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Show DESERET NEWS, WEEKEND OF JANUARY 17, A 1976 Today in the West Man critical, 2 serious 'he tire is still under investigation. Damage was estimated at S2.500. Another county tire, at the Cotton Bottom Lounge. 6200 S. Holladay Blvd.. at 23 a.m. today, caused an estimated Sti.tioo damage. Cause ot the tire is still No one was under investigation. injured. Three persons were injured in a Salt Lake City lire at 2 3G a.m. today at 330 Bruce Hills Deseret News stall writer Four lires. one in Salt Lake City two in the county and one in South I Salt Lake Friday night and early today injured tour persons, one critically and two seriously George Lee Gordon. 23. was rushed to University Hospital alter he was critically burned over 85 percent of his body about !:45 p.m. Friday in an explosion and tire at his mobile home. said By . 1 GRANGER One man was killed and three others wounded in a shooting at the Red Devil Lounge, 1971 W. 3500 South, about 10.30 p.m. Friday. Steve L. Garcia, 29, 272 W. 7th North, was shot and killed in the incident. Taken to St, Mark's Hospital were Joe Garcia. 36, Colorado, with a stomach wound, and Val Vigil, 23. 243 W. 700 North, with a leg wounu. Ernest Garcia. 33. 283 W. 2nd North, was taken to Valley West Hospital with a wound in his left side. Salt Lake County Sherilf's Office investigators said the incident apparently started inside the tavern alter a man began "mouthing oil to a girl friend of one ol the victims. A light started and some of the combatants used pool cues, investigators said. The tight moved out ot the tavern to a nearby parking lot, and one man was shot while sitting in the cab of a pickup truck. The three wounded men were shot near the truck, apparently with a pistol, investigators said. A male suspect and two companions, a man and a woman, are being sought. Sheriff's dispatchers described the murder about 25. He and his suspect as a Mexican-America- n two companions are believed to have lied east from the bar in a black, late model Mustang. 1 : 1 S. West : temple. Battalion Chie! G. L. Ferris said Kent Smith, the wile ot the apartment buildmanager of a ing. w as looking in a closet in her first llcior apartment and struck a match to see better. It touched oil a shirt in the closet and started a tire that took city firemen tw o hours to put out. Five engines two fire trucks and two ambulances were called to the scene. The three injured included a paramedic, Gordon Nichol. who was treated and released at Holy Cross Hospital tor smoke inhalation, and two occupants ot the apartment building, Cathy Strickland and Harry Chafin. both about 50. who were in serious condition Damage to the apartment building was estimated at 0.000. 2859 S. 2500 West. Mrs. Fire ollicials said it was Gordon's birthday. He was alone in the home w ith his dog when the explosion occurred. The dog escaped injury. Gordon, who was cared tor by his at a nearby brother and sister-in-lamobile home betore medical help arrived, told witnesses he had begun to light a cigarette when he telt an xplosinn. Battalion Cliiet Clair Rasmussen ot the Salt Lake County Fire Department it Medicine by satellite Salt Lake Comity Fmergeney Services Director Ai Britton said he was try ing to tied housing lor about 15 ot the approximately 40 apartment tenants who were forced out Veterans Hospital will participate experiment in continuing medical education via satellite. Spokesmen said the programming would use the Communications Technology Satellite scheduled to be launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Irom Cape Canaveral this week. telecasts among 30 VA hospitals and Weekly two-waoilier institutions in the West are planned to start in January 1977 and last 11 months. Reed L. Clegg, administrator of the Salt Lake hospital, said the local Regional Medical Education Center will probably provide much of the programThe Salt Lake house the in an ot building. I'lie building is owned by Flue Sherman ol Salt Lake City, the man- ager said. South Salt Lake tiremcn battled a in a garage at 140 W'. Malvern Ave. at 11:35 p.m. Friday. Firemen said the building and its contents were a total loss. y bla.e The lire is stili under investigation. estimate No Burn victim's dog uninjured. o! damage has been nude yet. No one was injured. - Billing methods group did not have the necessary 8111,000 to pay the expert tor two Karen Gilmour Deseret News stall wi der hearing Friday ulternooii on wlial set uied a side issue m consumer protests against higher "as and power rates turned into a loriim tor complaint-- ' against the methods used to tigure the rates. By PSC appearances. F.ugene S. Lambert, directoi ol the department, turned down one the coalition's requests and took the other under advisement. Lambert rejected the idea ol employing the witness lor Monday's healing on bow to spread among customers a recent rate inn case granted Mountain Fuel Supply Co. lie said, in eltect. that it was too late to set up the witness's appearance oil such shoit notice. But Lambert said he would give lurther thought to hiring the witness for the next hearing on I 'tali Power & Light Co. rates. I recognize.'' said Karl Petersen. chairman ol the Carbon ol Nearly 40 persons, most ol them eldeiiy. Idled every chair in Hie liea ring room They had come to back the Ft aii State Coalition ol Senior Citiens in its request to employ an expert witness to testily before the flail Public Service Commission on an alternate way ol computing utility rates. The coalition wanted the P.usi lies- - Regulation Department to pay the lee ol the witness. Coalition leaders argued that their upset elderly Manti pipe or power he uses At present, she said, customers rates decrease alter t he v use an initial block ol pow er. I uder the hleltue piiuram, customers rates would increase as the number ol power blocks Used increases. By the time the customer is into his second block ol power used, he pays a standard rate lor the power used. But he also is assessed more lor being imoked up to the utility than he would ll he still tell into the first power block category "Gerentologists tell me." said Dan Lapp, director id the coaltion. "Ilia! older persons will be experiencing acute physical and mental problems because ol the stress they are under in trying to meet iinancial obligations. County Council on Aging, "the luct that power and gas com- lut-- panies have to have adequate tuiais to do their jobs. ' Bui also recognize that lln ie are many people, who have worked all their lives, and who just can't pay any more." he said. Paul Thomas. Tooele, brought a petition with 571 signatures ol persons who supported the request tor an expert witness. The hearing was held al the PSColiice. 33(1 F. 4th South. The coalition had asLed lor a witness to testily on the merits ol the !ileline method ol computing ales The method, said coalition assistant dirt-doSandy Adamson. computes bills so that a customer pays lor the amount ol 1 . r See UTILITY oil A-- ! broker sentenced to 5 yea rs A Salt Lake stock broker who play ed the market with his company's monev - making S8 million worth ol illegal was sentenced to live transactions years in prison Friday alternoon. Bruce F. Maw appeared before I'.S. District Court Chie! Judge Willis W. Ritter to be sentenced alter he pleaded guilty to a charge ol traud by wire. - . . . any body He also claimed that in another 90 days the investments he had made would have shown protit Ritter said. "Well, it's a lousy Iraud lousy on a any way you look at it scale that's unbeliev able." Maw 20 Ritter gave the 34 year-oldays to get his allairs in order before going to prison. In other actions. Carl Fdward Jackson, the lornier tiscal director ol Hie Community Action Program in Salt Lake County, a federal program, wax placed on live years' probation by Ritter lor embezzling lederai lunds. Jackson had pleaded guilty to diverting lunds earmarked tor the Head Start program, an organization to help disadvantaged preschool children. According to the preseutence report. See KITTFK on A-- 9 bypasses landslide, silty creek MANTI (APr This small central I'tah town has solved one ol the problems created by earth slide in the mile-lonManti Canyon, but another pressing problem remains, says Mayor Frank YYanlass. Wanlass said a new seven-millong culinary water line that by passe the slide has been completed, replacing the old line broken by the slide. The line lollows a dillerent new route down the canyon but gets water trmii the same springs us belore. Wanlass said. Testing ol the $70(1.0(10 line has proved satisfactory, and the mayor said it will start delivering culinary water within days, alter workmen have flushed sediment trom the pipe. "But the new system doesn't solv e our other problem, Wan-l.ix- s cautioned. "What happens to our larms and irrigation system next spring when huge amounts ol silt, sand and gravel are pushed into Manti Creek?" lt was tea red last summer that the earthslide might dam Manti Creek temporarily, allowing a buildup ol water, then release the water in a rush onto the community ol .800. But Wasatch National Forest spokesmen said m September that the slide, which began moving up to 18 inches a day last year, would more likely move into the stream en masse. They said that would mitigate teed danger. However, members ol a governor's executive committee said in November that a pipeline was still needed to reroute Maiit; Creek around the project will be similar to au experiment in satellite communications between 10 Appalachian VA hospitals which ended last May. Clegg said. He said the upcoming project will be the first in this part oi the country. Air advisory continues An air stagnation advisory will continue tor northern Utah valleys through Sunday, with a strong surlace high pressure system covering the region. A very w arm ridge alolt over the western slates is holding the storm track well to the north, so the chance oi precipitation is near zero. Temperatures will be mild over the weekend, with highs in the 40s north and the lower 50s south. The mercury climbed to a balmy 68 in St. George Friday, and several other stations had highs in the 5i is. Salt Lake Citys high was 45. and low this morning was 27. Coldest low reported was 6 at Roosevelt. Judge retaliates e Salt Lake City Judge Paul G. Grant today termed remarks by Earl N. Dorius. "hypocritical director of the Utah Drivers License Division, that I'tah courts are lenient toward drunk drivers. Grant, who is also president of the new Itah Association oi City Court Judges, said Dorius should have been more specific in his remarks which blasted Utah courts and prosecuting attorneys as the "drunk driver's best iriend." Dorius referred to abuses ot the "first offender program, whereby some courts suspend a jail sentence or line and sometimes place a driver oil probation, instead of revoking his license. Grant said Salt Lake City and other areas are not under the first offender program. He said Salt Lake City courts handle 20 to 30 percent ol all drunk driver cases in the state and their dealing with drunk ulicnders lollows the law closely. The judge said the reason some areas got into the hist ollender program was through representations id Doriu. hiniselt "For him to come back and say Hie limits arc kind toward drunken drivers is w h.it annoys me, Grant said. as Disclosure bill endorsed 1 According to a prosenlence report. was employed by a Salt Lake stock company. Kidder Peabody and Co. l egally unable to invest hiniselt. he mvested under a false name, making 253 transactions, the repoit said. Maw Maw bought and sold stock illegally ming. The Firemen battled to quell Granger fire caused by explosion in mobile home. S.L. the transactions totaling 88 million, according to the report. When the deception was discovered, the company had lost 40(1.000 (most ol which was recov ei ed through the bonding agency h the report added. Maw's commission on the transactions amounted to $20,000. the report said. Bolore he was sentenced, Maw told Ritter. "1 got hooked and couldn't ! wasn't trying to cheat Mop Doug Cahoon, Denise Alley and Ann Wolters each baked up a slide. winner. Wanlass said then that crops lould fie damaged by silt tlovv-niinto n rig tit ii v. uter. The 700 Olio lor the new w alt r I, i.f lame ln.ni s"UHe' Homework is fattening Chris Rotehi Deseret News stall writer By Seventeen South High School students spent this on i ake tops. week spreading Bicentennial spirit The youths were contestants in a Bicentennial cake decorating mutest, spou'oied hv the school's home economics department. Red. while and blue appealed to be the most . popular trusting culm scht me topping the bet I. tor boat lined and hat. lakes shaped up eagle, jtldgmg. We've had baking conltsts in past years," said Mrs. Judith McCleery. head ol the department "But we thought this contest would tic an appropri.de one lor RtTti. " The contest was open to the cntiie student body. I M s. McCleei y said her department acuity even field Ila-g- i dead, 3 hurt in shooting e t lull V i i City will pay for trip i .seine sale nit its day ol take decorating teihmques unt.l l.du to give ev ery one an equal i ham e this year t Judges James Witucki. history depai men! Irene Griitis, head ol the Salt Lake Distrnt Si hauls Food Service, and Principal Dr. LaVar Sorensen awarded gilt certilicates to winners m tlnee categories. Ann Wolters a junior, took the top pin'e in the "Most Batriotii " division tor her sheet take ol 1770 and 1:178 llags I A friend ol my mom s decorates takes and Miss Wolters said "Inc Used her equipment." hardest part was making those li'tle stars m 'Re ' H dpti 1, llag " Ami - a daughter ot Mr. and Mis Wolti rs. 1135 Charlton Ave. A three dimensional version ol one oj elitist .Most Original awaid won Columbus' slops opher Nee CAKFS on Proposed legislation that would require diselus-tninhu mation about a I'tah corporation taking over another has been endorsed by the board ot governors ot the Salt Lake Area Chamber ot Commeice. called the The legislation, Disclosure Act. would allow shareholders in the i oi poia! ions inuiiurvi In make decisions about their inv cntmeiits. Peter S. Cooke, government al fairs director tor the t lumber, said. "It is the opinion ol the chamber that this legislation could assure corporations that the l ights ot all its shareholders will be protected." The act would lover indy publicly held corpora- ol A-- i i ol in non Manti obligation was i on: d hv another bond--- came fun i)e an. genet al lltv Housing t lopmeid gi out. and I another sguo nun Irnm a Home Ad m nisti at um la ui and : .on no1 tioin a Four Cni l s Ceiu niis'iou G t ant 40 lino a far-mei- i fide i on-- t ui torn w is under wav. Hie idy got it i ulm n v w a! r out a iuui. n ip.iliv ow aed well W anla'.s said the w i ii allow ed tlie town to get 1". duiltlg months ol low consumption hut said it couldn't have met Manti's needs dm mg the huliei itsaee summer pel tod U i - v Salt Lake City's police duel and public satetv "iimiixsiuncr will visit cities in lour other states !uU Ibis n u ii ii to study police precinct operations v. Hh m iv ultimately be adopted here. ('iiv Commissioners Friday approved spending it. tin im chid Dewey J. Filhs and Commissioner 71iti N Greener to visit San Diego and Los Angeles. i,i!,t Cmeiinidt I. Ohio, and Rochester, N.Y. Filhs said Sait Lake City might ultimately have e hi ii as M ii i emi t unices ur substations in 'i in led licighb'.u hoods i t i : v Complete complements patrolmen detectives and would ijpi.iin ot otticers, including others headed by a operate Horn these bases, he explained Dispatching ol police cars would continued trom Hn central station at tile Metropolitan Hail of Justice Hie chit-- said. l |