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Show Tangle on Snowy Freeway Kills Driver, By Dave Bni k Tribune Staff Wnter A sneak snowtoim fouled up traffic throughout the Salt Lake Valley Monday morning and turned an overpass on the freevay into a sea of twisted metal in which one woman was killed. Most of the snow the National Weather Service recorded 3.7 inches fell between 5 a.m. and 11 a.m., and the bulk of that in the hours of dawn. It made streets and roads throughout the county slick, and accidents were common. But only the one on the freeway proved deadly. It occurred shortly before 7 a.m. on the overpass at 17th South. It actually was a series of accidents, one involving 15 cars, one involving four cars, and about 10 others involving two or thiee cars each. Al! told, nearly 50 cars became entangled, all of them crowded into a stretch of the overpass about a block long. Oil Way to Work 4 a 4 m H8 rV. r - It,' - J I 4 y-- af " , Holy Cross Hospital. Seven others were injured in the first accident, none of them seriously, though several were taken to hospitals. In the second part of the accident, one person was injured, and in the series of smaller accidents that followed, two wete t c I"' 1v5 .. i' i , i i ' ' . rk ' 8 Tribune Staff Photo by Van E. Porter 1-- collision drew every man the Utah Highway Patrol had on duty at the time. One trooper, John Spadevic-chiblamed it on the drivers refusal to The chain injured. But the only serious injury was tli one that killed Mrs. Hewson. a, Draws Every Man On Duty It tcok two hours to clear the wreckage on the overpass, and snowplows literally plowed the debris away. The freeway was closed from 24th South to 6th South, and those who were trapped on the freethere were way before the accident were held up for about an hundreds hour before they could get off. By Roger O. Porter everyone rushing adjust to conditions, d streets. to woik on these If theyd just slow' down, most of these accidents would have been prevented. The big trouble is that the people want to leave for work at the same time and arrive for work at the same time as snow-covere- Tribune Staff Writer Given the religion and the philosophy of the South Vietnamese people, the election of the Thieu-Kregime to head .hat country was a necessity as theyre the only ones strong enough to hold the country together. y Maj. Donald E. Arther, chaplain at Ihe Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, said Monday at Westminster College that the Vietnamese people began to realize after the ouster of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime in 1963 that the biggest threat to the country was anar - But the majority is a mixture of Confucianism, Taoism and a Chinese form of he called Mahayana BudBuddhism dhism. Central to this mix is the belief that the family unit is the only legitimate social or political organization. Also basic, he continued, is Confucianism which has no trained clergy and no official doctrine. It is a religion of customs and ethics, with teachers of these customs and ethics being the most revered persons in the country. But because there are no clergymen in the religious mixture, Maj. Arther said, the people line up behind the classical Buddhist monks during times of religious strife. This is what happened in 1963, he said, w'hen the Diem regime was overthrown. But when the job was done the people became apathetic and largely unwilling to follow the leadership of Dan Valentine's IVolhiug Serious JUST RAMBLING: Women's lib Fnt new. Back in the year 1920 Jackson Hole, Wyo., had a female town marshal by the name of Mrs. Perl ' Williams . . . If you think the ' j; government is just wasting tax 4 money, heres a 1 little news item I that will brighten I your day: Utah State University i . t . $ has just received a tw s . grant 0 m600 10 alentine Dan olfactory study communications in mammals. . . . Because of its historical background, Utah is probably the greatest Smith state in the union. No doubt, percentagewise. there are more people named Smith in Utah than in any other state. Still, Smiths are going well everywhere these days. ' The Veterans Administration in Washington, D. C., reports there are 310,000 veterans named Smith in their master files including no less than 13,130 veterans by the name of John Smith. ' Heres a little switch that should make ou Irishmen happy: To celebrate the St. Patricks Day Wednesday Ogden Rotary Club is sponsoring a Mexican dance . . . ' A womens lib advocate writes in to say that .she and her colleagues are trying to make the United States a place where every young girl has the chance to grow up and become president ! Shun Utahns Pica The Utaii Legislate es plea that U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam be humanely treated was refused by the last delegation month. Secretary of State Clyde L. Miller learned Monday. An official letter from the Legislature, transmitted by Mr. Miller Feb. 5, was sent back with the opened but complete, written on the refused word Paris peace envelope. The letter, which had been sent registered and air mail, v bore several Paris dated around Feb. 15. It was addressed io Prem.cr Plwrn Van Dong. Noi til Vietnam in care of the Pans 5 premier, peace delegation. AWV A MARRIAGE expert says that if a woman is having a hard time holding her husband she should take an airline trip. The divorce rate among former airline stewardesses is far below the average. The reason is that airline stewardesses, by their very training, know how to treat a man. So, wives, if your marriage is and sagging, take a trip on a plane see how the experts do it. (I dont fully in the past two years agree about this Ive had three airline stewardesses drop coffee on my lap. In 24 years of marriage, Elaine has never once dropped a cup of coffee on my lap. But she did throw a dish of chocolate pudding in my face once. But that doesnt count. Airline stewardesses dont serve chocolate pud- on a normal day when roads It just cant be done. are dry. Highway Patrol Sgt. Richard Groves estimated the damage to the vehicles involved at $50,000. But many others incurred only minor damage and fled the scene, he said. Sun Steams Streets Dry the slick road obviously once the chain reactions He said contributed Sheep Gulped Number of Religions i an estimated 50 cars and left one woman dead and many injured, but none seriously. j anyone. The only other leaders in the country come from the ranks of the military and the Communists, he said. All others he said, either were Killed or eliminated by the French during the 1930s. The Communists were spared because the French didnt fear them at the time, he said. ding . . .) And the choice that remained was beITS A WONDER there are any people tween the Communists or what he called left in Wyoming. Official figures show the French lackeys such as Diem. He said iliici and Ky are of this ilk, but that 13 out of every 100 Wyoming citizens second generation. move out of the state each year. On the The Thieu-Kother hand, the population in Nevada is regime may only be an interim each government, he implied, while exploding year Nevada has an in migration of 29 percent. Can you other leadership develops. This is so imagine anyone in his right mind moving partly because in the religious mixture of out of beautiful Wyoming to dry, arid the country, teachers are the most revNevada? . . . ered while military men are the least This year Americans will throw away revered. 15 billion empty cans. Thats 15 empty Their election was relatively free and cans for every living person on earth. open, he said, when one considers that Just think, theres a fellow living over in the Thieu-Kregime is the first popularAfrica, and he only throws two empty ly elected government in Vietnam in cans away each year that means 2,000 jears. youve got to throw 28 cans away just to "I've been amazed so far, Maj. ArthNo the Ameriwonder keep up average. er said. The Thieu-K- y government has cans are so tired these days were been far more I would have than popular throwing all the cans for the entire imagined. But the election of 1972 in world! . . . Vietnam will be far more interesting in TODAYS VALENTINE terms of the country's future direction, he added. Taxpayers are always eager to complain about poor and inefficient service by public servants. So how about a big public pat on the back for some Utah state woik-er- s i who do a great job? I'm talking about the men and In its nearly 100 sears of opeia-tiowomen who man The Salt Lake Tribune has rethe counters durported city hall conflicts and world ing the rush to buy had more characters on has was, automobile license a Hollywood movie, than its staff he lat minute. plates at a won Puhtzer Prize, and even Faced by thousands and thousands used carrier pigeons to relay news w ho put everyth min-u'off the until last jig film. these folks do a great job under All of this history, and a pressure. historv of the region had citIve several letters from Utah and the role The Tribune played in izens requesting a collective Valentine it. will unfold April 11, when the for these workers. I agree. newspaper presents its Centennial Eihion. They get the job done fast end effiand every year. A ciently Rotngravuie magaAnd a Valentine to ail . . . vou a will give zine of the evolution story h.LM, THE SU) CYNIC, S.VIS: from its early of thp i.cu.-papI think America was a belter place in circulation of 1.000 to its Iu7.000 of which to live when there was 5 handtoduv . stand in thh center of every town. it'll tell of crusading editors and v y Halogeton, Report Notes The 1.100 sheep which died Jan. after eating the poisonous range plant halogeton about 20 miles south of Garrison, Mihad llard literally County, themselves" on the gorged plant, a report by the State Agriculture Department noted 21 Monday. The report indicated that a previous dry summer hid kept plant growth at a minimum, with fall rains stimulating halogeton growth and with an early melting leaving short succulent plants available and attractive to range animals. The grazing site was the same one used by the Clarence Ingram family for 30 years, the report indicated, and the range consisted of sagebrush, shad-scalcedars, pinion pine, brigham tea, bunchgrass, cactus. rockplants, rabbitbrush, ryegrass and halogeton. The sheep had eaten young, more poisonous halogeton which was succulent and was available to the sheep, which had no supplementary feed as Is the custom in that locale and at that time of year, the report said. six-pag- e e, grea'-evvoo- County Approves Four Pay Raises Pay hikes of $167 and $20G a month were approved Monday by Salt Lake County commissioners for the Salt Palace manager and a flood control attor- so ferent otfioers were investigating 60,000 afternoon. Later in the day another brief snow squall struck Salt Lake City, dropping another .02 of piecipitntion But within half an hour the sun had come out to steam the streets diy. Hart-vig-e- teachers, patrons, administrators and business and industrial leadeis. students, They will participate e, never-told-beto- re live-yea- said. Utah Highway Department road plow and sanding crews are set up with men and equipment to dear major state roads once every 45 minutes during and after snowstorms. But it never happens that way, explained a district maintenance chief Monday, because the ideal time is based on no other vehicles on the road. Without other cars we could cover every state road once every 45 minutes, but people1 so often fail to yield to sanding trucks that our equipment gets stuck in traffic jams, explained Bob Whead-oDistrict Two maintenance engineer. If motorists would just squeeze to the right one or two feet to let our Sanders through, they'd find its much safer to get to their destination by following a sanding truck rather than leading one, he said. There are adequate crews available plus adequate equipment, he said, when snows strike. All becomes idle when trafs fic delays the equipment coming off shifts. Sanders usually travel 20 to 25 miles an hour on freeways, and somewhat less than this on such arteries as State Street, he said. He urged motorists to treat the vehicles almost like emergency vehicles, yielding to them without exception. The advice still can be heeded this year, he said, for a weather official told him Monday morning there were still several major snows predicted for the area through the end of the month. n, pie-viou- Director of Survey Named Directing the survey will be Dr. W. Harold Handley, diiector of secondary education, with Maurice VV. Johnson, vice principal. Cottonwood High School, as the coordinator. The survey is to be completed by April 1. Parents of students in the second, foui til, seventh and eleventh grades will be asked to fill out and return a questionnaire. Students in the third, sixth, ninth and tweltli grades will be asked to till in their own questionnaire. All students in the eighth and eleventh grades will participate in the speak-up- s in which small groups will discuss school issues. "We expect 45,090 persons to participate in these three phases, Mr. Johnson said. PTA to Conduct Speak-- l ps In addition, the Parent-Teache- r Asm. will conduct speak-up- s for parents in the various schools and other students will participate in similar talks on small group levels, Mr. Johnson said. Some 700 businesses will be surveyed and Distributive Education students, armed with interview sheets, will contact other businesses and industries. In this phase it is hoped that contact will be made with the person in the business or industry who is closest to the hiring of students. We prefer this to the leader so that we can learn both the strengths and weaknesses of students who are being turned out into the business world from high school, Mr. Johnson said. Mir mki: akf (Tribune gait question, through and interviews, Supt. naires, speak-ups- , said. Ilartvigsen Purpose of the survey is !o obtain inr formation to implement a plan for the district in order to qualify for vocational funding under the federal Vocational Amendments of 1968. However, the district added to the basic survey questionnaire to get a reflection of the peoples attitudes toward the schools, he Slow Up Plows tEbe - PARK Upwards of will participate in a surpersons in the G. anof concerns educational vey n ile School District, Supt. Elmer J. announced Monday. Participating in the survey will be GRANITE many different parts of the accident. No citations had been issued Monday ney. The increase boosted the pay o, Salt Palace Manager Earl L. Duryea front $1,500 to $1,667. Salary of James A. McIntosh, flood control attorney, was increased from $900 a month to nwiY ritiiM m: h $1,100. r Mr. McIntosh's salary, $100 less than the $13,300 just paid to County Attorney Carl J. Nemelka, conies from the flood control budget and is outside the county attorney's control. $13.200-a-yea- Other pay raises approved by commissioners included John F. McNamara, detention center superintendent, $1,061 to $1,114, and Lamar B. Williams, development and promotion convention specialist, $965 to $1,011. Send Centennial Edition i n nrinoune io Friends uj er By George A. Sorensen Tribune Suburban Editor Official Reports Motorists One Choice Left e began, but lie was unable at the time to say how it started. Its difficult to bring it all together, he said. So many dif- Moe Over have developed along with their religious and philosophic notions during the last 2,000 years. He said most persons think the major religion of that country is Buddhism. But only 16 percent of the population is aligned with classical Buddhism. Another 10 percent are Catholics. chy, not Communism or Western influence. So in 1967 they elected freely and of their own accord Nguyen Van Thieu president and Nguyen Cao Ky vice president because they were strong enough to keep the country together, he said. Maj. Arther was the first-da- y speaker in Westminsters Living Issues Week. The threme of the event which continues through Friday is The Quality of Life. In an interview Monday afternc-'- . Maj. Arther, who lived with a Vietnamese family for a year while assigned to Ton San Nhut AFB, Vietnam, said the anarchistic characteristics of the Vietnamese v massive series of collisions in the early- morning snow. The chain reactions involved Wrecker crews work hard to dear overpass at 17th South of debris left by Westminsters Week oil Living Issues Opens With View of Life in Vietnam IS. Vie Is Granite to Quiz 60,000 on View of School A fc.1. , v Tage 13 Second Section i - Sports Tuesday, March 16, 1971 f at Office The dead woman was in the first batch of cars. Office's were unable to determine precisely what set the chain reaction off, but the car she was driving apparently was hit several times by different cars trom different angles. She was identified as Mrs. Stella Louise Bond Ilewson, 30, a bride of a month. She was going to work at the State Tax Commission in the Capitol when her Volkswagen became involved In the accident. She was pronounced dead on arrival at . Pape 16 Hrt i. in . "v TV Toilay, Local News artists, the original Salt Palare. the history of the sports page, recap the big stories of the past 100 years, political undertakings and numerous other topics never before published. It'll also have a history of it comic strips. 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