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Show rn nwi sawu it? - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Navy has fired salvos at General Dynamics Corp. for alleged unethical business conduct and at a admiral for his admitted acceptance of gifts from the giant defense contractor. The Navy Tuesday pushed up to $1 billion in new contracts with General Dynamics Corp. into the deep freeze until the firm adopts a "rigorous code of ethics" for the way it does business with the govy ernment. Navy Secretary John Lehman, in his charge against the giant defense contractor Tuesday, also unleashed an unprecedented broadside against one of the Navy's most distinguished officers retired Adm. Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear fleet, Lehman sent a letter of censure to Rickover Tuesday for accepting $67,628 in gilts from General Dynamics betweeN 1961 and 1977. For the firm's giving gratuities at Rickover's own "instigation," Lehman canceled two minor $22.5 million contracts with two General Dynamics divisions and fined the firm $676,280 the maximum permissible. Rickover's acceptance of the gifts was "clearly unethical and possibly illegal" and marked a "fall from grace" in an otherwise distinguished career, Lehman said, The crusty Rickover, 84, who retired in 1982, responded, "My conscience is clear. 1 have always acted in the best interest of the Navy and my country during my 64 years of military service. No gratuity or favor ever affected any ad decision I made." In announcing the actions Tuesday, Lehman sy id "What we find is a pervasive corporate attitude that we lind inappropriate to the - 'W Lewis, Two members of Congress who led probes into General Dynamics' business conduct promptly criticized Lehman's action. spector General Joseph Sherick that effectively would have ousted three top General Dynamics officials by barring th em from further dealings with the Pentagon. Such punishment would be inappropriate. Lehman said, and the li "The Navy, in essence, has passed the buck to the Justice Department," said Sen. William Prop-mirof Wisconsin, ranking Demo- PROVO, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, MAY $6.00 A MONTH 22, 1985 Herald Staff Writer A new set of rules governing development in Provo City's hillside area was unanimously approved by the municipal council last night. Development of land which harbors known or suspected geologic hazards will be more strictly controlled by the new ordinance. City officials have been concerned for some time about the development of certain areas in town that are plagued with geologic problems. Such potentially hazardous problems as earthquakes, land slides, high water tables, erosion, unstable land, and other geologic concerns have kept the city searching for a way to protect both the developer and buyer. Provo's new "Unstable Lands Ordinance" lists several devices geared to do just that. To insure proper hillside development, and to be sure that any geologic hazards at the site are mitigated before development begins, the ordinance requires a certified letter or report from a qualified geologist or geotechnical engineer. making that requirement, Provo officials are placing the liability and expense of evaluating the land's potential geologic hazards or developer. The city is also making sure developments don't take place on land that presents an unreasonable risk because of geologic hazards. The ordinance also contains a provision making it unlawful for anyone to knowingly sell property without telling the buyer of any geologic hazards connected with the site. Civil and criminal fraud charges could be brought against someone who doesn't comply with that section of the ordinance. Members of the city council wholeheartedly agreed that the ordinance is long overdue. "We've studied this as well as we've studied anything," said Gary Golightly. "We've come up with a very liberal ordinance. It does what we've intended to do for a long time. It mitigates the geologic hazards upfront." The council also adopted the ordinance with the provision that a private party may develop land having a slope greater than 25 percent. The old ordinance prohibi-tie- d such development. If a developer wants to develop a piece of land with a slope greater than 25 percent, a certified report stating the geologic hazards and how to mitigate them must be included with his request. By ..it mii ' 'f - By NANCY BRINGHURST Herald Staff Writer Unhappy with their membership in the Utah Municipal Power Association, the mayors of both Payson and Springville said Monday at a special UMPA board meeting that they will withdraw from the organization. "We went to the meeting hoping to find a way to stay on in UMPA," Springville Mayor Brent Haymond said today. "But it was pretty obvious that we weren't welcome if we didn't want to buy into the Bonanza project." UMPA was created so members could pool power resources; have the leverage to buy power at lower rates; and then purchase the power they need from the organization, said UMPA's chairman, Provo Mayor James E. Ferguson. UMPA members include Provo, Spanish Fork, Salem, Nephi, Man-ti- , Levan, Payson and Springville. When UMPA was first formed, member cities invested in a study on future power needs and in certain water purchases. The original agreement between t I. races' members of UMPA was that all the profits from power sales would be applied to retire that debt, said Ferguson. Monday, UMPA board members refused to allow the two disgruntled members to reap the benefits of the organization's power pool if they didn't also invest in the Bonanza power plant near Vernal. Haymond said his city can save itself $1 million by purchasing power from existing power sources than if it commits to a future with Bonanza. "The economics of this decision for us is very clear," said Hay- I if . (See UMPA, Page "It By J.J. JACKSON Herald Staff Writer 1.000 Mona. - NEPHI Nephi City Council voted unanimously to conTuesday duct a public hearing on allowing a d correction facility to be built in or near the community. However, the question may be moot since the Juab County earlier voted against the facility. Don Blancnard, regional administrator 'of Region VI of the state Division of Corrections, said a concurrent agreement is needed before the facility can be built. Monday about 75 members of a "Concerned Citizens Committee," which opposes construction of the facility, testified against the proCorn-Missio- n 1 city-count- y county commission meeting. Lael Jordan, Robert Garrett and the group, called on the commission to vole against the facility without first conducting a public hearing. They presented a petition containing the signatures of more than :f t . West. Boneyard. The area south of the parking residential units characterized as "a complex of buildings which will have its own identity ... an artists' community." Steve Olsen Photo is not possible to develop a property up there at an Sundance, hoping to use 12 percent road grades in its expansion plans, won a recommendation Tuesday for streets as steep as 15 percent. The recommendation was from the Utah County Planning Commission. The ordinance change must receive approval from the Utah County Commission. The county's ordinance limits most streets to 8 percent, but allows for qualifying short sections of no more than 500 feet to be up to 10 percent. percent standard," Dave 8 Thur-goo- d, a Sundance consultant, told the planning commission. The planning commission recommended the 10 percent limit be raised to 15 percent and be allowed in stretches of up to 1,000 feet. The new standard will would still not allow new roads at Sundance to be as steep as are some heavily-useroads in some urban settings in the county. , "I live in east Provo and I think the grade in my area is about 19 percent," noted Roger Huber, a member of the planning commission. Huber was referring to Quail Valley Drive. d There are roads at Sundance which are above the 15 percent standard. Roads which were approved when other standards were in use are allowed to remain at the higher standards. Although winning planning commission recommendation, the proposed ordinance faces several concerns expressed by deputy county attorney Lynn Davis. Davis noted the effect of the new ordinance on county liability in accidents must be studied. Also, Davis noted the language of the proposed ordinance needs to be reviewed by county engineer Clyde Naylor. 3) Will Face Possible Nick Alan Clatterbuck, facing a capital homicide charge as a certified adult, was Juab County Correspondent JACKSON Resort Road Situation Is Uphill Battle Herald Staff Writer By MYRNA TRAUNTVEIN 4 - Some construction has already taken place at Sundance. mond. "The issue now comes down to what kind of an equitable solution we can reach with UMPA in relation to the contribution we've made in the organization." Payson Mayor Gary Tassainer also opposes buying into Bonanza, a project the other six UMPA members solidly support. Negotiations to let the two cities withdraw from UMPA will begin within the week, said Ferguson. "We are going to review their J.J. lot will become home for 80 By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Ijrry CENTS 60-8- 0 IT Clatterbuck Asks Council Nephi I Prison Issue Hearing of 25 A store and 160 residential units at Sundance were announced Tuesday as developers sought preliminary master plan approval for expansion plans. They had previously said they would build residential units at Mandan and more housing in the Boneyard area. Tuesday, they set the number at 80 units at Mandan and 80 for the Boneyard. While preliminary master planning of the area won planning commission approval, it was not before objections were registered from some Sundance neighbors. The objecting neighbors brought along attorney Dallas Young who warned that proposed road specification changes aren't legal, Sundance wants a different access to cabins and homes behind its development. The neighbors now go through the Sundance parking lot. Sundance wants to swing traffic northward away from the Sundance development. Young, however, argued that the neighbors have acquired rights to the developed accesses. Sundance officials responded that documents say "a right of access" rmjst be provided. But they say the documents don't spell out the location of the access. Sundance officials also said 98 percent of the 300 residents behind Sundance are agreeable to the new traffic patterns. Sundance officials said that lot was absorbed to make it buildable. Sundance said the construction would take place in five phases with the last three to five years from completion. The expansion calls for five areas of development: The Base area. "A very small store," a service building, a pavilion, a screening room, a conference hall and a new fire hall. Mountain improvements. A new chair lift adding about 140 acres to skiing acreage. The Amphitheater. The amphitheater would receive additional seating. Mandan. Mandan East would have 50 residential units, each about 840 square-fee- t. Another 30 units would be built at Mandan Pull From UMPA Harmon, leaders - PRICE Herald Staff Writer Two Cities Will a II on the head of the landowner By NANCY BRINGHURST posal at u 7 J. sv - nor ss& y$Jmthie e crat on the Joint Economic yvdiiMr w Committee, "Even if Justice decided eventually to prosecute, the Navy is giving the fox a long time to romp around the chicken coop." Rep. John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, also condemned Lehman's move. "I think General Dynamics is probably chuckling and they are convinced that they now have a wholly owned subsidiary in the form of the Department of the Navy and the Treasury of the United States," Dingell said. ed" when the Justice Department completes an investigation into allegations against the three men. One is company Chairman David public trust," At the same time, he ignored a recommendation by Pentagon In- fer- -i- tl. y 'm hi at Navy will take action "if warrant- . 111TH YEAR, NO. 251 By 0 citizens from Nephi and Tuesday the city council acceptsame petition following its decision to conduct the public heared the ing. Monday's commission meeting, nine residents spoke amid applause from members of the concerned citizens group. "With this overwhelming mandate from our people, we respectfully request our elected officials to reject this issue of a prison in the area, once and tor all time," Jordan said. At ordered bound over to Fourth District Court for arraignment on the charges that could bring the death penalty. Clatterbuck, 16, faces that arraignment Friday. During a Tuesday preliminary court hearing in Eighth Circuit Court in Spanish Fork, the teenager sat quietly listening to witnesses testify of the Feb. 28, 1984 murder of his foster parents, Gordon Kent Burke, 42, and Suzanne L. a murder he is accused of Burke, 37 committing. Harmon said he believes Juab County is "too small to accept the el feels of the outcasts." Despite the county commission action, the Nephi City Council scheduled a public hearing June 5 at 7; 30 p.m. A place lor the meeting will be announced later. Utah Countv Sheriff's deputy Alex Hunt testified that after being captured Clatterbuck waived his right to silence and confessed to the murders. Clatterbuck's attorney Michael Esplin told of the press after the hearing he is filing a motion to supress the confession and said that among his defense options is a plea of diminshed mental capacity. Hunt said Clatterbuck told him he shot Mr. Burke because he was angry over being pres- members sured into doing his chores around the Burke's small Genola farm. Hunt said the youth spoke of spotting a rifle in the kitchen. According to Hunt, the vouth told him ha first shot his foster father and then tnrnpH th gun on his foster mother over an hour later when she returned to the trailerhouse. Hunt said the youth said he didn't like the woman's attitude, and indicated that shots were fired after they argued. Other witnesses said that Mr. Burke was lying in bed with about five gunshot wounds to the head and about 10 wounds in the found body. They said Mrs. Burke had been shot about six times in the face and head. They testified that she had a cross carved in her thigh and another knife wound in the lower abdomen. Wednesday: n Jordan said Juab County is being asked to accommodate prisoners from Utah County, which has 250,-00- 0 people. The facility would house prisoners from Juab, Millard. Wasatch and Utah counties. Death Penalty Pitcher 'Enters Heaven' Rick Reuschel went from paradise to heav- en in two days. Called up from the minors on Monday, Reuschel resumed his big league career Tuesday night by pitching the Pittsburgh Pirates to a victory over the Houston Astros. See baseball roundup on Page 6. 3--2 Neighbors Help Others What does it take to be a good neighbor',' In the bigger cities, neighborhood alert systems are helping to cut crime. Whether a neighborhood includes one floor in an apartment building or an entire tiny rural community, neighbors can do a lot for one another. For story see Page 14 of the Today Section. Fair and Warmer Ahead Fair to partly cloudy skies are forecast by the National Weather Bureau for Central Utah tonight and Thursday. There is little chance of precipitation. Temperatures will be warmer, in the low 80s Thursday and between 45 and 50 degrees overnight. 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