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Show -- I lie Salt Lake Tribune. Saturday. June High Uinta Fire Near Control With 3.500 acres of EVANSTON. Wyo. (API forest blackened. Utah's largest forest fire of the season 35 miles south of Evanston in the High Uintas. failed to bum down any structures and was expected to be under control by Saturday afternoon, a Forest Service spokesman said. Five firefighters received minor injuries. Only one was hospitalized, and he was released after brief observation. The man. not identified, was hit by a tree which fell and then flipped up into him, said information officer Barry Wirth. '?: .Vk ' s'" 'M&L' 'H '1 .. ,- ! 8 Years Given for Bank Robbery, f the involvement of Salt Lake City police officers in a ban Calling robbery ring a tragic thing, a Utah federal judge sentenced one of the policemen Friday ti eight years in federal Wirth said no change in the fire had occurred during the past 24 hours to late Friday, except prison. 1 improvement ai This ease is tragic, Hot Spots Remain are ail of the bank robHe said crews, scaled down from the 520 people bery eases involving used at the fire's peak, would remain on duty 24 hours police, said Judgy to take care of hot spots. David K Winder as he sentenced former Sah The line is in excellent shape Everything's Lake City Police CpI looking very, very good," said Wirth. L. Rockelman, 32. He said firefighting crews would likely be pulled Craig Rockelman and foir out late Sunday, turning the fire over to a mop-uother police officers or operation. former officers wet)? Structures Saved found to be involved in Wirih said no structures were lost in the fire, bank robbery ring. Rocjf although some summer homes were in dagger as clman pleaded guilty iji winds swept it back and forth across the rugged area. March to his part in tig.' He said the most seriously threatened was a Hill July 30, 1979, robbery of Air Force Base recreation camp, but it, too, was Utah Bank and Trust. 8tJ) vV :k ;: 26. - p Sailing In formation, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flew into town Friday, offi- By Gail Newbold Tribune Correspondent PROVO Flying in perfect formation, the Air Force Thunderbirds sailed into town Friday morning, officially opening the Provo Freedom Festival 80 Air Show. The maneuvers and sleek military jets served to whet the appetite of the crowd gathered at the airport for more which would take place Saturday at 1 p.m. A show slated to take place upon the Thunderbirds arrival had to be canceled due to an excess of local air traffic. The Thunderbird show team, whose home is Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, has a demanding h schedule of 90 air shows per show season, according to Thunderbird pilot Pete Peterson, who also serves as the shows nine-mont- narrator. Marks 36th Show The Provo Freedom Festival marks the 36th show of their season h through which runs from November. The remaining three mid-Marc- air shows a year throughout the coun- try. perform Saturday in Provo at p m. cially opening Provo Freedom Festival 80 Air Show. The Thunderbirds, who do about 90 1 but what makes the job so challenging. Probably the biggest drawback to being a Thunderbird pilot is the amount of time spent away from home, said Peterson. The team is away 210 days out of the year, 41 ilifftri cut state.1. Pilots remain on the team for two years, except the narrator who stays on for three. Provo Air Show Calls Thunderbirds For Big Weekend maneuvers are exhilarating. It's a great job, I love it. His favorite maneuver, which by the way is also one of the most difficult, is the rollback in which two planes attempt to make a rollback simultaneously. The timing is what makes it so difficult. Another tough maneuver is the wingwalk and roll because the speed of the plane is about as slow as these planes can go. The faster you fly, the easier it Youre always is, he explained. trying to do the perfect maneuver which is actually highly improbable. months of the year are spent in intensive flight training. Peterson, who has been with the Thunderbirds since Iasi October, says hes never afraid when flying his breathtaking maneuvers. You do it so often, its just not scary, he smiled. Plus the guys who are flying have a lot of experience. I, for example, have 2,600 hours flying time which is pretty representative of most of our pilots. To the spectator, the flying looks pretty exhilarating. Peterson agrees that it is. All the saved. Wirth said it was the first fire fought under a new interagency fire operation. Although it burned only Foist Service land, the Bureau of I .and Management and state officials joined the battle. Wirth said the principal problem all week was the weather Executive Refused Tri Highly Desirable Job a highly desirable job. still Its however. Peterson speculates that there were approximately 100 applicants for this year's four open- g A Department of Social Services executive, who sought to attend a Harvard University management seminar with state funds, was turned down Friday by the State Board of Examiners. In a split, two to one decision. Dr. Judy Ann Buffmire, deputy director of the department, was denied her request because of what Attorney General Robert B. Hansen termed a lack of proof that the seminar was unique to her area of expertise. Last week, the department's executive director, Dr. Anthony Mitchell, explained that Dr. Buffmire had originally been hired to coordinate various youth programs. He said she was later promoted to an area that requires management skills unrelated to her area of expertise. He said the Harvard seminar is geared for state and local government senior executives, and would give Dr. Buffmire the training necessary for her current position. Mr. Hansen and Lt. Gov. David S. Munson disagreed, however, because the department failed to prove that similar training could not be obtained at less expense closer to the state. Gov. Scott M. Matheson supported the trip. The seminar, lasting 20 days, would cost the state a total of $3,000 $2,000 tuition and $400 transportathigh-rankin- ings. The two scheduled air shows feature, in addition to the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team, the Christian Eagles Aerobatic Flight Team, Art Scholl and his Pennzoil Super Chipmunk, Bob Hoover and many more. On display at the airport will be such planes as the 6 and the Hercules nicknamed the flying guppy. Cost for the show is $5 for and free adults; $2 for children for children 5 and under. F-1- 2; BLM Officials Mull Bills Potential Effect pipelines and things like that, he said. And if EMB adopts the institutional role, accepting projects on an advocacy basis, it could be a disaster. And my intuition says that may happen. Explaining this in a later interview, Mr. Gregg said that each institution in a tends to take on a style bureaucracy reflecting its feelings on how it can grow and accrue power. With an overseer like EMB, it's a question of whether it will see its role as Meanwhile. BLM Director Frank Gregg and the National Public Lands Advisory Council, meeting in the Howard Johnson Hotel. Friday discussed possible impacts of the new agency. Mr. Gregg pointed out that, with EMBs list of priority energy projects requiring fast action, many of them by BLM as the lead agency, other projects would necessarily be pushed back. The first to suffer would be other energy projects, minerals, small By Robert S. Halliday Tribune Environmental Specialist create an Energy Mobilization Board was shot down in Congress Friday, the national director of the Bureau of Land Management and his advisory council, meeting in Salt Lake City, were discussing the EMBs potential threat to BLMs normal functions and capacity. The EMB. with three members appointed by the president, would have been empowered to designate priority energy projects and speed their completion by changing or suspending federal, state and local laws (with Congressional approval!, including many laws passed to protect the environment, and setting deadlines for all government agencies involved. If an agency did not meet its schedule and make its decision on the project by the scheduled date. EMB could make the decision. The measure creating EMB, after months in conference, was expected to clear the House Friday and then the Senate to be ready for presidential approval in a ceremony July 4. The House, however, voted to send the measure back to the conferees, which is seen as ending its chances for passage this year, and possibly killing As the measure to Kansan Sentenced in Death Judge Larry R. Keller. 5th Circuit Court, following a preliminary hearing last November. As the result of a plea bargain, the second-degre- e murder charge was re24. 1979. duced to manslaughter and one of the theft counts was dropped in exchange Eldridge, Alta Vista. Kan., was also for Eldridgcs guilty plea to the two in 15 sentenced to one to prison years for stealing a revolver from the victim counts. The other theft charge alleged that after she was killed. The sentences were levied by 3rd District Judge Eldridge stole Miss Thoresons car. Ernest F. Baldwin. He was arrested in Craig. Colo., two Eldridge was originally charged with days after the murder was discovered. e murder, robbery and two Miss Thoreson had moved to Utah from counts of theft. The murder charge was Minnesota several days before she was homicide and killed in her apartment at 261 E. 4500 reduced to second-degre- e the robbery charge was dismissed by South.- William J. Eldridge, 26. was sentenced Friday to one to 15 years at the Utah State Prison for the strangulation death of Rosemary Eileen Thoreson. 31. killed in her Murray apartment April first-degre- it. Sentence Police Arrest Youth, 15, After Fires at 3 Homes Meted in Diamond Murray Fire Chief Arthur M. Caldwell said. A MURRAY youth was lie was found by firefighters wo being questioned Friday as officials broke into the d home searched for a second juvenile believed when the first trucks arrived. to be responsible for three early "He would certainly have died if we morning fires in a area which sent one man to the (Murray firefighters! had not been arriving at the first- of the other two hosiptal. fires when we saw this house burning. listed in fair condition at St. Mark's We were called on the other fire at for treated he is where being Hospital 4625-60East along with the county and smoke inhalation is Elmer E. Patton, we realized that the 6th East quickly East. Mr. Patton was fire was in the 57 . 4570-70county and this one of 7th dragged from the burning home by East was ours," Chief Caldwell said. Salt Lake and Murray firefighters The fire at the home of Virgil Park. County paramedics. 4625-60East was reported at 1:18 a m. "Mr. Patton apparently tried to This fire destroyed a Jeepand damaged esc ape but was overcome by the smoke a carport. Battalion Chief Richard and collapsed on the front mom floor," Shields, Salt Lake County, said. He estimated damage at $2,000. About the same time county firemen responded to a minor fire at the home of East. Dorothy Bangergen, 4685-60Special to The Tribune flame-engulfe- - 0 0 EDS Appoint Four 0 To New Posjjions New counselors for the Salt Lake Temple were announced Friday by the Mormon Church, as well as new presidents for temples in Ogden and Idaho Falls. Named as counselors in Salt Lake City were Clarence E. Wonnaeott and Marvin L. Pugh. Officials said A. Ray Curtis would remain as president of the Salt Lake Temple. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints said Keith W. Wilcox would take over duties os president of the temple in Ogden, while Devore Harris of Portage. Cahe County, will head the Idaho Falls facility y i Ralph Tolman, Salt Lake County Attorneys Arson Task Force, said investigation showed that three attempts had been made to start the fire at the Bangergen home. Mr. Tolman and Detective Gary Moore. Murray Police Department, arrested the youth at the scene of the 7th East fire. We feel there is a definite connec- tion between these three fires and some in the vicinity of 2000 West and 5300 South a week ago," Mr. Tolman said. The home in which Mr. Patton was living is owned by Paul Engh, 2047 Marwood Dr. (4800 South. Chief said. He estimated damage to the structure in excess of $10,000 Cald-woo- d Switch James Ivan Watts, 25, former director of the Murray City Redevelopment Agency, was sentenced Friday to serve a part-tim- e jail term and to pay a $1,500 fine for attempting to steal a diamond valued at $9,000 from a jewelry store last November. Watts. 6250-58East, was convicted last month of felony theft by a three-majury in Judge Christine M. Durhams 3rd District Court making processes work better or see itself posturing at the expense of the process it is coordinating," he continued. As designed, EMB would only choose which projects should have priority and make no other judgment on a project if the project schedule was met by the agencies involved. EMB will destroy itself if it becomes an advocate for every project on its priority list. Then the whole EMB process would become suspect. And opponents of a project would fight to keep it off the fast track. Mr. Gregg noted that just the possibility of EMB creation has had a salutary effect, with agencies voluntarily speeding up their approval and permit processes for projects, includ- ion. one-mon- th County Crews Quell Blaze at Landfill Special to The Tribune MAGNA Using large bulldozers and dump trucks, employees of the Salt Iike County Landfill, 2100 S. 8000 West, brought a stubborn fire under control early Friday. The fire burned through the garbage late Thursday and early Friday as Salt Lake County firemen and landfill employees worked to bring it under control. The flames could be seen'from the higher elevations in the county and spread smoke over the western Million of the valley. Battalion Chief Harry R. Ballard said flames reached 100 feet high, and explosions of canntd and bottled materials rocked the area. belly-loadin- Bandit Gets $100 man fled with about $100 from the Quick Food Mart. 69 D St. Thursday night. Salt Lake City police said the bandit, wearing sunglasses, entered the store at about 7:35 p.m. and threatened clerk Mohammed Moten. 27, with an auA tomatic pistol. The clerk described the robber as a muscular man in his mid-fortie- Fair Skies Continue Temperature Should Rise to 80s National Weather Service Data ie witt confirm over the fair intermountam Are Saturday. Temperature should beo'n to warm again with high expected in the upper lot Some light wmdt due Durham also placed bj-se- to. Gilbert Athay attorney for Roekelm; n, toKI Judge Winder that Rockelman was a man wtjj had led an exemplary life" and was a fine police officer and human lMing. Emotional Stress He said the psychiatric study showed that the robbery in which he was involved occurred when he was suffering from severe stress. emotion! The maximum 20-ye- prison sentence and bj Judge Winder earlier so the psychiatric studv $5,000 fine imposed could be done were set aside by the judge. J Mr. Athay reconr mended Rockelman be sent to the federal prisoQ at Lompoc, Calif., and that he be allowed to b with his father who Ft day was to undergo surgery. However. Judge Winder denied the rof quest, noting that there it tM) much temptation fof a person under sentence to run away. He ordered probation officers to in form Rockelman of thj situation with his father. 3 S.L. Men Businessmans ; Associa leased unharmed Friday; minutes after his ahduc tion. authorities said. The three men alleged-- ; ly involved in a plot to kidnap the man were from Salt Lake City, said Oakland County Pro secutor L. Bnxiks Patterson. Shoe and wig salesman! Byung Park, 48, of suburban Farmington Hills and his w ife were getting; into their car at theit home when a gunman approached and ordered! them to drive away, Patterson said. . Majin Park, 32, fled and called city police who halted the car two blocks away and ar- rested Gary Lee KelleyJ 22, Patterson said. Th i Mont, ..4 j 71 : j - ft0. - VAN Ha'hcisco v 'UkL- '-64 crr ' , : ; i I low. . . CHICAGO DrNVFS .FWi 11118 v - L-- V police. Watts on probation He said police wefe given a public trusY" and that serious injury (fr possibly death could have resulted from the robberies. 1 have no alternative but to sentence Mr. Rocfc clman to federal prison.-- ' Judge Winder said, adding that he would make recommendations to thie Bureau of Prisons, which determines which faeilir ty Rockelman will tion of Detroit was re diamond and called Judge Durham sentenced Watts to a prison term of one to 15 years but said she would suspend thut sentence if Watts paid a $1,500 fine and served seven consecutive weekends in the Salt Ijike County Jail beginning Sept. 30. Judge along even if they were not used, he said. Given Public Trust - shown him by a clerk at Jewelers. one and were taken FARMINGTON' attempted to the diamond Schubach's serious firearms HILLS. Mich. (AP) The head of the Korean five-woma- Valley Fair Mall. The clerk caught the attempted switch of a phony a Kidnap Trv Temperature Chart 11 Hr 18 Hr 24 Hr High Lew Prec. Utah n Watts in which Nabbed in 5 switch South, 1 was taken. Returned from Kxaml He had been ordered undergo a psychiatric examination at a federal facility in West Virginfti and Friday was returned to Judge Winder for re4 sentencing. noted Winder Judge that the bank robbeiA ring involved people who had led fine, law' abiding lives." How ever, the offense is , Using similar rationale, the board, on the same two to one vote, declined to send another social services employee to Maryland for a seminar by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Earl Bassett, a district director for the department, had petitioned the board for approval to attend the meetings which were to have Iieen at no cost to the state. ing BLM. E. 21st $42,000 Aric. i NM LEGEND 858 STATIC O prosecutor said FRONT mil Fair conditions are expected Saturday over the Intermoun- - .mown tain Region with warmer temperatures due. Light winds. Rick Scoogan, 19. was ar- restixi later at Detroit Metropolitan Airport as$ he boarded a flight to Chicago. The third sus-- ; peet, Henry Kim, 4t), was arrested at the Denver airport as lie got off a plane, Patterson said. |
