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Show CREDIT PROBLEMS First Security, Zionsfacedowngrade B-3 ROLL MODELS JAZZ BEAT CLIPPERS Asian wraps come in all varieties C-1 Malone scores 34 in 103-93 win D-1 he Salt Lake Gribiiiie ittp://www.sltrib.com Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 259 Number 174 COMFORT FOOD Old Cookbooks Provide Taste OfGentler Era LOS ANGELES TIMES Unless you hate to dance, how could youresista recipe that promises to “make you click your heels and shout olé”? This lively claim for Spanishstyle baked fish appeared Zi.site i bookcalled Chicken Soup produced bythe Sinterhood, ah Temple Beth Hillel in Los Angeles. There’s no publication date, but the booksold for $3.50, which indicates thatit was released long ago. Paging through old cookbooks published by women’s organizations can be more fun than reading novels. Along with recipes,theyoffer tender memories offamilies and friends,historical insights, unassuming humor,inspirational tidbits, practical advice — even poetry. It’s like peeping into other people’s lives,atleast the parts of their lives that revolved around the kitchen anddining room. Thebonusis accessto treasured family recipes, set down in print for what was probably thefirst and only time. Think ofthe traditions represented by Old Aunt’s Cookies, Grandmother's Chocolate Cake, AuntJessie’s Boiled Salad Dressing, Grace’s Wedding Cake and Mother Hughes’ English Mincemeat, The Pi Beta Phi Cook Book, published by the Los Angeles Alumnae ClubofPi Beta Phiin 1936,is spattered brown throughout, showing thatit had heavy use. Inside the front cover is arecipe for hotrolls, neatly written in pencil. Because everyonein that era knew how to e rolls,the instructions were simply, “Combine and beathard.” Older books sometimes listed ingredients in termsof price rather than quantity. To make Leta Schreiber Gosden’s Christmas salad from the Pi Beta Phi book, youneeded 10 cents worth ofcinnamoncandies. These were boiled with sugar and water to make a spicy red syrup for poaching whole peeled apples. The apples were then stuffed with cream cheese and nuts. Earlier books usually included housekeeping and cooking tips. “Did youever try 4 teaspoon baking powderin your mashed potatoes?” asked the Philathea Cook Book compiled bythe Philathea Classof First Methodist Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara,Calif., in 1928. (The consequences of adding the baking powder were notrevealed.) “Don’t know whyit is, but any dried-bean dish with a - of vinegar eliminates any . aftereffects,” appeared with a lentil souprecipe in Hot or Cold, It Goes Out in the Morning, compiled by the St. Martin ofTours Women’s Council. The soup included twotablespoons of wine vinegar. Many ofthe books omit a publication date,as if the compilers felt their work had nohistorical significance. Sometimes women’s fashions in sketches thatillustrate a bookoffer a clue to its era. Cookbooks such as these were usually sold through the organizations that compiled them and notin bookstores. Most vanished within a few years ofpublication. Places to Telephone numbers listed on A-2 Tooele Hopes to Get Jump on Insect Problem by Spraying BY BRANDON LOOMIS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TOOELE — Legions of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets are getting ready to swarm rural farms and lawns for the third straight year, but this time the humans are armed and readyfora fight. Inadequate funding during the past two years kept fed- BY BARBARA HANSEN 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 WEDNESDAY,APRIL 5, 2000 ©2000, The Salt Lake Tribune federal agents are authorized to spray only public lands, and the state helps only with cropland. That covers the area where many of the bugs hatch, but homes still will be covered and gardens eaten if homeowners and absentee landowners don't takecareoftheir space. “You're going to have to do mostof it yourselves,” said Greg Abbott, an insect-control officer with the U.S. Animal andPlant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). eral and state agents from spraying theinsects before they It won't be newtoresidents ofTooele,orfor that matter couldlaybillions of eggs, so the hatching thatstarts in the the otherplaces that are bracing for the infestation: Box next two weeks should be intense. This time, government bug fighters have a budget to spray the pests before they grow and multiply. Still, the agents held something ofan anti-bug peprally at the Tooele County Agricultural Extension Service on Tuesday nightto encourage everyoneto pitch in. Afterall, Sickest Elder, Millard and Juab counties,in particular. Someof the homeowners at Tuesday's meeting said they spent $150 spraying their lawns by handlast year. Dori Wright, wholives on a patch of land north of Tooele, said “They ate all the bark off mytrees,” she said. “They ate my trellises. They ate the stucco on the house and the shingles on the roof.” This year she is stocked for biological warfare. She is raising 50 hungry pheasants. Wright said she is encouraged that the government is getting involved sooner this year. She blames public land for hatching most of her problem. “Two hours after I'd spray they'd be back in,” she said. Her problem, like everyoneelse’s around Tooele,is the grasshoppers. Farther south and westit is the fatter black crickets that destroy crops. Cecil Farmer, who growsgrainandalfalfa near Vernon, said it is a good sign that the governmentis planning to she “abd every third day and spent $300.It didn’t help See TOOELE,Page A-8 much. FALLEN ee May Wait For Organs Housevotes to change transplantpriorities Mayor Outlaws Gay Bias BY JULIET EILPERIN THE WASHINGTON POST Anderson makes good on campaign promise WASHINGTON — The House voted Tuesday to overturn new federal rules aimed at making sure that the sickest patients get the first chance to use donated organs, as lawmakers debated how best to share the scarce resources and save the mostlives. The legislation, approved 275147, wouldstrip the Departmentof Health and Human Services of the authority to decide how organs are distributed across the country and give it to.a private network that has been running the transplant system under a contract with the federal government. Backers ofthe bill asserted that the governmenthadbotched its effort to adopt a broad nationwide BY REBECCA WALSH ‘THESALTLAKETRIBUNE Quietly, but deliberately, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson signed an executive order Tuesday night that is meant to protect gay and lesbian city workers from discrimination. “This goes beyond legal ramifications. It's not merely symbolic,” Andersonsaid. “It’s goingto be very effective in sending the message that we will nottolerate discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in Salt Lake City.” Besides adding “sexualorientation”to city nondiscrimination policies, Anderson signed two more executive orders. One requires city managers to consider diversity when hiring. Andanotherrestricts city workers’ acceptance ofgifts. system for sharing organs. They said it would be better to maintain the current system, in which pa- tients who live near a donor get first priority for newly available organs, even if somebody farther awayhas greaterneed. Critics, however, said Congress should not turn overresponsibility for how to allocate scarce medical Anderson's unilateral decision to bolster city anti-discrimination policies fulfills a campaign promise and puts to rest an issue that divided current andformer City Council members. “Doingit this way will send a positive message withouta lot of the divisiveness we saw in the co whenthe council dealt with thisi ” Andersonsaid. In 1987, former Councilwoman Deeda Seed, nowAnderson’schiefof staff, sent her council colleagues into convulsions when she pro- resources to a private group with almostno federal oversight. They said thousandsof people would die needlessly as a result. The Clinton administration threatened a vetoif the legislation reaches the president’s desk. Behind thefierce rhetoric is a bitter turf battle with enormous posedadding “sexual orientation” to Salt Lake City’s anti: rimination laws. The council adopted the change at the end of 1997, but a group of newly elected council members repealed it a month later. repercussions for the 62,000 Americans awaiting donated organs. For years, the private Richmond, Va.based United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has fought the Clinton administration over who should set policy for transplants, with no resolution yet to a dispute that could determine wholives and whodies. More than 4,000 people die every year waiting for organ transplants. In acting Tuesday, the House essentially sided with the organsharing network, which fears the administration’s new rules would siphon organs away from smaller transplant centers and jeopardize their economicviability. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a critic of the administration’s plan, said his state had done a good job ofencouraging organ donation in recent years, and that the government should not disrupt the Ultimately, council members avoided the troublesome words, replacing thelist of pro- Above,the casket of Layton firefighter Kendall O. Bryant passes under an American by two ladflag dertrucks at the Layton fire station Tuesday. Bryant, of Clearfield, was killed Friday while fighting a Layton house fire. Right, Bryant's widow,Michelle, holds their daughter, Chamae, as son Tyrell listens to services at the Layton fire station Tuesday. The couple havea third child, son Devin. Bryant is the Layton Fire Department’sfirst fatality since it was founded in 1928. tected groups with a requirement ‘tat city bosses base hiring and firing decisions on “job- ted criteria.” Current Council Chairman Carlton Christensen, cne of those who repealed the ordinance, wonders why Anderson bothered with an executive order. “Why doesn’t our current ordinance meet the needs?" But Anderson said those broadly worded guidelines are not enough. xtremely important that lawsor ordi ‘s or administrative orders confront the discrimination on the basis of sexual jondirectly,” he said. erson’s order basically the language Seed originally proposed will changecity personnel policies, but leaves in place the council's ordinance. The University of Utah adopted a similar policy in 1991, And Salt Lake County commis: ers added protections for gay employees ht years ago. Cities such as Seattle, See EXECUTIVE ORDER,Page A-8 See HOUSE, Page A-6 Protesters Breach Barricade, Vow to Keep Elian From Being Taken Away BY MILDRADE CHERFILS ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — Anti-Castro demonstrators surged through a police barricade and formed a human chain around Elian Gonzalez’s house Tuesday as rumors swept the crowd that the U.S. government was coming to take the boy away. ‘The protesters broke through after Elian's father was issued a visa to come to the United States and be reunited with his son. They vowed to resist any attempt by the U.S. government to take the 6-year-old boy away, “Elian won't go!” demonstrators hated as they linked arms around the small white house in Miami's Little HaSeen flghiborisood. sete Cuban officials said Elian’s father, Juan Gonzalez, will not come to the United States unless he assured is son wl be tard ver to him while the court battle over the boy plays out. Negotiations between U.S. authorities and the boy's Miamirelatives continued with no agreement on turning Elian over to his father. The talks were suspended until Thursday. Outside the home where Elian has lived since he was rescued from a Thanksgiving Day boat wreck thatkilled his mother and Li al 10 others, the crowd grew edgy in the heatas they learned of the visa. ae @ Web Links pean nbs uit protesters su ssh einag through the metal barricade after a rumor spread that federal agents were coming for Elian, Olga Hernandez said they “saw a bus and they thought they were coming to take him.” Atfirst police stood and watched to let the protesters blow off steam,then asked them to move back. ene naenteniioe 1 Gore clarifies his stand on Cuban boy As 300 became more vocal as Tuesday night wore on. They chanted, “Elian is not leaving” and “he needs to stay in freedom.” Some held a sign that depicted the attorney general with hornson her head andsaid, “Stop Reno. ” Adorning the barricades and nearbyutility poles were more than 20 white cardboard signs with the words; “Pray for Elian.” About 150 peoplealso gathered on Flagler Street; near the boy's home,and at one point as many as10 peoplelay down in the middie of an intersection to stoptraffic, Many demonstrators outside the homesaid they were Bec he to be arrested for Elian's sake. “They have to take all of us. We will not move,” said Seq PROTESTERS,Page A-6 |
