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Show ci -i-. Quj' c Cldiim Lives IJ - ( f V 4i In-Stat- o rJ ' e FreakAccidenf Takes" Life Of Salt Lake Driver Christmas bells rang hollowly in many Utah homes in the wake of four holiday weekend accidents which claimed five lives. Three persons were killed late Saturday and early Sunday, accA father and son were killed Frida night in a hit-ru. on ident See separate story Page V n C-7- Services y v T collision. : ROGER PUSEY , v By Deseret News Staff Writer Little boys . dressed .as shepherds. Little girls dressed as Mary, mother of Jesus. . , . . Christmas trees shimmering with icicles, ornaments and lights. Scripture readings retelling the story of ,v Christmas. These were the sights and sounds in services- - in Salt Lake area . Christmas churches Sunday and Monday. There were sermons, scripture readings, tableaus, congregational singing, choirs, prayers and pleas to put Christ back into Christmas. With the bustle of Christmas shopping behind them, Utahns filed into churches to relive the glorious event of Jesus Christs birthday. Speakers stressed the religious significance of the season. The Rev.' Walter Kalvesmaki, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, told his congregation there is no more fascinating season than Christmas. We are wearied by it, yet rested. We are critical of its commerce, yet captivated by its carols and color. We are disturbed by it, yet delighted. Morover, like the ancient wise man, we are willing to travel great distances until our hearts are at home, he said. We are willing to overcome Herod-lik- e obstacles for the satisfaction of presenting gifts to our loved ones. We are willing to be See SERVICES, Page ' B-1- 2 FOR CHRISTMAS SNOWS To chase g through Salt Lake City early Monday at speeds up to 100 miles per hour resulted in damage to five vehicles and injuries to a suspected car thief. - The suspect was pulled from a smashed foreign..car and taken to St Marks Hospital lor treatment of bruises and possible internal injuries. He was listed in poor" condition fnd held for observation. The- - chase began about 3 . a.m. when Officer Leland Pipkin observed the suspect run a stop sign at 5th South and . 7th East going about 20 miles tper hour. Officer Pipkin followed the car and saw the suspect run another stop sign it 9th East and 5th South. He said he pulled up to the " driver and told, him to pull over. The suspect drove to the curb, slowed down then suddenly stomped on the gas and pulled away. With Officer Pipkin In pur- $6,-t)0- 0 short-change- . and flew 30 feet in the air. Officer Pipkin said. The car continued west across Redwood Rd. (1700 West) at the same speed. At 1728 W. 2nd South the car hit a 1961 model automobile owned by Salt Lake Auto Auction. The car was parked on the north side of the street, The impact knocked the parked car 40 feet into another similar auto owned by the same firm. The foreign car catapulted into the air and came down In the middle of the road. Officer Pipkin arrived and was just stepping from his auto when he was hit from the rear by Officer Richard Cowan, who was also pursuing the suspect Damage to all five vehicles was estimated at $6,000. The auto the suspect was driving was demolished. It was west reported stolen by' Dorothy Traveling about 100 miles Poulton, 1037-ls- t Ave, someper hour, the foreign car hit time between midnight and 3 a set of railroad tracks at 1650 a.m. Monday. -- iiaLU.' ; received so they will have the morning lor watching the kids open theirs. - . - .Dad, a lawyer, smiles aa he examines' an mange sweater hell never wear. ' Mama screeches with feigned delight as "- die unwraps a nightie that Is seven sixes , v . too large. r , they Merry Christmas,-Darling!", Y Jbigry chorus. . ' Somewhere a cop halts a car with an Oregon license plate and glowers at the . young couple bound for Christmas with the - .folks at Provo. Speeding. Four miles over ' - the limit , f ... - Trapped In Home Arthritis Vicfim Dies In Fire W. 2nd South STEVE HAUL It is Sunday night in SalfLake City and somewhere a couple opens the presents they Southeast Asia Peace Tied To Water Needs Zion Lutheran Church choir members sang to congregation during Christmas services held Sunday. . suit, the suspect rammed into a wall at 280 University St (1340 East), and kept going. He then proceeded west on 2nd South. Officer Pipkin said he observed the suspect run nine red lights and seven stop signs, The suspect was going in ex cess of --75 miles per hour through downtown Salt Lake City, drove on the wrong side of the road and ran several automobiles off the road, the officer added. - At 1200 W. 2nd South Officer Pipkin tried to force the vehicle off the road but the suspect swerved' the highly manueverable sports cal' into the police vehicle and continued west at high' speed. Officer Pipkin said he caught up with the suspects vehicle and rammed it in the rear to try and force it off the road. The small car just kept going ' Support Leeway Vole fleeing Suspect Bangs 5 Cars In WilcL'N' Woolly Police Chase fender-knockin- Loren C, Blood, 54, Provo, who was struck by an automobile in Midvale while crossing B SECTION the street. DECEMBER SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 1961 MONDAY, 25, With only a few days left in the year, Utahs. 1961 traffic fatality toll now stands at 233, compared with 254 on Christmas Day last yearv Heye Bruno Bruninga wae pronounced dead on arrival at . Prospects for Christmas to brighten up with a little Salt Lake General Hospital snow Monday night are mighty dim for Salt Lake City Sunday morning after a freak two-ca- r and Utah. collision in which he Unless, of course, you want to drive up to whats was run over at least twice by his own car. known as the higher elevation where there The driver of the second car ' is about four feet of snow. the scene, and a man was fled The Executive Committee of Brighton and Alta report 51 and 53 later apprehended as he tried the Utah Congress of Parents Inches with excellent skiing and dry roads, to change a damaged tire. and Teachers will support Police explained the bizarre but down m the valley the weather was leeway elections" to obtain mishap this way: mild and snowless. Mr. Bruninga was involved additional money for Utah The forecast for Monday night and collision at 8th in a two-ca- r schools. was partly cloudy with the slim- South and 13th East about 1:30 Tuesday This was announced Moncloudy mest chance for some snow or rain. Rain would be the a.m.' Sunday. The force of the day by Mrs. James W. Ure most probable, since the high on Christmas was expected impact threw him from his automobile and badly damaged m, Utah Congress president to be near 40. the left front section of the car, Our. children are being The barometer Monday morning was at 30.03 and fallcausing the left front wheel Christmas low 24. a of Mrs. Ure said, may after nigjit ing Sunday night to lock in a turned position. "because of the excessive turnget down to 24 or 26 degrees. The cars engine continued over of teachers. She said Tuesday is expected to be cooler with a high near 38. to function, and it began a sethat she believed that low sal of turns within the interries is aries probably the main section, coming closer each reason for the high rate of time to the motionless Mr. Bruteacher turnover. ninga. Urges PTA Action A. witness to the accident, She urged leaders of local MichiRobert Reese, PTA councils to survey their gan Ave., rushed into the inowh districts to determine if tersection and tried to pull him additional school funds are free of the wildly spinning car. needed. If they are, local leadIn Common water Interests may be highly significant He tried again and again, ers should urge Superintendsoutheast Asia nations from each others throats, almost being hit himself by keeping edgy ents and school boards to a Salt Lake water expert just back from Thailand. the car. schedule leeway elections in reports Cecil B. Jacobson, chief of the division of river control order to raise the 'level of for the Bureau of Reclamation In Salt Lake City, flew here On the autos fourth spin around, it struck Mr. Bruninga. school financing. from Thailand via India. It Bit him at least twice in its "We cant do anything else two months in the He spent spins before Mr. Reese eight until, the Leigslature meets, was able to drag the victim small country, making a study she said. from Its path. The PTA members in local of the Mekong River, One of Suddenly the car slipped into districts should "make their the largest underdeveloped reverse and backed completely own decision, she said. rivers of the world, he said. See FATALS, Page Already At Maximum His study was sponsored by Many Utah school districts Nations. are taxing as much aa the law the United The Mekong River, project allows, without Special election, for school purposes. All dis- Involves Irrigating a larger tricts, however, could increase area than anything ever done their tax revenue if they could in the U.S., he said. About obtain approval of taxpayers 2 million acres of land in Thaiat the ballot box. land and half a million in Laos . A gunshot-likbaaang reState school laws provide would be affected. verberated the still through common Since the river is that districts may exceed the halls of the State Capitol maximum school program set to Burma, China, Thailand, Building Christmas mornup by the Legislature If vot- Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam ing, and Highway Patrol discuts an area across it also ers give their approval patcher Ray Nesbitt almost The Provo School District where nationalist feelings run swallowed his microphone. already has scheduled a leeway high. He hurriedly called Salt But, the Mekong River is election for Feb. 7. Other disLake police, who searched tricts are expected to set elec- a subject all can talk peacethe building but could find tion dates soon. ably about, he said. This is ornaonly a broken, a Mrs. Ure said she hoped the regarded as highly signifiment which fallen had from local PTA unit&jvould assume cant means to keep the situaChristmas the buildings -stable. tion a leadership me in efforts tree. He said the project would to make leeway elections sucBut dispatcher Nesbitt be a very difficult thing becessful. maintained the noise he cause the present state of aftoo was heard loud to be fairs in the area. caused by a popping Yule Automobile looted "You cant build a dam when tree ornament It sounded A thief stole a tire and a war is going on on one emmore like a gunshot oca fiK wheel, valued at $40, from an bankment Itll take years of Ing cabinet falling over, he automobile owned by Glen investigation, he laid. declared. Its' a ridiculous situation,' Ashton, 951 E. 9th South, Perhaps," someone . obHe was released from City while it was parked at his Santas sleigh blew served, residence, police reported Thailand are each expecting an tire." a invasion other." the i from Monday. PTA Congress PROSPECTS MIGHTY DIM , A Af Ml. Pleasant T 1 Monday morning when a chair In which he was sleeping caught fire. The victim, Mendon Draper, was found on the floor of, the kitchen in his home, a short distance from the door, where he had apparently suffocated. Neighbors had been aroused by the barking of the victims dog about 6:30 a.m. Firemen found Mr. Draper sprawled on the kitchen floor with his favorite chair, where he spent most of his time, burned to ashes. Investigators said the blaze possibly was started by a smoldering cigarette in the overstuffed chair. Mr. Drapers dog, which had been gone from the victims home the past three days, apparently returned Christmas morning "'and the animals frantic barking woke neighbors, who called the Mt Pleasant .Volunteer ' Fire Depart- ment. Those were Merry Christmases te Neon darkened downtown stores whose counters are as bare vas turkey carcasses will be at A pjn.' ... '' .. . Monday. ' Somewhere on The Avenues organ music purrs through the coldness. A simple Christmas program ends and worshipers leave silently,- except for the click and clump of their footfalls. . . . Salt Lake children go to bed as visions of Chatty Cathy dolls and cowboy suits dance , in their heads. Theyve never seen a sugarplum, . , . , Workers at a hospital are watching their, clocks by night It is nearly eleven the time for shift change. A boy whos had his tonsils removed yells down the corridor: Wheres my MAMA?!!! A weary nurse manages a smile and a hug. She assures the lad that Mama will return after Santa visits six kids at home. . . . ' the other signs-decora- ... 1 , PSC Approves Change In' U.P. Station . k Yule Goes Over With BAAANG At State Capitol e , Damage to the house was confined to the kitchen, firemen said. Mr. Draper was born Jan. 14, 1906, in Moroni, Sanpete County. He married Rhoda Inglefield Feb. 13, 1941 They were later divorced Survivors include a brother, L. M Draper, Provo. . B-1- 3 j No Bricks By Mail Ban On Parcel Post Ends Building Boom By THEDA WASHBURN Deseret News Correspondent ' VERNAL You just' cant send a building by parcel post anymore. So 'when businessmen remodeled the Bank of Vernal recently, they had to be more prosiac than their fathers had Utahs Public Service .Com1919. ' Get the lead out says this policeman. mission Thursday granted per- been in The old Bank of Vernal w?a Of my pants? asks toe offender. Of ' mission Railto'Union Pacific 4 ' road Co, to discontinue its sta- constructed that year of bricks your shoe! snaps the- - officer, - finishing sent from Salt Lake City by his writing, handing toe driver a ticket tion at Blackrock, , Millard parcel post because this was 1 and as an station. County, agency striding away. them by A freight warehouse and cheaper than sending . Somewhere In a radio station a disc - , ' The ticket it a small sheet of notebook. jockey freight. sits before his mike as the second other physical facilities at the , paper with these words inscribed: Merry station must be maintained, hand stabs toward midnight Goodnight Christmas. however, for the convenience Headlight Stolen' ; everybody,1 he and says, adding, ' Over in the freight yards a hobo shudof f shippers. William F. Jack, ',-Merry Christmas, Darling. ders' and contemplates-th- e moon. A tear A phone box will be main- East, Sunday told policera thief ' rolls from his eye, and he recalls his mother Merry Christmas, Sweetheart, a pretty tained at the station so ship- stole a and sealed housewife answers, blowing a kiss toward pers and others can contact beam light ring reading to him about another bright object valued at $13, headlight, in the sky. She always read about the star her radio. . . . agency 6tation& at Milford or from his automobile while it And then it waa Christmas. ?. ; at Christmas. . , . .J. was parked at his residence. ' Delta, m t v - H 1775-21- ' 'Sr rn v i' A -- ar Retell , Christmas Story Churches - Heye Bruno Binning, 70, 2390 Sunhyside Ave.' (840 South), killed by his own runaway' automobile in e freak accident Sunday morning. La Dee Roundy, 24, Garland, who died in a hospital .early Sunday morning after being Injured earlier in . a five-c- love of children at services ;Young Sunday School speaker told Saints. ' inWells Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y - S.L-Holida- ' KILLEP: - Against, organ backdrop, choir at Cat hedral of the Madeleine sings praises of God's great gift of His Son, I A eto ,t i V Freight in those day's waa a hundred pounds, and $2.50 parcel post was only $1.05. So Vernal residents flooded the" mails with bricks. ' Because Vernal is onlyj 150 miles away, the shipment took second zone postage, yet the bricks traveled 407 miles by standard gauge- - railroad, and an, additional 65 miles by wagon over bad roads and steep grades, which practically tied up the mail route. Sensing a good thing. Vernal fathers ordered tools, wagon parts and canned goods by mail Farm products .were mailed to market; one shipment of corn required 10 four-to- n trucks. Mail trucks were often loaded to capacity without carrying a single letter. The blissful state of affairs See BANK oa Page B-1- 2 Jane Hoclgkinson holds an original "Parcel Post" brick used in construction bf the famed Bank of Vernal. Mrs. 1 V |