Show Standard-Ex- miner a 2B TV listings 4B-6- B Sports 7B Obituaries Saturday June 2 1984 Ogden Utah jet F-- 5 in mock combat By DON BAKER Standard Examiner staff HILL AIR FORCE BASE — An F Fighter aircraft from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada crashed Friday afternoon during a training mission west of the Great Salt Lake The pilot Capt Stephen T F-5- Grace 29 of Fort Worth Texas ejected safely and was picked up by a Hill Air Force Base helicopter shortly after the mishap A base spokesman said Grace was taken to the Hill Air Force Base hospital for examination and retained overnight for tine observation rou- No cause of the crash has been determined but a board of Air Force officers will investigate the incident service? Drive-i- n Steve Ransom owner of Focus Electronics on 36 of Roy drove through the window when he Washington Blvd surveys the damage af- - accelerated instead of braked as he was pulling a car drove through the window Friday after- - into the parking lot adjacent to the store ac- noon at about 4 pm Mahmoud Ahmed Ibraham cording to a South Ogden police report The large plate glass window was shattered a crowave oven dented and the car slightly dam-te- r aged in the accident No one was injured and no citation was issued police said mi-36- 37 Grace is assigned to the 64th Aggressor Squadron of the 57th Fighter Weapons Wing at Nellis F-- 5 is a The American-bui- lt resemlightweight jet fighter that in size bles the Soviet MiG-2- 1 and flight capability Used by American and NATO forces to provide a realistic simulation to the MiG-2- 1 in training exercises the F-- 5 is flown by Air Force “aggressor squadrons” that arc trained in Soviet air combat tactwin-engin- ed tics Carol Ann Keck a base information officer confirmed the i Lak S' Water level up F-1- 85 inches Plan for bigger Willard Bay peak expected next month By WENDY OGATA Standard-Examine- staff r The Great Salt Lake became even “greater” in May climbing 85 inches and continuing to inundate shoreline wildlife refuges The US Geological Survey re- corded the lake level at 420810 feet on May By May 15 the level was at 420835 Friday the first day of June the lake level was recorded at 420880 “It’s a fairly steep level of rise” said Ted Arnow district chief for the USGS in Salt Lake City “The lake is now only about level 275 feet below the 1873 in recorded (421 150 feet)” Arnow noted Last month's increase continued the seasonal rise of the lake which began Sept 25 Since 1 was engaged in mock combat with 6 aircraft from the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at the time of the crash She said the aircraft — the F-- 5 continues to increase wild bird populations continue to suffer according to the state Division first to ever crash while operating out of Hill — went down about 1:15 pm on the Utah Test and Training Range about of Lakeside was The pilot recovered by a helicopter from Detachment 4 of the 40th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron a tenant unit at Hill 35 miles west of Wildlife Resources “Farmington Bay for the most part is gone It is not being used by migrating species of any birds” said Tim Provan water-foprogram coordinator for the Northern Utah crawling with wl state “Ogden Bay Bird Refuge is not completely under water and will have some degree of use come Fall” Provan said He said 50 to 70 percent of the birds using the lake’s eastern marshes have been displaced by the rising water He guessed an equal percentage of breeding potential would also be lost due to the displacement “We should have a peak in the middle to end of June and hopefully we’ll have a long hot sum- i F-- 5 Willard Bay caterpillars By ROBIN TIBBETS Farm Editor Entire neighborhoods in Wasatch Front cities and towns be- gan mobilizing this week to Sluce gate' combat small but destructive South Arm tent caterpillars which attacked fruit and shade trees Hardest hit are apple and other fruit trees — in backyards as then the lake has risen about as commercial orchards — well mer to evaporate some of that 455 feet Arnow said in Utah Davis and Weber The two-yetotal rise of the moisture off” he said Some shade trees also counties lake since June of 1982 is 810 would not effect the brine The are infested with the inch-lonsor’s plan is that evaporation of Temple A Reynolds executive By MARK PETERSON staff feet director of the Department of Great Salt Lake Mineral Compa- crawlers the north arm of the lake would in“There’s absolutely no way of Natural Resources said the Northern Utahns could enjoy be accelerated if water acreage is ny would still be able to gather Fruit trees apples will dea this bird undated trend whether aren’t brine and carry it via pipe- also have beenespecially a the freshwater refuges knowing playground expanded and water depth larger attacked by pinhecontinue next year or not” he permanent loss line to the company’s facilities ad-size while helping to lower the level creased which suck sap aphids said “When the water goes down of the Great Salt Lake if a WeWindbreaks along the north from leaves Eleven miles of dikes would be them to causing Arnow along with other lake within about three years of time ber State College professor’s plan constructed near the railroad arm would help preserve the While blacken and curl the that we get the water off of it we is adopted authorities said the brine water and would add to causeway around the southern they do doesn’t compare lake should peak in should have a reasonable growth Mounthe project’s cost The price tag damage Geology and geography pro- tip of the Promontory the tent caterpillar the that to of of aquatic type vegetation for fessor Dr Deon Greer proposes tains Greer said the diking would depend on the type of about one month combination of the two can At that time warm summer waterfowl purposes” Reynolds building a series of dikes and would cost about $30 million material used to construct the weaken trees making them sluice gates near the Promontory Fresh water flowing around windbreaks Greer added temperatures should push the said disease to and winter He said the Great Salt Lake Mountains making use of existlake’s evaporation rate higher the peninsula would be siphoned The windbreaks would calm kill than its inflow he said State Park on the south end of ing railroad causeways to expand over the top of the dike into the wave action of the lake keeping Tent caterpillars spin cocoonArnow said the lake levels the lake was forced to close last Willard Bay to a 135000-acr- e north arm of the Great Salt the fresh water separate from the like webs that look like tents were taken on the lake’s south month due to the lake’s continbrine Lake This would prevent infreshwater lake Once they’re finished with the shore ued rise Greer said his plan if it works Unlike other plans Greer’s recoming water from the Bear are spinning tent which The latest measurement of the “Unfortunately there's nothing would be one of the cheapest River from raising the level of quires no permanent pumping now they’re many difficult to kill with lake’s north half on May 15 we can do about it at the present and most effective ways of conthe south arm of the lake station or long lead time to build normal because spraying they’re showed a water level of 420485 time” said Reynolds of the trolling the level of the lake Greer said the fresh water dams along the Bear River from the chemicals by protected Meanwhile as the lake level lake's relentless expansion The theory behind the profes See LAKE on 16B flowing on top of the brine See CATERPILLARS on 16B all-ti- ar WSC professor has idea to lower lake level Standard-Examine- land-encroachi- g' r ng suc-cepti- ble -- Men’s quick tiiinkin that he would probably be OK He was hurt pretty bad but I figured he would make it I al- By AMY BRYSON Standard-Examine- staff r MORGAN — Keeping cool in a situation isn’t easy But Dick Slate and Val Hardy employees at Ideal Basic Industries Plant are two men that when put to the test — passed When Scott Huerta was struck by a heavy piece of cement production equipment it was the quick thinking of these two men that saved his life A cable sling supporting nine tons of kiln roll and cradle broke free and glanced off Huerta's head “I was inside the cooler when I heard a noise” Slate said “When I came out I saw a life-and-dca- We Salute lh co-work- er bunch of people running That’s I knew someone was hurt I got there I thought he when When was dead” ways did” While Slate and Hardy waited for the ambulance to arrive they alternately performed mouth-t- o mouth resuscitation attending to Huerta for 30 minutes Slate 36 has first aid experience that he attibutes to Vietnam a place where he said “he has seen things like this before” -- Huerta however was unconscious The blow caused serious head injuries broke two ribs and shattered his kneecap veteran of Hardy a Ideal Basic was called to help 30-ye- ar from the packhouse where he is an operator “They came and got me and said the guy is dead” he explained “But when We I saw him I knew Hardy 50 is a registered emergency medical technician and has worked with Morgan’s ambulance service off and on for about three years “I never had any thoughts” Hardy said“One minute I was of oo-woi- rk working and the next I was helping this kid whose head was broken like an egg” Huerta was out of work for He spent one and another unconscious month nine months in a coma Although the accident occurred in 1983 Slate and Hardy were recently honored in Chicago 111 with a distinguished safety service award But they say their best reward is the fact the Huerta recovered as well as he did “The trip to Chicago was nothing compared to seeing that boy OK” Slate said “He’s walking around town and performing his tasks like he's supposed to That is our reward” Dick Slate x v - — r- - M- l- t tn— I -- - - |