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utoh it PAGE 4 SPECTRUM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1982 Volunteers indentif 60 to 80 of words if achelRunyan trust fund is established UtahBriefs Reagan to visit Utah SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) President Reagan will visit Ogden Sept. 7 to campaign for Utah Republican candidates, state party officials said Tuesday. GOP officals said the September visit had been definitely confirmed by the- White House. A planned visit by Reagan last week was canceled because the president had to stay in Washington to fight for his tax bill. Reagan will land at Hill Air Force Base, tour a Mormon Church welfare cannery in northern Utah, and then speak to a GOP rally at an Ogden City park, said Salt Lake City Councilwoman Alice Shearer.

Exact details of the Ogden rally have not been finalized, she said. Utah to borrow $20 milliori SUNSET, Utah (UPI) The family of Rachel Kunyan and the city of Sunset have offered a reward for information leading to the recovery and return of the 3-year-old girl, kidnapped from a playground near her home Aug. 26. Sunset officials said at a press conference Tuesday the offer is in addition to a $1,000 reward offered by Salt Lake City radio station KRGO for information in the kidnapping of the 3-year-old Sunset girl. Sunset Mayor Norman Sant also said a trust fund has been set up for those wishing to contribute to the investigation.

He said the money will go into a fund for the reward and to print fliers describing Rachel and her abductor. They will to be sent throughout the country. But whatever amount is raised for the trust fund, Mayor Sant said the Runyan family and the city of Sunset has committed the $20,000 for the reward. Those wishing to contribute to the fund can send money to Rachel of Sunset, P.O. Box 904, Clearfield, Utah, 84015, or to Sunset City Offices, 85 W.

1800 North, Sunset, Utah 84015. Sunset Police Det. Phil Olmstead said the city has had so many inquiries form people wanting to help, that they decided to set up the trust fund. He said 50,000 fliers have already been sent out with the help of Smiths Stores, and Grand Central Rachel's father, Jeff, works for Smith's Food King. KRGO's reward will be paid to anyone providing information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people who kidnapped the blonde-haired girl.

Rachel was playing at the Doxey Elementary School playground with her two brothers, five and 18 months, when she was grabbed and thrown into a car by a black man who offered her candy, according to witnesses. There has been no trace of the girl since, but Olmstead said investigators continue to follow leads in the case. John C. Scott, operations manager at KRGO, said the "blank wall" facing investigators prompted the radio station to offer the reward. He said perhaps "a monetary incentive might bring forth information regarding the whereabouts of the three-year-old or the identity of her of kidnapper." And Olmstead said now the reward is out, he is optimistic that someone might come forward.

"I believe there is someone out there who knows something about the case, who would not normally come forward. But with this kid of a reward offered, we might here something," he said. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) A University of Utah bioengineer has invented a micro-computer that could help two-thirds of the nation's profoundly deaf "hear" by stimulating the inner ear electronically with signals that mimic speech. The device in prototype stage is the size of a pack of cigarettes, and carries a signal to the inner ear by a wire through the scalp. It stimulates nonfunctioning nerve fibers so the brain will "hear" sounds that imitate speech.

The invention is the result of seven years of intense research by Dr. Donald K. Eddington, who spent four of those years just defining variables, such as whether a sound is pure or fuzzy, reedy or brassy, loud or soft, which stimulus varies pitch and the sound's texture and quality. Eddington, director of artificial hearing at the university, said duplicating the sounds of speech is difficult because the physiology of hearing is not fully understood. In a nutshell, he said, the hearing process begins when sounds enter the ear channel and make the ear drum (tympanic membrane) wiggle.

The mechanical motion is transferred to the snail-shaped inner ear (cochlea) by three small connecting bones. "High-pitched sounds fire nerve fibers at the front end of the cochlea and low-pitched sounds affect fibers at the far end," he explained. "Complex sounds like speech gener ate a complicated pattern of activity over the whole array of nerve fibers. These signals are then transferred to the brain, which interprets them as speech," he said. Deafness occurs when the mechanical motion cannot transfer the sound impulses into nerve activity, he said.

The artificial hearing system uses six small electrodes a bit larger than the head of a pin implanted in the cochlea. The wires are connected to a button by hair-thin platinum wires, which are biologically neutral and not subject to rejection by the body. The button is positioned behind the ear, with a disconnectable cable linking the electrodes to an external computer. The shirt-pocket version of the device just began tests at home last month by a volunteer. Four patients have been testing the system and using a larger computer.

Eddington said they have been able to identify 60 to 80 percent of unpracticed words with no visual clues. When accompanied by lip reading, volunteers have been able to identify 100 percent of the words, he said. Eddington said the device is best suited to the person who has lost his hearing because he has a memory of speech sounds. However, he said, it isn't known how well the person who has been deaf since birth will learn to recognize the electronic impulses as speech. Missing investigators log has no significance, Bunker says SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The Utah Department of Security is making arrangements to borrow $20 million from the federal government next year to keep the unemployment compensation fund from going broke.

Department administrator A. Barclay Gardner says the high unemployment rate in Utah is depleting the fund faster than employers are replenishing it. With more than 50,000 Utahns out of work, and 25,000 of those drawing unemployment benefits, Gardner said unemployment is the highest it has been since 1941. Backruptcies increase SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Bankruptcies in Utah during the first eight months of 1982 increased by 114 percent over the comparable period in 1981, which was the worst year in the state's history for number of bankruptcies. In the 7-week period from July 1 to Aug.

24 alone, 561 cases were filed with the Utah Bankruptcy Court. The total number of bankruptcies filed in 1981 was 5,800. The second highest year was 1980, with then 1979 with 2,000. During 1981, Utah led he nation in Chapter 11 business reorganization filings per judge, according to a member of the court staff. In July, a second federal bankruptcy judge was sworn in to help take the pressure off Judge Ralph R.

Mabey. Nielsen pleads not guilty SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Former Salt Lake City radio disc jokey Larry D. Nielsen, not guilty Tuesday to charges he kidnapped 10-year-old Melanie Larsen of Kaysville. Nielsen, who remains in the Salt Lake County Jail in lieu of $250,000 cash bond, will face an Oct. 25 trial before federal judge David K.

Winder. He made his plea before U.S. Magistrate Daniel Alsup. Miss Larsen was kidnapped July 23 from a convenience store in Kaysville. She was held captive in Salt Lake City for four days, then taken to Nebraska where she escaped July 29 and walked into a postal office.

Nielsen, who turned himself into authorities in Los Angeles Aug. 15, could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted. Manf alls 300 feetto death at Grand Canyon Board, said they khew of no other missing materials from the Newton investigations. Bunker said there was no evidence that former board agent Lonzo Shepard had taken any records when he resigned from the board to work for Newton as a a year controller in 1981. Koon said the log may have been and shredded as part of the board's routine disposal of un-needed material.

He said it may have been filed improperly and still was sitting in a drawer some place. "There is no way you can say that missing log was taken with some ulterior motive in mind," said Koon. LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) vada Control Board Chairman Richard Bunker said Tuesday a missing investigators log in the gambling license probe of entertainer Wayne Newton has no significance. "I don't know why anybody would want it.

We have evaluated it and don't know why anybody would want to use it. It contains nothing substantive," said Bunker when asked for comment on reports the log was missing and that a Newton investigative tape recording destroyed. Bunker said tapes used during investigations routinely were reused once the investigation was completed. Bunker said when it was discovered the log was missing that an in-vetigation was conducted and interviews taken. "I have no reason to believe it (the log) was stolen," said Bunker.

"But at the time it didn't appear to be of any significance. It has only become significant in NBC activities in the law suit," said Bunker. He referred to a defamation suit filed by Newton against the National Broadcasting Company. Attorneys for both sides currently are involved in lengthy pre-trial depositions and pre-trial discovery. Bunker and Ray Koon, chief of investigations for the Control GRAND CANYON, Ariz.

(UPI) A 20-year-old California man fell 300 feet to his death while "jumping from rock to rock" along the south rim of the Grand Canyon, authorities said. The victim was identified as Frank T. Jolly, 20, Los Altos, Calif. Coconino County sheriff's Sergeant Jim Driscoll said the victim was hiking with friends along Yavapai Point at about 11 a.m. and was "jumping from rock to rock when he apparently slipped and fell 300 feet." Climbers tried to rescue the fallen hiker but found him dead when they reached him about noon, Driscoll said.

The deputy said a National Park Service rescue team had to use a helicopter to fly the body out of the canyon because of the rough terrain. He said friends of Jolly saw him fall but two sheriff's deputies were sent to the scene to investigate the tragedy. The hiker was exploring on the rocks when he lost his balance, fell backward a short distance, hit some rocks and rolled to the side and over a ledge, Driscoll said. In England and in China it was once believed a man whose eyebrows met was lucky. Hundreds swarm into hew El Rancho Hotel Casino Open Daily $-9 Sundays 1045 The Saving Place it it it it it it ir it it it it it it it it it it it it ft looms at one end of the resort.

Longtime Nevada gaming figure Ed Torres spent $25 million remodeling and refurbishing the resort which most recently was named the Silverbird Hotel and originally was known as the Thunderbird Hotel built in 1948 for $2 million. Torres paid an initial $25 million to buy the property from Tiger Investment Co. in February after the Silverbird Hotel closed Dec. 3, 1981, in bankruptcy. Don Digilio, a spokesman for Torres, said the 385-room hotel would be expanded to 1,200 rooms with the addition of a $20 million highrise tower of rooms.

He said construction would start immediately. A 52-lane 26.97 1 DFNDR ATA ni flDVtNTURfe I 3 I bowling alley is near completion. LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) It is said luck runs high in a casino on opening day. Hundreds of gamblers thronged to the El Rancho Hotel-Casino to test the superstition Tuesday when the doors opened and the lights went on for the first lime in almost nine months.

Other hotel owners, businessmen and state, federal and local politicians looked out of place in suits and ties as they pushed toward an invited-guest party. Most of the gamblers and sightseers dressed casual jeans, shorts, tank-tops and bathing suits. More than 1,000 employees, dressed in western-styled uniforms, were at their stations when the doors opened Tuesday morning. Several hundred more people will be added to the hotel-casino staff in the near future. For many it was their first job in months as the unemployment rate in southern Nevada pushed the 10 percent mark.

Craps dealer Joe Siino, 44, out of work for a year and a half and living off savings, said he was rusty but glad the tables were busy. "I'm just glad to be off the streets," he said. "It's good to be off unemployment," said Linda Abrott as she made change for slot machine players. "I had $1,000 in the bank before I got unemployed. Now I've got $44.

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