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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 186 VOL. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S NO. 1S6 U. chartered bus do b says stopped because aomnis to annihilate protest anto-apairtltoei- idl by Drew StaiTanson of drinking driver Staff writer A second by Dec L. Naquin Staff writer anti-divestit- group has been established at ure the University of Utah. The Friends of South Africa was organized to bring attention to the "phoney assessments made of that nation on the U. campus, said organizer and Director Earl Vanfleet, a senior electronic technician in the U. physics department. Vanfleet said Friends of South Africa are against apartheid but "wish a peaceful solution to the injustices in the world. In a statement released to the Chronicle, he defended the white South African government for having "educated the largest number of black people in all of Africa. "Wages of the blacks in the last 12 years have risen by 75 percent and until recently, 80 percent of all blacks from 7 to 12 (years of age) were in school.' Vanfleet said it is inconsistent to protest 1,600 recent deaths of South African blacks when "there are no demonstrations against the black dictator of Zimbabwe who has killed 8,000 of his black countrymen. "We are convinced the real purpose for all the noise and cries to annihilate South intimidation of Africa has absolutely nothing to do with the apartheid issue," his statement reads. University of Utah students and advisers were on a chartered bus stopped Sunday because of excessive speeding just east of Sparks, Nevada. Delegates from Residence Halls at the U. and at Weber State University were returning from the National Association of College and University Residence Halls Conference in San Francisco. After the Nevada Highway Patrol stopped the bus, officer Doug Cassidy estimated the bus was going 65 mph in a 55 mph zone. He arrested the driver, Melvin Smith, for investigation of drunken driving. Tests showed a blood alcohol level of 0.06, below the 0.1 level considered legally drunk in Nevada. Students and advisers had to wait inside the bus for almost three hours, while a substitute bus driver was brought from Lewis Brothers Stage Lines' changeover point in Winnemucca. No one indicated Smith had been drinking while anti-aparthe- continued on page three id put into effect a revolution that will, in turn, install a dictator in South Africa. The Soviet Union will then step in and dethrone the dictator, and the mineral-ric- h lands of South Africa will be a possession of the Soviet Union. "We, as a group, dare predict that if it were not for the agitation of the Soviet Union, this university would be free from the vicious propaganda generated about South Africa, one of the truly great nations of the earth." The newly organized Friends of South Africa will hold an organizational meeting Wednesday at noon in Room 323 of the Olpin Union. Another gathering in the same location is planned for June 10 at 7 p.m. Phil Margetts, a former LDS mission president in South Africa, will speak at Wednesday's meeting. The Salt Lake businessman recently opened a coal and wood stove wholesaling business in that country. .There is virtually no dissent among South African natives in black homelands, said Margetts. The problems come from teenage blacks in the townships, black dwelling suburbs outside major white cities. "These teenagers arc riled up by the ANC (African National Congress) to riot, and that's what we sec on TV," he said. "It's like a bunch of high school kids running around Salt Lake Gty, terrorizing everyone." Margetts said apartheid is more a social and economic "The apartheid issue is a smokescreen a deception to continued on page six Business 'flying high for U. Hospital's AirMed by Donn Walker Staff writer University Hospital's high-tec- h, helicopter was cruising 145 feet above the Salt several thousand mph Lake Valley floor when its cockpit radio sprang to life. From the other end came the voice, thick with static, of an air traffic twin-engi- ne controller. AirMed, the voice began, several sheriffs deputies spotted a helicopter flying over Emigration and Millcreek canyons and thought they saw it go down. Was that your aircraft in the area, the controller inquired, and did it go down? The chopper had been flying over the area. Pilot Marius Burke, with two decades of flight experience in Southeast Asia, had simply been having a little fun swooping down and in close to the mountains and catching updrafts, which forcefully pushed the craft toward the sky. With a reporter and photographer on board, as well as the AirMed program's medical director and a flight nurse, Burke was taking the chopper out on a Sunday morning public relations flight. And, as he assured the controller, " , 'r '.v-can-al y,s " mmmmmmlimimmmmmmmim steering the craft toward Salt Lake International Airport to refuel, "We're still in the air." Indeed. Like its aircraft, AirMed University Hospital's air ambulance program, which serves critically ill and injured patients is flying high. As program director Robin Moriarty puts it, . - .(...-.- . ., .... ...i... S. - ....... f Chronicle photo by Todd Crosland Business is booming for AirMed, University Hospital's air ambulance program. The program's employees attribute "Business is booming, especially in the last this to a better marketing campaign to educate rural doctors. the one of AirMed's three other aircraft, with room for one patient and thanks to the wide-ope- n six months or so." geography of a One of the reasons for the increase in the mtermountain west, in terms ot the parked at the Salt Lake International medical crew. The program's fleet also includes two program's business is a more aggressive amount of miles flown, AirMed ranks at or Airport, is employed. In that case, the fixed-winoff and in sales effort on the part of Moriarty, a very near the top. taking airplanes and a flight team can be onboard Aside from its size, one of the program's as little as 15 minutes. former Army flight nurse, and medical medically retrofitted Lear jet, all serviced ' ' , two-pers- on " g, director Kurt Bernhisel. : :t I a lot more rural hospitals, trying to marketing to the educate physicians and nurses that would refer patients to us," Moriarty said. What she and Bernhisel are enthusiastically pitching is a program that begun in 1973 and has grown to one of the largest of its kind in the nation. A handful of air ambulance programs in larger cities do log greater numbers of flights each year. But "Basically, we've done strong selling points is its quicker response , times, said Moriarty. The term refers to the time that elapses from when the call first comes in to the emergency room to when the flight team lifts off from the hospital's helipad. In the case of helicopter service, AirMed has cut its response time to five minutes, When a patient to be transported is outside the helicopter service's radius or when speed is especially critical, 200-mi- le , The quicker response times are due to. 'better equipment and better people," said Moriarty. AirMed contracts with a Colorado' vendor that supplies an integral part of that helicop- ters. One, less than a year old, is a Bell 222, a dazzling, $2.4 million, twin-engi- equipment: two state-of-the-- art ne chopper capable of transporting two patients and three medical personnel. The craft other is a Bell 206, a single-engine jet-pr- op 1 and supplied by .a local vendor. : But the essential element of AirMed's record response times is the human one: its and skilled medical crew. highly-train"We really get the cream of the crop," Bernhisel said. In addition to six pilots and two mechanics, the crew consists of eight nurses and a varying number of paramedics, who are rotated through the city and county fire departments. Bernhisel can be : ed continued on page five Non-Prof- Org. U.S. Postage Paid it Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |