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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1971 Countless Deaf Learn to Speak Thanks to Telephone's Inventor Men talk and listen to each other across the world thanks to an inventive teacher trying to reach lives locked in silence. I am a teacher of the deaf was always Alexander Graham Bells way of introducing himself, though the world knew and acclaimed him as the inventor of the telephone, the National Geographic Society says. Yet because of that invention countless men and women and boys and girls across the globe have learned to speak and by lip reading have learned to understand others. They are beneficiaries of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf founded in 1890 and today more than ever continuing to lead deaf children from bewildering silence into the world of hearing people. Even as a young man, an emigrant from Scotland, Bell already had been working for years trying to teach the deaf to speak. His multiple telegraph, invented to help his stduents to see the sounds they uttered, led to the invention of todays telephone. Patent No. 174,465 issued on March 7, 1876, has since been called historys most valuable single patent. The invention not only brought quick fame to Mr. Bell, but in 1880, the Volta prize. The award was 50,000 francs, then equal to $10,000. The young winner knew just how to spend it. He wrote his mother, Now we shall have enough money to teach speech to the little deaf children. With the funds he set up the Volta Laboratory Association in the carriage house of his fathers home in Washington, D.C. The new laboratory developed the graphophone, the first commercially successful recording machine. Dr. Bell used his share of the sale of the graphophone patents to endow Volta Speech Assn, for the Deaf which he founded in 1890. . . The Volta Bureau, as the Bell Assn, headquarters in Washington is called, is the world's leading information center on deafness. Through the Bureau, the Association answers requests for teachers and guidance from librarians, hospitals, physicians, nurses and graduate students seeking material for theses. Every year, thousands of parents of deaf children ask the Association for help. They receive a information kit answering the most frequent questions about deaf children, a list of books and pamphlets, information on educational and vocational services and the addresses of groups of parents who have deaf children. Snowmobiles Need Registration Snowmobile registration is required by Utah law effective on according to Tedd State Division of Parks Tuttle, and Recreation. Procedure calls for a property tax clearance, application card and affidavit of ownership fomr, available from the county assessor. Submit the three documents with a $5.00 registration fee to the Division of Parks and Recreation, 1596 W. North Temple. The registration fees will be used for the development of new facilities and services for promote safety and aid in search, rescue and enforce- July Page Three Warning Issued to Consumers to Check Christmas Toys for Safety 1, 1971, Most Christmas shoppers are things. warned each year to watch and Many of these toys have been for themselves the danger redesigned and are again availjudge of the toys selected for that small able to the consumer. But there child on Christmas morning. But is insufficient manpower to see each year many toy makers and whether the banned toys have thoughtless parents buy toys that been removed. Prior to the pass- can harm youngsters for life or age of the toy safety act, Senator cause serious damage to other Moss committee found toy ovens belongings or persons. that heated to more than 500 The Food and Drug Adminis- ! degrees, cute stuffed animals that tration has banned 144 toys from when exposed to reasonable the market on the grounds that abuse exposed long sharp pins, and rattles that came apart subthey are unsafe. Most toys are safe and most jecting the child to sharp spikes ment. toy manufacturing plants take and rocks. So the warning goes for the care to build toys, Senator Frank E. Moss, Christmas shopper to please Dancing is the loftiest, the most chairman of the Senate Consum- check the toy you buy for the moving, the most beautiful of the er subcommittee said, but we joyous season that the. joys fof arts, because ita is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it are well aware that a number of seeing that small loved one does is life itself. Havelock Ellis. hazards are built into some play not turn into some tragedy. snow-mobile- ( rs, non-hazardo- us I ... IHMpiimg keep Utali Land Management Issues First Oil Shale Leases The first permit for oil shale informational core drilling in Utah was issued Tuesday by the Bureau of Land Management to Gulf Mineral Resources Co., of Denver. The special land use permit was issued as a result of an ap- plication received from the Denver company on Oct. 15, after consideration of public comments, according to Robert D. Nielson, BLM state director for Utah. The company announced plans to drill three holes in Township 10 South, Ranges 24 and 25 E., south of Bonanza, Uintah county. The core drilling will be done to evaluate the environmental characteristics, hyrology and oil shale resources in the area. Attached to the permit issued by BLM were 29 stipulations to be met by the company in its drilling. Emphasis in the stipulations is on environmental protection, he noted. 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