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Show Wednesday, January 23, 1980. THE HERALD, Provo, Utah. Utah-Regional: The latest happenings from in and around the Beehive State Page 9 ALK IPP Bills Take Center Stage at the Legislature SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Bills designed to protect Utah from the potentially harmful impacts of becoming home io the nation’s largest coalfired electric power plant have taken center stage at the State Legislature. The House Tuesday scrapped a bill aimed at forcing the Intermountain PowerProject to buy Utah coalfor the 3,000 megawattplantit plans to build near Lyndyll in Millard County. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Fred Finlinson, R-Salt Lake, offered a proposal which would let IPP funnel as much as $40 million per year in ‘‘impact aid’’ directly to counties and towns near the proposed plant. The money would finance services needed to take care of an expested population boom during construction of the massive powerstation. State representatives voted 49-23 to reject the coal purchase measure. It needed 50 votes — two thirds of the House — to win introduction in the Legislature's budget session because it was a non-budget item. Sen. Omar Bunnell. D-Price pr the bill aiter IPP officials said they might buy Wyomingcoalfor the plant. Rep. Stephen Holbrook, D-Salt Lake said the proposed law would have been an unconstitutional restraint of interState trade. And Rep. Genevieve Atwood, R-Salt Lake, said the measure would damage the free enterprise system. ‘‘Lets give the the free market place a chance to work "’ she said. Bunnell’s Senate district is in the heartof coal-rich eastern Utah. Hesaid Finlison's bill would create the legal Under the Bullen bill, nonprofit cor- framework needed to implement a plan porations would have to nay property taxes if their gross annual incomeexceeds $10 million. The measure would make paymentsin lieu of taxesdirectly exclude churches and charities. IPP is to the countyand its town. Because the the only Utah company which would be plant would be owned by taxed under the legislation. The Senate Rules Committee Tuesmunicipalities and IPP is a non-profit Corporation, it would be exempt from day declared Bullen’s measure “ budgetary "’ which means it can bypass property taxes. the process of winning a two-thirds Porter said IPP favors the vote in each chamber of the negotiated in lieu system overa bil!of. Legislature to gain introduction fered by Sen. Charles Bullen, R-Logan Porter said negotiated payments alwhich would cancel the plant's tax ex- lowed under Finlinson’sbill would help emptstatus. the local governments impacted by Bullen's bill does not mention IPP by plant much more than property taxes. name,but Portersaid it is ‘obviously The in lieu payments would start flowaimed straight at IPP." ing when construction begins, he said, negotiated between IPP and Millard Countyofficials. IPP has agreed to IPP should ot be allowed io buy Wyoming Coal. sell power to California, and leave Utah with nothing but polluted air. But IPP spokesman Dave Portersaid Bunnell’s bill was not needed: He said IPP’s board of directors voted last month to buy only Utah coal for the plant A combination of municipal power companies andruralelectrification asSociations in California and Utah plan to build the plant. IPP has contracted to sell 58 percent of the power generated by the plant to California customers. while property taxes would lag behind construction IPP plans to begin construction on the plant next year, and hopes to haveit finished in July of 1989 ‘During the entire construction period, while construction workerslive in the area and balloon its population, IPP would paya total of $35-40 million ise year to local governments "’ said ‘orter. After construction ends, IPP and local officials could negotiate smaller in lieu payments, he said. IPP, Porter conceded,likes the idea of being able to negotiate its financial contribution to local governments rather than have thestate dictate how much the company mustpay. Deer Jerky Said Cause of Food Poisoning in 6 Utahns Earlier story on Page31. TREMONTON, Utah (UPI) — A Bear River District Health official says at least six persons have contracted food poisoning from contaminated deer jerky processed at a Tremonton packing plant. Sanitarian Nick ing to track down other contaminated Gallowaysaid the six meat and they are encouraging becameill with staphylococcal food anybody who has deer jerky from the poisoning after eating jerky from the Tremonton plant to get in touch with Hansen Packing Co. them so it can be tested. Hesaid health officials are now tryThe food poisoning is rarely fatal, She insisted, however, she would nevergive up herfight for the ERA.“It’s a matterofintegrity,” explained. ‘Those oppose — even Spencer Kimball, church president and a prophet, I believe — haven't heard from God on the subject. Such coercion is distasteful to God.” ATaes) PP NU al a JANUARY CLEARANCE STEAL ENDS SATURDAY! ..We've Had A Record Breaking We ...So Hurry for Good Selection ! Excommunication Request Granted PRICES ARE REDUCED AT LEAST 15% NEW CARPET PRICES ARE UP 15% YOUSAVEAT LEAST 30% Colorado Woman LAKEWOOD,Colo. (UPI) — A Colorado woman’s request to be excommunicated by leaders of the Mormon Chureh has been granted. Leanne M.Boyd,27, of Lakewood, said she asked for excommunication to protest the church’s opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. Don L. Healey, bishop of the Lakewood Second / ard, said this week . Boyd was tried by a “bishop’s court” earlier this month. _ ‘The three-member court voted unanimously to excommunicate Mrs. Boyd because she disparaged church leaders and ‘‘couldn’t believe some of the church’s tenets,” Healey said. Mrs. Boyd requested the excommunication in December to protest the excommunication of another Mormon woman,Sonia JohnsonofSterling, Va Mrs.Johnsoncontends she wasexpelled from the church because of her support for the Equal Rights Amendment, although the church said she was excommunicated for preaching false doctrine and undermining the authority of church leaders. Mrs. Boyd said official notification of the outcomeofher trial was hand delivered to her home.It said she had been takenoff the church membership list but that the church hoped she would return ‘“‘to HUNDREDS OF WHATA STEAL! REMNANTS America’s Most Beautiful. VELVET PLUSH CARPET.15 Lush Colors. Mfr. sugg.price $21.99 yd. While Supply Lasts 90% to 70% OFF SAVE AN UNBELIEVABLE $9.00 vo. ONLY Size 9x12 to 12x30 YD. Christ's fold and be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” the church’s formal name. In her letter requesting excommunication, Mrs. Boyd said the “heavenly authority of church leaders must be questioned’’ because they ‘brought personal political prejudice into a religious question”’ in the Johnson case. Mrs. Boyd said she was ‘‘very mad” at the churchfor its stand on the ERA. Reason for Refund Decision Is Noted UTAH’S LARGEST CARPETINVENTORY STEAL THESE! AND KITCHEN & COMMERCIAL ON cae EVERYTHING'S SALE 150 rolls of COMPARE THESE UNBELIEVABLE PRICES. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The Internal Revenue Service has decided to tax some Utah rebate checksonthe basis ofan inapplicable precedent, the chairman of the state tax commission says. David Duncan Tuesday said the IRS madeits decision regarding taxation of the rebates based on a previous California tax refund program. The California case ‘doesn’t fit Utah at all,” he said. The federal revenue agency last week said homeowners who received $100-$400 rebates and who itemize would have ‘9 pay taxes on the refunded money. Renters and other homeowners were apparently exempted from taxation. In 1970, the IRS said personal housing property tax rebates paid to Californians were subject toa federallevy, Duncan said. The Utah situation is different, he said. pecalne: We state collected no roperty taxes and refunded none. i Duran also said the IRS ruling on Utah rebates seemed to a recent State Supreme Court decision on rebate plan. even higher content, he added. Galloway said health officials aren't Sure how the meat became contaminated, but onetheoryis thatit was not properly dried. EDRs ee Uae LDS Church Called ‘Arch Enemy’of ERA by Johnson SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Excommunicated Mormon feminist Sonia Johnson said Tuesday the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the “arch enemy”’ of the Equal Rights Amendment,but insisted she would rejoin if allowed to do so. Mrs. Johnson,a Virginia mother of four who was expelled by Mormon leaders after offering outspoken support for the ERA,claimed the churchis raising money ‘ by the bucketful’’ in California to continue its fight against the proposed constitutional amendment. Funds gathered in California under church auspices have been going principally to states such as Georgia and Florida, she said, where the amendment remains unratified. Mrs. Johnson,a fifth-generation Mormon,said at @ news conference sponsored by local ERA backers she has never church doctrine and supports the church’s exclusion of women from the priesthood. “T still wantto be a Mormon,if they’ll have me,” she said, adding sheis appealing her excommunicatiion, Gallowaysaid. But it causes vomiting, Gallowaysaid s; :aples of jerky from severe cramps and diarrhea for about a the Hansen plant were analyzed by the ir period. State Health Lab and found to contain The six victims, he said, were from the staphylococcalorganism. One samTremonton and Logan. Hedeclined to ple had 2.7 million organisms per gram release their names. of jerky. Other samples showed an ORS |