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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 1968 Three Utah Scientists What Are the Odds? Training School Given Research Award Not What You Think Pushes New Three Utah Scientists were Got a buck in your jeans and Rehabilitation Step for a hunch on a horse? granted fellowships today Okay, go research toward the conquest of ahead and bet. But first, maybe heart and blood vessel diseases. you should bone up on a fasciDr. C. Basil Williams, presi- nating fast growing branch of dent of the Utah Heart Associa- mathematics called the theory tion, said the grants were made of probability. It may change by the American Heart Associa- your mind about the odds you tion, which gave 139 national face. awards totaling $2 million. The The philosophical underpinawards are for 12 months be- nings of the probability theory were set 300 years ago when a ginning July 1, 1968. Dr. Williams noted Heart Asso- gambler asked the French math- research ciation-supported scientists have made important contributions to major progress against the heart and blood vessel diseases, however, they continue as the leading cause of death and disability in the nation. Ever greater public support of the Heart Fund is vitally needed if we are to continue to make decisive progress in combatting these diseases, he added. Heart Sunday, the major fund raising event of the year to conquer heart diseases, will be held February 25. Thousands of volunteers will visit homes throughout the state to leave educational literature concerning heart diseases and seek financial support for the Heart Fund. Recipients of the fellowships in tUah were Dr. Fred G. White of Brigham Young University, whose topic is Action of Coenzymes of Dr. Arthur M. Brown, Innervation of Coronary Arteries and Heart, and Dr. L. B. Sandberg, Biochemical Studies of Blood Vessel Formation and Diseases, both of the University of Utah. ematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal how to calculate the odds on certain dice throws. Pascals computations have been used since to determine matters ranging from the esoteric the probable path of a neutron through heavy water to the every day how many times youll turn up heads in flipping a coin. Lets try the every day ex- ample and see how the theory works. Say you flip a coin three times and each time it comes up heads. Most people would say the odds favored tails on the next try. But dont bet on it. Actually no matter how many times a flipped coin lands heads, the probability of heads on the next try remains one out of two. For a more complex example, try the famous birthday paradox. Pick, say 23 people at random. The odds that any two of them may have the same birth date seems remote, but the chances are about even. With 30 people the probability of such a match soars to seven chances in ten. With 50 people, the chances are 97 out of 100 that two will have the same birthday. Want to test this yourself? Go any Whos Who and Utah Fish Hatcheries through check 30 names at random and seven times out of ten youll Feel Space Squeeze find a pair of matching birth-dateFish hatcheries over the State are beginning to feel the annual Heres another example. Supspace squeeze as more fish eggs pose a married couple plans to arrive at these stations in pre- have four children. Are they paration for the upcoming fish- more likely to have two of each ing season in Utah. sex or three of one and one of Over two million rainbow the other? youd guess trout eggs were taken from two and twoProbably be wrong and youd brood fish at the Kamas Hatch- as there are 16 possible combiery and an additional five mil- nations (and if you want to drive lion have come in from com- yourself quietly crazy try listing mercial hatcheries. 16. Of these, only six offer all The Kamas Hatchery also re- a two-tw- o split. Eight sequences ceived 400,000 Mackinaw eggs offer a three-onsplit and two and are now feeding these young are four zero. fish waiting for conditions at Fish Lake and Bear Lake to improve before they are planted. Hemorrhoids Are Brook trout eggs were sent to the Kamas and Loa hatcheries Common, But where they will be held until Can Be Painful most of the 400,000 are stocked commonly known into high mountain lakes by air- asHemorrhoids, one are of the most compiles, craft later this summer. encountmon health Midway Hatchery is holding ered today. problems 300.000 Kokanee salmon and are enlarged Hemorrhoids these will be stocked as soon as veins inside or just outside the the ice goes off and some plank- rectum, somewhat like varicose ton for food is produced in the veins in the A frequent legs. waters where they are scheduled cause is constipation that results to be planted. in straining, but there can be In addition to the rainbow, other causes as well. Anything Mackinaw and brook trout eggs, that interferes with the flow of the Kamas Hatchery now has blood through rectal veins cause 250.000 Dolly Varden trout hemorrhoids. which will be stocked this sumThe hemorrhoids themselves mer. are dangerous to life, but seldom Additional trout eggs are sche- the condition causes them duled to arrive and will be put can be seriousthat should be and in hatcheries throughout the corrected. cause also can State until all eleven of the considerableThey and also discomfort States fish rearing facilities are pain. They do not turn into canraising all the fish they can cer but rectal symptoms may acsafely handle. tually be caused by cancer. Many cases can be relieved by treatment. Some require medical nation for led the Utah has of number surgery but the operation is not many years in the scientists produced per capita, a serious one. Even though you have no apexceeding the next nearest state, New Hampshire, by more than parent symptoms of piles your a third. That is just one of the doctor will often make a rectal many reasons why Utahs Gov. examination each time you reCalvin Hampton guarantees sci- port for a physical checkup. Inentists for industrial prospects. this way beginning cases of medAlpha-Ketoaci- d s. e . I A significant step forward in the rehabilitation of the Mentally Retarded is being taken cooperatively by the Utah State Training School and the Office of Rehabilitation Services, Dr. Vaughn L. Hall, Executive Director, ORS, announced today. An agreement has been reached between the two agencies which will provide vocational rehabilitation services for residents at the Training School. Dr. Hall stated that there will be a concentrated effort on the part of the Utah State Training School and the Office of Rehabilitation Services to modify work training programs to qualify the Mentally Retarded for placement in the community as well as in the school. One of the important accomplishments of rehabilitation in recent years is to demonstrate that substantial numbers of Mentally Retarded can be prepared for vocational placement and satisfactory adjustment in society. This new program will help the Utah State Training School in fulfilling its role as an institution of transition rather than as a terminal home for many young people. As the new concept of vocational rehabilitation is intro- duced, the schools campus will extend more and more into the community. This cooperative program, in its initial phase, will provide 40 residents with evaluation, medical services, counseling and guidance, personal ad- justment training, job training on campus and then in the community, and job placement. Supplies and transportation costs will also be supplied by the Office of Rehabilitation Services. It is hope that through this program an increasing number of the Mentally Retarded will receive meaningful service and become independent and successful members of their communities. In regards to the future, Dr. Hall stated, As time goes on we believe that many Mentally Retarded youngsters in public schools will have an opportunity to go through at least a semester of work adjustment and training on the campus. He went on to say that there are hundreds of Mentally Retarded enrolled in public school programs who could benefit from this type of service as they leave the school program. A main objective of this cooperative program will be to demonstrate that two autonomous agencies can together provide a more comprehensive and effective rehabilitation result than either could do separately. UFOs a Secret? Physicist William Markowitz University reports that the control of UFOs by extra terrestrial beings is contrary to the laws of physics. Markowitz goes on to say that the data published on UFO sightings do not justify the holding of investigations. With regard to the charge that the U.S. Air Force is withholding information that the UFOs are extraterrestrial, he says this is absurd. The prestige of announcing the existence of extraterrestrial beings would be so great that no scientist, journalist, politician, or government whether the United States, England, France, the USSR or China would hesitate for a moment to release it. It could not be kept a secret. ical problems of the rectum can be discovered early. Page Three Funds for Salt Lake Post Office Announced by Senator Moss Site and design funds for a nancing of major postal projects. new main post office for Salt In the past, the Post Office Lake City are included in President Johnsons budget for 1969 fiscal year, Senator Frank E. Moss announced today through his Washington office. The budget request is $954,000 to purchase the 709,819 square foot site at the northwest corner of 21st South and Redwood Road and to pay the architectural-engineerinfee, according to word had financed virtually all of its building projects by leasing buildings constructed to specifications of the postal service. However, authority was granted to the Post Office by the General Services Administration in December 1966 to directly finance construction projects. Studies have shown it is more economical for the government to directfrom Postmaster General Law- ly finance major projects such as Salt Lake City. rence F. OBrien. The building will total about Oldest Polaris Motor 355,000 square feet and will cost an estimated $7,650,000, Sena- Is Fired Perfectly tor Moss said. It will also inThe Navy has informed the clude the latest in postal mecha- Bacchus Works of Hercules Innized equipment, some $1,500,-00- 0 corporated that the oldest Polaris A-- 2 rocket motor ever fired worth. If the money is appropriated in a flight test performed sucby Congress, the Senator added, cessfully recently in a test off the architectural engineering the Florida coast. contract would be awarded this The motor, which was part of year, with construction to start a Polaris missile launched from next year. Completion is sche- a nuclear submarine, was a secduled for 1972. ond stage built in September, The building would replace 1962 at the Bacchus Works and the present main office which was five years and 4 months old was built in 1903 and contains at the time. Cmdr. Richard L. Hoyt, Navy 71,265 square feet of postal A space. postal station would liaison at the Bacchus plant, be retained in that building with commented the launch the rest of it turned over to the once again demonstrates the General Services Administration high reliability of the Polaris for possible use by other federal motors produced by Hercules. Cmdr. Hoyt said the launch agencies. The $954,000 requested for the was a routine test flight from Salt Lake City postal building the submarine Sam Houston off is included in an $88.2 million Cape Kennedy. He said it was appropriation sought by the Post- part of the regular monthly testOffice Department for direct fi- ing procedure. g that Advertisement JIM BEAM BOURBONMAKING NEWS SINCE CLERMONT, KY. years ago Jacob Beam sta: making Beam Bourbon hi in Kentucky. It is still beii made here today. And still the Beams. 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