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Show Complaint Pending; Wplii Husband Arrested In Strangulation Salt Lake City homicide detectives Monday evening arrested an Avenues man for allegedly strangling his wife who he had reported as a missing person. Robert Scharmberg, 24, 68 T St., was Ijooked into the Salt Lake Jail Monday at about 6 30 p.m. by Detective Don Bell, on suspicion that he wife, Patricia strangled his Scharmlierg the morning of Jan. 12, 1981. in their Avenues apartment. Complaint Pending Detective Bell said an official complaint is pending completion of an investigation by the Salt Lake City attorneys office An autopsy rejxirt from the state medical examiners office said the cause of death is suffocation due to strangulation City-Coun- ty Court Delays Hostage Case Preliminary hearuig for two men Tarots 23 gait i'altf vEfibinu Tuesday Morning. February In Drills Crackdown 3. 1981 Special to The Tribune Aided b.v NEPHI several other law agencies. Nephi police over the weekend arrested "or will arrest" 25 people for involvement with mari- - Mr. Scharmberg reported his wife missing Jan. 12. He said he last saw her that Monday morning and when he returned in the afternoon she was gone. According to his story told to missing person detectives, all her belongings except the nightgown she had been wearing remained in the apartment. Buried Body Found Nine days later, Mrs. Scharmberg's frozen body was located by searchers buried beneath snow and tree limbs near East Canyon Reservoir. According to Sgt. Robert Nievaard, Mr. Scharmberg had told police after several interrogations by detectives that he buried the body there after his wife had committed suicide in their apartment the same morning he had reported her missing. He told police that before she died she asked that her body be taken to the mountains and that her suicide be covered up to avoid suffering by her family." Autopsy Inconclusive However, autopsy findings then were inconclusive. Also, police at the time would not discuss the possibility that death had been caused by hanging or if a suicide note existed. Sgt. Nievaard said police received the final autopsy report Jan. 28 and the subsequent investigation led to Mr. charged with holding eight people hostage in a Murray home Dee. 23 has lieen postponed until March 2 in 5th Circuit Court Harvey W. Dorton. 37. Wendover, and Scharmbergs arrest Todd W. Hall. 375)-5tEast, are each charged with aggravated robbery, burglary, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and attempted criminal homicide. Burglars stole items valued at about They are charged with entering a Murray home and holding the residents $1,500 from the C.J. Archebald resifor several hours, threatening them, dence, the 4400 W est block of 5540 South, assaulting one man and sexually as- sheriffs deputies said. The items saulting a woman. A third suspect in included a microwave oven, a stereo the case. Ron L. Hall. 43, address and a food processor. Entry was made through a rear kitchen window. unknown, is at large. h Thieves Get Oven Page One Section I) juana. Policemen Airporl Agree to a T rnee and Undercover y full-tim- e agents from the states liquor and narcotics enforcement division and Orem Police spent about $700 obtaining evidence prior to the arrests, said Nephi City Police Chief William A truce has been cal'ed between members of Salt Lake City's police union and the Salt Lake City Airport Authority. The disagreement is whether officers manning machines on each concourse at the airport are as related A personal bankruptcy nearly equal mg the amount of the U S national debt was filed last week in I! S Bankruptcy Court by a Utah businessman E Sterling Hunsaker. 4'UO S 41.15 West. Kearns, m separate business and personal filings, sought to discharge debt of $846 one-mon- th working amphetimenes Utahn Files Bankruptcy For $846 Billion Loss city employees or O Young. Officers feel its part of their moonlighting. regular duty and they should be paid the normal $9 an hour plus fringe benefits. The airport says they're part-tim- e employees and has offered $8 an hour and no fringe benefits. The disagreement was to have come to a head Sunday night, the deadline for police officers to submit waivers signing away their benefits for the airport jobs. Airport officials had threatened to hire officers from other law enforcement agencies if the Salt Lake City officers refused to sign the waivers. Weve decided to go into a cooling off period The police will continue to man the stations through February at $8 an hour, said airport Director Paul Gaines. 5 Petitions Genuine According to Mike Sheppard, bank ruptcy court clerk, Mr Hunsakers IM'titions were genuine, although the enormous amount was at first unbe-beveab- Mr Hunsaker said the debt came about mainly through his efforts to finance a proposed $150 million oil shale-firecement plant m Sanpete County. Plans for the plant calk'd for the construction of the world's longest conveyor belt Mr Hunsaker secured some loans from Utah businesses, but he was generally unsuccessful in obtaining the necessary financing from Utah investors. He said he then turned to financing which led to a oil investors group of Assets Transfer In dealing with the investors two years ago, Mr. Hunsaker said he agreed to transfer the assets of S&T Marketing, which consisted mostly of gold mineral leases in Utah and Nev ada, into a trust fund in Panama The agreement, he said, called for the union of Mr. Hunsaker's own assets with those of other gold mining lease holders. The funds for the cement plant and financing for the mining of gold ore from the lease properties were to be raised by selling trust certificates. Advance Money Kept The majority of the filed debt resulted from the issuing of bonds and certificates connected to the trust fund, he said. d want to make it very hazardous for anyone to traffic in illegal drugs in this community . the chief said promising that investigation will continue and more arrests may be forthcoming 1 "One individual had come here from another county to distribute narcotics because he thought there was too much police pressure there, and we said Young, arrested him. Woman, 62, Hit by Car A Salt Lake City woman was seriously injured Monday morning when she was struck by a car in front of her home, police said. Margaret Harmer, 1661 E. 13th South, was listed in serious condition at the University of Utah Medical Center where she was taken after the 6 a.m. accident. Salt Lake City Police Lt. Roger Kinnersley said the victim, who is blind, apparently wandered out onto 13th Sjuth near her home. She was struck by an eastbound car driven by Elizabeth Crowder, 41, 1160 17th East. The victim apparently believed she was standing at a bus stop when the accident occurred, police said. Juab County Sheriffs deputies and Utah Highway Patrol troopers aided in the arrests. Young has been Nephi police chief since last fall and is foeusing attention on drugs, alcohol and gambling and prostitution," the three areas he -- attributes as causing most crime. a billion self-drive- n off-sho- Investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service and FBI led Mr Hunsaker to find out that officers of the trust fund were allegedly accepting advance money from certificate sales but were not turning it over to him for development of the plant and other assets This forced the bankruptcy, he said Mr Hunsaker was investigated by authorities because, contrary to what he claimed his agreement with the trust r officials was, all of the. i rtificates were tied to his assets alone and not to any of J the other gold mining lease assets. According to Mr Hunsaker, federal investigators findings have proved him p innocent of fraud in the matter and investigators are now attempting to jC locate the trust officials responsible for , issuing billions of dollars m apparently J. fake trust certificates U Strain oil Court Court Clerk Sheppard said the hank- - J ruptcy petitions will place an additional strain on the already overworked bankruptcy court Because of a record increase last year in Utah bankruptcy filings, four extra judges have lieen tcmjHirarily assigned to help bankruptcy Judge Ralph Mabev hear the cases Mr Sheppard noted that filed in 198il increased b.v 124 percent over the previous year. In 1979 the figure was 1.842 compared to 4.112 filed last year, including Mr Hunsaker's petitions Business bankruptcy jumped from '26 in 1979 to 101 last year, an increase of 289 jiercent. The additional judges will come from throughout the area served by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Coi.irado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Oklahoma. personal-bankruptcie- Utah MX Policy Board Plans Ambitious Schedule for 81 By Lee Wamick Tribune Correspondent The CEDAR CITY Utah MX Policy Board plans an ambitious slate of activities for 1981. to the offices just-release- work d program. The group, which represents southern Utah in- terests on MX-relate- d matters, says it vide its will di- projects into three groups: liaison, coordination and program management; impact analysis; and impact mitigation and development planning. 1981 Other impact analysis projects planned by the local group during 1981 include: Commissioning special studies, as requested and approved by southern Utah cities and counties. Putting together a "fiscal impact study on expected financial burdens caused by the system on area counties and cities. Due to a lack of data on potential development, the report impact says, "in-dep- th mitigation and develop ment planing will be difficult to document during fiscal year 1981. Still, the policy board plans, among other tasks, to put together a document outlining "various methods of allocating impact aid fundings. It also hopes to supply southern Utahs regional health and social service departments with help in coming up with a plan for additional facilities and serv ices which might be needed should MX come. The report said "interested and capable persons would soon be selected to serve on local committees to review the .Air Force's draft en- vironmental impact statement. The policy board took the first steps toward formation of these groups at its meeting last Thursday. Comments culled from these committees will be included with those from the state, and will ultimately be submitted to the Air Force. Advisory Panels The Board also projects naming 13 citizen-staffef dvisory committees. consisting of five niemlters each, to advise voting board members Committee assignments d encompass socioeconomic and re- source impacts expected from the MX The report anticipates organizing the committees during the second quarter of the year. Other activities the policy lioard plans to undertake include: Obtaining data processing and office equipment to "keep up with increased demands for informaexpected" to at tion, least double this year. Development of package for the 1982 Legislature for possible 1982 MX mitiga tion impact funding for the southern Utah area. MX-relat- Impact Analysis Impact analysis, formerly hampered by "lack of concrete numbers and site specific decisions." said the report, is scheduled to take significant strides in 1981. While the Phase I project dealt mainly with the areas already-existin- g services and facilities. Phase II will project expected impact from the MX on population. housing and public services. The Phase III study, sit p which awaits siecific construction in- formation from the Air Force." says the report. will center around the impacts likely during the systems construc-t'-iiKriod. scheduled to If gin late in 1982 , . . n Hospital Charts Drive for Blood Special to The Tribune Utah Valley Hospital will conduct a blood drive Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Wilkinsin Center mezzanine on the Brigham Young University campus. Mrs. Shelley Shepherd, hospital blood bank coordinator, said there has been a heavy demand on blood lately and requested students, faculty and staff members to help replenish the blood banks supply. LDS Hospital will also participate in the blood drive in order to help prevent long lines. Mrs. Shepherd reminded students and faculty that by donating blood, they build up credits which can Ik used by any donor needing blood. 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