2B The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday, March WV?& 18, KIM V Idahos George Hansen Undaunted on Eve Of Funds Ethics Trial By Chris Clirystal ing their income and financial transactions. He is accused of failing to disclose dealings totaling $333,978 over four years, including a $61,593 personal loan in 1980 from Texas billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. He's also accused of not reporting in 1979 a $87,475 profit he and his wife. Connie, made buying and selling silver futures contracts, and a $50,090 personal loan in her name from a Dallas bank, guaranteed by United Press International WASHINGTON George HanIdaho sen, the maverick .seven-tercongressman, says lie's not nervous about his trial Monday on ethics disclosure violations because. "It could be over before it starts. Undaunted, Hansen, 58. cheerfully scoffed at the Justice Department's case Friday, saying the prosecutors "couldn't identify a zipper in a button factory." $81,51)8 Personal Loan Hansen is the first public official to be tried on charges of violating the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. which requires congressmen and other government officials to file annual reports disclos- - Hunt. The April 7 indictment also accuses Hansen of failing to mention $135,990 in personal loans to him in 1981 by people in Virginia. Hansen said the money was for the Association of Concerned Citizens that promoted his book assailing the Internal Revenue Service. high-rankin- g The Idaho Republican is the only member of Congress currently under indictment. If convicted, he could be sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000 on each Water Official Raps Plan To Cut Budget count. Ruling Due Monday District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green is expected to rule Monday, shortly before the trial, on court papers filed Friday seeking the federal grand jury testimony of a man who tried to extort $440,099 from Hunt. Arthur Emens III. an Oklahoma commodities brokerage employee, pleaded guilty in 1982 to blackmail for threatening to tell the FBI of his claim that Hunt bribed Hansen by helping Mrs. Hansen make a profit in silver. The judge hes allowed Hansen to use the blackmail attempt, which he and Hunt reported to the FBI, as evidence he is innocent of trying to conceal the silver transaction. Hansen's lawyers claim the alleged omissions from the ethics disclosure statements are not a wilful violation of any law because Congress did not intend to use the statements for anything. The ultraconservative Mormon is popular in Idaho's 2nd Congressional District, which elected him to two terms in the 1969s and every term since 1974. U.S. - State Water BOISE (UPI) Department Director Ken Dunn says a recommendation to cut his requested 1985 budget by 92 percent could thwart a resolution to end continued controversy over water rights and could mark the end of a proposed Wciser River reservoir. The Joint Committee recommended Friday the agency receive a $3 million general-fund budget compared to a requested spending level of $5.7 milFinance-Appropriatio- lion. Committee Chairwoman Kitty said the panel folGurnsey, lowed its practice of setting agency budgets according to an overall state spending level of $484 million. Rut she said members may later add more money into selected agencies if lawmakers pass a sales-taincrease. The department had sought a total 46 new positions, including attorneys and hydrologists, to begin a full assessment of Snake River water rights. Legislative Budget Analyst Jeff Youtz said. Dunn said an attorney was requested to help fight a court battle Idaho Power Co. has launched over alleged infringement of its water rights on the Snake River. Dunn said lack of adequate legal representation would leave the state "with one arm tied behind its back" when fighting the hefty resources of the Boise-base- d utility. He said withholding $134,290 for study of a proposed Weiser River reservoir will prompt him to scrap the whole project if lawmakers follow the committee recommendax 4 Are You Sure This Things a Record Player? features antiques of almost every kind imaginable, from antique dolls and toys, to Pewter, Tiffany, Wedgewood and more. Exhibitors from all over the country and Utah are displaying their antiques for general viewing and for sale. Jim McWilliams examines antique phonograph, while his wife, Virginia, checks price on small item at the Salt Lake City Spring Antiques Show and Sale Saturday at the Expo-mar2.30 W. 200 South. The show, which will end Sunday, t, Unique Machines Speech Impaired Can Communicate Bv Anne Wilson Tribune Medical Writer Ask Oal Parsons what was most devastating about the stroke he suffered in July and he'll quickly tell you: Not being able to talk. He probably won t say it. however. since he still isn't able to talk very well. More likely, he'll spell out his answer on a portable device that looks like an adding machine but has letters on its keys. For Mr. Parsons. 64. being able to communicate again has given him the courage to joke prompted speech specialists at Holy Cross Hospital to start an assessment" service to match the speech impaired with the communication device that works best for them. According to Judi Pedersen, manager of speech, language-pathologand audiology at the hospital, the Center for Augmentative Speech will fill a "real need" in the Intermountain Region. Until now. she said, victims of stroke or other ailments that left them speechless have had to find such help outside the state. Center staff will not only determine what about his plight. He's fond of boasting about his ability to keep a secret, for example. "It's just really exciting to see the progress he's made over the months." says his daughter, Kay Robinson. "It makes you wonder how many people out there are to- y tally withdrawn, physically and mentally, because there was no way to get out what's inside them." Assessment Service The certainty that there are. indeed. such people "out there." has City Wants to Spend More on Growth By Brian Wilkinson Tribune Staff Writer Promoting economic growth in a keystone of MaySalt Lake City or Ted L. Wilsons policy for the next accounts for a major four years portion of a 36 percent requested increase in the Development Services Department's budget for fiscal 1984-8- - - tion. Delving more into the world of computers, moving some personnel costs from federal to local funds and improving communications systems are other reasons for the large increase. department director Craig E. Peterson said in a budget review this week. Brothers Stabbed, Suspect Held Two brothers. Baltina and Timmy 319 N. 690 West, were taken to LDS Hospital early Saturday morning with stab wounds. Baltina Garcia. 20. is listed in sat- Garcia, The department is asking for a general fund allocation of $2,297,352. This fiscal year's total is $1,684,322. Federal grants for community and urban development will add at least another $2.5 million to the budget. isfactory condition and Timmy Garcia. 17. was treated and released. Salt Lake City Police arrested a man in connection with the stabbing and are continuing investigation of the incident. According to Lt. Gene Young, the injuries were sustained during the course of a family fight. Development Services is charged with master planning for the city and with promoting community stability and growth. Its divisions include planning and zoning, the redevelopment agency, capital planning and programming and building and housing services. Defending a $309,999 general fund increase for economic development program director James McGuire outlined a plan to encourage growth. three-pronge- A. ing a high-tec- symposium, add h an- Some of these costs will be paid for by federal grants. other $125,090. Other major requested increases include about $80,000 to fund more planning activities through the general fund rather than with federal d First, industry from outside the Salt Lake area has to be identified and matched with the city's assets. A consultant will be hired to "catalog" those assets and start a marketing program. Cost for a study of assets and liabilities is listed at $50,000, while identification of expanding industries is pegged at $35,000. The greatest increase in economic growth is expected to be from local expansion, so the city has to develop a strategy to encourage that activity. Expected cost: $50,000. Finally, the city has to keep its name in the minds of international companies thinking of expanding in America. That promotion could cost another $50,000. and sending trade delegations to Germany and Japan will cost $20,000. Related costs, including printing promotional materials and sponsor community development block grants. Two planners would be shifted from federal to local money. Also for the planning and building divisions is a $19,000 request for new microcomputers and software. The system will be used to catalog every parcel of land in the city and crossindex that information with other city and county departments to provide a centralized list of every record and permit pertaining to that property. Another $60,000 request will pay for a new radio system to be used by building inspectors and planners. It would tie into a planned centralized city communication system. In the capital planning and programming division, plans for the next fiscal year include completing list of community dea three-yea- r velopment projects. "fun." According to Ms. Pedersen, existing technology isn't being applied to communication devices to the extent that it could be. "Talking" cash registers sound far superior to the oral devices available to the speech impaired, for example. But she hopes the gap will slowly close as society realizes the extent to which machines can substitute for disabled nerves and muscles. Mr. Parsons is now able to communicate on the telephone, with the help of a home " computer equipped with a "modum that translates the phone signals and allows the conversation to be printed. The computer is useful for relearning speech, loo. 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"flu ToU device best matches the capabilities of a patient, but train him or her to use it and help persuade the insurance provider to pay for it. The matching process usually involves a variety of professionals who have treated the patient therapists, physician, psychologist as well as the family, said Nancy Christensen, a speech pathologist who performs the assessments. Because there are literally dozens of speech aids on the market, it's essential to accurately evaluate a patients physical and intellectual capabilities. Someone who is paralyzed from the neck down would not be able to use a manually operated device, for example. Matching Devices Brain injury can result in a variety of problems. Ms. Pedersen said. Some stroke victims can understand speech, but not talk. Others can express their own thoughts but have trouble understanding what's said to them. The ability to write may or may not be impaired. Mr. Parsons, a retired Salt Lake City bookeeper. is fortunately still fully able to use his hands. He was matched with a portable and relatively inexpensive device that allows him to correct mistakes before printing a message and is capable of storing up to 40 words. He responds to questions of how he likes the device by printing the word non-or- marketing management consultant at Plan Tech. Dennis Aicher. owner of Sahara Sales. Gilhcrto Robles, assistant staff manager. Mountain Bell. Bill Nortliriip. sales promotion manager, Newspaper Agency Corporation. ani Paul Harmon. University o '5 all management consultant a'ld author Pro registration is $7 for the 9 i m to 4 p m workshop being held in Room 299 ol 'tali Tech's Technology Building Registration at the deer Will be $8 1 . .. "O "O' . Oal I,. Parsons Stroke Stole Speech (amiminaUT Ulahn Agrees To Penalty In Tax Case Tribune Washington Bureau A Utah busiWASHINGTON nessman has agreed to pay a $29,999 penalty to the federal government in an settlement relating to the sale of a computer system tax shelter John M. Iloldaway of Sandy, owner of Compuinaster Financial Services. agreed to pay the fine to settle a civil suit filed by the Justice Department in the U.S District Court in San Francisco. The suit charged Mr. Iloldaway and a California firm called Computer Alternatives Inc., and its president. Robert K. Rainers, with sellabusive" tax shelter in ing an violation of federal tax law since 1982. The California firm and Mr Hamers have agreed to pay a $39,999 penalty as part of the settlement Under the settlement, the defendants must stop selling the computer tax shelter and must inform the Internal Revenue Service of any other tax shelters they plan to sell The suit, which was filed at the request of IRS. asserted that the defendants had "grossly overvalued'' the computer systems they sold to investors, who had then claimed interest. expenses, depreciation, deductions and investment tax credits based on those values. The U.S. Treasure potentially lust mure than $22 million in tax revenues in 1982 as a result ot the 'ax shelter, the suit said. rt Aeeoi ding lo Hie government, the defendants that void 191 computer sw-tein- at prices ranging from $24 9.'ili in $:,0.,128 An investor would pay a small down payment and agree t pay the balance in in sbillmenK then lease the system to , Compumavter Financial Services "lale ('oir.iiumavter assumed the installment obligations An investor m the 59 percent tax bracket could buy a computer for $8 995 and lake $19 492 off luv taxes in credits and deductions svs-ter-