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Show 4 Page - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, May 10, 1985 ispafchers Must Ask Questions For Quickest Bes f Help Response should have wanted an ambulance. By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Higgins says things can get Herald Staff Writer frightening for a dispatcher. She said she remembers a call from a d boy. "Help me, my brother is beating up my mom. "Does he have a weapon?" the County Central Dispatch telecommunicator Kay Sorensen has been selected as Utah County Dispatcher of the year. She was honored Thursday at an awards luncheon for county dispatchers during National Dispatch Utah seven-year-ol- dispatcher asked. "Yes, a hatchet." Orem dispatcher Michol Goodrich remembers a serious call where a wife called her saying her Week. During the past week area dispatchers have been recognized, and recently several of them discussed Iheir jobs. Gladys Murri, chief dispatcher for Central Dispatch, says dispatchers are occasionally asked why they ask so many questions when people call. She says the questions are asked because it is so vital for dispatchers to obtain important information quickly if they are to save lives or provide other important service. She says people who make emergency calls often get so excited they forget to provide important information such as addresses or names. That's why she asks so many questions. "Often times, someone calls in screaming they need an ambulance," Murri says. "First the dispatcher has to find out where the problem is and what it is and who it is that's calling and a phone number in case they need to call back. "Often the person calling is upset and keeps saying just send help quick. If we put a stop watch on the phones it takes only about 30 to husband was suicidal. Then she heard the gunshot that killed the distraught man. Dispatchers also say there are lighter moments too. Goodrich said some rather interesting calls are between dispatchers and officers who, although professional, are not always perfect. Kay Sorenson seconds to obtain the informaneeded. At Central Dispatch while one dispatcher takes information, a second dispatcher proceeds to send whatever response unit is needed." "Provo Police," answered police dispatcher Patti 40 tion on-du- Hig-gin- s. The caller, said he was at a laundromat and had been shot by someone. He said, "Call my wife and tell her I've been shot. We thought that you should know," the caller told Higgins. Higgins says the man asking a dispatcher for someone to call his wife instead of an ambulance is a good example how some people react during a crisis in a way not always in their best interest. He Dispatcher to patrolman: "There's a car on fire at the Rec. Center." Patrolman: "Can I have a description of the vehicle?" Dispatcher: "It's the one with smoke and flames coming out of it." One of the biggest problems for Patty Payne, dispatcher for BYU Security Police comes after a sports event. "What's the score of the BYU game?" people call us to ask. Payne says her dispatchers are already busy because of traffic and just the usual calls and these "score" calls hamper her work. She said the most serious call her office handled involved a murder last year. "Dispatchers are expected to know everything," says Higgins, who gives the following examples: Caller: "Can I Profile: Steve Craig speak with some- Occupation: Operations law?" body about the Manager at KEYY Radio and a.m.. radio personalty Dispatcher: "Yes. I will try to help you." Caller: "When did the copy write start for computer programs?" Caller: "How do the post office?" Dispatcher: 6-- Age: 25 Birthplace: get a hold of I I "You can call them." Caller: "Who tests the radiation equipment in hospitals?" Dispatcher: "I don't know, but why don't you call the hospital." Caller: "Wow, great idea!" Higgins says while many calls don't seem to be abut anything the dispatchers or police can help with, she still "strongly encourages citizens to call her or other dispatchers" for anything they can help with. She also urges callers in emergencies to call the police first. Favorite J.J. JACKSON Mountain. The tunnel was built after officials became concerned the mud dam would not be safe enough to permanently hold the water which backed up following the mudslide. The Utah Engineer's Office is currently reviewing tests to determine whether the dam is currently safe. "The first issue and overrriding everything else is safety," Oveson said. Also this morning, Utah County water engineer Doyle Winterton noted the tests are only determining whether there is movement in the dam. "And of course there is movement of i;ome amount as the dam stabilizes," Winterton said. He noted the state testing is not determining what would need to be done to make the dam safe. Oveson noted the county is more optimistic than state workers that the dam can be made safe. While the dam may be found safe enough to use for flood control (allowing some water to back up behind the dam during peak spring water fiows in order to prevent the rushing waters from doing damage Oveson said using downstream), Thistle as a reservoir for recreation or a power plant is a "long-shot.- " safety factors may preclude such uses. In addition to safety, two other issues which affect development of the dam are transportation and property rights. The highway to Manti would have to be moved if the water is allowed to back up significantly behind the dam. "We're hoping the governor will say: 'Highway (Utah Department of Transportion), we need you to move to a higher site because of the conditions which exist,'" Winterton said. Oveson noted UDOT is insisting it cannot use highway funds to move the highway. He noted that CUWCD is picking up the tab for moving a highway in the area of the proposed Jordonelle Dam. Likewise, a sponsor of development at Thistle may end up bearing the cost of moving the highway leading to Manti. What would become of private property behind the dam if water is allowed to flood the area is also a concern. He indicated Brandon Stewart William son of Brandon David Stewart. D.iud (ir.int and Oiarlene Eyre Stewart. I'tuvo. died Wednesday May' 8. 1985. at Primary Children's Medical Center. Salt Like City He was born April 27. 1985. at Provo Survivors include his parents, (our sisters and .ne brother Tacie Ann. Lane Mane. T:ff.im Dawn Mat hel Cassandra and Robert Robert and (.ran: St'wart grandparents Darlene Kyre. l.ynian. Wyu and Catherine Stewart. I. as Yr(M. Nev.. Hulli l.andis, (Ireenville. Ohio, and C!em ti and Ada Kvre l.ynian. Wyo 'iravciiile mtviic will he 11 a m Saturdav ., prov.i (its Cemetery tSIO S State Si . WALKER M ,"",--. O - is'.i w ms sun n II H . " K - i n 'J. I'Koui Y w".-v. '.J V 4"-t- s ( John Dean I.osee Funeral services will be held Saturdav 11 a.m. in the Spanish Fork 5th Ward LDS Chapel. 1006 E. 200 S Friends may call at Walker Mortuary of Spanish Fork Friday evening 6 8 p m or Saturday one hour prior to services Interment Spanish Fork City Cemetery. 30. 1980 He was an active lie was a plumber member of the LDS Church, serving as Elder's quorum president tor years He was an LDS temple worker for more than 40 years and served on the church s genealogy committee for years He was a past member of Cedar City and St (ieorge Rotary Clubs Mrs Survivors include four daughters Stanley 'Atha Abet Mrs WO lAftom Kdwards both of Ontario. Calif Mrs Richard l.ael Dotson Springville. and Mrs Dean ()rell Maxwell. Salt Lake City. 17 and a grandchildren 33 brother Karl Merrvweather Cedar City Services will be 4 p m Saturday at the Southern I'tah Mortuary, Cedar City F'riends may call at Herg Mortuary. 525 F. 400 S . p m Friday and at the SouthSpringville ern I'tah Mortuary one hour before services Saturday Bunai will be in Cedar City Cemetery Dan Taylor Alfred Hone Mon-daFuneral servic es will be held 19th Fork the 1 P m. in Spanish Main 5H5 No LDS Chapel. Ward Mortu-arFriends may call at Walker of Spanish For k Sunday evening or at the ward Relief 6 8 p m Monday one hour Room Society v v Interment Sept Steven Donald Smith Graveside services were held today 2 p m at Provo City Cemetery City Cemeten Springvlle Evergreen Cemetery. William Mark Merrvweather. 94. Spring-villdied Thursday. 'May 9. 1985. at the home of a daughter in Springville He was born Jan 15. 1891. at Scofield to Frank H and Fannv Bovder Merrvweather. He married Ida Ellison March 29. 1916. in the Salt Lake City Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter dav Saints She died Alfred D. Hone. 25. Spanish Fork, died Wednesday. May 8. 1985. at St Marks Hospital Salt Lake Cilv He was born Starch V U. 1906. at Pavson to Roland Dale and. Roma Singleton Hone He was educated at Spanish Fork and has lived at Spanish Fork all his life He has worked for Kentucky! Fried Chicken in Span- ish hork lor the past 5. two years He alsoi I w orked for Sage Inn I t and Spanish rork ( it y I f I He was a member j of the Church of Jesus Alfred Hone Christ of Latter-daSaints Survivors include his parents of Spanish Fork grandparents Raymond and Jennie Mae Hone Spanish Fork four brothers and one sister Arthur Dale Hone. Bnbhy Dean Hone. Benjamin Davis Hone. Christopher Douglas Hone and Stacie I.aVon Hone all Spanish Fork Services w ill p m Monday in the LDS Spanish Fork ISth Ward church'. 585 N Main. Spanish Fork Friends may call at Walker Mortuary. 187 S Main. Spanish Fork p m Sunday and Monday at the church one hour prior to the services Burial will be in the Springville Kvergreen Cemeterv i Berg Mortuary d Services Joe Brown Jensen Funeral services will be held Saturday 1 p.m. in the Walker Mortuary Chapel. Spanish Fork Friends may call at the mortuary Friday evening 6 8 p m or Saturday one hour prior to services Interment Spanish Fork prior" to services Merryweather Why I think friends like me: I'm pretty easy going and seem to have no temper at all! What I like the most about Utah Valley: the outdoor sports that are all available within 10 or 20 miles. of some persons What I like least is: the living in a predominantly LDS Community. closed-mindedne- ss Graveside services were held today 11am in the Springville Kvergreen Cemetery Kmma B. Fisher Christensen Funeral services will be held Saturday 11 am in the Herg Drawing Room Chapel. Provo Friends may call at the mortuary Friday evening 6 8 p in or Saturday one hour prior to set vices Interment Provo City Cemeterv I.al'ricI Hatfield Graveside services were held today at 2 p m in the Springville Kvergreen Cemetery Annie Lucille Brown Mortcnsen Funeral services were held todav 12 noon in the Orem Mrd Ward LDS Chapel Interment price City (Vrn-eter- Christiansen, Hilbert Winterton noted the county is not in position to buy the landowners out unless it first determines it will put in a flood control project or reservoir. "I don't see how the property owners can expect to be bought out now," he said. "If it stays the way it is now (no flood control project or reservoir), the owners will stay in limbo." Meanwhile, the property owners are being discouraged from developing the area. The official designation of the "flood plain" was raised to 5180 feet above sea level. Those building in a flood plain cannot obtain flood insurance. And, the county has also removed the designation of "public road" from some dirt roads in the area. Building must be on lots fronting a public road for builders to get building permits. Thursday's meeting was put together by Utah County Commissioner J. Oneil Miner. Those at the meeting included Miner, Oveson, Winterton, County Engineer Clyde Naylor, State Engineer Bob Morgan, representatives rA UDOT and the governor's office and a Thistle representative, Madge Haymond. riculture station operations, has been named chairman of the BYU Animal Science Department. He replaces Dr. Keith H. Hoopes who is returning to full-tim- e teaching and research, ac- cording to Dr. Top CUWCD Officers The decision was made to allow full voting members two ballots, and those with half a vote, ZIMMERMAN Herald Staff Writer By JOSEPHINE one-ballo- Robert B. bert, manager of Hil- - In the first round of voting for president, the vote was split 1 between nominees Hilbert and Garrett. In the second round, Hilbert picked up three votes. the Salt Lake 21-2- Water Conservan cy District, was elected president and chairman of the Central Utah Water Conservan m i i District cy at the board's monthly Thursday Don Chrtitianien &t J Bruce N. Smith, dean of the College of Biology and Agriculture. Wallentine is a former associate dean in the college and is a professor of animal science. The new chairman will continue as director of agriculture station operations which include 875 acres of arms and orchards in Spanish livestock and Fork, a 6.200-acr- e range research ranch in Idaho, and poultry, sheep, horse and meat processing training projects in Provo. In connection with the appointment. Dr. Leon E. Orme. a professor of animal science, has been named assistant department chairman; Rollo S. Jones is assistant director of agriculture station op- erations and manager of the Spanish Fork unit, and Karl E Albee has been named assistant manager of the unit Prior to joining the faculty in 1962. Wallentine was a livestock and meat extension specialist at Purdue University. Me has served as an agriculture consultant to the Algerian government The Bear Lake, Idaho, native took his bachelor's degree at Utah State University and his master s and doctorate at Cornell Umvtrsi-- l Wallentine has published extensively on the subjects of livestock, meat and dai'y production, and he has served as a livestock and carcass judge in the industry. and acting president Nebo Considers Policy Adding Grade 9 Credit By VICKI BARKER Herald Staff Writer SPANISH FORK - The Nebo School Board is considering changing a policy on credit requirements to include the ninth grade, which in many cases would raise the grade pint average of graduating sen- iors. Max Wallentine Garrett Rondal McKee were then nominated for vice president, and in the first round of voting, the ballots A second round of were split saw Garrett voting pick up three votes. Addressing the board after his election, Hilbert called for a unified effort to put the project over, and declared, "We don't need the kind of dissention we've had in the past few months." He also chastised the press for printing what he termed "negative" news about the district. "We don't need that kind of negativism. It's your project, too," he told the press. 21-2- I meeting. R. Roscoe Garrett, Nephi, was elected vice president and vice chairman. Don A. Christiansen, newly-electe- d manager, was confirmed unanimously as r secretary-treasureof the board. Voting on the new officers was complicated by the fact that some members, because of the board's geographical division and representation in terms of population, have only half a vote. Either that will be the case, or the district will discontinue the practice of including the ninth grade in calculations of cumulative grade point average in high school. That practice has misled more than one student in the final quarter before graduation, the board learned this week. Martin Conover of Springville complained that his daughter only recently found out her high school GPA was not-a- s high as indicated on the report card. Had she known the ninth grade is knocked off in final calculations she could have worked harder to raise her GPA in time to graduate May 30 with high honors, Conover said. "I feel we were misled by the total that came out on the report card," he complained to the board. Vernon Finch, district administrator, said the ninth grade will not count as credit toward high school requirements until 1988. as directed by the state. Yet the report cards which the state prepares includes the ninth grade in GPA calculations, said Dave Dahlquist, president of the Nebo Education Assot iation. In Conover's case, his daughter's report card showed her GPA last quarter at 3 762, but when only were figured, the total grades came to 3.69, just shy of the 3.7 required to qualify for high honors, according to her father, principal of Springville High School. He said her last quarter grades could probably bring her to the total needed, but last quarter grades are not calculated until after graduation. "She's done everything in her power to recoup (before gradua- tion) and to get to the very end and see there is no reward and in fact (she) will get knocked down is contrary to what we as educators and parents are trying to accomplish," Conover said. He said his daughter recently earned a full scholarship to Ricks College in Idaho and looked forward to graduating with high honors. To deny her that achievement would be a shame, he indicated, especially since the problem is apparently only administrative. "He has a very definite point there," agreed board member Richard Johnson. "We ought to be consistent with what we're reporting and what we're using." Board member Collin Allan said a daughter of h;s was also misled in the same manner, and he would like to see consistency. Superintendent J. Wavne Nelson suggested the board" consider changing the policy. They plan to call a special meeting before graduation to resolve the inconsistency. PROVO FLORAL & GREENHOUSE 10-1- SYMPATHY FLOWERS Our Flowers Soy Wriar You'd lik To Soy ! coniole gnd comfort simply and beautifully Jeppson's s Brandon Stewart Graveside services weie held today 11 a m at PiovoCity Cemeterv food: architect! instructions." Dr. Max V. Wallentine, director of Brigham Young University's ag- Alfred Hone ut Nickname: "Kiwini," I think it's Steve in Hawaiian. Favorite performers and athletes: Huey Lewis, The Beach Boys, Humphrey Bogart and Mark Eaton. in Utah (with Nobody knows I: can prepare the best roast duck all the trimmings). I'm a sucker for: a tall, tan woman in a turquoise dress. A really great evening for me is: either Chinese take out food and a Bogart movie on the living room floor or a gourmet meal prepared at home, candlelight, dessert and slow dancing, all at home, including the dancing! My fantasy is: to explore the jungles of South America and actually find something that is significant to mankind. The best advice my mother gave me: "Don't play with your food." The one thing I like most in a person is: total honesty! The one thing I can't stand in people is: Bad tempers and uncontrolled anger. If I could change one thing about myself, I would: have more patience and less percentage of body fat. My most irrational act was: becoming a D.J. and not an "Citizens need to call us on criminal matters before calling parents, friends, neighbors or religious leaders. We want to investigate suspicious persons or incidents as soon as possible," Higgins says. Dispatcher Lyla Vincent, at the Utah Highway Patrol advises callers in emergency situations to "Answer all questions asked by the .dispatcher no matter how unimportant they might appear. Don't cry and try to stay calm at least until the important information is exchanged. Follow the dispatcher's Wallentine Y Chairman Animal Science Obituaries pig-o- Craig For Development Says Oveson By - What else? Pizza! Thistle Really Needs a Sponsor Herald Staff Writer Utah Lt. Gov. Val Oveson today said there needs to be a sponsor of any water storage program at Thistle. Oveson comments followed a meeting Thursday in Provo in which county and state officials sat down to discuss problems which linger two years after the Thistle Mudslide. The most significant thing to come out of the meeting, Oveson said, "was the need for a sponsor for any development of the dam." Oveson suggested possible sponsors could be the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, the Spanish Fork Water Users, Utah County or Spanish Fork City. "The state is not in a position to solve all the problems," Oveson said. County officials have noted the dam could be used for either seasonal flood control storage or a permanent reservoir could be created behind the dam. Currently, the dam created by the Thistle Mudslide does not have water stored behind it. The water passes through a tunnel in Billies 4 . Huntington Beach, Calif. Current home: Provo. Marital status: Single. Worst job: peeling vegetables at a restaurant. The last good movie I saw was: "The Breakfast Club." The best book I have read recently: "The Bourne Identity," by Robert Ludlum. 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