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Show Central Utah Digs Out From Foot-Plus Snowfall By DICK HARMON Herald Staff Reporter “Even the dogs are getting high centered," quipped one Provo motorist this morning as he helped a friend dig his carout A dog nearby struggled to get his paws on the pavement At presstime, over 15 inchesof snowblanketed most of the valley floor in Utah County, the heaviest snowfall in several years in the area, according to the National Weather Service Someresidents in the south valley reported accumulations up to 20 inches Police agencies in the county Teported few accidents, but manycalls for assistance Manycalls were from stalled motorists with vehicles stuck on hills or snow drifts Citizens in four-wheel-drive vehicles rendered assistance to many of those stranded by pulling vehicles with chains. trovo School District authorities excluded some Toutes, avoiding steep areas near Sherwood Hills, Edgemont, Indian Hills and southeast Provo Tonight's forecast calls for a completely overcast sky with a 100 percent chance of precipitation. Lows should be in the low 30s, with a 70 percent chance of snow Wednesday. Carl Backman of Provo abandoned his car and put on skis to propell him to school at Brigham Young University today. Photo by Dick Harmon Pushing out or digging out autos from the snow was a common sight today. A jogger. tromping throt over a foot of snow alongside BYUdiagonal this morning, was making better time than vehicles caught in a snail pace log-jam enroute to Provo. With the heavy snowfall, accumulation of weight on rooftops may be hazardous. Kent Patridge, Orem City building inspector said the Uniform Building Code recommends about 30 pounds per square foot on most residential homes. According to Brent Snyder, building officer for Provo City, the current snowfall has amounted to only about 10 pounds per square foot of snow weight atop houses, while most homes in Provo are built to withstand 40 pounds per square foot “The greaterthe pitch (angle) of a person's roof, the more the weightis transferred down to the foundation walls and footi The real dangeris for flat ro fs, in which most of the weight is on the rafters,” he said A normalpitch for residential homes is a rise of four inches for every foot or roof measured, said Partridge. The amount of snowhaslittle to do with its weight, said Partridge. He indicated wet snow is much heavier than snow with less moiture The extended forecast, from the Springville Junior High School WeatherStation calls for (Continued on Page 3) ‘Hatchet’ Panel Goes Chopping On Utah Budget #4. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The Provo $101,200; Snow College $31,500; Legislature’s Joint Executive Ap- Dixie College $4,200. propriations Committee today lived up Only the College of Eastern Utah esto its nicknameof “Hatchet Commit- caped the budget ax. tee” by cutting nearly $1.7 million from The hatchet committee trimmed recommended budgets. another $113,000 from the budgets of The panelhasuntil Saturday night to Departments of Agriculture and write a state budget that will balance the Business Regulation. It chopped $60,000 with projected state tax revenues for from the Natural Resources Departthe 198081 fiscal year. ment. The deleted funds were additions Gov. Scott Matheson proposed subcommittees had made to budget spending $1.6 billion. Legislative the recommendations worked out by: the leaders have predicted the final Legislative Fiscal Analyst’s Office. package will be very close to that Another budget presented to the examount. The executive committee, which ecutive committee. included a 2 perreviews the work of nine subcommit- centincrease in the markup Utah puts tees, tentatively approved a $215.6 mil- onliquor sold through the state liquor lion budget for Utah’s Colleges and monopoly. The subcommittee which Universities. The committee chopped reviewed the Liquor Control Commis$1.5 million from the recommendation sion’s Budget. recommended increasof the higher education budget subcom- ing the booze markup from 56 to 57 permittee. Eight of the nine schools lost cent to provide additional state revenue. moneyin the action. The largest cut came out of the After the executive committee University of Utah’s budget. $697,300 finishes with the budget, it will be sent for a variety of programs. Utah State to the Legislative Printing Office and University lost $275,600; Weber State then distributed to both the House and College $224,000; Southern Utah State Senate for further debate and final acCollege $63,500; Utah Technical Col- tion. That probably won’t occur until lege at Salt Lake $169,000; Utah Tech Saturday. Climbing Jobless Rate May Hit 8% WASHINGTON (UPI) — Congressional economists today predicted the nationwill slip into a shallow recession this year and that unemploymentcould go up to 7.5 percent. That unemploymentfigure could reach 8 percent in 1981, the Congressional Budget Office said in an economic forecast presented to the House Budget Committee. The budget office develops economic projections to assist Congress in its legislative decisions on such matters as the federal budget. President Carter’s budget message Mondayalso projected unemployment of about 7.5 percent this year,but predicted it would decline to 7.3 percentin 1981. Alice Rivlin, director of the budget office, said she expects the nation’s Gross National Product to record either a zero growth or a negative rate, perhaps declining as muchas 2.3 percentby the end nis year compared with to the fourth quarterin Although consumer prices wiil moderate somewhat, Miss Rivlin said, the Consumer Price Indexis ee to increase by atleast 8.6 percent 'ps aS much as 10.6 percent — during the year. That would be a moderation from 1979’sinflation of 13.3 percent, the highest in 33 years. Little relief from inflation is expectedin 1981, she said, with the CPIincrease projected at between 8.3 percent and 10.3 percent. The unemploymentrate will average between 6.5 percent and 7.5 percent in 1980, Miss Rivlin said, andwill rise another percentage pointin 1981 as the nation seeks to recover from the mild recession anticipated by the budgetoffice. Miss Rivlin said recovery in 1981 will be slower because of the shallowness of the 1980 downturn — “A shallow down and a shallow up” was how she pesset the economic situation to the Budget ommittee. Also consistent with President Carter’s budget message, the office assumes there will be no tax cuts in 1980. Consequently, it said, rapid inflation will push wage earners into higher tax brackets, thereby further redu ble income. Personal savings, which fell to record low levels in 1979, are expected to recover somewhatthis year, further restricting household spending, the congressionaloffice said. The congressional office assumes tight credit restrictions will continue to reduce automobile and residential homesales, resulting in layoffs in the automobile and construction industries. Canada Helps Six Americans Escape Iran They confirmed a story ina Canadian newspaper saying the Americans, who took refuge in the Canadian Embassy in early November, have now safely fled Iran with Canadian passports. Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark Monday announced the closure of his country’ embassy in Tehran, saying it had become impossible to carry out normaldiplomatic functions in strifetorn Iran. It was not immediately clearif the Americans wereall diplomats. But in Brantford, Ontario. today, Clark confirmed that the embassy gave Americansrefuge in the Canadian embassyin Tehran and provided them with papers that allowed themto escape thestrife- torn nation,. regarding other American hostages the matter not become known until after there had beena resolution of the “I don't want to go into any more still in Iran.” details in the matter at this stage “T regret the matter has become situation regarding the hostages in because of the delicate situation public ... 1 would have preferred that ran.”” The Americans were apparently safely flown out before the last Canadians left Iran, according to U.S. officials, In a copyright story by its Washington correspondent, Jean Pelletier, the French-language Lapresse The 42-member organization also said a group of American diplomats, By United Press International believed to number between 12 and 25, The Moslem world today made its suspended the Soviet-backed Kabul took refuge in the Canadian Embassy position clear on the Soviet invasion of regime from the group until a Soviet after the Nov. 4 seizure by Moslem i Afghanistan,telling Moscow to getits withdrawal is complete. The blow to the Kremlin was made militants of the U.S. Embassy. troops out of the Islamic nation. f more stunning by the fact that such Administration officials said that the Meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, the Soviet supporters as Libya, the Palesti- Canadian news reports were ‘‘essen- ae Islamic Conference dealt the Soviet nian Liberation Organization, Algeria tially correct’’ but that the number in | m Union a stinging diplomatic defeat, un- and Iraq joined the Moslem belt of na- the news story — 12 to 25 — was wrong. * animously calling for the ‘immediate tions stretching from the Atlantic to the officials said that the number of and complete” withdrawal of Red the far East in supporting the 11-point Americans, who left underthecover of Army forces from Afghanistan. resolution. Canadian passports. wassix. Moslem World to Moscow: - Pneumonitis Kills You Must Leave Afghanistan - The ‘Schnozzola’‘ aS WASHINGTON (UPI) — Six Americans safely fled Iran in recent days after hiding out in the Canadian Embassy there for almost three months, U.S. and Canadian officials confirmed today. Tuesday: Ambassador in Soup? The Foreign Service Journal, in an article claiming President Carter has not yet kept his campaign promise to stop using diplomatic assignments to pay off political debts, mentions the case of Ambassador X. . The ambassador stunned his staff with questions such as “Did you say there are two separate Koreas?” and ‘What's Islam?"’ A UPI reporter has determined that the ambassador in question is a former governor of South Dakota who now serves as the U.S. envoy to Singapore. See story on Page5. BYU and IRS Go to Court Brigham Young University hasits day in court today in the matterof the Internal RevenueService's right to obtain records on contributors to the university. President Dallin H. Oaks of BYU claims the IRS has no right to see the records, while the tax group saysit does havetheright. Story on page2. Sports Scene Highlights And you thought Saturday night's 34-33 BYU victory over Hawaii was boring. On ford, which has won just three of 17 games this year, decided to try to slow down high-powered Oregon State, ranked second in this week's UPIpoll. Oregon State won 18-16. Details of that game are included in the college basketball roundup on Page 6. Also on Page 6 are details of Tina Gunn's selection as player of the week nat‘onaily and a feature story on distance runner Ed Eyestone by the Herald's Bob Hudson. Blazes Fought in Snow Orem firemen fought two fires Monday and had to respond to them on slick, snowpacked roads. ds. Thefirst fire occurred around 6 a.m. at the New Orem Recreation Center where the women’s sauna was completely destroyed. A fire Monday evening did about $6,000 damage to an Orem home.Thefire started in a basement and took about 14 firemen to extinquish. Fordetails of the house fire see Page 2. Latest Alcoholics Report Alcoholics suffer from a death rate two and one-halftimeshigherthan therestof population, a new study reveals. The study alsonotes that those who quit can recoversufficiently to live as long a8 the non-drinkers. e report also suggests that younger alcoholics who are less dependent on alcohol when they go into treatment probably can resume social drinking without becoming alcoholics again. See story on Page5. Snowfall to Taper Off A heavy snow warning is in effect through tonight and Wednesday morning for most of Utab, but the snow in Central Utah is expec’ed to taper off overnight. Roads are expected to become increasingly hazardousas Central Utah can expectovernight lowsof7 to 10 above and highs Wednesdayin the mid 20s. Here’s Where To Find It Amusements Classified Ads Comics Commerce Editorial National-International Obituaries Society at itab-Regiona! 13 17-23 10 16-17 ll 5,9 4 13 68 Bb a See obituary on Page 4. SANTA MONICA,Calif. (UPI) — Jimmy Durante, who was “‘schnozzola” to his fans and friends for morethan half a century, died of pneumonitis today at St. John’s Hospital where he had been under treatment since Jan. 7. He was 86. His death was announced by a family friend, Joe Bleeden. and confirmed by the hospital which said the comedian, whose career spanned the era of honkytonk speakeasies to modem television, died at 4:27 a.m. PST. Durante, who had been in retirement since he suffered a stroke in 1972 that left him partially paralyzed. was admitted to the hospital Jan. 7 for treatment of pneumonitis. His condition steadily deteriorated. A hospital spokeswoman said death was attributed to pneumonitis, complicated by the effects of previous smallstrokes. Funeral arrangements will be handled by the Godeau and Martinoni funeral home in Los Angeles, the spokeswomansaid. Bald, wizened and energetic, My Durante excelled in every it le, the Broadway ‘medium of entertainment — © nightclubs, burlesque, vaudeviltheater. radio, motion pictures and TV. Heearned a fortune and gave mostof it away to good causes. Durante had been in failing health since suffering a stroke in 1972 which left him partially paralyzed. He managedto keep up his interest in show business bywatching TV and practicing the piano until recent years. For the past four years the comedian was infirm. He rarely Jimmy Durante left his Beverly Hills home, where he was attended by his wife, Margaret, and nurses. Most of his time was spentin bed or in a wheelchair. It was a long andlonely time for the once gregarious Durante who usually was surrounded by cronies in the old days. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, and their adopted daughter. Cecille Durante. the son ofItalian immigrant parents, was a baggy. pants comic at heart whojoyfully disassembled the English language and created havoc with music to create a delightful mix- # ture of humor and pathos. SUSa SREY |