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Show College Coeds Learn About Building Crafts Coeds at Coiiege of Southern Utah are learning some handy skills besides cooking and sew. ing these days. About half of a new class In Tools and Crafts for the Elementary Elemen-tary Teacher is made up of women wo-men students. Professor Melvin Roper of the woodwork and building trades department is teaching the course which is being conducted on an experimental basis. Mr. Roper said work in the class includes discussion on the history and use of tools and dif- i'erent types of woods and other materials used in the projects being studied. Part of the class time is spent in the shop In actual act-ual construction of articles. Projects used by the students are simple things which may be constructed Irom crate anU scrap lumber and inculde such items as bird houses, carts wagons, wa-gons, trains and other toys that . can be used for teaching purposes. pur-poses. Some 14 students are enrolled I for the class which meets three days a week at 8 A. M. |