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Show Local $be jialt akf tribune Thursday Morning Section December 2(,19H5 luge H 1 Season Brings Out the Best Utahns Give in Spirit of Christmas The season, in many ways, brings out the best in us. Churches and businesses throughout the Salt Lake valley did their best to ensure that as many children as possible would receive at least one gift. Shoppers deposited change in the kettles of the Salvation Army. Starting with Thanksgiving, it is a season when we are the most aware of those less fortunate. And it is the season when we are the most prone to help them. Christmas morning, via helicopter, Santa was flown into the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children. His dramatic entrance brought wonder to the 19 children who saw him land from their hospital windows. Many of the children are from Juarez, Mexico and had never seen Santa, said Marie Holm, administrator at the hospital. They received gifts donated by the Shriners and more than 10 members of the organization came to the hospital during the morning to visit the children. But the holiday season is filled with stories such as this. Indeed, this is the season when we may come closest to the state or feeling of "Peace on Earth and good will toward men. "No words, no poetic expressions, can ever carry the full meaning of Christmas," said Bishbp William K. Weigand at the midnight mass at the Homan Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine. Christmas is "a time for hope and peace he said. Hope bursts anew at this holy season. Church services were held throughout the valley, many of them grand. The solemn midnight mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine featured a brass and percussion section while the Christ United Methodist Church at 2375 E. 3300 South featured the Wesley Bell Ringers. And Snowbird Ski Resort's Christmas Eve activities featured a hot-ci- - Tr The Wesley Bell Ringers perform during Christmas service at Christ United Meth- der and Christmas carols party at 5 p.m. on the plaza deck. The Highland High Madrigals performed and there was the annual torchlight parade at 5:30 p.m. with members of the resorts ski patrol and ski school skiing down the Harpers Ferry run. Even in our age, the traditions endure. Even in our mobile society, families tend to gather. And even in our secular age, the spirit of Christmas, for most people, endures. Despite the commercialism, de i Ibune Start Photo bv Van Porter odist Church Wednesday as Utahns as well as the nation celebrated Christs birth. spite the hassles of the crowded stores, despite the fretting over what to give friends and relatives, the season is one of giving. From the child ripping the wrapping off presents on Christmas morning to the countless efforts of people to help those less fortunate, the joy of giving reigns. Examples abound. Seemingly every business and organization wants to do something to help the less fortunate. The Utah Retail Grocers Associa tion encouraged food stores to gather food donated by shoppers for the poor and 180 stores in the state placed canisters on their counters to collect donations. Most of the food went to the Salt Lake Food Bank. Employees of Blinder, Robinson and Co., Inc., an investment banking firm, helped the Food Bank prepare food packages for the households headed by single mothers. Santa Claus takes a break during his busy day to give presents to patients at the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children. These are mere examples. The season does bring out the best in us. Theres For Those Alone, Open Bars Some Store for Fill an Empty Christmas Always Tardy Shopper By Dan Bates Tribune Staff Writer Only the gullible or the person who honestly takes that line would buy the excuse that nothing was open on Christmas Day. Sure, Madison Avenue has trained Yuletide-gif- t hunters to abide by the . two shop. . . . three four "only ping days left" rule. d and True, nearly all the e were stores department . high-price- cut-rat- closed. Yet if one really cared enough to think and stalk, Dec. 25 didnt have to pose a total shutout. ' Its too late now. But procrastinawho pantors and the absent-minde- d icked when it dawned on them Wednesday that their good intentions went as unfilled as a droopy stocking should make note: the resourceful See Salt Lake International Airport business has been good despite the fog problem. Operations have been slowed for imple mentation of precautionary procedures. Airport Has Had Clear Sailing 12-DStretch of Fog Despite ay By Joe Rolando Tribune Staff Writer For all its murkiness, the fog that has socked in Wasatch Front communities for the past 12 days has not significantly interrupted commercial flights at Salt Lake City International Airport. But Airport Manager Lou Miller said Tuesday that the fog has slowed down airport operations a little" by occasionally requiring precautionary procedures, such as providing greater distance between airplanes in the air. He said the fog generally has been high and has not settled on the ground much. "The visibility has been good, probably two miles," said Mr. Miller. "It hasn't dropped below one mile too many times. Bill Alder, meteorologist-in-charg- c of the National Weather Service's Salt Lake City office, said there was only one day of what could be considered heavy fog. It was Dec. 19 when visibility . dropped to a quarter-mileMr. Alder said that on Dec. 6 visibility at the airport plummeted to of a mile. But he said the low visibility was more likely caused by the lack of lighting from inoperable center lights on the runway than the fog. Interwest Jet Center of Salt Lake City, contracted by the air one-eight- ports scheduled airline carriers to get rid of the fog by seeding it with crushed dry ice, has been called into service only once or twice t. so far this winter, said Harlon As an employee of Interwest Jet Center, Mr. Bement makes up part of a crew, equipped with an airplane, that has been on "standby" around the clock since the fog moved in Dec. 14. Mr. Bement said each shift one crew is standing ready at the airport to seed the fog. If it is pressed into service the second crew is called to the airport so there is no lag in seeding. "I've never seen this type of weather system in here, said Mr. Bement, who served as state director of aeronautics in the Lee and Clyde administrations. "Usualjy when you get fog here, it can move in in minutes and visibility can go to zero zero zero visibility, zero ceiling, which means dense fog reaching the ground or of a mile. But this seems to be clearing itself out. Mr. Bement said the fog over the Wasatch Front is considered "cold" and, therefore, can be dispersed with seeding. It differs from a "warm fog," which typically occurs along the Pacific Coast The fog thwarting air travel in Seattle is considered "cold," however. But authorities reportedly have had little luck in finding someone to seed the fog. Mr. Alder said the fog along the Wasatch Front is a result of a temperature inversion. Thats when the air near the ground gets cold and the air above it is warm. Mr. Alder explained the fog along the Wasatch Front is dispersing itself at the airport mainly because it seems to be a more vertically extended cloud formation. Those formations, he said, tend to "precipitate out the moisture. In fog seeding, the dry-ic- e particles pick up the moisture that makes up the fog and freezes it instantly, explained Mr. Bement. The particles continue to pick up more moisture and, when heavy enough, fall out of the sky as ice crystals and snow. The small amount of fog seeding required at the airport so far this year is not necessarily an indicator of what will be required the rest of the winter, however. Mr. Bement said the year's densest fog is expected to come in January and February and will likely require seeding. Until heavier fog arrives, Mr. Bement said the airports scheduled airline carriers feel its cheaper to place Interwest Jet Center crews on standby than to send them home until their services are required. Column B-- It May Generate 4 By Guy Boulton Tribune Staff Writer There is no shortage of bars open on Christmas Day and there is no shortage of people with no other place to go. "I like to drink and relax," says Earl, a patron at the Squire Lounge in downtown Salt Lake City. "You dont want to be home alone. A lot of people dont have no place to go. There are people who dont have much. A lot of them are on a small pension, he says. They spend their last days drinking in a bar." Yet there are bars that, for some people, are a second home, and spending Christmas afternoon there is neither sad nor unusual. Their friends are there. The Squire Lounge, in fact, has a dinner for its patrons on Christmas and Thanksgiving. There are a lot of retired people here who dont have any wives or children, says the bartender, Col Jim The patrons also donated food, in: eluding a Christmas dinner, and there was a party at the bar, with the regulars working their why around the pool table wrapping presents. Joe says, "Those kids had more toys than you can imagine. At the Annex, a man named Randy from Detroit is drinking a beer to stay out of the cold. He is 24 and has been unemployed for six months. He See B-- Column 4 $500,000 for Utah Agency Proposes By leen. And thats why Joe one of the owners always puts on a dinner." "Im here every day, one man says. On the bar is a jar of hard candy given to him by the bar. They give this to me every year." Nor is the Squire Lounge without Christmas spirit: the bar's patrons contributed $546 for a family with three children through The Tribune's Sub for Santa program raising a portion of the money by charging patrons a quarter every time they swore. Woolf Tribune Environmental Writer disposal fee for hazardous wastes which could generate as much as $500,000 a year for the state has been proposed by the Utah Division of Environmental Health. Ken Alkema, division director, said recently the $5 per ton disposal fee would raise enough money to replace A Fee Hazardous-Wast- e ronmental Protection Agency contributes half the cost. Thats because the state has assumed the responsibility for administering many federal hazardous waste programs. In addition to covering the state's cost of operating the program, some of the revenue from the disposal fee would be transferred to counties with hazardous waste sites to help them maintain their hazardous waste inspection and emergency-respons- e ; programs. "We are faced with a growing program and need to make sure hazardous wastes are transported and disposed of properly. We also need to do our part to deal with the state's general fund shortfall, said Mr. Alkema tal's intensive care unit Wednesday. The fee would be imposed on any; Utah Highway Patrol Trooper one disposing of a substance which is of said the the driver Larry Hogan defined as a hazardous waste under other vehicle, Brian L. Wandling, 33, state law. That means it applies both Salt Lake City, apparently fell asleep. to companies which maintain their The accident was still under investiown disposal sites and those using the gation. Mr. Wandling was treated and states only commercial hazardous released from the hospital. waste facility the U.S. Pollution Delta Police said Tino A. Lazaro, Control Inc. disposal site in western 17, Delta, was killed after he lost conTooele County. trol of his car and struck a tree on "Wed like to pay a tax that is apMain Street about 1:30 a.m. Wednesplied directly to our industry and is He was dead Utah at day. pronounced used to inspect our facilities and reValley Regional Medical Center latview our plans in a timely manner," er. said Jerry Gagner, president of said the Police Chief Roger Young USPCI. He believes the states haz"in was traveling apparently youth excess of 90 miles per hour at the ardous waste program is underfunded. time. Mr. Gagner expressed concern that Masimo Bernal, 76, Ogden, was killed Tuesday night when he was the proposed bill doesn't make a disstruck by a car as he tried to walk in tinction between abandoned hazardous wastes and those produced by oncrosswalk at 25th and Kiesel in Ogden. Police said the victim was dead going industrial processes. "The stale is trying to force people on arrival at McKay-De- e Hospital. Driver of e car was identified as to clean up the abandoned wastes but See Column 6 Brenda L. Saddler, 26, Ogden. 4 almost all the state general fund monies now being used to operate the Utah hazardous waste program. ValRep. Stephen J. Rees, ley City, has agreed to sponsor the necessary bill when the Legislature convenes in January. The states hazardous waste program actually costs about $1 million a year to operate but the U.S. Envi- st Christmas Accidents Kill 3 on Utahs Highways Utah failed to elude tragedy on the roads this Christmas, with police agencies reporting three traffic-relatedeaths Tuesday night and d Wednesday. On Christmas morning on Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City, a man was killed and his wife critically injured d when their vehicle was by a car driven by a motorist who apparrear-ende- ently fell asleep at the wheel. On Main Street in Delta earlier that morning, a youth died when the car he was driving struck a tree and overturned. On Christmas Eve in Ogden, a pedestrian was struck by a car and killed in a crosswalk. Horst K. Ludwig, 65, Salt Lake City, was pronounced dead at the near 1900 South about scene on 6 45 a m. Wednesday. His southbound vehicle was struck by another behind, sending it over a guard rail and into a ravine. Vera Ludwig, also 65, was listed in critical condition In St. Mark's Hospl- - B-- t |
