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Show 6B DESERET NEWS, Wednesday April 1969 9, Door Bids Math Savants Gain Fellowships U. Dr. Leslie C. Glaser and Dr. Joseph L. Taylor, associate professors of mathematics at the University of Utah, have been awarded basic research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of New York City. r The fellowships provide annual stipends of Opened At Capitol and served on the Rice University faculty for four years before coming to Utah His area of research is topology, with emphasis on higher dimensional piecewise linear, manifolds. He will use tire Sloan Research Fellowship as a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton during the 1969-7academic year. Dr. Taylor his received Ph.D. degree at Louisiana State University In 1964 and was selected as a Benjamin 1964 two-yea- $8,750. 0 The two university staff members are among only 15 U.S. mathematicians chosen for fellowships from more than 650 nominations. Also among the 15 mathematicians was Dr. William T. Eaton, a 1967 Ph.D. graduate of the U. of U., who now Is at the University of Tennessee. The national competition is based on the capacity to do and original creative to Dr. Larkin H. Farinholt, 'foundation vice president for scientific affairs. He said the research," according ' Dr. Taylor Dr. Glaser program allows young scientists to make full use of their research potential. The Utah mathematicians will have "complete freedom" to carry out their creative activities. Sloan research fellowships were established in 1955 to aid scholar? early In their academic careers. Average ago of the recipients is under 30. Dr. Glaser joined the Utah faculty last year. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin in Pierce Instructor In Mathematics at Harvard the following year. He joined the U. of U. faculty in 1965. Dr. Taylors area of research Is in abstract and harmonic analy- sis. With the Sloan Fellowship, he will be relieved of some teaching duties next year and has tentative plans to visit a European university the following year. Malpractice Suits Trigger Doctor Insurance Crisis Continued, from Page B-- l surance Co. withdrew all its malpractice policies in Utah, affecting 135 physicians. Hoyt Brewster, UMA executive secretary, says the insurance situation is "a night- mare. the American Society of PlasSurtic and Reconstructive geons, and head of a national committee to study the malpractice problem. Broadbent advocates higher payoff limits on policies and legislation to discourage malpractice suits. "And there should be limits on maximum liability, Broadbent says. "Now its really out of line with what doctors can live with. Broadbent also says that restrictions should be set on fees for plaintiffs' attorneys. "They now get a fat percentage of whatever they can win, so they push for as big a settlement as possible." "Were not seeking total immunity," he says. "But we need to have this thing within the bounds of conscience, and be free from harassment. Insurance Commiss. State ion? C. N. Ottosen says that the doctors who were canceled - by Midwest Mutual have been able to find other coverage, although some had to pay higher premiums. ' Ottosens office sets th - At fault, he says, is "an attitude in society that doctors are rich and the insurance companies pay, so lets get our share. - Dr, Homer E. Smith, UMA also blames the president, public for the insurance problem. But Smith recently told an emergency UMA meeting to "not for one minute release the legal profession from its part in the creation of this crisis. Twenty-thre- e Salt Lake City surgeons warned they would terminate charity work at two hospitals operated by the Mormon Church until they could he guaranteed protection against malpractice suits. Among those wno headed that move was Dr. Thomas Ray Broadbent, president of - , Inlang Up On Obscene Call Continued from Page B-- ing doors. l tern to identify the source. He suggested that no one should feel obligated to answer questions on the telephone Just because the caller official. sounds Sometimes' an ingenious person invents a reason for calling, such as one man who identified himself as a doctor and began questioning a woman about her sexual behavior and physical mea- surements. INSTALL DEVICE For the past two years, a pen register has been in use to help pinpoint annoying calls In Utah. A person who has been subjected to such calls can have the device installed by the telephone company. Officials are then able to tell the time of the call, the number from which the call was placed and the number called. Another new piece of equipin ment used successfullv Utah is installed in the called line. It "locks up the calling line so that even if the caller hangs up the call can be traced to his line. The connection is not broken until the called person hangs up. In one small town in North- ern Utah a youth who had annoyed a teen-aggirl with obscene calls told her he was going to call her at a particular time. She alerted police, e and the lock-i- n device was another occasion, police were successful in tracing an obscene long distance call directed to a Salt Lake City On telephone information operator. The woman was able to keep the caller, a New York man, on the telephone discussing his erotic desires until police pinpointed the call and surprised him. CALLERS VOICE device Is One protective called "voice print identification. A New Jersey firm developed the process, which makes a graphic representation of the caller's voice on the victim's telephone. The graph is then compared with a recording of a socpected persons voice. If the two match, police have their man. Because most obscene calls made by disturbed per- sons who dial at random until a woman answers the phone, that psychiatrists suggest women should not list themselves in the telephone directory under their given names, but use initials instead. Although women are usually the victims of obscene calls, rather than the initiators, police successfully prosecuted an Ogden woman for making an obscene call to another woman. in- stalled on her line. DROVE TO PHONE Police drove up to the pay from which the telephone youth called while he was still on the telephone and blocked his escape by driving up so close to the booth that the car bumper was against the fold Car Stereo Gone Steve Nelson. 1392-6tEast, reported, to police Monday the theft of a tar stereo and 12 stereo tapes, total value $22, from his car. He told police the property was taken while the car was parked at his residency Sunday evening. h Drive the "NEW" VOLKSWAGEN Today . . . With AUTOMATIC Stick Shift!!! VOLKSWAGEN INTERMOUNTAIN, 2033 South Main PH. T 486-211- 1 ' Bids on revised specification for replacing doors at four firt floor entrances to the State Capitol opened by the State Board Building afternoon Tuesday brought the project closer. New specifications called for replacement of only the outer doors with stainless steel and glass doors at the four entrances. ORIGINAL BID For this, Fredrickson Construction Co., Salt Lake City, deducted $31,240 from its original bid of $128,570 which called for replacing both outer and inner doors. The new bid is $97,330. include also bids The repairing the large bronze doors on the south side of the second floor. Rocky Mountain Contractors, the only other bidder, bid $128,726, less $31,300 lor omitting the inner doors, or Utechnic Editor Named Building Firm Wins Court Case tary of Delta Phi Kappa fraternity. Donald X. McCauley, a junior electrical engineering major, has been named of Utechnic, Utah engineerUniversity firm which oborders for installing metai siding but does not do the installation does not have to pay unemployment compensation contributions on its pay its to installing central s. Utahs Supreme Court gave this decision Tuesday aftera case noon.' It decided brought by North American Builders, Inc., to review a decision by the Board of Review of the Industrial Commission. A building tains Gilson, a transfer student from Westminster College where he edited the yearbook, has been a Utechnic editorial staffer.. At Westminster, he was freshman Class president and lieutenant governor of the District of Circle editor-in-chi- ing magazine. editor will be Managing and business Austin Doug Gilson. is Larry manager MrCuUlsy has tion manager, advertising manager and editorial staff writer for Utechnic. In campus activities, he has been Utah-Idah- Mr. Gilson Mr. McCauley chairman of the Leadership Training Committee and the Dance, and is secre- - $738. So while Utah doctors are wincing at todays cost of malpractice coverage, they privately agree the rates will have to go up for the market to loosen. Their bigger conis having cern insurance at any price. avail !e Attorney John Snow, who now has about 50 malpractice cases pending, says, We must get the insurance commissioner (Ottosen) to set a new rate ceiling. "The problem, he said, "is whats going to happen in the next 6 months to a year, when policies expire and doctors cant get them renewed." J. C. Farmer, casualty property manager of Travelers Indemnity, says 118 physicians paid Travelers $18,000 in last year. The premiums payoff for claims: "an esti$200,000. has Lecture Slated On Railroading Dr. D. Madsen, administrative vice president and professor of history, University of Utah, will speak on "Early Mormon Railroads Friday at 8 p.m. at a meeting of the Archeology and History Associates. The free lecture will be held at the Senior Citizens Center, 234-10- th Brigham East. junior majoring in has engineering, Utechnic for two on editorial staff associate editor. zzz Philco Electric Clothes Dryer $97,426. JOB ESTIMATE The estimate for the job was $87,000. It is anticipated that the State Board of Examiners will have to decide whether to award the con- with Permanent Press Cycle ing the Murray B. Allen Blind Center at 309 E. 1st South, Jack D. Roberts, Spanish Fork, was low bidder at $20,299. The estimate for this work was $15,550. UNITED FUND 2 automatic drying cycles k He said Travelers decided not to renew. Austin, a industrial worked on years as writer and tract. 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