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Show The Herald, D3 Utah Thursday, February KS. H)M DailV i'rovo. 1'iah House OKs aiiowin a leiecommuiiiudiiuus uereuuiauuii - SALT LAKE CITY IAP) The Utah House has given final approval to a measure empowering the Utah Public Service Commission to regulation "if in the public's best interest." House skeptics were disturbed with a section of SB115 that allows deregulate competitive telecom- companies and their customers to munications services. share earnings above a specified Endorsed bv commission mem- level. bers, Senate Bill 115 also permits They fear telecommunications any utility to re- companies will unduly raise cusquest alternative rate structures, tomer rates and then invest their which could include profit sharing share of the profits in other states. with consumers. Rep. Franklin Knowlton, tried to amend the bill so that Representatives adopted the proall excess earnings would be used posal Wednesday by a 5 vote. House Majority Leader H. Craig for "public purposes," but the said the bill did amendment failed. Moody, US WEST lobbied for the bill, nothing to undermine the authority PSC commissioners have always and, along with its six sister regionheld over monopolistic utilities. al Bell companies, has been lobby"The Public Service Commission ing with Congress to change the 1984 settlement of the long antitrust has the control now and will continue to have control," he said. case against the Bell System. That agreement known as the Proponents said the bill will spur "effective competition" among tele- Modified Final Judgment must be changed, telephone officials say. communications companies, including in such areas as cellular teleReports in industrv trade magazines say US WEST and its six phones and business-offic- e systems. Moody said that 18 states had sister regional Bell companies each laws allowing flexibility in rate contributed nearly $3 million to that 54-1- saves day as citizen foils police chase by mistakenly tackling cop state-of-the-- d: - A (AP) chase that began with a prostitution decoy operation, left four people injured and involved a citizen mistakenly tackling an officer ended when a sheriff's dog latched onto the suspect hiding underneath a car. Shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday, vice officers attempted to pull over a man for allegedly soliciting sex from a police agent, but he sped away, leading the two detectives at speeds exceeding 65 mph. At one point two wheels on the silver Ford Mustang left the pavement "and it came down on the curb, tearing out the gas tank" and stopping the car, said Lt. Tom LAKE CITY Brown. Having restarted the leaking car, the man sped away several blocks further east with the officers again behind him. The officers' vehicle collided with a southbound Plymouth Horizon carrying five people. Several yards away, the suspect vehicle had stalled again and the man was running away. One officer, Joel Evans, was unable to pursue the suspect because of a leg injury sustained in the accident. The driver of the Horizon, Lisa Juarez, Kearns, suffered head and chest injuries when she was thrown into the dashboard. The other officer, Dan Holmes, began chasing the suspect, but was mistaken by one of the passengers in the Horizon for the suspect. "Us and the cop were chasing the guy and my cousin tackled the cop instead," said Jesse Aguire. Holmes was thrown into a fence and was treated at Holy Cross Hospital for a rib injury and was released. The suspect was lost after Holmes was "taken out of the chase," said Brown. "He ran to the next block and then he turned right. From there I don't know," said Aguire. Patrol cars set up a perimeter in a area around the scene and Salt Lake County canine teams began canvassing the area. Deputy Kris Ownby and Corporal Wayne Dial discovered tracks in the snow showing someone had jumped a fence. With Ownby's dog, Adonis, the men followed the tracks and about 9:45 p.m., the dog found the man hiding beneath a car in an adjacent garage. The man was trying to slip away from under the front of the car when the dog caught him by the shoulder. Five hurt in avalanche iAP) - Five skiers suffered minor SALT LAKE CITY in- helicopter juries after beinu caught in a Miouslide in Big Cottonwood Canyon. The five were flown to Snowbird of them Inter went to dinic and Cottonwood Hospital for stitches. Grec Smith, a guide with Wasatch iVAdnbird Guides, which pro- :n vides helicopter ski trips from Snowbird and Park City, said the slide was 4'j led deep in places and about loi) feet wide. Four skiers were partially buried In the avalanche, and one was with his head buried compieteh Guides using about four I'eet radio transciuTs located him almost i!iiii)edi;U'h and dug him from the MVW . Smith said. The slide wa apparently triga skier from another gered nearb helicopter ski group. The skier fell, starting a small slide on a slope above him. The slide gathered strength and volume as i! moved downward and was q'i;t large when it readied the timber, where the people who were injured had stopped Moments before the slide occurred, one of the lea guides dug a mii.w pit to lost the now Mn n. 'l: and asi i i.red tl.e s;,.p,. to Smith s.i)d. H w.v tita'.i!u tn however, started w. ,1 dn. hearing deficiencies can have their hearing prescription programmed into their phone fnWfii llrWnlt,,irfit? . 1 u jiW On aooroved Radio Shack ValucPlus1 Credit Account puichases ot $100 ot more. Interest accrues as ot May. 1990. 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A SALT LAKE CITY (AP) coalition of St. George residents asked Attorney General Paul Van Dam to investigate high gasoline prices in the southern Utah city, only to learn an informal probe was launched a year ago. Attorney Matt Hilton met with Van Dam in the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday and presented him with a petition signed by about 6,000 Washington County residents who contend they pay far more for gas in St. George than nearby cities. Hilton, speaking on behalf of a group calling itself STOP, said unleaded gas had sold at St. George service stations for up to $1.18 a gallon, or more than 15 cents more than elsewhere. Hilton, of St. George, stopped short rf alleging price fixing by gas retailers whose customers include travelers on Interstate 15 as well as local residents. "We're trying very hard not to sophisticated new services." It is feasible, he said, for a company such as US WEST to provide these services because of its extensive local telephone network that blankets the state. lie gave the example of what US America's Dog SALT feasible for other companies to serve rural America with these edge" of the boom in telecommunications technology. Nelson said. comHe said many panies in the telecommunications marketplace are opposed to former Bell System companies being allowed to compete. If these companies have their way, he said, it would take many years before highly sophisticated telecommunications services could be extended into rural areas. "This would hurt a state such as Utah," he said. "It's simply not utility regulators to relax competitive standards for local phone companies. US WEST executive Kirk Nelson said the combination of restrictive local regulation and restrictions under the current MFJ prevents the seven companies from developing telecommunications technology in the United States. 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