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Show V r V V V X , V Ion C am H Cel Equality By Craig Hansen Tribune Staff U nter With doors opening to women there's still one which is usually barred the iron gate to incarceration Third District Judge Jay E. Banks agrees, pointing out women are seldom invoked in violent crimes In 1972, Salt Lake City Police charged I.3S0 women for crimes about 10 percent of the total, while 15 years ago. women figured in about 5 percent of the complaints. Their crimes are mostly minor such as shoplifting. And theyre impulsive. The women dont know why they did them, says the former district attorney. City Judge Maurice D. Jones says even if a woman is caught committing a crime, her victim may refuse to prosecute because hes sympathetic. , GREAT MONTH: March is the tradi--' and tional month of gusty winds March is the month when members of the Utah Legist 's ture have all returned home and the state slowly one-yea- Column B-- And March is a month for great beIrishman cause St. Patricks Day falls on March 17 and all the Lt. Don A. Strong said Deputy and Deputy David J. Miller were The suspect, a man m his early 40s, dispatched to 3569 Warr Rd. (2985 South) was being questioned late Saturday by at 8.38 p m. on a report of a man choking detectives at the Metropolitan Hall of a child. He said it was the second time Just.ce. deputies had been summoned to the adDeputy Colebrook, East, is dress in recent weeks. survived by his widow, Jean, and three After arriving, Lt. Strong said Deputy children They are former Bountiful Colebrook found the man with the child Cole-broo- k 6758-24S- 5 1 A Miracle i mss three main coronary arteries. Light, lower left, foreground, can bend to see under Two surgeons graft the internal mammary artery to replace part of one of the hearts Of Modern tient and excited. We were on our way to the sixth floor to watch a coronary artery operation, one of three performed daily. The elevator finally came. It was fairly crowded as we rode up. (Hospitals are quite busy Where was the elevator? It seemed like Lynn (Johnson, Tribune staff photographer) and I had been waiting an awfully long time for it. Medicine Standing in the hall at LDS Hospital, Lynn with a satchel full of film, lenses and two cameras and I with a notebook and two pens (in case one ran out of ink), were impa-- . '?Q& X' v'v X at '''"' t and on March 13, Chester . . . Greenwood was issued a patent for the 1860 worth close to $3 billion today isnt that a happy thought? . . . v . . r . but television in those days .wouldnt FDR have been great on the tube? No SAM. TIIE SAD CYNIC, SA S: I Hi m i ' rem-arkabl- y said the mortality rate was 3.4 percent. But if you are walking down the street and have a heart attack, the risk of dying is about 60 percent. The heart, a muscular pump, has three main coronary arteries. The patient that day would have parts of all three arteries replaced. four-chambere- t H 1 fh) , .1 A X t- v xi More than a dozen types of surgical instruments were used dur operation. ing the open-heaSurgery lasted over five hours. rt up. Mrs. Eaton had installed two padlocks to the batteries to prevent the thefts. They didnt help. Salt Lake police said the thieves Used a saw to cut through the two W he.explained. l Of the some 200 such operations Dr. X has performed, he t 4 Losses Charged At least thats what Vada Eaton, 831 Edison St. (140 East), must think. She's had four batteries slolen from her car since last December This week, another $30 batten was taken from her auto. X-r- The risk for such coronary operations is low. artery After reading Valentines eulogy to ' the month of March, I can hardly wait for April to get here. Sometimes you just want to give y Low Risk : To Batteryr Thief rt blood supply, . And March was a great month in the on history of the Democratic Party the evening of March 12, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the first of his famous fireside chats to the Amer- -' ican people over the radio. 1 As we sipped cups of coffee, Dr. X (he wished to remain said anonymous) patients, surgery, prior to open-heahave an arteriogram. If the heart muscle is intact and not destroyed by infarcts (scar tissue), we can graft arteries to increase the . prohibiting polygamy was enacted And on March 8, 1894, New York City issued the first dog license in the entire world . . . ' i surgical team. high-spee- d With a local angle, it's nice to know that on March 22, 1882, the Federal law . surgical garb. It wasnt the first time either of us had put on these unflattering but really not uncomfortable-outf- its. Wed watched opera- opaque fluid is through a coronary artery while motion picture photography records the passage of the dye: The arteriogram detects blood vessel disorders and gives the physician a detailed map of the coronary arteries. ' , 'I injected on the washing machine! And on March 30, 1858, a patent was issued to the inventor of the first pencil with an eraser attached! Youve got to admit, March is quite a month. ' March is famous for other great events, also. , On the sixth floor, we from our street changed clothes into the pale green An V Dont go away, were just starting. The rivet was patented on March 23, 1794 (which, Ill admit, is not of much but on March 28, 1797, local interest) the women of the world received a terrific break: the first patent was granted . i a.m.). ight-member On March 10, 1791, John Stone patent- ed the first pile driver Story by Barbara Springer Tribune Medical Writer thoracic-cardiovascul- On March 7. 1876, the patent for the first telephone was issued to Alexander if your great greatgrandGraham Bell father had invested 10 bucks in Mr. Bells new gadget on that day you would and muscular pump. Head Team Dressed, we talked with the sur-- t geon who would head the Look at the list: '"be 7:30 nooks and crannies of the heart, a tions before. first earmuff. These are not just isolated incidences. March is a very special month for v f i For some reason or other, more great i inventions have been patented during March than any other month. I dont mean just little inventions. I i i I - mean inventions that have changed the t i course of history. f - Like the corkscrew! And the earmuff! Its true. The first American patent for the corkscrew was issued March 27, i 1 ? . . the child down. Both deputies tried to arrest the man and as they did, the assailant grabbed Deputy Miller's .38 caliber revolver and shot Deputy Colebrook near his right ear The deputy fell to the floor dead Deputy Miller then subdued the suspect. Lt. Strong said, and other officers were summoned to the scene. Heart: March is when people start worrying about their income tax returns . . . and March is the month when schoolchildren (and teachers) start counting the days until summer vacation . . And march is the month when people start saving up for vacations . and March is the month when most of the Christmas bills are finally paid We all know these things about But the month of March has March. another claim to fame: Its the month of great inventions! , m his hands and talked him into putting Human back to gets normal. local Swedes, Scotsmen and Lithuanians go out and get drunk to celebrate. , VV the ... Dan Valentine By Brian Nutting Tribune Staff nter . . A Salt Lake County deputy sheriff was slain with his partner's service revolver as he attempted to stop a man from choking his baby Saturday night r Dead is Melvin C. Colebrook. a veteran of the department. i epairing Nothing Serious s X. Deputy can't drug-relate- d See Page f ! Dan Valentines t you But. if the court finds a woman guilty, she gets the same presentencing report a man gets That's where investigators for the State Adult Parole and Probation Department begin Kathy Cochran, an investigator, says the woman's background is thoroughly studied before any sentence recommendation is made Most of the women we get are m trouble. Theyre either doing it for their husbands, boyfriends or themselves, the investigator says. Other major crimes for women are grand larceny, forgery', fraudulent use of credit cards and shoplifting, Mrs Coch- - were getting caught stealing a $2 brassiere after they'd bought a $50 coat It was hard for the merchant to prosecute. the judge says One woman caught, but not taken to court because she was a "good customer", says she thought she paid too much for the items m the store and decided to steal something to make up for it "1 wondered if I'd get caught, but now I know it wasnt worth it. I could just die, she says. Chivalry often goes to bat for a woman involved in felonies, the judges ' say. woman commits a burglary When a with her husband or boyfriend and theyre caught, the man says he forced , Checks Child Case' her to help and it's duress convict her. Judge Jones notes ith shoplifting. Judge Jones says one merchant installed an antitheft system and caught scores of women Too many , fr A4 Pholos bv Lynn R. Johnson Tribune Staff Photographer While surgeons work on the heart, foregroundVa dispensible vein is temoved from the patients middle thigh. Vein will be used as artery graft. d Dr. X explained that if a coronary artery operation is performed on all three arteries, the operative mortality is no worse than for a single graft and the mortality rate within five years is about 10 percent. In contrast, if no operation is performed, the mortality rate is about 52 percent. Still a Question Stressing that its important that an accurate diagnosis be made "because many other diseases can mask as atherosof the clerosis (hardening arteries)," Dr, X said, As of now, the oldest operation of this sort is just over five veurs. We dont know for cei- - taint yet if grafting of artenes will prolong a patients life or even dimmish the possibility of recurrent heart attacks. It was time to go. As we walked down the hall, Dr. X explained that the patient, a woman in her 50s, had several strikes against her in addition to atherosclerosis. Shes obese, has high blood pressure and diabetes and had a hysterectomy a long time ago (without any subsecuent hormonal treat. Shes a bad canments;. didate. . . Me entered the operating room at about 8 15 a.m. (the patient had been there for about 30 minutes). My first impression was of the everpresent pale green on the walls, patient drapes, surgical garb the masked people and a huge tray of surgical instruments. We use about a dozen different tools in the opera-- , tion, Dr, X explained. The medical people are informal during an operation. There may be a joke or two, some swearing, some endearing phrases. It couldnt-a- nd shouldnt be any other way. For one thing, it helps to relieve tension After meeting the other members of the surgical See Page B-- Column 1 |