Show iLoolMetro Ogden Friday IVioimiro© By DON BAKER Standard Sommer staff By fall you probably will be able to travel on Monroe all the way from 100 North to 36th Street A funding plan that would allow completion of the $13 million Monroe Boulevard link from 12th to 20th Street this summer was endorsed Thursday by the Wasatch Front Regional Council transportation committee in Bountiful The plan calls for borrowing $640000 in unspent federal highway maintenance funds for six months and transferring the Urmoney to Wasatch Front’s Federal-Aiban Program That will put enough money in the pot to pay for both the Monroe extension and a $14 million Kaysville project to recon- - struct and widen sections of Main Street and 200 North Howard Leatham Utah Department of Transportation plans and programs director said the plan still must be approved by the Federal Highway Administration Leatham said he discussed the plan with federal officials before recommending it to the transportation committee “They seemed favorable toit" he said “This is a means of getting both projects going now — otherwise we would have had to wait until Oct 1” when the new fiscal year begins The Monroe project which will go out for bid by the end of April if federal highofficials way give final approval was the likely candidate for postponement Bidding has been completed on the Kaysville April 18 1986 Monroe extension plan project and work should begin soon cials Obituaries Classifieds Standard-Examine- r offi- said Fluhart Ogden City public works director said the Monroe link will be “a significant improvement” in the city roads Rocky system “We only collechave two tor streets Harrison and Washington” he said “They’re carrying a lot of traffic and are overcrowded now” The first phase of the link is already under construction between 12th Street and approximately 1800 South on Jackson Funds made available through the borrowing plan will allow completion of the second phase from Jackson to 20th and Monroe skirting the Utah School for the Deaf campus Kaysville City Engineer Lee Cammack said UDOT is reviewing bids for the Main Street project and will announce the low bidder shortly Included in the work will be reconstruction of Main between 100 South and 200 North and widening and reconstruction of 200 North Planners originally expected to have enough money for both the Ogden and Kaysville projects which were estimated at a combined cost of $277 million y 'Jr Dorms But when engineering estimates were prepared utility costs on each project were higher than expected — prompting the transportation committee to hold off advertising the Monroe extension until other funds were found 1 Playing field will be moved School for the Deaf Utah Vo 19th 20th st st graphic Hill found guilty I Charge reduced to manslaughter By CHERYL ARCHIBALD Standard Examiner Davis Bureau FARMINGTON — A Layton man standing trial on ' a murder count in the shooting of his son was found guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter Thursday A jury deliberated two hours before convicting Frank Ruel Hill 44 864 S Flint in the Jan 5 killing of Thomas Hill who was shot in the heart with a hunting rifle The felony manslaughter charge carries a possible sentence of one to 15 years in prison and a $10000 fine Hill will be sentenced May 6 in 2nd District Court Farmington The trial began Wednesday before Judge Douglas Cornaby Hill was accused of shooting his son in the chest on the front lawn of their home after what witnesses said was a family argument Hill was arrested later that day and pleaded innocent to the original charge during a February court appearance In closing arguments Thursday defense attorney John Hutchinson said the defendant should be acquitted He said that the shooting was an accident that the father was afraid of his son’s temper because of violent tendencies previously displayed toward his family and his girlfriend The defense called Norecn Hill' wife of Frank and mother of Thomas to testify that last December her son hit her breaking her nose and jaw And Kathy Baker Thomas’ girl- friend testified she once suffered a broken nose from a punch he threw Hutchinson said fingerprints on the weapon which police detectives pinpointed in court showed the gun was held at hip level probably fired with one hand without taking aim But prosecutor Bill McGuire said Hill's statements to Layton Police Sgt Dale May proved the man killed his son on purpose In his final argument McGuire told the jury Hill told May “I See HILL on 2C Jeff AllredStandard 83 percent of 1 40 billion pieces of mail generated annually are from business By CHARLES Standard Examiner F If you figure four people per family that works out to 42 pieces of mail per per household Not all of that was letters from your mother wife girlfriend husband or boyfriend of course TRENTELMAN staff If you thought you got an unusually week amount of mail last year a lot of it junk you're right Not only did you get it but the US Postal Service handled it and 1985 was a banner year large In fact Nationally the Postal Service handled 1401 billion pieces of mail an average of 589 pieces for every man woman and child in the land That's the 10th year in a row the service has seen mail volume go up Robert Johnson Ogden postmaster said local deliveries in his area (all of Weber County except Roy) were on the same par with 84 million pieces of mail or 560 for every person very little of it was National averages (which Johnson said are about the same locally) show that 83 percent of all mail is generated by businesses That's all those magazines advertisements promises of instant wealth from Ed McMahon grocery store circulars plus bills bills and more bills that clog your mailbox daily percent of all mail was sent to Only businesses Presumably this is people paying their bills and subscribing to magazines ordering things from matchbooks and so on That means that for every eight pieces of mail businesses send out they get only one back Only 6 percent of all mail was “personal correspondence” Johnson said For a family of four that works out to only 1344 “personal correspondence” letters all year or about two a week For most weeks it would be less because this includes the pile you get at Christmas Johnson said he didn't know why so little mail is personal correspondence except that perhaps this reflects modern American life People telephone more and write less he said That's too bad he said because letters tend to last longer than telephone calls Police captain returns from national conference on serial slayings Haven pair of human r I 1 legs belong Morgan Junk mail clogs America’s mailboxes Ogden murder linked to others? Ogden Police Capt Marlin Balls said he is checking with Connecticut State Police and officers from Wisconsin about similarities between killings there and the discovery of severed human legs found in the Weber River last year Balls just returned from the first National Conference on Serial Murders Unidentified Bodies and Missing Persons held this week in Oklahoma City While there Balls said he learned that officers from t taut had a similar case Wording to Associated Press reports from Oklahoma City Connecticut police said they found a pair of female human legs floating in a river near New Examiner left slings a stack of letters into a hopper at the Ogden Post Office while Russell Anderson above sorts them into bags for processing The Ogden Post Office handled more than 80 million pieces of mail in 1985 part of a national record Norman ing to a female were found floating in the Weber River just north of the 24th Street viaduct last July II Police said they believe the legs belonged to Savanah Hoskins of Ogden who was reported missing about the time the legs were found Dr Clyde Snow of the University of Oklahoma told the Oklahoma conference that olficcrs can learn a great deal from victims' bones “Trom the bones if you arc careful you can get what I call an riiu can learn the victim's age sex race stature diseases and injuries Those are alt things that can go a long way toward identifying victims ” The legs lound in the Weber Confrontations spark little tension at WSC By DON BAKER Sijnddrd ' The Wisconsin case involved severed head Balls said The torso was found but never the head The dismemberment also was done with a saw he added a There have Ken no developments in the local case Balls said but investigators should know more when the primary officers in the Ogden Connecticut and Wisconsin cases compare notes I Marhn Balls r v “I know my mother had a complete history of all her kids because when they moved away she saved all their letters in a scrapbook” he said Getting back to numbers: The Postal Service sold 39 billion postage stamps That's enough to go around the world 25 times Johnson said Nationally the Postal Service delivered mail to 738 million city addresses and 174 million rural addresses The Ogden post office delivered to 44870 city addresses and 3337 rural addresses In addition 25057 post office boxes receive’ mail here To deliver that quantity Johnson said his people used a fleet of 15 trucks He doesn’t know how many pairs of shoes were used up but it was a lot Eammor staff Compared with the tension of the Iranian hostage crisis six years ago recent confrontations between the United States and Libya have had relatively little impact on Middle Eastern students at Weber State College Except for reports of verbal harassment college officials say there have been no confrontations between any of the students from Arab countries registered at Weber State this quarter and other students It's a strong contrast with 19S0 when the hostage crisis produced a demonstration by Iranian students picketing by Ku Klux Klan members some violence student v isa monitoring by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and a long banner hanging down from the Promontory Towers dorm that read “Nuke Iran” “It's very quiet up here" said Weber State Police Chief Lee Cassity “Libyan students are keeping a low profile and are generally staying out of sight “We have asked our patrol officers to be more visible and we're doing more foot patrol” he said “But there haven't been any problems” Cassity confirmed reports that some Middle Fastern students have been harassed verbally or have received threatening telephone calls He said incidents reported by students from the Middle Last probably happened because most people can't tell one Arab nationality from another so anger was di- See LIBYA on 2C t |