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Show ular DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH By KATHY CRACROFT Deseret News Staff Writer i In 90 of his 94 years, Ludwig Poulson, 107 F St., never lifted a bowling ball or picked Swe- July. marbled bail, bowling engraved with his name, uUD. And even though he cant take a step without Poulson crutches, usually NEVER RETIRED After a childhood in Pleasant Grove, he worked on cattle, hay, fruit and grain ranches, in mills and as a I carpenter, but bridge never did retire," he said. I do anything and everything I can think of. A heavy work schedule is 100. Now, in Grandma Moses-lik- e style, Poulson has painted more than 200 oil paintings, and has sold several. NOT FOR REST Poulson arrived at Birdies Pest Home, 107 F St., four years ago, but he didnt come I nothing new to Poulson. was never without work. Even I the depression, during worked every day although hundreds were idle. for the rest. I cant rest. Ive got to be doing something, he explained. That something has mushroomed into leathercraft, embroidery, quilting, clay modeling, wood carving, stamp collecting, copper tooling and jewelry work. He even made his own leather-toole- d Except for eight painting Poulsons handwork lessons, is all t. MANY HObBIES He has stitched 40 pair of moccasins, which he sells for 50 cents profit. He has strung together beaded key chains and has built tiny homes from popsicle sticks. Poulson has bowling bag. I cant eat money, Poulson said. I like to spend every cent I can get hold of. . made artificial fruit from styrofoam, flowers from pipe cleaners and vases from sea HOBBY SUPPLIES He spends his money for hobby supplies, buys leather by the hide and receives free all kinds of things youd never dream of" from friends and strangers. shells. Sometimes he sits in his room until 1 a.m. pasting d feathers on a bird, one feather at a time. When he runs out of subjects to paint, Poulson will life-size- Ludwig Poulson concentrates on Anything is better than sitting idk, he told her, and so ha embroidered Little Bo I eatherwork, one of many hobbies. Peep, Jack Homer and other nursery rhyme characters on quilting blocks. D For two years, Poulson was mail carrier at the rest home. Walking with his crutches, rummage through magazines, post cards and florists brochures for painting hints. RISING WATER COSTS Water bills may be one of the fastest-risin- g in the cost of living by 1974, accorditems F. Gerard to Carvalho, assistant professor of Dr. ing the at University of Utah. management Carvalho, addressing a meeting of water works executives here today, said water bills are averaging 30 per cent more than they did five years ago. He said rates are 60 to 100 per cent higher in some heavily populated areas where a limited supply of fresh, unpolluted water has necessitated the reprocessing of water. The Utah educator warned that the preueted popula100 million more persons in the United tion increase States by the turn of the century will severely curb the water supply. Ernest D. Wright, executive director, Utah Department of Corrections, admitted the prison has problems with drug use and homosexuality, Wright, speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Salt Lake Laons Club, also Mw smsa a problem? Wot OOT-MJk-- During a weekend in July we had the misfortune of sampling the hospitality of a Utah city. We stopped to eat in the park. Afterwards my wifes parents, from Ohio, needed to visit a rest room. They went across the street to a gas station and were refused admittance because they were not paying customers. Then we drove to another station (different company) and we all were refused unless we hought gas. What kind of service, hospitality or promotion of tourist trade is this? My folks were amazed and I couldnt explain it The station operators claimed it was company policy. If this is so, theyve lost my business and I will discourage any acquaintance of ours in stopping anywhere in this city. D.B.H., Salt Lake City. Man has uncovered some interesting aspects, If no positive solutions, that you are not aware of. Whether or not they will placate you, will be up to you. In addition, we have exposed the problem and now involved are the main offices of the two oil companies; the Utah Travel Council and the mayor of the city in q '.estion. Each of these agencies will in its own way act on your complaint. Our probing shows it was NOT COMPANY POLICY for either company to refuse rest room facilities. There seems to have been no good reason for the second statons action, but it may have stemmed VANDALfrom the problem encountered by the other one ISM. The first lessee claims that it has been costing him $100 per month for damages. He is located near a drive-i- n which has nu rest .room facilities and in his own words he is with restroom users. As a result plagued and swamped there is a feud between him and the drive-ioperator. All Do-I- t Man could do was to provide a climate for all the people to work toward a solution. Reasonable and understanding action, with the welfare of the city and the state's image uppermost, should hopefully bring some changes. Do-- It n Better Let Court Decide I have a neighbor who has a nursery. He sprays his plants with a sprinkling system and the spray comes over on my house, my car and truek and has damaged the paint on ali of them. I have talked to him time and time again but I get nowhere. Can you do something? U.H., Sandy. The solution we offer is the same one the nursery owner has already suggested. That is: Get an attorney, file suit and let a judge decide whos right! After talking to you both, he has taken the words right out of cur mouths. You can file in small claims court without an attorney. Minimum is now $200. Otherwise, check the legal aid people in the Atlas building. Incidentally, if you dont act, the nursery slab fence between you owner threatens to erect a which he says youll like a lot less than the spray which is driven by a south wind and over which he has no control. We Hope It Has Arrived We have been trying and trying to get a metal slide belonging to a piece of furniture we had shipped by a van line in California They said theyd shipped it to a S.L. firm. But they dont know anything about it. You checked for us once before and said it would be on its way the next day. Were See DO-I- T MAN on Page An intensive narcotics crackdown continued Thursday night with two arrests inside a darkened pharmacy that led to one of the most lucrative raids ever staged by Salt Lake police. The $23,000 haul of cocaine, amphetamines, speed (meth- amphetamines), depressants and almost every other conceivable type of pill from a Salt Lake apartment, followed a $2,000 raid by Salt Lake County deputy sheriffs in Kearns Thurs- day afternoon. Two adults and four juveniles were charged Thursday and marijuana and other drugs confiscated in two other drug cases. Police came upon Thursday nights huge drug cache in response to a burglary alarm at Lowes Pharmacy, 745 E. 3rd South, at 10:14 p.m. SAW 2 MEN When officers arrived and peered through the window they saw two men standing inside near drug display cases. OBSERVED WOMEN From a window they observed two women inside the apartment scooping handfuls of pills from a hole in the wall and placing them in a black bag." Entering the apartment, they placed the women under arrest, also without opposition. Only trouble experienced by the officers in the smoothly-carried out raid was rounding up all cf the approxiand mately 30,781 bottled pills scattered loose Price hikes will bring great pressure to bear on the industry, Carvalho told water officials. See S.L. DRUG on Page B-- 7 B-- 7 have been filed by the state in 12 of the 29 cases and more appeals are being prepared, Wright said the issue at stake is whether hearings before the State Parole Board must follow the same legal processes as a trial. The state contends that since the board is not a court of law, all procedures need not be followed. Judge Ritter disagrees with this and he is entirely within his rights as an effective judge in raising the questions he has, Wright said. But the entire issue must be decided by a higher court. Appeal notices DRUG ACTIVITY ' The Corrections Department director said he agrees with Ritters contention that there is too much drug activity at the prison. But, he said, pris- See PRISON on Page B-- 7 State T o Cite Opposition In Release Of 12 Inmates Notices of appeal on 12 of 29 Utah State Prison inmates released this week by U.S. District Court Judge Willis W. Ritter were filed Thursday by the Utah attorney generals office. Lauren N. Beasley, chief assistant attorney general for criminal matters, filed the notices with the U.S. 10th Circuit Court, Denver, through U.S. District Court in Utah. The notices advise the court the state will present briefs detailing its opposition to the release of the 12 inmates. Ritter released Harry L. Hansen, Edgar E. Eldredge, Scott O. Andrus, James L. Mite Cooler Predicted ForWeekend The weatherman is promising cooler weather for the weekend with a chance of scatwidely tered thundershowers Saturday afternoon. Tern pera-ture- s from Sat- urday through next WednesCooler day are ex- to lower to a litpected scatSome normal. below tle tered showers may occur in the south most days and in the north at the beginning of next week. Generally fair weather will continue through Saturday with highs from 90 to 100 and lows tonight from 55 to 65. Salt Lake Citys high and low Thursday were 95 and 68, compared wih normals of 91 and 58. High for the state Thursday was 104 at St. George and low was 48 at Bryce Canyon. ivoim Mower, Larry L. Bronson, Felix Ornelas and George Phillip Moore because they were sentenced undo: a stat- ute that allows either one year in a county jail or five years In prison as the penalty, Mgf'TlAM I IUN City, Regional Comics D D 1, 3, 7, 20 2 Financial 4, 5 TV Highlights Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads 6 7, 8 8 9 Efficient Schools For Half The Cost? Wore Research and development could make education five times as efficient at half the present cost, a group of Utah school leaders was told today. Dr. John Hemphill made the statement to members of the Utah Advisory Committee of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development at a breakfast meeting in the University of is Utah Union. Hemphill director of the San Francisco-based, federally-supporte- d SHARE FINDINGS . Utah recently joined the laboratory and is expected to participate in laboratory projects and to use its findings. Later, in a general meeting of school administrators, Hemphill and his special assistant, Fred S. Rosenau, explained laboratory operations. The laboratory currently is developing projects in communications, education and teacher train' ing. ATTEND CLASSES School administrators went back to school, Thursday, pre-scho- spokesmen give opinions on The Strengths and Wea- knesses of Utah Public School s. One dominant theme of the presentations was the need for increased emphasis on vocational education. Other releases the state Is opposing include Frank Price, who was not advised of his n8hte during a juvenile court hearing; Darwin Murphy, who didnt have an attorney dur- mg a parole revocation hear-in- g (his parole was revoked on a charge that later was dismissed); Max Jones, im- proper commitment order; and Brent Duennenbell, not represented by an attorney at his parole revocation hearing. Beasley said the attorney generals office will wait until Ritter files a memorandum decision before deciding file additional appeals. SHOP TIL Frank V. Nelson, Lake, charged that the direction in Utah education with a has been university preparation orienRep. lt one-side- . tation. The issue was also discussed by speakers in a busi- ness and industry section, Karl Shisler, chairman of the Utah Department of Agriculture Advisory Board, and Maj. Gen. Max E. Rich, executive vice president of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. Shisler said the emphasis on the attainment of formal education on the university level causes some students to be round pegs in square boles, while Rich said the increasing rate of high school dropouts demands training programs in technical services and manual skills which will turn dropouts into producers, rather than dependents. Assessor Meet Assessor County Earl M. Baker and four appraisers Thursday were granted $800 to attend the International As- TONIGHT to aitiiniiiinniiiiiuwiinsnimiiiiiiiiiiiniiniinn MyDDUg sociation of Assessing Officers convention in Denver, Colo., Baker told the Sept. county commission he plans to fly to the convention. 0. ITQ DO will greet East High students, Nibley Park grounds will sport a new while the grass play area replacing a the bustling Although life are of section of blacktop. In other projects, new seats are being installed in the West High auditorium and a new roof is being put on Rose Park Elementary schooL The districts work list also includes boiler repairs, inside and outside painting and landat a scaping improvements number of schools, reported Bruce Ririe, director of buildings and grounds. In Jordan District, efforts are geared to an Aug. 27 new Two date. starting schools, Brighton High and student missing from schools during the summer, the buildings are still filled with hte roar of activity as cleanup and remodeling projects progress. August brings an increased flurry of activity as each school gets a thorough cleaning effort in preparation for opening day. Its almost like spring housedeaning, explained Ron Beckstrom, Granite District director of school facilities and special services. We're scrubbing, cleaning, waxing, vacuuming, cleaning carpets and drapes and just a little bit of everything to get the schools ready, he continsounds dents and faculties. Remodeling and fixup projects in the district include installation of a new gym floor at Granite High, outside painting at Webster, Monroe students. Five To Attend By DeANN EVANS Deseret News Staff Writer ued. The Granite cleanup was scheduled for completion today, leaving the buildings ready for the arrival of stu- The call for upgraded vocational education programs was sounded by speakers ranging from a Utah legislator to a Clearfield Jop Corps-ma- n who dropped out of a Utah high school because its were programs weighted college-boun- d toward students. Bruce McNalley, the Job Corpsman, said Utah teachers tend to orient classes toward students preparing for college and described the situation as a cycle in which vocationally minded students become frustrated when they try to copy th academic achievements of top follow-the-lead- er laboratory. each attending six classes where they heard community STATE APPEALS (36-86- p.m. Monday through Friday, or writ to Box 1257. Sab Iflkodty.lMi 84UO, No Positive Solution - stressed the need for a clean er legal definition of the constitutional rights of prisoners. In the past three days, U.S. District Judge Willis W. Ritter has ordered the release cf 29 prison inmates on grounds that constitutional rights have not been protected. Dfas' 163-8t- h DALLAS, TEX. A Utah prison official said Thursday that a too strict clampdown on inmates could impair vital rehabilitation programs. 'du After they tried the door and found it locked, the officers rapped on the glass. The burglary suspects meekly unlocked the door and surrendered without opposition. They were not armed. Acting on police information that the two men may have been using an apartment at Fast, officers were sent to that address. FORESEEN BY EXPERT 6 to 9 B1 den, left for America at age eight, and arrived on United States shores on the Fourth of Now Poulson hit? the alleys every other Monday, knocking the pins down with a blue Not long ago, when Poulson faced a shortage of material, a woman asked if he could do needlework. 1969 15, Poulson, who was born Dec. 15, 1874, in Helsingborg, up a paint brush. breaks Friday, August Poulson delivered newspapers and letters and it didnt take long. I learned every mans name and room number. East Sandy Elementary, are receiving final touches preparation for grand in open- ings. y The addition of a library at Jordan High is expected to be near completion close to the first day of school. Preparation of a distwo-stor- Workers remove old West High Auditorium seats during and Blaine schools, seeding of new lawns at Churchill and Granite Park schools, and in stallation of a ventilation system at Cyprus High. Similar efforts also are fix-u- p effort. under way in Salt Lake City schools as buildings get a fall facelift. A new tennis court ( trict instructional media office in the old administration building at 9361 S. State St., and painting and blacktopping projects have added up to a See BRIGHT Page B-- 7 |