| Show J c. c f Former Fonner Coalville Resident Now I Coaches Wrestling f for Blind COALVILLE COALVILLE- A few people In the Coalville area Grea might be Interested in the enclosed Item from the Salem Capitol Journal Dusty Johnson Is R a nephew ot of Coalville City Marshal Ward Wright Dusty spent some of his pre pree preschool preschool school years in Coalville and attended at at- attended tended first grade there Dusty busty had ort art eye ye removed when he was 9 years old and then loot lost his sight eight He had a year in hospitals and three years in Oregon Ore Oregon gon School for tor th the Blind He lie was graduated from Oregon n state University last spring where he participated In is wrestling jug ing and swimming lIe He is emptor employ employed ed as a counselor but loves loves' sports and is a willing assistant to the coach He lie is le the son of ot Mrs Mrs Leah Wright Johnson of ot City Center Trailer Park Ne Newport port Oregon Wrestling is not riot a new sport at Oregon School of the Blind The first program at the school was introduced six yeara years ago and the blind boys have havo been Men at it t ever since Roy Brothers and Dusty John eon coaches of ot the team dont don't have many winners on the scoreboard scoreboard score score- board but as far as they are concerned all the boys are cham cham- plo s. s I ENTHUSIASM SHOWN The value of wrestling is limitless limit limit- limitless less as far lar as the coaches are concerned This is one of ot the few sports in which the boys boye can compete and do well s says says ys Johnson Our matches matches' are the only times that we get much contact contact contact con con- tact with other schools and all aU allot ot of our kids enjoy enjoy- it it IL I am sure the schools that we meet find it ita ita a good experience too The team has one problem Fellow students who attend the matches sometimes cheer for the wrong boys boys' Brothers carries on ona onn a R m running commentary during the bouts to appraise the students l lot of the battle but they cant can't always hoar hear They're too busy cheering cheer cheer- ing ingi We have 90 per perr percent cent of ot the Tx boys ys in that age bracket out for 1 Brothers Wed the sport says havo have more but some Bome of ot the kids kids' cant can't wrestle because of ot special eye difficulties The Tho varsity team Includes boys from grades 9 7 but the program extends down to the primary grades Wo We have to start the kids young pays nays Johnson because it takes them longer to learn h how to wrestle than It does a sighted youngster PROCESS OF OP the bo process ot of teaching requires 6 es the es-the the coach to take each boy on r the mat and move him one step at a time Into the proper pool Escapes takedowns pinning pinn ing holds and other ther moves must be learned by this tedious me me- thod There can be no tion Despite the problems involved the boys boys' are able to take care of or themselves on the mat According to Brothers the schools who tangle with are sometimes tempted to go easy on the boys because they are blind bUnd It takes just lust a few tew seconds of at the first round for the opponents to find out that our boys really mean business says he but when they do they really wrestle Only one concession is 18 asked for the blind bUnd grapplers When a abr br break ak with the foe occurs the sightless lads ask to be returned to physical c contact with the foe toe I either in the neutral standing position or kneeling on the tho mat i Although all of ot the students at atthe atthe atthe the schools are legally blind bUnd some of ot the wrestlers havo have varying varying de I gr grees e of ot vision Tho on ones s with th the best sight 20 can see at t 20 feet what a normally sighted p person can see eee at Others on II the tho squad are totally sightless Mackinaw or lake trout are ore common only to Fish Lake arid and Be Bear r Lake In Utah Both are deepwater deep deepwater wat water r lakes and in both the uie ma mackinaw mack mack- k population Is 16 maintained through natural reproduction an and d i plants of hatchery reared fish I I II ru I l a aR t I It t R 1 I Ix x y t x i i 1 r 4 sr a y i v t a S p Wearing an 1880 dr dress Miss Joan Durrant of Browning Drowning Arms Company Is s shown own holding John M M. Brownings Browning's first gun which was made in 1880 the tho same year the first telephone telephone tele tele- p phone one exchange came to Utah The M Morgan girl is is talking over over Utah's telephone which was was installed installed February February Feb February 27 1964 in the new Browning Arms Res Research and Development Center near Morgan Utah's 40 telephone was installed today at the new BrownIng Brown Brown- Ing ng Arms Company R Research and i iri ri Development Cent Center r located at I Mountain Green according to toI I Eric Erio C C. C Aaberg Vice President and General Ma Manager ager of ot Moun tain tamn States Telephone The installation was inaugurated ed by a call between John Val Browning President of ot the the ui Utah h based company and Othon Othon Dr Drechsel Ore Ore- cheel Director General of ot BrownIngs BrownIng's Browning's Brownings Brown Brown- ings ing's Manufacturing Plant in d i Leige Belgium During the call Browning detailed detailed detailed de de- tailed his company's continuing growth in the production of ot sporting sporting sport ing garmS I g armS arms for tor th the lr free e world mar mar market I ket He also explained the purpose purpose pur pur- pose of ot the new Research and D Development c Center riter to his staff staffin staffin j in Belgium I In announcing the installation of ot the tM telephone it was pointed d out that John M M. M BrownIng Brown- Brown Ing first gun and Utah's first telephone W 1 n le born rn the Sam r d v ye year ar l' l h lii to the same city city city- Ogden In 1880 inCo then both com companies pan I e shave have continually lU u grown and improved their pro pro- ducts According to Aaberg it took 63 years to install the first telephones s in Utah 8 years ear for the second 7 years for tor the third and slightly over 6 6 t to In ain Install stall the fourth rt tel tele phones The pattern is much the same ix in the growth of the Browning Arms Company It was in l 1898 98 that John 1 M. M Browning instituted arms production in Leige Bel Bol- gium glum Since that time nearly 35 million mimon guns using Browning patents pat ants have been produced Today Brownings Browning's original line Une I ot of sporting guns has been expanded ex ex 1 l 1 to include archery equip I I ment fiberglass fishing rods andI and I fiberglass 6 vaulting poles I |
