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GREELEY (Colo.) TRIBUNE Feb. 24, 1973 Haley de describes concept of 'people mover' Welco honor choir Members of the Welco Honor Choir practice for upcoming concert Tuesday. From left around the piano are Ann Todd, University High; Linda Miller, Fort Lupton High; Marcia Schrepel, Windsor High; Terry Pyeatt, Valley High; and Ralph Lobato, at the piano, Highland High. Concert will be held at University has also promised two-thirds financing for the remaining 4.5 miles as well as 12 more stations and 195 more vehicles, for a total cost of $50 million. Haley noted that the project had been selected as one of the top five engineering works in the state for 1972 and the Colorado Engineering Council had made an award to RTD and NHPQ.

The project will also be Colorado's entry in th National CEC engineering excellence awards competition, Winners in the national contest will be announced in New Orleans later this year. Haley said enough studies have been completed to establish the fact that Greeley would need a "people mover" system before 1983, when the system is scheduled to be completed. He said that while no actual routes have been chosen, present thinking is that a PRT system here would start in the general area of 23rd Ave. and the Highway 34 by-pass. The system would gather passengers from the heavily populated areas around the Greeley Mall as well as commuter passengers who would park in satellite parking lots near the station.

From its southernmost station, the PRT line would move north and east through the UNC campus where stations would be located at several points. After leaving the UNC campus, the guideway would split and go north, near 11th Ave. to stations located near the courthouse block, the city complex and the new Greeley National Bank. A route near 7th Avenue from downtown Greeley south to UNC would hook up with double trackway south along the main line to 23rd Avenue. Between UNC and downtown Greeley there would be crossover connections between the two north south legs to reduce waiting periods and expedite turn around time.

Haley said he realized that BRAINS 2140 A' many people agreed with Sen. Bill Garnsey and Rep. Carl walter in feeling that the concept sounds great but there it is 100 "far out" for Greeley. While admitting that the system might not work as well as planned and that it might cost even more than the $1.6 billion anticipated, Haley asked the question, "'What will it be like in another 15 years if we don't work toward a planned transportation system?" Haley said the $35 per resident tax bite being talked about by RTD was. not unreasonable and that we have to give it a "damn hard look "I'm confident that the lechnology Is ready to solve the transportation problems of our area.

I just hope that our citizens are as far -sighted as their ancestors who decided that Greeley would provide a good life for over a hundred years if they could just build the proper irrigation system," Haley said in closing. High School beginning and open to the public. will be a performance Band. Involved in the students from the 12 photo) Communists shells kill 10 near peace team building Libyan fighters said to have orders to down Israeli liners BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Libyan jet fighters have been flying patrol missions over the Mediterranean with orders to shoot down Israeli El Al airliners wherever they encounter them, a Lebanese newspaper claimed today. Al Yom, which has close contacts with Egypt, quoted reliable Arab sources in Beirut as saying the move was decided by Col.

Muammar Kadafi's ruling Revolutionary Command Council to avenge the downing of a Libyan by Israeli fighters Wednesday. A Libyan Embassy spokesman in Beirut declined to comment on the report. Al Yom said Libyan Mirages intercepted a Trans World Airlines plane over the Mediterranean Friday and questioned the captain about the aircraft's identity and course. The paper gave no other details, and a TWA spokesman in Beirut said his office had "received no word about such an incident yet." TWA has regular flights from Europe to Cairo and Tel Aviv. Kadfai's government has been silent about what measures it would take following the downing of the Libyan airliner in the occupied Sinai Desert.

The crash killed 10G of the 113 persons aboard. A terse report over Tripoli Radio said Libyan Revolutionary Command Council had ended a two-day conference on the incident and had authorized Kodafi to send cables of condolences lo the families of the victims. No other decisions were reported. In Cairo, sobbing relatives and friends tried to get Ihrough police lines to reach the bodies of victims of the Libyan crash. Patrol reports one injury; 8 accidents The State Patrol reported and investigated eight accidents Friday that resulted in one injury and considerable property damage.

Minor injuries were received by Lois Ryan of Greeley. Patrolman Chris Matson said she was driving a late model sedan eastbound on U.S. 34 when she swerved to keep from hitting a dog and lost control of her car. Mason said the car slid off the road and rooled two and half times down an embankment came to rest on its top. She was treated and released from Weld County General Hospital.

Matson estimated damages at $800. Patrolman Claude Edens reported a late model sedan driven by Santos Preciado of Ault recelved $700 in estimated damages when he was attempting to make a curve on U.S. 85 and the car ran off the road, skidded across and rolled four times coming to rest on its wheels. Preciado was not injured according to Edens. Ronald Bluntschli of Greeley was uninjured, according to Patrolman Chris Matson when his station wagon failed to make a curve on a county road.

Matson said the auto went across the oncoming lane for 115 feet and went off the road for an additional 58 feet and landed on its top after flipping a half time. Matson said Bluntschli was uninjured and damage was estimated at $400. A tractor-trailer rig driven by Gerald Robinson of, New Leipzig, S.D., received $800 damage, according to Patrolman Edens. Edens' said Robinson's rig was traveling on 80S when it ran off the road and across the median and ran over a tree. Edens said Robinson received a cut on the back of his head and damage to the tree was estimated at $35, In another one-car accident, Willie Mathews of Gill received no injuries when his station wagon struck a bridge rail on 18th Street, according to Patrolman Steve Hall.

Hall reported the Mathews vehicle had backed from A private driveway and was east bound on 18th Street. He said that Mathews could not see through the frost on the windshield because of the sun and struck the bridge rail. Hall estimated damages to the car at $250. Patrolman Mike Sandoval reported a two-car accident on County Road 52. Sandoval reported a sedan driven by David Linnebur of Roggen had turned onto County Road 52 from Colo.

79 and was headed east. Sandoval said a second car driven by Damian Klausner of Roggen also was headed east DA County Road 52 and side swiped the Linnebur vehicle. Sandoval said neither driver was injured and estimated damages to the Linnebur car at In the courts DISTRICT COURT Two dissolution of marriage petitions were filed in Distriet Court. They were: Mrs. Annette B.

Mitze of Galeton against George A. Mitze of Denver. They were married March 15, 1964, at Longmont and have two children. Mrs. Betty J.

Schmier, RI. 1, Kersey, against Vernon L. Schmier of Greeley. They were married at Johnstown Oct. 10, 1970, and have one child.

injured in crash Motorcyclist Rodney Harrington of Greeley received undetermined injuries Saturday morning when his motorcycle collided with a car driven by John Henney of Greeley. According to the Greeley Police report, the Harrington vehicle was eastbound on 10th Street and was struck by the Henney vehicle when it nttempted to make a left turn from its westbound position on 10th Street. The report said Harrington WAS taken to Weld County General Hospital. The hospital said that Harringion would undergo extensive X-ray examination. Police estimated damages to the motorcycle at $300 and $50 to the Henney car.

4 John Haley, of Nelson, Haley, Patterson and Quirk, local engineering firm, appeared before the Greeley Rotary Club Wednesday and explained his firm's part in development of a Personal Rapid Transit "People Mover" system for the Regional Transportation District and the Department of Transportation-Urban Mass Transportation ministration. Haley explained to his audience that RTD was born in 1969 by action taken in the state legislature. Its task was to study the problems and develop a plan for a full service "balanced" transportation system. This sylem would serve a seven-county area along the front range, extending from Greeley on the north to Castle Rock on the south. Included in the district are Denver, Boulder, Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties and the southwestern part of Weld County, including Greeley.

As currently structured, the district has 21 directors, including John Watson of Greeley. It has authority to levy a tax of up to 0.5 mills to pay for planning operations. At present, Haley noted, the tax levy is 0.38 mills on all ties within the district. Halcy says RTD is unique in that it has a mandate from the legislature to come up with a plan that will win taxpayer approval or "die." If the district is not able to come up with a plan that meets voter approval by July, 1974, then it will be dissolved. Haley noted that so far RTD has spent 22 months and $2.5 million to gather information and make population projections needed for a "balanced" transport system.

Haley outlined the $1.6 billion plan (including inflation) which would be implemented over a 10-year period. The plan includes present and proposed freeways and highways within the district, local bus systems and intra-city bus lines, airports for short take off and landing (stol) aircraft: Stapleton International; bicycle paths, strategically located parking lots, railroad systems, mini bus systems and PRT systems for the urban centers of Boulder, Denver and Greeley. Haley described the PRT or "people mover" as a new, modern transportation sytem which has as its purpose to move large numbers of people for a relatively short distance in an urban situation. This "people mover," Halcy Obituary Sharon Dugger Mrs. Sharon Dugger, 25, was killed in an automobile accident near Wray when returning to her home at Oakley, after attending the wedding of her father-in-law, Jack Dugger, and Mary Margaret Harrington in Greeley on Feb.

16. Funeral services were held Monday, Feh. 19, in the Christian Church at Oakley, with interment there. Her busband, Bob Dugger, had been killed a year earlier in an accidental shooting in Seplember, 1971. Survivors besides relatives here are two daughters, Karen and Kimberly, who will now make their home with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Peters at Oakley. Also surviving are Sharon Dugger's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mickelbrink of McCook, Neb.

Deaths and Funerals ADAMSON 'Mortuary LYNCH Mrs. Daisy Lynch of 418 371h Street, Evans. Wife of Gerald mother of James of Joliet, Illinols, Gerald R. Lynch of Wheat Ridge, Miss Deana M. Lynch of San Pablo, daughter of Raymond Coon of Stewartsville, Missouri, Mrs.

J. W. Peters of Kansas City, Missouri; sister of Er. ma Schoffield and Rosie M. Peach, both of Kansas City, Missouri, John W.

Peters Jr. of Sugar Creek, Missouri, Richard Coon of Albia, lowa, Edward Coon of Chicago. Illinols, Charles C. Coon of Seaside, Calif. Also survived by 7 grandchildren.

Serv. ices and Interment In charge of the Payne Funeral Home, Gall, Missourl. says, will move all sorts of people from every walk of life. Haley noted that one of the problems as brought out in studies and actual practice has been to get the average American out of his car and into some form of mass transit. Haley noted, however, that the PRT system has "sex appeal." It blends new technology with economy, convenience, pleasure, comfort, speed, environmental concern and modern architecture.

Haley said that last year's "Transpo 72" at Dulles International Airport dealt with every type of transportation system from pipelines to the Boeing 747. The "people mover" exhibits were the stars of the show. Four different types of vehicles were shown at Transpo and they were all fully automated, electric, computer controlled and capable of adaptation into the "horizontal elevator" concept. As described by llaley, this concept involves the customer or passenger arriving at a "people mover" station either by walking or driving to a satellite parking lot near the station. After arrival, the passenger pays a fare to get through a gate, He then refers to a map showing the station number nearest the destination he desires.

Next, if a vehicle is not immediately available at the station, the passenger pushes a button to call one. When the ve; hicle arrives, the passenger gets in, pushes a button for his desired station and the vehicle departs. There is no operator and the vehicle goes the most direct route to the station selected without stopping, unless another passenger has pushed alt intermediate station number. While en route, the vehicle travels at 30 miles per hour, yet is always a safe 300 feet from other vehicles. If the vehicle is only partially loaded, it may stop at intermediate stations to pick up additional passengers.

If the vehicle is full, it becomes an express run and by-passes intermediate stations. During peak hours, or when the computer senses a heavy demand at a particular station or area, empty vehicles will automatically be dispatched.to the heavy load area so that waiting time will be kept to a minimum. Haley said this "horizontal elevator" provides its passengers with an ever -changing view. The small vehicles hold 6 to 12 passengers each, are com- fortable, completely climate controlled and futuristic in appearance. They ride a track that is architecturally pleasing and move along a route that is attractive to the rider as well as the pedestrian.

Since there is glass on all sides, there is no trapped feeling. They travel at tree top height, sometimes moving through the third floor of buildings, over sidewalks, and highways and sometimes through large open areas. "I think you will find it a very exciting ride." Haley said. Haley said NHPQ was hired to plan this "people mover" system in downtown Denver as an integral part of the RTD's total transportation system. There were many criteria to meet: Serving an urban renewal area; the Auraria educational complex; a public low cost housing area; the central business district; the new Denver mint and Hile High stadium.

Additionally the proposed route had to use present and proposed right of ways, serve satellite parking lots away from the city center and have its stations at points requiring a minimum of walking for a majority of users. The problem was further compounded by not knowing which vehicle would actually be used. Therefore, the system had to be designed to fit all known vehicles. New design criteria had to be developed and problems such as maximum and minimum grades had to be coped with as well as curves, weather effects, wind effects, traffic interference, construction problems and materials and environmental impact. Haley emphasized that a great deal of time was spent in solving environmental problems in designing the system.

"We spent a great deal of time worrying and planning ways to improve the existing and future environments," he said. The space under the guideway will be used for rest areas, small linear parks, play areas, gardens, exhibit areas, pedestrian malls and bicycle paths. The initial system will require 15 stations in a five-mile run with 200 individual vehicles. Haley noted that the NHPQ study and report was used by RTD to gain the DOT grant to build the first mile of the system with three stations and five vehicles. Denver won out over 30 major cities and got the $11 million grant.

The mass transit agency The police cordon held back crowds outside the city morgue, allowing only two relatives of cach of the 39 Egyptian victims to enter the building. Coffins containing the remains of 100 of the victims were handed over to Egypt across the Suez Canal Friday. In Beersheba, defense Minister Moshe Dayan paid a surprise visit to the survivors of the crash. Security agents and police guarded the hospital as the general strolled from hed to bed. He did not speak to the Lib-.

yan copilot, who still remains on the critical list. Doctors said he had improved slightly during the night but was not out of danger. Dayan turned to the copilot's wife who was beside her band and invited her to tour Israel as guest of the government. She accepted. A French steward told Dayan he was receiving good treatment and service at the desert hospital.

One of the other survivors, a Jordanian, turned his head and refused to speak to Dayan. Dayan said Friday he hoped the Arabs "will not feel they must take revenge. Slot car results Mickey Bates placed first with 200 laps in the semimodified race Thursday evening. Craly Swanson placed second with 180 laps. Steve Foster was third with 176 Imps, and Gary Gehring took fourth.

Swanson was fastest qualifier with 12 laps, 4 sections. Next race at Don's Raceway lobbies is at 7 p.m. Tuesday for a 1-32 (all types) cars. $120 and $250 to the Klausner car. A second two-car accident occurred al the intersection' of Avenue and 26th Patrolman D.

L. Swencki. reported a car driven by James Patterson of Greeley was southbound on 8th Avenue when the second vehicle, driven by Henry Steilbach of Greeley, was allempting to make a left turn from 26th Street onto 8th Avenue and hit the Patterson vehicle. Swencki said neither driver: received injuries and estimated damages to the Patterson car al $250 and $50 to the Steilbach auto. Patrolman Chris Matson reported a third two-car accident at County Road 52 and Arrowhead Avenue.

Matson reported a sedan driven by Mildred Crawford of Gilcrest was stuck in the mud on and the second vehicle driven by Susan Cartwright hit it. Matson said she attempted to avoid the parked auto but slid in the mud and hit the Crawford car. He estimated damage to the Crawford car at $200 and $50 to the Cartwright. vehicle. Neither driver was reported to be injured.

Johnstown Mrs. Ava Miller The Kilkare club met with Mrs. Astrid Carlson. Mrs. John Ullman assisted the hostess.

Mrs. Irving Brown, vice president, held the business meeting. Mrs. Billie, Jeffers gave the program on cake decorating. Miss Jodie, Stroughton of Los Alanito, is visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. Lambert Burger. She is a neice of Mrs.

Burgers. Mrs. Kate Nelson returned Sunday from Santa Ana, where she had been the past two months with her grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wailes.

A daughter, named Heather Corine, was born to the Wailes early in January. The baby is a granddaughter of Chester Hayes. Miss Anabel Logan returned to Denver Monday evening after spending the three day holiday. with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. H. Logan. Mrs. Marion Tregoning accompanied Mrs.

Pat Flynn to Broomfield on Tuesday where they visited Mrs. John Farmer. Mrs. Henry Wolf attended the opening of Fritcher Center in Greeley Sunday and visited her mother, Mrs. Barbara Walters, who is a patient there.

Then she visited her sister, Mrs. Charley Rutt who is a patient at Weld County General Hospital. The SAS Extension club met with Mrs. Arthur Schmall for their February meeting. Mrs.

Alex Winslow gave the program, subject being "Conservation and Organic Gardening." Each member read an article aboul Organic Gardening. For roll call there was an exchange of old valentines. On March 20th the club will meet with Mrs. 'Kenneth Garrett at her new home in La Salle. Mr.

and Mrs. Dean Pope and daughter, Cheryl of Arvada were Sunday evening callers OIl the Ernest Popes. Mr. and Mrs. George Scott of Wray spent several days last week with Mrs.

Ethel Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. Larry York, Scotty and Debra and other relatives. The Wesleyan Service Guild met with Mrs. Louie Beeten Monday night.

Mrs. D. I. Peterson assisted the hostess. Mrs.

Irving Brown gave the worship service. Mrs. Elizabeth Teal gave the program. On March 19th they will meet with Mrs. Carl Burch.

The Dorcas Society of the Buptist Church met with Mrs. Stanley Jackson. Mrs. Valentine Gill was in charge of the meeting. Mrs.

Walter Fields gave devotions. Mrs. Ethel Bedford gave an interesting prograti. Local Interest Stocks As of 11 a.m. Friday, Feh.

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i By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) Communist gunners killed 10 vietnames. today when their shells struck "We acted out of an honest and sincere consideration that this plane which was ani enemy plane from an enemy country had come here with; hostile intentions." But the Israeli military said the plane's flight recorder indicated the pilot mistook the Israeli fighters for Egyptian jets and thought he was actually over Egyptian territory, near a conference room of the Joint Military Commission and hit a building that was being remodeled for the International Commission of Control and Supervision. Field reports said the shellings occurred at Tri Ton, a district town 125 miles southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta. Six of the dead were school children and two were teachers. They were killed when shells hit a school yard near the military commission conference room.

Another shelling hit the building being remodeled, killing two South Vietnamese soldiers and wounding six, the field reports said. The chief U.S. delegate to the Joint Military Commission for the Can Tho region, Col. J.G. Whitted, was reported in the building but he was not injured.

U.S. resumes limited bombings inside Laos By PETER O'LOUGHLIN Associated Press Writer VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) The United States has resumed limited bombing in Laos and the Vientiane command has claimed more Communist violalions of the cease-fire agreement. A spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Command in Honolulu said nine U.S. B52s attacked enemy positions Friday in southern Laos where the government had been forced to retreat from the key town of Pak Song.

There was no word on whether there were further strikes todePriday's bombing allacks came at the request of Premier Souvanna Phouma, who claimed North Vielnamese troops launched major offensives in both the north and south after the cease-fire look effect at noon Thursday. The air strikes by the 852s were limited compared to the daily average of 380 strikes by U.S. warplanes of all types before the cense-fire. U.S. Defense Department at 7:30 p.m.

and is free In addition to the choir by the Welco Honor two groups will be 185 Welco schools. (UNC Tri Ton has been designated a subregional site for both teams of the international commission and the military commission. The international commission has not yet sent a team there because it considers the area insecure. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations to the military commission also have not sent representatives. The Saigon command reported, meanwhile, that there were 121 cease fire violations during the 24 hours, ending at 6 a.m.

During the period 169 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were killed, while South Vietnamese casualties were 42 killed and 201 wounded, the command said. Some progress was reported in the investigation of the shooting down of an American helicopter Feb. 16. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sources said the United States wanted to get across to the Communists in Laos the message that it would not stand for cease-fire violations at the expense of the Laotian government. The sources indicated that further U.S.

strikes, if any, will be small and selective. The Laotian military said it recorded 60 Communist ceasefire violations since the ceasefire went into effect. It said 20 of the violations occurred in the past 24 hours, 18 of them in the plain surrounding Vietiane. No delails were released. But it appeared the heavy fighting of the past two days was lapering off, especially in the south around Pakse, a Mekong river town in the southern panhandle.

One of the town's main attractions for the Communists apparently is that it is the seat of the powerful right-wing Champasaak family. The sclon of the family, Sisouk No Champassak, is the government's defense minister. delegates along with U.S. and South Vietnamese representatives to the military commission interviewed the craft's injured pilot, CW02 Steven Myers of South Fork, Pa. He was in command when the helicopter was hit by ground fire and crashed about 60 miles north of Saigon.

"All four parties asked queslions," said a U.S. source. "'The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong did not ask uny loaded questions. Their questions were relatively straight forward, bul often irrelevant." The substance of Myers' interview was not disclosed, but earlier the aireraft commander told U.S. officials that Viet Cong troops shot his helicopter down.

He said that along Highway 13 south of An Loc, where his helicopter crashed, the only flags were those of the Viet Cong. Myers said the aircraft was unarmed and delivering two Jeeps, a generator, office furniture and other supplies to A military commission compound. Five Americans were injured in the flaming crash, and one of them, Spec. 5 James Scroggins, 25, of Mulberry Grove, Ill, died Friday do burns..