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Show Wove on Board Has Next Report Alpine By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN and DAWN TRACY Herald Staff Writers It's up to the Alpine School Board to decide if information on improper practices of district administrators is released to the public, according to District Judge J. Robert Bullock and Utah County Attorney Noall T. Wootton. Yesterday Fourth District Court judges signed an order sealing the investigative files although they will allow the County Attorney or Attorney General to meet with the board and reveal the report's contents. The order made reference to "many improper practices and procedures, abuses of privileges and positions, and in some areas, gross misman- agement." District Judge J. Robert Bullock said today, "The Al pine School Board can do what it will do. The board was not a party to our action, and is not involved in the order issued by the judges." "I would not be inclined to hold them in contempt for releasing information from the investigation. It's wholly discretionary on the part of the board," he declared. Utah County Attorney Noall T. Wootton said Wednesday he had received a letter from Dan Fugal, president of the Alpine School Board, to meet with the board in executive session to discuss results of the recent investigation. The letter invites Wootton or a member of his department to meet with the board in closed session Jan. 11 at 9:30 p.m. This is at the end of the board meeting that begins at 6 p.m. Wootton said the letter was later interviews that the dated Jan. the day before Judicial Fourth Judges released their court order stating that no grand jury would be called, and sealing the investigative report. Fugal says he wrote the letter in his capacity as president of the board, and he adds that information from the report should be discussed in a closed meeting because it deals with personnel matters. "A public trust is involved here," he said. "The report may affect individual lives and careers. There are certain things that should not be laundered publicly." Fugal said after the board has seen the report, members may wish to reveal some information at a later date. Board members Richard 4, of the board should make the report public. "The investigative report is the result of public questions and public requests for answers to specific questions and charges," said Heaps. "Releasing the report to the public will put to rest many concerns." Mrs. Williamson, who gave testimony to Fourth District Court judges when they sat en banc this summer, said she believes the report should be made public. "I would not object to any of the information I gave the judges being made public," said Mrs. Williamson. "If the report isn't released, a cloud could hang over the new board. People will wonder if we are concealing information." At the Tuesdav board meet Heaps, Nancy Williamson and Richard Sudweeks said in tmlh 109TH YEAR, NO. 135 PROVO. UTAH, THURSDAY. JANUARY 6, 1983 $6.00 A MONTH - PRICE 25 CENTS WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres- 1983 Wednesday night, Reagan restated his belief that tax increases will inhibit economic recovery, but he did not rule them out. Appearing with Reagan was Elizabeth Dole, White House assistant for Public Liaison, as the president announced he had chosen her to replace Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation. If confirmed by the Senate, as is likely, she will be the first woman to serve in the Reagan Cabinet. In an opening statement, Reagan tried to shut off questions on the 1984 budget, saying he is "in the midst of making final decisions." But reporters persisted Wootton ' comes, needs to be removed. But on the other hand, I have no idea what the report contains. I can't make a decision having not seen the report." elect its president and apof the point a board. Board member Sudweeks, however, said he does not want to vote on who the will be until he sees the report. "It will be very difficult to make any decisions without having information from the report," said Sudweeks. "At the Tuesday meeting, I plan to make a motion that no is appointed until we have a chance to see the report." New board member Richard Johns said he has not made up his mind on whether to release the report or not. "It isn't the kind of decision I can make without seeing the report first," he said. "If we have a cancer, certainlv it clerk-treasur- clerk-tresur- er clerk-treasur- er Judge Bullock said the order sealing the report was imposed only on information given the judges covering authority for calling a grand jury. He emphasized that the law requires all grand jury testimony to be secret. "If we'd called a grand jury, we could not make any report on the material discovered unless it was followed by a formal indictment." "In effect, the knowledge of improprieties that can be- come available to the public, limited as it is, is still considerably greater in this case than it would have been if we had called a grand jury," he declared. ECONOMY: SS Issue Still Hot WASHINGTON and asked about the looming $200 billion deficit. "Clearly we're facing very big deficits unless we take action and we will take action because the deficits" will become "unacceptably large" in the future, (UPI) - Pres- el cal signals, Reagan told his news conference Wednesday he would not get involved in the panel's talks, the latest of which broke up only hours before the president's nationally televised ap- pearance. "Social Security was made a not by us, political football not by me" and the commission was supposed to get it out of politics, Reagan said. "For me to impose myself on the commission and say, 'Hey fellas, this is the way I want you to go,' I would then stand back and wait for the loud outcry from Capitol Hill," Reagan said. Car Sales at Low Reagan said. "The federal DETROIT (UPI) Auto sales in the United States during 1982 were the lowest in nearly two budget must not become a road block on the path to long-tereconomic recovery." Reagan said he was aware that there is a "constant drumbeat ... that we're overboard on this particular subject" of increasing the defense budget. He said he expects to receive a Defense Department task force report shortly and "if it can be cut it will be cut." "But the priority must be not if it means reducing our ability below the level at which we can declare ourselves safe," he said. As for proposals to boost taxes to offset the exploding deficits, Reagan said: "I think it is an accepted fact and a common rule that boost taxes are not the way out of a recession." m Welsch Quads before ident Reagan is staying clear of the deadlocked deliberations of his Social Security commission, but is not ruling out higher payroll taxes as part of a rescue package. The bipartisan commission, set up by Reagan, must report by Jan. 15. It agrees Social Security needs $150 billion to $200 billion by 1990, but is split along political lines on whether to raise most of the money via tax hikes or curbing growth of. benefits. Despite the commission's repeated pleas for high-levpoliti Reagan Shows New Flexibility About Budget - ident Reagan, displaying a new bit of flexibility on the budget, indicates he is willing to cut military spending to force down what he acknowledged to be "unacceptably large deficits." Holding his first nationally broadcast news conference of ing the board is scheduled to decades despite a December sales surge for domestic automakers and a record annual share for foreign companies. Total industry sales compiled Wednesday were 7,958,451, down 6.5 percent from 1981's 8,514,956. It was the poorest combined showing for domestic and foreign producers since 1963, when only 7.7 million cars were sold. American automakers sold 5,- - 756,658 vehicles, down 7.2 percent from 1981's 6,205,856. It marked the worst performance for the U.S. auto industry since Import automakers sold 2,201,-79- 3 cars in 1982, down 4.7 percent from 2,309,100 in 1981. But despite the drop in 1982 sales due mainly to import restrictions they captured a record 27.7 percent of the American market compared to old high of 27.1 percent in 1981. Gas Tax Stern-lookin- g Reagan makes point to press. A Year Old WASHINGTON (UPI) - Pres- ident Reagan Thursday signed legislation that will boost the federal tax on gasoline by a nickel a gallon, provide $5.5 billion a year to repair roads and bridges and create as many as 320,000 jobs. cars were when 5.5 million 1961, sold. Is Law The bill, which had bipartisan 97th support in the lame-duc- k Congress, raises the gas tax by 125 percent, from 4 cents to 9 cents. It is the first increase in the federal gasoline tax in 23 years. BY ROD COLLETT A Herald Staff Writer year ago, Jolene Welsch of Thursday ill: Sandy knew she was going to give birth to at least triplets, but when she gave birth to a fourth baby on Jan 5, 1982, the quadruplets became the first ever born at Utah Valley Hospital. On Wednesday evening, Reconciliation Seems Unlikely the Governor four babies, three girls and a boy, got a birthday cake, presents and lots of love from their family to celebrate their first year of life. state-wid- t workers. But the task of patching up 7j differences Just after the birth of the four babies, their father, Jeff, a contractor by trade, decided to make an addition to their already new home. Today, the Welsch home has a row of cribs for the six children who live there. The other two are Tenille 6, and Trent 4. And what are Jolene's feelings one year later about having the size of her family increased 200 percent with the arrival of Andy, Ashley, Natalie and Tiffany? I learned about the arrival of the fourth child it didn't bother me at all," said Mrs. Welsch in her Sandy home, "the four have been delightful the past year. and We plan on having more children and having a big family." "When well-behav- The Welsches decided to have delivery at Utah Valley Hospital because their physician, Dr. Robert P. Romney had moved his practice to Springville from Scott M. Matheson met with officials Wednesday to e retiretry to save the ment system that covers 82,000 with groups that want to pull out is formidable. So far, 16 cities in Utah have withdrawn from the retirement system. See story and pictures on Page 4. Radioactive Sputnik to Fall 'A The Pentagon says a nuclear-powere- d Soviet spy satellite will come crashing back to earth later this month, but a Russian space expert said today it does not pose "a dangerous situation." fV' ' ( fV Brian Tregaskis Photo Andy, Ashley and Tiffany play while a fourth quad is away eating cake. Salt Lake County. The foursome entered the world at 7:35 a.m. with Andy leading the way. The last girl was born at 7:40 a.m. Natalie and Ashlee are identical twins, but Andy and Tiffany are fraternal twins. After their birth, the babies remained in intensive care for several days before going home. "When everything fettled down and we had the babies home, I realized what a blessing it was just to have them healthy and alive. They have never been a problem, although there have been days when 1 have been bogged down, but our friends and family have been a tremendous help in caring for them too," she explained. Jolene says the four newest family members are so good that she often has to wake them up to feed them. "They hardly ever keep Jeff or myself up at night. They take two naps a day and Uiey are down by 7:30 p.m. each evening." When the quads were in intensive care a year ago, they were the center of attention for the hospital staff. Now one year later, they are still bring happy memories for a proud Utah Valley Hospital staff, particularly the nurses who tenderly cared for the youngsters. The ocean surveillance satellite launched Aug. 30 and reported to be carrying more than 100 pounds of uranium 235 to power its radar and other equipment. Story on Page 18. 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