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Show Sen. Ernest Dean Speaks at Meeting In Chicago Sept. 19 Senator Ernest H. Dean was invited to speak before the National Na-tional Convention of Superintendents Superin-tendents of Training Schools such as the State Training School in American Fork and before a meeting of Parents of Retarded Citizens held in Chicago Chi-cago on September 19. Two other Utahns attended the meetings, Supt. Paul Sagers of the State Training School, and Mrs. Byron (Elaine) Sharp who is Executive Director of the Mental Retardation Assoc-aition Assoc-aition of Utah, the parents organization or-ganization representing the State Training School. Senator Dean complimented the Superintendents of the nations' na-tions' 246 State and local Training Train-ing Schools for the retarded for organizing themselves into a national association and for working with Congress and State Legislatures in providing adequate facilities and programs pro-grams to meet the needs of the retarded and others with handicapping hand-icapping conditions. Senator Dean expressed the need for parent and friends organizations or-ganizations attached to Training Train-ing Schools to join together in sponsoring federal and state legislation which would balance bal-ance the Training School program pro-gram with the needed services in the community to provide a good enriching program for the retarded wherever they reside. Senator Dean expressed the need for model legislation which would update the laws of the fifty states in protecting the rights of these retarded citizens and their parents. While at the convention Senator Dean also expressed the need for comparable wages for employees working in the Training Schools across the nation, na-tion, pointing out that wages for persons working in State Training Schools are far below be-low wages normally paid other employees in Social Service work. |