Show I 1 2C r Ogden Saturday April 19 1986 771 Metro ' ' "'? QQQe ece(30ii onto ' BUNKBIEDS i NO DOWN ' 'jp 31 urvwi ' V '' S'"S h"' ''i INTEREST 2x6 ' V Pi- Mattress) (Includes s ' DAYS FINANCING 0 FINISHED S' "Tl 90 ' ' " ' Vv ' si ' A ' ' Workers ' 'f '' Sherman race the clock as they try to pave a new section at Lagoon amusement park In the background a new ride is tested (Includes Mattress) £3 Lagoon opens for the season today By BARRY KAWA leisure time so I certainly hope it’s going to help us out” Lagoon has been a vital part of Davis County since July 1886 when the Lake Park bathing resort opened on the shores of the Great Salt Lake Ten years later the resort park was moved inland and renamed Lagoon Freed and his brother leased the park in 1945 and have operated it since Along with its rides games and Pioneer Village the park also is known for its entertainment fare The amusement park’s musical season will not shift into full gear until after May 24 Lagoon however will offer its Country Side pop and gospel group for presca-soentertainment in Now its third season Country Side has expanded to eight musicians and four singers in a new 1986 show The country western concert season will open May 18 featuring Jim Glaser in the first in a series of nine concerts this sea- Davis Bureau FARMINGTON — His worried look turn into a smile today when the first customers turn off Lagoon Drive and into the parking lot of Utah’s biggest amusement park Lagoon President Peter Freed has been in the business for 41 years and admits to being a little nervous” as the park opens for the season ‘I always get butterflies at the opening and right at the last minute I wonder if anybody is going to come out” Freed said About million visitors are expected to come out before the amusement park completes its annual run Lagoon will be open weekends at am through Memorial Day Then it will be open daily through Labor Day The Farmington amusement park is entering its 99th year of operation and offers more rides and no admission price increase this season ' Crews have been busy over the winter expanding the park’s north midway to accommodate the new Flying Carpet ride Howard Freed (left) curator of Laand the return of the Flying Aces ride Pioneer Village talks over The Flying Aces ride was introduced in goon’s 1940 but has been in storage since the including a dragon a bee an elephant Colossal Fire Dragon displaced it in and a ladybug 1983 Freed said the park always hopes for a For the kids the new Scaliwags ride will record attendance and this year might exoffer a colorful menagerie of animals ceed the visitors of the past will The Opera House is planning for a busy with its production of Sweet Charity the first presentation of this Broadway hit in Utah The show will run from June 20 through August 30 on Wednesdays through Saturdays Several other events also are scheduled this year such as a race for all ages a clogging championship and programs on summer holidays season details with Dick An- drews few years “The industry itself is saying this could be one of our best years because people are not traveling overseas” Freed said “And of course people have a lot more Standard J BARKER Examiner staff stories about humans being raised by animals are fascinating and excite people’s imaginations if only briefly For Beatrix and R Allen Gardner the idea of abandoned human babies being reared by wild beasts was more than exciting Called the idea was so inspiring to the Gardners that it gripped them in 1966 and has not let go the other They’re way around The husband and wife team from the University of Nevada-Ren- o is credited with teaching chimpanzees limited human communication through use of American Sign Language While the results generated controversy over the notions that the chimps actually learned and understood language the Gardners maintained their goal was not to prove chimps could communicate with humans The chimps are now kept in a large cage at Central Washington State University “They have each other and there is a TV on them when no one is there They talk (with sign language) about all sorts of things games they’re playing” Gardner said His wife said there is a great deal of “signing" between them for tickling to come hither go or look “there" gy Gardner said lack of funds to The couple now writing a book on their experiences spent 15 support continuing research in 1981 compelled the couple to inyears working with six — Washoe Moja Pili terrupt their foster program but Tatu Dar and Lulis — most of they say they would start again at whom the keepers said mastered a moment's notice with adequate funding sign language well enough to con“It’s such a shame it didn't go sistently use 50 words in communicating with each other and their on” the scientist said “Compared to the kind of money spent keepers Lulis was purposely not taught on a launch at the space program sign language by humans to see if it’s ghastly how little money is she picked it up from the other spent on this This kind of money chimps She did and uses it as just falls through the cricks" The biologist said chimps were appropriately as the others the the best candidates for Gardners said “The idea was to raise a chimp child It’s an old idea: how much our humanity depends on our childhood” Gardner said Thursday at Weber State College “It wasn't that we chimps to teach them language but that we taught them language them” to The Gardners spoke as part of a conference sponsored by WSC's Department of Psycholo- (Includes Mattress) Chimpanzees make very desirable “children” says scientist Alien Gardner They may be even more satisfying than human children in many ways says Gardner who has 15 years experience as a “foster parent" for chimps Gardner and his wife Beatrix raised several chimps including Washoe known for an ability to communicate with humans by $49 sign language Although the Reno Nev husband and wife team now in their 50s never had chddrcn of their own to compare with the chimps Gardner said a woman research i Imitating human behavior is difficult for chimps but Washoe learned to clap her hands pat her head and touch her eyes for a reward: tickling “They love to be tickled They laugh and laugh and sound scry much like a human child" Gard- iner said The film showed Washoe at 3 years old stacking wooden blocks stringing beads lacing shoes tying knots tr ropes around a pipe sewing with a needle and thread using hand tools to dig up dandelions and put screws in boards and carrying cly larger and more delprogress! icate objects in her arms while walking upright i with purchase of mattress DOOR CRASHERS IVSATTRESSE FULL QUEEN mrmmi CAPTAIN'S BED NOW ONLY 16® Ovality SOFA SLEEPER s269 like a assistant developed as close an attachment to the chimp babies as to her own infant “They are much more affectionate They are much more appealing than human children in many ways — they arc much more dependent" Gardner said “It's a tremendous amount of fun but it's a lot of work I wouldn't recommend them as pets” In a Aim on Washoe the Gardners showed how the chimp at 10 months learned to tilt a cup to drink from it and cat with a spoon She also got attached to a blanket which bolstered her courage in exploring the world when alone And she was fond of dolls Gardner said 2x6 STURDY BUIMKBED of colors Choke FLOTATION WATERBEDS (FREE FRAME pgrtho&) Soft tidotf wwatrbd (0 year warranty With tub or wavokm fiber bog No heater required Use hee regular Allen Gardner tering because they are “very much” like human beings “Now because of transplant technology and methods of quantifying blood relationships chimps are (shown to be) closer to us than to the gorilla or orangutan" The notion that chimps might be able to converse with humans spurred experiments as early as the 1930s But having no luck re- R Beatrix Gardner searchers concluded the “great divide" between humans and animals was the human vocal chords Gardner said “So our nut’on was to have a common language — sign lan- want 1®® 16® 1 OO 31® guage Washoe played common child games like you're dead blind man’s — relishing bluff and dress-uGardner’s boat shoes and eyeglasses which she would fog up with her breath and then polish Washoe preened before a mirror and scanned magazines She indicated by sign language that several of her charcoal sketches were of birds or fiowers refusing to keep drawing when she considered them done csen if urged to Mrs Gardner said Claims arc still made that only obhuman beings can jects Gardner said But the cou ple filmed Washoe playing ball with an assistant repeatedly catching the ball and th "wing it back with aprarent deliberate aim good There also was an episode where the chimp grabbed a garden hose and sprayed everyone in sight including the cameraman After his lecture to a Weber State College audience Thursday Gardner decried the notion that chimps arc inferior to human beings in the evolutionary chain That notion founded in the belief that humankind is of dvin? creation is often brought imo direct conflict with the evolution theory 1®® J®® wtmut om wsvhih wo 36® 46® FREE “You can't really have a human child if there is no way to talk to him or to have him talk to you” he said FRAME OR Chimps make ‘desirable1 children scientists say By VICKI J BARKER £afPoef Staff 5lk duty chest son Couple teaches chimpanzees sign language By VICKI With Heavy BRASS HEADBOARD with (Mirth of any mattress sal mattress GB© mm© |