Show Logan Utah Sunday Nov Tilt Herald Journal— 15 15 1970 Plan Will Result In Growth By DOROTHEA M BROOKS NEW YORK (UPI)— “Public offering of 8 million UJS government-guaranteed New Communities Act debentures of Jonathan Development Corp was made today by underwriters headed by First Boston LET'S START TALKING Sarah the chimp tahea a handful of plastic chips representing words from her trainer Mary Morgan cany out a “coo venation” by placing words oa the board between them Sarah has a vocabulary of 120 winds which can be combined into an enormous number of sentences The two then Scientists Surprised Chimp By Mary Hager Universal Science News SANTA BARBARA Calif A Language bility television crew unnerved her the lOOfound ape grabbed a -- heavy metal camera tripod and The psychologist who taught a chimp to use and understand human language says he is “not sure there is any ceiling” to her ability to use words Dr David FYemack adds that he will also try to teach Sarah — a bright chimp — to playful solve problems and write simple poetry She might even be able to teach language to other chimps were students Chimp originally secondary to children Cor the University of California professor of psychology but now he insure the teaching methods used with these apes can help psychotic children who cannot communicate with others “No one knows the stephy-ste- p procedure by which a child acquires language” Premack points out Discovering how this is done by chimpanzees who are more closely related to man than to some other apes may help disturbed and autistic children who are incapable of using and uiderstanding language Knows 121 words Sarah came to the world’s attention in July when Premack announced at a scientific meeting that she could answer questions and compose sentences from a vocabulary of 129 words - The words are represented by shaped and colored plastic chips with metal backings that adhere to a magnetized board Chips are used because speech appears to be anatomically impossible for chimps - Sarah easily understands sentences such as: “If Sarah put banana in dish Mary (a trainer) give chocolate” She can answer questions like “What is tie relation between 'red' and 'apple'?” The chimp can also make up instructions for her trainers such as: “Mary give die fig to Randy” Premack now serving as a visiting professor at Harvard admits he is surprised by Sarah's capabilities “I didn’t really think a could acquire chimpanzee language in any substantial degree" he says “I thought maybe they could go a small distance but that at some point it would stop Now” he continues “I'm not sure there is any ceiling'' 5s Sarah is a bright chimp and this has made die work easier However Premack does not think Sarah is the only chimpanzee capable of learning language He is already training another animal and the chimp is making good progress Ukes Ta Dress One of Sarah's trainers Mary Morgan compares her charge to — except a bright 2 or that Sarah is better at same things The chimp can for instance tie bows and pick locks like most small girls she likes to dress up to color paste and play games and to watch the television set rigged up near her cage The chimp is an eager student in her who is human-lik- e reactions She is proud when she does something well sulks when a mistake is brought to her attention and becomes frustrated when the going gets rough Sarah also becomes terribly upset if disturbed When a bent it as though it were made of cardboard As a result no strangers are allowed in her cage Two years of testing and training show that Sarah does not merely memorize the fact that certain chips go with certain objects Instead she demonstrates a true understanding of language by putting her words together to “talk" about things that are not present and to solve problems far different from the cases used to train her Her Preference Miss Morgan and other trainers “talk” to Sarah by arranging the chips in vertical columns Premack says that’s the way the chimp prefers it Sarah’s attention span is usually around half an hour but on good days she will go on with her lessons for an hour or more “She picks up things so fast that often it is a real challenge to stay ahead of her” Miss Morgan says “She only has trouble when I make a mistake in training If I do it right die gets things right away" The chimp has an excellent memory and often remembers file symbol for a word when her trainer has to look it up She likes to take over and write her own sentences One day Sarah became restless during her lessons and decided to give Miss Morgan what amounted to a sentence completion test She wrote on and her board “apple is then arranged a number of alternate answers for her trainer Sarah would point to each possible answer Miss Morgan’s task (which took her a good while to figure out) was to nod when Sarah pointed to the right one “The little devil would pass by the solution quickly and try to trick me into a mistake” die recalls on" Communication This is the second time human beings have established two-wa-y communication with another species At the University of Nevada R Allen Gardner and his wife Beatrice have been talking to a chimp named Washoe by sign language Washoe can take signs for several different words and put them together into sentences like “Please gimme sweet” Also after being taught the word “flower” for a specific blossom the chimp can generalize and use the word for all flowers real or in pictures To teach Sarah language Permack broke down the concepts of grammar into their simplest form then he taught these in a series of small steps The first step was to set up a ample transaction — giving Sarah a banana When a red square was introduced with the fruit Sarah had to put this “word” on the magnetized board before she got the banana Liter a blue triangle was introduced for an apple and Sarah had to use the right word to get the fruit she wanted As training progressed Sarah was given symbols for each of her four trainers Before sir could get food she had to identify the trainer and the fruit with word chips This led to simple sentences like “Mary give apple construction ability of man to Sarah” Gould she do 17 versions of the same sentence?” Leans Symbols To develop an understanding Sarah has already produced of word order the chimp was two answers to the same taught how to use a symbol for question Sometimes she writes the word “on” Sarah learned “no same” instead of "difsymbols for six colors so when a ferent” trainer wrote "yellow on blue” “What we really don't know is she had to place a yellow card on if the underlying processes (the a blue one and not way humans learn and the way The chimp could soon obey Sarah has been learning) are commands for 12 possible color really the same” Premack combinations and she was right says “However what we are eight or nine times out of 10 finding out about teaching is Sarah’s next challenge was to fascinating What do you start learn to organize words into a with and how do you build a sentence She learned to take a logical path from scratch to aequence like “Sarah insert language?” banana pail apple dish” and Until now no one could begin translate it into a sentence which to answer these questions said “Sarah insert banana in “There is no ratebook used by pail and apple in dish” When to insure that their offparents were fruits and containers to talk” he says learn spring switched she could still keep up “And none is needed — for the with the task although normal child” emotional outbursts indicated fills was extremely difficult for her Following this Sarah learned to use words that describe the shape size and color of things After she learned to use red and round with apple she could use these words to describe new objects that are round and red Those who doubt Sarah's ability to understand language WILLIAMSBURG Va (UPI) point out that she has answered — An historian editing an 18th but never asked any questions of an early Premack believes this is his century journal is looking for Virginia explorer fault not the chimp's two women living in Canada Typewriter System believed to have the original “We have not yet given a manuscript it was learned chance to play with all the Friday words” he says “because our Dr Edward P Alexander system doesn’t allow perfect vice president of the Colonial recording of her responses and Williamsburg Foundation said we want to know exactly what he has been working from an level of understanding goes into 1840 copy in editing the journal her accomplishments Soon we John Fontaine kept from 1710 will shift to a typewriter system : to 1719 Fontaine spent four each key will be a picture of a years beginning in 1715 in word symbol and the machine Virginia and made several will automatically record all her exploratory trips within the responses comments and colony one to the Blue Ridge questions when there is no one Mountains with Gov Alexander there watching her” Spotswood His Journal contains Premack says he would like to the oily first hand account til discover if a chimp can acquire the expedition with Spotswood “the rich synonymous sentence Alexander said vice-vers- a Hunts For Original Journal SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox Corf ” Announcements like this in the financial ' pages til your newspaper recently muted more than Just another debentureoffering “Much more” commented Martin J Higgins vice president in charge of First Boston Corporation’s real estate activities “It was the first financing covered by the New Communities Act of 1968 —an act designed to foster new community development” The act is Title IV of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 It authorizes the secretary of HUD to guarantee obligations issued by private developers to help finance new community development projects A Number of “New Towns" There are a number of “new towns” in the country Best known are Reston in Virginia and Columbia between Washington DC and Baltimore All follow the concept imported from Europe where it was bom out of the World War H blitz and Winston Churchill's determination that Britain must not rebuild itself in urban slums Most still are under construction and many have encountered perplexing problems —not the least of which ere the enormous costs and the difficulties til financing them "This government-guarantee- d financing” Higgins received inquiries stemming from the Jonathan offering” Jonathan Development a Minnesota corporation issued the 8 per cent Series A debentures due 1990 to finance a portion of the land acquisition and development costs in connection with the creation til the new community called Jonathan near Chaska Minn approximately 24 mites southwest of Minnrapolii HUD has agreed subject to certain conditions to guarantee up to 21 million of such obligations over a ten-yeperiod Jonathan’s timetable calls for up to 20 years of development Just what kind of community is Jonathan to be? "The aim is to provide living for ultimately 50000 residents white preserving the comfortable and rural character of the area by utilizing land in Its proper environment” This is the stated goal of Jonathan Development Corp and its prime mover state Senator Henry T McKnight president of the corporation who said the whole idea for the town started to take shape in 1964 when he visited government-finance- d new towns near London and in Scotland Plan of Development Briefly Jonathan will be developed according to a plan under which apporiximately 10000 persons will reside in dwelling units near the town crater where department stores and municipal and other facilities serving the project will be located Approximately 5000 persons will live on or near a “learning expense book!" 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