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Show Page Eight s THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1969 l Utah Driver Course Receives Publicity Gun Registration Seen As No Cure for Crime The people should not be mis- led into believing that the rising tide of violent crime in the U.S. can be curbed by more restrictive gun laws, the immediate past president of the National their and greater restrictions are recommended. The sportsman's fear on the basis of that which has occurred in other countries is patently justified." Glassen reiterated NRAs opRifle Association told members position to proposals that would of the Association of The Bar of require registration at the federal level of all guns and the liThe City of New York. Harold W. Glassen of Lansing, censing of all gun owners largeMich., said "it is a terrible mis- ly on the grounds "that it would take to think that crime is going simply entangle law abiding to be controlled and reduced by citizens in a massive system of additional gun control legisla- burdensome red tape, extra cost tion for, significantly, less than anl bureaucratic mayhem withfour per cent of major crime out getting at the real problem involves the use of firearms." of criminal ownership and misuse of firearms." He estimated Referring to new federal gun that the cost of federal registralaws passed only last year, Mr. as $5 bilGlassen called for a waiting tion could runis asashigh as is much which lion, period to see if that which has spent each year in the entire passed will accomplish the task country for law enforcement at set for it gather than pressing levels of government. for additional restrictions on all He called for repeal of the firearms ownership and use. He cumbersome ammunition reportindicated 'that many who favor of the Gun Coning outright confiscation or an end trol provisions 1968 and reported Act of to private ownership of guns, that more than 40 bills have masquerade as. reformers who been introduced in Congress pretend to want to tighten up on this year toward this end. gun laws to a limited extent, expressed NRAs full sup- -, while actually attempting to lay He for a bill by Senate Majorthe groundwork for a step by port Leader Mike Mansfield to step progression toward their ity amend the Gun Control Act to 1 . ultimate goals. He mid,' The 20 to 40 million hunters and sportsmen in the XJ.S. and ; the million plus members of the National Rifle Association of America in particular are justly apprehensive of the aims and goals of the leadership of those proposing stringent anti gun. laws. Bold, bald statements ; . by their leaders indicate their belief that, there should be no priyatg ownership of firearms and that they hope to bring this about through legislation. Even more,., disconcerting than their statements is their, modus operand!, that of proceeding step by step. The first recommendations are always reasonable and mild but these are immediately followed by less reasonable suggestions. There is no waiting period to see if that which has passed will accomplish the task set for it, 'but immediately fur-- provide mandatory penalties for the use of firearms in crimes, quoting from President Nixon to emphasize his point that such a law should restrict the court's right if discretion in meting out sentences for gun misuse. (Mr. Nixon said during the 1968 election campaign, It is time that society moved at the federal and state level to deal directly with the armed criminal. He is a special menace-an- d special deterrents are needed. The gun the criminal uses in the commission of his crime should become as great a threat to him as it is today to his victim. Any person convicted of using a gun in the commission of a major crime should receive a mandatory prison sentence. Only in carefully delineated and exceptional circumstances should the trial court have the discretion to suspend the sentence." CHILDREN CAN REJECT VIOLENCE Are children today really victims of society? Do many of them simply reflect the violence, anger, and frustration they see on television or witness in the home? Not necessarily. Thousands of families are finding that children can just as easily reflect the love, peace, and satisfaction of their if given the chance. creator, God ... this Sunday to a program entitled "Helping Children to Reject Violence." it is part of the Christian Science Radio Series heard on 71 New England stations, including: SUNDAY 6:30 7:30 7:45 10:00 a.m; a.m. a.m. a.m." the gratifying reductions in violations and accidents among the drivers referred to these courses by the division, after such drivers completed the course. As an incentive to persuade the drivers who are in danger of losing their license, the division will remove fifty (50) points from their record if they complete the course. By so doing, the drivers accomplish two things: they retain their license and save themselves $100.00 to $300.00 a year for three years on their auto insurance. The extra insurance The University of Utah College of Medicine is the recipient of a $127,890 grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc., New York City, fo rresearch into a new method of aiding heart attack victims, it was announced by Dr. Keith Reemtsma, acting dean of the College of Medicine. The award will be used by the Division of Artifiical Organs under the direction of Dr. Willem, for a three year investigation into coronary perfusion with arterial blood. According to Dr. Kolff, About 500,000 people die every year in the United States from coronary heart disease. No satisfactory method for restoring patients in cardiogenic shock has been developed thus far. Cardiac transplants, even if they are successful, are limited to a small number of cases due to lack of donors. An implantable artifical heart, although now in an advanced stage of development, will not be widely available in the near future. "Investigators at the Univerinthe are charges imposed by of Utah have found evidence surance companies on those driv- sity ers who have had their licenses that by . increasing a coronary ..... flow, thousands of victims of suspended. Since this program was initi- acute' heart attacks could per ated in September of 1967, over 4,000 drivers have completed the course. The courses are administered by the Utah Safety Coun- Moss cil in various parts of the state. Head Child The; course consists of four, two-hosessions over a period Development Act of four weeks, for a total of eight Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah hours instruction in the tech- announced that he is niques of safe, defensive driving. the "Head Start Child The classes are taught by Act of 1969." The ly-qualified instructors who Development sponsored by Senator Walhave been certified by the Utah bill, ter Mondale would Safety Council. A fee of $5.00 greatly expand and strengthen per driver covers the administra- programs in early childhood detive and materials costs. Commissioner Jackson is quot- velopment. ed as saying, "if we can do this The bill would combine Head (71 reduction in violations, and Start and day care authorities 51 reduction in accidents) for now in the Economic Opportuservices on a problem drivers, even more can nity. Act, offering to be done to help our normally law voluntary basis, children from poverty areas. The abiding drivers. I look to the would provide health programs day when all our Utah drivers care, social services, nutrition, will have taken the course. Such would be a substantial contribu- education and any other needed tion to safer streets and high- services. The program seeks to reach ways in our state." 1 million children in 1970 about Utah. and to make child development Farmers Union opportunities available to 1.7 million children in fiscal 1971, Launches - . Co-spons- ur special- (D-Minn- .), . pre-scho- ol Campaign Roy L. Holman, president of the Utah-Idah- o Farmers Union, announces that Farmers Union has kicked off a statewide farm clean-up- . Governor Rampton on 1 May signed a declaration in support of this project and encouraged all farm people to assume "full responsibility for the maintaining and cleaning up of his individual farm premises, fences and adjoining roads." This clean-u-p campaign will be an annual event and this year will run from May 1 to October 31 Awards will be given on a county and district level for the most improved farm. The county agents will assist with any technical advice and will be involved in juding. Mr. Holman stated that farmers should register with him or 2.5 million children in 1972, 3.3 million in 1973 and 4 million in 1974. Senator Moss said of the bill, "The need to devote greatly increased attention and resources to early childhood is compelling. The critical effect of these early years of life has been well documented. The first few years of life are the most important for the childs intellectual growth and for his social, emotional and haps be. saved. In. animals .this has been done by placing a conventional cardiac catheter into the orifice of the coronary arteries. There is preliminary evidence to suggest that the otherwise. deadly cardiogenic shock can be reversed and that ventricular. fibrillation, which is an uncoordinated action of the heart muscle, can be more easily reversed or can be prevented with this technique. "Thanks to the generous sup; port given from the John . A. Hartford Foundation, this method will be explored in depth." The coronary arteries are the arteries that normally provide the heart with blood. When they are occluded or blocked a person suffers a heart attack. If the heart attack is not. too serious the patient can survive. If it is very serious he will die immediately. . There are about 200,000 people in the United States every year who reach the hospital still living, but who later die, not withstanding all these modem methods used in coronary care units. It is at that kind, of patient the present research grant is aimed. . New Rules Govern Utah Pedestrians As the result of action adopted by the 1969 Legislature, pedestrians in the state win have a new set of rules to govern their walking habits, A. J. Thuli of the Utah Safety Council said this week . "This newly enacted law required every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an interesection to yield the right to the approaching auto. It also provides that between adjacent intersections at which traffic control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall ..not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk." It was also pointed out that pedestrians are prohibited from crossing at any intersection diagonally unless it is authorized by an official traffic control sign. When it is authorized, the pedestrian is to cross only in accordance with the sign which permits such crossings. "Pedestrian traffic deaths have been running high, and additional. laws governing . their walking had to be prepared in an attempt to turn back the rise of deaths occurring to them. The pedestrians must realize : that they have a responsibility in traffic and cannot place all the responsibility. for their safety-othe driver, of the auto." ' A printed resume, in leaflet form, of the new; traffic legis-- . lation is available from the Utah Safety Council, 307 State Office Building. Salt Lake City. 84114. - . . n motivational development.- We know for example that about 50 per cent of an individual's intellectual development takes place by age four. Money invested in early childAnnounces hood programs will be returned AFL-CI- O to the nation many times over. If we do not assure disadvan- Award Winners taged children an equal opport(Continued from page 1) with the county agent in order unity-in their early years, the High School), son of Mr. and to be eligible for an award. He possibility of providing them Mrs. Wilmer S. Barlow, 255 So. also mentioned the importance compensatory education and State, Clearfield, Utah. of farm people keeping abreast other services at a later date, This is the eleventh year the with and supporting the great sufficient to permit 'them to Utah State AFL-CIhas made clean up efforts now being car- catch up, is greatly diminished. available to school seniors high ried on by most towns and ham- Indeed, evidence seems to indi- an to participate in opportunity lets. "We dont want the. non- cate that this can never be acawards programs. To farm community pointing at us complished, regardless of the in- scholarship 23 seniors have received for not doing our part in keep- vestment of the tremendous re- date, financial assistance to further-thei- r ing Utah clean and beautiful," sources in the effort at a later academic training at instiMr. Holman said. stage in their lives." tutions of higher learning. - - . . , KSXX 630 kc KNAK 1280 kc KDYL 990 kc KWHO. 850 kc . . O , SPEAKS BIBLE TO ors Start . How? Listen . Utahs defensive driving courses received national publicity this month, through a feature article in Traffic Safety Magazine, the monthly periodical of the National Safety Council. The article describes how the courses have been adopted by the Driver License Division of the State Department of Public Safety, as a standard tool in the driver improvement functions of the Division. In writing the article, Raymond A. Jackson, Utahs public safety commissioner, points out University Medical School Gains $127890 From Foundation YOU . |