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Show tart Mood I . A bill to create a single gov erning panel for Utahs colleges a group that and universities would replace individual boards of regents and trustees at the was signed Friday afschools $ 4. ternoon by Gov. L Calvin Rampton. But the governor had reservations about one part of the bill. That is the provision that divides the power to appoint memoeis of the board between himself, the Seriate president and the speaker of the House. So Gov. Rampton asked Atty. P4- Gen. Vernon B. Romney to seek a declaratory judgment an interpretation of the law by a to determine validity of court the appointment provisions. The governor said such a division of appointive powers would serious practical create problems. Gov. Rampton explained that in order to generate confidence, the board must be composed of men and women of the highest character and ability." Ke added that the membership would need to be balanced in two ways geographically and by board members identification with the various colleges and universities. Those institution; are the University of Utah, Utah State University, Weber State College, College of Southern Utah, Dixie Junior College, Snow College, College of Eastern Utah, Utah Technical College at Salt Lake and Utah Technical College at Provo. To be known as the State Board of Higher Education, the governing board will have 15 members. The law states that the gover nor shall appoint 12 of them. The other three appointments will be made by the Senate president and speaker of the House. Gov. Rampton also signed 24 other bills. By law, he must sign, veto or permit to become law other bills passed by the Legislature, taking action by midnight Tuesday. Signed Friday were: SB195, time for extending repayment of 5200.000 installment on loan obtained by the Board of Water Resources, allowing this to be used for water conservation projects. SB255, creating a manpower planning council to coordinate job training programs, providing for an executive director and appiopriat-in- g $30,000 for the work. SB157, eliminating residency requirement for applicants for license to practice dentistry. State SB183, authorizing Board of Health, upon recommendation of Health Facilities Council, to determine a reasonable time within which hospitals must comply with minimum licensing standards. SB120, icquiring public buildings to be constructed to standards that make buildings more accessible to aged and physically handicapped persons. SR160, raising fees charged by Public Service Commission for copies of documents. SB178, authorizing increase in number of voters in each voting district and permitting combining of election districts. SB54, providing for deposit of filing fees paid to state engi- neer. SB70, increasing the tax on motor fuel from six to seven cents per gallon of gasoline effective July 1. autonomous SB12, providing corporate status of the College of Eastern Utah under state board. SB53, providing for deposit of Division of Expositions rentals. SB67 providing for a master state highway plan and designating several highways as part of the state highway system. SB15, substituting State Boat'd of Higher Education for boards of trustees, boards of regents, council, etc., in coordinating state laws. SB182, establishing changes in requirements to qualify for state school emergency building aid and appropriating $2.9 million for fiscal 1970. SB223, increasing various li cense fees for contractors and changing renewal procedures. SB11, placing Dixie College under control of Board of Higher Education. SB63, requiring persons under obligation to suppori minor children to prove financial responsibility before being allowed license to rtmany. SB13. placing Snow College under Board of Higher Education. HB213, providing for additional assistance to the blind and providing minimums for public assistance giants. providing an average per cent salary inn ease for governoi and other top executive officers and prohibiting any employe fioin making more than his department head or HB96, 10 from any department head making more than governor except in medical services. 1IB285, redefining mentally retarded and making changes in law regarding operation of State Training School. eliminating urine test for clarifying right of authorities to withdraw blood from an unconscious or incapacitated person and otherwise tightcn'ng drunk and drug di iving law. 11B245. blood-alcoho- l, HR347, clarifying programs administered by the Division of increasing Family Services, personal and real property limitation for public assistance and authorizing burial trust funds and insurance. HB193. clarifying law relating to municipal improvement districts. DESERET NEWS t Utahn Home After Sea Drama SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH By PAUL SWENSON Saturday, March 22, 1969 Deseret News Staff Writer Forget about me," the young Utah sailor screamed as his mates beat at the flames licking his back. Help someone else thats worse. Let me go back up and fight the fire." Mo Higher Calling, Airman William G. (Bill) Skinner, 21, doesn't remember this happening on the catwalk of the USS, Enterprise, moments after a series of explosions set Hampton Tells the nuclear carriers decks aflame, so it is easy for him to shrug off what happened as bra-- . (Fwfture (Farmers vado. They told me later that they had to strap me into th stretch-- , er to prevent me from going back up cn deck, he said. I must have really been out of , There is no calling that has a greater future than in agriculture, declared Gov. Calvin L. Rampton Friday during the first annual session of the 41st annual Utah Future Farmers of America convention. Over 800 youths heard the governor tell them that there is no higher calling or profession that will be more rewardin g to yourself and make a greater economic my head. THREE SHOTS After his clothes were cut from his body with a knife, three shots of morphine killed Skinners pain ar.d any desire ' for further action. contribution country. y- There was a little girl in that hospital nicknamed Skinner said. Tinkerbelle, She had been burned playing with matches. She was all bent over with Cache IHIurrt longer can we expect a USS Enterprise survivor William G. Skinner embraces father at airport as mother waits turn. -man without training to be successful, and agriculture is a difpain, but when she started him a ride as soon as you get Home" cake and an open house 75 miles southwest of Honolulu. ficult profession to learn," he A total of 25 were killed and 85 said. for his friends were waiting. trying to walk again, she had so home." He kept the promise. much fight. There wasnt tear in the disaster. The The governor pointed out the Salt home injured Lake sailor is Airman Skinners fiance, on 30 in her eye the tears were in Marie days leave. Skinner was on the flight changes in agriculture from the 19, daughter of Martin, our eyes. I knew that. if she Mr. and Mrs. Keith W. Martin, In an airport waiting room, deck, about 200 feet away from time he grew up in BountifuL could walk, by gosh, so could 568 N. Redwood Rd., had flown Skinner told the Deseret News the blast. (As a There were only 2,000 people plane I. to San Antonio earlier to meet of the nightmare confusion that captain, he was responsible for in Bountiful 40 years ago and were Skinners legs feeling Bill and accompanied him on followed an explosion beneath a security and maintenance of an the city was surrounded by fine well enough Friday for him to fighter-bombon the aircraft the plane trip home Friday. Phantom jet), farm land, but today there is climb on a Honda behind his deck. carriers flight A BAKED CAKE FELT PAIN scarcely a farm in the area, brother, Mike, 18 (who is planI heard a muffled explosion, and the population is 20 times Investigation later Indicated ning to enlist in the Navy), for Skinner embraced his parthe ride home from the airport. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant J. that heat from the jet's engine looked down and noticed that as great This points out the Mike had written Bill about Skinner, 1155 S. 11th West, who probably ignited missies on the my gloves were singed," Skin-Se- e challenge in agriculture. There SEA on Page B-- 3 is less land to produce the needWelcome plane as the Enterprise cruised that a the new Honda and promised disclosed ed food and more people to feed, Gov. Rampton said. No - i . F-4- -J Over Weekend (Fruitless HYRUM merous phone calls the family has received. Search efforts Friday were concentrated in Hyrum and surrounding areas. Among volun-te- r searchers were citizens from Logan, Providence, Utah State University and fellow employes from Hill AFB Gunnison Youth Dies, Father Hurt In Crash Sun To Reign Child! After futile efforts Friday, the Cache County Sheriffs Department has announced it will abandon search and rescue operations for Teddy Smith, T, missing since Wednesday and concentrate on investigative work. . where Were'going to start running Smith works. down leads, said Chief Deputy Darius Carter. He said many Hyrum citizens have offered a reports have been checked, but $500 reward for information no concrete evidence has been leading to the whereabouts of the child. Teddy has been missing since I just dont believe he is Wednesday afternoon when he here, said the boys mother, left home to play marbles with Mrs. Robert J. Smith. I think a friend. someone has picked him up. f His parents say Teddy is a jj'level-headeboy. He once aved his brothers life by flames when the j smothering boy's clothes caught fire. found. . Another bright spring weekend was in the making across Utah today. The south portion had some scattered showers, but these are expected to decrease tonight, leaving only blue skies and sunshine Sunday. Temperatures will remain about the same, with highs in the 50s and lows from 25 to 35. Salt Lake Citya high and low Friday were 53 and 32, very dose to the normals for this time of year. Wannest spot in the state was St. George with a high of 72. Coolest place this morning was Bryca Canyon with a low of 20. a SALINA, Sevier County Gunnison, Sanpete was fatally County, youth rollover injured in a one-cof a mile about three-tenth- s west of Salina on 3 early Saturday morning. Dead is Brent Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Peterson. The youth was riding with his father was and thrown from the ar U-6- vehicle when per Bud Larson of the Utah Highway Patrol. The elder Peterson received only slight injuries and was treated at Gunnison Valley Hos- pital Trooper Larson was assisted in the investigation by Salina Marshal Gordon Keisel and Gunnison Marshal Kennard Anderson. Saturdays fatality, and the death Friday of a Logan woman, Iva H. Smith, from injuries suffered in a Wednesday automobile accident brought the 1969 Utah highway death toll to 43, compared to 36 at this date last ' the driver swerved to miss some railroad ties which apparently had fallen off a truck. The vehicle rolled times and the was killed instantly, youth according to investigating troop- - year. d ON TOP OF TIMP ' (Sfoiujip rW v - ; . Liquor Law :j Rulings Given ' tAtty. Gen. Vernon B. Romney answered two of the 75 i Questions asked by Gov. Calvin Rampton March 10, to guide 'him in administration of new J Friday I liquor I laws. SB145 providing of a liquor division Public lor creation in the State Department Safety of appropriation $300,000 for expenses of this commission. carrlto v an J 1 Homer TELL THE STORY There is a need for youth in agriculture to promote a positive attitude and tell the story of agriculture to everyone, including the consumer and farmer, Martinez said. There is dignity in labor, not See FFA on Page B--S '47 DAYS QUEEN RACE . The Days of 47 queen contest is off and running with four applicants now in the race, Mrs. James Fisk, contest chairman, announced today. The entrants are Shauna Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Moore, 3581 Yosemite Dr., and Pam Sluder, 1463 E. 3150 South, both Salt Lake City; Julie Cheever, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Cheever Jr., Payson, and Phyllis McIntyre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen McIntyre, Orem. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m., May 2 at the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Memorial Building, 300 N. Main. IV ver, girls who want to attend the annual luncheon must apply by 10 a.m., May L The queen will be chosen May 3 after judging at the 17th Ward Chapel, 142 W. 1st North. S.L. Osteopath Ordered To Jail Officers arrested Tritt on the charge this week. . Judge Garff ordered Tritt to be jailed Tuesday at 5 p.m. Tritt could remain free after that if his attorneys obtain a The order came after Dr. A. certificate of probable cause for G. Tritt was arraigned on a an appeal from a Utah Supreme Court justice. charge of contributing to the deTritt was convicted of contriblinquency of a minor before uting to the delinquency of a Garff. Judge minor last month. Judge Garff DRUGS COUNT imposed a $299 fine and Tritt to six months in Tritt was charged with knowingly and intentionally provid- jail boy with preing a But the jail sentence was that allowed him scriptions postponed pending an appeal by access to an excessive quanti- Tritts attorney. ty of stimulant drugs . . . withJAIL POSTPONED and to the health due out regard Judge Garff said at the time morals of the youth. he would postpone the jail sentence providing there are no further problems with the defendants writing further preA Salt Lake osteopathic physi-clan- s jail sentence postponement was revoked by Third District Juvenile Judge Regnal W. Garff Friday afternoon. Tests A shelter in the saddle at the top MT. TIMPANOGOS small group of hardy mountain- of the glacier near the summit eers reported from the top of of the jagged mountain. Mt. Timpanogos early today, is fine. Two other members of the Everything were camped at the and tell expedition Call our wives them structure at everyone is okay, the modern-da- y Forest Service radioed down Emerald Lake below the mounexplorers from the mountain. tains cre t, where they were shelter which serving as a backup crew. The dark-blu- e was occupied by four members - MEMBERS OF PARTY of the party was easily visible Members of the party, in addition to Jensen, includpd: Dave from the valley below. of the Deseret News; The group was headed by a Kadleck, avalanche speClyde Morgan, sciBrigham Young University Dick Davis, cialist; captain of includentist, James Jensen, and the Alpine Rescue Team; and ed five other mountaineers who mountaineers Tony Johnson and are helping him test winCharles Hugo. ter equipment that will be used on an Antarctic expedition next The tests were scheduled to fall. be completed sometime today, and the expedition was then MUSEUM CURATOR scheduled to pack their equipof curator who the is Jensen, ment onto a specially designed BYU Earth Sciences Museum, aluminum sled and walk down was lifted by helicopter to the the The judge said Tritts arrest this week leads to the conclusion that there are further problems." Tritt's arrest this week Oane the day before his license to practice as an osteopathic physician was revoked by the State Department of Business Regula- (Secmr big shelter, which is designed to cover a fossil find and give protection from the elements while the- team digs for fossils. - tion. Next October, Jensen and three other scientists will fly to the Antarctic to spend three months hunting for vertebrate lossils in the frozen wastelands. TIMP SIMILAR Jensen, who is one of the most experienced fossil collectors in the world, said Mt. Timpanogos was selected for the tests because the temperatures and conditions there are similar to the Antarctic. The Tritts revocation arose from conviction last month. Sumner J. Hatch, Tritts attorney at the arraignment Friday, asked for a bill of particua specific lars on the case outline of the alleged crime. Hatch told Judge Garff his defendant would plead not gu'Hy, and if the case goes to trial, we will demand a jury." SECTION Obituaries Jim Jensen, copter for left, ic BYU museum curator, loads winter equipment on helitest on Mt. Timpanogos. Clyde Morgan also helps. Weather Map Action Ads Womens Page B 1, 3 2 3 4 4 City, Regional Comics TV Highlights . t sen-tenc- scriptions.' Logistical support and transfor the Antarctic portation assistant Holmgren, are . being furnished expedition attorney general held that since by the U.S. Navy. tkhe money would not be avail-tabltj"f!l July 1, creation of the Scientists who will make the enforcement division could be Antarctic trip with Jensen are j deferred until that date. R. J. Bailie, of Ohio State Unimountain. The two liquor bills, SB144 top of the 12,000 foot mountain off versity, and Dr. E. H. Colbert TO PROTECT FOSSILS S,tnd SB145, become effective Friday afternoon. and G. F. Sturker, both from held in answer he to the Four 13, the of Purpose of the Utah test Is to the American Museum of Natuparty spent Mysecond the question. night in the specially desiped experiment with ihe sled and a ral History. i USE AS PASSPORT The FFA youths also received a challenge from the vice president of the national association, Joseph Martinez, Winters, Calif. Martinez said there is an opportunity for youth in agriculture and they should use their FFA background to serve as a passport in the expanding role that technology and sophisticated machinery has provided. He also urged the youths to be future leaders of agriculture and provide food at home and abroad. FOUR BEAUTIES JOIN . 1 "It makes you feel like youre Jrot alone, said Teddys father, Iftobert J. Smith, describing nu- - to Utah and the Speaking at the Terrace Ballroom, Gov. Rampton urged the FFA members to seek agricultural training, not only on the farm, but also in the state's universities and colleges. DIFFICULT TO LEARN Skinner, Identified by the U.S Navy as' one of the three most seriously burned sailors to sur- vive the holocaust at sea last Jan. 14, stepped off a jet at Salt Lake International Airport Friday and ran to the arms of his , parents, Two months ago he lay in serious" condition in Brooke ' Army Medical Center at Ft Sam 'Houston, San Antonio, Tex., with second and third degree burns over 40 per cent of his body. His left leg and back were burned especially seriousl- B1 1 . 5 16 |