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Show DESERET NEWS, Airport iomidiimg Approved For Testi fey JOSEPH T. LIDDELL Deseret News Staff Writer ments to the north concourse f Salt Lake City commissioners are willing to schedule a has jurisdiction of airports, told the council. Members consented to a plan for tapping the airports cash reserve to add four to eight gates to the north concourse this year. With the bonding program stalled under a U.S. Supreme bond election improvements Commissionof the terminal, er Conrad B. Harrison, who for $20 million to ther airport and let a private citizen test its constitutionality in court. j Airport Advisory Council members were informed of Court ruling cloud on revenue commissioners attitudes in bond elections, the city cannot Monday afternoons meeting immediately borrow bonded at 'the airport. The council money because of bonding toured the facility and comcompany reluctance to purmended plans to expand it. chase the bonds, Harrison reUnless the city obtains fiported. A planned $4 million United nancing of major improvements at the airport in the Air Lines terminal concourse, next year or more, it will extending off the northwest have to repay to the federal corridor must be constructed government up to $1 million in next year, officials said. Othgrants for improvements conerwise tli: cost of the federal structed the past 18 months. portion of the heavy apron alThe improvements included ready constructed to service runway and the facility would have to be strengthening apron construction for giant repaid. Bonding money would airliners to patronize the Salt be needed for the UAL project Lake facility in the near because the airport reserve is future. too small. We plan to advertise bids Harrison said the cost of the for $300,000 worth of improve $300,000 concourse extension inter-ijjatior- al this year could be recouped through rentals. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows voters to cast ballots in revenue bond elections. Utah laws do not clearly delineate between revenue bonds and general obligation bonds. The airport bonding would be general obligation financing, but v.ould be repaid exclusively from airport revenues. The taxpayers would be required to repay the bonds only if airport revenue were insufficient. AUTO STRIKES, KILLS WOMAN IN PROVO Utah's traffic toll stood at 182 today with the death of a Provo woman who was struck by a car Sunday night at 4th North and University Avenue in Prevo. Tuesday, August 12, 196? A7 New Safety Techniques, Devices Traffic safety devices and techniques came under disafternoon cussion Monday during the Highway Research Boards Second Western summer meeting held in the Hotel Utah Lafayette Ballroom. Research Motors five identified Laboratories, conflict: of categories General left-tur- n, weave, cross-traffi- and violation. The Mrs. Kathleen Parry CaMer, 64, died at 12:30 a.m. conflicts occur when some Monday after being transferred to University Hospital type of evasive action, such in Salt Lake City. meet is being as braking, is necessary to The three-da- y attended by highway adminis-tor- s avoid an accident and are The accident occurred at 9:35 p.m. Sunday when a car and engineer s from the tabulated during a three-da- y driven by Vernessa Norton, 21, Springville, struck the observation of a given interstates. Western victim. section by highway officials, A system of defining acciThis year's toll is now 37 ahead of the count at this the study said. dent potential at certain intertime last year. statistics Accident sections was outlined in a may paper prepared by R. E. identify the problem, but they are not satisfactory in finding Campbell, highway . planning and can only its solution has been signed before DepartVirginia engineer, Woman Charged ment of Highways, and L. identify the potential accident Salt Lake City Judge Maurice site after loss of property or Ellis King, assistant professor A complaint MURRAY D. Jones. Murray Police OffiVirWest civil of life, the Campbell and King engineering, cer Ron Bronicel signed the charging Wendy Kathlene study reported. 0 East, with complaint, and bail was set ginia University Taft, 20, Robert C. OConnell, region The technique, developed by uttering a forged prescription at $500. rear-en- d ... 4177-230- al director of the Highway Safety Programs Office, Denver, outlined progress on statewide safety highway programs, reporting that statistics already indicate that the program is headed in the right direction. He said traffic death rate statistics increased 6.4 per cent annually in the five yearn prior to 1966, but the rate slowed to 2.3 per cent annually in the two years since the passage of the Highway Safety Act. Since the development of the collapsible steering pest, no fatalities nor serious have occurred to injuries drivers in crashes up to 50 miles per hour, OConnell continued. County Shooting Ruled No Felony A p r e 1 Iminary report labeled as nonfelonious the death of Melvin Housel, 39, 1631 E. 3045 South, who was shot Sunday by a deputy sher- -' iff attempting to serve a com- sentence for assault and battery. The woman signing the complaint, Mary Klein, had advised that at least, two deputies make The responsibility of determining a felonious death rests with the county attorneys chief criminal deputy under a law passed by the 1965 Legislature. The measure did away with coroners juries. Fankhauser said if the Housel shooting is judged felonious, an inquiry will be conducted which will be similar to a coroners mitment order. Meanwhile, a suspect shot in the legs by deputy sheriffs at the scene of a burglary Sunday was listed in fair con- dition at University Hospital. The wounded suspect, Charles 25, Twin Falls, Davidson, Idaho Idaho, and another man, Michael Patrick McGeum, 27, Burley, were charged Monday with first degree burglary. Housel was dead on arrival at University Hospital Sunday at 8 p.m. after he had been shot while resisting arrest. A report by the State Medical Examiners office said Housel was hit in the abdomen by the second of two shots fired by Deputy ElRay J. Dow. . E. H. Fankhauser, chief criminal deputy in the county attorneys office, held the nonfelonious, based on information he received Monday, but added shooting that a final determination is pending autopsy and toxicolonext gy reports expected week and further statements from deputies to be taken toddy. Dow fired at Housel after he threw a flat iron and attempted to hit Dow with a large metal ashtray. were deputies attempting to serve a commitment order to The a complete two th Rite inquest. In the other shooting, David s o n received gunshot wounds in both legs as he attempted to run from the scene of a burglary at the Westerner Tavern, 3400 S. Redwood Rd. Deputies Daryle Ondrak and Dan Ipson were respond- -' ing to a burglary alarm when they spotting a man running away. Davidson bumped into a utility pole and dropped two bags of money as he ran east across Redwood Road. As the deputies chased him, gunfire was exchanged. 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