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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1970 Utah Symphony Looks Handicapped People To Schools for Encouraged by The Forest Service Financial Aid per visors in the Forest Service. A double amputee is now employed as an engineering draftsman on to Manti-LaSNational Forest in southern Utah. He is receiving on the job training in drafting and in engineering electro type control surmaking veys. He has obtained formal e training through his own in adult education programs and under the Government Employees Training Act at a junior al Ability not disability is the only yardstick by which a person should be judged. Using this approach managers in the U.S. Forest Service are inia-tivto new doors open attempting for many people, said Neil Op-sa- l, assistant Regional Forester contribute $30,000 on January 14, it will put the symphony over in charge of personnel managecollege. He is presently attendthe top in its effort to obtain $1 ment for the Intermountain Re- ing a trade school. million. When that haopens, the gion. For examle, hearing defici- Riot1 Losses Ford Foundation will give a encies do not prevent qualified mtaching sum to an endowment Civil disorders and riots durfund to finance the symphony. people from becoming proficient ing 1968 hit 361 cities and 37 Expressing support and coop- card punch operators. Proof of his statement is of- states, according to the Insurerating in the school effort are ance Information Institute. The Dr. T. H. Bell, state superintend- fered by two girls now employed in ent of public instruction; Darld ;n the Branch of Automatic Data upheavals chiefly occurring assassiearly April folowing the H. Long, executive secretary of Processing in the Ogden Re- nation of Dr. Martin Luther the Utah School Boards Associa- gional Office. In addition to an more than $79 milcaused King, tion; Dr. Loyd Whitlock, asso- earlier training through the lion in insured losses. The hardciate executive secretary of the State Rehabilitation Center, the est hit city was Washington, Utah Educatoin Association; Dr. girls have received continuing D.C., where losses totaled some M. Lynn Bennion, former super on the job training by their su- $24 million. intendent of Salt Lake schools: and Dr. Sherman Wing, super- by doing some small task at home intendent of Provo schools. or for a neighbor or business. Toift Haktn Uiha To Dr. Whitlock said the school That way, they may feel more children and educators of Utah a part of the campaign more U0SqgB8gl can easily over achieve the $30,-00- 0 a part of Utahs cultural future, goal with everyone making he said. JET 860 AM very small contributions. Contributions can be mailed 933 FM He said many parents and edu- it delivered to Utah Symphony cators may want to suggest thal Ford Fund, 55 W. First South, nT 9 students earn their contribution Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. The Utah Symphony Orchestra which has played concerts in some of the smallest towns in the state, is looking to the schools in Utah for assistance. If Utahs students, teachers and other school employees can m) 322-581- Bone Marrow Transplant Operation A Victory Over Rare Birth Defect The Camp family knew about birth defects long before their son David was bom. Although they had four healthy daughters, the life of one of their nephews had been claimed by a hereditary disease seven years earlier. Every father wants a son, but' Mr. Camp knew that his Page Eleven How Do Chicks Know Their Moms? Zoologists have long puzzled over the problem whether chicks in a large rookery identify their parents and how. In a recent issue of .Science, C. G. Beer of the Institute of Animal Behavior at Rutgers University tells of his experiments with laughing gulls that show that the chicks recognize their parents by voice characteristics. When young gull chicks begin to move about in a colony of thousands of birds they frequent ly encounter adults other than their parents, and these adults treat the chicks in a hostile man ner. Since it was known that laughing gull chicks behave differently toward their parents than the way they do toward other adults, it seemed that the chick somehow recognized its parents, and probably by voice rather than by physical appearance. Dr. Beer tested the reactions of chicks to recordings of calls of their parents and other adults. Chick behavior used as positive indicators of recognition included turning toward the sound, mov ing about more than usual, making calls, and standing instead of sitting. In general, the behavior in the parental sound tests consisted of locomotion and calling by the chicks. When calls from other adult gulls were played, the chicks tended to turn away from the sound, to sit or crouch, or to run away. Positive reactions, indicating recognition, could be detected in chicks as young as 6 days after hatching. What comprises the individual characteristics of a call that a chick gull recognizes is not known, but it seems clear that vcice recognition may be quite common in birds as it is in man. Sen. Bennett Letter Calling for Humane Treatment Co-sig- ns Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, today joined in a letter calling upon the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold public hearings on the treatment of American prisoners of war being held by North Viet Nam. Specifically, the letter urged Committee Chairman J. William to hold hear Fulbright House-passe- d on a ings res'lu tion immediately after the sarf of the Second Session of the 91st Congress. The resoluiton, which passed the House earlier this week on a unanimous vote of 405 to 0, calls on North Viet Nam and the National Liberation Front to give R-Ut- ah, co-signi- ng D-Ar- k.) humane treatment and ultimate release to American POWs, and to comply with the requirements of the Geneva Convention. It approves and endorses forts by the United States Government, the United Nations, the International Red Cross, and other leaders and peoples of the world to obtain humane treatment and release of American prisoners of war. Sen. Bennett, who the letter along with Sen. Gordon Allott is a cotwo of resolutions seeksponsor ing help from the U.N. and other nations in securing treatment of the prisoners of war in accord co-sign- (R-Colo- ed .), with international law. The reports reaching Washington of mistreatment of U.S. prisoners of war by the North arc most disheartening. It is important that the Senate and full Congress do all within their power to reverse this trend, the Utahn stated. BE A FRIENDLY NEIGHBOR , nephews illness had been that is, girls the gene but boys get carry the illness and that if his sex-link- ed wife bore a son, he would 0 chance of being run a 50-5- afflicted. When David was bom on March 19, 1968 in Wallingford, Conn., his parents and doctor were on the alert. At first, David seemed a fine, healthy looking 7 pound 10 ounce baby. But Dr. Jerome LHeureux did not relax. He knew that if David was suffering from the same condition as his cousin, the signs might not show up initially.. Three months later,, the insidious illness was discovered in laboratory tests. As feared, the diagnosis was lymphopenic immunologic deficiency. The prognosis was not good. Effects of this disease had always destroyed its victims lives before their first birthday. Tears of Research sex-link- ed David, is a habit with Doreen Camp. She was the donor for a bone marrow transplant that corrected a rare immunological birth defect in the Connecticut lad. HELPING HER BROTHER, grants from the Naported by Foundation-March of tional Dimes. A professor of pediatrics and microbiology at the University of Minnesota, he has been a National Foundation grantee since 1960. He and his associates have been conducting a variety of research projects related to birth defects of the immunity ' system and bodily defenses. To correct such defects, Dr. Good wanted to transplant healthy bone marrow into patients with such defects in order to reconstitute their im- munologic i systems. Other investigators had con(AGG) Agammaglobulinemia this line of treatment, sidered was first described in 1953. norbut previous attempts at transDavids body lacked the because which plantation had failedultimatemal defense system and of overwhelming, Even helps us fight infections. -host reacfatal graft-va mild childhood illness could ly cause his death because of the tions. are familiar Most deficiency in his ability to with the people of the GVH concept produce antibodies. of the Decause reaction today As far as Dr. LHeureux heart that transplants knew, nothing effective could publicity have received. When foreign be done for David. material enters the body, antiwith consulted But when he bodies tend to build up and his colleagues about the case, attack reject this material. one called his attention to the This is or the rejection reaction AGG research work of Dr. the body rejects the donor Robert A. Good at the Uni- material. of Minnesota. versitycontacted The GVH reaction is essenDr. Good and He opposite of the reinitiated a string of events tially the The antibody reaction. jection that led to the first successful of the cells graft or donor bone marrow transplant in his- material the host body attack tory- giving life to one little into which it is transplanted. to many boy, and giving hope immunoThe reaction can be miniothers afflicted with mized only by matching the logic deficiencies. material as closely as donor of the many Dr. Good is one of the patient. researchers whose work is sup- - possible to that s. V, process of blood typing, i.e., assuring that a person with type A blood is The well-know- n not transfused with type B blood, is analagous to the matching which- must be a transplant. But the marrow-graftin-g procedure is much more difficult. Miracle in Minneapolis This is where previous attempts had failea and where Dr. Good and his associates done-befor- - succeeded. By August 1968, e Make candy and cookies for your own children . . . but divide the supply and wrap some small packages for the new neighbor down the street These two are from easy recipes from the Test Kitchens of Skippy peanut butter. the entire Camp family had journeyed to the March of Dimes Birth Deifects Research Center in Mineapolis. After extensive- testing of. Davids four sisters, Doreen was chosen as the donor. On August 24, the trans- EASY PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE - nine-year-o- ld 14 plant was performed. About two ounces of marrow was withdrawn through a hollow needle from Doreens hipbone and injected into Davids abdominal cavity. On September 2, Labor Day, David. began to take a turn for the worse. But after an initial bout with the dreaded GVH reaction, his symptoms subsubsided and the donor cells seemed to take hold. A second transplant was required in November and David began to improve dramatically. Christmas 1969 was a very merry one for the Camp family. David was home again-r- -a healthy little boy. The doctors instructions: Treat him like a normal boy. 14 14 14 14 i cup undiluted evaporated milk cup creamy or chunk style peanut butter cup light or dark corn syrup cup firmly packed brown sugar teaspoon salt 9-in- Chill. Cut into ch Makes about 2 pounds. Top with nuts or gum drops if desired. PEANUT BUTTER DROP COOKIES 2 cups sifted flour 114 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon baking soda 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup creamy peanut butter 14 1 1 cup margarine cup sugar cup firmly packed brown sugar 2 eggs 14 1 cup milk teaspoon vanilla Colored sugar or decora- tors (optional). Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir together peanut butter, margarine, sugar and brown sugar, until well Mended. Add, eggs; beat until fluffy. Mix in sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk. Add vanUla. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cooky sheet. Bake in 350F. (moderate) oven until lightly browned, about 18 minutes. Makes 6 dozen. Decorate . squares. if desired. pound ronfertioners sugar, sifted Mix together evaporated milk, peanut butter, corn syrup, brown sugar and salt in double boiler top. Cook over boiling water, stirring frequently, until thick, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from boiling water. Gradually add confectioners sugar, stirring until well blended. (If mixture becomes too stiff to stir, knead with hands.) Press into greased square pan. 1 ef- |