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Show 2B. TW Sill Uke Friday, March Tribune 30, 1984 S.L. Police to Vote On Union Issue By Brian Wilkinson Tribune Staff Writer The rank and file of the Salt Lake City Police Department will decide within the next month whether they want to abandon the union local that now represents them and join a new labor organization. Representatives of both the current union, the Utah Alliance of Police Officers, a unit of the Western Alliance of Government Employees (WAGE); the proposed new union, the Salt Lake Police Association (SLPA), and city officials Thursday set April 13 as a tentative date to mail ballots to some 250 officers whd will decide which, if any, union will represent them in collective bargaining over wages and benefits. The action to decertify the WAGE local was brought by members of; some of the proposed SLPA whom recently resigned WAGE over the manner in which funds g WAGE members from are disbursed to other locals. The Salt Lake Police chapter hasnt been getting a proportionate share of what it contributes, they say. Tentative SLPA President Police CpL Bo Grimes, who recently resigned as president of the WAGE local, said the new group will count at least 140 officers as members. Because thats more than half of the officers affected, he asked city Chief Administrative Officer A1 Haines to dues-payin- Juab Commission Picks Justice of the Peace Special to The Tribune The Juab County ComNEPHI mission has appointed former Levan mayor Lane Harward as the East Juab County justice of the peace. Ches Williams, who resigned March 5 for personal reasons. Mr. Harward took over duties March 19. W. He is a resident of Levan and term as Levan served a four-year By Jim Woolf The highway through Thistle, closed for nearly two weeks, may open again this weekend. Art Chides ter, project engineer for the Utah Department of Trans poration, said Thursday. Its looking fairly good . . he said. Theres not a great deal of rockfall and were close to having the ditches cleaned out Hopefully we can get it open by this weekend. U.S. through Spanish Fork Canyon has been closed since March 16 when rocks began cascading down the steep cliffs in the new section of road cut through Billies Mountain. The rocks filled protective ditches on both sides of the road and began pouring into traffic lanes. The new road carries traffic around the huge Thistle landslide. Once the road is open, Mr. Chides-te- r said the state plans to concentrate on angling back the walls of the roadcut to a more stable slope. The walls of the cut are almost vertical cliffs, some of which are almost 400 feet high. Done by Aatumn? If work goes according to schedule, this additional work should be done by autumn. Altering the slope of the roadcut should eliminate the rockfall problems which have plagued the highway since it was opened in January, he said. 6-- The problems plaguing the new road have prompted renewed debate over the states decision to build the new road through Billies Mountain. HAR Block tax office and recently left his job with the Intermountain Power Service Corp. to become justice of the peace. USU. He is married and has three Mr. Harward is a 1964 graduate of . approve the new union and decertify the WAGE local without an election. WAGE chapter director Dennis Thayne, however, pointed out several technical flaws in the SLPA petition to decertify his local and asked that the matter be delayed until SLPA changes its petition and resubmits it, a process that would take at least 10 days. He urged that an election be held to let the people say what they Leather WEIGHT LIFTER'S Mil 4" want Provided the legal glitches are worked out satisfactorily, Mr. Haines said the election-by-ma- il should begin April 13, with a final count being held April 27. If SLPA wins, the new union would be certified shortly thereafter and would pick up where WAGE left off in collective bargaining negotiations, which are now beginning in ALL METAL BARBELL SET O 60 100 07 . 0 LB. SET LB, BARBELL SET 46 150 7995 LB. BARBELL SET Special roJWd stool barsHor extra strength. Gymnasium quobty built to lost o iifotimo. UNIFORMS double lavt poly star pinstripe uniform, trim on pockets and waist. DoKjxo 2-- i SET REG. 35.00 19 95 BASEBALL UNIFORMS Extra fancy Top oi tfw lin joe ay modal 2 pc. Mt 129 Deluxe Model. 0188 4 95 TUMBLII MAT WELDED BENCH PRESS VX6 Supsr strong, ell joints welded. 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SLPA will have to pay the 3400 cost of holding the election. The police union saga began more than two years ago when the union left the International Brotherhood of Police Officers for independent representation. WIDE HOME CYCLE SAVE V2 ON earnest Highway Through Thistle May Open This Weekend Tribune Staff Writer as student president. He graduated from Southern Utah State College with a bachelors degree in elemenattendtary education. Also, he has ed Utah State University and Snow on his masCollege and is working ters degree in social science at ID SlDlB engi- neer for UDOT. We knew there were problems, but theres really no way around down there without crossing this difficult formation, he said. Its just a difficult place to build a road. Mr. Chidester said the public needs to remember that the road was built under emergency condi-- 1 tions with an extremely tight schedule. Choose any suit in We designed that road in six days working day and night, he said. It normally takes two or three years to design a job like this. And potential rockfall problems were identified as the new road was ' being cut through Billies Mountain. At one point we could have stopped and gone back and put the slope to where we wanted, he said, but we wouldnt have been able to open on time. Because of pressure to restore traffic, UDOT decided to delay the slope work until after the highway had been opened. the store.. .select another... GET A SPECIAL PRICE! 2-f- er Expert Says Hospitals Must Stress Efficiency to Survive the 1980s By Anne Wilson Tribune Medical Writer Hospitals that want to survive the 1980s need a new strategic vision of health care, one that emphasizes efficiency while preserving human relationships, the president of a national consulting firm said Thursday. Constant evolution and change is the important element now, said Michael H. Annison, president of Westrend Group, in a keynote address to the Utah Hospital Association. 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