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Show PROVO, UTAH. SUNDAY. JANUARY 23. '09TH YEAR, NO. 149 1983 $6.00 A MONTH - PRICE 50 Lawmakers Face Salaries Issue in Ufech Proposals CENTS Other Utah legislative stories Page S. on City. Matheson wants to spend $12.2 million on the Provo-Oreschool and $13.1 million on the Salt Lake City school next year, while the State Board of Regents m -- LAKE CITY (UPI) SALT Utah's legislators ended this past week by devoting much of their time to pulling together a state budget for fiscal year 1984. Gov. Scott Matheson told a 0 GZPk news conference his budget office had discovered fiscal year 1983 will end with a $12 million surplus in the uniform school fund. Matheson said the surplus could be used to partially offset a revenue shortfall expected by the legislature's budget analysts in fiscal 1984. The legislative analysts at first said revenue would fall short by $18 million, but later revised their estimate to $20 million. The legislature's appropriations subcommittees, meanwhile, plowed slowly through spending proposals an item at a time. The panel that deals with higher education took a look at conflicting recommendations for Utah's two technical schools at Provo-Oreand in Salt Lake If says the Provo-Ore- m budget should be $13 million and the Salt Lake budget $14.2. The difference primarily is in salaries. Matheson, required by the State Constitution to draft a balanced budget, proposed no salary increases. The regents included salary increases averaging 9.4 percent for the state's higher education system. Until the salary issues settled some time near the of the legislative session, higher education panel will are end the not vote on budgets for colleges and universities. Although the governor was forced by law to recommend pay scales remain the same, he has asked the legislature to consider a package of tax increases that would make $39 million available for raises and other m Sunday: Sill aasJ Utah Traffic Deaths Drop 19 UPI Telephoto SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -Highway fatalities in the Beehive State during 1982 dropped by 19 percent, according to the Utah Highway Safety Division. The division said 296 people lost their lives on state roads last year compared to 364 in Air Force lieutenant at Colorado Springs tracks orbiting Cosmos satellite as time of fall nears. satellite Will Fall Today the debris and Sri Lankan officials investigated a falling object spewing smoke and flames as the satellite passed the mark. Cosmos 1402 is likely to break as it enters the atmosphere and hits Earth, raining radioactive debris soon thereafter. Pentagon officials tracking the craft said in their last estimate of the day Saturday United Press International U.S. officials Saturday estimated a runaSoviet spy satellite way nuclear-powere- d would hit Earth during a period prepatoday, as serious and rations were made worldwide for the fiery return of Cosmos 1402. A North Carolina radio station insured listeners for $500 each against injury from 100-mi- le that the craft would hit sometime between 1981. 12:53 p.m. EST Sunday and 12:53 a.m. EST Alcohol-relate- Monday. The spaceship was circling Earth once every 87.8 minutes. U.S. officials said there was no way to tell where the debris will land. They said there would be about five hours warning not enough time for evacuation of populated areas. full-sca- le 151. Officials of the Department of Public Safety said extensive publicity and increased emphasis by police and the courts probably helped reduce the total. The Utah State Senate, after heated discussion last week about mandatory seat belts for young children, passed a modified version of the bill. But the senators must vote on the measure again Monday. Stories are on Page 5. Strebel Does as Much as He Can Lid on Funds Twenty-on- e years ago, an industrial accident changed Glen Strebel's life forever. "I fell 68 feet onto my head," says Strebel, resident of the ' For Abortions R-Il- l., 27 preliminary Tots Bill Faces Another Vote President and Mrs. Reagan sent birthday anniversary congratulations to Dr. Barney Clark, and the University of Utah Medical Center contributed a birthday cake for a date Dr. Clark had little hope of observing last December. Reagan: Put See related story on Page 2 PresiWASHINGTON (UPI) dent Reagan has endorsed a bill to prohibit use of federal funds for abortions for the poor. On the eve of the 10th anniversary Saturday of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Reagan endorsed a bill introduced Jan. 6 by Rep. Henry Hyde, that defines the beginning of life at conception and says the Supreme Court erred. "Be sure that you, and all those who share your dedication to protecting innocent human life, will have my continuing support in the new Congress," Reagan said in a letter to Hyde dated Jan. 20. The movement, already divided sharply over legislative tactics, was embarrassed if not wounded by the disclosure of an internal memorandum by a staff member of the largest grassroots organization, the National Right to Life Committee, which suggested dumping as Sen. Jesse Helms, movement on the man" for "point Capitol Hill. According to the memo, Helms lost stature with his colleagues for his filibuster of the gasoline tax bill during the lame duck session of Congress. It suggested that some other senator might be better suited as Capitol Hill leader of the movement. fatalities de d percent in Utah, figures indicate. The division said 110 deaths involved alcohol compared to clined by Central Utah Rehabilitation Cen ter in Orem where he has lived for 19 years. Strebel tries to do as much for himself as possible. Story and pictures are on Page 3. Wyoming, Dallas BYU's basketball team improved its Western Athletic Conference record to 0 and moved to within one game of the .500 mark overall with an impressive 4 win over Wyoming Saturday. 4-- ir,J'Ptr Avj - - Y 4:s" - 4'- - j Lick Wounds Washington Redskins earned a berth in next Sunday's Super Bowl by beating arch-rivDal7 las Cowboys in the NFC championship game. 31-1- 82-6- On the national front, the Stories on the two games pear on Pages 6 and 7. ap- Alaska Wants Some Respect Alaska, the first state to seriously consider secession since the Civil War, has decided against leaving the union. But after two years of studying its relationship to the rest of the nation, the 49th state has serious complaints about the anti-aborti- federal government and some of the lower 48 states. The Alaska Statehood Com- mission says it just wants some respect respect of a philosophical, economical and legal nature. Story is on Page 21. Rain or Snow Till Monday anti-aborti- Periods of rain or snow through Monday are forecast for the Central Utah area. Expect daytime highs mostly Here's Where to Find It All Phi! Shurtleff Photo Snow Yields 'Chocolate Chip Frosty7 wasn't a dirt to desired Friday's snow these youngsters disappointment for able to butld a despite the small sprinkling of snow. who were snowman The Provo children put together quite a creation, but a sizable portion of their snowman in the upper 30s and lows tonight in the mid 20s. The probability of precipitation is 60 percent today, dropping to 40 percent tonight. 43 Agriculture Amusements Arts Business Classified Ads Comics Crossword was mixed with size. get the After working all morning, Chris Harbart, 5, Mack Relnwand, 4, and some of their friends ended their work with a chocolate chip Frosty. 36-3- 7 18-1- 9 44-5- 1 34 41 37 2,17,21 42 20 National-Internation- al Opinions Prime Time Sports Today 6-25-3- Travel 3 16 5 Utah-Region- Provoan Outlines How to Control the Bureaucracy By JEFF MAPES Herald Washington Bureau ees in the Bureau of Reclamation. "It's fun. I'm really glad we did - What happens to the federal bureaucracy when a WASHINGTON new presidential administration takes over? If you're not careful, says Provo native Jed Christensen, the career government employees run everything by them- selves. "That's when you realize you've got to grab it by the throat," said f who has been doing exactly that in his 18 months as a political appointee in Christensen, high-ranki- the Interior Department. Christensen left his job as Provo finance director to become one of two special assistants to Reclamation Commissioner Robert Broad-benThe three of them are charged with bringing Ronald Reagan's philosophy of government to the 9,000 career employ t. Jed Christensen 37, said of his to move to the decision family's nation's capital. Christensen has spent his career in local and state government. But before he always had been a it," Christensen, professional manager charged with carrying out the policies of elected officials. Now he helps set policy, and in a recent interview he described his new job as a lesson in power: how to get it and what to do with it. "There's two or three essential things you have to do" to seize control of the bureaucracy, Christensen counsels. Above all, know t. the agency's budget And make sure you get involved in all personnel decisions. "Getting your people in key positions is important so you have a long-terimpact on the organi inside-and-ou- zation." Christensen exnlained You also should know what the career people are up to. Christensen said he was appalled to find out several months after the Reagan people came to town that the Bureau of Reclamation's top career officials conducted regular meetings to lay out the year's and they never told the agenda political appointees what they were doing. Christensen said he and Broad-bemoved quickly to assert their control. They demanded approval over the agenda of the meetings and who would attend. And they went to the meetings themselves. "At first, it was heavily resented," Christensen said. But the career officials came to accept it more readily after they realized it was a good chance to learn just what the leadership wanted. As a special assistant, Christen nt sen serves as something of a utility infielder. He helps resolve management problems, visits bureau facilities and tries to keep the flood of paperwork off his boss's desk. He says he's learned how much the little things count. For instance, he showed a reporter a stack of routine correspondence sent out by the agency that Christensen must carefully comb. "These (career) people write policy in letters, and sometimes it takes them five or six times to get it right," Christensen said. This is not to say that Christensen has come to dislike federal workers. Quite the opposite. "We have a warped view of federal bureaucrats," Christensen said, explaining that he has learned most are professionals who do a good job. It's the difficulty of their assign hard-workin- g ments combined with the sheer size of government that often makes the bureaucracy seem un- responsive, Christensen said. It also makes it difficult to turn the bureaucracy in another direction. But of all the government agencies, the Interior Department may be the place where the Reagan revolution has taken the greatest hold. James Watt, probably the most controversial interior secretary in history, is not afraid to make changes. "It's exciting to work for a guy like that because he makes decisions," said Christensen. "You can get things done. He does not shy away from decisions and controversy. He says, 'If it's right, let's go do it.'" also praises Broad-befor having a keen political Continued on Page 2. nt |