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Show c H ODfiaDo Monday, June 22, 19S? The Daily Herald Perot backers want formal candidacy announcement Welch says games won't lose money - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The leader of Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics prom-" ises Utah won't face a debt from the Games, particularly not the $58 million deficit now haunting 1992 hostAlbertville, France. "For what Albertville wanted to do, they were very successful," said Tom Welch, head of the Salt Lake City Bid Committee for the Olympic Winter Games. "But it was not done the way we're going to do it in Salt Lake." A newspaper in Grenoble, France, reported earlier this week that the Albertville Games lost at least $58 million. Organizers there have said the debt is closer to $38 million. The budget jumped from $470 million to $754 million for the event. The deficit did not include money spent to build or improve roads, plants and other facilities. waste-treatme- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) nt MURRAY (AP) Organizers said Sunday's celebration of Gay & Lesbian Pride Day was meant to be both a friendly and political gathering. Antonia de la Guerra said partic- -' ipants could "have a good time, what freedoms we have, enjoy ' show our numbers and strength, and display our unity and diversity." "Pride Equals Power" was the theme of the gathering, the first since the gay and lesbian communities figured prominently in Utah's political power struggles. They fought hard in the Legislature for a bill that would penalize , perpetrators of "hate crimes," but , lost out when references to sexual I orientation were omitted. Then the Gay & Lesbian Utah Democrats succeeded in getting a plank recognizing homosexual rights into the Salt Lake County .. Democratic Party platform. But it was diluted at the state Democratic ' Party convention. . City unhappy with plans for tailings - Midvale MIDVALE (AP) leaders and residents say the Envi- . ronmental Protection Agency's recommendation to cap 10 million tons of ore tailings isn't acceptable. The EPa announced last week . that of the five ways it studied to : deal with the tailings cleanup at the Sharon Steel site, its preference was to put a clay cap over the piles. ; But Mayor Everett Dahl said ::" that wouldn't wash. ;:- "We will not accept capping at ;:' any time," he said, noting that the city council voted unanimously last I Tuesday against the move. City leaders want the tailings moved out of Midvale, a possibili- ty the EPA considered but said - would cost too much. Dahl said the ; city disputed that assertion as well. "1 do not accept the high figures : of EPA concerning the cost of transporting of the materials to other sites," he said. Parimutuel backers gain ground in poll SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Backers of a citizen petition to lebetting in Utah galize horse-rac- e have picked up more support, but the race remains too close to call , a new poll indicates. A copyright survey for the found 49 News and KSL-Twould vote all Utahns of percent against legalizing parimutuel betting, while 45 percent would support the measure, and 6 percent are undecided. The Dan Jones & Associates poll was conducted before Mormon Church leaders conducted meetings with stake presidents to . : enlist their support in the fight De-ser- et V against legalized betting. The , church opposes gambling for mor- al reasons. Amone active Mormons sur- veyed by Jones, 80 percent said they would vote against tne reier- endum, according to poll results. Nearly half of the "somewhat ac- tive" church members polled would vote in favor of legalized betting on horse races, and 77 per- cent of "inactive" Mormons would vote for the measure. The up its statewide convention with a resolution urging Ross Perot to formally announce for the presi- . dency, although delegates stopped - short of endorsing the Texan. In other business, the party nominated congressional candidates from all three Utah districts for the first time ever and endorsed Gays and lesbians unite for Pride Day ; - Independent Party of Utah wound the ticket of Merrill Cook and Frances Hatch Merrill for governor and lieutenant governor. "Make the change. Elect Merrill and Merrill," Cook urged the delegates as he introduced his run- Saturday's convention, to the apattending. plause of the Also nominated were congressional candidates Dub Lawrence in the 1st District, Peter Crane in the 2nd District and Wayne Hill in the ning mate. 3rd District. The fielding 100-pl- us of candidates in all three districts shows the fledgling party's growing strength in Utah, according to chairman Ed Little. The Merrill and Merrill theme appears to be catching on among Independent Party members and was repeated several times during Little said recent newspaper and TV polls in Utah show 42 percent of all voters declaring themselves to be independent rather than Republican or Democrat. Cook cited education, reforming health care and economic development in the state as his top three issues. Tax dollars should go into the classroom for teacher salaries and Corradini's first 6 months exhilarating, difficult By PEG McENTEE Associated Press Writer a proposed site tor an Olympic speed skating oval crucial to the city's bid for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. On the down side, she's been lambasted for a plan to replace a deteriorating baseball field with a new stadium in a downtown park frequented by transients and the homeless. But a problem arose when neighbors and officials at an adjacent Greek Orthodox church complained they had little say in the plan. A committee since has been formed to study alternate sites. And Corradini riled up the police force by proposals to reorganize the department and hire fewer new officers than promised by the - AfSALT LAKE CITY (AP) ter 25 years in government and private industry, Deedee Corra-dadidn't expect a honeymoon when she swept into City Hall as the capital city's first woman mayor. She was right. Since January, Corradini has gone with police, the homeless, even irate golfers faced with higher green fees. Now her name is linked with a business scandal that has some observers speculating on her political survival. But at her desk, piled high with neat stacks of paperwork, Corradini said Wednesday she is confident, comfortable and "charging ahead with city business. ' ' If a single attitude bespeaks the Corradini administration, that's it. From the day she took office, Democrat has apthe proached the city's business with a forcefulness that has earned both admiration and antipathy. "She's aggressive, there's no question about that," said Calvin Rampton, a former Democratic of her governor who was the for nonparofficially campaign tisan post. "But you have to be, if you're going to get anything ni head-to-he- c ad co-cha- ir done." Others are less impressed. Deedee Corradani Kent Shearer, an attorney, former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and a longtime political observer, deems her "very imperious." "I don't think it's a good trait," he said. "I prefer work horses to show horses, and I think she's show horse." Corradini, who entered politics after carving a prominent place in Salt Lake's business and cultural community, shrugs off the notion that her methods smack more of the board room than the democratic process. After all, she said, in six months she's balanced the city's $354 million budget and met a deadline for reaucratic quagmire. "The big surprise to me has been how quickly we have been able to make changes," she said, "to the point that it's gone so fast that there have been times when it's been a matter of keeping up with all the things that are happen- ing." But in the past two weeks, Corradini has been confronted with what could be her most trying ordeal. She has been implicated in what a U.S. Bankruptcy Court examiner called "questionable transac- tions" involving Bonneville Pacific Corp. The Salt d alternative energy company filed for previous administration. Chapter 11 relief last December She's also declined to veto a city after a major shareholder. Oregon's Portland General, backed council plan to charge city workto buy controlling inout of ers, including police officers, a terest. plans monthly fee to take their city cars home. That has the police union The examiner's report said Corradini, a Bonneville Pacific threatening to sue. Then there was a proposal to and several top execuincrease salaries for city execu- tives made millions of dollars at tives and elected officials, which the expense of stockholders. swiftly was shunted into the "furCorradini agreed to an interview ther study" pile. with the understanding she would Despite the conflicts, Corradini not speak directly about Bonneville said her agenda has been fulfilled Pacific. She has hired attorney Harold Christensen, a former U.S. with dispatch. Given her experiences in state government and in deputy attorney general, to review the report, and plans to make a Washington as an aide to two conbua public accounting on Monday. gressmen, she anticipated Lake-base- books. Cook said, calling the pi posed strategic education plan "t the state a "S250 million tax v waiting to happen.'" Health care is dominated In few insurance provider, and hih- -. mountain Health Care Inc.. they are protected b hi: lohbisu to ing ) high-power- Legislature, he charged. Scout dies following 20-fofall ot SALT LAKH CITY (AP) Jarom Larson took Scout ing seriously. He was loyal and kind to his friends an;i already knew what merit hadges he wanted to cam summer camp. ; t Lay ten youth died Saturday on Scout hike in Maei Canyon. His scoutmaster said thing he did before V The tin-las- t died was give up his seat t'oi friend. "He was looking tbi an ' other place to sit," Scoutmaster Kirk Nich1.. s.-'- who ran K) tt'ter Jarom minutes toi In,'. lost his ' footing a steep trail and fell 20 feet I" his death. "It looked like he' gotten up to make room some friends." C ', ; The troop was ictunH!':'; from Jarom's first ovemit-.hike and had stopped to .! ' on a rugged stretch of the i,a- yon above I ruit Heights. When Jarom stood up, h slipped on some stones lJ ', grabbed a boulder to dc; his fall, but pulled it Ion; His friends grabbed him, i' couldn't hold on to the i Poll: 3 in 5 oppose abortion ban Festival participants say racial disparity thriving - A SALT LAKE CITY (AP) board member of the NAACP said inmate Wilthe case of death-roliam Andrews demonstrates how racial disparity endures in the state's justice system. Lenoris Bush wonders how Andrews, who did not actually kill any of the three people who died in the robbery of Ogden's Hi Fi Shop, can face the death penalty when two of the state's most notorious killers never did. Bush said Mark Hofmann and Joseph Paul Franklin committed calculated murders, but were sentenced to life in prison. Hofmann killed two people while trying to cover up an unraveling con game involving historic Mormon documents and Franklin gunned down two black youths jogging with white girls near Liberty Park. w Bush said the answer is simple: Andrews is black, Hofmann and Franklin are white. Andrews was sentenced to die for his involvement in the April n at the 1974 robbery-murdeSel-bDale stereo shop. Pierre the admitted triggerman, was executed in 1987. Bush said the Hi Fi killings were hideous, but "it is just wrong to take Andrews' life." Bush spoke on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the Juneteenth Heritage Festival. The gathering, held in Salt Lake City on Sunday, commemorates the delayed enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation in outlying territories like Utah. Organizers said Andrews' case represents the disparity that still endures in the justice system. rs Og-de- y, Head Start terminates venture with Association of Governments A cooperative LOGAN (AP) project between Head Start and the Bear River Association of Governments is floundering, nine months after being hailed as a model program to make parents of Head Start children self sufficient. The project's status was thrown into jeopardy when the Bear River Head Start Board said Friday it had terminated its relationship with BRAG, its partner in the Family Resource Center. Glenna Markey, director of Head Start in Cache and Box Elder counties, accused BRAG of misusing funds obtained jointly through a federal grant and of failing to replace an administrator and who left in April. BRAG Executive Director Roger Jones said he was shocked to receive notice that his office had been terminated as service provider for the Family Resource Center and questioned Head Start's authority to unilaterally stop all collaborative arrangements. Jones also denied alleged dis- crepancies in accounting proce- aures orougni io ngiu m a neau Start audit, and added that while administrator Roxana King was not immediately replaced, applicants have been screened and interviewed. However, Chris Coray, who represents the Cache County coun cil on the BRAG board but was not present at Friday's meeting, said Jones indicated at the last BRAG meeting that he would not be replacing King. "Mr. Jones said he would use some of the money from her salary to upgrade salaries of other employees who would share the work involved in taking over her responsibilities," Coray said. Markey said her agency approached BRAG late last summer about the possibility of cooperating $840,000 fedto seek a three-yeaeral grant. "I felt the office could provide a single point of access for many resources, including job training, housing, emergency loans and intervention and grants, crisis the program has far So counseling. and 70 people, 60 served between have served many should but it more than that," she said. She said a recent audit by the Peterson & Allred CPA firm showed BRAG received reimbursement for wages in which FRC services were not performed, rent for space that wasn't used by FRC, a communications system not purchased for or used by FRC, and invoices charged to FRC which were not documented or r, SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -More than half of all Utahns oppose a government ban on elective abortions, according to a new poll by Valley Research that mirrors sentiment expressed in two previous surveys over the past 10 months. The copyright poll for The Salt Lake Tribune and KUTV showed slightly more than three in five of the 600 registered voters surveyed either favor abortion rights or believe government should not prohibit abortions, even though the Monday Blackhawk Encampment The annual Blackhawk Encampment is 8 at scheduled to be conducted June Santaquin City Park. Participating campers may enter the park as early as this Sunday for the annual encampment, named for Indian Chief Blackhawk, who was born in the late 1800s in Springlake and started the Blackhawk War. The first encampments began in the late 1800s when veterans of the Blackhawk War gathered to tell war stories. Today the encampment is continued by descendants of veterans of the Blackhawk War and others interested in the history. The week-lon- g encampment begins Monday with a flag ceremony, and remarks by Odis Peterson dressed as Chief Blackhawk. During the encampment, there will be at least two programs each day and dancing at night. To join the Blackhawk encampment cost $1 for life time membership and a camping fee of $7. There will be an Arts and Crafts Show Thursday morning. For more information, call Tuesday IBD Support Group The IBD Support Group (Crohns and Ulcerative Colitis) will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. The meeting will be held on the fifth floor, in the education classroom. The speaker will be Mark Pedersen, the subject, will be nutrition. For more Information, call Sharol, at Education and adventure conference respondent may personally oppose abortion. The survey was conducted the first week of June and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. A majority of all ages and both genders opposed a ban on elective abortions, while Republicans and active members of the Mormon Church were more likely to favor a ban, the poll found. The results virtually are identical to those in a poll last month and one in August 1991. Pleasant. A rope course is an innovative, experience based, outdoor activity designed to reinforce the development of skills such as leadership, communication, trust, teamwork, problem solving, strengthening character and the dynamics of group behavior. Rope courses are popular for management and leadership training. Adventure training goes far beyond the classroom. Interactive and experiential learning activities, small group discussions, activities and games serve as powerful metaphors designed to internalize the concepts and perfect the skills. Immunization clinic A special immunization clinic will be held Tuesday from 11 a.m.-- 7 p.m. in the Sanpete Health Department office at 57 S. Main Street, Manti. Children entering kindergarten in the fall must have an immunization record which documents: 4 diptheria, tetanus, and pertusis vaccine; 4 doses polio vaccine; 2 doses measles, mumps, and Rubella vaccine. Adults should have a tetanus booster every 10 years. Check your immunization records and, if you need any of them updated, plan to attend the clinic. For more information, call the health department at and the boulder. The boulder and the cicl it dragged down landed on Ja rom's head and knocked lui. out. He died several miiwi' later without regaining ' c" sciousncss. The boy's parents. Kane and Kimberly Larson, v Jarom was adopted. .' "He knew that he'd beti adopted, and he was sensitive about it," his father said. "He came home dejected l his schoolmates teased him about it. He just wanted so much to belong." -- The contest is open to all ages Anyone wishing to enter must pre-rCby Wednesday. Registration forms enn obtained from Jeannette Anderson at 5iH in Gunnison or the extension office ji courthouse. Nar-Ano- n ' Thursday family group meHif;: If there is a drug user in your family, Vf.' n need Family Groups. Nar Aii'if helps the family of the user attain soryiit and a more normal home life, regardless o whether or not heshe has stopped Vim; Meeting place is at the AJano Club, 13tfi S State Street, Provo, every Thursday at fi. Wr p.m. Canadian Studies dinner The Utah Consortium for Canadian Ktulies (BYU, Utah, Utah State, Weber State) v il; sponsor a dinner and a speech by Dr. Dfrvid Elton, one of Canada's foremost pniitic.il commentators and the president of the Rtm;l: ' West Foundation in Calgary. Elton's topic is "Canada's Unity ChVI-nf'- .:" Implications for the U.S. and Canadian .Hiisi f ness Communities." The dinner will be held at 7:30 p.m., at ,l'ir Wednesday Second Covenant Ministries Red Lion Hotel in Salt City. Kor call Earl Fry, BYU's director of Bible Study Covenant Ministries Bible Study, a born-agai- n believer's forum and devotional are presently meeting every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Women's Council of Provo Building, 310 W. 500 North, Provo, for the months of June, July and August. Ministering the word will be Rev. Michael G. Giordano. Open to the community. We do not have children's study at tins time. No children under the age of 8, please. Mothers of Twins Club Second Registrations are now being accepted for the Sept 2 Education and Adventure Conference at Snow College. For a class schedule or more information, Parents for Cesarean Prevention ext. 625 or write Snow College call Parents for Cesarean PrevenUon free class Conference Programs, 150 East College Avewill be Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Provo nue, Ephraim, Utah 84627. Utilities Building, 251 W. 800 North. Topic: The conference is designed for adults and in Pregnancy, Stages of Labor, Confidence teens. Courses are not for credit, no homePostpartum Care. For more information, call work, no exams or grades. Teresa, 37&059 or Trina, Classes will be taught by Snow College faculty and staff, professionals, hobbyists, craftsmen and other interested persons. La Leche League of Orem Classes will be offered dally with evening La Leche League of Orem is meeting courses on Thursday and Friday. at 7 p.m. at 1250 S. 468 West, Participants may sign up for classes cover- (Wednesday All women interested in breastfeeding Orem. career opportunities, ing are Invited. The topic will be nutrition and science, parenting and all areas In between. weaning. three-day Several workshops will be offered Including learning Word Perfect and drawing. Full-da- y adventures Include horse back or Sanpete 4-- H talent contest mountain bike trail rides or the new rope talent contest will be held The Sanpete course challenge. June 26, at 7 p.m. at the Manti City Building. The rope course is located east of Mt. O'iui1 an Studies, at Ulan vaney iviomers or iwins ijuu win r meeting Thursday at 7 .30 p.m. at the home riiintkai. ?M V fiyi fact A.....i. .. Fork. We will quilt two baby quilts for tt, -annual state convention this fall Please to attend even if you don't quilt. For n n..n.J information, call Marilyn Light. Chantel Gunther, Meetings .ve i to the public and new members are wdconv Emergency Medical Dispauper j training workshop v Utah Valley Conuminity College's Mount' i: AnnliflH Torhiiiilot'v Center iMATKi an Emergency Medical Dispnlrh' hosting training workshop on the Provo Cwtf" Thursday, 9 a.m.-- p.m. Subjects coveted the workshop includes: Life Flight, tiaum emergency room treatment, rape crisis, sir ? legal issues, pregnancyctulubirtn anci mh il Ca!t critiques and scenario workrnops tu conducted with participants listening to calls as well as practicing on pnst situations. through Thursday, and $25 for regisU utiy:' the door. Kor more information and t extension 528. ter, call |