations are required. Free. Located at Hansen Planetarium 15 S. State St., the planetarium is showing A Comet Called Halley." with a special feature: The Last Time 1 Saw the Comet" Monday through Saturday at 4:30 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 4:30 p.m. The Secret of the Cardboard Hocket" is a special star show tor children ages four to eight, and is shown Saturday mornings at 11 a.m. Admission is $3 for adults, $2.50 for students and senior citizens and $2 for children under 12. Admission to Saturday children's shows is $1.50 for adults and $1 for children under 12. Call the planetarium for further information. surhave undergone breast-cance- r gery and a free noon lecture on breast-cance- r screening. The "Encore" program was created in 1972 by Helen Glines Kohut, R.N., a ballet and swimming instructor who had undergone a mastectomy. Encore became a YWCA program in 1977, and since then 224 organizations have sent staff members to special training sessions. Program sessions are held on Mondays from 2:30 to 4:15 p.m. and instructed by Barbara Isom. YWCA health promotion director and a qualified Encore specialist. It is divided into three sections: floor exercise, swimming exercise and group discus- sion. Floor and pool exercise sessions A retrospecPhoto Exhibition tive of work by the late Michael Cassidy, former Tribune photographer, will be shown 8 p.m. tonight in the Salt Lake Art Center Auditorium. The $2 admission charge will enable you to see, once again. The Giant Brine Shrimp attacking the Tribune Building, and other great Cassidy pieces. Classes Dream Interpretation on dreams and how to interpret them through Jungian dream analysis will be offered Thursdays through April 10 at East High School, 840 S. 1300 East from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. There is a Sobriety Corporation, a free alcohol and drug education and information group meets every Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Hillcrest Plaza. 7355 S. 900 East, Suite 2. Program Set for Breast-CancThe Salt Lake YWCA is sponsoring a weekly program for women who Thursday, Feb. 6 Toastmasters Improve public speaking skills by joining Golden Spike Toastmasters every Thursday from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Library. 209 E. 500 South. Anyone over 18 is welcome. The Films of Winter Film Series Kenji Mizoguchi. This week: "Ugetsu" will be shown in the third floor Lecture Hall. Salt Lake City Public Library, 209 E. 500 South. Borrow Toys Parents may check out educational toys for their children, infants through age six at the Whitmore Library, 2197 E. 7000 South. Free. With a mirror rear-vie- to en- hance the strength, flexibility and mobility of the shoulder, chest and arm areas. The water exercises represent effective ways to strengthen muscles and enhance flexibility. Group discussions are devoted to identifying and sharing common concerns about breast cancer, mastectomy and other forms of breast-cance- r surgery. Periodically, a doctor or qualified technician will speak with the group to answer and share medical knowledge. Linda Ruiz, public director of YWCA, feels there is still a need for the Encore program in the Salt Lake area. The enrollment has dropped considerably and we feel the main reason for the decline is the lack of information to the public about the program's availability and content." said Ms. Ruiz. "We feel the Encore program is a community service and with publicity we would see an immediate increase in class enrollment. We hope to stimulate public interest as well as educate women of the importance of preventive health care." YWCAs Feb. 13 "Noontime Network speaker will be Dr. Irene Torino. from LDS Hospital's Radiology Department. Dr. Torino will present an update on mammograms, a video presentation on breast and discuss risk factors based on personal history. communication is the way we "talk" to other drivers from inside our cars while out on the roadway. We're all very good at it. and in fact, use it as a part of almost every conversation we have. Your boss might march into your office, move uncomfortably close and stand over you. then speak loudly through pursed lips about what she perceives as a problem with your having been late to work every day that week. If you didn't understand a word she said, there would be little doubt about the message. She didn't knock before coming into your office, as you are expected to do before entering hers. She marched right in and invaded your space. The volume and tone of her voice said plenty without the words, and her facial expressions were worth a million words. You got her message all right. And you will get the message just as effectively with the same communication methods out on the highway. We need to be more aware of the messages we are sending from the protection of our automobiles. Most of them are. unfortunately, negative or derogatory in meaning but can be employed positively as well. Consider, for example, an accident I investigated where a brand new Oldsmobile was lying on its side in ' between opposthe dirt divider-striing travel lanes of the freeway. As I pulled up, the owner came running up to my car shouting expletives about this guy in a beat up old Chevy who had run him off the road and then just drove off. The guy was calling for the death penalty against this driver. A witness to the accident got the license plate number of the missing car. I found the driver at his home p process. Mr. Y got the message all right, but it was not the one Mr. X was sending. He jammed the old Chevy into passing gear, sailed around Mr. X and then cut him off with a sudden jerk back into the left lane. Just like the angry boss mentioned above, Mr. Y had moved into what Mr. X considered "his space" and in so doing, signaled dominance. At this point Mr. X forgot all about break-i- n the new-ca- r period, called on the big horses under the Oldsmo-bile'- s hood and did the same thing to Mr. Y. Only when he got in front he slowed down again. Just to show 'em." They played this game a couple more times and then X started gesturing. And that's when it happened. Mr. Y blew his stack and forced Mr. X right off the road. He said he didn't stop to see if anyone was hurt because if he had. and Mr. X hadn't been hurt, then he would have had to hurt him anyway. This is your more agcomgressive variety of munication. non-verb- The story is not at all unusual. Drivers constantly use messages to harass one another and to endanger one another. Sometimes it only spoils their days, other times it spoils their paint jobs and once in a while it spoils their lives. non-verb- Though seldom seen while driving, other such as messages a wave of the hand and a smile work just as effectively in communicating safety, consideration and courtesy to our fellow drivers. non-verb- mow GET RESULTS WITH CLASSIFIED WANT-AD- 237-200- 0 AtttantfnoDDn D&etonDeimX YOUR AD IN THIS SPECIAL ZONE EDITION WILL REACH EVERY OCCUPIED HOUSING UNIT The cost of space the size of this complete ad (3 col. x 7 in.) is only $160.23 or TMC or Total Market Coverage means the newspaper will deliver thousand households. $2.76 per to all their advertising your message subscribers in this zone every Wednesday in the morning Salt Lake Tribune and the evening Deseret News . . . 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