Ralph W. Hardy Dies After Pine View Outing Ogden Standard Aug 6 - 57- A vacation in Ogden turned to tragedy yesterday when Ralph W. Hardy, 41, brilliant Columbia Broadcasting System executive, died of a heart attack following an afternoon of boating and water skiing at Pine View Reservoir. A vice president of CBS in Washington, D.C., Mr. Hardy and his family had been visiting at the home of his wife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Eccles, 2508 Jackson Ave. By a strange coincidence Mr. Hardy’s death occurred not far from where the body of his brother, J. Moburn Hardy, was fished from Pine View Reservoir in 1953 after the later had been missing for more than a year. Mr. Hardy collapsed on a boat dock late yesterday afternoon and respiration failed to revive him. He died a short time later. WITH HIS DAUGHTER He had spent the afternoon on Pine View Reservoir with his daughter, Clare, 14, and a niece and nephew. After returning to the pier at Pine View Yacht Club he complained of a pain in his arm, then collapsed on the dock. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Dee Hospital. Mr. Hardy was born in Salt Lake City May 6, 1916, a son of John K. and Clare Williams Hardy. On March 10, 1939, he married Maren Eccles in the LDS Salt Lake Temple. They moved to Washington 1949. Surviving are his widow, five sons and daughters, Ralph W. Hardy Jr., Clare, Alison, Maren and David Eccles Hardy; two brothers, Lt. Col. John K. Hardy, Japan, and Allen W. Hardy, Los Angeles; one sister, Mrs. Samuel (Miriam) Stewart, Salt Lake City. He attended Utah schools and was employed for a time at radio station KSL in Salt Lake City. He was active in Utah civic affairs, a member of the LDS Church and was the Salt Lake Junior Chamber of Commerce “Man of the Year: in 1945. He left the Salt Lake radio position in 1949 and for a time was vice president of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters before joining CBS. He was a member of the advertising advisory committee to the secretary of commerce to the secretary of commerce during 1949-50, secretary of the Broadcast Advisory Council from 1950 to 1952. Mr. Hardy served as a member of the board of governors of the Association of Better Business Bureaus from 1951 to 1954. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Advertising Council Inc. In 1955 he was made vice president of CBS and headed up their office in Washington, D.C. He was connected with the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He has been a nice chairman since 1955 of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. RALPH W. HARDY Victim of Heart Attack He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the ninth World Conference of UNESCO at New Delhi, India, in 1956. He was connected with the national council for the Boys Scouts of America. He served an LDS mission to Great Britain in 1935-37, and served as a second counselor in the Bishopric in the East Ensign Ward in Salt Lake City in 1941-42. He was a bishop from 1942 to 1949 in the East Ensign Ward. Mr. Hardy was sustained in 1948 as an assistant general superintendent to the church’s Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Assn. He was a member of the Washington, D.C., Stake High Council. Mr. Hardy also was a member of Sons of Utah Pioneers, and a past president of the Utah Society of the American Revolution. Robert H. Hinckley of Ogden, a vice president of the American Broadcasting Co., today paid tribute to the character and work of Mr. Hardy. “I had been closely acquainted with Mr. Hardy in Washington and saw much of him. Wherever he went and whatever he did he was a credit to what he was doing. He was a credit to his country, his family, his industry, his state, his church and himself. I feel a deep sense of loss in his unexpected passing.” RITES FRIDAY Funeral services will be conducted Friday at noon in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. There will be no public viewing. The family requests flowers be omitted. Interment will be in Ogden City Cemetery, directed by Lindquist and Sons Mortuary. Hiroshima Mayor Asks A-Test End HIROSHIMA (AP) - Hiroshima Mayor Tabao Watanabe called for abolition of nuclear weapons and an end to their testing today, the 12th anniversary of the atombombing of his city.