The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 4

utoh the est PAGE 4 SPECTRUM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1983 Barney Clark makes a major improvement heart, and is apparently headed for recovery after several setbacks in December and early January. Dwan called Clark's new room "spacious and comfortable with a spectacular view of the Salt Lake Valley." Clark's view the past 2 '-months has been of the Wasatch Mountains to the 6HSt Clark, a retired Des Moines, dentist, received hundreds of Valentine cards from schoolchildren, including the Seattle classmates of his grandchildren. They were left behind on the walls of the intensive care unit but will be moved later, Dwan said. The move to a private room completed a good week for Clark. Besides the improvement in his condition, his literary agent announced last week an agreement for the one-time rights to Clark's story with a German magazine.

The contract is expected to net the Clark family several thousand dollars. University President David Gardner said Clark will not have to pay for the Dec. 2 implant operation or his lengthy hospital stay, estimated at more than $135,000. Dwan said the payment of Clark's bill will come from private donations and research funds, and will not cost the state or other medical center patients anything. By PAUL ROLLY SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The condition of artificial heart patient Barney Clark was upgraded from "serious" to "fair" in the first major step toward Clark's discharge from the hospital since his historical surgery 76 days ago.

University of Utah Hospital doctors decided Monday to move Clark, 62, from intensive care into a private room after he spent an entire week off the respirator. His condition had been "serious but stable" since mid December, and the change to "fair" is the first major step toward Clark's ultimate release from the hospital after 75 days in intensive care. Medical Center spokesman John Dwan said that while Clark's "kidneys and his lungs still don't function normally, he no longer requires intensive care." "One of the major problems is that he's very, very weak, and he tires very, very easily," Dwan said. "It is thought that moving him to a private room will facilitate the work of the physical and occupational therapists and provide a more normal and restful environment, in which to regain his strength." Clark is in his 76th day of life today on the world's first permanent artificial 1A 4 1 rcA UtahBriefs Utility bills tabled SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) A House committee tabled two utility-regulatory bills Monday, but Rep. Sam Taylor, D-Salt Lake, hopes he can incorporate them instead in the governor's plan to reorganize the Public Service Commission.

House leaders have decided to quash utility regulation bills and instead concentrate on the governor's reorganization of the Utah Department of Business Regulation, proposed by the Governor's Committee on Executive Reorganization. Taylor's bills, which would have called for periodic "efficiency audits" of utilities and would have', eliminated pass-through rate increases, were tabled Monday by the House Business, Labor and Economic Development Committee. Reward offered for clues BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (UPI) Two Teamster Union locals have offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who critically wounded a Riverside, trucker in Brigham City. Howard Adams 47, was shot Jan. 31, on the first day of the national independent truckers strike, while he was Unloading his rig at a Brigham City hardware store.

Brigham City Police Chief J.M. Herbert said the reward is being offered jointly by Teamster Local No. 598 in Los Angeles and Local No. 42 for the Southern California-Southern Nevada area. Adams is a member of Local 598.

He has since recovered from the gun shot wound. Police speculate the bullet was fired from a passing auto. Nelson gets life term SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Third District Court Judge James Sawaya has sentenced Kenneth Nelson to life in the Utah State Prison in the killing of a Salt Lake County teenager, and Sawaya says he will recommend that Nelson never be freed. Nelson pleaded guilty Monday to the capital homicide complaint, just two weeks before he was scheduled to stand trial on charges he stabbed and strangled Larry Ray, 17, and then dumped Ray's body in a root cellar near the victim's home. Nelson was on parole at the time of the Feb.

22, 1982. killing. He had been convicted on a 1977 charge of sexual assault involving a 14-year-old youth. In 1975. Nelson had also been convicted of forcible sodomy involving a 13-year-old boy.

Before sentencing the 26-year-old Nelson, Sawaya asked him, "Are you pleading guilty to this offense because you committed it?" "Yes Nelson answered. ni LAS VEGAS Gary Beikirch, an ordained Baptist achuted Monday safely into Death Valley to begin minister from Rochester, N.Y. prepares to board a a 100-mile marathon honoring living and dead plane carrying 15 Vietnam veterans who par- comrads. UPI Vets begin 100-mile honor run Wrongful life' bill set Pinn said. The vets, ranging in age from 35 to 60, plan to run 100 miles from Scotty's Junction south to Jubilee Pass, which they expect to reach Feb.

21. The weather forecast was for highs near 75. Included in the group were a Baptist minister, a born again Christian and a man who refused to give his name out of fear his wife would divorce him if she knew he had jumped into Death Valley. "We are trying to demonstrate the positive side of Vietnam veterans and display the can-do side of these vets," said Jim Donahue of Buffalo, N.Y. "Vietnam veterans have been maligned by the media, stereotyped as hitmen for the mob and pushers always the incorrect stereotypes.

We are trying to show the positive side." Gary Beikirch, a Baptist minister who teaches at North Star Christian Academy in Rochester, N.Y. also jumped. "The war exposed me to some of the harsh realities of life and caused me evaluate life and my own self sufficiency and morality," said Beikirch. "For me it is personal challenge to do something like this." Connie Pratt, director of Right to Life of Utah, told the committee she is unaware of any so-called "wrongful death" lawsuits filed in Utah. However, she said, the legislation could stop a trend toward unnecessary tests on healthy women and fetuses.

"If wrongful life is recognized as a proper cause of action, it will create a legal duty for doctors to recommend or perform, and for'mothers to undergo, prenatal tests and abortions," she said. She also said that once the handicap is detectedthrough the tests, the fetus would almost certainly be aborted. The bill reads in part: "The failure or refusal of any person to prevent the live birth of a person shall not be a defense in any actions, and shall not be considered in awarding damages or chid support or imposing a penalty in any action." No vote was taken on the bill. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Severely handicapped children who wish they had never been born would be prevented by a "wrongful life" bill from suing their mothers' obstetricians for not discovering their defects before birth and advising abortion. The rewritten bill, sponsored by Sen.

E. Verl Asay, R-Taylorsville, was presented Monday to the Utah Senate Judiciary Committee. Last week, Asay gained Senate approval of another prenatal bill, that one putting criminal homicide penalties on the death of an unborn child, except in the case of legal abortions. The committee was told the intent of the wrongful life bill is to prevent a handicapped child or the child's parents from suing a doctor for failing to conduct tests on the fetus to detect deformities, or to counsel parents that the defective fetus could be aborted. Woman must child giveu) DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL MONUMENT.

Calif. (UPI) Fifteen Vietnam veterans led by a crusty 60-year-old former top sergeant say their parachute jump into the desert went well and they're ready for a 100-mile run in honor of other vets. "They landed and they landed safely, there were no injuries during the jump," said a ranger at monument headquarters Monday. Most of the men, calling themselves the "Can-Do had not met before arriving in Las Vegas, where they strapped on chutes and boarded a plane for a jump from 7,500 feet over Death Valley. Lionel Pinn 60, a retired first sergeant and now a hotel security guard, coordinated the jump.

Pinn. a veteran of Darby's Rangers in World War II as well as Korea, was a Green Beret with eight tours of duty in Vietnam and eight Purple Hearts. "These men can do it and so can all the Vietnam veterans," said Pinn, a tough cigar-chomping character. "The purpose of the jump and run, and it is not a race, is to show respect and pay homage to all Vietnam veterans whether they were a truck driver behind the line or on the front lines, whether they were dishonorably discharged or retired with honor," Trial ordered SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Kenneth Glen Roberts was ordered Monday to stand trial in connection with a Christmas Eve crime spree that left an 18-year-old Sandy woman paralyzed for life. Roberts, a Utah State Prison halfway house inmate, was ordered Monday to stand trial on nine felony counts, including two counts each of attempted capital homicide, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery.

He is also charged with being a habitual criminal, and of possession of a weapon by a restricted person. He was bound over for trial by Fifth Circuit Judge Arthur G. Christean, who ordered Roberts to appear for arraignment in Third District Court Friday. One of the attempted murder charges involves the shooting of LaDawn Prue Dec. 24 in front of her Sandy home.

The complaint alleges that a man tried to kidnap her, but that she resisted and he shot her in the neck and left her for dead. Hi SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) A pregnant woman sentenced to five years on probation for abusing her one-year-old daughter will also have to give up the unborn child she iscarrying, a Fifth Circuit Court judge has ruled. Judge Eleanor Lewis placed Colleen A. Zabriskie, 27, of West Valley City on probation Monday, fined her $2,000 and ordered the woman to pay $1,000 in attorney's fees in connection with the case, i Following Zabriskie's arrest last August, guardianship of her daughter, Stacy Lynn, was awarded to the Utah Social Services Department. And, Judge Lewis said, at the time of birth, "the child you are now carrying must be placed in the custody of the Department of Social Services while you are on probation." However, the judge told Ms.

Zabriskie "you may be able to reclaim the rights to the child at a future date." The judge said the woman's probationary period will include strict supervision and monthly reviews by probation officers and a psychiatrist. rn iwasi PCJ i 0- 4 i i-- weather mntSi 'aialjjjjj 29.77 Ti 30.24 SEATTLE. ZA 1 I BOSTON r't -r MINNEAPOLIS- A JzHTl 3Sf 2K NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO DENVER PAID LS LOS ANQELES WCcpricO 31,000 ml WSOLD 4,500 mi. 9CcmSOLDomi. Ccprico Classic 33 ,000 mi.

7H Toyota Corolla 29,500 mi. 29,000 mi. 29,000 mi. TllChev. Malibu 30,000 mi.

New motor WMonto Carlo HI Toyota Corolla 28,500 mi. "81 Toyota Corolla 23,000 mi. LOWEST r.wyv. TEMPERATURES LEGEND Wn rt-tVEJ 3000 mm nn AIR SHOWERS FLOW UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST Temperatures All these cars were used for rentals locally in Southern Utah. Very well maintained and in excellent condition.

All approx. 1, 000. under book value. See at the St. George Air Terminal.

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