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Show ' S N N " 5 State Senator Contends THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, March 20, 1986 - Tech Advancements High Session Called 'Toughest' Conference Audience Help Viewing The The 1986 legislative session was probably the toughest session In the last 10 or so years. Going into the session, the legislature knew that we would experience a shortfall of about $25 million this fiscal year, so several Legislature cuts, transfers and had to be made before we got into the 1987 budget. Originally, it looked like we would be about $25 to $30 million shy for the coming year. Then, about of the way through the session, new projections showed an additional $8 to $10 million short. Either existing budget levels had to be cut or taxes had to be increased. Several plans emerged, mostly wrapped around education, because it was evident we had to fund for 13,000 new students in any event. There were plans to use bonding to obtain new money, plans to increase taxes and proposals to dip into the $75 million flood fund in order to help balance the budget for the coming year. Negotiations between the House and Senate, through leadership in both houses, as well as constant work in each appropriation subcommittee, in conjunction with the two-thir- executive appropriations pass one very important bill that entailed a transfer of funds from the C&D Flood Fund Account to the Governors Executive Reserve Account, where it can be used as intended. Getting this last piece of legislation passed is anticipated to take place during a short special session during our April interim committee meetings. The total budget was about $2.7 billion and was approximately $48 million more than this fiscal year. This is just about equal to the increase given to public education. One percent was allowed as a one time amount for state employees, while two percent was added to the education WUP value which usually indicates the rate of increase for teachers. Many new laws were made also. sub- committee, seemed to be going on daily the last two weeks. Most of the budget finalization process took until the last day and part of it didnt get ironed out until the last hours through conference committee. In the process, the House failed to e t Among them: The mandatory seat belt law, the new appellate court system, some liability insurance of trucking, a reform, change in requirements for concealed weapons, several updates in the education code, amendments to child abuse laws, several minor updates in various tax laws and many others. We increased many user fees and court filing fees. The legislature passed a resolution showing strong support for privatization at all levels of government. An exemption for farm machinery on personal property tax was passed for a vote of the people in November. A Martin L. King holiday was passed. Several amendments to the DUI laws and victim restitution laws were passed. There were approximately 700 bills and resolutions introduced during the 1986 legislative session, with about 250 passing. Most were good bills, a few bad ones, according to individual opinion. Some will impact a small number of our residents a great deal. We will undoubtedly find ourselves making changes in some of the new laws during future legislative sessions, as we always have and always will, but that is Americas legislative process. It is far from perfect, but the best in the world today. ol adSALT LAKE. High tech vancement have made the 156th Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints accessible to nearly the entire planet. Church officials say the conference, which will be conducted Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6, in the Tabernacle on Temple Square, will feature general sessions at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. both days and a general priesthod session is scheduled for Saturday at 6 p.m. All sessions will be under the direction of the churchs First Presidency. It is anticipated that several thousand leaders and members of the church from the United States and other countries of the world where established stakes of the church exist will gather in the Tabernacle, but several hundred thousand more watching the proceedings via television. All sessions of the conference will be televised via the Westar 4 satellite, transponder 12D (channel 23), to more than 1,000 church ward and stake centers in the United States and Canada in English, Spanish and French. All conference sessions, with the exception of the priesthood session, will cable be transmited to numerous television systems in the United States via Westar Spanish, Swedish, Tahitian, Tongan and Vietnamese. Conference proceedings will also be conveyed via sign language to a gathering of the deaf and hard of hearing in the Church Office Building auditorium. The language translators and in- 4 transponder 12D and Satcom 3R, transponder 14. It is estimated son 2,000 of those systems picked up portions of the conference held in October of last year. Portions of the conference will also be provided to commercial television and radio stations in the United States on a publis service basis. terpreters are virtually all volunteers who donate their time both in preparation and during the conference itself. Church units in areas of the world where the satellite and other transmissions are not available will receive videotapes of the conference sessions. These will be sent in the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, French, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German and Norwegian. This will be the first general conference for President Ezra Taft Benson since his ordination as the 13th president of the church last November following the death of president Spencer W. Kimball. Other members of the First Presidency are Gordon B. Hinkley, first counselor, and Thomas S. Mon-sosecond counselor. Conference speakers will include Continued on page 6 speaking church leaders from various parts of the Non-Englis- h world will be able to listen to conference proceedings in their own language through earphones connected with interpreters stationed in the lower leverl of the Tabernacle, the Church Office Building, the North Visitors Center, the Salt Palace and the Salt Lake 17th ward. From three to five interpreters will be on hand for one or more conference sessions in each of the following languages: Cambodian, Cantonese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hmong, Thai, In- donesian, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mandarin, Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Samoan. Russian, Harte Hanks Operation Is Acquired By DSN MURRAY. Harte Hanks Direct Marketing, the intermountain west division of Harte Hanks Communications, will be acquired by Diversified Suburban Newspapers under an agreement of sale announced Thursday. Harte Hanks Direct Marketing serves a territory including all of Utah and Idaho, eastern Nevada, western Wyoming and parts of eastern Oregon. The company specializes in maintenance of client records for direct mail promotion and processing of monthly statements, annual reports and monthly newsletters. In addition to mail and data processing the printing department in operation at Harte Hanks will supplement the printing work already done at the Green Sheet plant. The Green Sheet Newspapers - sV 'l the Murray Eagle, West Valley View, Sandy Sentinel, Jordan Valley Sentinel, Green Sheet East, Green Sheet West and Sentinel West, have an audited circulation of over 75,000. This wont affect the news content or operations of the newspapers, said Peter Bernhard, President of Diversified. However, from the standpoint of servicing the needs of businesses and retail customers the acquisition makes a lot of sense. We can now offer customers a complete line of services from advertising, ad composition and printing to data processing, mailing and mail services. If it is related to printing and delivery of printed material we will be able to do it. The company will continue to use both the Green Sheet plant at 155 E. 4905 South in Murray and the mailing plant at 3472 W. 2100 South in Salt Lake. , Support Groups To Assist Grievers told us they didnt want to add to their familys burden. The support groups of seven to 10 began meeting this fall in Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo. Members must be age 65 or older, and have been widowed within the previous month. Group facilitators will be widowed seniors from the previous study and University graduate students in nursing, health and psychology. All groups will meet weekly for 10 weeks; half will continue meeting monthly for a year. This will enable researchers to determine how the intensity and duration of the group work affect grieving, according to Dr. Dimond. Although society often expects people to accept a spouses death rather quickly, the grieving process can take much longer. To help bereaved elderly, the University of Utah College of Nursing recently received a $350,000 grant to organize several support groups. The three-yea- r grant from the National Institute on Aging is a followup to a previous study in which local elderly indicated a desire to participate in support groups. Many people do very well after the death of a spouse, but a substantial number we interviewed didnt manage well and continued to be lonely for as long as two years, said Margaret Dimond, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing and principal investigator on the research project. The opportunity for individuals to meet with others in the same situation may hasten the grieving process, she added. Friends and relatives are supportive, but they, too, are grieving, and many elderly Working with her is Dale Lund, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing and associate director of research for the Universitys InterCare mountain West Long-TerGerontology Center. For further informaiton, those interested may call the gerontology center at Magna Chamber Continued from page 4 Democrats, but that it is an election in the people making intelligent year and hopefully people will begin to see the necessity of having a decisions. Get politically involved, support check and balance system and the the representative that speaks your danger inherent in total control. voice on Capitol hill, he admonishI am concerned about the ed. Right now we are being con- future, Goodfellow said. The day trolled by the high and the slick, not the legislature ended we knew that the grass roots of this country. No there was going to be a necessity for bill should be Democrat or a special session to balance the Republican, it should be in the best budget for what they did by not adinterest of the people, he conclud- dressing the Gramm-Rudma- n bill. ed. It is management by crisis, he When Representative Brent Good-fello- added, just a continual kind of addressed the group, he said , thing where they have to manage on Republicans have been putting off a crisis basis. the inevitble instead of raising taxes Supporting his colleagues thinkin a responsible way. And when ing Rep. Dan Tuttle said that they they finally get around to doing it, it had spent the time playing offense instead of defense during the time will be a biggy, he added. The legislature put off making the legislature was in session. Of the Goodfellow continued, 720 bills introduced, only a little over decisions, but if you will go over the bills that 200 were passed, which he contended were passed, you will see that this demonstrates that there were many legislature will be known for raising foolish bills put forth. Tuttle also said that they supfees that are nothing but hidden taxes. ported the Morris Udall Copper Fees from duck stamps to mar- Resolution that would have put a riage licenses were increased and a tariff on foreign copper. The bill was class A misdemeanor now calls for passed by the House and the Senate, an increase from $300 to $1,000, but was vetoed by the President. On which is a "pretty healthy in- a local level, he said that he and Brent Goodfellow had crease, he stressed. Most of the decisions were made the Utah Copper Resolution. With regard to other bills, Tuttle behind closed doors, he said, and, needless to say, with the makeup of said that House Bill 53 was an bill that stemmed from the the House of Representatives being to only 14 bombings in Salt Lake. However, it 75 Republicans because it had included Democrats, we didnt have much in- was over-kigasoline and other relatively input into the decisions they made. Goodfellow said there was even a nocuous materials. 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