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Show w L r The Salt Lake Tribune Saturday, April 2, I960 March Deaths, Mishaps Alert S.L. Tr W. Ferguson Tribune Staff Writer A 50 per cent Increase in Salt Lake City traffic accident fatalities , Three fatal pedestrian accidents By A. brought an Increase of 300 per cent In this category, compared with March a year ago. -- compared with March, 1959, Friday received the close attention of the Salt Lake City Traffic Advisory Council In a meeting at Newhouse Hotel. A REPORT by Capt L. A. Youngberg of the police department, showed there were 1,440 traffic accidents, six of them fatal, compared with 1,095 traffic accidents In March, 1959. TEN PERSONS were killed and .496 persons were Injured In all types of March traffic Occidents. The report also showed that 8,878 citations for hazardous driving were Issued last month. This reflected an s Increase of 8 and per cent, compared with the number issued in March, 1959. ; COMMISSIONER J. K. Piercey, who recently took over the super ordered Issued for Clarence W. East, and Kelly, 32, 3540-13th James f John Man gum, left; Alex Hurtado, center, jmd Bud Sullivan appeared aa the Spirit of 176 at Press Radio Roast Friday sponsored by Salt Lake Junior Chamber of Commerce., Good Pickin, April Foolin Tillory, 47, 1533 Ave. (1980 South). Robert Coulter, 37, 932 S. 1st West, pleaded guilty to drunken driving and negligent collision and was fined $175. Thirty-fivdays of a jail term were ordered suspended on payment of the fine. "JUDGE NEELEY found Louis A. Lorange, 49, 820 Elm Ave. (2160' South), guilty of drunken driving and ordered the same fine and jail sentence. Five days in jail must be served, the Judge ruled. William Fisher, 31, 2168-9tEast, pleaded innocent to charges of drunken driving and failure to stop at a stop sign. Trial was set for April 2L Hollywood e .Jaycees Devour Bigwigs at Roast y Loan Assn, auditorium, summer job. What can you do? asked the commissioner. 33rd South and State. The Jaycees billed it as an Nothing," replied the youth. Thats fine youve got a job. April Fools program. We wont have to break you AL THOMAS, master Of in, said the commissioner. ceremonies, reported that the WASHINGTON was years top sheet music seller In the city Is Brack the avoided as the states Knife. Mayor J. Bracken Lee gressmen and senators were was not, present for traveling, seeklampooned But Gov. George D. Clyde, and lack of ac- other Jobs . . Salt Lake County Commission ing ' Damage Window ty. B. Chairman Lamont Gundeij; . Vandals shot holes In a winCandidates for their parties sen. Salt Lake City Commls; THE EVENT was staged at sioners J. K. Piercey, L. C nominations for governor also dow and a door at Quality the Prudential Federal Sav- targets. Linen, 1024 S. 1st West, Friday Romney and Joe L. Christen- weremajor But then so was Just about afternoon, Donald Qrayk, an sen were. everyone and all in the spirit employe of the company, told THEY ALL SAT in spot- of the day April Fools Day. police. lighted circles as their activities were buffooned. Mr. Thomas at one time rethat the reason Mayor ported senA School West , High Lee had a dispute with the ior, Carolyn Lasater, will leave Salt Lake City Sunday library board was that he to participate in the Cherry found out there were books over 65 years old a refer.Blossom Festival in Washence to the ington, D C., aa Miss Utah to reduce mayors campaign Mrs. Mary Susannah Parker of Manti; Mrs. Frank (Vera) cky employe ranks Rational Guard. of persons over a certain age. Young, 87, 70 E. North Tem- McAllister, Mrs. Loretta A DAUGHTER of Mr. and ple, past matron of the Salt Hooton and Mrs. Hulda Niel- PARKING-METE- RS, tum- Lake-anMrs. Forest T. Lasater, 747 Manti Temples of son, all of Salt Lake City; Mrs. 1st North (200 North), bled out of city hall closets the Church of Jesus Christ of Sonoma Toolson of Portland, in one scene. Latter-damiss will 24 Saints, died Jhe Ore.; 24 grandchildren, And other city commission- at 7 p.m. in a Salt LakeFriday hosmeet the Utah congressional and brothers had difficulty keeping ers and sisters, Amy W. Rust, pital of pneumonia. delegation as well as Utah Commissioner Piercey at the Ella Ogden and Alta Poulson, Rational GuardLrepresentaMRS YOUNG active In all of Salt Lake meeting when fire sirens tives while in the capital. City; Vina a reference to his numerous cultural and reli- Baird of Florence Syl7 She won her crown as rep- sounded Draper; circles fire chief days. gious throughout her vester of Richland, Wash.; resentative of the 151st life, was born Aug. 18, 1872, in Marie Lafsen of Elsinore, SeNaAir Utah THERE! WERE songs the Kanosh, Millard County, a Fighter Group, vier County; Arial Parker of tional Guard. tunes familiar, the verse origi- daughter of Joseph F. and Joseph and Byron Parker of nal. Mary Ross Parker. But the jest was evident She spent her early life In Draper. Kanosh and In Joseph, Sevier everywhere 10 During a sketch detailing County; and attended Sevier Two States missile industry expansion in Stake Academy. Utah, there men dressed as SHE WAS married to Robert Revolutionary War soldiers marched thiough the audience D. Young Oct 28, 1891, In the symbolizing that failures at Manti LDS Temple. Tax revenue for the July Throughout her life she was times dont mean complete 31 period totaled $61, devastation. But the mis- active in church work and in 303,000, an increase of nearly siles always went astray In LDS auxiliary organizations. She was a charter member of It) million dollars over the like the sketches. Special to Tha Tribuna the Daughters of the Utah a year ago, the Utah-Stat- e SUGAR HOUSE-- An active DURING a motion pic- Pioneers. Tax Commission re Sugar House Rotarian has ture of clip introducing city ported Friday ANACTIVE worker in civic been elected governor of Discommissioners, a gorilla kept she was a member trict 542, Rotary International projects, ", CLOSE TO four mlUlondoP popping up. of Pen the Women. During (Utah and Idaho). OneJime a cityjeommlssio it. tors of the lncrease was due To the change in withholding tax er was asked by a youth for a her early'Ilfe she participated The New governor Is Hol-ge- r in musical events as an instruM. Larsen, executive secby the 1959 Legislature from mentalist and singer. She was retary, Sugar House Chamber applying only to to its present application on all Accepts Speaker Role the former operator of a mil- of Commerce and Danish conGeorge S. Brown, district linery shop In Richfield and sul in Utah since 1947.' inMost tax yields increased, manager, U.S. Railroad Retire- later In her life was an acMr. Larsen has served as cluding that from the sales tax, ment Board, will be speaker complished artist, poet and In- secretary of the Sugar House . Important both for Its revenue and films will be shown at the terior decorator. Rotary Club since 1951 and it She Is survived by her hus- was this club which and as a barometer of business meeting of the Unit T7, Nasponsored activity. It brought In $25,974,-CO- tional Association of Retired band; sons and daughters, A. his nomination to serve as disof L. InRichfield; and Veteran Railway Employes Bryant trict governor for one year. in the nine months, an Joseph crease of about 10 pSr cent Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Utah from the' same period oi Power and Light Co. auditor!-um- , 1958-59- . 36 South State. Parking , meters, missiles, taxes, highway Interchanges nd political office seekers the fuel Friday night for a- - red hot 1960 Press Radio Roast of the Salt Lake City Junior Chamber of Commerce. ? After the roasting, the results were laughter as 400 audience persons in an members of the Jaywatched y cees poke public officials with biting satire. ings & pro-Vjde- d h e . W. Capital Festival Bids S.L. Coed Past S.L. Temple Matron, 87, Dies of Pneumonia d y Million Rise Reported for Tax Revenues FOUR-MEMBE- Data Frans V I. Wiathtr Burnt Hisinv daytima temperatures and partly cloudy ikies with scattered showers over the northern part of UUh were expected tor Saturday. Clifton Fadiman selects ;200 BOOKS FOR YOUNG TinpirUm Chart fDste for 34 hour period ended Friday at pjn.) ttefc it For i 1 National'" I ' Library Week, April I: Mr. Fadiman offers - bn outstanding - list of books 7 for-- , i Sunday, .April 3, in young adult- s- ' ' J .' This "Week! with lx J 4 f v- A a. a A A - 43 43 33 63 45 47 33 32 23 46 34 40 .40 Bast Boston 47 New York City 64 69 Washington D.C. 42 46 .04 Seatk a an- there or older 'MAJOR J. Bracken Leerptr Friday that were76 employes 'll) who, until a month ago, were on the city payroll drawing up to a total of $250,000 annually. A report compiled a few weeks ago by Orson F. city personnel director, showed that in addition there were 161 employes 65 years of age and over being paid a total of $556,944 a year. ALL THOSE w"ho are 70 or over will be affected by the To new ordinance unless within Sumner G. Whittier visit local veterans facilities. Hot-tinge- ommended the ordinance.- - He iaid that those who can not replaced easily would be r lowed to remain on a basis. Mayor Lee Friday agreed to retain an employe of the city court over Which 'he has charge as commissioner of finance. The employe submitted a letter to the mayor asking that he be retained.. year-to-yea- -- re- 60 65 own 20 from the city in widows pension money. She Is Mrs. Katherine Cudde-bac- k Burt Her husband was James W. Burt who retired on a pension of $98.75 a month April 1, 1941. He received this money until he died Aug. 5, $6,875.97 Sumner G. Whittier, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, is expected to arrive in Salt Lake City Saturday night for two days of meetings, visits to Veterans Administration installations and tours to local attractions. , 1948. AT A SUNDAY morning forMRS. BURT never received breakfast, Mr. Whittier, a mer lieutenant governor qf the widows pension of $49.17 meet in a month after her husband Massachusetts, will the with Hotel Utah manager died, said City Attorney James VA hospitals here, the L. Barker Jr., who recently of the VA office manager received a letter from her regional vet30 some and daughter, Mrs. James G. Hen- erans organizations officers.. derson, 845 Westminster Ave. Some 40 members of the De(1885 South), Inquiring about of Utah Executive partment the fund. Mrs.' Henderson nas beefrT Committee of the American informed that the coverage is Legion will lunch with Mr, noon at the retroactive to Aug. 6, 1948 and Whittier Sunday Ft. Douglas VA Hospital din$6,875.97 is due her mother up ing room. to Marc!),31. I960. THEBE WILL BE Sunday tours of Kennecott Copper Corp. open pit mine at Bingham and at the Alta skiing area. it Before leaving for Denver, Colo., Monday at 6 p.m., the distinguished visitor will make an early Monday morning Visit to the regional offices of the at Veterans Administration g Utaliji Faces Theft Count Arthur Brunner, 58, 1178 S. 4th West (500 West), was charged with grand larceny and receiving stolen property in a complaint signed Friday by Deputy Sheriff N.,JX Hayward before City Judge Maurice D. Jones. Bail was set at $1,500. THE COMPLAINT alleges that on Feb. 26, Mr. Brunner stole from the Salt Lake City Board of Education personal property in excess of $50. The other count charges that Holger M. Larsen . . , New district governor. Mr. Brunner received a stolen Rotary typewriter and adding machine belonging to the Board of Edu cation. be given a pension of $9.85 a Rd. (1700 month which can be used to West). pay for an insurance program carried by the city. AT NOON, in the Hotel Utah Roof Garden, Mr. Whittier will be introduced by Gov. George D. Clyde to some 300 luncheon guests, including members of the Utah Congressional delegation; state, city, V.A. and service organization officers and V.A. employes. The Mo nday afternoon schedule includes a 2 p.m. tour Of the Ft Douglas V.A. Hospital and a 4 p.m. press conferMayor J. Bracken Lee ence at Hotel Utah. nounced Friday he was going to tell my side of the story about the dismissal of for- mer Police Chief W. Cleon 1750 S. Redwood Mayor to Tell His Story On TV Show Pastor Draws Camp Role Of Chairman HE SAID HE would appear a television broadcast Tuesday atjB p m. over KUTV 1 Z Channel. .2. "Im going to present docuThe Rev. John Hornok. pas- mentary evidence to show why tor of the Murray Bible Skousen was not the type of Church, Murray.has - b e e n chief-c- f people polica named chairman of the Timpa-nogo- s to believe he was, said Mayor Bible Camp. Lee. OTHER NEW .officers are "I DO NOT want to do this the Rev. Ray Gunderson, vice as I see nothing to be gained chairman and registrar, pas- after the man has been distor of the Provo Bible charged, said Mayor Lee. But Church; the Rev. A. A. Ander- his (former Chief Skousen) son, secretary, pastor of the continual carrying on and Ins Evangelical Free Church, Salt inaccurate stories about law Lake City, and Rev. Wilbur I. enforcement have .convinced Nelson, treasurer, Salt Lake me I must tell my side of the City. story. On the board of directors, MAYOR LEE said he may which includes the new offiKSL-TMonday at cers, are the Rev. Paul Davis, appear on 8 p.m. to discuss the SkouMarysvale Community sen affair. Church, Marysvale, Piute Station representatives said County; the Rev. Charles Congdon, executive secretary, they had made arrangements Utah Bible Mission, Salt Lake with appear City; Dean Stubbe, representative, Murray Bible Church, and Clyde Williams, representGvil Rights Talk ative, Provo Bible Church. Rep. Adam Mickey Duncan TRUSTEES are Loren Yuill Lake) will discuss and Robert Freeman, both of "Passover 1960: Freedom and Salt Lake City, and Lee Civil Liberties at a luncheon Brown, Provo. meeting of the Sisterhood of The Bible camp has sched- Congregation Bnal Israel uled summer sessions July Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. at the at Dutchman Flat in Ameri- Temple House, 249-4tEast can Fork Canyon. (400 East). on he-le- (R-Sa- lt 25-3- 0 h 95 Highs Saturday 59-7low 30-4except extreme Wouth and lows highs 76-9- 4 Wyoming Partly cloudy and Sunday with a few Satutey ecattered light snow flurries. Locally windy. Warmer Sunday. Highs Saturday 5 southern border to 5 north. luminary Moist northwest winds produced variable cloudiness with scattered rain or snow showers over the north and central portions of the Intermountain Region while clear kieg prevailed to the south. By evening clearing had set in over most locations Afternoon temperatures were a little warmer except for eastern Utah, where some cooling tjpk place. High temperatures ranged from the 50s in the north to the 70s over southern Nevada. Five Bays Forecast vSatsrtlay threafh Wednesday Utah Temperatures - near normal with alow warming trend. Precipitation below normal, occurring as scat- tered showers, mostly north portion. Salt Lake normal high. 69; low 35. Seitkern Idaho Temperatures averaging a little below normal with slow warming trend Precipitation total near normal occurring mostly over weekend. Nevada No precipitation. Temperatures above normal, Wyoming Temperatures expected to average near normal west of the Divide and a Little above in the east with frequent changes. Showers at lower elevations and snows in thq mountains the first of next week. NEW YORK, April 1 Light rein and thunderstorms fell Friday from the central Gulf states northward into the middle Mississippi and western Ohio valleys and over Iowa, northeast fiesourt and the Pacific Northwest. Snow epixed with rain occurred from , the northern plains states eastward to the upper Lake resion. It was warmer over the Ohio valley and the Great Lakes. Cooler were noted from the temperatures Great Plains westward to the Rockies LEGEND aouo, RAIN O acSK SN0W WARM FRONT! COLD STATIC FRONT! front; SHOWtR?F snow FLURRIES m L.-- J WINDf WO VM Cloudiness with possibility of scattered rain, snow is expected in northern Utah Sat f t, rut.. ) OFFICIALS east Sunday. Hfffc Lew Free, Albuquerque 60 37 39 49 Tr. Atlanta 79 49 19 44 Bryce Canyon 82 Miami 74 Cedar City 53 80 76 53 New Orleans 1 87 Coalville 53 38 05 Okalahoma City 66 49 05 Delta 53 39 Tr. Phoenix 54 8) Green River 33 50 84 63 San Antonie Losan 30 45 .51 St. Louis 74 45 51 Mlltord . 30 Salt Lake Weather Data Precipita33 49 .11 tion Otden for ended ' period Friday Provo 34 90 .10 at 5 21 ins precipitation for Boose vett 54 37 pm. .14 in , accumulative excess. 51 33 Salt Lake Airport .31 April, i 08 In since Oct. 1, 50 precipitation St. George 70 defiin ; accumulative Wendover 39 50 Tr. 1959, 6.36 ciency. 1 76 in ; sunrise Saturday. Mate 6.10; tunaei, 6 34. Boise 33 04 63 31 35 Burley Salt Lake City and vldahy Partly 39 Idaho Falls 49 Pocatello cloudy through Sunday with a few 50 35 scattered afternoon showers over surtatenaeiaUlm States mountain 'Saturday. Rising 31 40 Butte Tr. rounding tempera Ufea. Highs Satur38 43 Tr. daytime Cheyenne day high Sunday lowj-35- ; 38 Denver 48 51 Elko 33 33 Tr. 50 Ely Utah Partly through SunEvanston 34 , 31 Tr. day with a fewcloudy scattered afternoon Grand Junction 61' 34 showers northern mountains SaturLas Vesaa 66 77 Rising daytime temperatures. day 63 Reno 3. lows 95-4Highs Saturday 35-7Rock Springs 14 39 60-7Sheridan 13 48 Tr. highs Sunday 11 Wert Yellowitona 43 Tr. Saathaaateni ' Idakw Partly sunny Saturday and Sunday! a little warmFalflg States er Saturday and Saturday night. 14 30 Anchorage lows 32-4Highs , -- 9 Fairbanka U Honolulu 67 94 Seetfcwestcre Vdahe Partly sunny 39 33 02 Juneau Saturday; partly cloddy Saturday 80 Loe Angeles 59 night, Increasing cloudiness Sunday 51 Portland "49 with chance of a few afternoon show77 San Diego 51 ers Warmer Saturday and Saturday 63 52 San Francisco lows 34-4night Highs 52-643 56 Seattle 53 32 02 Spokane Nevada Partly cloudy northeast Midwest Saturday, otherwise fair Saturday Tr. and Sunday Warmer Saturday and Bismarck 35 39 Blandlnf AMERICANS Chicago Detroit Duluth Kansas City Minneapolis Omaha CITY nounced 20 Utahn Heads Area Rotary . - days from Friday, they make written application for exemption and show good cause why they should not be retired, said Mr. Hottinger. .. He said the exemption appli. cations must receive approval of the commissioner in charge of the department in which the employe works and the full commission, 30 Widow Wins ... THE ORDINANCE provides $6,875 on that any officer or employe who has worked for the city S.L. Ruling years or longer may VA Administrator to Arrive for at the option of tire at age The widow of a Salt Lake the commission and upon reaching may retire at his City police officer, who served option. for years, is going to receive To Visit S.L. Installations The employes who retire will Dappled Overcast to Dominate Area . At least five employes 70 years of age or over have been retired prior to or since the Salt Lake City Commission approved an ordinance Wednesday which automatically reunless leases the the commission decides to retain them. 56 Wage-earner- , of- among 5 S.L. Workers Past 70 Retired, Report Notes Jury found Ivan Jay Kartchner, 37, W. 3rd South, guilty of drunken driving, court records showed Friday. Sentencing was continued to Thursday. continually, James W. Challis, city memtraffic engineer and ber of the council, said. "Enforcement, for example, does not take effect on the day or month It js applied. Results are discernible only over a long period and it Is possible that lack of a continuing program has contributed In part to this situation, the engineer added. ficers assigned to the traffic .division, which engages only 18 per cent. Instead o the recommended 23 per cent, of the total police force; a change in driver attitudes during AN INNOCENT plea also was entered by Hugh C. Sutton, 33, 4520 6. State, to a charge of drunken driving. Trial was set for April 25. Burt Grey mountain, 25, Grantsville, pleaded guilty to having no drivers license and was fined $35 and sentenced to seven days in jail, with the term suspended on payment of the line: A PROBLEMS which result in traffic accidents must be attacked , TURNOVER HEAVY 2 Found Guilty in Absentia On Tipsy Driving Counts Two. Salt Lake motorists charged with drunken driving were found guilty In absentia Friday in Traffic Court by Judge J. Patton Neeley. BENCH WARRANTS were the last year and weather conditions were among reasons cited as causes for the increase in traffic accidents and fatalities. vision of Public Safety Department and who was a guest at the luncheon meeting, listened intently to discussions that followed. Lack of detailed analyses on accident causes precluded agreement among council members on a single factor contributing to the unfavorable record. urday. Skies over remainder of region to vary from clear to considerably cloudy. , |
