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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES Defensive Driving Helps in Gaining Employ Handicapped Winners Announced A New License Drivers who face for their drivers license, or are simply planning a holiday or vacation trip, are reminded that the Defensive Driving Course is a sure method of getting prepared, Leo H. Barlow, Utah Safety Council vice president for traffic, stated this week. Already licensed drivers in Salt Lake Council will be able to enroll in one of three Defensive Driving Courses commencing in May. The first two will be evening sessions on Monday, May 3 and Wednesday, May 5. Both sessions will be in the State Office Building Auditorium starting at 7 p.m. For those unable to attend an evening course, a class will be held in the same location on Saturday, May 1. This will get under way at 9 a.m. and will be concluded in two sessions. Drivers who have not had training in several are normal drivers. good, years that just is not Unforunately, for food enough the demands of todays traffic. The Defensive Driving Course is not intended to etach novices is not intended to teach novices how to manipulate the controls of a car. But it is designed to give drivers a new understanding of safe driving practices an understanding in keeping up with the most modern concepts of traffic accident prevention, he said. The Defensive Driving Course is one of the most important community services which- can be provided the drivers in the state. Individuals wishing to enroll in this life saving, accident prevention course may register with the Utah Safety Council, 535 South Second West. While is desired, persons unable to register in advance of the course may do so just prior to the start of the first session. There is a small registration fee to cover the most of materials used in the course. up-to-da- Employers are generally willing to hire a handicapped worker, but the public in general is reluctant to finance facilities where the handicapped can be trained for work. This was the essence of Jean-enn- e Becks first place winning essay in the Ability Counts Report Contest sponsored annually by the Utah Governors Commit We on Employmentof the Handicapped. Jeanenne, a senior at Bountiful High School, wrote of her experiences while working with handicapped persons for the past 2 years and her research community attitudes towards hiring of handicapped people. As first place winner from Utah she and her mother received an expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete in the national Ability Counts Report Contest. The trip was sponsored by the Utah State AFL-CI- Two Utah Students Win U.S. Awards Two Utah high school students received top honors at the National Leadership Conference of the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) held in San Antonio, Texas. Vicki Fletcher, Highland High, received second place in the Advertising contest. Kim Newson, Brighton High, received honorable mention in the Studies in Marketing Contest. Both Miss Fletcher and Miss Newson won in competition with students from all parts of the country. The purpose of the advertising contest is to further expand the students knowledge of advertising and to develop ability and skill in writing copy and planning a layout for a newspaper ad. Each participant took a written test that covered the fundamentals of advertising and the development of a newspaper ad layout. The size of the ad had to be of a newspaper one-four- th Moss Joints Support Of Bill for Environmental Bank Senator Frank E. Moss said he is a bill which would authorize and establish a National Environmental Bank to assist cities and states in implementing their environmental programs. The bill also would establish an Environmental Trust Fund to provide an ongoing guaranteed source of funds for the operation of the Environmental Bank and other programs Congress designates as needed. A new United States Environmental Savings Bond would be established to provide citizens with the opportunity to invest directly in the future of their own environment. Author of the bill is Senator page. A maximum of two and hours was allotted for both segments of the activity. one-ha- lf Warren F. Magnuson, who introduced a similar bill last year. That bill received widespread and enthusiastic support from private citizens, businessmen or members of the academic community. The Environmental Financing Act is designed to help states and cities overcome the gap be tween growing environmental needs and a growing financial inability to meet those needs, Senator Moss said. Loans from the National Environmental Bank would be repaid at 3 percent interest. The loans will enable cities and states to finance the share of needed environmental projects. With the support this bill received last year, and the growing concern and awareness on the part of the general public regarding the pollution problem I am hopeful that this bill will receive prompt action in the Congress, Sen Moss said. non-feder- te - pre-registrati- on Students Can Avoid Withholding Tax By Filing Form W-4- E Students with jobs who may be exempt from federal income tax withholding on their wages this year should so notify their Disemployers, Roland V. Wise,Revetrict Director of Internal nue for Utah, said this week. Working with students who for qualify under the tax law exemption from withholding, Mr. Wise advised, should will in and submit a Withholding Certificate (Form to their employer by May 1. for Exemption certificates filed 1970 expire April 30. any Students who did not owe owe to tax last year and expect should none in the current year so certify, he said. Jnp'ITax eliminate the need to return next year unless there and has been tax withholding it. the student wishes to recover of income Single students with married less than $1,700.00 and income ones filing jointly with of less than $2,350 willnotowe tax for 1971. any federal income The long neglected education of handicapped chlldreI? bd liantly gifted or nicntally toy a iihlcd will be explored th team of U of U searcher U.S. ui a new grant from the fice of Education. The years and is expected to run fivemillion in receive nearly $2 federal funding. Ex-empti- W-4- E) Pr0t Other winners in the Utah competition were: (2) Alan Raw-leBountiful High School; (3) Dawna Jean Petterson, Granite High School; (4) Jerry Okabe, Davis High School; (5) LeAnn Allred, Skyline High School. Savings bonds in the amounts of $100 for first place, $50 for second and third places and $25 for fourth and fifth will be presented at the annual meeting of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped May 5 at the Hotel Utah. The bond awards are being sponsored by the James R. Thomas, Jr., Chapter No. 6 of the Disabled American Veterans in Salt Lake City. y, Friendly Visitors Program Need More Volunteers Would you like to be a friend to a lonely homebound Senior Citizen? There are many home-boun- d oldsters in the valley who need you to bring them outside social contact. Friendly Visitors is such a service. It is one of the many programs of Metropolitan Salt Lake Services for the Aging that bring friendship and aid to those who find it difficult to leave their own homes. The volunteer Friendly Visitor spends a few hours a month bringing job and happiness to others by relieving their loneliness. There is a great sense of personal satisfaction in knowing that you have helped someone in need. The Friendly Visitor makes a personal call at the home of a Senior Citizen at a time convenient for both. This call gives the homebound elderly person some personal outside contact. The Friendly Visitor can read to those with dull eyesight or walk around the block to relieve the monotony of four walls. The Friendly Visitor can talk, be a compassionate listener and give of himself. If you or your group would like to give a few hours a month to make someones life a little more pleasant, we will be happy to furnish more information. A representative will come and bring a list of the many persons desiring a Friendly Visitor, and explain more about the program. Call Friendly Visitors at and information will 7 be furnished immediately. 487-366- if its printing... dial 364-846- 4 The air inside your house starts out roughly the same as the air in the city outside. Depending on where you live, pretty clean or pretty dirty. Then most people run it through a filter when they heat the air or cool it. And think it's clean. Not exactly. The fact is, a brand new filter will take out between 35 and 50 of the impurities. But now, a relatively new device, the electrostatic air purifier, can take 90 or more of the impurities out of the air you breathe. The purifier can be attached to central heating or cooling systems, regardless of the fuel or energy used. Or it can operate independently. And it will operate 24 hours a day for just pennies. When you so electric, youve sot it all Utah Rower & Light Co. al |