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Show T riryfri. iFm Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, April i, Hughes Never Left the Suite Pom tail By II 1978 Le Holley ( LAS VEGAS, Nev. Howard Eckers-ley- , (UPI) longtime personal attendant to Howard Hughes, said Friday the industralist was in his suite at .ho Desert Inn Hotel in la:e December when Utah truck driver Melvin Dummar claims he found the recluse wandering in the Nevada desert. Hughes never left the Las Vegas hotel suite from the time he arrived here from Boston in 1966 until he left for the y Bahamas in 1970, told the Nevada I havent gotten money for the movie out of my father yet. but Ive still got an ace up my sleeve . . . CRY! Eck-ersle- jury. Regional Briefs Authenticity Issue The panel must decide Man Dead, Wife the whether Mormon Will is authentic or a forgery. Dummar is bea neficiary in the three-paghandwritten document found in the Salt Hurt in Shooting one-sixteen- th e, Special to The Tribune Lake City Mormon Church headquarters several weeks after Hughes died April SOUTH OGDEN South Ogden Police Friday were investigating a double shooting at a residence which left a man dead and his wife in critical condition. Steven R. Haskins, 20, 4180 Porter, was pronounced dead at McKay-De- e Hospital at 8:47 pm Thursday from a gunshot wound in the temple. His wife, Enriqueta, 24, remained in critical condition at St. Benedict's Hospital with a gunshot wound in the lower abdomen. South Ogden Police Detective Don Nye said an automatic pistol with two expended cartridges was recovered at the Haskins residence but that the investigation was not complete. Police responded to the scene at 7:50 p.m Thursday after a woman dialed the telephone operator and requested that an ambulance be sent to the home, Detective Nye said. 5, 1976. Pocket Calendar pocket calendar belonging to Eckersley was introduced into evidence Friday. It showed he was on duty in the Hughes suites Dec. 27 through Dec. 30, 1967, when Dummar said he picked Hughes up in the desert near Goldfield, Nev., and gave him a ride to Las Vegas. A Eckersley said detailed logs were kept while Hughes lived at the Body Sparks Carlxm Probe Desert Inn Hotel from to 1970 which recorded the industrialists' activities such as eating, going to the bathroom, screening movies and sleeping. Some Destroyed He said most of the logs were destroyed but admitted some still existed. Eckersley could not remember where he saw the logs or who showed them to him. 1966 Special to The Tribune PRICE Carbon County Sheriff Albert Passic said his department is beginning a homicide investigation to determine the identity and the cause of death of a decomposed body found Friday at 12:30 p.m. near the side of the road east of Wellington. The sheriff is withholding other information because he said it may impair the investigation and apprehension of suspects. The body has been sent to the .state medical examiner offices for positive identification and cause of death. Tax Returns Over Half In Eckersley, a personal attendant to Hughes since 1957, said the indus- OGDEN (AP) The Ogden Internal Revenue Service Center has passed the halfway mark for this return receipts, a years individual income-ta- x spokesman said Friday. More than 5.3 million of an expected 9.3 million forms have reached the facility, said information officer Douglas Green. During the past week, we received approximately 75,000 tax returns each day," he said. And we processed approximately 100,000 each day. At that rate, the computer processing facility will meet the June 30 completion date as dictated by Congress for processing returns, he said. trialist rarely left the confines of his bedroom from the early 1960s until he died. Attorney Harold Rhoden, substitute executor of the Mormon Will, said Hughes aides were not executives but merely who body servants took care of bottles of urine, picked up used tissue, gave the industrialist enemas and cared for his body needs. Eckersley denied the description of duties. The longtime aide testified he never heard the name Melvin Dummar until after Hughes died and knew nothing of Forsythe, the Alaskan contractor who said in a sworn statement he acted as a secret courier for Hughes over a period. Hospital Hearings Planned Special to The Tribune COALVILLE Public hearings have been scheduled in April to discuss possible closure or relocation of the Summit County Hospital here. According to the county planning director Max Grcenhalgh, chronic budget deficits at the facility prompted the recent decision by county commissioners. 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