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Show Friday. October 8. 1982. THE HERALD. Provo. Utah-P- age 3 Holland Regrets' Letter Flap; 'Rumors By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer Brigham Young University President Jeffrey Holland is apologizing to former con- gressional candidate Ray Beckham. In a letter to Beckham this week the university president says he apologizes for impressions that may have been misconstrued from a letter Holland wrote to the Utah County Democratic Party in answer to Democratic questions about Beckham. The controversial letter was made public less than a week before the primary election; and Beckham says the stir it created challenged his integrity and cost him the election. "It is regrettable my letter to the Democratic Party was released to the media during the final days of the primary campaign," the Holland letter reads. "'As you know we were under extreme pressures from the Democratic Party for a statement in answer to their inquiries about you." The letter disclosed that Beckham allowed BYU students to work on his campaign and receive college credit. Beckham says reaction to the disclosure resulted in his loss in the primary polls. Beckham hopes the letter may undo rumors that paint him as lacking honesty and a portrait he integrity believes resulted from interpretations of the letter. "Very few people actually saw the letter," Beckham said. "Their knowledge of it cam- - from bits and pieces published or broadcasted in the press." The latest Holland letter reads: "You and your coworkers and the entire community need to understand the issue was never a question of your integrity or hon- the student involvement with his department chairman first. But he said the "sensitivity and appearance of decisions" required a response to the questions raised by Dem- ocrats. "I apologize for any impressions in the letter which could be construed in any way to imply dishonesty or a lack of integrity in the conduct of your classes. "Any rumor or innuendo implying moral turpitude on your part or which questions your standing in the community or at BYU is as unfounded as it is inappro- esty." Holland says Beckham acted properly in discussing priate." with his ill In California mother, Beckham told the Beckham Herald this morning he believes what helped prompt the new Holland letter was a landslide of letters from Beckham supporters. "I've had a dozen letters myself questioning the controversial letter, and 1 know no doubt the says he harbors letter caused his defeat leaving him to repay a paign debt. But Beckham says he doesn't blame Holland, who is his close personal friend. Instead he and his campaign Holland has had many manager Brent Haymond more," said Beckham. On the Tuesday before Sept. 14 pollster blame Democrats who they say involved their party in a Republican primary. Beckham took a second mortgage on his house for his campaign, but says he and his close friend Holland can still "sit back and laugh" at the misfortuned attempt to become a congressman. the primary, Beckham Richard Wirthlin showed Beckham ahead of Howard Nielson by 14 points. The letter was made public the next day and the night before election $65,000 personal cam- another Wirthlin poll showed him only 4 points ahead. Planned Parents Suit May Mean No Money By JEFF MAPES served by the state because they are required to get parental consent before receiving contraceptives. But Hirt told Judge Pratt that properly Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Legal attempts by Planned Parenthood Association of Utah to keep its federal funding could wind up depriving the entire state of family-plannin- g money, a government attorney warned today in U.S. District Court. The Department of Health and Human Services "could just as well wash its hands of this entire state" and yank all family-plannin- g money if Planned Parenthood wins its lawsuit, said Justice Department Attorney Thoeodore Hirt. U.S. Judge John H. Pratt heard oral arguments in Planned Parent-hood- 's attempts to reverse the federal government's decision to cut off funds to clinics in Salt Lake city and Park City. The judge said he will make a ruling after receiving more written arguments from each side on Oct. 18. Planned Parenthood claims the federal government violated the law by giving all of Utah's share of family-plannin- g a total of money to the Utah nearly $400,000 d Health Department. Planned charged that minors are not - Par-entho- 7Klf Wv. 3 VwrtW : Health and Human Services is not required to give Utah any family-plannin- g money at all. The department may decide not to become "embroiled in more litigation" over family-plannin- g services in Utah, Hirt said. Utah Planned Parenthood Attorney James Feldesman said he was "shocked to find the government saying they may not fund anybody in . 7 - , ' . Utah." Feldesman said Planned Parentrecord of properly using federal family-plannin- g money and . kJ"m - 4ve? hood has a cannot be cause the organization provides Sunshine, Snow Baffles Ufahns abortion services. The organization BY ROD COLLETT said the pressure came from Sen. Herald Staff Writer Orrin Hatch, or a member d Black ice, roads of his staff. are terms usually found in a December or January weather report, but local forecasters say these conditions are here now. A large cold front hit Central Utah Thursday afternoon. A cold north wind, with gusts up to 30 miles an hour has been recorded since late Thursday along d with road conditions on higher elevation roads. Snow was reported this morning h, snow-packe- Asian Youth Brought Problems With Him, snow-packe- in Alpine and Highland. Soldier's Summit above State Road 50-- 6 is snow packed and considered very slick and dangerous. The Wasatch County Sheriff's Department says U.S. 40 through Daniels Canyon and Strawberry Valley has black ice and is snow packed in spots. An odd comparison in local weather was reported this morning at Sundance Ski Resort in Provo Canyon. An office worker there reported sunny skies at 9:45 a.m. this morning. "It was hard to believe driving up the North Fork and all the sudden seeing blue and sunny skies, compared to the conditions in the valley," she said She reported only a small trace of snow on the resort base site this morning. The Utah Highway Patrol says all valley roads in Utah County are wet and passable with state roads crews out plowing and sanding major high elevation highways. David James, meterologist with the BYU Weather Station, said Provo has received .13 inches of rain from the new storm with some snow flurries at higher elevations. The low temperature this mornand ing at 9 a.m. was 33 degrees the factor brought that wind-chi- ll down below freezing. James said the potential exists tonight for a major freeze with lows in the higher 20s. The National Weather Service at the Salt Lake City Airport said chances of precipitation are 30 percent tonight and 20 percent Saturday. Highs will be in the low 50s. Says Refugee Sponsor By JIM HILLS HERALD STAFF WRITER A lifetime of paranoia and other mental problems came to a head Thursday for a young Vietnamese refugee in Provo, detained as defendant in a meat cleaver attack on ah elderly man. For any young man with a bad complexion, false teeth that won't stay in and who is teased by schoolmates about his clothes, life can be difficult, says one woman who took the boy into her home. Add to that a strange language, a father's recent death, nothing but hate between him and his only other relative in the area, delusions that people are trying to kill him and life becomes hell, she said. "I just think the whole thing is a tragedy," says June Atherton, who had taken the boy into her home more than a year ago. Atherton says the boy was quiet and withdrawn when he arrived with his father in Provo from Kentucky. The boy attended Timpview High School off and on last year, she says. But when his father died of cancer last spring, the boy seemed to withdraw even more. Although ridiculed in school for his appearance, he was offered a chance at a CETA job but didn't follow through on, it. "The strategy was to not carry him," Atherton says. "He had to learn to do for himself." She said she had a good talk with him about continuing to live in her house. When he didn't keep his part of the bargain, she asked him to leave. That was near the end of June. "We got him a room at a motel road first and then moved him to the apartment in Provo," she says. Two weeks ago, a note on the basement apartment door stated the boy was moving. That was the last Atherton had heard of him until Provo Police arrived at her door Thursday looking for him. "He's not that crazy, he's not psychotic," Atherton says. But she says he is paranoid. "He believed that Mimi, another girl who was living here last spring, was trying to kill him," Atherton said. "Mimi was Chinese, raised in Vietnam and born in Cambodia. He believed she was using black magic to kill him." on Springville THE DOOR! $11.25 1295 One day only Satanday, October ill Sale starts at 9 am till 5:30 pm BOLT CYLINDER tttbD Sfn Atherton said the boy is religious, strong in his Buddhist faith. "He was always burning incense," she said. Atherton says she wonders what will happen to the boy. Although his refugee papers state he is 17, he has no legal guardian. 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