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Show Wednesday, February 12, 1997 A-8 The Park Record I K torewicle Clearance 15 - 60 OFF Owner just back from Market and has Sale ends February 16th authorized a storewide clearance sale! He is making room for all the new merchandise he purchased. DON'T MISS THIS ONCE A YEAR SALE , SUGt;. RhTAIL 1 comfort 1 FURNISHINGS 2 7 5 6 W . R a s s m u s s e n R d , Park City, Utah 6 4 7 - 5 8 8 0 From the wire... Utah Lake is brimming before melt-off begins Many believe spring flooding will be inevitable AT 0i MIKE HALE CHEVROLET Low, low sale prices on ALL USED CARS 0m malggSSamimmm 1220 Park Avenue (801) 649-2399 1-800-549-2399 PROVO. Utah (AH-The spring runoff is months awsv but the level of Utah L.ike alrc.idv has reached a point man believe makes Hooding ineutaNe. "We're in trouble." said G. Marion Hinckley, a longtime farmer who lives near the lake. "I've been trying to wake somebody some-body up to the problem. Nobody seems to be taking it seriously at this point." Hinckley said he has been meeting with Provo city representatives, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Centra Utah Water Conservancy District. Terry Smith at the Jordan River pumping station at the north end of Utah Lake said the lake already is about a quarter-foot quarter-foot above compromise. Compromise point is an elevation eleva-tion agreed upon by Utah Lake Land Owners and Salt Lake County water users. When the lake reaches an elevation of 4489.045 above mean sea level -or compromise point - gates on the Jordan River must be opened to allow the maximum amount of water to flow northward to Salt Lake County. Utah Lake is a reservoir for Salt Lake County. And presently, mountain snow-packs snow-packs are well above average. As of Jan. 29. the snowpack at Timpanogos Divide, which feeds water into Utah Valley, was 226 percent of normal. Measurements at Trial Lake on the Upper Provo River were 198 percent of normal, and Beaver Divide 205 percent. Hinckley, a former Utah County commissioner, predicts the lake will reach three-to-four feet above compromise during this year's spring runoff. The lake reached its highest elevation in 1984. when it peaked at five feet above compromise and flooded vast areas around the lake. Utah Lake State Park was completely under water. That year dikes were built along large areas of farmland in south Utah County to hold back the lake water. Sheldon Talbot, an engineer with the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, said the district dis-trict is releasing around 570 cubic-feet cubic-feet per second of water out of Jordanelle Reservoir in Wasatch County, and 710 cfs out of Deer Creek Reservoir. That water flows down the Provo River into Utah Lake. And it is more water than can be released from Utah Lake into the Jordan River, said Richard Tullis, operations and maintenance mainte-nance manager for the conservancy conservan-cy district. He said all three gates at the Jordan Pumping Station are wide open, so the maximum amount of water is presently flowing flow-ing into the Jordan River. Other tributaries like the American Fork River, Hobble Creek and Spanish Fork River also are pouring water into the lake. Tullis said the district has been drawing down Jordanelle Reservoir to make more storage capacity for high flows in the Upper Provo River. "We don't operate Deer Creek, but we do have some storage water in the reservoir and we are trying to manage our water to ensure that there will be some storage capacity," Tullis said. He pointed out that one-third of the water flowing into Utah Lake, approximately 300,000 acre-feet, acre-feet, comes from "ungated" sources such as ground water and underground flows. Tullis also said flooding is a big concern this year. Advocates for battered women hail O.J. verdict See domestic violence as key factor in case SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Advocates (AP)-Advocates for battered women hailed the verdict in the civil trial of O.J. Simpson while some African Americans questioned the fairness of the court system. Margaret Lent felt hopeless when Simpson was acquitted of murder in October 1995. Now, the southern Utah social worker is hoping the verdict finding Simpson liable for the slashing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole and 0GC70 GO 0(3(00000000 n gran rrfhrritarn cfi reftrrer? mrarrtir nrfflro, UTL her friend Ronald Goldman will be an antidote to the feeling that there is no justice in the world. "Somebody finally recognized that this case was about domestic violence," said Lent, the program director of the Dove Center in St. George. "Nicole is the representation representa-tion of women we see every day." The verdict may make people wonder about the fairness of the court system, said Jeanetta Williams, the president of the Salt Lake branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some people may come away with the conclusion conclu-sion that the jury in the civil case was out to take revenge on Simpson for his earlier acquittal, she said. "Is there justice for everybody?" every-body?" Williams asked. The verdict isn't likely to have much visible resonance in Utah, said Millie Sparks, state director of Black Affairs. "We are a very, very conservative conserva-tive people," she said. "We don't react like Los Angeles or New York to these things. As far as reaction, we won't be any more vocal than in discussion among ourselves about the meaning of both verdicts." African Americans make up about 1.7 percent of Salt Lake City's population and only about 0.7 percent of Utah's population, according to the 1990 U.S. Census. The director of a Salt Lake City battered women's shelter said the verdict might provide a measure of hope and renewed faith in "the system" for women who are suffering from an abusive husband. "It will be a helpful message to victims who feel there was no justice," jus-tice," said Shelley White, the director of the YWCA shelter. Since the verdict in Simpson's criminal trial last October, the YWCA shelter has received several sev-eral phone calls from frightened women who said their husbands had predicted they could get away with murder just like Simpson, White said. MAINTENANCE k MECHANICAL Commercial & residential & rental properties maintenance and repair of appliances & furnaces. NO J05 TOO SMALL! G0K5H-3G76 license A& insurec 5 days only! February 13-17 Factory Stores at Park City 6699 N. Landmark Drive. Park City, UT 84060 Shop our atore: Monday-Saturday 1 0:00-9.00, Sunday 11:00-5:00. For more information please call: (801) 647-0669. 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