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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES Auto Exhaust May Affect the Weather, Scientists Explain FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1970 Page Eleven ment of particles in the atmos phere near the earth, in the and around the earth from the Amazon to the Antarc- Bennett Warns Against Influence Of Stock Market Lloyd Speaks, Votes In Favor of Old Vote tion. inflation continued while overall business conditions dipped; what is needed more than anything else now is for us to continue the nations business as usual. Patience will demonstrate that such a policy pays dividends. Sen. Bennett noted that on Monday, Bureau of the Budget Director Robert P. Mayo told a news conference he expected the gross national product to show a leveling trend for the second quarter and to swing upward cedural and other reasons to dodge this issue, but I do not strat-oshper- e, Board Approves Education Projects 18-Ye- or tic. use balloons, rockets, The lead from automobile ex- and They airplanes to collect samples Sen. Wallace F. Bennett has Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd of Utah haust may be affecting the at different levels. A cooperative warned against placing too much in a statement to the House this weather, says Dr. Richard D. study with other government emphasis on stock market flucCadle of the National Center for expressed support for legagencies is scheduled to measure tuations as indicators of the week, islation lowering the voting age Atmospheric Research in Chem- the path of pollution-causin- g parhealth to of the 18, saying he felt it would economy. ical and Engineering News, of- ticles and gases downwind from ReThe is Utahn, who ranking ficial news magazine of the an American provide an input of idealism, encity. publican on the Senate Banking thusiasm, concern and unprejuAmerican Chemical Society. Particles are introduced and Currency Committee and a diced judgment, existing in a into This possibility has occurred the natural atmosphere phe- high ranking Republican on the larger measure in the young that by to environmental scientists as a nomena as such dust storms, for- Finance Committee, gave the will be an asset in our guest for result of the observation of wide- est and volcanic action, as warning in a Senate speech. better government. spread cloud formations over wellfires, as the too smokestacks For we and been have by long The Utahn gave his views durcities, explains Dr. Cadle, who is head of the Centers chemistry automobiles of man. It is Dr. overly disturbed by the market ing House consideration of the Cadles opinion that it is very im- drop. It has been exaggerated Voting Rights Act extension that department in Boulder, Coloto investigate all soures out of all proportion, its effect carried a Senate rado. Clouds to windward of portant passed proviof particles, including volcanoes, on the economy is just not that sion the cities consist of water droplets, so lowering voting age by statute rather than Constituwhereas clouds downwind from be that a better comparison can great, he stated. made of the relative imporI submit that the nation has tional amendment. cities are found to be near freez- tance of mans conand Natures already passed through much of ing and contain ice crystals tributions to It would be easy to find prothe atmospheric pollupainful adjustment in which formed on particles from the cities probably lead particles, he comments. One theory, although its now much more than a theory, is that lead compounds given off by automobiles react with traces of iodine in the air and form lead iodide, Dr. Cadle says. This compound makes beautiful freezing nuclei for the formation of snowflakes. We would like to investigate whether an increase in the number of freezing nuclei can be attributed to the city, and what effect this may be having on the weather. ' Laboratory experiments reveal lead iodide to be especially effective in initiating freezing almost as effective as silver iodide. The two compounds, which are similar chemically, have both been used to seed clouds in weather modification attempts. Scientists study atmospheric particles as tracers to follow the movements of air masses in surveys of worldwide pollution, Dr. Cadle says. A group in his department is following the move In connection with any possible health hazard from the lead compounds that automobiles send into the atmosphere, Dr. Cadle believes there is reason for alarm, but he warns that quick solutions could grow into problems of an entirely different kind. He suggests, for example, that petroleum refiners who hope to replace leaded gasoline with fuels should look at least twice before they leap. Its conceivable that some of these aromatics could lead to the formation of cancer-causin- g bycombustion in the proproducts cess. Aromatic compounds generally are toxic. high-aromat- ic if its printing. . . dial 364-846- are likely to do the same thing when they grow up. If youre thinking of sending your child away to summer camp, dont accept any bunk about adequate supervision. Safety requires, according to the American Camping Association, that a summer camp have at least one counselor for every eight campers, one for every six when the campers are younger than eight. And most counselors should be at least 19 or 20 years old. Depending on the individual youngster, a summer camping safety campaign may include taking along special medicaThough playful ducking in a tion. If so, be sure to tell the counselor about it. And regardpool may seem like fun, it less of how well stocked the doesnt hold water from the first-ai- d department standpoint of safety. And a camps see child has that your may woods be, the may hike through own his trunk an in be entertaining and even walk with him of extra eyeglasses if he away with educational honors, needs pair can of Rhuli-Spra- y, a them; but hikers should take steps to for good avert such pitfalls as poison bites and poison ivy, insect falls. and bites ivy, insect adhesive some bandages to put Impressionable youngsters from the camps infirone atti- on if will pick up comes off; and a small tudes from their parents about mary foot can of powder to catch safety. It is not what you say, foot early if it strikes. but what you actually do that athlete's these sensible sugFollow determines your childrens attiand your children will tudes. Talk all you want to gestions clear sailing to a happier about road safety, but if you have summer. safer speed, the children with you and ns non-poisono- ed mid-196- us 0s so-call- 4 CHILDS PLAY AND SUMMER SAFETY has-bee- choose to do so. The Senate amendment provides that the courts shall act expeditiously in passing judgment on the constitutionality of the language authorizing the 18 ylear old vote. I prefer to take advantage of the opportunity we have today to make constructive use of s great human resource. we are not properly usIf we do not conserve, de- source, ing the tools which move civilivelop and benefit from the huge zation forward, but are preservpotential of this human re- - ing and protecting needless and later in the year. debilitating handicaps, he said. of over course future the the In addition, Treasury SecreAcknowledging that he was a inflationbut that the on the issue, he said convert economy, made much the tary Kennedy same assurance more than two ary pressures which built up so over the years he had not been in favor of reducing the voting weeks ago when he spoke at strongly after the Utah State University. The Sec- are now beginning to recede. age because he never felt the was discriminatory, fiscal restriction is noted and Utahn that The imporsaid, It retary successtant for the sake of the economy inasmuch as every individual monetary restraint have fully slowed the pace of expan- that the nation have faith in its is given the authority at the sion. leaders to continue bringing the appropriate age and all of us Sen. Bennett said, Secretary situtaion under control, and to over 21 years of age have been Kennedy conceded there is in- have faith in the durability of subjected to the same discrimination. evitably a degree of uncertainty the American economy. PROVES DRAMATIC NEW TEACHING METHOD When warm weather arrives, its up to you to provide your children with a climate for safe conduct wherever they go and whatever they do. Whether for youre mailing a pitchsuburor camping precautions ban safety, you can turn hazards into by heeding summer safeguards. Danger is no stranger to boys and girls who imitate the foolish frolics of their parents. If you play roughly in the water, for example, why shouldnt the children? If you ignore pool safety rules, dont be surprised if your children e. get in over their heads safety-wis- Programs involving expenditure of nearly $126,000 in federal funds under Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 were approved during the last Utah State Board of Higher Education meeting. These programs, according to Dr. Leon L. McCarry, Associate Commissioner, are designed to provide services to assist in the relief of urgent social problems in local communities. Institutions that will participate are the Uinversity of Utah, Utah State University, Weber State College and Southern Utah State College. Each institution has a definite role to play in continuing education activities relating to the local communities. These relate to the overall role of the institution in the states system of higher education to the area of the state each institution should serve ,and to activities designed to help other agencies ' explore new functions that could improve community life. My children learned more during the past three months than during the whole school year last year. That statement, from a New York mother, is typical of the praise of parents and educators alike pouring in from nearly 100 cities all over the United States. The object of their enthusiastic kudos is a new teaching system that really works. Called Project Read, the system programs learning for students from kindergarten through grade 12 but, unlike other methods tried in the past, has had excellent results wherever initiated. In San Francisco, where class scores have been more than a year below the national Project Read averages, helped boost the districts kindergarten students including those from deprived families to national averages in reading readiness. Now, for the first time in a long time, that city can look forward to bringing an entire class this years first grade up to national Although the proaverages. gram had its first great successes in the larger metropolitan areas, like New York City and San Francisco, students in smaller cities also show gains in every standardized reading test used today. Raveriswood (Calif.) City School District' kindergarten children averaged a gaiii of 15 points on the Metropolitan Reading Readiness Test; Vicksburg, Miss, children, in grades one through Six showed a gain of over one year on the Test; and in Gary, Ind., sixth graders who had only been in the program for six weeks averaged a gain of almost six months on the Stan- D. Calvin, a leading psychologist and Chairman of the Board of Behavioral Research Laboratories, the programs success is based on its being a total systems approach, providing teach supervisor training, orientation for and parent and Dr. involvement. community Calvin and Dr. M. William Sullivan, a prominent linguist, did pioneering research on the of programmed instruction in teaching languages under a Carnegie Foundation Grant. Introduced by Behavioral Research Laboratories of Palo Alto, Calif., Project Read uses phonetics rather than the materials, -- ls, method used in most schools in the United look-sa- y States for the past 30 years. George Stern, President of Behavioral Research Laboratories, says that one of the principal benefits is that a child uses a single sound for each letter for a long period. look-savery early he ford Paragraph Meaning getsInfour sounds for the letter Subtest. O those in of, off, over and Project Read Why has Tom. This, according to Mr. where Stern, leads to confusion. Eduso successful proved other promising programs have cators back the idea up with failed? According to Dr. Allen the dismal statistic that, at Gates-MacGinit- ie y, SUCCESS of America's school children dont learn to read with look-saminimum, one-quart- er y, which requires recognition of whole words. People who have worked with the program claim one of its greatest assets is that the child is never confronted with failure. Project Read books have both questions and answers on each page and the student can immediately check the correctness of what he's done. Because the steps of increased learning are graduated very slowly, he is right most of the time. The child rarely is confronted with a choice that will baffle him, Mr. Stem said. He moves at his own rate. He can go a little slow and nobody will say 'Youre a dumb kid. Or, if hes quick, he wont be held back by slower learners. For many children in this individualized instruction program, success in reading is being experienced for the very first time. Perhaps, before too very long, parents won't have to ask that plaintive question that outdated educational cant systems foster-W- hy Johnny read? , ed |