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Show Monday, August 23. 1982, THE HERALD. Provo, Utah 'JLWgllPllUl The latest develoDments I Tnlt am in in vwii aim diuuiiu iuc Intermountain West - The body LARK, Utah (UPI) a young woman who disappeared with her small child while on her way to her boyfriend's house to collect support money was found by deer hunters Sunday near the old mining town of Lark. with her of Deer Hunters Find Young Mother Dead son counts of e murder. Swan's friends say she told them she had initiated a patertiitv suit against Valdez and was going to collect some money he owed her at the time of her disappearance. The capital murder charges against Valdez were filed Aug. 20, even though Ms. Swan's body had vet to be found. County Attorney Ted Cannon says he filed the second homicide count because of Christopher on Aug. 13. The infant's body was discovered Aug. 19. floating among debris in Salt Lake's Jordan River. Swan disappeared with her son after telling friends she was going to show the child to her Julio Gary Valdez. The 22 year-olValdez is being held in the Salt Lake County Jail on two Authorities say the body of Caroline Swan, 17, was discovered in the town southwest of Salt Lake late Sunday. She had disappeared d first-degre- Utah-P- age MZ jf j probable cause statements given to his office. The complaints against Valdez also said witnesses interviewed by detectives reported he "was upset about the action Ms. Swan was taking to establish he is the father of the child." The State Medical Examiner's office said the cause of the woman's death has yet to be determined. Best Answer on Cash? 7 Can't Tell You That' - I remember my SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) mother telling me about the horrors of the bank foreclosures during the Great Depression. "You're sure lucky it's not that way now," she would say. "Roosevelt made it safe for your generation." Gf course she was talking about the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., insuring savings deposits for people, but I never really learned much about that. I felt no need. I was brought up during a very secure period in our history. And I paid little attention to the difference between banks, savings and loans and thrifts. I mean, after all, a bank is a bank is a bank. Well surprise. I am one of the 16,000 or so Murray First Thrift victims, and I can speak for all of them that the emotions run from confusion to anger to incredulity. In my case, the money was withdrawn from Murray the day before the state Department of Financial Institutions took over the books and froze the accounts on July 22 because of Murray's alleged financial problems. I was going to use the money to open up passbook accounts for my children at a bank near our house. When I read about the takeover the day after I withdrew the money, I thought "Wow, did I luck out. Got it out just in time." Guarantee Corp. A pamphlet at Murray from that organization tells me the savings are protected to $15,000 an account. That was a nice thought. Then I went to a hearing on the Murray First Thrift matter. One woman asked the judge hearing the case about that $15,000 protection. "I can't tell you anything about that," he said. "I don't know." She pushed the question again, wanting some sort of gesture to boost her confidence that she might see her money again. "I can't tell you anything about that," Judge Philip R. Fishier repeated. "I don't know." Needless to say, the woman did not leave the hearing bulging with confidence. Neither did anyone else. Another man asked the judge if we should all get lawyers. "I can't. tell you anything about that," he said. "I don't know." The hearing last week in Fischler's courtroom was supposed to determine if the 200 people like me those who got their money out but can't cash the should get paid off. check About 200 people came to the hearing, and most ended up like me standing in the hall and not hearing a thing. Judge Fischler's courtroom doesn't hold that many people. Some were able to relate their own little tales of horror, however. One woman had her basement remodeled, then withdrew $2,000 from Murray to pay the bill. But then she got surprised like I did. So she borrowed the money from another bank and is paying 20 percent interest. She wondered if she would eventually get paid interest the time her money was tied up. The judge couldn't tell her anything about that. He didn't know. At the conclusion of the hearing, no decision was made. At the end of the week, however, the judge posted a decision that nothing will happen yet. The money is frozen, including the money already withdrawn, until later. There will be another hearing on Monday. Wrong. The withdrawl is represented by a check. I wasn't born during the Depression, so I am a very trusting soul. Nobody will honor the check. The savings account I had establishd for my four children about $800 is nowhere. It's not in Murray, it's not in worth the bank I tried to dump the check on it's just on that piece of paper bearing the words "pay to the order of." Now why would I put my childrens' savings account money in a thrift insititution anyway? Well, it is next door to where I work, so it's convenient. And the interest rates weren't all that bad, although I never paid that much attention to it. It was just an easy place to put your money without so I thought. risk Besides, the women at the front counter at Murray are very friendly, fun to talk to. They're still friendly, but they won't cash my checks anymore. They can't. The state won't let them. Then there was the matter of the Industrial Loan I n ft if V ?'SJ M f ; M Oh boy. At least when my oldest son asks me what happened to that passbook account I was going to open for him at the bank by our house, I know exactly what to tell him. "I can't tell you anything about that. I don't know." Utah Briefs the weekend shooiing death of her estranged Police Probe Murder hus- band. - Detectives said formal charges against Grace M. Thurber likely would be filed today during a Fifth Circuit Court arraignment. The woman was being detained without bond pending the arraignment. Weber County Sheriff's OGDEN, Utah (UPI) detectives are investigating the death earlier this month of Joyce "Tina Gallegos, 21, as a homicide, according to Detective Mike Wells. Wells said a preliminary autopsy Sunday determined the woman died from a gunshot wound to the head. Her body was discovered Saturday in the Ogden River, 10 days after she had been reported missing. Arson Repeated - A Brigham City BRIGHAM CITY. Utah (UPI) man has been arrested on a second arson charge, according to Detective Harold Howard, just two days after his release from jail. Howard said Craig H. Poulsen, 31, was arrested Sunday after witnesses saw a man setting fire to a e bundle of A SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) papers beneath a car owned by Brent woman has been booked into the Salt Lake Hunt of Brigham City. The fire caused $250 damage County Jail on a warrant charging the suspect with to the vehicle. Woman Faces Charges Emm mot TO) 10) mm Mid-val- James Watt To Keynote Conference SALT LAKE - MEEM1LM A keynote (UPI) speech by Interior Secretary James Watt is the highlight of the agenda for the annual meeting of the Council of State Governments this week in Salt Lake City. The gathering began Sunday with the arrivial of some the the delegates representing 13 western states, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. The Utah Legislature is host for the meeting. 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