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Show JL Also in this section: ocal Obituaries B2 Opinions B4 Comic BG OCH Wednesday worrs on product project By SHARON MORREY Herald Staff Writer : ' Ever wonder how a product recall is initiated? Have a gripe about a particular product that seems poorly made and is apparently dangerous? Orem Community Hospital is finding out just how it's done and who to tell. Currently involved in an endeavor that helps identify unsafe products through use of emergency OCH Commission (CPSC). As one of 69 hospitals in the nation selected by the CPSC, OCH is sifting through its emergency room records and participating in sending coded information through to Washington. Products then that consistently show up on hospital records as related to death or injury are recalled or modified in design. As . Kr V- ft Vt ' A i .) l '''fJ , i 7 V I - t I ; , - ' ' f f I Wrt-- r " i patterns emerge, manu- advised to change their product to meet safety standards or pull the offending item off the market completely. Orem has been collecting e data for CPSC since and is finding that while nationally 20 percent of the ER mid-Jun- injuries are product-relatelocally 50 percent are d, product-r- elated. ER Director Larry Layne said that is probably because .more than half of the 12,000 ER admissions each year are under 12 years of age. ; "We have a young community with a young population," he explained. "We have a lot of young children learning, experimenting, playing with toys and such." Through record scanning of hospitals, the CPSC alerted the public to the dangers of and cribs with widely spaced slats. three-wheele- rs Trampolines, skateboards and bicycles are currently 'ranking high on the list of products related to frequent injury, said Layne. how recalls get ; "That's : started. That's how they happen," noted Darin Cowley, OCH Public Relations. Cowley said it is a compliment to Orem to be selected for the CPSC survey, reflect- - Herald Photo Lane tntser Debbie Wilson, R.N., treats Lori Layne in the OCH emergency room. ing on how the hospital keeps nationally," he explained. gathering on any accident is its records and charts patient "But what we find can be doing its little bit to prevent histories. used to alert the community more such accidents." to also Orem To request irv'ormation or to potential hazards immediqualified because it is a small hospital with 20 ately." injureport a product-relate- d beds with a high volume of "We're always happy to see ry or hazardous product, emergency room admissions for its size. "Our sample size is a small part of 200,000 cases reviewed them take an unsafe product off the market," added Layne. "The information write to U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington D.C., 20207 or call we're Provo approves bonds for court building By ROSANN FILLMORE Herald Staff Writer Provo is one step closer to a new building to house 4th District and Circuit Courts. The Provo Municipal Building Authority and municipal council approved a resolution to issue $6 million in lease revenue bonds for the construction of a courts facility at 100 W. and 100 N. on the Ashton block. The bond sale is scheduled for Aug. and the city, then a sublease from the city to the state. The state has agreed to pay for all maintenance costs. The city 8. will retain ownership of a porCouncil members acted first tion of the block for possible as the building authority and construction of a parking gathen as municipal council, to rage. The two entities also apapprove a lease agreement between the building authority proved Boyer Company as the developer for the project. liminary plans have Pre- been drawn for a building. It is anticipated the building will accomodate growth for 15 to 20 years. four-stor- y, 50,000-square-fo- ot The city will also rent space in the building to house city courts. Hafen to discuss constitutional law in East Germany prepare States Information Brigham Young University Provost Bruce C. Hafen will explain American constitutional law to judges, lawyers and law students in East Germany Aug. 14-1- 7. Sponsored the United by Agency (USIA), Hafen will introduce East German judges in their own language to the American legal system. The judges will visit the U.S. in the fall. The USIA post in East Berlin draw, while a larger grocery store, while meeting size requirements, would not be considered regional retail. Under the zone ordinance, de- velopers must convince the council they are regional retail and provide a market study to prove their point. Access to the development cannot be closer to a residential lot than 200 feet and must meet a series of standards to qualify as approved access. Unfinished existing roads within a development area must be completed to provide additional access to residential areas nearby. Setbacks were approved using a rough 30 percent angle calcuif the building is 30 lation feet high a setback would be required, for a outline specific requirements building the setback would need for development of large par- to be 50 feet up to a maximum of 48 feet in building cels for regional shopping. Residents fear the PC-- 3 opens height for 80 feet of setback. Deliveries to businesses in a the way for large-scal- e development over the objections and regional shopping center could only occur between 7 a.m. and rights of neighborhoods. 10 p.m. and not during the City planners have defended night-tim- e hours. PC-3 the zone, saying it actualmore offers Garbage pickup could not bely protection through stricter regulation of gin before 7 a.m. Boyer Company representadevelopers. As the PC-- 3 passed Tuesday tive Lou Swain said the ban on evening, a regional shopping night delivery could be a probcenter was defined by the cus- lem for grocery store chains tomers it could draw and not but workable. Each development proposal necessarily by size. A regional shopping center would need to come up for development must be on a public hearing. three-acr- e minimum parcel City Attorney Paul Johnson which has access to the free- reminded the council that pubway, is situated along a major lic outcry could not be used as corridor, and draws customers valid reason for denial of a from outside the city area as project. well as those inside the city. However, the council individAn attempt to select anchor ually and as a whole, insisted stores by square footage size that the public hearing option was discarded since a business be included in the zone criteria. smaller than 100,000 square feet By unanimous vote, PC-- 3 was in size could still be a regional approved. facturers are invited in and ' pave way for shopping centers will Herald Staff Writer Following a reminder from the mayor that Orem needs shopping centers to help pay the bills, the Orem City Council voted Tuesday to approve the new PC-- 3 zone designed esfor pecially regional shopping type development areas. Mayor S. Blaine Willes admonished those in the audience upset over the price of development to realize that residences do not pay their own way. "Commercial development is clearly a way to help pay for services. Economically we need the shopping centers," Willes said. It's taken the council two lengthy sessions and weeks of discussion to approve the third commercial zone, designed to room records, product fu- ifm New Orem zone By SHARON MORREY is shaping tures in America. When a child is injured locally playing with a toy or a patient is brought in to OCH hurt by anything manufactured, the information is recorded and transmitted to the Consumer Product Safety l. July lectures asked Hafen to on three topics: the constitutional right of privacy, the U.S. BYU's law school from 1985 to 60 1989, has written more than scholarly papers and publicaSupreme Court and racial tions on family law, constituequality, and the growth of tional law and education law, individual rights concepts. including publications in Harof who was dean Hafen, vard Law Review. 40-fo- ot 35-fo- ot County commission will seek bids for public defender job By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Herald Staff Writer Utah County Commissioners voted Wednesday to call for bids from legal firms to serve as public defenders. Firms have 30 days to respond, and the commission has the right to reject any or all bids. Commissioner Malcolm Beck said Monday in discussion about the matter that the county may have to go "in house" for public defender service because of the cost. If that happens, the county will need to hire additional attorneys, he said. For several years the firm n Aldrich, Nelson, Weight and has been the public defender. This year, however, officials from the firm notified the commission they would not continue their services unless the contract price was doubled. The reason they gave was increased demand for services from criminals unable to pay for their own defense. Es-pli- In other business, the commissioners continued a vote on an lease agreement from the Utah Division of Facilities Construction and Management for lease of the Utah County Courthouse. Monday, the commissioners instructed Deputy Utah County Attorney Jeril Wilson to return the contract and notify the division that the furnishing of security for the courts by Utah County should be a separate contract and not part of the lease agreement. The Utah County Sheriff's Department furnishes bailiffs for the four courts currently housed in the courthouse. Plans are under way for construction of a new court building to house the district and circuit courts, and when that building is finished, the district courts will move out of the courthouse. The state currently leases square feet of floor space in the courthouse, which leaves parts of the building empty. 15,-0- off road, window smashed vehicle Truck forces one - Two young ASSAULT women were driving west of Highland Tuesday afternoon, when their vehicle was forced off the road. Katherin Healy, 22, and Ty-lea- n were Ann McTurk, 1979 a Plymouth Champ driving drive when a red, Chevrolet Silverado, jacked up 21, four-whe- el with chrome running boards and a chrome roll bar with KC off the lights, forced the women 2. road at 5299 W. Highway There were two males and two females in the truck. The males smashed in the rear window of the women's car, before and they were able to get away phone the police. 67 TIk.i ft fdony theft said Brad Leatham, Provo Po731 E. Center, Provo at occured lice other "In Department. juveniles were states kids have lost fingers Tuesday. A Snapper lawnmow-e- r caught and arrested for driving and a Snapper edger were and become severely injured." a stolen car and committ' 1 taken. informaIf has anyone any auto burglaries and business A tool box was stolen out of such incidents happening over tion as to who is making these burglaries. back of a truck located at the the past month. Two suspects bombs or to who is blowing up Two of those church burglaTuesday at 10 p.m. an Orem 700 N. 1000 West, Orem, and contact these were seen running from the mailboxes, please police officer reportedly was ries occured in Orem, where scene of the crime this worth of tools were taken. $250 Provo police. morning forced to hit his brakes when a microphones and a keyboard A cabin in BURGLARIES A INDECENT EXPOSURE box. mail the car with California license were recently taken. The juve- carrying Hobble Creek Canyon was burAccording to Capt. George man riding a black motorcycle plates suddenly pulled in front niles will be charged in Utah cabin is located The vicof himself in glarized. front Pierpont of the Provo Police exposed of him. for driving a stolen car, burglaMountain at the afternoon. Shiny tims Family Tuesday Department, "These kids are Resort five miles up the left ry and auto burglary. The officer called in the liin incident The occurred not using just anymore, cense plates number and found They will then be released to they are making their own American Fork Canyon near fork of Hobble Creek Canyon. tt A microwave, a geCave area. that the car was stolen. The California police to be charged bombs, such as dry ice bombs the Timpanogos two juveniles were apprehendThe rider of the motorcycle nerator, and hand tools valued with auto theft, burglary, and and pipe bombs." ed. auto burglary. The juveniles was wearing a black helmet, at $965 were taken. A car stereo worth $250 was "I don't think these kids and black shorts with lime Also in the car were other have been taken to a youth know how dangerous these green strips down the sides of stolen from the vicinity of 665 articles that had been reported home to await California homemade bombs really are," the shorts. N. 500 East, Provo. stolen. SUSPECTS CAUGHT Two Upon further investigation and talking with the boys, the suspects admitted to several auto burglaries as well as three church burglaries in California and Utah. The lastest VANDALISM in a rash of blown up mail boxes occurred this morning on Stadium Avenue in Provo. This is a felony crime with 10 1 - M-8- 0s 1,500-wa- |