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mg the next fiscal vear.izecl statements to all patients• * *♦, .. ■ A'S-tf/s• -cmglw-I*'* V•• • • • ;?/lt;\ ** * i ^ir■ . Sf'tiitjtjui' i.'V • .i' ■I’ ji’tJI)Self-supporting . . .ienenNew piano-funing workobjective of blind man33GALENA, Kan. — Twenty-three-year-old Henry fMike M. Ashloek of 1111 Mineral is embarking on a new career as a piano tuner, as illustrated in the accompanying photograph.This would not be unusual, except that Henry lost his eyesight when he was a seventh grade student in the Galena school system following a car-bicycle accident.He recently returned from Vancouver, Wash, the made the trip alone), where he attended the Pi-in serviceuito hordesano Hospital and Training Center, inc., to learn his new occupation. Financed by die State Depart-ment of Social Welfare, Division of Services for the Blind, Henry is able to be not only self-supporting but to engage in a remunerative occupation.M. A, McCollom, employmentplacement consultant, said that piano timers an earn an inconde of from $15,000 to $20,000. “This Isall ahead of him,” he said.Henry is ready to embark upon? Y,0 c a t f o n of his choice, McCollom said, for which ha-is well prepared.Dan Prichard 0f OhanuteJHun., one of eight rehabilitationcounselors in Kansas for thablind, said there are about 4,000legally blind persons in that state.-'Henry said he selected piano tuning as an occupation because he ‘■loves music.” “I got tired of hearing pianos out of tune ail 'dthe time,” he said. 'A 1967 graduate of the School for the Blind in Kansas City, Kan., Henry said that it is verydifficult to get around in « strange town.He said that under the rehabiU-lation program for the blind, orf* entation cane-travel is taught,“We are taught to detect landmarks of our own. Also, blind people always try to go in a straight line,” he said. “We can get mixed up by conversation.Plans of this young man calls for his own business in clientele tuning. Later, lie would like to tune keyboard instruments for a college in a college town, he said.• iHenry is the son of Mr, and Mrs. William H. Ashloek of Galena. He has six sisters and two brothers.
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Jul 11, 1969
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