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Show I Cardiac Arrest Takes Life Of Judge Ritter Willis William Ritter, 79, chief judge. U S. District Court for Utah, one of the nation's foremost jurists and iormer law professor at the University of Utah, died Saturday at 5 p.m. at Holy Cross Hospital of a cardiac arrest. Judge Ritters death, coming after a series of hospitalizations in recent years, brought to a close a distinguished career which earned the judge, if not always the full concurrence of attorneys practicing before him, at least their respect. There were those who openly and sometimes vehemently opposed the white-haire- d judge, an imposing figure at the bench. But few did not in the final analysis have respect for his ability to make up his mind, to hand down rulings; his unusual practice of letting attorneys know a3 they argued what his thinking was, and his unerring capability of getting to the heart of a problem. Jurist Criticized Much of the news reporting on the Judge Ritters courtroom decisions criticized the jurist on his record of appeal reversals. But a check of the records showed that on every decision which went to the high court, the U S. Supreme Court upheld the Utahn although the circuit court had decided against him. Also, a study of appeal reversals going back to his first year as a federal judge (1949) showed Judge Ritter, contrary to inferences, fared very well. For example, in 1956, of the Ritter decisions reviewed by the appellant court, 100 percent were upheld. From 1956 to 1960, Judge Ritter w as reversed an average of only only 16 times about three reversals a year Several attorneys said Judge Ritter was a pioneer in utilization of modem discovery development hi law, citing specifically his handling years ago of a class action involving alleged price fixing in a mining suit. Also hailed as one of the jurists most significant decisions came in his handmurder case ling of a in which the two were executed at Utah State Prison May 11, 1956. Judge Ritter awarded the defendants Verne A. Braasch and Melvin L. a new trial on the basis they Sullivan were denied counsel at their preliminary hearings. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals overruled Judge Ritter, and Braasch and Sullivan died without the new trial. Receives Publicity However, it now is law that defendants be represented by counsel at preliminary hearings. Judge Ritter, who received an unusual amount of publicity during his nearly 30 years on the federal bench, made headlines again last year when he issued a stay of execution for convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. However, a midnight flight to Denver by Utah Attorney General Robert B. Hansen resulted in a reversal from the 10th circuit and Gilmore was executed without, as Judge Ritter reasoned in granting the stay having the constitu-tionalit- y of Utah's capital punishment law established. double-defenda- Willis W. Ritter Judge Succumbs At 79 Ban Excludes TAD Areas From Press The Army says it no TOOELE (AP) longer will allow reporters and others to see or take pictures of Tooele Army Depots chemical stoi age areas. The Salt Lake Tribunes free Home, Garden Show is drawing record crowds in Salt I j Trlbun Palace. The event, which continues Sunday, features displays, demonstrations and lec- - I Staff Photo by Lynn R. jonnton tures, for garden and home improvements. Stcreo-h- i fi show also is drawing visitors. Tribune Garden Festival Turns Eyes of Thousands to Spring Sfilmiu Regional Highlights n n ioal News Features nt Sunday Morning, March 5, 1978 Section It Page One By Diane Cole Tribune Staff Writer While winter hasnt relinquished its icy grasp on Utah, thousands of persons are staying warm this weekend with the spring fever theyre catching at the Salt Palace. The Tribunes annual Spring Home and Garden Festival, which continues Sunday from noon until 5 p.m., has brought spring alive with landscaped gardens, countless rows of flowers, other plants and crafts and some 260 commercial booths on home improvements. Elaborate maerame plant holders hang from the exhibition hall ceiling while healthy pout'd plants of untold varieties catch the attention of the steady stream of spectators, including persons of all ages. Senior citizens and young couples seem especially plentiful this year. A separate feature of the four-daevent is a $150,000 stereo-h- i fi show that seems to be attracting mostly young men anxious to gather as much information on various music equipment as possible. The festival offered special demonstrations Saturday on flower arranging, y bulb flowers, hanging gardens, ceramics, vegetable growing, mulching and bonsai plants. In addition, the show committee announced winners of gar- - Senator Addresses Farmers Sell Food to All, Idahoan Urges Son. Church emphasized that "wildly fluctuating prices in the world market race among due to a exporters must be avoided. "In such a race, everyone loses consumers and producers alike. The Idahoan cited the recenty negotiated International Sugar Agreement as an example of how the erratic and damaging "export race might be halted. The pact uses buffer stocks and export quotas to bring world sugar prices within a price corridor ranging from a minimum of 11 cents per pound to a maximum of 21 cents. And if it works, the problem of our beleaguered sugar beet growers may be solved, Sen. Church speculated. However, sugar beet growers also domestic sugar deserve a back-uprogram they could rely upon in the event that this agreement was to fail. By Lance S. Gudmundsen Tribune Staff Writer Saying fat Communists are less dangerous than hungry ones, Sen. Frank Church, declared An Army spokesman said the excluSaturday that the U.S. better start sion areas at the depot will be off limits selling food whenever and wherever we to anyone who hasnt a need to know can. what is there. The chairman of the Senate subcomon foreign economic policy was mittee The western Utah desert base stores opening speaker at the 76th annual chemical warfare agents, including convention of the National Farmers huge quantities of nerve gas. Union, which continues through WedRitter also served as a profesnesday at Hotel Utah. The order, issued last week, is part of sorJudge of law at the University of Utah As far as Im concerned, the Idaa general security upgrading at the from 1926 until 1942. hoan continued, I am for selling food said information Joe Penton, depot, to any country that needs it and can pay World War II was upon the globe, and officer for the Department of Army for it whether I approve of its Readiness Command in Virginia. See Page B-- Column 3 government or not. I am for selling And, he added: anything they cant shoot back. No Pat Answer Admitting he doesn't have a pat answer to the U.S. agricultural dilemma, Sen. Church said, It must be plain Serious1 Nothing by now that planting from fence row to fence row and depending upon free NICE CHANGE: Laughter is coming A real nice guy. trade in die world market as back to the American college campus. advocated by former agriculture secCries at Walt Disney movies. Earl Butz hasn't worked. nice Served LDS Mission (district leader retary change. But the for 7 months, zone leader for 13 months, Agriculture Trade Expansion Act of 1977, which Sen. Church coCollege stu- assistant to president, 9 months dents are startsponsored with the late Sen. Hubert H. mission president 1 month) . . . is a beginning to make the Humphrey, ing to laugh A in an "Received courtship and United States fully competitive in the again, and grin course. world marketplace. ;at each other marriage SEE WHAT I MEAN humor is . . . and smile at And the federal government must back on the college campus. jokes. help the farmer in a market where one Only a few years ago, campus out of every four acres harvested goes This is a nice election issues would be wrapped about for export, Sen. Church declared. of pace change racial topics and wars and serious from the last senator Its also time, the three-terand I repeat, these topics are or so when things for the farmer to cease being continued, college students important. But its nice to laugh a little a global shock absorber for fluctuanow and then, too . . . especially if tended to be serious. tions in international food prices. ' For almost a decade, college students youre young. Cites Dollars Lest The Erekson-Edward- s ticket promcarried the woes of the world around on is It a we have borne alone, burden ises BYU some sweeping changes on their serious young shoulders. he said, citing both dollars lost and if it wins the election. the campus Not that there werent woes to carry millions of ranchers and farmers who For example, both of the candidates around, mind you. Ill be the first to if BYU students win all they admit it is hard to find laughter on a promise will receive A parking tickets and campus when hundreds of were fighting in various Vietnams members of the BYU faculty will receive F parking tickets under around the world. the proposed plan, the faculty parking But it is nice to note that the tension lot will be built on the far side of Utah among the young is easing. Lake. By Douglas L. Parker A good example of this return of EREKSON AND EDWARDS are Tribune Political Editor humor to the college campus is the BYU students a brand new are indications the state's There current election being held at Brigham promising schedule of school holidays if they are surplus may expected fiscal year-en- d Young University. elected. above earlier projections to put rise to elect The BYU students are voting Under their new program, all Frimore money into park and recreation officers for the ASBYU (Associated days will be a holiday on the BYU development, the state budget director Students of BYU.) there said campus. Also, under their Two candidates are ruiuiing as a will be no classes held onplan, BYU the Just how much is impossible to tell at team for the top jobs. Doug Erekson is on Valentines Day or Ground campus this His ASBYU stage, said Melburn M. Coombs as for president. running Hog Day. he made final arrangements to leave colleague, Randall Edwards, is running President Jimmy Carters birthday the state post, which will be filled next for vice president. will be a on the BYU week by Jed Kcc, current state planday THE TWO CANDIDATES recently if Randall and Doug have their ning coordinator. campus their brochure a distributed listing way. But, Mr. Coombs said, tax collections qualifications for the two offices. And the birthday of Dallin Oaks, BYU are on the upside, and if the trend Doug Erekson lists his qualifications holds through the final quarter of the president, will be a school holiday. for the job like this: PRESIDENT OAKS has a pet dog current fiscal year, there is a distinct Hes a real nice guy. named and possibility the rise in the surplus could Gretchen His Mom thinks hes cute. Gretchens" birthday will be a school be a considerable amount. ticket Authorizes Developments holiday if the Erekson-Edward- s He went to Ricks College. w'ins the election. best Utah Legislature at its recent the The were His LDS mission Yes, its nice to see humor return to budget session authorized park and months of his life. recreational developments totaling He was a hall monitor in the seventh the college campus. about $13.5 million, with the money to I can recall when I went to school, the and was president of the grade Checker Club in high school. big deal on campus was swallowing come from surplus at the end of this fiscal year, June 30. FAIRLY NICE CREDENTIALS for a goldfish. However, at the time, fiscal analysts agree? dont SAYS: THE SAM, SAD CYNIC, you candidate, e..iimated there would only be a surplus In the same brochure, Randall EdThe price of gold Is going up so high of alxmt $5.3 million, so only ward's qualifications for office are that one Salt Laker's part of the teeth are worth on a priority listed listed like this: park projects, $200 more today than they were a schedule, are anticipated to be initially month ago. Teacher's pet in kindergarten. funded. cut-thro- at last-minu- te 2, p Dan Valentines Its de-jea- m Favors Selling Food been driven from their land over the years by the recurrent cycle of boom and bust. Underscoring the American farmers stake in foreign policy. Sen. Church declared: To our European friends, I would say: It is up to you to share equitably with us the burden of adjustment to world market changes. If you refuse to do this, then we are no longer willing to street in the name of travel a one-wa- y preserving free trade. We are going to while stop providing all the freedom you get the benefits of the trade! No Further Hearings Thus, he said, there will be no further hearings on ratification of the sugar agreement until the administration formulates a satisfactory domestic ' program. Turning to anolher commodity Sen. Church told the 1,500 wheat agriculture leaders from some 30 states that while negotiations have begun on an international wheat agreement, the critical question is what the floor price will be." Under the U.S. proposal, nations would maintain reserves with common guidelines for accumulation and release. But, he declared, the current loan rate is well below the current cost of production and cannot be considered a fair price for our farmers. grain-produci- Yesterdays Cliuekle Its better to become bent from hard work than to become crooked from avoiding it. dening contest Saturday. The show committee announced the following entry winners: Rosettes: artistic tri-col- Jill Weeks, American Fork; table section, Linda L. Mler, 2223 S. 760 West, Woods Cross; creativity rosette, George Joliri-stuVernal; table setting, Mrs. H.J. Armyon, 2916 Branch Dr. Award of Distinction Award of distinction, Betty Allen,' 6822 Greenfield; nature, art and industry rosettes, Mrs. Hazel Jensen, 1174 E. 13th South; horticulture excellency, Janene C. Ciak, 1033 E. 8255 South. Award of merit rosettes: Noreen Frank, 1419 E. Emerson; Mrs. Clarence House, 396 W. 206 North, Bountiful; Mrs. G.R. Rasmuson, 2258 S. 18th East, and Ralph E. Carey, 3181 Metropolitan Way. Junior achievement rosette: artistic, Erin Stringham, 1445 Ambassador; horticulture, E. Ellsworth, 5453 Haven Ln. Special Ribbons ribbons: horticulture, Pearl Special Clarke, 1420 Bryan Ave.; Hazel Jensen; arboreal rosette, Mrs. H. J. Armyon. Cups, horticultural: award of horticultural excellency, Janene C. Ciak; best entry, R. Brooks Hatfield, 760 N. 900 West; best collection, Jennie Hohman, Layton; bonsai, Jerry Clark, 2796 S. 11th East. Greenhouse plants, Mrs. Roger Rasmuson, 2258 S. 18th East; best hanging plant, R. Brooks Hatfield; artistic planting, David R. Seered, 1252 Sunset Dr. Cups, best house plants: Hazel Jensen; Dixie Anderson, 2494 Kensington Ave.; Jennie Hohman; Samira Had-dar1750 N. 650 East. Cups, artistic; best entry in show, Charlotte Seyferth, Elko, Nev.; theme class. Shannon Lorenzo, 2397 Maywood Hazel Jensen; award of Dr.; distinction, Hazel Jensen; creativity, Charlotte Seyferth; nature, art and industry. Hazel Jensen: novice, Sandy Ellsworth, 5453 Haven Ln. ; table setting, Jill Weeks, American Fork, and Mrs. M. L. Memmott, 2494 Hartford Dr. Special Placement class: first, Mrs. Norma Powell, 216 S. 4th West, Sandy ; second, Mrs. Winifred Lingenfelder, h Ave.; third, Colleen Stevenson, 4101 Big Cottonwood Canyon Rd. Mens division, George Johnstun. High school: Mike Radice, 6301 Sanoina Dr. . , Club display: Beehive State Chrysanthemum Society, Wasatch Cactus and Succulent Society, Salt Lake Flower Garden Club. Top awards, which include large Salt Lake Tribune silver trays: most entries in horticulture, Mrs. Clarence House; best collection, horticulture, Jennie Hohman; most entries in artistic, Hazel Jensen and Nola Armyon. Large cup, special award for best collection in advanced horticulture, Sam Howa, 1803 S. West Temple. tri-col- 526-13t- State Eyes More Funds for Park Projects ol I So the exact amount of surplus at the end of the fiscal year will be a key element in just what projects are to get under way during next fiscal year. Sales Tax Tally Ahead The State Tax Commission tabulated this past week that sales tax collec tions are 15 3 percent ahead of last years collections through Feb. 28. But I caution that it is simply guesswork at this stage, Mr. Coombs said. The earlier $5.3 estimated surplus appears to assure the development of the top three ranked priority items for development: $3.6 million to provide a sewer system, visitor center and beach and marina development at Saltair Beach, The collections reflect a good Christthe south shore of the Great Salt Lake. mas volume of sales by retailers and Bear Lake Project are somewhat stronger than Mi. Coombs explained. Theie $700,060 to develop drinking water, have been past experiences where sewage disposal, power, and camping collections stayed at a healthy level and boating facilities on a well into the last quarter, which has Johnson Beach tract at the south shore buoyed up surplus beyond earlier of Bear Lake. predictions, Mr. Coombs explained. $500,000 to develop a series of museums in a pioneer setting Id be hard pressed to say whether historical Mission State Tal k in Cedar at Iron the rise the above earlier could the surplus estimate by $2 million or $5 million or City. And if the surplus came in at its even $10 million, he said. No one minimum predicted level there would really knows. be funds for the $1 million approved for Conservative, Liberal Estimates land acquisition and development of the A conservative estimate might lie an Miles Goodyear State Park at Ogden. addition of anywhere between $2 5 Restoration of a stockade trading post million to $5 million, which could near the confluence of the Ogden and produce a total surplus of between $7 Weber rivers is planned with foot trails and $10 million, Mr. Coombs pointed and exhibits for visitor use to portray out. A more liberal estimate might see the history of fur trappers. the addition of $5 to $7 million, he The total of the above four projects is added. $5.8 million, but the parks funding bill states that should the priority d I n e -- A mm nnrirnr m3 alloca- tion of the surplus only partially fund a project, then the Department of Natural Resources is authorized to borrow to complete that item. Thus, should the year-ensurplus reach significantly beyond the earlier $5.3 million estimate, the funding of the next priority item might be inaugurated. That next item is $2 million for recreational development of the Provo-Jorda- n River Parkway. The indefinite amount of the surplus, plus the allowance to borrow to complete a project caught on the border line, makes the total program difficult to guess. Really Don't Know We really dont know, said Gordon E. Harmston, executive director of the. Department of Natural Resources. If we get $1 into an item, then weve got the authority to go ahead. So it remains problematical whether the Division of Parks and Recreation can achieve the next priority project, $3.2 million authorized for acquiring and partially developing Antelope Island. Bringing up the last of the priorities, in order, are the $2 million authorization for developing the Pioneer Trails See Page B-- Column I A.l. ih |