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Show 4 THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, January Cut Fire Loss 8, 1987 P tkc - Concerned Neighbors Lend A Timely Hand HUNTER. Observant neighbors who chose to get involved were credited with minimizing damage from a fire here New' Years Day, Fire Marshal John Blundell said earlier this week. No one was home when the fire broke out, but the neighbors saw smoke and called the Fire Depart- - ment, he said. Without their involvement, the damage could have been far greater." Fire officials received a call at about 8 am. Jan. 1 concerning smoke pouring from the Rebecca Fresques home at 3447 So. 4710 West, he noted. Firefighters were on the scene within seven minutes. Neighbors advised firefighters that Mrs. Fresques had three children, but no one knew if any family member was at home at the time. Cdifat'b viewpoint . . All Spend, No Yield Leaves Coffers Empty Palace Salt i . will receive $7 million, The State of Utah revenues; tax sales nrimnrilv from $2.1 million . Salt Lake City Corp. will receive tax from the room transient and from sales taxes hotel operations. Some investment deposit and no return. That pretty well sums up the financial arrangement involving Salt Lake County and the Salt Palace. Realizing no return on an investment is bad enough itself, but in this case, the bad becomes even worse when compounded by such factors as: from the Salt There are others that benefit Transit Utah the Authority with Palace operation, open and entered the home with a con(1) the county doesn't as much as break even from its share of the sales $400,000 line. All the fire appeared, however, about realizing projected for to be on the outside of the building. A tinually operating in the red; tax not to mention the $50 million of activity a result as firms second hose was brought in and the the'downtown is two financial realized sizable business a governby (2) gain outwas from Palace. the fire ment entities, neither of which is Salt Lake County. extinguished attracted by the Salt side. It took about an hour and a half expense of building Salt Lake County went to the The were dollar made involved public figures vote. The county-wida to extinguish the blaze before the this week during a talk before members of a civic the Salt Palace, following to maintain and all clear signal was given. bucks the out shells county also organization. The fire, Blundell noted, apparentFor Salt Lake County taxpayers who have in re- operate the facility. But while others are reaping the benefits, the ly started in a style cent weeks witnessed much gnashing of teeth and in red ink. is a metal in which casing fireplace slashing of vital services budgets, there would county wallows beframed with building materials inIndications point toward possible legislator) seem to be more than passing interest in learning a more equitable to stead of the traditional brick or some of the provide considered findings of a study on the Salt Palace ing stone structure. distribution of those benefits. operation as it applies to a period, to conWith the 1987 Utah Legislature about Such as: It is estimated the building receivbe well would vene, Salt Lake County taxpayers ed about $10,000 in damage, with enactment to encourage moment a to take most of the fire damage occurring The Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency advised a revenue source to on the outside of the building and will receive $70 million due to the tax yield from of a bill aimed at giving them entitled. are inside. which they smoke damage an increase in property valuation; Firefighters forced the front door e nine-yea- r Salt Palace Fairbanks, Noted Sculptor , Dies At 89 SALT LAKE. Funeral services were held here Saturday for one of Utahs best known sculptors - d Tennyson Fairbanks, 89, whose works include the statue of the Angel Moroni atop the Jordan River LDS temple. Fairbanks died at 3 a.m. New Years Day, following a heart attack three weeks ago. A Salt Lake resident, he was working as a consultant in the restoration of the statue of Liberty atop the building at the time of his death. In addition to the Jordan River Temple piece, Fairbanks also sculpted the Moroni statue atop the Washington, D.C. LDS temple near the nations capital. His latest work, a marble bust of Abraham Lincoln, was unveiled in 1985 in the U.S. Capitol building itself, where four of his works are housed. Other Utah sculptures include the statue of Peace in the Peace Gardens, a monument to Florence Nightingale at the University of Utah and his heroic portrayal of Utah mining pioneer Daniel C. Jackling in the rotunda of the State Capitol. Several of his pieces are also found on the grounds of Temple Square, including the Relief Society Centennial memorial, his piece commemorating the Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood and his monument to the Three Witnesses, among others. His Pioneer Family graces the grounds of the North Dakota State Capitol and his Tragedy of Winter Quarters commemorates a piece of Mormon history in the cemetery at Florence, just north of Omaha, Neb. Heroic statues of Lincoln can also Ar-var- City-Coun- VENTILATING . . . Engineers Russ Carr and Dean Williams assist fireman Todd Brown in removing sidign to check the exterior of a Hunter home for hot spots. Alert neighbors called the fire department ofter noticing smoke pouring from the building. Granite School Board Chris McDonald, representing Calvin Smith elementary, also spoke favorably concerning the year-roun- d option. The Smith community, though, saw it as a second choice behind adding more relocatable classrooms to preserve the traditional school year. The six committees, which have been studying student housing since have held meetings with the surrounding neighborhoods to solicit input from patrons concerning all possible options available. Each committee presented a statistical analysis of community input and suggested ways in which plans could be implemented. The board will receive administrative recommendations Jan. 20 for housing students at the six schools in the coming year, but is not expected to make a final decision on the matter before its first meeting in Continued from page 1 boundary shifts. Barring that scenario, however, the community would support year-roun- d school on the plan, Evans informed the board. That plan would divide students into one of five tracks," with each track being in class about 60 days, then off 15 on a rotating basis. That same plan was also favored by patrons at Hillside elementary. We're convinced of the educational benefits of year-rounschooling, whether or not a school is overcrowded," Hillside representative 60-1- 5 r, d Melva Peterson told board members. Our research has shown the majority of our community favors year-rounIn fact, she noted school, our phone survey indicated 81 perschool as cent listed year-rountheir first choice and eight percent as their second." d d February. Hunter High Continued from page 1 District 4 in the Hunter area, moved that the board reconsider the name for the new facility - a motion which was seconded by board member J. Dale Christensen who represents District 5, also on the districts west including the PTA organizations from schools which will feed into the new facility, assistant superintendent Loren Burton pointed out. Hillside elementary PTA president Lisa Farrell, however, pointed out that the elementary school she represents will be the closest facility to the new high school when it is constructed, yet she was not contacted concerning the name. The districts ninth high school will see groundbreaking next spring and is expected to house students for school year. the 1990-9- side. Board members Gary Swensen, Lynn Davidson and Patricia G Sandstrom, however, voted against leaving the reconsideration, Hunter" name intact. Names for the new facility were solicited from a variety of sources. 1 To Doctor Continued from page widespread Springfield where the 16th president lived for a time as a boy. Fairbanks also created the bronze sculpture of Lycurgus the Lawgiver of ancient Sparta, which was commissioned by a group of Americans of Greek descent and was erected in that Greek city. He also created the bronze medal of courage which Canadian Prime Minister William L. Mackenzie presented to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Fairbanks was born March 2, 1897 in Provo. He became interested in sculpture by the age of 11 and studied art in New York City, France and Italy. He received several masters and doctoral degrees and taught at several American universites before returning to Utah at age 50 to found the College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. He married Beatrice Maude Fox in Hawaii in 1918. They are the parents of eight sons and two grandparents grandchildren and of 44 of 1 misunderstanding Knight hastened to assume some of the blame for that because oi "the be found in Honolulu, Hawaii and in New Salem, 111., a small town near daughters, 1982-199- 54 great-grandparen- greatg- randchildren. Following Saturdays funeral rites, Fairbanks was entombed in the Larkin Sunset Lawn Mausoleum. possibility I didnt properly present the situation Actually, he explained, the Jazz franchise in the National Basketball Association is sufficiently valuable cities would like that many to aquire it. The Jazz, in negotiations, pointed out that their Salt Palace rental is roughly S21U.0U0 higher than the average of 11 other non-NB- NBA teams playing in facilities governmentally-owne- d across the United States. Knight suggested the Salt Palace should cut its rent by that amount in order to be in line But since Salt Lake County is already subsidizing the facility in annual increments of $1 million or more, he felt it was unfair for the county alone to absorb that loss. A proposal was then made to the State of Utah and to Salt Lake City as primary beneficiaries of having the Jazz in Salt Lake, that the $210,000 be shared three ways The state agreed and paid its $70,000, as did the county. The Salt Lake City Ted Council, though Wilson had been in agreement, declined to pay its share Wilson had subsequently resigned as mayor, but asked the council to meet the commitment Somehow it was portrayed that this was a subsidy to the Jazz, Knight explained, which is totally incorrect. It was only a needed adjustment in rent properly propor then-May- tioned among those benefiting from Salt Palace income. its interesting," he added, that the Mimt-Lubpeople made the $70,00(1 payment w'hich Salt Lake Cie ty relused The council has received a great deal ot adverse publicity as a result of its position. Flexibility is needed in other areas. Kmgnt said. He cited as an example a national convention of the Recreation and Parks Assn which would have brought more than a million dollars into the valley economy, but was lost because Phoenix' offered its facility at a $30,000 lower rental. "The sales tax alone accruing to Salt Lake City and the State of Utah from this wouldve been more than $133,000, Knight insisted, yet the convention was lost because neither of them would cover the rent differential Salt Lake County, as youd expect, declined to do so because it doesn't matter since they dont share in the yield and renting below subcost only increases the year-ensidy But tell me where else you could invest $30,000 and within a month have a return of $133,000 plus a million dollars for your business firms. Many changes are needed in order to make this an equitable operation, Knight summed up. And without a doubt its worth doing, because the benefits of the Palace far outweigh its liabilities. But the costs and the receipts must be put in focus so there can be fairness and equity." d Open Your Understanding When you open outstanding books on the New Testament FREE NEW TESTAMENT STUDY BOOKMARK! 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