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Show ui vim PROVO-SAL- 10 Amusements Classified Comics 16-2- 1 winds 12 Editorial 13 Obituaries Society Sports 4 9 104THYEAR.NO.206 PROVO, UTAH, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1977 $3.51) 0 2IFIini Crash y Violent Storm Hits Utah LAKE-OGDE- Strong gusting and snow decreasing PER MONTH - PRICE 15 CENTS 600 N World's Worst Disaster in Air 'AT AN TI Press International Hurricane-forcwinds and slippery snow blew into L'tah late Sunday nd playing havoc with trafearly today By United e fic and killing one person A woman died shortly after 7 a.m. today when her car slid out of control on Interstate 15 in southern Salt Lake County and slammed broadside into a truck. Her identity was not immediately known. (See picture and story on the storm in Utah Vallev P. 2). The Utah Highway Patrol reported dozens of accidents on slippery freeways along the Wasatch Front including a pile up near Point of the Mountain. Snow depths weren't great, but freezing temperatures left sheets of ice on roadways. The storm howled ino Utah Sunday night. Winds gusting to 80 miles per hour whipped up dust and forced the closure of Interstate-8across the Salt Flats between Wendover and Salt Lake City for nearly three hours. "We had several accidents and numerous stranded vehicles," said a highway patrol spokesman in Wendover. "The wind whipped up sand and salt and vehicles stalled when their carberators became clogged. The spokesman said one accident two miles east of Wendover involved four cars and two trucks. Two people were hopsitalized with injuries. In neighboring Idaho, high winds ripped roofs off houses, uprooted trees, closed roads and knocked down power lines. Seveal vehicles were blown off roads and 40 people were treated for minor injuries in Twin Falls and 20-c- 0 Jerome. Nevada authorities clocked winds up to 101 miles per hour and reported power outages, closure of roads and minor damage. In Jackpot, Nev., winds two unoccupied, (Continued on Page 3) - T tonight and Tuesday but continued cold with chance of snow showers. Highs Tuesday upper 30s, lows tonight in the 20s. Probability of snow 30 per cent tonight and Tuesday. 11 shattered i: t, tl WlCRASHl( iBIrtg I.l0-- M . Withheld The United States Forest Service has reached a decision on a request for a full - fledged review of the Wilderness Associates' Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Heritage Mountain (Four Seasons) development in Provo, but said today it will not release the decision until the two appellants in the case have been (Continued on Page 3) Tornadoes, Rains Lash South, Lower Midwest By United Press International Tornadoes, wild winds and rains lashed the South and lower Midwest Sunday night and today. Flash floods and traffic accidents on roads left at least seven persons dead. Violent winds caused scattered injuries and widespread property damage in the South. Two construction workers died of carbon monoxide poisoning in their car near Mineral Wells, r drowned Tex., a Fort Worth while trying to move cattle from a flooded pasture and a Grand Prairie, Tex., man was swept under his truck by flood waters and drowned. Two persons died in a head-ocollision on a rain-sweexpressway overpass in Chicago and a trucker was killed in southern Illinois when his vehicle went out of control and ran off rain-washe- d flood-trappe- teen-age- n interstate. whipped across Mississippi, overturning house trailers unroofing homes, uprooting trees and tearing down power lines from near the Gulf Coast to the Tennessee border. At Ieajt five persons were injured. Near Memphis, Tenn., a Mississippi River towboat was swamped by wind and waves. Three crewmen escaped injury. High winds at Harrisburg, 111., plane damaged a hangar, and house trailer. Four members of a Greensburg. La., family suffered minor injuries when their trailer home was ripped by what sheriff's deputies described as a a stretch of rain-slicke- d Gale-forc- e winds twin-engin- e tornado. Several other twisters touched down near Lafayette, La. The spring storm poured as much as eight inches of rain on southeastern Oklahoma. (See Page more stories SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE. 43 Larry walker (Laguna Hills, A Spain (LTD spokesman for the Calif. central hospital said Monday 72 per44. Mrs Phvllis Walker (Laguna sons survived the runway collision Hills. Calif.) between two jumbo jets in history's 45. Dr. Karen Anderson (Seattle, worst aviation disaster. (No list of the Wash. ) dead was available). 46. Jean Brown (Laguna Hills, Calif. ) 47. Richard Simett (Longview, He said 14 of the survivors were in critical conditions, 28 in serious condi-tio- n Wash. 48. Mrs. Kay Simett (Longview, and that 15 others were for lesser The (Continued on Page 3) hospitalized injuries. spokesman said 12 passengers escaped unhurt from the crash and that 3 were treated and released. The hospital initially said there were 89 survivors, but revised the figures after discovering that the injured in one clinic were counted twice. The injured, and a partial list of their - ) ) Four Ogden Women on Mary Bowman Mrs. Grace Megowan iLaguna Hills, Calif.) 4 Harold Megowan iLaguna Hills, Calif 5. Meyer Simon iLos Angelesi ti Mrs. Grace Ellenbrock (Laguna Hilla. Calif.) 7 Bvron Ellenbrock (Laguna Hills, Calif.)' K Nicholas Charles Miller (Escon-diilo- . Calif. !. Mrs. Dorothea Kershaw iBorrego Springs. Calif 10 Isabel Edith Lord (Long Beach, Calif.) Steve Sparacino i Medford, Ore. ) 12 John Combs (Haleiwa, Hawaii) 2. 3 i ) 1 Maurice Magante (Sacramento, 1.1 Calif.) Marianne Jakoubek (Visalia, 15. 16 Edgar Ridout (Alpine. Calif.) Joan Devereau Holt (San Diego. Calif.) 17. Mrs. t.uisa Combs (Haleiwa, Hawaii) 18. Lynda Daniel La Verne. Calif. ) 19 Kim Fox (Visalia. Calif.) i Col. 20 Mervis Walter (Petaluma. Calif.) 21. 22. 23 Pamela Rich Woodlake. Calif. I Jean Rich Robert Bragg (Howard Beach. Doomed Plane - LOS ANGELES (UPI) Four women from Ogden, Utah, were passengers on on a Pan American Airways jetliner involved, the air disaster that killed 562 persons in the Canary Islands. The four were not listed among the 72 survivors announced today by Pan Am. A Pan Am spokesman confirmed that Mildred Garner, Audry Reed, Ida Lee Keller and Lavon Smith all of Ogden where aboard the chartered jumbo jet that was struck by a Dutch KLM airliner' taking off from Santa Cruz de Tenerife Airport. Fishburn Travel Agency of Ogden mary." Survivors of the crash said the KLM plane hit the Pan Am plane on the side just aft of the First Class Section. Oyarzabal said the cause will eventually be established by the investigation in which the black boxes of the two planes both found in the charred rubble spread over a 200 yards stretch of and tape recording ot the runways the conversations between the control tower and the pilots will be used. Oyarzabal said that the crash occurred on the runaway "The KI.M plane was on it first, then the Pan Am plane." he said. booked the four middleaged women on a cruise in the Mediterranean. They left Utah Friday and joined the y tour in California. Royal Cruise Line. Inc., which chartered the jet said most of the pas304 were from California. sengers But 15 were from Washington, 14 from - Arizona, six from Nevada and five each from Hawaii and Oregon. The other 25 passsengers were from Alaska, Colorado, Florida. Illinois, Minnesota. New York. Ohio. Texas. Washington, DSC, and Canada The KLM plowed through the Pan Am 747 and disintegrated in flames as it slid along the runway for another 200 yards The Pan Am jet was also destroyed by the fire Oyafzabai said that "95 per cent of Fierce Storm ) I i I 3.1 Panam Capt Victor Grubbs KVntorpurt. N Y .',4 George Warms (Bl.urslown, N J. ) Edward Hess (Phoenix. Ariz) :,; Col Albert Trumbull l.a Mesa. C.h! :;7 Roy Tancmura (Kelowna. B.C., (an, ni, i liH Mario Tvuhir (Laguna Hills, Calif) 39 Charles Pinkslaff (San Diego, I i ) BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE, and no one knows It better than this forlorn robin shivering In a tree outside the Daily Herald offices after an early iprlng Um snowstorm left Prove in surrounding area blanketed wlih snow. Who said the early bird gets the worm? A guy could freeze to death by trying to get the Jump on other robins. Calif ) Ethel Simon (Los Angeles) Richard Owen Bowman iCernto, 40 Mrs 41 Calif ) 42. Mrs. Bethenc Moore (San air crash). told the KLM plane to go to the head of the runway and the Pan Am plane to taxi to a standby position. "Both planes took to the runway." he added "The collision was head on The cause of the accident is part of the sum- i Queens. New York City) 24 Anthony Monde (La Mesa. Calif. 25 Mrs Isabel Monde (La Mesa. Calif 26. Warren Hopkins (Northbrook, III.) 27. Mrs. Caroline Hopkins (Northbrook, III 28 Norman William (Pahs Verdes. Calif.) 2!1. Herbert Waklnp i laguna Hills, Calif .'10 Mrs Lara Waldrip (Laguna Hills, Calif 31 Car la Johnson Louis, Mo.) 32. Dorothy Kelly (New Hampshire) for picture and plane carried 244 persons, mostly Dutch tourists although there were four Americans as well: D.R.E. Cities. 49. and his wife Jane, 48. Mrs. T. Twist. 21. and her daughter Melisa. 1. all of Rochester N.Y. All those on the KLM jet were killed. The Pan Am plane carried 390 persons, mostly American tourists from Los Angeies. A total of 318 of them were killed and 72 survived. Pan Am officials say they will not release the list of victims of the Canaries Islands crash until all the families have been notified. The worst previous air disaster was the crash of a Turkish airways DC10 near Paris on March 3, 1974, when 346 persons died. The Spanish news agency Cifra said the flight recorder tapes of a conversation between the Pan American pilot and the control tower showed that the pilot apparently misunderstood the tower instructions to stay on a taxiway and turned onto the takeoff runway by mistake. Pan Am spokesman and aviation experts said it was far too early for the contents of the "black box" to be studied of analyzed since that required sophisticated equipment not available on Tenerife. U S Embassy press spokesman Ed team of the Harper said a U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has arrived to help Spanish authorities in the investigation. The governor, speaking at a news conference, said "The key point is whether the KLM crew had been given orders to take off." The governor said it had been established as fact that the control tower incident, two jumbo jets were diverted to the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. The crash occurred as they attempted to take off from the UPI Telephoto Canary Islands airport. addresses were: 1. Elizabeth Pinkestaff 10 on official figures showed that the KLM 72 Survive Crash; 14 Reported Critical 14 X at 599 and the Spanish Aviation Ministry put it at 559. Oyarzabal said ST E RN SAHARA (alif.) i MOROCCO ALGERIA NEWSMAP SHOWS LOCATION of history's worst air crash, where two airliners collided on the ground on takeoff and killed nearly 600 people. Because a Spanish airport had been closed because of a bomb Decision - AFRICA 'ilPE 4 Seasons SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE. Provincial governor AnSpain UPI tonio Oyarzabal said today that the worst aviation disaster in history occurred Sunday when a Pan American 747 turned into the path of a Dutch KLM 747 roaring down the runway at 186 miles per hour for takeoff. Oyarzabal said 562 persons were killed in the collision and subsequent explosions so fiery that the asphalt runway melted. He said 72 of the 634 persons aboard the two jumbo jets survived the accident but that some of them were in critical condition. The U.S. Embassy put the death toll Hits Idaho By United Press International Gale-forcwinds clocked as strong as 69 miles per hour ripped through southern Idaho Sunday afternoon, tearing up roofs and trees, causing scores of traffic accidents and forcing closure of four major roads. State Police closed Interstate 80, U. S. Highways 93 and 30 and Madison Avenue in twin falls after winds carrying dust and debris reduced visibility to zero. Authorities also closed nine to 10 miles of U. S 20 to campers and trailer north of Weiser in Washington County. Magic Valley Memorial Hospital In Twin Falls implemented its plan to treat 28 persons injured as a result of the storm. Nearly a dozen accident victims were tre.ited at St Benedict's Hospital in Jerome At Boise, winds ripped a new roof off four stores in the Cole Shopping Center, causing thousands of dollars in damage. At Mountain Home, they picked up a hangar and dropped it on a 1946 Navion valued at 112,000 -ddisaster-emergenc- estroying the aircraft. y Russ Warn On Carter Statements - Soviet leader (UPI) Leonid Brezhnev warned Secretary of State Cyrus Vance today that President Carter's human rights campaign has intruded into Soviet internal affairs and could make impossible "the constructive development of relations between the two countries " Brezhnev, according lo a Soviet news agency Tass account, gave "an ap' of Carter propriate appraisal Administration actions which do not square with the principles of equality land) non interference in the internal affairs of each other." The Soviet leader at the start of three days of U S Soviet talks said failure lo MOSCOW the principle of noninterference could make "the constructive development of relations between (Continued on Page 3) observe the bodies are charred beyond recognition" and that identification is impossible in most cases. Air minister Gen. Carlos Franco, other government officials and International Air Transport Association president Manuel del Prado y Colon, who is also the president o! the Spanish airline Iberia, attended the briefing. The oliicials were asked about the possible role of ground fog in the disaster. Del Prado first refused to comment on the subject, but later admitted there was fog. ''But visibility was not below accepted "minimum standards," he said. "All communications are taped and those tapes are now a part of the secret judicial investigation," Del Prado said. "There is nothing to indicate that there is a dangerous situation at Tenerife (Santa Cruz) airport... This accident could have happened at any airport of the world." Among the survivors was Victor S. Crubbs. of Centerport, N.Y., the captain of the Pan Am plane. The national news agency Cifra quoted him as blaming ground fog for the collision. "We did not see anything until it happened," Grubbs said, according to Cifra. Pilots have said that Santa Cruz airport, situated on a plateau above the humid Canary Islands coast, is often hit by low cloud which then appears as ground fog Premier Of France Quits Post - PARIS (UPI) French Premier Raymond Barre today submitted the resignation of his government to President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. The resignation was announced by a government spokesman who said Bar-re'- s move did not preclude his being reappointed as the head of a new government "Prime Minister Raymond Barre submitted the resignation of his government in accordance with Article 8 of the Constitution The President of the Republic put a term to his functions and to those of the government," Jean Francois Poncet. a spokesman for Giscard said in a brief statement. Giscard. whose government is still reeling from its defeat at the hands of the front in last week's municipal elections, was scheduled to make a nationawide televised address tonight Socialist-Communi- Osmonds Sign Lease for Orem Studio A lease on 31 acres of land in northeast Orem on which the Osmonds plan to build a $2.5 million television and motion picture production complex was signed today by the Osmonds and Orem City. Groundbreaking for the 77,500 square foot facility will be next Monday, according to Ronald Clark, public relations manager for the singing family. At a press conference in the Orem City Building, he said ABC Television last Tuesday renewed the "Donny and season. Marie Show" for the 1977-7The Osmonds will begin construction immediately and plan to tape the Christmas "I)onny and Marie Show" after completion of the studio in late September, he said Mr. Clark said the format of the show "will be quite a bit different" when the Osmonds move the show's production to Utah, however, the ice skaters will be retained as a part of the show. He paid tribute to Mayor James r Mangum. Councilman Merrill 8 Gapp-niaye- and City Manager Albert Haines for their "bulldozing effort" in helping the Osmonds find land in Orem. i'lans for a $18 million racquetball club to be built in Provo were outlined by Mr. Clark and Wayne Pearce, the Osmond's partner in the venture. Mr. Pearce said construction will begin in the next 40 days on the first phase of the complex which will include a 25 meter swimming pool, an ice skating rink, jogging track and indoor and outdoor tennis and racquet ball courts Three guest cottages will be built at the lYivate club for the use of guest. iUn on the Osmoodj television snows- |