Show Obituaries Classifieds Standard-Examine- r Saturday December 3 1988 Supremacist lecture taped Dustin’s condition improves to help police By PAT BEAN By LISA CARR'CABURU i t y ft S3f dose our borders?" he said “I am not here to preach hate” OGDEN — When Ogden PoMasker said “But I am here to lice Chief Joe Ritchie insited a say have just as much right to white supremacist to brief police preach while heritage as minoriofficers during private sessions ties do (to preach pride in their three weeks ago he said he did it races) I want to take the opporbecause he wanted them to be tunity to teach white people how flabbergasted by the man’s hatred they're being victimized” and bigotry Masker who was fired from his Ritchie said he believes the sesas a Corvallis Ore water sujob sions will make his officers better pers isor for preaching racial inlaw enforcement officials and he tolerance and was divorced by his had the sessions taped to use for first wife for the same reason future police training shared theories that include The chief recently invited repreThe Holocaust never actually r sentatives from the occurred but was created by the to screen a videotape of the second of Richard Masker's Jews who wanted the world to feel sorry for them after World four sessions with police officers War II Masker told police offiexThe tape revealed Masker cers 387000 Jew s died of starvapounding his views that the Hotion and typhoid during the war locaust was a hoax and that AIDS were assassinated He none but e is a virus Listening to in Nazi death said chambers gas Masker are skeptical but interestwere constructed by Jews camps ed police officers who finished after the war was over the session with agitate ed questions for the man AIDS is a virus “You’re going to think every- cultured in Russia by the Jew's thing I have to tell you is insane and let loose in Africa Masker but that’s because you’ve been said the Jews created the virus conditioned by the system to debecause they want to eliminate ny the truth" the former member millions and incite destruction of the Aryan Nations and founder that will start a massive revolution of the International Conspiratolo-gicAssociation told police offiThe women’s movement is a cers during the Nov 8 session at Jewish plot conceived to incite the Ogden Animal Shelter unrest “The white male is being “You may think it's insane but told he is nothing in our society” I challenge you to prove me Masker said He said the entire wrong” he repeated several times movement has been initiated by lecture five female Jews including Glothroughout his “No one has ever told me I'm ria Steinem and Bella Abzug wrong” he said “They’ve either Jews have infiltrated Amerisaid I'm right or they didn't know can movies through Jewish direcwhat I was talking about tors like Steven Spielberg At the start of the taped session Ritchie warned his officers that "They're trying to dehumanize and barbarianize our youth so they might be offended by the that when the revolution occurs lecture they were about to hear Masker began by alleging a the body count will be at a maximum” Masker said crime that he calls “international As Masker was preparing to angenocidal rape” is being commitswer officer’s questions he ted in the world said and “If paused emphatically The Coucr d'Alene Idaho man you can’t see there is a conspirasaid he believes Jews began a prothen you are fools” gram for world domination in cy Masker characterized himself as 700 BC and have since infiltrata white middle-clas- s d ed every faction of US religion mirror-imag- e “I man am the politics media economics and of you” he told police education officers He said an international He said he and his followers are coalition is using racial minorities as “cannon not racists but rather American fodder” to incite racial rioting patriots who are fighting to save their country and eventually a major revolu“If I could just get on '60 Mintion utes’ or ‘48 Hours’ I could de“Minorities have been educated in Marxist terrorism that will be program Mr and Mrs America in one night” he said unleashed when revolution ocAlthough Masker’s visit to Ogcurs” he said den aroused protests from a Masker said racial minorities don’t realize they are being used group called aryanWatch Ritchie maintains his view that the sesby the conspiracy which allows sions were a positive experience minorities to immigrate freely in- for police officers who left with a to the United States specifically belter understanding of the thinkfor the purpose of starting the ing that motivates the nation's revolution white supremacists “You can’t get that kind of in“Why is it that we can put a man on the moon but we can't nuendo reading a book” he said SU-c- SALT LAKE CITY — The neurosurgeon who partially separated the two Dustin Howhemispheres of ard's brain says the Brigham City boy already seems as good as before last week’s operation “As far as I can tell he’s as good now as he was he's back to his base line” said Dr S David Moss of Primary Children's Medical Center Moss performed a corpus callosotomy on Dustin a procedure in which he sepof the fiber bundles arated connecting the two halves of the brain ” so as to the boy's epilep- 1 two-thir- “short-circuit- Standard-Examine- tic seizures Dustin suffered from daily sudden-dro- p seizures which required him to wear a helmet and face shield to avoid serious injuries The seizures could not be controlled by medicationo The boy’s father Ron Howard said “The family’s been really tickled with Dustin's progress" But he said Thursday that he thinks his son who is moderately retarded as a result of an epileptic seizure w hen he was 2 years old is eager to come home — something that should happen about the middle of next week child DusNormally a very tin came back from therapy Wednesday “mad at the world I think maybe his head hurt some and he was just tired of being pushed around” his father said Moss said the physical educational and speech therapy Dustin is undergoing at Primary Children’s is something that wasn’t possible before the operation “The boy couldn’t cooperate and learn because he had so many seizures” Moss explained He said it was decided to keep Dustin at the hospital awhile longer to let the rehabilitation team work with him Moss said since the operation Dustin has “only had three minor seizures and one that was a little more “But we expected him to have a few major seizures the first four to five weeks after the operation He’s really doing much better than we expected” man-mad- two-ho- ur man-mad- easy-goin- g al two-ho- Moss said The four-hocorpus callosotomy on Dustin was the first such operation to be performed in Utah Moss said its success paves the way for a second one this time on a child from Idaho the first week in January ur Gary ClarkStandard-Examine- ur college-educate- r Dustin Howard pulls physical therapist Leslie Vogel down hall as part of therapy Zion-ist-Marx- Archuleta denies hitting boy hard By MARK PETERSON SljnctdrO trammer Staff OGDEN — Frank Leroy Archuleta took the stand in his own defense Friday and said that while he did hit Preston Douglas Sherman for wetting his pants he did not hit him very hard Archuleta a sound technician for a local band also said he had concerns about the boy’s health because every time he returned from band practice he found new bruises on Preston's body “Every time I’d go to band practice he'd have a new bruise" Archuleta said “Every other day he’d always have a new bruise" Archuleta was the last witness to be called murder by the defense in his second-degre- e trial which began Tuesday before 2nd District Court Judge David E Roth He is accused of causing Preston's death July 31 by beating him over a period of several months He is scheduled to be by Deputy Weber County Attorney William Daincs on Monday when the trial resumes In addition to Archuleta defense attorney Martin Gravis called to the stand three of Ar cross-examin- chuleta’s friends his nephew a records officer at McKay-De- e Hospital and recalled Preston's mother Nancy Delgado Archuleta 29 testified that he spanked Preston for wetting his pants but denied claims by prosecution witnesses that he pulled the boy's pants down and hit him hard He admitted to putting the boy in a bathtub of cold water for defecating in his pants but disputed putting ice in the water as prosecution witnesses had said See ARCHULETA on 2C Judge declines to reinstate three men’s suit against 0 SCOTT BONTZ SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge told three men who claim brain damage from chemicals at Hill Air Force Base that they might get more relief from Congress but not through his court US District Court Judge Bruce Jenkins on Friday denied the former Hill workers' motion for him to set aside his dismissal of the case eight years ago Noting that the third man is finally about to begin receiving compensation through the Federal Employment Compensation Act Jenkins said “If nothing else I guess we've been something of a catalyst" Richard Dibblce lawyer for plaintiffs Carlos Martinez Clifford Buckley and James Galetka said after Jenkins' decision “I don’t know that there's much we can do” The trio sued in 1979 under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging they were permanently disabled by chemicals while working maintenance and repair jobs at Hill All three eventually left the base on medical retirement Jenkins dismissed the suit in 1980 ruling the men had not exhausted their remedies under FECA He also said no further suits could be filed unless a relationship was found between the chemicals and the plaintiffs' cause-effe- ct disabilities It was years before the men — Galetka just last month — satisfied the Department of Labor that they did suffer brain ’damage from the chemicals The judge agreed Nov 3 to reconsider his dismissal because there was a question whether government lawyers in the original hearings were correct in their descriptions of how FEC A covered brain damage Friday’s presentations by Assistant e US Attorney Glen Dawson and concentrated on what the plaintiffs Dib-ble- could get through FECA Dawson said the men were receiving all that was appropriate under the law while Dibblec said he wished the law would be changed Dawson said brain damage is not considered a permanent injury in FECA rules disqualifying the plaintiffs from automatic regular and indefinite compensation payments Only the loss of both hands both feet or Nath eyes qualifies as permanent injury However Dawson said the temporary compensation payments being received by Martinez and Buckley and about to be received by Galetka give them the Hill same amounts provided for permanent disablement That is 75 percent of their salaries when they left government service adjusted fi r inflation The difference between the permanent and temporary classifications is that the former automatically entitles a claimant to benefits indefinitely while the later requires a claimant to periodically get confirmation from a doctor that he continues to suffer a debilitating handicap Dibblce said the request for Jenkins to reconsider was based on the proposition that the government did not provide for his clients through FECA See SUIT on 2C Roy woman attains goals by not taking advantage of situation ROY — Velma Saunders was up at three in the morning battling a headache and figuring out ways to handle a couple of city councilmcn “They were hard ones" she recalled about the councilmcn “I knew I had to come up with something by the morning and I knew I had to win" Saunders won that battle which led to the establishment of the Marshall White Center in Ogden Her victory came as no surprise to those who know her “Whatever I want to do I can do but I don't take advantage of the situation" Saunders a longtime community strategist has waged successful battles that have resulted in a senior citizen center a food kitchen for the elderly and a children's Wo Salute By Arry Jot F'fSon s ‘'u or- - playground to name a few The Roy dynamo who turned 79 on Friday was recognized for some of those efforts on Nov 22 when the Roy City Council named her outstanding citizen of the year The liny spitfire seated in the living room of her Roy mobile home waved her hand in the air as to dismiss the award “The plaques arc nice but they don’t mean anything to me I thrive on helping people — that is what I live for It's what keeps me going The biggest reward is the smiles I get when I help someone" Besides the smiles Saunders said her motivation for helping others is based on her attitude about God “God gifted us with the ability to do it is there some service to help others for us to do" Her home in fact is decorated with religious icons: a bust of Jesus a picture of the Last Supper and several elaborate Christmas nativity scenes Her living room is comfortably cozy sprinkled with items she has picked up from visits to places like Japan Australia and Hong Kong “I'm not selfish but I'm content I have a nice home and I could sit around here all day but honey I'd be bored to tears" she said vehemently “TV! There's nothing on it anymore I do like ‘60 Minutes’ and anything to do with news But I can't sit on my butt all day" Indeed Saunders’ energy level seems to increase as she takes on a project or new challenge “I like being active and seeing things happen" Being active has meant a string of awards for the Louisiana native Her list of affiliations — from the Red Cross and McKay-De- e Foundation to the Altrusa Gub and American Business Women’s Av soeiation — is a long one In addition to her civic activities Saunders has worked for the past 20 years as a See SAUNDERS on 2C Velma Saunders |