| Show Ki 4 7 "rr i" Page 2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday January 30 1 995 Religious leaders pray for homeless Counties get role in wilderness decisions 7T t - 'X ' xv x r: : ' - - fc x- ?- - t X- 4 y X ' SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — SV- V: f t ' 1 V r ' -- err A it’ v v " - ' X - Under a plan endorsed by the governor’s office county commis- h sioners from - - wA'wt-eO- i r SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of religious leaders left their pulpits and congregations Sunday to pray to God and the Legislature for action to provide housing for the homeless Standing in front of a boarded-u- p brick house near Liberty Park the Rev Ronald Thomas declared C ' S ' - I low-inco- ing and with at least 10000 affordable apartments needed for poor families On the average low-inco- families spend 60 percent of their salaries on rent Churches and nonprofit groups cannot solve the problem alone said the Rev David Barnes pastor of Granger Community Church kind “This is not an ‘eifeer-o- r’ of venture” he 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Jamal 0 1995 Cache Valley Publishing Company m mg°L a Use touch tone phone listen for easy step rnrsl areas of the state are proposed as wilderness 04 The first stage of input from Utah's farming ranching and tourism areas comes on Friday when county commissioners meet with Gov Mike Leavitt here The governor will urge the commissioners to form focal committees to establish wilderness recommendations for their regions that Salt Lake City is “in the midst of a housing crisis Thousands of people are on waiting lists Thousands are homeless” Thomas an Episcopal priest who works with the nonprofit Crossroads Urban Center ended the statewide prayer for housing with an appeal to lawmakers currently meeting on Capitol Hill “Money for housing is needed now” he said noting that for families with one member earning minimum wage residence in a homeless shelter is often the only choice State records indicate Utah has a housing vacancy rate of 2 percent with more than 15000 families on houswaiting lists for Utah's communities will have a major role to play in deciding which ’V That does not set well with environmentalists who see the plan as a means to minimize the influence of wilderness advocates living along the populous urban Wasatch Front Counties will have until April 1 to develop their recommendations Between April 9 and April 23 there will be five regional meetings to discuss the proposals The congressional delegation aims to draft the bill by May 31 and introduce the measure by June 1 There then would be two field AP photo e emergency crew of paramedics sheriff's deputies and workers assist a boy at the Snake River Canyon rim near Dierkes Lake in Twin Falls Idaho Friday after freeing him from a two-toboulder that fen and trapped his arm The youth was climbing with a Port of Hope rehabilitation group as part of recreational therapy when the rock fell on him An Climbing accident search-end-rescu- hearings on the bill in Utah “The focal point is on the ooun-- J ties” said Brad Barber state plan- coordinator ning “Theiri recommendations are important! although the governor and con-- ) gressional delegation still will make the final decisions in ing the bill" Barber said wilderness draft-- ! advo-- j cates likely will have to travel to meetings in the rural counties to have their say Writing until the regional meeting is held in Salt Lake City is probably not an option for envi- ronmentalists since all the county j level recommendations will have! been made by then “It's not going to work” said Ken Rait issues coordinator for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance The process is “skewed toward rural interests” he said “Our hope is that Rep (Enid) Waldholtz will stand up for the people in her district and make sure the interest of Salt Lakers is folly incorporated into the decisionanti-wildern- process” -making Region report Taxes to occupy Legislature’s 4th week BOISE Idaho (AP) — Raising and lowering taxes will occupy the fourth week of the Idaho Legislature’s 1995 session flesh-eatin- The House is poised to act on Republican Gov Phil Batt’s plan to trim $40 million in property taxes by replacing local school maintenance and operation levies with state funding In the Senate one item on the agenda will be an attempt to amend the Idaho Constitution to require a 60 percent supermajority to raise any tax or flesh-eatin- fee A similar proposal cleared the House last session but foiled to attract a majority in the Senate This year the Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee voted unanimously for the proposed constitutional amendment and it could come up for a foil Senate vote today But it needs 24 votes to pass ami that means at least four more votes among senators who voted against it last year The House Revenue and Taxation Committee has been considering a number of property tax reduction measures but it appears the governor’s plan is the top priority two-thir- ds Boys recovering from The boy’s parents asked doctors not to release the boy’s name or hometown g infection in A Boise boy who developed a his chicken pox lesions is beginning to recover after a week in a Boise hospital The unidentified child was still in critical condition on Friday at St Luke’s Regional Medical Center said Dr Thomas Rand a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases Public-healt- h officials in Washington state are warning of a possible link between certain aspirin substitutes like g bacteria in kids with chicken ibuprofen and uncertain the child at St Luke’s Rand whether was pox took ibuprofen illness flesh-eatin- g BOISE Idaho (AP) — Two boys with chicken pox g infection and were developed the same type of flesh-eatin- recovering Friday One north Idaho boy was at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle Wash The boy had surgery Thursday to remove infected tissue from his left thigh hospital spokesman Dean Forbes said He also spent time in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber which doctors believe may help stop the infection “He’s stable and we anticipate he’ll do well” said the boy’s doctor at Children’s David Jardine The boy was flown to Seattle on Thursday after 10 days at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane Wash where he was admitted with chicken pox ana a leg infection Whooping cough rate highest in Idaho BOISE Idaho (AP) — Idaho led the nation last year in cases of whooping cough a highly contagious disease that can make babies violently ill And the cases continue to pile up In January more than 20 adults and kids have been diagnosed with whooping cough statewide The problem is that not enough kids are immunized said Dr Jesse Greenblatt state epidemiologist Whooping cough is a bacterial illness spread by coughing or sneezing Victims may have coughing spells so violent they barely can eat drink or breathe The illness hits babies and toddlers hardest Nationwide per-capi- ta Prison over its rule requiring inmates to get haircuts Magistrate Samuel Alba last week forwarded his report and recommendation in the 1992 case to Chief US District Judge David Winder The case was started by former inmate Herbert a Cherokee Indian imprisoned in 1991 for aggravated assault When Caywood refused to let guards cut his tail in September 1992 he was put in solitary constints he spent in it It was the first of many isolation Caywood argued that he and his people believe long hair — like sweat lodges and medicine bags — is part of an Indian’s religion ' Caywood culled legal arguments from how-t- o law books in the prison typed them out on a manual typewriter and filed suit in UJS District Court “This is not a matter of hair length but of spiritual essence” Caywood explained in his suit od Cay-wo- 10-d- Parents pitch ay in to patrol school halls SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Junior and senior high schools throughout Utah are increasingly turning to parents to help keep the peace in hallways and lunchrooms Marianne O’Keefe who wears a fluorescent vest and y radio as she walks her beat at Sunset Junior High said her job on the school’s Parent Patrol is serious busi-two-wa- “I’m making a difference” said the mother of a 7th grader “I’m helping keep the kids in class where they need to be” She and dozens of other Utah parents are learning that their presence in the halls during the school day decreases tardiness boosts attendance and creates a safer environ- three 1994 To prevent large outbreaks 90 percent of kids must be immunized Immunization rates for Idaho toddlers are much lower than that have received Statewide only 62 percent of all recommended vaccinations including four doses of DTP which provides three-wa- y protectum against diphtheria tetanus and pertussis ment tend to rebel against authority figures like a police officer or administrator but accept a parent Teen-age- rs “Parents are naturals” said Sunset Principal Larry Brewer “They have a real sense of timing and intuition and above all exhibit a real warmth ami common sense” Highland High School in the Salt Lake District may have been the first in Utah to start such a patrol Its Security Dads program began two years ago after a fight in the lunchroom that involved nearly 30 students State may have to pay legal costs for suit i recom- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A US magistrate is mending that Utah taxpayers pick up the $50000 legal tab of American Indians who successfully sued Utah State Utah Democrats trying to court Mormon voters SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It was no coincidence that Utah Senate Minority Leader Scott Howell invoked the words of three famous Mormon leaders in his response to Gov Mike Leavitt’s State of the State address He was trying to make a point: It’s OK to be a Mormon and a Democrat Already an endangered species in the Utah Legislature and seemingly headed toward extinction in the rest of the state Democrats have embarked on a campaign to make the party more palatable to Utah voters That means courting members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints who comprise nearly 70 percent of the state’s population and who flooded the polls last November in unprecedented numbers Hence Howell’s speech which the senator intentionally filled with Mormon references and “cultural code” Likewise the decision for Howell to deliver it Besides being the ranking Democratic lawmaker he’s a bishop’s counselor in his Mormon ward “There are too many people always are being defined in religious terms and vice versa That in turn intensifies the hostility and alienation between Mormons and ns who think that being Republican is a connotation of sainthood” Mormons have been there before — a century ago — and Howell said “And that is shouldn’t want to return said absolutely wrong” David Magleby a Democrat and Added Rep Kurt Oscarson a political scientist at church-owne- d Democrat and former Sunday Brigham Young University school leader in his Sandy LDS Stake: “I think we got tired of being somehow labeled that we were on the evil side of the church ozn the fringe of being excommunicated” Still many Democrats believe things will never change until a church authority gives the party his imprimatur high-ranki- “If it continues what you wind up with is a Democratic Party comprised mostly of people who want to get even with the church through fee party” he said “They will nominate candidates who will sh an agenda that will constant-- y remind the church that this division exists” The church virtually concedes its perceived link to tire GOP but wishes it were otherwise “The Church prefers that fee perception of the public be in harmony wife its official policy of neutrality’’ political said minority party’s traditional message against them “It’s been a brilliant propaganda tool” said House Minority Whip Kelly Atkinson D-W- est Jordan “They have defined what a Democrat is and done it with a spokesman Arnold Augustin in a simple soundbite: James E Faust a member of the church’s Quorum of fee TWelve Apostles and head of its Special Affairs Committee declined an interview Democrats admit they have only dumbest person on the other side of fee aisle can deliver the mes- - written statement after Elder themselves to blame for their predicament They’ve allowed the Republican Party to embrace fee church as its own while using the he said “Even the And Atkinson believes that label carries a special deeper meaning in Mormon Utah where church leaders preach fiscal responsibility and take to the pulpit to equate liberalism with amorality ng But given the church’s professed Iitlcal neutrality that isn’t like- v The situation is unfortunate say some political scientists and historians since strictly political issues FREE ESTIMATES $17995 ON TV VCR AND MICROWAVE REPAIR -- $27995 Compare to 'Men'll Wearhousef at $275 liriTHO790 SIMM SUITS ATHLETIC-CU- T r: i i I Any feydeaning Order over $500 iROZSSSraraE- Ikater-bho- pI COMPANY - IrerawnPoSi riOHMI eeemi urn Herald JoumaL EMEEWSQ-DliVII- E SPORTSmMWEATHERMREALlESTA TEmMOVIESM'J0KEl0FjTHElDA The newest 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