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Show By PAUL SWENSON And if Utah is a microcosm of what the balance of good and bad is on a national scale, there is still plenty of good news printed every day. When Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Cluff were killed in a plane crash west of Centerville, Jan. 4, 1968, the news was almost completely on the dark side. But a miracle baby, Michael Cluff, 1, survived that crash. And a year later he was brightening the home of Deseret News Staff Writer Imagine some mythical where: Pilots risk their lives A for starving children ... ... a chief police sponsors love-i- n s of all for races a small boy unem barrassedly exhibits a hole in his stocking at Show and Tell". . . Sound a bit too Pollyanna? teen-ager- ... Well, look around and get used to it. The place is called an uncle, R. C. (Pete) Tol-ma- n. , but I obviously wouldnt make telephone lineman, joked Thomas, who is confined to a wheelchair. If other people have five senses and I have four, 1 have to do something about it, Clifford E. Conklin said when he lost his sight at age 14. Now he is a successful osteopathic physician. Utahs blind are succeeding in skilled professions and dont want pity (Jan. 15), a Deseret News feature re said. People with handicaps sometimes see the real and the beautiful in life that others miss. What counts are disabilties, abilities, not said Logan jeweler Robert L. Thomas (Jan. 10), Utahs Handicapped Citizen of 1968. In my line of work, Im not particularly handicapped, School, teaches physical education from a wheelchair (Jan. 4), and says the infirm-it- y made me stop and look at the world around me. People in a rush dont get a chance to know each other, she said. In a hospital bed for months, I learned a lot about myself, and it made me want to learn more about others. It could be a big help for living on grass and weeds thats how George T. Lucas describes his reason for risking his life twice nightly by piloting a tS7 cargo plane over Africa to carry dried rice, fish and medical supplies to starving Biafrans (Jan. 17), America. The cliche runs that newspapers only print bad news. But a cursory examination of the Deseret News for the first five months of 1969 discloses dozens of stories that would be judged complimentary to the human species by any- , with a liver ailment (Feb. 1), hospital administrator Kenneth C. Johnson walked down to donate blood child ported. Barbara Richards, instructor at Westlake Junior High a very good Having Mike is twice the work, but four times as much love, Mrs. Tolman people DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Monday, Jun B1 2, 1969 ones yardstick. 4 News has smile or laugh for readers who look, Primary Childrens Hospital PA system that 21 pints of blood were fresh needed to save the life of a The plane was purchased from the Utah National Guard for the mercy mission. After announcing over the himself. The line was already too long, Johnson said. Show Meanwhile, during and Tell at Parkview Elementary, (Feb. 17), a small boy proudly displayed dollar-siz- e holes in the toe and heel of his stocking. (The year before, a boy had brought a dead mouse). Instead of protesting and throwing bricks and bottles, weve decided to join hands with the help of God and our university president and do said something constructive, Dave Stewart, 23 (Feb. 21), chairman of a project to pay off the debt of See GOOD NEWS Page B--J fund-raisin- g Snake Thinks It's Ready - To - Wear he said. I snake was a diamondback A rattler. check with the encyclopedia, however, tended to support Morkens constrictor theory. Fortified by knowledge, Elliott tried again. Opening the drawer, he slipped the snakes head through the oope i, and swiftly transplanted it into a screen-covere-d By JACK MONSON eight feet, thought the and PAUL SWENSON Deseret News Staff Writers Paul Morken, 22, East, had intended only to change his clothes, but instead he nearly jumped out of 828-5t- h boa his skin. Morken reached into his bottom dresser drawer for a sweater and felt something cool,' damp and alive under his fingertips. It was a boa constrictor. It was coiled on top of a sweater, sort of sleeping there, he said. It didnt look like any common grass snake. I slammed the drawer and jumped back to the opposite wall. When Morken stopped shaking he checked to see if his eyes were focusing properly. He decided that if he had not been hallucinating, he had just seen a boa constrictor in his dresser drawer. I opened the drawer again and looked. Sure enough, -- box. was kept over the weekend at the Humane Society shelter and was then taken to It Hogle draw-- h ; er again. The time was 8 p.m. Saturday. When he called police and reported his find he was informed that the police animal shelter department is closed for the weekend. Please call again Monday. Not anxious to wait until Monday, I called the Humane Morken said. ' Although at this point, Morken would not have been willing to touch the snake with a Mitch pole, to visit it, Mork-a- n said wryly. How did the boa constrictor get in Morkens dresser drawer? He admits the possibility that someone could have played a weird practical joke, but I just moved here from California and I dont know -- : anyone around here. Moreen lives in a basement ; apartment and the window he sometimes leaves open may have looked inviting to a snake on n hot day. The y l dresser Is open in the back and toe snake could have .SC. crawled in from the rear. 5 But that still doesnt explain what the reptile was doing in a residential area. Ive seen snakes In toe but never in dresser wilds, Mitch Elliott holds errant boa constrictor for portrait after . capture. Morken drawers before, said. We dont keep them in Called a safety stick, the Elliott, kennelman for, the But Elliotts first reaction dressers in California. If my humane societys animal shel- - pole Elliott brought with him was die same as Morkens. wife had been here, she would ter said he would give it a had a small looped rope on I pulled die drawer open have wanted to move baric to one end.' try, and then jumped back about California. r thats what it was." V Then he slammed the v v f SSS&jS&Sk'&'s fln Memori- - al Day weekend on recent 1 - ; records back indicated this through years highway death toll for the holiday was the worst ; since that date, v A total of six were killed - during the 1966 weekend, an-- ; holi other recent 1948 -- high-fatali- day. Six bodies were extricated the twisted wreckage of collision in Spanish a head-oFork Canyon Saturday night and the seventh victim of the same crash died Sunday at ,10:30 a.m. in Utah Valley Hos- pital in Provo. He was Vicenti Veneno, 48, Dulce, N.M. WORST IN U.S. The seventh death made the Spanish Fork Canyon crash the worst in the nation for the holiday weekend. Two other J collisions killed six in other ' from n " t J ' states. In other holiday deaths, Ro- land Farley, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Farley, 1226 E. Main St., American Fork, was found dead in 22 inches of water in a cellar Sunday at 3:50 p.m., in what officials be- -' iieve was a drowning. DIES IN DITCH Annette Marie Mutsaers, ; 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ; . Norbertus (Bart) Mutsaers, 4499 S. 250 East, Ogden, fell into a canal at Como Springs SECTION B 1, 2, 8 5 -- 4. 6 City, Regional Financial TV Highlights Comics 7 t An allegation that convicted prostitutes seldom serve time in jail was dis: puted today by Presiding Judge Aldon J. Anderson of Third District Court. The allegation was made April 24 In a letter from City Commissioner James I Barker Jr., of the Public Safety Department, in which he said none of 38 women convicted recently of prostitution in City Court had served time in jail, Anderson In and LOG OF APPEAL about 6:30 p.m. An earlier drowning In an irrigation ditch south of Ogden Friday claimed the life of Aaron Eugene Flemal, 22 months, son of Mrs. Ellen Flemal, Milwaukee, Wis. Utah County and July 8. Hie log shows that in toe 44 eases, jail time of 620 days was served by toe convicted prostitutes. In five instances, toe prostitutes also paid fines. These totaled $625. COMPILED BY CLERK The log, compiled by Deputy Couz'; Clerk Robert Olsen on Andereons orders, shows that three pro tempore judges were called In for some of toe trials. Bonds for toe women ranged from $100 to $1,500 and in every case except tores were posted by Morgan and Bates, local bondsmen. The advice the city proseAnderson cutor gave you, wrote, that of 38 women convicted in city court none had served any time in jail is certainly not a correct report with regard to matters that have been filed in District Court for trial on appeal." Atty. Dale Jeffs ordered an autopsy to be performed today in the Amei lean Fork fatality to determine cause of death. The Farley boy was found about 3:50 p.m. Sunday in the cellar of a granary, less than 100 feet from his home after sheriffs deputies, Jeep Patrol members, relatives and friends had searched since 5 a.m. He had been reported missing after dark Saturday. NO MARKS FOUND Sheriff Ralph Chappie observed that it is extremely unusual for a person, even a See DHUTHS on Page B-- 2 The State Tax Commission today announced appointment of the new State Farm Land Advisory Committee which will recommend classifications of Utah agricultural Why not, just for n change, as Americans and a lands for tax purposes. government, display our pride in our own accomplishment, he said in a letter to Dr. Thomas O. Paine, adG. Douglas Taylor, member ministrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adof toe Tax Commission in ministration. The cynics may call it hokum or square, charge of property taxes, will but I feel it is completely justified, he said. be committee chairman. I in no way advocate that we claim the moon as an Other members will be Dr. American possession or colony, Bennett said, I merely Lynn H. Davis, professor of agam ricultural economics at Utah enough to think that the United States of America can, with this flag and an accompanying plaState University; David R. Waldron, administrative asque, take a little credit for this marvelous achievement sistant to the state commisthat will soon occur. sioner of agriculture; A. V, Olsen, executive secretary, State Farm Bureau Federation, representing the Utah Fire Brush Agricultural Land Owners and Harrison Association, A patch of oak brush caught East, went out of control and Connover, Utah County assescrashed into the brush. Leakfire Sunday afternoon, resultsor, representing the State Asfrom the bike sociation of County Assessors. ing gas visin smoke streams of ing triggered the flames. The committee will recomible throughout the city Ames Harrison, Wasatch mend to the Tax Commission little damage. District Forest ranger, said classifications of farm lands The fire started in Hughes area was and resultant valuations only a scorched by the fire, but he based In part upon agriculturCanyon, about 6400 S. Wasatch Blvd., at 12 :45 p.m. after said such a fire could be de- al productive capacity. Classia motorcycle driven by Gary structive later this summer fications will not be fixed until 5 when the oak brush dries, L.. Barstadt, 18, next year. Scorches Oak fair to all . Patch but-causi- 15-fo- 6231-227- Medical students study medicine and engineering study engineering, stu-den- ts right? Wrong. Some new kinds of classes are being introduced at the University of Utah which are breaking down the traditional narrow between barriers specialties. This crossing of boundaries is being spearheaded by the Division of Materials Science and Engineering a new grouping organized last year. The study of materials reaches into many fields and is no longer strictly a concern of engineers. Solid state physics, t artificial organs in and medicine, chemistry more traditional engineering practices are all involved in materials research. As a result of this breakout, the faculty of the materials division tends to be somewhat schizophrenic. Split personalities are all over the place. Dr. Joseph Andrade, for example, spends part of his time tinkering in the Engineering the Department and part time in medicine, working on artificial organs. Others divide their time in the same fashion in a variety of college departments. of Only through a fully inte- grated approach can we cope with the rapidly increasing demands on materials in complex systems, said Dr. Abraham Sosin, director of toe materials division. New classes being drawn up will have students from medicine, chemistry and all rubhing physics elbows in the same course. Id like to see people be scientists on one hand and to engineers on the other wear two hats if possible, g. Sosin explained. An engineer doesnt need a medical degree and a doctor doesnt have to have an degree, hut they each engi-neeri- must appreciate toe problems of the other, he declared. The invasion of medicine by engineers in recent years has created a revolution in patient care with heart-lun- g machines, kidney machines, computer diagnosis, monitoring machines and other exotic devices. These days a young man can't graduate with a medical degree, completely untainted and still by engineering, expect to cope with the varie- machines ty he will encounter, Sosin said. Another reason for toe g of engineers and scientists is to close toe or pure gap between of cross-breedin- Anderson said toe statistical result is not as important as toe manner in which toe matters are handled. Opportunity for a fair trial and appeal should be afforded to all under the statutes. The Interest of the public and of toe defendants charged should and justice be protected should be served with care and concern in having matters properly presented and promptly handled. At the time of sentence, .toe court should consider toe factors involved fn each indi, vidual case and enter ment accordingly. alleges Crossbreed At By HAL KNIGHT Deseret News Science Writer . 8, 1968. Of this number, four were found innocent, seven were sent back for retrial in City Court, 15 were given jail sentences from 5 days to 6 months, four were dismissed, three did not appear for trial and bench warrants were issued, and nine are scheduled for trial between now Deseret News Washington Bureau h. per- The letter was accompanied by a log of 44 appeals on prostitution convictions to toe Dis-trict Court, dating from June Farm Land A decontaminated, encased AmeriWASHINGTON can flag for American astronauts to place on tire moon when they land there in July, was sought this weekend by Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, Its acknowledged receipt today and gave mission to quote from it , FUG answered Barker a letter mailed Thursday. Barker Advisory ON MOON, SOLON SAYS Unit Named Utah Sunday PUT BE PROUD, resort east of Morgan drowned re- cord saw IQ people die in traf- fic fatalities and three chil-dren drown. The Utah State Department of Financial Responsibility said today that a check of By GORDON KIRBY Deseret News Staff Writer . . Utahs most tragic Jd i 3, Crashes H T U IS Water Claims CCill Zoo. Ill have flutes basic research and practical results. Slavish attention to engineering needs without sufficient scientific grounding is no longer possible in this age of exotic materials required for service under extreme conditions . . ., Sosin said. It is just as true that the scientific investigation, carried out with no concern for ultimate application, generally involves time delays which are incompatible with the fast pace of technology, he said. It is just as true that the scientific investigation, carried out with no concern for ultimate application, general QJ. ly involves time delays which are incompatible with the fast pace of technology, he said. The mixture has had interesting results. Engineers are struggling with the problems of human teeth, biologists are industrial slag studying dumps, chemists are experimenting with metal fabrication and ether engineers are looking into radiation displacement. We want to reverse the trend to narrow specialties and give students a balanced view of both science and technology. Things change too fast for people to get trapped as limited experts," Stein declared. Judg- CITES RECOR D A review of toe record certainly indicates that such has been substantially done, Anderson wrote. Anderson advised Barker in the letter that the judge PROSTITUTES, Page B--2 as-S- nmnuuiuiumiiinuuiiiimmuiniHuiuiiniia SHOP TIL TONIGHT v |