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Show m i j mirrr.nM im g jTlJ),c"iy"rjj,l1jai CH4iriHIUJ' IJ' WTTjj'''QIir"lll ll q- I I DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY City-region- 3, 1973 TV Today ol Business Clerks enjoy postal work ' . . ' ' '- -s W5 s $' ' , f' --41 Deaths Today in the West 'f tf I v By Tim Rose Deseret News staff writer Goldie James and Ray Nielsen are two of the nations thousands of postal employes being honored during Postal Week. Goldie is a mail sorting clerk in the basement of the main post office at 350 S. Main. Ray is one of the familiar faces behind the service counter on the main floor. Xn'S'X: ?W sWMi - Action Ads To build at HAFB ? The Department of Defense said this WASHINGTON morning that it will ask Congress for $12.2 million for military construction work in Utah next year. Most of the construction will be at Hill Air Force Base. They are typical of the 1,500 postal people who help to handle Utahs daily two and a half million letters and parcels. v &. While the Postal Service praised its thousands of unsung employes this week, Goldie James, 565 Emerson Ave., was one worker who had some good things to say in return about the giant corporation. For me, I couldnt do any better. A woman couldnt make this kind of money any place else. There are very few women who make better money than they do at the post office, she said. jt - W m-- . . ' - ; The largest item requested is $6.8 million to build a new facility to overhaul aircraft landing gear. Landing gear work is being transferred to Hill from other air materiel areas under the Air Force reorganization announced last month. , Another $3 million was requested for a ballistic missile processing support facility. The Air Force said it also wants to build a $768,000 addition to the existing heating plant and add aircraft parking areas at a cost of $717,000. !ff r About $625,000 will be spent on improving utilities such frr- Goldies particular job is to see that the big pieces of mail, get headed in the right direction. She spends all day standing in front of a a big box of over-sizecase pigeon holes one of dozens of mail sorters among a maze of cases in the huge post office base- as electric service, water, air conditioning and sewage - dis- posal. The Army will spend $250,000 at Defense Depot Ogden to upgrade rest room facilities in several warehouses. The improvements are apparently to meet requirements for fe- flats, or extra - male employes. d Dies in glider kite fall ment. 's- Seemingly without effort she rapidly plucks the large envelopes from the depths of a gray mail bag and shoots them into the proper pig-- 1 eonhole. The scores of slots carry labels ranging from Saskatchewan and Manitoba to Twin Falls and Cedar City, but Goldie doesnt stop to read them. You get to know where all the holes are. I dont even have to look any more, she explained. throwAnd Goldies record for correctly ing the mail, as its called, is excellent. She distributes 40 to 50 pieces per minute. One thing Ive learned, she said. I sure Sw' .r '.jmw Window clerk Ray Nielsen: "I enjoy the public." Mail my family very much. She said, If you can sleep in the daytime I guess its all right. The one complaint Goldie mentioned was that working with the flats is a dirtier job than with the smaller mail. know there were all these different towns in the state before I started working here so many have their own post offices. After 11 years as a mail sorter Goldie finally won a spot on the day shift in 1971. Im one of the lucky ones, is the way she looks at it. During the eight years she worked the 11 30 p.m. to 8 a m. shift , I never saw didnt During the day she handles a lot of inky newspapers and canvas mail bags. She says A Bountiful father of two plunged CENTERVILLE feet to his death Wednesday afternoon as his glider kite crashed into a mountain slope at Ward Canyon Overlook, east of Centerville. Verl Hadlock Gleed, 27, 316 E. 1700 South, was pronounced dead on arrival at 2:35 p.m. at South Davis Community Hospital in Bountiful. He died of multiple injuries. The accident occurred about 1:55 p.m., Centerville police officer Lynn Mitchell said. Gleeds wife looked on as he fell on the mountain slope. The paraglider crash marked the second in little more than a month in the Centerville area. Mark Mann. 19. 666 N. 8th West, Bountiful, suffered severe electric burns on groin and hands March 31 when his glider kite collided with a 7,200-vopower line near Pages Lane. Mann fell 30 feet Vv 200 sorter Goldie James likes the pay. she hefts scores of the but its not too strenuous. bags in a day, On her hands, which are covered with little paper cuts, she wears a rubber thumb stall to get a better grip on the mail, and a ring knife a finger ring with a curved blade on See POSTAL on Page lt B-- 4 to the ground. Gleed, who had been paragliding for about three Ed Pingle, 39, months, was flying with two companions 862 N. 400 East, North Salt Lake, and Wayne Jones, 20, 3922 S. 775 West, Bountiful. Gleed was making his first flight of the day when his kite plunged to the earth halfway down the mountain. 3 noted Utahns win degrees Ramp ton relates social concern Centerville has thus far set no restriction on glider kite flying,, said Mitchell, but he emphasized that flyers should be experienced and fly only in kites. Honorary degrees will be awarded to a writer, a U.S. senator and a businessman by the University of Utah at its June 2 commencement exer- By Doug Palmer Deseret News staff writer well-mad- cises. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton said Wednesday that he plans to call the Utah Legislature back into special session about to consider ways the state can deal with federal cutbacks in social services. mid-Augu- The governor spoke at a meeting in the Graduate School I of Social Work in the University of Utah which was held to honor Arthur L. Beeley and his wife, Glenn. Beeley is dean emeritus of the graduate school and has been recognized nationally for his work on crime and delinquency. He became chairman of the Department of Sociology at the U. of U. in 1927, holding this post until his retirement in 1956. He organized the graduate school in 1937, serving as its dean for 19 Jears. Another speaker during activities at the school Wednesday was Mrs. Lenore I Romney, wife of former U S Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, who delivered the Arthur L. Beeley Lecture Wednesday night Mrs Romney, who spoke on meeting human needs in discussed problems in the areas of housing, employment, crime and delinquency welfare and other concerns. 1973 A major part of her address, which was mllowed by a on the need reception honoring the Beeleys. was centered See TAKE, page B-- 4 Recipients of the degrees will be Utah author and historian Juanita L. Brooks, Sen. and Frank E. Moss, businessman Robert H. Hinckley. President Alfred C. Emery had announced earlier that James Reston, New York Times vice president and Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, lie commencement would speaker and also receive an honorary degree. Hinckley, of Eden, Weber County, has had a long and distinguished career in government and business. He has served as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, assistant secretary of commerce for air and director of Contract Settlements, an office .responsible for settlement of all World War U contracts. He is a founder and former vice president and director of the American Broadcasting Co. and is chairman of the board of Hinckleys, Inc., in Salt Lake City. He is a graduate of Brigham Young Univer- sity., Hinckley' . is presently a Yes,, honesty does pay A little honesty got its reward Wednesday afternoon as Salt Lake City Police Chief J. Earl Jones presented $20 to three Backman Elementary second-grader- Darrin Roberts, 856 N. 12th West, Aaron Johansen, 840 N. x3th West, and Tommy Beard, 834 Colorado St. found one ten and two bills on their way to school Feb. five-doll- 16. They turned the money over to Glen Peterson, principal of Backman, who in turn passed it on to police. When police were unable to fimd the owner of the cash. City Commission decided to have it returned to the young finders in the presence of their principal. Brooks writer, historian Juanita . . . L. Robert H. Hinckley . . . Utah businessman Frank . . . E. Moss Bugging: little impact veteran senator Deseret News Washington Bureau I Insti tutional Council and served four terms on the former member of the U. of . Board of Regents. In 1965 he established the Hinckley Institute of Politics on campus. Moss has been a member of the U.S. Senate since 1958 and in 1971 was named secretary of the Democratic Conference the number three leadership post in the Senate. He is chairman of the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee and chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Consumers. He has been a leading advocate in restricting' cigarette advertising and is widely known for his work in the field of water resources. He is the author of several conservation bills, including legislation which established Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Before being elected to the Senate, Moss served eight years as Salt Lake County attorney and 10 years as a Salt Lake City judge. He is a graduate of the University of Utah and received a juris doctorate degree irom George Washington University. He is from the retired Air Force Reserve, past vice president of the Air Reserve Association of the U.S. and twice served as president of the National Association of WASHINGTON Current Watergate scandals involving top White House officials have caused relatively little said today foreign concern. Sen. Frank E. Moss, trade negotiating trip Mowing his return from a to Europe and the Soviet Union. two-wee- k It hasnt caused very much impact abroad, he said, indicating that many communist nations couldnt understand why it was so wrong to spy and plant wiretaps. Americans abroad, however, were quite concerned about it and worried about future confidence in the administration, according to Moss. District Attorneys. Mrs. Brooks has won distincSee U. on Page - B-- 4 U.N. aide in S.L. United States foreign policy should take into account the views of other nations as expressed in the United Nations more than it now does. Jordan River is ready for marathon racers Charles W. Yost, former U. S. Ambassador to the U.N., said the United States should reconsider some of its positions in light of recent U. N. opposition. He spoke to newsmen today at Hotel Utah. Yost is in Salt Lake City to deliver the keynote address at Utah's High School Model United Nations this evening at the University of Utah. . The Jordan is a lot higher, and it should be an extremely exciting trip , Duane Erickson, race chairman for the first annual Jordan River Mar- and a $400 canoe from Viking athon, said today.; he added. Explorer. We made the entire length of the trip, and we didnt even have to get out of the canoe, We went right over everything, even with the motor. There is one diversion dam that you come to. Soon after the starting sites and its quite tricky in that its set off to an angle to the current. So when you try to position yourself to go through one of the openings you have to be Erickson had. just returned from a canoe trip along the nine miles of the race course, checking for obstructions and possible dangers prior to the race Saturday. The event is by the Deseret sponsored News and Viking Explorer Canoe Corp. The height of the river, caused by unusually heavy snow and rain this spring, will make it a lot easier for very careful that the current doesnt sweep you through broadside. People should take a good look at it before they go through. people entering the race just for fun in rubber rafts and other types of .craft other than said canoes and kayaks. Erickson. It wont be so hard for them to paddle. Of course, the really serious competitors will give it all theyve got anyway. handsome Winners get with the competitor trophies, the overall best time being rewarded with a large trophy He said only the most experienced paddlers should attt-em- to shoot the diversion dam. Others should portage left around it. Erickson said the river was so fast that his canoe, powered with a motor, could just barely crawl upstream against the current when he had to recheck some Duane Erickson,Willis Wright and Lynn Broadbent make pre-ra- ce check of Jordan. See JORDAN, Page L Yost said the U. S. behaved very foolishly during the debates on the admission of the Peoples Republic of China to the United Nations. a a resolution that was ostensibly a resolution, but everyone knew it would keep the Peoples Republic out, Yost said. At the very time the communist Chinese were admitted and Taiwan was expelled, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger was in Peking furthering U.S. detente with the mainland regime. We sponsored ! f two-Chin- t4l ! s Iaiim wi 9 The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints accepted a special invitation today to tour the new $15 million St. Marks Hospital at 1200 E. 39th South. y Invitation for the tou was extended by the Rt. Rev. Otis Charles, Episcopal Bishop for Utah. Scheduled to take part the tour today were President Harold B. Lee; President N. Eldon Tanner, first counselor, and President Marion G. Roinney, second counselor. y The new hospital has 302 beds ii nodern building designed to replace the oM St. Marks Hospital at 803 N. 2nd West. The new will become operational and the old one dose its doors m May 20. five-stor- B-- 4 I |