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Show WASHINGTON The House Judiciary Committee today discussed, hut did not decide, how to deal with the chaos in the Salt Lake City federal district court The panel, considering legislation to increase the number of federal judges, deliberated for nearly an hour over whether to add another judgeship for Utah to handle cases which have been stymied by conflicts with Chief Judge Willis W. Ritter. 55 mph branded, cited and praised Utahs 5.A.tV r i I Some stretches of freeway, such as Salt Lake City to Wendover for example, could easily have a 65 to 70 mph limit without any danger to drivers, he said. Rep. Selleneit said the state is in a situation where it has the same speed limit on freeways as it does on secondary roads with their intersections, driveways, traffic lights, and other concerns for lower speed. A rising number of highway deaths may not be due to higher speeds by motorists, but simply a result of more miles being driven by more people in a growing state, he said. ' Col. Reid said the 55 mph rule was imposed as an energy conservation measure, but it turned out to have some unforeseen safety benefits." Any accident at a higher rate of speed is going to be a worse accident and more likely to be fatal, he said. When Utah had a 75 mph limit on the freeway to Wendover the average speed by drivers was 82 mph, , Reid said. Since the lower speed limit was imposed, the average speed (by 85 percent of thek drivers) is 60 mph, he said. Effectiveness of the lower speed limit depends on two things, the colonel said. One is public attitude and acceptance and the other is the ability of lawmen to enforce the rule. In the early days of the 55 mph limit higher public acceptance seemed to exist, but motorists are slowly creeping up in their driving speeds, he said. See 55 MPII on B-- 6 Col. a Deseret News Washington Bureau - WASHINGTON Rep. Dan Marriott, has blamed the loss of 12 lives on Utah highways on new computerized truck brakes required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Nevada Democrat added that he had heard from Rep. Gunn McKay, today that Judge Ritter is continuing his controversial actions by demanding that the assistant U S. attorney s in Utah be fired Santini rephed that is a "risk we are willing to take. See JUDGE on (NHTSA). "Thousands more remain in danger as long as these new brakes are being used, Rep. Marriott said. They should be pulled off the trucks immediately and be either reworked or thrown away, Rep. Marriott said. The congressman has drafted a petition against the brakes which he has circulated through Congress. He said if the NHTSA will not act on its own, he will introduce legislation to prohibit use of the braking system until changes are made. The braking system was ordered installed on all new trucks made in 1975 and after. Rep. Marriott said numerous accidents and have occurred and been related to the computerized brakes, which are often better than ordinary brakes when they work properly. But he said they have failed thousands of times. Road vibration, CB radio transmissions and other causes have lead to complete loss of such brakes, he said. B-- 6 ' . , ' - v,s j x is ' - w v L I 8 ; 'i I -- ' ' . ;1 .1 - $ : a ' , I i r 9 ? $ 1 I? I 1 if it j Mb f 1 afc 1 A V' is- i y. A, r s T .s ;' jits w. X .. !. w t , , -'- ss. i- , said the limit Rep. Lloyd Selleneit, on all roads, especially the fatalities appears to be happening on secondary roads where 55 mph , or less ought to apply. Presumably the vacancy would result from the retirement or death of Judge Ritter One committee member, however, asked what the situation would be if Judge Alden Anderson died first. Computer brakes blamed near-acciden- ts . &' sx , "doesnt make sense He said imposing a 55 mph limit on the freeway two-judg- ' speed limit was branded Tuesday night as coercion by the federal government, praised as a factor in lower highway deaths, and cited as a hardship for some independent truckers. doesnt make sense because those roads are designed and built for higher speeds. The highest rate of The committee heard Santini describe the unique mandamus proceedings the Justice Department has filed asking that Judge Ritter be removed from hearing all cases involving the United States. - 55 mph freeway system. Its an attempt by the federal government to dictate to the state. Col. Robert Reid of the Utah Highway Patrol said that when the 55 mph limit was first imposed, highway deaths dropped, but as motorists have tended to exceed that limit, the number of traffic fatalities has risen. Otis Winn of the Utah Motor Transport Association said many major trucking firms had a 55 mph rule long before the energy crisis. But independent truckers who bought equipment geared to high speeds are losing money because they must drive in lower, less efficient gears. The three speakers expressed their opinions Tuesday night on Civic Dialogue, a televised talk show carried on KUED, Channel 7, in cooperation with the Deseret News. Rep. Selleneit said a national speed limit does not exist, but federal officials are forcing compliance with the 55 mph limit by threatening to withhold highway funds from states which dont enforce it. provide that a third judge would be appointed with the understanding that the next vacancy on the court would not be filled, allowing Utah to revert back to a e bench. At the end of the session, Rep. Jim Santim, temporarily withdrew his motion to add another Utah judge, promising to redraft it and try again later in the markup process. The committee then rejected a substitute bill which would have added 33 more judges nationwide to the 81 recommended by the courts subcommittee. The panel is scheduled to meet Monday afternoon to continue work on the measure. Santini said he will again offer a motion to create a third judgeship in the Utah federal court. As he explained his proposal, it would Deaths Newsline: the West Solons seek end to court chaos By Gordon Eliot White Deseret News Washington Bureau Theater Action Ads WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1977 DESERET NEWS, " 1 'I 1 wj . VS . A Some homes in Swedetown have become junkyards in more then one sense of the word. Swedetown asks city for help By Neil Robinson Deseret News staff writer Once a quaint resiSWEDETOWN dential section in northwest Salt Lake City, this enclave of 43 homes is now daily inundated with smoke, duct, odors and noises from the heavj industry which surrounds and threatens to overrun it. Swedetown residents, exasperated by industrial encroachment and its associated blight, have banded together to ask the Salt Lake City Commission to purchase their homes and turn the area into an industrial park. The residents, headed by Mary Solt, 902 Everett, are asking the commission to appropriate $1.3 million from fourth-yea- r Community Development funds to subsidize the purchase and relocation proposal. During a recent public hearing on allocation of fourth-yea- r Community Development funds, Mrs. Solt told commis In gardens planned National Park being developed around the city, foundation officials said. Orson Hyde, an early apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of A $1 million Orson Hyde Memorial Gardens will be built on the historic Mount of Olives in Jerusalem in honor of an early Mormon apostle. Plans for the memorial were announced in Salt Lake City today by the Orson Hyde Foundation. It will direct a fundraising campaign to finance the project, which has been approved by the government of Israel. The memorial will be created on slightly more than five acres just east of the Old City of Jerusalem. The land will be the largest single tract in the e Wilson said after the tour. One trucking firm washes surplus oil out of its shop area onto the street behind. Eventually, the oil finds its way into a shallow open ditch heside an roadway, creating a reeking sump. A rock crushing mill generates dust in excess of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, commissioners said. Heavy trucks ply the residential streets and generate clouds of dust in unoiled gravel parking lots. Many vacant lots in the area, once home sites, have become weed infested and contain shallow pools of stagnant water. During the walking tour, commissioners and residents were annoyed by clouds of mosquitoes and gnats. Although commissioners agreed that something must be done to help Swedetown residents, they disagreed on what can or will be done. See SWEDETOWN on B-- 6 Latter-da- y Saints, visited Jerusalem in 1841 and offered a dedicatory prayer on the Mount of Olives, calling for the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the latter days. A focal point of the memorial gardens will be an heroic-siz- e plaque with excerpts from Orson Hydes prayer set in Arabic, English and Hebrew. The plaque will be in a grottolike enclosure reached by winding pathways through groves of Jerusalem Gardens in Israel trees and shrubs, A small amphitheater in the grotto will provide seating for visitors, allowing them to contemplate the view of the old walled city of Jerusalem below and the surrounding area and landmarks. Elder LeGrand Richards of the churchs Council of the Twelve is president of the Orson Hyde Foundation. The project has the support of the National Parks Authority of Israel and many religious groups, both Christian and he said. The First Presidency of the church also supports the memorial, he said. Elder Richards said the project will do something positive to beautify the historic Mount of Olives. Contributions for the project can be sent to the Orson Hyde Foundation, in care of Elder Richards, 47 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City 84150, he said. Names of all who contribute will be inscribed on a parchment scroll and placed in a time capsule in a wall of the grotto. Other memorials financed by organizations around the world also are planned for the green belt around the Old City of Jerusalem. Deseret News show opens a world of ideas Doors opened onto a world of fantastic ideas in the Salt Palace today as the Deseret News Food & Hobby Show launched four days of exhibits and demonstrations. were on hand to nibble Thousands of show-goefood samples, watch intensely how to make Christmas gifts, learn how to sprout seeds, or get tips on preparing a holiday dinner. Winnifred Jardine, Deseret News food editor, presented the first of her demonstrations on how to make A Happy Holiday Dinner. Recipe sheets were distributed through the Deseret News Informars tion Booth. Doors are open from noon to 9 p.m. today, Thursday and Friday, and Saturday from 10 a m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free, and tickets are not required. Thursdays schedule of events includes: 12 noon Doors open to exhibit hall. 1:30 p.m. Stage demonstrations: Getting off junk foods; keeping your house plants happy and computer use in the kitchen. Prize drawing after each demonstration. 3:30 pm. Stage demonstrations: A Happy Holiday Dinner by Winnifred Jardine, and cake decorating. Prize drawings. 4 30 p.m. cake decorating 6 show Fashion and , p.m. entertainment by Winnifred Jardine, Joanne Roueche and Margaret Barrow (sample items from Food & Hobby Show demonstrations. 2 A Utah airman whose WASHINGTON bomber was shot down over North Vietnam on Dec. 28, 1972, is among 20 Americans whose remains were turned over to the U.S. last month by the Vietnamese government. First Lt. Bennie Lamar Fryer, Logan, was an Air Force bomber-navigato- r flying his 73rd mission when he was shot down. Fryers body, along with those of the others released by Hanoi, was flown from Hawaii, where they were identified, to Travis Air Force Base, Calif. A joint memorial was held there today. Fryers body will be sent to Tremonton to await a burial service with full military honors Nov. 5, 1 p.m., in the Dewey ville Cemetery. A service also will be held Nov. 4 in the evening at Rogers Mortuary, Tremonton. Fryers parents, Dr. and Mrs. Lamar P. Fryer, now live in Stockton, Calif., but were long-tim- e Utahns. The servicemans widow, who has remarried, is Mrs. Gayla Ann Doucet, Vancouver, Canada. Family members have known since 1973 that Lt. Fryer was killed in action, although he was listed as missing for several months. Identification was made through dental and skull ill-ke- pt honor of early apostle LDS 600-acr- sioners the air pollution alone is a severe detriment to the health of Swedetown residents. The 78 adults and 70 children living in the neighborhood cant wait for studies to be completed, she said. Swedetown Mrs. Solt told of a long-tim- e resident who now suffers from irreparable lung and brain damage, allegedy due to pollution in the neighborhood. Commissioners met a group of about 20 Swedetown residents to take a walking tour through the neighborhood and view problems created by junkyards, trucking firms, rock crushers and other heavy industries. Walking through the neighborhood, observed contrasts becommissioners tween clean, neatly kept homes and some homes which have become virtual junkyards. Industries in the area engage daily in violations of city ordinances, Mayor Ted Flier's remains coming home Executive Model Shop. 7.30 p.m. Stage demonstrations: fnttas; year round dehydrating for packer and camper food, and low-co- 8:45 p m. BYU to raise tuition in '78 PROVO Increased tuition in all categories will become effective at Brigham Young Universitys fall semester of 1978, university officials announced today. Higher operating costs and upgrading of programs made the increases necessary, President Dallin H. Oaks said. Church appropriations are now paying of the total cost of slightly more than education for each enrolled student, and the increase in tuitions will preserve that balance, he added. Semester fees for undergraduate students will increase $30, from $390 to $420; advance standing students, increase $40, from $430 to $470; law students, up $79 from $700 to $770, and graduate students, rising $90, from $510 to $600. Non-LDstudents will continue to pay 50 percent higher tuition in every category, Oaks said. The higher rate balances contributions traditionally made to the church through tithing and other donations by families of most of the students he said. A study by the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association shows that the median charge by 681 private colleges and universities for a full school year is $3,548, compared with $840 per year for BYU undergraduates, Oaks said. two-thir- S Hit-ru- n driver sought MAGNA Salt Lake County deputy sheriffs are looking for a hit and run driver who struck and ingured Roger Lane Goff, 26, 8350 Western Dr., No. 7, early today. Goff was found at 2:40 a.m. at 8650 W. 27th South by a passerby, Mike Perry, 16, 8459 W. 3449 South. The victim was in poor condition today in Valley West Hospital, where he was being treated for possible internal injuries, a fractured pelvis and injured right leg. Deputies said that a cars side view mirror was found a few feet from the victim. The mirror is believed to have been broken from the hit and run car. Goff was found lying next to the curb on 27th South, said Deputy James A. Courtright. AP honors Deseret News Making back- Drawing for major prize Home economists for major companies and are on hand to demonstrate the latest in electronic ovens with ways to prepare meals or special treats. Many of today's modern appliances free housewives from home chores to give them more time to and plenty were on hand pursue hobbies Wednesday. Friday activities will include demonstrations ranging from sheep to shawl by the Weavers Guild to skin care and makeup artistry in a session. public utilities The fashion show will be presented tonight, Thursday and Friday at 6 p.m. by the Executive Model Shop to show the latest in fashions through a musical presentation Four lucky show-goer- s will win one of four major prizes, and the winner does not have to be present Tickets are passed out to each person as they enter the hall, and the drawing is held 15 minutes before the show closes each day , The Deseret News has been cited, along with 80 other newspapers nationwide, for outstanding contributions to the Associated Press news report. AP Managing Editors Association, meeting in New Orleans, La., presented awards to the newspapers for cooperation in the areas of news and newsphotos. The Deseret News was recognized for contributing to the newsphotos category. The AP is a cooperative agency whose 1,300 member newspapers provide coverage of local news ev ents for distribution to other news dispensing media. our slip is shouuing... s Wanda McGregor Snow, a retired Provo school who will receive an Alumni Distinguished Service Award from Brigham Young University Friday, studied two years at Dixie College. A story ip Monday's Deseret News, based on information supplied by BYU. said Mrs. Snow attended Snow teacher College The Deseret News ombudsman also was told that Mrs. Snows late husband was head of the business department at Dixie College, not Snow College, and that her six children graduated from BYU, not just attended A 1 j a m m pi j m jt a M m. 0. A 4 .0 M 0 0 0 0 0 0000 000000, |