Slide or avalanche danger still exists in the canyons. But some mwple are not heeding the warngs to avoid unnecessary canyon travel. Many sight-seers reportedly have traveled up Provo Canyon to view the scene of the recent snowslide which closed the higvlgay for a few days. ‘ is coimter to advice from Forest Service and highway officials who say that danger from snofv and mud slides is still very rea . Massive avalanches have occurred periodically in Provo Canyon through the years. One man was killed in a snowslide back in 1897. Two lost their lives in one that occurred in 1924. Only luck has pligevented serious injury or loss of ‘ e in a few other major slides, including major ones in 1932 and 1936. While Provo Canyon, being a U.S. highway, is the canyon of greatest concem, danger can lurk in others also. ,In American Fork Canyon, a snow and rock slide the same night as the malor one in Provo Canyon too place, stranding four persons in the canyon for a time. Slides can start without warning and strike with awesome fury. It’s better to “play it safe” rather than court danger by needlessly traveling in the canyons. Toys of the Future Still on the subject of space-age technology and its unexpected applications, Santa had better be braced for a rush of orders for a new breed of supersmart toys -. ones that hear. The coming big thing in the $2.5-billion toy industry may well be integrated circuits and microprocessors, the “chips” that have already moved beyond computers into household appliances, calculators, watches and other familiar consumer items. Chips developed for industry and presently on the market can be adapted to such toys as a regiment of soldiers that would respond to the sound of a child’s voice, miniature racing cars that could be similarly directed and dolls that would respond in preprogrammed ways to verbal commands. According to one toy authority, Bill MacMul1en, chief executive of Concept 2000, a I-long Kongbased firm, as much as 20 percent of the game and toy industry may be utilizing chip technology within five years. The responsive toys won’t be cheap, he predicts, but will be within the reach of most families interested in largeticket items such as road racing sets represent today. ‘ In some cases, microelectronic toys may even be constructed to answer back to commands. Now if they could only be programmed to pick up after a child is finished playing and put themselves away, that would be progress.