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Show Thursday. June Utah-Region- 13. 1985 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, The latest developments in Utah and around the Intermountain West al if - Page 5 1 1 Increased Food Banks on Puts Utah Stress Poverty - SALT LAKE CITY d"PIi The of poor seeking sustenance from emergency food s numbers pan-trie- around the state has risen 54 s a jump percent since 1983 partially blame on cuts in federal aid programs. Agencies providing emergency oiti-cial- are "overwhelmed anu cannot keep up with demand, said L'tahns Against Hunger director Steve Johnson. "We're looking at a symptom ot a system no longer working as it should." Johnson said. L'tahns shouldn t have to go food oat-knee- "Low-incom- e to these agencies to net a sack ol food. "We see a lot ot stones about lahns Against Hunger concerned itselt will federal assistance, such as tood stamps and the Women. Intants and Children supplemental But with further lood program cuts in those programs, the local pantries have become more important right now we see nothing changing in the Unseeable future.' lireg Perry, who directed re- hunger nationally." he said, "but it's hard to see sometimes where Utah fits in It appeals to us that people in I tali are between a rock and a hard place and I search lor the study, said the Inklings indicate an increase in l'tahns living below the poverty level ncluding tiO.lKRl children e Johnson said in past -i- ears. Men May Enter Mine From New Route ORANGEV1LLE. Utah iPPli The effort to recover the bodies of the 27 victims of a coal mine fire has been stymied by dangerous gases and it is probable that a will have to be drilled to complete the effort, a company official said. deep within the Wilberg Mine have roofs and inencountered caved-icreasing levels of dangerous gases from smoldering coal in tunnels called First North that lead to the area where the entombed bodies are located. Bob Henrie of the Emery Mining Co. said Wednesday that crews "1 think it's very, very unlikely they'll be able to advance farther down First North given the inabili new-rout- n ty to deal with the smoldering hot spot problem. " Henrie said Wednesday "1 think we're back in a lime frame to recover the bodies that . i i uses months rather than weeks as a measure." said Henrie. He said the company would meet with federal and state officials today to explore new options tor OGDEN, Utah (AP) An Ogden charged with a misdemeanor count of pumping hazardous wastes into the Weber River, officials say. Chief Deputy Weber County Attorney Dan Hughes filed the Class B misdemeanor charge Wednesday against DYCE Chemical Co., which manufactures and distributes industrial chemicals, and general manager Roger Gilbert. An arraignment is scheduled for June 12 in 3rd District Court here. The maximum penalty is six months in jail and a $299 fine. The charge stems from a sample taken in early May when Vic Ga- - S.L County Adopts Budget SALT LAKE CITY expected crowd of protesting homeowners was absent as the Salt Lake County Commission approved a $269 million budget with a $15 million property tax hike. Little was said Wednesday about the $42 million in revisions that boost the spending plan to $269 million or about the $89.8 million property tax bill. "Like the price of clothes, cheese and convertibles, the cost of county government continues to go Grand Jury Indicts SALT up,"' Commission Chairman Mike Stewart said. "There are increases, but not the dramatic increases there would have been if we weren't operating in an atmosphere of scarcity. "Scarcity has compelled us to seek creative responses." LAKE CITY A (AP) federal grand jury has indicted a veteran of the Internal Service on 48 counts of The (AP) brinas. an investigator with the county attorney's office, found a hose leading i'rom the company into the Weber River. Alter obtaining a search warrant, investigators took a sample of the water for testing by the Utah State Board of Solid and Hazardous Waste, Gabrinas said. Revenue filing false federal income tax returns totaling more than $115,000, U.S. Attorney Brent Ward. Gerald A. Hasz, 47. who worked in the agency's Salt Lake City IRS office, also was indicted Wednes day on one count of mail fraud. Ward said. n SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -World War II vintage planes Hasz was arrested June 4 by IKS agents, suspended from his job pending outcome of the charges, and placed in a hallway house on $50,000 bond following a hearing before U.S. Gould. Magistrate Calvin grasshoppers Salt Lake County who took part in the flood fighting the past years have been given a tour of six projects. flood-contr- The projects were constructed with funds from the $33.5 million bond issue approved by voters 18 months ago. Auditors, attorneys, real estate and officials, contracts other county workers who participated in the flood word climbed on a bus with county commissioners, flood control officials and a few private individuals to take a firsthand look at the projects. projects were undertaken in the unincorporated county and 11 cities in the valley, but Forty-tw- o Shop weekdays "we consider that area to have economic infesta- tion." The program began about a week ago and pilots have on the Delta area and Skull Valley, 26 miles west of Tooele. Spraying will continue for a total of nine days in those areas, or until about 100,000 acres in Delta and 275,-00- 0 acres in Skull Valley are sprayed. Planes are scheduled to or unhatched move to Box Elder County by the weekend to spray about 200,000 acres, then move to a 4 tax-retur- n 100,000-acr- area near e under and conand not readily observable, said Commissioner Bart Barker. The tour started with a series of 11 "drop structures" that slowed the flow of Little Cottonwood Creek by Willow Creek Golf Course, and finished with the reconstructed ponds and reinforced banks of City Creek in Memory Grove. Now Available At: 300 East Center Street 400 to 1400 square feet CALL Saturday 10-- or 375-877- 0 225-460- 2 Closed Sunday 6 Father, Son Die in Accident RIVERDALE, - Utah (AP) Riverdale man and his A son were killed and another son seriously accident on injured in a two-ca- r Riverdale Road near Interstate 84, authorities say. The accident at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday claimed the lives of Quintin R. Hess Jr., 37, and Nathan Andrew Hess, 4, said Riverdale Police Officer Glen Peterson. Another boy, Quinton Hess III, remained in serious but stable condition at e on Wednesday. The driver of the second vehicle, Ricky J. Long. 19, of Clearfield, was in satisfactory condition, a hospital spokesman said. Hess had left the freeway and was turning east on Riverdale Road when his vehicle was broad-sideby Long's westbound vehicle, Peterson said. An investigation is continuing, he said. d Mentally III Jail Inmates Untreated? Been to every restaurant? Seen every III i I movie? Can't dance? How about Ronaldo's? - The DRAPER, Utah (UPI) problem of mentally ill criminals is one of the greatest problems facing the Utah State Prison, where more than half of the troubled prisoners do not get needed help, former warden Ken Shulsen said. I ft I it greatest problem facing Utah State Prison in the next five years is hanother than overcrowding I 1 I '. sandwiches. Pastries and chocolates. And the decor! dling special populations." Shulsen said Wednesday at a conference on mentally ill oftenders. Shulsen, who now is Corrections institutions, director of long-ter- 111 I Ronaldo's Ice Creams of Italy For lunch or dinner. Before the dance. After the movie. Or a treat said the troubled prisoners are targets for abuse in prison. "They support the drug problem of other inmates, they don't have their own TVs although they've probably bought three during the they spend $25 at the comissary each month on cigarettes but haven't had one in months and they're the victims of homosexuality." Shulsen said. late-nig- past year, spjhs!ss mm Mi Ronaldo's Ice Creams of Italy Gelato. Sorbetti. Pasta Salad. Italian soups and "I honestly believe that the . McKay-De- It's new. It's different. It's dynamite r Shulsen said he is an advocate for institutions because the public lias to be protected. For years, the shutmentally ill offender has been menand corrections tled between tal health 'agencies, but the governor's conference at the State Prison was called to forgo a new policy for dealing with those special :,; " "Today, simply incarcerating t people with mental illness and Omental retardation in American ;' t I prisons is wrong. We know it is immoral. We can't turn our backs on them," Shulsen said. The former warden noted lhat at ' the rate the problem is going. "25 percent of the prison population will need inenU'l health help within ' two years and we're not going to accommodate them," he said. x '.' criminals. y V I Q Order by phone: Call toll free 2A hours a day in Salt Lake, M 1 Gunni- son and Nephi. CHOICE PROVO OFFICE SPACE most 10-- 9 remain, eggs and planes are loaded with Sevin-oil. he said. By next week cropdusting crews will switch to malathion, effective against larger, more Ward said at the time that IRS officials at the Ogden Service Center discovered the alleged scheme and referred the case to the agency's District Criminal Investigation Section. gras- shoppers before they can lay eggs," Crowe said. If effective, sprayed areas will be relatively free of grasshoppers for the next five years, he said! All sprayed areas are surveyed to find out how many grasshoppers are left and Crowe said if eight grasshoppers per square yard sprayed nearly 100.000 acres of Utah land infested with billions ol hungry grasshoppers and federal officials say their war on the insects will continue at least another four 'veeks. Tom Crowe, officer in charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and. Plant Inspection Service, said he hopes to spray between 900.000 and 1.1 million acres before the program ends. "Some of the areas we are spraying or that we are going to spray have as many as 100 or more grasshoppers per square yard." he said. "That is unbelievable infestation, believe me." At this point spraying is aimed at young, newly hatched Officials Tour Flood Projects in S.L County are processors asphalt crete officials SALT LAKE CITY (AP) tion," he said. mature grasshoppers. "Our goal is to kill the have Tests revealed the presence of sulphuric acid, menthanol. ethylene glycol, tolueme. hydrofluric acid and caustic soda, said director Dale H. Parker. However, Gilbert said the water being pumped into tiie river had accumulated in a retaining wall around the facility. Agent year saw an increase in I'tah's infant mortality rate for the first time in a number of years. "That's a tragic, tragic situanext War on 'Hoppers Begins in Desert recovering the victims ot the Dec. H. 1984. disaster. Henrie said the crews had advanced to within about 1.000 leet ot eight bodies but were halted by caved-iroots Coal smoldering in two adjacent tunnels created increasing leels ol eai boo monoxide and methane gas seeping into the recovery tunnels, making further exploration dangerous, he said. Ch emical Company Accused of Spilling Waste - chemical company has been In 1981, WIC funds ran out and only a third of the normal caseload received chec ks. Johnson said. 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