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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES Page Three FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1969 Heart Institute Unveils Four New Booster Heart Systems Utah Tech Tells Thiokoj's Clearfield Division Signs Utah Training Contracts Basketball Plans Four different and completely ments and heart size as adult Fifty five Utah residents will portunity to choose with seven implantable circulatory assists humans. Indeed, in an ensuing be trained in new skills at the vocational programs, including: (booster heart) systems, and film depicting the systems and Clearfield Job Corps Center un- automotive, machine shop, food calyes in which two of the sys- their implantation, some of the der two unique contracts with services, agriculture, medical tems have been implanted, were components appeared about the state governed Manpower agen- services, or one of the most comunveiled last week by the Na- size and shape of bricks. Yet cies, it was announced this week. plete industrial plastics training tional Heart Institutes Artificial they were inserted easily by the Walter L. Schwaar, Clearfield programs in the nation. Heart Program (AHP). This is surgeons into various recesses Job Corps Acting Center DirecThe residents will be training the first time that the various of the calf abdominal cavity. tor, and state officials simulta- on the Center with many of the electronic, hydraulic and ther- The total weight of each system neously announced that two s 1,350 young men in the Job contracts to train mal components of the systems is about 5 pounds. FurtherCorps program. were signed with the Thio-khave been brought together as more, the implanted systems The Clearfield Center is the Clearhave Chemical been first Job Corps Center in the Corporation functioning effectively complete functioning systems, ' the to 6 Division. weeks. field for had up subsystems country to successfully combine although been tested individually in preDr. Hastings said the systems Signing the contracts were the vocational training of corps-me- n We bench and were designed only to identify Emery Morrelli, Program Direcwith viously reported animal trials. we the future will in to that tor Work areas Incentive the for (WIN) hope problem pertaining The occasion of the unveiling compatibility of various compo- and Held Supervisor for Em- be able to train many other was the presentation of the pre- nents with each other and with ployment Security, and Dr. Utahns, both high school age and sentation of the concurrent de- the body. Nevertheless, he said, Vaughn Hall, Director of the De- older, who are in need of voca-tiotraining. We have the exvelopmental efforts Oct. 28, to the attaniment is a leap forward partment of Vocational Rehabiliare perience and the facilities to be an advisory group of 6 eminent toward eventual clinical use. It tation. Both Utah agencies physicans and engineers at the is also a splendid example of operated with funds from the of benefit to many other citizens Washington Motel and a facility coordination of the eight con- Department of Labors Man- of the state. The Clearfield Division is part of Melpar, Inc. Members of the tracting firms that designed, power Administration. of Thiokols Economic Developare 55 and The who assembled Utah auhoc residents, tested, ad implanted advisory group are ment educationor 4 either the via the Operations which operates systems thorities in the particular areas unique (for physically 12 will hebiomedical many manpower projects across sciences) systems ally handicapped, of scientific and techinological i begin ' of months training immediately. the country, including the newexpertise required to develop development approach employed Each trainee will have an op Atlanta, Georgia Womens Inthe currently reported system. by the AHP. In welcoming the committee, Dr. Theodore Cooper stated that The successful combination of components and their implantation in animals provide not only a unique opportunity to assess where we should go from here in this circulatory assistance asES pect of the AHP but will also supply scienific keys of great value to our understanding of Btaayfia. problems involved in developing system for total heart replacement. Dr. Frank Hastings, chief of the AHP, asked the advisors to submit their individual recommendations at a later date as to what foreseeable problems must be overcome to realize the full potential of circulatory assistin-divd- ual resi-detn- ol non-corpsme- n. . ywa coin . nl For the first time in the school history, Utah Technical College at Provo will field a basketball team this year which will play in a six team interschool league. In past years, Utah Tech hoop-stehave taken part in various Provo city leagues, but this season it will be a member of the Wasatch Athletic League which rs includes teams from Stevens-HenagBusiness College at Salt Lake and Ogden, Utah Technical Colleges at the Salt .Lake and Taylorsville campuses, and the LDS Business College in Salt Lake City. All Salt Lake games for the Provo institution will be played at Murray High School A gym still must be found for home Provo games, inasmuch as Utah Tech has no gym facilities.. Utah Tech of Provo will play this week against Stevens Hena-ge- r of Ogden. er ner City Residential Manpower Center for 350 women, tenant management programs in Raleigh, North Carolina and Gulfport, Mississippi and others. afestt? Ibcsuzbost ance. Dr. Hastings also asked the advisory group to consider, in view of the usual progressive nature of heart failure, whether greater emphasis should be placed at this time on the development of sysetms to replace the heart totally rather than to permanently assist the living heprt. Dr. Hastings emphasized that the systems being presented are by no means ready for clinical trials in patients. He said that no special attempts were made to build long term reliability into the components or in their miniaturization beyond that for insertion into the 200 pound calves which have nearly nec-esa- the same ry circulatory require- - Steno Training OKed In Utah Project Training as stenographers will be offered 15 jobless or underemployed Utah workers in a project under the Manpower Development and Training Act announced this week in Washington. The Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Wei-fowill provide $41,654 for the 36 week course at Logan. Classes will be conducted by the Utah State University. The Utah Department of Employment Security will counsel and refer trainees, pay training allowances to those eligible, and assist in the placement of graduates after training. The project will be administered by the Manpower Administration of the Labor Department and the Office of Educa-to- n of the Department of Health re . HonaMve tell you tobmiy abottfiepfeoBiiEflHiiHanfillfiBereiTsisoiiiie? - Education and Welfare. IMMT Him MMOi MB M Mflf SHUT IK MlliCI 6S. HUISNMT, HL |