| Show Myron's Using His Lead Foot for Typing When the business class instructor tor signalled the end of the typing test Myron 1 Kunz carefully counted the letters he had tapped out on the electric typewriter type and found hed he'd done clone 41 words per minute It Others in the class had been much faster But the thing that made Myron's 1 accomplishment so unusual is that he uses only one hand and a foot for his typing His left arm was vas injured in an auto accident more than a year ago so he uses only his right for typing The foot He ties a string around it and gives the cord a tug every time he wants to shift the machine for caPital capital capital capi capi- tal letters I hope Ill I'll be typing more than 50 words a minute soon soon he said When Myron enrolled at Trade Tech fech last September it was another tough rung up the ladder of recovery recovery recovery ery for him His accident occurred early in the morning of Jan 1 1964 Myron was vas roaring into the intersection intersection inter inter- section tion of Seventh East and South in his up Buick The auto tailed fish into a of middle-of the- the street island smacked over a fire fireplug fireplug fireplug plug and slammed into a bakery That's what the Trade Tech student student student stu stu- dent was told later He doesn't remember remember re re- re- re member anything that happened that New Nev Years Year's morning The smashup that blanked out that part of his memory also fractured fractured fractured frac frac- his skull stretched the muscles muscles muscles mus mus- cles in an e eye e dislocated his jaw jav broke a shoulder a collarbone and five ribs dislocated an elbow shattered shattered shattered shat shat- a shoulderblade ripped the nerves from his left arm and severed severed severed se se- se- se vered the artery that leads from the heart to that arm Bleeding from that severed artery could have killed him before he reached the hospital But a fortunate fortunate fortunate fortu fortu- nate clotting of the blood kept him alive in time to reach the emergency room at Salt Lake General Hospital m Luckily one of the country's lead- lead leading nig ing surgeons happened to be at the hospital and Available to care for Myron The doctor swiftly repaired the severed artery Weeks later Myron was vas recovered recovered recovered ered enough to leave the hospital But he was vas to return three times He wore Yore a patch on his eye and he could not use his left arm But the doctors gave him hope that a graft of a nerve from a dead person might take and restore the use of the arm That operation failed however Later M Myron's us u's eye healed and he took off the the patch w I lr rJ r ij i a P frS i r. r l r l. l i JM i Of j. j l fi vr fi f fir J r St i if f r fir r vl ri r i 7 r n r r 4 r r i r r rr r rr rr fir 1 i. i r w. w f. f r. r I ry i Y r i fi n f r. r f f i i i. i i i rl x w f ti y r Jl f 1 r r fi i 4 Y r r i. i r r P i y r f v 4 r i i. i 1 K r r r. r l r r. r f r J f S 4 r i o r 3 r Y a l v. v r rv fr rr s1 hJ w l r K r Y rY S r i N S 4 Sr j Yv wN 2 r l' rf r 4 f n h f r ii f Jr i fI Y Jr yi S h fri iY 3 4 C K ry yr w A r v K yr rr k A fi b yf r r. r f G r r w s. s A hv w k jr jl r. r N NN N s w r A. 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