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Show Black Thursday, September 9, 2004 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Editorial Access to north west part of city needs attention During the recent construction of the natural gas pipeline, 900 North Street has mostly been closed for the summer and only now has been opened. This meant that residents of the city living from 400 North Street north between Main Street and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks could only get to and from their homes by traveling 400 West Street to 400 North Street to exit that section of the city. We guess that this affects over 1000 residents and meant that anyone living as far north as 1200 North was forced to drive to 400 North to get out of the area. Should there have been a fire, illness or any other type of emergence, access to this area was severely limited. Even with the opening again of 900 North Street getting get-ting in and out of this part of town is poor at best. We feel that the planning and zoning department, the public safety department and city council should look at this area and come up wiith more access routes so that citizens in that area can get in and out of the without risk. We are also grateful that no emergency occurred while this area was so poorly serviced during the summer. sum-mer. Proper public access by roads to homes is one of the basic functions of city government. This area of the city needs more access routes. Springvtile Poke report Jhonny Henry Avila, 1367 W. Gleribar Dr., Springville, was cited for disturbing the peace. Alfredo Soto, 1367 W. Glenbar, Dr., Springville, was arrested for distrubing the peace, intoxication and interf erring with arrest. Kirk Reed Bradford, 99 E. 1150 North, Springville, was arrested for theft and bur- flary after a checkbook and eys to a house were found missing. Michael Dale Bringhurst, 1102 E. 200 North, Springville, was arrested ar-rested for intoxication. Janalee Evans, 64 W. 300 South, Springville, was charged with criminal mischief mis-chief after she was caught letting the air out of the tires on a vehicle. Jasen S. Hamilton, Hamil-ton, 1371 W. 1200 North, Mapleton, was charged with burglary and possession of stolen property. Parker Hansen, 1206 W. Sammy Circle, Riverton, was cited for disorderly conduct. con-duct. Dennis W. Pawelek, 1091 S. 500 East, Springville, was also cited for disorderly conduct, and a male juvenile with Hansen and Pawelek was cited for the same offense. of-fense. Carlos David Martinez Jr., 159 W. 1000 North, Springville, was also cited for disorderly conduct, and a female juvenile with Martinez Mar-tinez was also cited for the same offense. Richard Anthony Kelly, 246 N. 100 East, Provo, was arrested for five counts of having forged writing devices, de-vices, forgery and open container con-tainer oi alcohol. 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All letters must include the author's name ( printed and signed) and a telephone number. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, punctuation, taste and length. Letters are welcome on any topic. Lloyd, 155 S. 1200 West 95, Orem, was arrested for sholifting at Wal-Mart. Luis G. Lopez, 3749 N. 500 East, Provo, was cited for having too many people improperly im-properly riding in his vehicle. Savitri D. Stoneman, 1030 S. 1040 East, Springville, was cited for shoplifting at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart. Benjamin C. Wood, 577 S. 470 East 3, Springville, was arrested for an outstanding warrant. Two teens, a male and female, were cited for disorderly conduct. Eggs and other food items were thrown at the Senior Citizen Center. Thefts included includ-ed several incidents of gasoline gaso-line skips; two cell phones; valve stem and cap; and three bicycles. ' ' ' r ' Police had 254 calls for the week with 29 of those for an-mal an-mal problems. Mapleton Police report Mapleton Police had 40 calls last week with 10 of those for animal problems. Brittany Lola Johnson, 169 E. 100 South, Spanish Fork, was arrested for an outstanding, out-standing, no-bail warrant. Three burglaries were reported re-ported with CDs, cell phone, pellet gun, DVDTV combo and bottles of alcohol A mother was located after af-ter a small child was found riding a tricycle in the middle of the road wearing only a diaper. A house trailer caught on fire; there were two family fights; and two trucks were stopped hauling boulders on Main Street. Utah school boards want facts known Todd Hollingshead STAFF WRITER The Utah School Boards Association wants to set the record straight about where the schools' share of taxpayers' money is going. In what USBA officials said is a chance to dispel rumors ru-mors and provide accurate outside information about Utah's public school system, sys-tem, the association has released re-leased a report in pamphlet form that shows low spending spend-ing on administration and favorable numbers in building build-ing costs. "We wanted to provide some data that's from solid, reputable resources," said Chad Harris, USBA associate associ-ate executive director. "We felt like it was time for us to take an opportunity to share some good information informa-tion with the public to correct cor-rect a lot of the misunderstandings," misunder-standings," he said. The numbers in the report re-port paint a positive picture for Utah taxpayers. Commentary Unnecessary new FDA regulations harm businesses, children and state Editor: Presently, the Food and Drug Aclministration (FDA) has its hands full regulating the pharmaceutical industry and wrestling with the implications impli-cations of imported drugs. The last thing the FDA or the American taxpayer tax-payer needs is to create a vast new FDA bureaucracy to regulate the tobacco industry. in-dustry. Yet, the U.S. Senate recently re-cently passed a bill that would endow the FDA with almost complete control over the farming, manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing of tobacco. Regardless of your position posi-tion on tobacco buyout provisions provi-sions included in the House or Senate passed international internation-al tax bills, the Senate's provisions pro-visions on expanding FDA's authority would give the FDA a level of arbitrary and unchallenged authority over the tobacco industry that is chilling to those of us who favor fa-vor limited government and minimal regulation. Under this piece of legislation, legisla-tion, there is nearly no limit to FDA's authority to make decisions controlling tobacco product standards, disallowing disallow-ing product claims and forcing forc-ing producers to get FDA pre-approval for their marketing mar-keting plans. This will also play favorites between retailers retail-ers placing significant burdens bur-dens on family-owned, community com-munity brick-and-mortar retail re-tail outlets and will have absolutely ab-solutely no regulatory burdens bur-dens placed on Internet sellers sell-ers or tobacco, who are flagrantly fla-grantly marketing tax-free cigarettes without face-to-face age verification to children chil-dren across America. Nearly 10 of cigarettes are being sold over tne internet inter-net and some estimate that internet sales are expected to reach $10 billion a year, or about 20 of the total U.S. market, as early as 2006. These Internet sellers have no age-verification requirements require-ments in place to prevent minors mi-nors from purchasing cigarettes. ciga-rettes. In fact, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Assistant Assis-tant Professor Kurt Ribis conducted an experiment that found children as young as 11 could easily order Marl-boros Marl-boros and have them delivered deliv-ered to their homes in unmarked un-marked packages. These Internet sellers are also evading their tax obligation obliga-tion which is costing states billions of dollars. The National Na-tional Governor's Association Associa-tion has estimated that states may lose as much as $1.5 billion bil-lion to remote tobacco sales for which state taxes are avoided. Where is the state going to turn to get this money mon-ey back? YOU! That's right, State budgets are a zero-sum game and when these Internet sellers evade their tax obligations, the state will turn to you, the With its large families, it's no surprise Utah spends less money per pupil on public education only $4,625 than any other state. The national average is $7,284. But the Utah State Office of Education reported that Utah schools put more of that money to work in the classroom on instruction like teacher salaries, supplies sup-plies and textbooks than most states. Utah spends 69.2 percent of its budget on instruction while the national na-tional average is 60.7 percent. per-cent. The remaining 30 percent per-cent of the budget goes mostly to support services, ser-vices, such as counseling, staff support, and building maintenance and operation. opera-tion. One percent of the budget, or $46 per pupil, goes to district administration administra-tion the lowest among the states, according to the U.S. census. "Much to the opposite of what's being said out in law-abiding, tax-paying citizen, citi-zen, to make up the difference. differ-ence. Beyond the fact that state governments will be forced to dip into your pocket for lost state revenue due to online on-line sales of cigarettes, the additional layer of federal bureaucracy created by the Senate legislation will break the bank at the national level. lev-el. The Senate bill circumvented circumvent-ed any oversight provided by Congressional committees, commit-tees, and we do not even have a good estimate of its costs. The costs of creating an entirely new regulatory structure to oversee everything every-thing from the manufacture of tobacco and approval of all new products to the daily operations of the 300,000 or so retailers of tobacco that are spread across the nation could bust our national budget. bud-get. Beyond all the philosophic and practical objections to the Senate FDA legislation, it is totally unnecessary. Everyone in America recognizes rec-ognizes the health dangers of smoking, even the 25 of Americans who still smoke. Cigarette packs have carried government mandated health warnings since 1965. State and federal laws already al-ready limit tobacco advertising advertis-ing and forbid its sale to minors. mi-nors. Under the Synar law, which passed Congress in 1992, states must enact and enforce youth tobacco access ac-cess laws; conduct annual random, unannounced inspections in-spections of tobacco outlets; achieve negotiated annual retailer violation targets; and attain a final goal or at least 80 compliance with laws against underage sales. According to the latest data from the U.S. Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Ser-vices Administration, released re-leased in 2003, the national retailer . violation rate dropped to 14.1 in 2002, down from 40.1 in 1996 - a reduction of more than 60 ! The point is that creating the Senate legislation would do nothing to solve the problem prob-lem of underage use of tobacco to-bacco and in fact may push smokers, both adult and children, chil-dren, to unregulated Internet tobacco retailers. The end result will be that we would likely see more children evade age-verification practices by going online, on-line, while leading to an increase in-crease in state taxes and unwarranted, un-warranted, higher expenses at the federal level. Regardless Regard-less of the effects a buyout may have on the tobacco farmer, the FDA portion of the Senate-passed bill is a harmful to both you and your community. Allison Shulman Director Government affairs National Assoc. Convenience Stores public, public education is doing its best to prudently spend the scarce money that's made available for our children," Harris said. "We're not building monuments monu-ments to ourselves like some people think." Mike Jerman, vice president presi-dent of the Utah Taxpayers Association, said he's looked over the pamphlet and most of the information informa-tion parallels the research he's done, but he said there are some elements the USBA could have included for more accuracy. Specifically, Jerman said Utah teacher salaries, when adjusted for benefits, experience expe-rience and cost of living, are much closer to the national na-tional average. "In Utah, for every $1 teachers receive in salary, taxpayers pay another 37 cents in benefits while the national average is 26 cents per dollar," Jerman said. "This is not to suggest that teachers are overpaid. It is information that people Springville City sponsors blood drive Sept. 15 Springville City is sponbring a Blood Drive by the Red Cross at the city offices on Wednesday, September 15, from lpm to 6 pm. If you are interested in dontating blood to a great cause please call Dorris Weight at the city at 489-2700. Mapleton wants more from settlement Todd Hollingshead STAFF WRITER Mapleton city officials and residents made it known Thursday they were not satisfied sat-isfied with the state's proposed pro-posed settlement with En-sign-Bickford, the company responsible for contaminating contaminat-ing the city's groundwater. At an open house hosted by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, residents resi-dents contested the $12 million mil-lion settlement that will clean up nitrates and RDX chemicals chemi-cals in the city's groundwater groundwa-ter aquifer, saying the plan doesn't fully rectify what En-sign-Bickford's Trojan Plant damaged. Representing Mapleton, city attorney Doug Thayer read a response to the settlement settle-ment to DEQ's executive director di-rector Dianne Nielson claiming claim-ing the agreement "falls woefully woe-fully short in protecting the citizens of Mapleton." "Why should Mapleton citizens cit-izens take the risk of bad health or even death when they did nothing to contaminate contami-nate the aquifer?" Thayer said. "This agreement should be about holding the responsible respon-sible parties responsible. So tar, the explosives com- Eany has spent $20 million to uild and operate cleaning facilities. Ensign-Bickford attorney James Holtkamp said he believes be-lieves the proposal is fair and requires the company to pay adequate money for damages, dam-ages, while cleaning the water. wa-ter. "EBCo. is treating the water wa-ter to deal with the aquifer," Holtkamp said. "The company compa-ny will continue to be responsible respon-sible for it until the DEQ says it's clean. "We've spent literally years with the state getting to this step. We began this process back in 1991," he said. The agreements include a' $9,375 million fund for pumping pump-ing and treating the groundwater ground-water for the next 20 years, the estimated time the contaminated conta-minated water will be eliminated. elimi-nated. There is also a $2.58 million trust fund for natural resource re-source damage to restore, re-; place or acquire the equivalent equiva-lent of the injured groundwater groundwa-ter in the impacted area. Resident David R. Nemel-ka, Nemel-ka, who is sponsoring a petition peti-tion for a second open meeting meet-ing for the Mapleton City Council and appointed professionals pro-fessionals to express tneir findings in regard to the proposal, pro-posal, said Thursday's meeting meet-ing was too one-sided. need to know." The Utah Taxpayers Association As-sociation found, after adjustment, ad-justment, the national average aver-age for teacher's compensation compen-sation is $55,752 with the Utah average at $55,361, 18th overall. USBA's report listed only teacher salary statistics which don't include benefit packages, with Utah ranking rank-ing No. 38 nationally at $37,414 and the national average av-erage being $44,683. Jerman also said the information in-formation could have included in-cluded a breakdown showing show-ing the effort taxpayers are making in terms of personal person-al income to fund education. educa-tion. "In 2002, we spent 5.04 percent of total personal income in-come on K-12 education compared to the national average of 4.67 percent," Jerman said. "It's called the Utah education paradox: In percent of total personal income in-come we're above the average, aver-age, but in per student spending we're below." "We're the victims, they're the ones that destroyed our water," Nemelka said. "Since the '80s, we've been counting the dead." Nemelka has been involved in-volved with the conflict between be-tween Mapleton and Trojan Corp.Ensign-Bickf ord since 1989, three years after a containment con-tainment pond ruptured and released nitric acid into the soiL Nielson said the DEQ will take into consideration all' the information and comments com-ments from city officials and residents before finalizing the settlement. "We've tried to put forward for-ward the best proposal that ; we could see at the time, but that doesn't mean it's the' best proposal that we could adopt," Nielson said. "They've raised good ques-' tions and stated them con-: cisely, and I'm going to go back and evaluate them." The settlement doesn't af-, feet, other claims or lawsuits against Ensign-Bickford, which include a $100 million lawsuit filed by Mapleton' city. Thayer was in court' Thursday with EBCo. attorneys attor-neys for oral arguments; over significant comDanv documents, but he said the' lawsuit is still a year away., However, EBCo. filed a motion mo-tion for summary judgment ' on Aug. 26 to throw out the case. A handful of residents, in-l eluding former Mayor MarK lyn Peterson, who died Mon day from lymphoma, also J brought lawsuits against the 4 company, claiming the cont-' aminants have caused them to develop cancer. "The irony of this is that the viewing tor Marilyn Peterson Pe-terson is going on right' now," said City Councilman Keith Stirling. The lawsuits have since-been since-been settled for undisclosed ; nmminto nf mrawv The Utah Department of. Health completed a study of , cancer incidence in Mapleton iii laic January iiiai uiu iiui , find statistically significant evidence to show that Mapleton Maple-ton has more cancer than the rest of Utah or that cancers in Mapleton have been- uiuocu uy CAUDUIC lu 111- , trate or explosive substances in well water. DEQ officials did not sped-. fy when the state settlement . : would be finalized, but said it will depend on the signifi-. cance 01 lniormaiion gain--, ered throughout the public ; comment period, whicn ends Cont OA It is not so much our.-friends' our.-friends' help that helps us as the confidenct knowledge fUr,4- tu.. I 1 iiiai nicy win neip us. Even if you're on the right . track, you'll get run over if , you just sit there. The Springville Herald Customer Service 375-5103 489-5651 Fax 489-7021 239E400S. 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