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MjjirrT ii'l'iljiip- Hii igy- 'tri''- tf'-V yffww Jg 1 Man C' r- Woman Hurt 1 -Hi w.i te' -r a 4 i. Htv a jr By George A. Sorensen Tribune Suburban Editor MILL CREEK CANYON A Good Samaritan" was shot and killed shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday when he rushed to the aid of a young woman being assaulted by a man near the top of this canyon. The woman, Karen Roberson, 24, 2882-200 East, was critically wounded when her assailant fired at least 14 shots at her and Justin E.

Taufer, 67, 747-600 East, the man who tried to help i r. 1 4 in-it i I' i. ji: ,1 Jl Trlboot Staff Photos by Lynn R. Jobnwn after a huge cache of all types of weapons and related materials were found. finding him near his home at 1591-3rd East.

Extra officers were called to the scene Salt Lake City and County lawmen search murder suspect Douglas A. Yoakam after her. Miss Roberson is in critical condition at St. Marks Hospital. Two hours after the shooting, Salt Lake City Police and Salt Lake County Sheriffs officers arrested a suspect on information given investigators by the wounded woman.

Capt. Hayward said an autopsy Wednesday will determine how many times Mr. Taufer was struck by bullets. Miss Roberson was hit four times. Detectives found 14 expended casings at the scene, six miles up this canyon.

The suspect was arrested at 1591-300 East, about 3 A British-made machine pistol and several other weapons were found in the attic of the house, Capt. Hayward said. He identified the suspect, who has been booked into Salt Lake City-County jail, as Douglas Alan Yoakam, 28, of that address. In a sequence of events as outlined by Capt. Hayward and Chief Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Hamraon, Miss Roberson had spent the morning hiking near the top of the canyon.

As she returned to her pickup truck, she was accosted by a man who said he was going to rape her. As she started to struggle with him, Mr. Taufer, who was en route to his cabin in the canyon, stopped to help her. He was able to get between the woman and her assailant when the assailant backed into the road and began firing. Four other witnesses who drove past the fight on the way down the canyon, turned around and returned to the scene.

The shooting was over at this time, Chief Deputy Hammon said. Lying Alongside Truck They found Mr. Taufer lying alongside the womans pickup truck, and the critically wounded woman on the trucks seat. One witness raced to Log Haven, about three miles down the canyon, and notified the sheriffs office by telephone. County Fire Department paramedics praised the other witnesses who had stabilized Miss Roberson with first aid.

She was conscious when they arrived. Mr. Taufer was dead. Capt. Hayward said Miss Roberson was able to give the first deputies on the scene a good description of the suspect, his car and the license number.

Trace City Address The Salt Lake address was traced and city police made one pass by the home and the car was not there. On the second pass the car had returned and police and deputies arrested the suspect as he walked up to the house. He had apparently gone to a coin-operated laundry with Us young daughter. When police arrived at the house they noticed blood inside the car. Also in the veUcle were handcuffs and an empty See Page B-4, Column 3 Lawmen Find Weapons Cache, Nab Murder Suspect in S.L.

Siege ffHmite TV Today Local News Page 1M Comics Wednesday Morning, May 11, 1977 Section II Page One But Its Cooler Storm Fizzles, N. Utah Dry Everyone was expecting rain and maybe snow across the valleys of northern Utah Tuesday, but Mother Nature didnt cooperate. The storm front went through all right, but the moisture-laden clouds following it swerved to the north into Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, although some snow and rain was measured in southern Utah. Some snow shower activity was noted in the Oquirrh, Wasatch and Uinta mountains early in the day. Up to a quarter of an inch of precipitation was measured in southern Utah.

The frontal cooled temperatures with Salt Lake City recording a high of 62 degrees compared with Mondays high of 79. The forecast for Wednesday calls for fair to partly cloudy skies in the region with some warming. Dan Valentines By George Raine and Wilf Cannon Tribune Staff Writers More than 30 area lawmen Tuesday afternoon participated in an hour-long police drama that included the arrest of a suspect in a murder, shooting and sexual assault in Millcreek Canyon, and the confiscation of a cache of weapons that could have equipped an army. No shots were fired. The suspect was not even at home when the siege began, but subsequently arrived, looking like any of the 100 or so onlookers.

He was pushing a carriage with his daughter who looked to be about 18 months old. He simply asked what was going on. Douglas Alan Yoakam, about 28, was then arrested. All of this occurred about one hour after a crime took place about eight miles up Millcreek Canyon, shortly before 1 a man was assaulting a woman in the canyon when a man passing by tried to intervene. He was shot and killed by the attacker.

The woman was then shot four times. Although critically wounded, she gave authorities the license plate number and a description of the suspects car, leading lawmen to Yoakams address, 1591-3rd East. When lawmen found a huge cache of weapons in the house, and because they were uncertain whether anyone was in hiding, they filled the house with tcargas. It was aimed at the attic, where a 9-mm automatic weapon had been found. It had been recently fired, and was stained with blood.

The action took place on a quiet residential street directly across from the playground of Whittier Elementary Shot, Killed from the building on 4800 South and around an adjacent house, and were last seen in the area of a nearby service station. Murray Police officials said the shooting was reported by Melba Allred, thought to be Dr. Allreds receptionist. Lottie Ferguson, owner of the one-story building where Dr. Allred had his office, said she was home but didn't hear the shots.

He was one of the finest men Ive ever known in my life," she said. Another tenant in the building. Susan Ueiff, said the shots sounded like someone was banging against the wall Salt Lake Gty Police Det. Carl Voyles, left, a fellow Naturopathic Doctor lawman and Det. Jake Green, right, examine weapons cache.

told Mr. Briscoe that his growing wealth was typical of polygamists who believe in sharing with each other under a United Order plan. Det. Forbes said Dr. Allred was shot at least seven times and the shots were fired from two handguns each of a different caliber.

The shooting took place in an office-laboratory area adjacent to the waiting room where several patients were sitting, the officer said. Several of those persons were being interviewed by Murray detectives late Tuesday. Det. Forbes said following the shooting, the two women ran westbound Elected City For Raising By Craig Hansen Tribune Staff Writer Suggestions to raise an extra $3 1 million for Salt Lake City for the fiscal year beginning July 1 went to elected officials Tuesday. The suggestions include a $3.50 monthly garbage collection fee, higher business license and building permit costs and a request that city judges boost fine and forfeiture collections by $700,000.

The committee also suggested a 10 per cent budget trim. Study Group The study group, named Feb 10 by commissioners, has as its chairman I. J. Wagner, industrialist. Other members are Frank Lay, regional representative of the AFL-CTO; alarilee C.

Latta, public relations School. For more than an hour, beginning about 2:30 p.rn. the time classes ended the pupils were forced to remain in the school. But the activity drew a crush of reporters and residents, who had to be constantly told to keep their distance. When teargas filled the air, onlookers moved back.

Throughout this time city and county officers probed Yoakams house and lot and his blue sedan, which matched the description given by the female victim. The interior was splattered with blood. Also in the car were handcuffs, rope, rubber gloves and a clip that could fit in the 9-mm weapon located in the house. One investigator, Salt Lake City Police Det. Don Bell, said it included more automatic weapons than you need to equip an army with.

Det. Bell told reporters that Yoakam is a licensed firearms dealer, but still to be determined is whether the license covers all the found weapons. There were machineguns, a sub-machinegun, automatic rifles, hunting rifles, shotguns, knives, pistols, a Luger, gun powder, bullet-proof vests and more, along with many boxes of assorted ammunition. There were also photographs of various dangerous weapons. Yoakam watched most of the probing.

He was handcuffed in a sheriffs car parked alongside the house. Also in the course of the investigation, Yoakams wife arrived. She looked stunned. She and the child were taken to the Metropolitan Hall of Justice for questioning. Yoakam, who had walked home from a laundromat, was driven away.

Fire Damages S.L. School A fire Tuesday evening at the South Gate Preschool, 3869 S. State, caused $6,000 to $8,000 damage. Battalion Chief Glen Bean, Salt Lake County Fire Department, said the fire was reported at 8: 18 p.m. When the first units arrived, flames were leaping through the roof of the two-story structure hut fire fighters were able to confine the blaze to the second floor.

The fire apparently started in a store room. Chief Bean said. He said only minor smoke and water damage was done to the classrooms on the first floor. And the city cant trim 10 per cent from its revenue needs because the money is in already granted pay liikcs. I dont think the commission will go for that high of a garbage fee.

we will probably approve $2.50 a month, Mr. Phillips added. The committee failed to suggest its earlier mentioned growth revenue tax which would have raised $1.5 million hut hit virtually all city businesses. Although he said nothing could bo considered official until after commission action, Plumps iumed ine cny probably would raise property, utility franchise and other business license taxes to find the revenue Auditor Lawrence A. Jones said the money is needed to cover a $2 million phaseout of federal general revenue sharing and $3.3 million wage hikes commissioners granted March 1.

Serious MANY LEFTHANDERS resent being called Southpaws they reason, with quite a bit of logic, that if lefthanded people are called Southpaws how come right-handed people arent called Northpaws? Incidentally, membership in the Lefthanders International organization is open to all lefthanded people in the world. The club has a special membership card and theyve drawn up a bill of rights which they call a Bill of Lefts. Anyone interested in joining Lefthanders International can write for more information to the executive director Jancy Campbell. 3601 S.W. 29th Topeka, 66614.

Lefthanders have a hard time at formal banquets. They sit at the banquet table and eat with their left hands and are constantly bumped by the right hands of the person sitting next to them. And a local business executive, who is a leftie, says his pet peeve is when his boss refers to him as his right-hand man. TODAYS VALENTINE A special Valentine today to lake Postmaster Bob Greenberg. Recently, the Class of 1937 at East High School mailed out 450 letters to class members announcing their upcoming reunion.

They took the letters to the post office and paid the postage. But, somehow or other, the postage was ore-cent short. Instead of returning the letters for more postage, Postmaster Greenburg bought 450 one-cent stamps with Iris own money and sent the letters on their way, lie and his secretary even licked the 1-cent stamps and stuck them on the 450 envelopes. A nice thing to do, and a Valentine to you sir. SAM, THE SAD CYNIC, SAYS: Another question that's been bothering me: Does President Carter have to go through customs when be returns to the United States from abroad? Nothing JUST RAMBLING: There are more than 100,000 southpaws in the state of Utah.

That is, we have 100,000 Utah lefthan--) dors if we follow the national pattern. And theres no reason to think we dont. h-L Officials of the Lefthanders In-j ternational Club say that one out of 10 Americans are 1 southpaws. Dan Valentine WUch gives us 1 at least 100,000 lef ties in the BeeUve State. There are more lefthanded men than lefthanded women.

About 6.6 per cent of all the men in the United States are lefthanded. Only 3.8 per cent of American women are southpaws. THE LEFTIES of the world are banding together to fight, for equal rights with righthanders. Lefthanders International claims to have local chapters in all 50 states and in five foreign countries. A BYU graduate Johnny Miller was selected this year by the organization as the top leflhanded professional golfer ol the year.

(But he plays golf righthanded.) Postal employes who are leflhanded have been complaining that they find it hard to work mail because all the sorting facilities are geared for righthanders. Lefthanders had a bad year in politics last year. Gerald Ford, is a lefthander. Roliert Dole, Ford's vice presidential running mate, is a lefthander. Both lost.

DOROTHY HAMILL, glamorous Olympic skating champion who recently appeared at the Salt Palace with the lee Capades, is a lefthander. Sylvester Stallone plays the part of a lefthanded prizefighter in the hit movie, Rocky. A marriage expert says marriage is easier if both the husband and wife are lefthanders. It is very hard for a lefthanded person to play the flute and tiiere are special southpaw reels on the market for lefthanded fishermen. Lefthanded men find it difficult to dance with right-handed women.

Officials Get Suggestions an Extra $3.4 Million By Jon Ure and Paul Wetzel Tribune Staff Writers MURRAY Rulon C. Allred, Fundamentalist leader and naturopathic physician who once served a Utah State Prison term for his religious beliefs, was gunned down at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday in his office at 133 E. 4800 South. Dr.

Allred, 71, 1163 W. 5000 South, Taylorsville, was shot shortly after two young women entered his office, said Murray Police Det. Paul Forbes. The two women fled the scene of the shooting on foot and police were searching for them late Tuesday, Det. Forbes said.

Several patients in the offices waiting room witnessed the shooting, the detective added. Dr. Allred was shot several times and was dead at the scene. Dr. Allred was a practicing polyga mist, according to David Briscoe, an Associated Press writer who based a story on polygamy in the area from interviews he conducted with the doctor.

Also, in the 1946s, Dr. Allred was convicted of unlawful cohabitation and served a five-month sentence in the Utah State Prison. In the AP story, Dr. Allred said his family was among do.uuu Fundament-talist Mormons, most of whom were excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I have been in jail and had my children and wives taken away and suffered beyond words.

Dr. Allred said. But 1 believe there is notmng sinister about the truth. If some of us don't have enough guts to come out and take that position, misunderstanding will Dr. Allred was described in the AP story as a leader of the polygamist culture in Utah He owned a four plex and firm owner.

Jack Olson, executive director, I tali Taxpayers Assn and J. P. O'Keefe, retired Konnccott Copper Corp. executive. Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr.

said the committee did a lot of research, hut did not recognize some situations that will block its recommendations. Cannot Boost Fines For example, said the commissioner, the city cannot boost the fines and forfeitures projection because it is behind dus yea' $2 ouiiiou estimate. oterdav's Llmcklr The modem girl needs only two friends one to talk a Unit and one to talk to 44 Vs J. M. J..