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Show UEA Delegates Want 12.1 .5rl Murder ( on iction $J)C Jurors Urge Death In Florida Electric Chair Sribnnr Pay Increase Salt fake Bundy By John Cunimin.s Tribune Education Editor Utah's teacher associations will send their negotiating teams to the bargaining table this spring determined to achieve at least 12.1 percent increases for teacher salary schedules. That amount plus funds to cover the annual pay increments received by qualifying teachers for additional service and training are minimum goals in a contract negotiations plan adopted Saturday during a special session of the Utah Education Associations House of Delegates at Highland High School. The delegates forming the association's legislative tydy were almost unanimous in adopting the negotiations plan, which demands considerable unity among local teacher groups. They cost-of-livi- also voiced a loud negative vote on proposals that the UEA adopt a hardline militant position. Among proposals rejected was one calling on UEA to reject actions of the recently concluded Legislature and demand a special session to reconsider public education appropriations. Also rejected was a proposal for a statewide withholding of teacher contracts until every local teacher group had achieved at least a 12.1 percent pay increase. The Legislature increased appropriations for public school operations by nearly $65 million or 14.8 percent. But the value of the Weighted Pupil Unit was increased by only 11 percent. The WPU is the cornerstone of the state formula for allocating funds to See Page Column Local News OWittiarirs. IVatiiro It-- 1 1 cost-of-livi- B-- Bundy refused to stand when the nidge formally proclaimed Imn guilty and he swung around Ins chair at the defense table to turn his hack on the judge Under Florida law. a jury that convicts a defendant in a murder case must also recommend a sentence, luit the recommendation is not binding on the judge. Uircuit Judge Wallace M Joplmg said lie would sentence Bundy on Tuesday Paula Schwed United Press International Fla. ORLANDO, Ignoring his tearful pleas that he he spared a third death sentence, the jury that convicted Theodore Bundy of the kidnap-nmrdc- r of a girl recommended Saturday that he die in the electric chair. The jury that convicted Bundy of the murder of Kimberly Diane leach returned its advisory sentence at 1:20 48 minutes after it began p in. MST deliberation Bundy remained expressionless as each of the five men and seven women jurors were polled By Sunday Morning, February 10, 1980 Section U 1 Page One In a bid to escape a third death Bundy put his redhnired fiancee on the witness stand to testify to his good character and then in a bizarre penalty. Utah Newsmen T old of Threat To First Amendment Rights By Diane Cole and Tim Fitzpatrick Gan-nett'- Press Banquet Mr. Neuharth, who is also chairman and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, addressed the Annual Utah Press Association banquet at the Little America Hotel, 500 Main. Citing recent Gallup and Harris polls, he told the audience that the American public feels good about newspapers and is generally pleased with the job they are doing. However, he said, people don't care about recent Supreme Court rulings involving newspaper searches and protection of reporters sources because they don't see how it affects them. What we have to do is explain to them that all parts of the First Amendment freedom of speech, religion and press and the rights to assemble and petition are interrelated. If one part is restricted, the whole thing suffers, he said. Instead of waving the press flag, we should wave the First Amendment flag." That, he said, will bring our problems into perspective. The public will see how vital press freedom is and let the courts know how it thinks, he said. If the public puts pressure on the (Chief Justice Warren E.) Burger Court, it will listen. Judges are politi cians, too, he added. But. at the same time, there are more Mr. Neuharth instructed UFA mem-tierweekly newspapers than ever before, to be vigilant in protecting their he said, adding that circulations in the smaller markets are rising rapidly constitutional rights. Earlier Saturday, the newsmen There is particular danger of infringement in small towns, he said. The heard a spokesman for the Church of Saints say weeklies and small dailies don't have Jesus Christ of Latter-dathe resources to endure a long court the church does not consider the news media the enemy, despite adverse battle. publicity generated by such recent events as the excommunication of Papers Vitality Sonia Johnson. Mr. Neuharth also assured the pubValue of Media' lishers and editors that newspapers, especially the smaller ones, will con"We appreciate what you're doing on tinue with vitality. the local level, said Heber G. Welsey, Some have taken the closing of a few managing director of the church's afternoon papers in the larger cities as Public Communications Department. a sign of decline, he said See Page l. Column 1 . y B-l- ' ' ' ' " ' S. II. Neuharth, chairman and president of Gannett Co., Allen Inc., addressed Utah newsmen at annual press convention. Dan Valentines 11 Nothin: Suriouy r Editor's Note: Dan Valentine is recuperating from an illness. This is one of his past columns. It's one of his favorites. I am happy to report that our neighborhood has a very high elass quality of trash . . . Nothing smudgy or eiteap . . . Real high- - class stuff . At first look, trash appears to Ik1 just what it is. .Trash! But actually, theres romance in A story in every box every barrel . I LIKE TO WALK WHEN THE DAWN FIRST BREAKS THROUGH When the sun first starts to flirt with the moun. . tain tups When the . . air . ... . For example, on one of the trash barrels, shimmering in the morning A dawn, was an old girdle stretched out. beaten, battered and torn is Ircsh and new, and not filled with diesel dust And the birds sing 1 like to walk in the early mornEspeing cially when its trash collection day in the neigh- ... . . WHAT STORIES THIS GIRDLE COULD TELL IF IT COULD TALK . . . , . borhood! . a man can learn about his ncighlmrhood by just glancing at the trash barrels in front ol tile It's amazing what houses Like, lur example, a lew mornings Too many couldnt sleep wor I'ies SO I STROLLED DOWN AND UP THE SIDEWALKS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD and, as 1 say, it was ago. e this . . . Perchance, girdle had danced at a Coventors Ball in the long ago Mayhap, this girdle had listened to a great opera, attended a banquet for the famed . Even a See what I mean? stretched-ou- l girdle oil a trash harrel has romance in the morning dawn . If you ltapsii to have a poet's soul On another trash barrel down the street lying in silent repose like two were two empty bottles old soldiers that once held Scotch! Immediately my opinion of the people It was an in that house went up expensive brand of Scotch, and I always say, show me a man who buys expensive Scotch and Ill show you a man who has a lot of friends. AH. THE THINGS YOU SEE ON GARBAGE DAY ON AN EARLY MORNING WALK . . . Old shoes, last week's magazines, bread wrappers polish bottles, beer Empty cans The stutf ol life Itsell An old rose One nylon slocking Two empty cans of what had unco And a lone sliver ol been beans celery standing tall and straight out ol a garbage can. lifting its leafy, slightly wilted fingers to the morning sky My greatest thrill came just as the. dawn hurst over the Wasatch Mount street tains, and flooded the vviHt the light of another morning. strolled past this one trash harrel, Was nml there, staring out at me my picture on the split page of Brave, unyesterday's Tribune but covered bowed still beautiful with rollec grounds' self-sam- ... 1 . trash collection day. The boxes and barrels stood like silent sentinels in the morniim dawn Ulniiv Offices Open on 2tli 1 Tuesday is Lincoln's birthday and he a holiday for slate, county and city employees However, there are lew changes , it will allectmg the general public. Federal offices will be open, there will he mail delivery and stores, banks and private offices, as well as schools, will lie open. State liquor outlets will be closed Metered parking will lie free. But otherwise, unless you have govern ment business on a state, enmity or eily level, you'll hardly notiee the (iil'loronee I tali Transit Authority buses will operate on a regular sehediilc Classes will he held at the t'niv ersity of Utah . . . . . , ... toe-na- il . still-silen- I . . . . THE S D CYNIC. SAYS: The trouble with having an average is that the intelligence these days average is sa low SM, $Mw. j them man and 3 ear-olBundv. a former Utah law student, already faces the electric chair lor the 19. s spuing ol two Florida Stale University coeds The Leach girl disappeared exactly two years ago Saturday, Felt. I). 1978. from the Lake City Junior High School where she was seventh grader Her partially clad body was found two months later in an abandoned farm yard near Live Oak Bundy decided to act as his own attorney Saturday and present the defense's argument and, although he stood stony-faceThursday when his conviction was announced, his final plea was a tearful one. "You have a hell of a hard job." said Bundy, wiping tears from his eyes. "I'm asking you to search your hearts now. the death penalty is a polite way of risking that I lie murdered. Talks for Forty Minutes Bundy completely broke down at the end of his argument and hud to pause several moments before continuing. lf I am killed for the murder of Kimberly Diane Leach and you were wrong, there is noway to correct it." he said. Bundy called his fiancee. Carole Boone, as his first and only witness and started by asking her to "describe for the jury the type of relationship we've had. Ms. Boone, a twice married mother of a boy, said they met while working for a government agency in Washington state in 1974. The friendship evolved into a more serious, she said. romantic sort of thing, Hes a warm, kind, patient man. Ms. Boone told the jury. I would hope you would come back with life rather than the death penalty." examination It was during of Ms. Boone that Bundy declared the two of them married. I want to make this very clear, he said solemnly. "Will you marry me?" Woman Answers Him "I will, Ms. Boone said. "I do hereby marry you. said. Thank you. Ms. Boone applied for a marriage license last Tuesday to marry Bundy, but it is against prison policy to permit condemned persons to marry. d On Ml If. H: .1 ' W V' Jerry Blair insinuated "better to wait until just before the penalty phase" of the trial before announcing their desire to marry. The prosecutor asked jurors to "carefully consider the timing of this little charade. ,i:i$ XfWr Yxlnla H Richard L. Bjornn Robert L. Finney Named Master Editor prosecutor Ms. Boone and Bundy decided it would be Jf New President Chuckle the government gets into more matters concerning medicines, doctors or drugs, the president will have to Reports of Rape Increase Across V alley, But Statistics Could Prove Misleading Editor's Note: Statistics show reported rapes have increased dramatically in the Salt Lake Valiev. In this firt installment of a three-par- t series, Tribune Staff Writer Mike Carter explains why the be could misleading. figures njiLrYWWNWrtiA By Mike Carter Tribune Staff Writer During 1979, the number ol rapes reported in the Salt Lake Valley rose more than 27 percent, the largest statistical increase recorded in a number of years. Rape investigators say the jump has them concerned, but ail agree the figures tnay be misleading. The in crease, they claim, does not necessarily mean more rapes have been committed. Officials in the Salt Luke County Attorneys Office, as well as rac investigators for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department and Saif Lake City Police Department, attribute at least part of this increase to more victims reporting the crime than in the past But at the same time, they arc reluctant to attribute the entire m crease to this reason. More Trust in Police? Detective Sgt. Dean Carr, head ol the Salt Lake County morals squad, said. "Police are being trusted more by citizens than in the past. 1 cant deny that there have been more rapes. But, then again, were getting more victims to report the crime, and we're getting more arrests and more convictions." Detective Krista Pickens, rape investigator for the Salt Lake City Police Department, also attributes at least part of the increase to victims reimrtmg liie rape to police. This, she said, is the result of the system being more aware of the victims' needs. "1 think it's a myth that cops don't care about rape victims," Detective Pickens said "In the past, officers simply weren't trained to handle tills type of situation. The victims were uncomfortable, and so were the police officers They often felt embarrassed the crime had happened in the first place. Both investigators said they teel the increase in victims reporting thc-- i i line makes lip only a portion of the tot.il increase Population increases and resulting increases in crime also play a niaior role IhUi tlir Mai M les iUn dIimI h sheriff's office and the city police department show a marked increase in rapes during the year ended Dec. 31, investigated 155 rapes. This compares taking place in the summer months. with 128 rapes reported in 1978. This winter, however, proved to be an exception, Sgt. Carr said. Detective Pickens acknowledged that 1979. the two rape investigators for' "It certainly has been an atypical Burke Wells, statistician for the the city police "have kept very busy season for sex crimes, he said. "We've sheriff's department, said the county tiiis past year. She said her office shown an increase where one doesn't showed a 27.9 percent increase in rapes handles between two and 1(1 rape cases usually apear." This may be partially a month, depending on the time of year. during that period. due to the unusually warm weather In 1978, the county investigated and experienced earlier in the season, he confirmed 43 rapes, compared with 55 Show Similar Rates said. during 1979. Mr. Wells noted that there other "There is a direct correlation bevarious by Figures provided was a 41 ercent increase in attempted the valley tween violent crimes and temperature, through police departments rapes in the same period. In 1978, there also showed an increase in the numlier according to the people who do those were 13 attempted rapes in Salt Lake of kinds of studies. Sgt. Carr continued reported rapes. Murray, during 1978, 24 to In that 1979, County. figure jumped "Summer usually is particularly bad three rapes. In 1979. there investigated such incidents. were five, according to statisticians. because people are out more. Aware of Increase For example, in Salt Lake City, there Sandy Police investigated three morals rapes in 1978, and four in 1979. Midvale were 22 rapes reported in June 1979. In Sgt Carr said his three-ma- n squad has definitely felt the increase in showed the largest increase, with one January 1979, there were four rapes. Mr. Doepner said. However, in Decaseload. My men and I put in 1.200 rape reported in 1978. and five during cember 1979. the city investigated 15 unpaid overtime hours in 1979," he said. 1979. rapes Detective Pickens also attriThe percentage increase in Salt Lake Only West .Iordan showed a decrease butes the increase in this case at least 27 In 197S. West two the matches the percent during City years countys hut the numbers differ dramatically. Jordan deteetives investigated two in part to unscasonally warm weather Detec tive Pickens said the reason for Dave Doepner. with the city's crime rapes. In 1979. only one increases during the summer is rape between out said that that Officials division, point rape generally analysis I 31 1979. Dee the 31. with Dee '7S. and more assaults Sec Page Column I city is a seasonal crime, full-tim- e B-- . Salt Lake County sheriff's statistics showed percent increase in rapes during 1979. a 27. 9 o e of lie The . s Tribune Staff Writers The First Amendment is more than just freedom of the press, Utah newsmen were reminded Saturday by Allen H. Neuharth, chairman and president of Gannett Co., Inc. "Our job is to tell the general public that all the rights of the amendment, not just press freedom, are in danger, s said Mr. Neuharth, who oversees 82 daily newspapers, 20 weeklies and 19 radio and television stations. declared the two niov e w I indicate general locations of rapes rer period ported in the county during the Dots one-yea- |