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Show DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B1 Wednesday, April 9, 1969 pedal! sessions T Consider Tor, IFiononeing A special session of the Legislature May 5 will consider six matters, including Senate confirmation of appointments to various offices, sales tax measures, and bills affecting financing and taxing authority of cities, towns and counties. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton this morning issued a proclamation for the special session. Legislation to be considered at the session includes: Senate confirmation of appointments to executive offices, commissions, and other bodies. Legislation affecting sessment and . collection it problems. REVENUE BONDS Measures to empower Utah technical colleges to Issue revenue bonds for campus improvements, particularthe substance of ly to SB110 of the regular session, eight degrees warmer than which was vetoed because of normal for the date. It was to technicalities, be even warmer today with Legislation affecting fide5 expected highs of nancing and taxing authority grees in the metropolitan area of cities, towns and counties. -of' Salt Lake This will enable the lawmakProvo. ers to reconsider pleas of Salt While it should continue Lake City officials who want warm, there will be a 20 per either half a per cent addicent chance of showers Thurstional local option sales tax or day. an increase in allowable propSt. George in Utahs Dixie erty tax levies. reported the states high temL e g i slation governing perature at 72 degrees Tuesof automobiles on the parking day. Richfield and Blanding State Capitol grounds. both registered 60. RESEARCH PARK Sun Increases Flood Danger Warmer than normal temp- -, normal spring streamflow eral areas still are threateratures today were quickly remains in southern Utah. ened, A. L. Zimmerman, U.S. Some flooding has already Weather Bureau hydrologist, eclipsing winter3 brief revivsaid. al in Utah earlier in the week been reported from in the snowmelt but the wanning trend may The lower Bear River in prove to be a mixed blessing. southern half of the state. The ' Cache Valley is nearly full. While the rleasant weather streamflow forecast is now up There has been some minor has motivated home owners to 233 to 350 per cent of flooding. to a flurry of activity in flownormal. Rivers and streams which ; The forecast in northern 'drain high elevation areas in er beds, gardens and yards, it has also increased the likeli- Utah has dropped somewhat northern and central Utah are hood of at normal levels, spring flooding to 120 to 250 per cent of norrunning mal. The soil is saturated. Zimmerman said. throughout the state. A spokesman for the Soil While dry weather in recent There Is, however, an unuConservation Service said the weeks has reduced much of sually heavy snowpack in all potential for two to four times Utahs flooding potential, sev mountain areas," and wet weather over the next two months could bring trouble. Southern Utah and the regions which drain the southern slopes of the Uinta Mountains would be especially endangered. Even with normal weather, we can expect high water in many rivers and streams City-Ogde- n for quite an extended period," the hydrologist noted. A very dry March" helped ease Utah Lake flood potential. Salt Lake Citys high temperature of 55 Tuesday was . ' Medical Insurance Crisis Dial Haw problem? dal (3644626), 6 to 9 pJa. Monday through Friday, or writs to By LEE BYRD Associated Press Writer Box 1237, Salt taka Gly, Utah 141101 $100 Refunded We have a problem we can't seem to get anywhere with. Conk! yon, please? Last Angnst we paid $100 down on a life ' Insurance plan. It was to be a policy to be toed for insurance, investment, and a savings account We didnt get a policy, then alter a long time we did, but it was a plan. TVy promised to correct this error, but we could never reach the salesman or anyone at the main office. Finally we did get the company president and he sent someone out to talk to us and he promised to let ns know. But no one has. We feel that n portion or a good share of our $100 should be refunded. Mrs. F. M. J., Salt Lake City. ar ar They apologize for the delay, but give no reason for.it. But they have sent you a full refund $100. A doctor made a mistake: gangrene ruined a childs arm while it was in a cast How much is a young arm worth? - Flamboyant and controversial lawyer Melvin Belli came to Utah to press the parents claim for a cash settlement. The verdict was $78,000. Belli thought it should have been more. In another case, a prominent plastic surgeon and 'his insurance firm agreed to pay a woman $100,000 after she claimed her face had been disfigured by overdoses of radiation aimed at removing a birthmark. You Didn't See It All On my way to work I saw someone raising the flag. I knew that flags are to be at half-stafor Pres. Eisenhower, but as I drove past I could see the man raising it aO the way to the top, so he apparently didnt know this.' Incidentally, hew long is the flag to fly at ? B. J. Salt Lake City. ff half-staff- If you had watched the whole procedure youd have seen what" ultimately happened. Tn raising the flag to the f, Old Gory is first hoisted to peak of the staff for an instant, then lowered. Also it is raised to the peak before, being lowered for the day. The flag will fly until 10:25 a.m. MST on April 28. President Eisenhower died at that hour on March 28. In 1954, while he W8s our chief executive, he proclaimed the flag should fly at half-sla39 days from the day of death of a president or former president The proclamation also set the flag time 10 days from the death of a vice presi- dent, incumbent or retired chief justice, or the speaker of the House and- from the day of death until burial of a Supreme Court associate justice, Cabinet member, lormer vice president or secretary of the Army, Navy or Air Force. It also designated procedure in respect to the death of certain other public, officials, including senators, congressmen and governors. -- gotten into legal trouble, whether big or small. One Salt Lake City attorney has about 50 malpractice cases to defend. Hie situation has some of the oldtime practitioners look--. ing back wistfully to the days when a doctor was expected only to do his best, and malpractice claims were almost unheard of. UNEASY FEELING Now, says one medical publication, there is this big and uneasy feeling that law is ' ; intruding. The Utah Medical Association (UMA) says it s led to SECTION B $1 million elsewhere. topped But an increasing number of Utah's 955 doctors have crisis: insurance against malpractice is necessary, but becoming tougher to get. Attorney David Watkiss says the doctors anguish is partly a play for public sym- pathy. If anything, ne says, the courts have not been liberal enough. Theres no such thing as a hysterical verdict in these malpractice cases," Watkiss says. And Utahs courts are particularly conservative." . INSURANCE RATES Malpractice insurance rates in Utah now are only about 60 per cent of the national average, says Arnold Burgener, president of the Transwestei n Agency. He estimated the avenge annual premium to Utah doc- tors at HIGH VERDICTS Those are among the high- est malpractice settlements recorded in Utah, compared with verdicts which have ' City, Regional Comics TV HighligMs Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads .1, 4, 6, 16 $400. The most commonly written policy pays up to $100,000 per claim. 3 7 7 5 half-staf- Recital In .The began controversy in mushrooming February when the Midwest Mutual MALPRACTICE Page B--6 In-S- S. L. By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor Glade Peterson, Utahs most celebrated is tenor, more than passing through town from the San Francisco Opera to his home base, the Zurich Opera in Switzerland. Glade is here to give his first Salt Lake City recital. In fact, Gov. Calvin L. Rampton has officially declared Thursday Glade Peterson and Civic Music Day. The Salt Lake Civic Music Association University Artist Series is presenting Glade in his recital at Kingsbury Hall at 8:15 p.m. The only Utah singer ever to ' sing in the prestigious La Scala Opera House la Milan, Italy, Measures to establish a Peterson has been the leading research park at the Universi- lyric tenor of flic Zurich Opera the for the past seven years. ty of Utah, substance of SB249 which was Last week he finished his vetoed because of conflict engagements with the San with the master highway bill. Francisco Opera in Wagners Such other measures as opera, Das Rheingold. He ' may be brought to the atten- returns to Zurich April 14 to tion of the Legislature by supDer begin rehearsals for in Geneva April plemental communication be- Freischutz 22. fore or during the special session. During the coming summer, One of the items, to considPeterson will sing in the Holer legislation to control parkland Music Festival in Amsterdam. The Zurich winter ing on the Capitol grounds, has been added by Ramptun season begins Sept. 6 with to his earlier list. . Der Meistersinger," ' under A bill to provide such park-- . Zurich Opera Companys new ing regulation was introduced director, Ferdinand Leitner. See SPECIAL on Page B-- 4 During the winter, Peterson " just ct 60-6- ns of the substance of House Bills 71 and 228 of the regular session, which where vetoed because of technical away for burning. Home-Pla- as- state sales tax, particularly to . . . while brother Keith Harris wheels Tenor Returns -- Glade Peterson,- - . . . Zurich opera star i ! will also appear as a guest star - in Berlin, Munich, ; 1 Hamburg, and Vienna. Peterson, a native of Fair-viein Sanpete County, will give a recital Sunday in Fair-- , view with the LDS wards combining as sponsors. While a high school student at North Sanpete High School, Glade- - won several state sprinting championships. He also sang in every school assembly, war roadshow, operetta before moving to Salt Lake City where he began his flist serious voice training whilq clerking at ZCMLl . 4TH VICTIM 'CRITICAL' 3 deaths Probed CORRINE, Box Elder County Autopsies were to be conducted today on three persons who died of unexplained causee Tuesday, while a fourth battles for his life. DEAD: Marilyn Hansen Ward, 26, 219 S. 5th St., Corrine. Sgt. Dennis Ward, 27, U.S. Air Force. Leila Hansen Ward, 25, wife of Sgt Ward. condiListed in critical tion today at Cooley Memorial Hospital, Brigham City, is Dean A. Ward, 29, husband of Marilyn Ward and brother of Sgt. Ward. The Ward brothers married sisters. Sgt. and Mrs. Ward had arrived at the Corrine home of their brother and sister Monday en route to a new duty assignment in Seattle and were staying overnight About 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, a e friend neighbor and of the family, John H. Bott, rang the couple's doorbell, but long-tim- when he got no response went on to work. Returning home about 2:30 See S DEATHS on Page 4 bscene Phomie Coll? ff half-staf- f - We Found A Place We have an electric shaver about six years old. It needs ccrd and we cant find one. Can you? Mrs. K. O., El- s new sinore. One supposedly knowledgeable place said no" cords for this model were available. Another check and Remington East said they have cords for all Electric Shavers at models back to 57 and some cords for some earlier models. 164-2n- d It's Called Sporting News I am writing a computer program involving baseball players and their average. I need total times at bat; total bits; RBIs; positions on field, team and name. What newspaper or magazine carries this information throughout the for each of the teams in both leagues? J. I- - S., Provo J Sporting News Costs 50 cents per week. Comes out every Monday on newsstands or subscribe to: Sporting News, 5012-1Washington Ave., St Louis, Mo. 53166. 8 f I Two Problems At Same Place A Chicago mall order firm keeps writing wq owe them. MAN See DO-IPage B-T b T By WANDA LUND Deseret News Staff Writer It was late at night when phone rang. Mrs. K. picked it up and said Hello," and for a moment there was nothing but the sound of a mans heavy breathing. Then came a string of obscenities and erotic suggestions that left Mrs. K. shocked and incredulous. ' What is the remedy for the increasing number of obscene telephone calls that distress and annoy women? Several have companies telephone issued pamphlets telling how to handle the problem; technologists have invented devices to trace such calls so call lers can be arrested, and psychiatrists are studying the problem to determine why such contacts are made. A recent survey showed that more than 3,000 obscene calls are made in the United States each day over the Bell telephone system alone. Howard L. Blood, public relations manager of the States Mountain Telephone A Telegraph Co., said statistics are not available to determine the number of such calls made daily in Utah. However, the young adult and that such people tend to be exhibitionists at a distance rather than the sort who would physically confront a woman. only a fraction of the total number come to the attention of police. There is no need for anyone to be subjected to obscenities over the telephone," Blood said. Just hanging up is the answer. Blood said that in Utah there has been a wide variance in age and characterise tics. He told of one older man who had been an active businessman and churchman who You need not talk to anyone on the telephone unless you wish to do so; use the telephone on your terms, not those of the caller. ANOTHER CALL The woman who reacts is more likely to get another call than the person who immediately hangs up. Dr. John Donnelly, psychiatrist-in-chief at Hartfords Institute of Living, Hartford, Conn., a private mental hospital, said such callers tend to be quite socially inhibited, but underneath they are very aggressive. Although the caller is performing an action in which the context is sexual, this is only one aspect cf Ite problem and is symptomatic of a deep general inadequacy. YOUNG ADULT What he is trying to seek is a response, to make the woman tearful so he can have suddenly began making obscene calls to several young women. He had suffered some business revet ses shortly before this behavior began. He was finally arrested and referred for psychiatric treatment. REGISTERS SHOCK Donnelly said that men who are driven to make such calls generally are insecure and impotent and cannot acquire in ways approved by society. When a woman registers shock, her response gives tne man ego reinforcement and the potency bolster he needs. Rep. Thomas J. Meskill, introduced legislaobscene phone calls. tion in Congress last year which would make transmitstatistics on the problem show ting obscene messages over that the obscene caller tends interstate telephone systems a to be a late adolescent or federal crime. The bill ifrould self-estee- ss&s Hanging up discourages a sense of dominance her, he said. Hd reported that general a maximum fine of or a maximum jail term of one year or both. In Utah the first violation of the law against obscene, lewd or profane language is considered a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $299 or imprisonment for not more than six months or impose $1,000 both. But subsequent convic- tions are treated as felonies, and the fine jumps to not more than $1,000, or imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or both. , Twelve states have no law against obscene calls, and in the remaining states making such calls is only considered a misdemeanor. , DATE, TIME ' , Blood suggested, that . persons harassed by obscene calls should keep a log in which are listed date and time of each incident, how long the call lasts, those at home at the time, those not at home, description of the callers voice, background sour.as or music, and whether family members may have had recent publicity. The information is helpful to police in establishing a pa See HANG oa Fag B-- |