Show u rfT nr i i r : i r r T Open House at Brigham What Is Young Indian Taught? Find Out for Yourself Friday CITY — What about the Intermountain BRIGHAM the d five-yea- non-Englis- h ’ non-Englis- h ) a full week of vt i t 51 51 By FRANK WETZEL SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — George is an ordinary looking boy of 8 But George isn’t ordinary He’s mentally retarded Don’t recoil Three of every 100 children according to one Army- I-- ' 'Jrl 4 j ' Chicken Number Down in Utah SALT LAKE CITY (UP) — Chickens on' Utah farms as of the first of 1955 numbered 2717-00- 0 X " Vi No Strings Attached head the lowest since 1941 the United States Department of If you’re wondering how this lady is keeping the umbrella over the only one The man at left is puzzled her head you’re-no- t Agriculture said yesterday he’s too even standing right beside her at a bus stop in though The estimate did not include Atlanta Ga commercial broiler or colored fryer chickens The Agriculture Department said the annual rate of lay of Utah’s laying flock increased to an high of 191 e&gs per Total egg produc1954 in layer tion last year was 421000000 eggs some three per cent under SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— The where seasonal streamflow on the peak year of 1951 U S Weather Bureau and Soil the main fork will probably be Conservation Service yesterday about 54 per cent of the AC Students to Elect reported a water runoff of from average This is about 6000 acre-fee- t to 90 per cent of normal for — 50 elections LOGAN Primary more Lake than in 1954 but the report Salt Great senate drainages the for student officers and state the in a combined deficit in Pinoted 1955-5Poorest held be will prospects members for on exist ute and ColOtter Creek reservoirs the said report joint at Utah State Agricultural Dam of Piute above acre-fee- t about 16000 River Sevier the making lege Thursday the net result for waters users as about the same as in 1954 The Bear River flow is expected to be as low as 50 per cent of average but more normal flows are in prospect for the South Fork of Ogden River and the two Cottonwood creeks near Salt Lake City said the report The Virgin River the Sevier River at Hatch Coal Creek at Cedar City and the Beaver River at Beaver are forecast to flow at 70 to 76 per cent of average 4 However less water is reported in Rocky Ford Reservoir The report predicted a nearly sufficient water outlook for the Price River below Scofield Reservoir because of the substantial reserve in the reservoir Best water supply prospects in the state exist in the watersheds of Pine Creek and Chalk Creek at Fillmore and in the Salina to all-tim- authority are born intellectually handicapped Even though you and your spouse are perfectly normal George could have been your son It isn’t just the afflicted children who are affected First there are the parents often hit the most tragically There are the overworked attendants in the custodial institutions And there are all the other children whose intellectual progress is slower because the level of instruction in schools sinks to meet the capacity of the retarded Although many are affected the nature of the problem has made recognition")! it slow A social stigma has become attached not only to the moron imbecile or idiot but to his family as well So mental retardation usually is discussed — if at all - in private and in hushed - Corps However that won’t be until she’s finished college p d Women’s 1933 APRIL 10 u No Magic Cure for Retarded Child but New Institute at Utah U May Help a Whole Lot Miss Macksene Ferre a seni- - C for - Thanks but No S L Draftee Is Wrong forArmy or at Olympus High School said today she was more than just a little bit puzzled when she received' the official notice to report for induction Along with the notice came a series of pamphlets on '“Starting Your Army Career” She received the draft notice just before her 18th birthMiss Ferre said that day strangely enough she does plan to join the Army some day — - ’ t- SUNDAY MORNING R clined with thanks wh(en the United States Army sent her a notice that she had been drafted the y STANDARD-EXAMINE- ' 1-- 9 day-to-da- (UTAH) SALT LAKE CITY (UP)— A high 'school coed here de- Indian School? ' Are its classes and courses the same as any other public school? Or do the young Navahos learn strange subjects and skills not taught elsewhere? You can see for yourself next Friday when open house will be held from pm to answer just those questions or any other installation at Brigham City’s southern limits about the huge Winding up its fifth year as a training center for young Indi speaking in their ans the school hopes to dupli- first to those winding up year cate or improve on last year’s advanced — is next on attendance which topped the the agendatraining - Mr 2000 mark Boyce said that swimming Carefully ' en-- t classes will be going on in the indoor pool education classes etically planned in the gymnasium for boys and open house is inof academic work by exhibits tended to give a children lihder 14 in the gymclear impression nasium for girls of the After that visitors will get a training program close-uof the advanced vocaNavahos tional shops where Navahos are transplanted from the reservation trained in a variety of trades to a classroom ranging from upholstering to Planned Carefully body and fender work A Returning in the opposite diSuperintendent George student-guiderection the groups will see shops Boyce said yesterday the tours have been laid out for beginners the dormitories to keep walking at a minimum for girls and extensive home ecoand will commence from Build- nomics departments Final stop the superintendent ing 81 where visitors will regissaid will be the student-operateter Exhibits of the school’s spe- arts and crafts shop where Inr cial program along with dian art is on sale “In view of the unique task many booths of student articles and a display of reservation con- of Intermountoin Indian School ditions will be located there he in taking speaking said Navaho children of high school From that point touring par- age and teaching them English ties will be led to the auditorium modern customs and vocational where a continuous program by skills for living off the reservathe school band and the Rain- tion the annual open house is a bow Club of native dancers will fine opportunity for the public be in progress to see the progress made by the A look at the modern class children in all activities” Mr rooms — from the Boyce said erg OCDIN THE 10A voices Goals Difficult Goals in fund campaigns for retarded children are difficult to attain But it’s more than raising money It’s a matter of sympathy The retarded child is ridiculed and scorned not only by other children but by cruel adults At best he is accepted in society only by sufferance Now comes the question: Can Great Salt Lake Drainage Set At From 50 to 90 of Normal e 10-ye- ar 6 ® StPOTTELOCg A Qfl TT ® ffl ©I© C3 Loa area- - The forecast for the Uintah Basin calls for 46 per cent of average on the Strawberry River at Duchesne 72 per cent on the Duchesne River near Tabiona 86 per cent on the Lakefork River below Moon Lake 86 p?r cent on the Uintah River near Neola 89 per cent on the Whiterocks River near Whiterocks and 77 per cent on Ashley Creek near Vernal anything be done for these children? Must they go through life unwanted unloved a burden on their parents or wards of society? There’s no magic cure for mental retardation and probably never will be But special educators claim there is a whale of a lot they can do — given trained personnel equipment and unlimited patience — to develop the maximum potential of each child What is a retarded child? Special educators as in other technical fields have a vocabulary of their own Psychologists rank subnormal children by their IQ or intelligence quotient in this descending order: Moron imbecile and idiot Special educators have found those terms are offensive to parents So their comparable descriptions are trainable” and “cus“ed-ucatabl- e” todial” The goal of special educators is to make “educatable” children able to hold a job get along with other people and do a little read- ing and writing The goal for “trainable” children is to teach them to care for themselves and perhaps release the person who has been taking care of them Attends School Back to George He is one of a dozen children attending classes from 9 am to noon at Stewart School run by the University of Utah’s Institute of Special Education M In jits own words the “Institute for Special Education is an organization dedicated to the promotion of education for exceptional children through the recruitment! training certification and placement of competent personnel The special settings services and procedures needed by chilr dren who differ significantly from others in sensory motor emotional andor intellectual functioning in order to develop to the extent of their capacities require administrators teachers and therapists with specialized professional education” The institute is brand new although it was formed on paper last July 1 George and his classmates startedfthe first demonstration class only last week Significantly there were classes earlier for his parents The coordinator of the institute is Mrs Ellen Thiel an intense articulate woman who says frankly she s on a crusade Ordinary classrooms Mrs Thiel saysJare filled with children who meetv seven basic requirements: They can walk and use their hands they can see they can hear they can speak they can maintain their physical health they can maintain their emotional and social health and they can learn at a given rate and in an orderly system “These requirements are met by 85 per cent of the school population” ‘Mrs Thiel says “But 15 per cent have deviations They need special settings services or procedures if they arp to I de-velo- pi to their maximum poten- tiality They need special educa- tion” Judging from national figures Utah has 25000 children in need of special education! (This figure includes however 3300 gifted children or children with unusually grea intelligence They are not to be confused with “exceptional” children Both gifted and retarded are included under the exceptional classification) Ogden Has 1957 Mrs Thiel says 1957 children nePd special education in the Ogden School district 5499 in the Salt Lake CJity district 978 in Provo’s district and 601 in the Cache County district Under a bill approved at the special session of the Utah Legislature in 1953 school districts are eligible for extra funds by setting up classes in special education Hence the university’s institute to train teachers to conduct the classes The program approved by the Legislature grants each district $4500 for each special education class it conducts Gramercy School in Ogden 'is one of the few schools iithe state in which such classes are being taught A special unit for children with motor (central nervous system) handicaps is being taught there in a building designed for that purpose Most of the children are victims of cerebral palsy The process of educating the retarded children is vastly dif- - V ferent from classes run for nor 5! mal students Where normal chil ZZ dren for instance will be learn j ing about the average mean rain fall in Peru the retarded chil- dren will be taught how to take care of themselves Mrs Thiel gives an example of the learning process: 'A “Suppose we are training the-children for work on a farm and it is essential they knoW what a f ‘ cow is Our first class would be' a field trip to a farm We would touch Smell hear the cow — ev erything we could do sensually “Then we would go back to ' the classroom We would have a large model of three-dimension- al a cow for the children to see and play with After a while' we would reduce the size of the model cow Later we woifld try to get the children to recognize the cow from a picture And finally we would try to get them to associate the pic- two-dimensio- ture with the letters ? w” j Manjr Handicaps Back again to George His i classmates have actual ages of between 8xa and 11H But their mental age ranges from -- 4 to 8 Almost all have more than one i handicap (To Mrs Thiel the saying “strong back and iweak mind” is nonsense Retarded children usually are smaller and their health is not as good as normal children) s A number of the children have hearing disabilities Two have j visual difficulties Four have speech troubles Two have motor j handicaps apparently the result of mild cases of cerebral palsy In other classes some bf the children might be recognizable as being “different” These might In-- ? i elude the microcephalid or Child-wita small head Or it might be mongolism characterized by slant ing eyes large tongue and ' a broad short skull Mrs Thiel says she had hoped to make up the demonstration class entirely from children of ' the educatable (moron) classify i cation But she says a peculiarity of the Utah schools makes that impossible Under a system she says where children are promoted practical1 ly automatically if they gain so-cial acceptance — that is are01j accepted by their schoolmates — a child of the educatable class may find himself promoted high- er and higher until he is in jun- ior high school even though he (t can’t read or write Mrs Thiel J says parents of these children are reluctant to take him from his regular school and put him in a special class “Children with IQs of less than 50 (100 is normal) aren’t permitted in Utah schools Those with IQ& of more than 50 often are promoted in the Utah system because of social attainment” Mrs Thiel says So Mrs Thiel found herself with both educatable and train-abl- e children in her first class — not an ideal situation because they learn at different rates Special Equipment The classroom in which the demonstration class will be conducted for the next 10 weeks hasn’t been completed When it is it will contain about $2000 r of special manipulatory equip- ment greater costs are involved in special education classes be- cause often a dozen students willltl occupy the floor space which could accommodate 30 normal children -- ” 1 ALE PRIG i -- on Hoffman’s 2 best sellers You’re invited to visit Ogden’s U TFE I The classroom at Stewart School will be divided into “areas of living” This will include a child-siz- e GfiS?o?70eO®G3 SAVE UP TO i other NEW MODELS models and magnificent beautiful-ne- NEW COLORS neiv color combinations ‘ t ( Monday April 11 through Saturday April 16 DEALERS AND ’THE BARTLETT MOTOR CO YOUR AUTOMOTIVE DEAN AND RITCHIE MOTOR CO I WORK INC FERGUSON-NAS- H FISHER-HES- S Robert h hinckley inc i OGDEN FORD SALES (At MIW UMS MIA I til PETERSEN MOTOR CO i Gri©TLIGHXOrj APTOnODIEES mu Amt ti ts Oefuxt “New Profile table model with Super 21 Aluminized tube excli PONTIAC CO GEORGE T FROST INC live Easy-Visio- NOT eld discontinued or apeoial at NOT a N OT stripped-dow- n mod- e- chassis BUT higtwtyled BUT a safe - an ordinary $malt2l” picture Mt BUT NOT o&sty awswnwmng BUT 21W190r fasUetling merchandise e auper-pow- friftgt-performl- er - cheasis Lens g f RADIO AND TV N v 2568 WASHINGTON BLVD j 'Buy From Your Service Dealer—It Pays" 3 when he tried to investigate a fight T)vo men jumped on Baker knocking him to the ground Two bystanders aided the police officer The men who attacked Baker Albert LeRoy Andrus 24 and Clyde Bernard Andrus 29 were booked at city jail for investiga tion! of drunkenness assault anduv battery and resisting arrest rre-port- ed LINCOLN-MERCUR- Y INC ' - for convenience RAWSON AND LUND MOTOR CO WOOD MOTOR CO Salt Lake Police Officer Beaten SALT LAKE CITY (UP) — Police officer Floylynn- Baker was beaten and his uniform Uorn Hoffman’s “new profile” furniture styling Lower wider more compact with top-tunin- If teachers are available how- -' ever state funds will continue to roll in to the school districts which conduct classes in special education x Pollute n J will close June 15! nf ' ' a Hoffman “Super 21” ALUMINIZED more viewing area easierto-watcl- i with 12 Easy-Visio- eoWneta 19-tub- lew n Legs extra WAYNE RASMUSSEN CO STOCKS y t meet: MEN WHO DO settings returned to the classroom and j “made” a home of their own with the small furniture Another feature of the class-roois a mirror which runs most of the length pf one wall The children will see only reflections of themselves in it But behind the I mirror — and watching the A children — will be observers The vision glass permits vis-- -administrators for school iting to watch the class with example out intruding Parents Demanded It Mrs Thiel says the demand for special training of the exceptional child came not from the Utah edufators but from parents She mentioned specifically the Parents" of Retarded Children the Utah Society for Crippled Chil dren and Adults and the United Cerebral Palsy organization of Salt Lake County The institute is being run this year partly on a grant from the national cerebral palsy organization Mrs Thiel says unless more money is obtained the institute one-wa- EQUIPMENT home-lik- e m NEW FABRICS MODERN SERVICE 'f One of the first projects of the class was a visit to a number of Residences Then the children Franchised New Car Dealers and see the see: bedroom and kitchen a library with picture books ana PH 4-51- 14 |