Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday April - state House Speaker Tom Boyd said (UPI tocome taxes $19 separating the measures that had been of one failed package Wednesday the budget to their iitufaction but itill still left town at least Cart lawmakers win the budget battle t&Jmulion abort on paper said the $27 million Boyd kilt agreed to late deficit is projected by the Legislative Thursday in Office is an acceptable range 04 the Budget income tax personal red“j“0i a $6858 million fiscal 1999 for exemption from $1950 to $1900 That and measures to take $2 million from the Eercent Senate President Pro Tem Jim Risch "‘f1’ Pollution control account and $2 milium sales-ta- x exemption said “The budget is balanced” ended a three-da- y Gov Cedi Andrua said lawmakers budget stalemate House Republican conservatives broke failed to balance the budget as required the deadlock Thursday after six by the constitution were killed Wednesday They “The Idaho Legislature is getting to Joined with Republican leadership to pass sound more like the federalgovernment the three measures despite the opposition every day” Andrus said “They’re leavof most moderate Republican and all ing town knowing they have a deficit” Democrats Andrus’ budget office projects a $36 The Senate then easily million deficit based on its estimates for all three passed Poly the water fund bill lacked the new tax package Also if Andrus’ broad bipartisan support conservative revenue projection is on re-P- ® 1 pro-pwa- ls would be $113 million But Boyd said many legislators believe revenues will be much higher than projected but moderate Republicans and target the deficit SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) bipartisan Senate Confirmation Committee will screen the controversial nomination of A Democrats complained about the shortfall “I guess you could say we’re betting on the come card a little” Boyd said Rep James “Doc” Lucas bill and the said “This is the going-hom- e coming-bac- k Roger Livingston as a 5th Circuit Judge but Gov Norm Bangerter says he is sticking with his choice “He's the nominee" Bangerter said Thursday “If he can withstand the scrutiny of the Senate hell be confirmed if he can’t he won't be confirmed” bill" Rep Patricia McDermott said the budget was not responsible “In the 20 years I’ve been here we’ve never knowingly left with an unbalanced budget’ McDermott said Bangerter CANAVERAL Fla (UPI) — NASA engineers faced with unexpected areas of insulation “debonding” in booster segments needed for the first shuttle flight are reassessing whether current repair techniques are adequate officials said late Thursday er But Royce Mitchell a top NASA booster engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Ala said he does not believe the trouble poses a threat to the agency’s plans to launeh the shuttle Discovery in August Utah plant where the powerful rockets are built A booster rupture was responsible for the Challenger disaster in 1996 and since then the giant rockets have been But Republican Caucus Chairman Mike Simpson said he was optimistic about revenues "An awful lot of people think it’ll be up more than $10 million” Simpson said redesigned Shuttle boosters are made up of four fuel segments each and were Discovery's segments shipped to the Kennedy Space Center from Utah with several known “edge debonds ” areas near the bottoms of segments where insulation had pulled away from the metal case in the vicinity of the redesigned joint used to connect segments Mitchell said the phenomenon has been experienced in the past and that repair procedures were in place to fix the problem areas known to exist with one of Discovery’s booster segments But an unexpected problem has surfaced with Discovery's right-sid- e aft booster segment When the right aft segment arrived at the space center engineers discovered debonded areas that had been fixed at the Morton Thiokol plant before shipment apparently had opened up again John Thomas manager of NASA's booster redesign project said by telephone from Utah Thursday nignt that four debonded areas had been found measuring 07 06 13 and 14 inches deep As a result Mitchell said NASA is reassessing the used for such edge debonds to find out if changes need to be made repair-procedur- selected Liv- ingston a deputy Salt Lake for the County Attorney judgeship despite past allegations of wrongdoing by the nominee and opposition by the minority Democratic bloc in the Senate He was among three candidates submitted to Bangerter by the Judicial Nomininating Council and “our assumption is all three names they send up Shuttle booster repair techniques reassessed CAPE are qualified" the governor said Livingston in 1990 was investigated by the county attorney's office on allegations he discussed trying to get out of his automobile lease payments by having the car stolen No charges were filed in the case and Livingston later said he had been cleared of any wrongdoing Bangerter said he had dis e cussed the matter with Livingston and was assured there was no damning evidence to be discovered “I think we’ve heard all of the stories" Bangerter said “1 have no reason to withdraw the nomination” The Senate’s eight Democrats voted in caucus to oppose the nomination and inhumed Bangerter of their concerns even before the governor announced bis decision Rewho control the publicans Senate 21-- 8 have not taken a stand on the issue Confirmation requires a majority vote Livingston who is a Republican served in the House and ran unsuccessfully for the Democrats The Employees of Hickman Land Title Would Like to wish MARGARET C HKKMAN A HAPPYJpRTHDA Y 388888888808888888886088 Judge asked to suppress Singer diary prayer box (UPI) -lawyer for polygamist clan leader Vickie Singer asked a federal judge Thursday to rule inadmissible as evidence the woman’s diary and prayer box arguing the items’ seizure violated her privacy rights SALT LAKE CITY A The diary which consists of eight volumes and several thousand pages said lawyer Kathyrn Collard was started in the early 1970s and contains voluntary statements in which Singer “poured her heart out” believing they were private The diary and a box con- taining hand-writte- prayers n were not specifically mentioned in a search warrant and affidavit and would “in essence require her (Singer) to be a d witness against herself” Col-lar- said Singer Timothy son-in-la- w 44 her son John 21 her Singer Addam Swapp 27 and Swapp's brother Jonathan 19 all are charged with attempted murder of federal law officers during a y standoff at their Marion Utah farm 13-da- All but the wheelchair-boun- d John Timothy Singer also are charged in the Jan 16 bombing of a Mormon chapel near their farm Lawmen claim the bombing sparked the standoff The seige ended Jan 28 in a brief shootout that left Addam Swapp who is married to Singer sisters Heidi and Charlotte wounded and state Corrections Lt Fred House dead Charges in the slaying of House have yet to be filed Federal agents hoping to use statements John Timothy Singer made after the shootout testified Thursday the defendant talked willingly with officers Two US Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau agents said John Timothy Singer talked to them after being told he could remain silent and be represented by an attorney Defense attorneys want to suppress all statements made by John Timothy Singer and the other defendants from the time of their arrests until they were indicted by a Utah federal grand jury Following the arrests of the four suspects who had been holed up in the farm with 11 other family members ATF agent Allan Galyan of Fresno Calif testified he told John Timothy Singer of his legal rights Galyan said he then asked Singer “What do you know about the bombing? He said 'What do you know? What do I know? 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