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Show r Marina Gamely Fights Bullying of Great Salt Lake By Mike Gorrell Tribune Staff Writer For a pair of foreign tourists on a tour, the sight of Sal-taResort surrounded by several feet of water was quite unexpected. "Why did he do that? Why did he build it out there? asked an incredulous Gerald Poirier, a French Canadian from Quebec. He and his traveling partner, Martin Buehl-man- n from Switzerland, knew the Great Salt Lake had unique characteristics that attract tourists. But a waterbound resort? Mr. Poirier just shook his head upon hearing explanation. Very strange. Its like a mystery." Mr. Buehlmann snapped several resort surpictures of the rounded by the lake. He was not alone. A number of cars bearing Utah license plates carried camera-totincuriosity seekers to the area to capture photographic images of Mother Nature overwhelming man's flimsy creations. At the Saltair Beach Marina, whose umbilical cord to the resort is a built-udirt road several hundred yards long, marina manager Clint Baty and two sailboaters also were inspecting the scene, but not out of curiosity. They were trying to decide what to do if the marina is hit by another storm similar to two which struck with gale force winds this month. For years, wed get one big storm a year. Now were hit with big storms every week. This isnt right, Mr. Baty said, contending Wednesday nights storm was the worst hes seen. The lakes expansion has taken its toll on the marina. Several sections of the dirt access road are covered with pools of water, remnants of waves and melted snow. The marinas restrooms wont be used much in the near future; the lake has taken over, filling the facility with about four feet of water. The breakwater is broken. With its collapse, outer marina docks have been exposed to frontal attacks by the lake. Nevertheless, the facility has endured the stormy onslaught and rising waters as well as can be expect- - cross-countr- gall fak t 3Munc ir By Tom Wharton Tribune Outdoor Editor Department of Natural Resources executive director Temple Reynolds Friday called former Division of Wildlife Resources director Douglas Day. one of the finest people Ive ever known. Then, he explained why he had fired Mr. Day this week. I have no desire to turn the termination into a media event, Mr. Reynolds told a meeting of the Wildlife Board. "Mr. Day has had an honorable career and this decision doesnt discredit his accomplishments. We had continuous philosophical differences over management policies, wildlife policies and the way the Division of Wildlife Resources was being handled. He could not or would not function as part of the Matheson management team. The Natural Resources Department executive director continuously refused to comment on what those philosphical differences were, saying he wouldnt give a bill of particulars to explain the firing. He compared the dismissal to a husband and wife who still cared for each other getting a divorce. It wasn't big things, just little said Mr. Reynolds. He said that one person, even a division director, doesnt make that much difference in the overall program and stated that the average hunter and fisherman would see lit- See Page Column 1 things, B-- Yesterdays Chuckle real friend is one who can tell but doesnt. you all his troubles A Page Section B-- 6 B Page 1 Polygamist Loses in Court Suit ithout Merit, Judge Declares W high-power- Little Things Features April 28, 1984 p DWR Director Was Fired for TV Saturday Morning, g d Fare Local News This weeks stormy onslaught has demolished the same breakwater exposing docks to frontal attacks by the lake. North breakwater at Salt Air Beach Marina diminishes as e wall . . . rising Great Salt Lake overwhelms the . man-mad- ed, said the manager, standing in ankle-deesnow on the marina's elevated parking lot. are progressing to rebuild the breakwater and shore up the access The docks have held up well. Boats havent been sinking. The restrooms were a luxury which will be missed but can be fixed. And plans "Dont write us off. Well still be here. Well still operate, Mr. Baty p road. said. About 60 boats remain moored at . . the marina. Since the April 9 windstorm, Mr. Baty estimates he has replaced 1,000 feet of mooring lines, keeping boats from slamming into docks and causing damage to both. He has sent letters to boat owners, informing them that he cant protect nor guarantee the safety of their' vessels while the breakwater is down. He has moved a paddle boat used as an office to a more protected area of the marina and Saturday will do the same with the outer dock. PTA Tables Proposals on Education Governance By Peter Scarlet Tribune Education Writer district consolidation, a parenthood course in high school and more restrictive state fireworks laws were among resolutions supported Friday during the 1984 State PTA Convention. Of equal importance, however, was what PTA members declined to render an opinion on. School Tabled after some debate were two proposed resolutions dealing with the thorny question of who should govern public education and higher education in Utah. One proposal expressed support for the plan of the Constitutional Revision Commission, which has also received the unanimous consent of both the State Board of Education and the State Board of Regents, in which the regents would be included in the Utah Constitution as the governing body over higher education. The regents authority is now vested in a statute. The other proposal would give the elected state school board authority over Utahs public colleges and universities as well as the public schools it has long governed. Aside from setting these two pro- - es. Mr. posals aside, PTA members voted against resolutions encouraging the Legislature to support year-roun- d schools and modification of requirements for new teachers. PTA members also approved resolutions concerning beer sales. In one action, they decided to rescind an earlier legislative position advocating that beer sales be confined to state liquor stores. ... slow-movin- to south when it began breaking up. North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) officials said the object which streaked over several Western states was part of a st rocket believed to have been launched by the Russians. NORAD Maj. Charles Wood said Friday night the object was tracked across Canada, Idaho and northern Utah. The object sphere at about the atmo9:30 p.m., Maj. Wood said. NORAD tracks and chronicles all objects launched into believe the rocket Officials space. man-mad- e was launched by the Soviets, Maj. Wood said, based on the tracking in- formation. He said it has not been determined what type of spacecraft it was or what its purpose was. The Hansen Planetarium, Sait and defense attorneys he will delib- erate for at least two or three weeks. Rather than setting a specific sentencing date, Judge Fishier said he will announce it May 7 when both prosecutor Robert Adkins and defense attorney Kenneth Brown are scheduled to appear before him on another matter. Tuttle, 33, Post Falls, Idaho, was e convicted of murder by first-degre- a three-ma- nine-woma- n jury Wednesday night. The penalty phase before Judge Fishier started Friday morning. Arguing that aggravating circumstances outweighed mitigating circumstances, assistant prosecutor Terry Christiansen said the death penalty is the only appropriate employment. Dennis Haslam, Mr. Potter's Column Page B-- Called by the prosecution, Idaho, Police Chief Bill Kice said he became acquainted with Tuttle when he was in the Bonner County Jail duing 1973. t, He was a manipulator of people, a con artist using the system and the authority we worked under, Mr. Kice said of Tuttle. "He would use whatever means he could to accomplish a goal ... .He is not truthful and he is not honest. Mr. Under Kice admitted he had not seen Tut1973 and that Summit See Page B-- Coun- - Column 1 An unidentified man was killed in an explosion Friday night that ripped the front off the Hub Clothing Co., 224 S. State, and involved two other State Street businesses. Salt Lake City Battalion Chief Earl McGinty said an explosion apparently involving magnesium occurred between the second and third floors of the Hub Clothing Co., killing a male approximately 25 years old. The body was found in the stairway near the explosion. The fire involved the Eagle Co.. 226 S. State, and Gallenson's, 220 S. State. Salt Lake City firefighters were called to the scene at 9:06 p.m. and brought the flames under control at 9:42 p.m. when the body was discovered. "The body was found right near where the explosion occurred," said Chief McGinty. The Arson Task Force was called to the scene late Friday to determine the cause of the explosion. Must Never Happen Again Jewish Community Recalls Holocaust Dave Jonsson Tribune Staff Writer When they came after the trade unionists, I did not protest for I was not a trade unionist, When they came after the Jews, I did not protest for I was not a Jew, When they came after the Catholics. I did not protest for I was not a Catholic, Then, when they came after me, there was no one left to protest . . . wrote a German minister World War II, when the world came to the realization that 6 million Jews had been systematically murdered by the Nazi machine of war, bigotry and hate, while others stood by and did nothing. So after The Utah Jewish community Friday observed mankind's darkest act in a Holocaust Commemoration held in the Capitol rotunda. T It is not to celebrate the event but to remember it, and to strengthen the conviction in all persons that it could happen, it did happen, it must never happen again, said Rabbi Eric A. Silver of Congregation Kol Ami, who presided. Ninety percent of European Jews living in countries died in the genocide waged by the Nazi government between 1933 and 1945. Nazi-occupi- One who survived is Salt Laker Isaac Rose, whod been imprisoned at Auschwitz. He lit the memorial candle at the Friday service. Gov. Scott M. Matheson told the gathering "it is hard to visualize the size of the atrocity that it's hard to brings us here imagine how many people six million are." To quantify the numbers, Rab T Silver said, would be a blasphemy if God could count. Instead, because each human'being is unique in Gods creation, God can count only to one. The Right Rev. Otis Charles, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah, quoted from the German Lutheran Pastor Niemollers sad reflection, and told the gathering We are not talking about people from some other place who we do not know. We are talking about ourselves. He quoted a rabbi, speaking at a commemoration similar to Fridays, who said The cloud of smoke of the bodies by day, and the pillar of fire of the crematoria by night, may yet guide humanity ... to a day when human beings arc so attached to each other, and have so shared each others pain, and have so purified and criticized themselves, that never again will a holocaust be bi possible." , T Uabbi Eric Silver, Kol Ami congregation, presides at a commemoration lecog- A. e 2 Blast Kills 1, Rips Front Off of Store Tuttle, who has constantly pleaded innocent, was characterized as both a lying manipulator and a loving family man by witnesses Friday. tle since 1982 Calvin Gillen. Chief Gillen two weeks earlier had asked Mr. Potter to disavow his second wife. When he declined, Mr. Potter was fired for refusing to uphold his oath of office. Mr. Potter, 30, has since taken a third wife and is in private unskilled Lake County Sheriff's Departmant and The Salt Lake Tribune received dozens of phone calls from people who witnessed the fireball. It was seen as far south as Cedar City, where the disintegrating object was visible for nearly a minute. Sand-poin- of a decision by Murray City and its civil service board upholding the firing by Police Chief Judge Delays Tuttles Sentencing By Carol Sisco Tribune Staff Writer COALVILLE No decision was reached Friday as to whether convicted murderer Wesley Allen Tuttle will be put to death for the Sept. 26, 1983, stabbing death of Sydney Ann Merrick. Saying he wants to be "certain beyond a reasonable doubt that he makes a correct decision, a 3rd District Court judge took Tuttles penalty hearing under advisement. We have one person here who will make a decision and that one person wants to be certain beyond a reasonable doubt, Judge Philip Fishier said Friday afternoon. No matter what the decision is, Mr. Tuttle and the judge will have to live with that decision for a long time." Judge Fishier told prosecutors Potter's suit evolved out December Fireball Over Valley May Have Been Soviet Rocket By Gordon Harman Tribune Staff Writer A brilliant fireball which crossed the Salt Lake Valleys night sky Friday, may have been a Russian spacecraft burning as it the Earths upper atmosphere. Ven Del Chamberlain, director of the Hansen Planetarium, formerly with Smithsonian Institution, witnessed the fireball and described it. I saw it myself it appeared g to be very for a fireball and was visible for a long time. It was almost coasting across the sky, he said. That indicates that it was not a meteorite, which travels much faster. Mr. Chamberlain said the object displayed a fair amount of orange to red, where most meteorites are more white than this appeared. The object was traveling from the By Charles Seldin Tribune Staff Writer Royston Potter, the Murray policeman who lost his job 16 months ago for adhering to a fundamental religious belief in polygamy, Friday lost his federal suit against Murray City and the state. In a midafternoon memorandum decision, Senior Judge A. Sherman Christensen, U.S. District Court for Utah, ruled that Mr. Potters assertions of First Amendment protection were without merit. Specifically, Judge Christensen said the practice of polygamy by Mr. Potter is not a fundamental right constitutionally protected by the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment or any right of privacy or liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment, or at all, as against the state Constitution and law prohibiting plural marriage and the compelling state interest supporting them. An adverse ruling, according to Deputy Attorney General Paul Tinker, would have created statutory chaos, principally in the area of tax- Ibune Stuff Photo bv Van Portei nizing the Jewish Holocaust as mankind's one never to be repeated. darkest act |