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Show CP Gunman who robbed Orem's Valley Bank eluding authorities Tooele plant's emissions of toxic pollutants rises Poindexter battle 1.00 Issue No. 173, Provo, Utah Central Utah's Newspaper for 115 Years Sunday, February 18, ,1990 Provo golfer leads PGA event Bush will avoid Soviets sa y 'nyet to united Germany being in NA1 - WEST BERLIN i AP) The Soviet Union will block the reunification of Germany if the West insists on NATO membership for the combined states, a top adviser to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Saturday. Also Saturday, two West German publications said Chancellor Helmut h Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietric- Genscher made conces- to Moscow to win Kremlin support for reunification last week. The Bonn government denied the reports, which said the West German leaders agreed to seek immediate legal recognition of Poland's Western border by a united Germa sions ny and promised that East Germany would continue to supply the food and Soviets with much-neede- d farm equipment. In an attempt to calm Soviet fears about security, Genscher Saturday ruled out basing NATO troops on what is now East German soil. "The West is agreed that with a unification of Germany, there will not be anv eastward extension of NATO," Genscher told the Kundfunk radio station. His comments conflicted to some extent with those of West German Defense Minister Gerhard Stolten-(Se- e SOVIETS, Page A2) West-deutsc- Timp Mental Health will cut 1 4 workers Bv JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Herald Photo IJrian Trcgaskis Arlene Combs, in pink behind the table, explains Friday how to east ballots in the UEA's strike vote at Timpview High School. Teachers' union rebuffs lawmakers By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer A teacher strike is still not being ruled out by the majority of Utah teachers. Utah Education Association board members Saturday apparently rejected a highly-praise- d education package hammered out by the Utah legislature on Friday. They instructed UEA lobbyists to continue negotiating for a better offer. Utah lawmakers are expected ot legislate until Wednesday. The new and improved compensation package that increased retirement and had options for reducing classroom size, as well as more money for textbooks and technology was praised by the PTA, the state's 40 superintendents and the state school board. State School Board President Related story, See Page A2 Moss said the offer represented tht best effort for education ever to come out of the James legislature. When announced by Gov. Norm Bangerter at noon Friday, the education offer was accepted by the smaller Utah American Federation of Teacher's union. And UEA President Jim Campbell said it represented tremendous movement from earlier offers lliis legislative session. He said he would reccommend it for approval to the board on Saturday. But for undisclosed reasons, the board was unconvinced. "The board declines to discuss the matter at length during these negotiations because of the possibility for misunderstanding that could impair the delicate negotiations process," read part of a brief press announcment Saturday. It there is a strike, the UEA is not saying when it would be. They do say that educators will rally at the Capitol rotunda Monday, a school holiday. On Friday UEA teachers voted to authorize the board to call a strike. Votes were reported Friday, and according to Phyllis Soren-sepresident of the Alpine Education Association, 75 percent of the teachers were in favor of authorizing the board to strike. On Friday, American Federation of Teachers President Ken Zenger said teachers in his union n, would accept the latest offer and would begin focusing on next year. "We are looking forward to an equal package for next year," he said. Many school districts and boards of education that employ and pay teachers have been supporting a packate that would give more money to teachers and education in general. And some even adopted declarations of support. At its last board meeting, the Alpine School District stated that everyone responsible for educating children needs the tools and resources necessary. "The Alpine School District Board of Education calls upon the state's policy makers to make education its number one priority and legislate improved funding for education in the State of (See TEACHERS, Page A2) residents urged to boycott taxes until it becomes 51st state D.C. - Lifestyle: non-votin- ac Academy tor Charlton Heston will be in Orem to support the proposed SCERA Arts Center. See Page Award-winnin- g CI. Accent: "Sheer Numbers" is the key word to the problems facing the Spanish Fork Intermediate School. See Page Fl. The World: Communist Cuba's hard-lin- e Partv called its fourth party congress to meet next year and may consider economic and A6. political reforms. See Page Find it Arts Entertainment Business Classified Ads Comics D1-D- 8 F11-F1- 2 E4-E1- 6 Jj K Crossword Ix-ga- l E4 Notices Lifcstjle Movies National Obituaries Opinions... SUite Region Sports Weather WASHINGTON (AP) Walter E. g Fauntroy, the capital's to a and prospecCongress delegate tive candidate to succeed embattled Mayor Marion Barry, has again asked his fellow residents to withhold payment of their federal income taxes until the city is granted statehood. Fauntroy, whose statehood bill lies virtually dormant in Congress, has promoted the tax disobedience strategy for weeks without much notice. Fauntrov and other statehood ad H-C- 6 A3 A4 F4 A5 H1H3 M two "shadow" senators and a "shadow" congressman to lobby for statehood, though Fauntroy already effectively has that job in the House. Congress in 1978 did pass a constitutional amendment which, if ratified, would have granted statehood to the city. But only Hi states approved the amendment before the ratification period expired. Approval from 38 states is required. Fauntroy likened his tax protest to the civil disobedience of the civil rights movement. full-tim- er full-tim- tracts. "We must face the reality of less money and having to reduce the budget. This is difficult for the director and the staff. There will be needs that go unmet," he said. He said the center can cover the deficit for now, but he expects the adjustments in budget will bring the center's finances into balance over the next year. "Within 18 months the center will have cash revenues equal to at least 45 days of Derating expenses (not to include any. restitution accounts held for past liabilities," he said. The board approved a list of budget reduction principles, includ- - Sandberg probe may prove to be silver lining Herald Managing Editor f77i;5 is the first of ihrvoto-riv- s Uiking a cfase look at nine changes in L'tuh County government recutwnended by the county attorney last week after a detailed review of how the county handled Conmus-- s cner Sid Sandberg 's firing of his confidential secretary; i secretary shows signs now of producing something of a silver lining for Utah County voters and taxpay- ers. Killpack's report proclaims all county actions in the Sandberg case to have been legal. At the same tune, it recommends a series of changes that would produce county procedures that "better cnfonii with the requirements of itate law." Within those four areas the county attorney recomjnend'd nine specific changes '.see Monday Herald'. A improvement of Utah County government procedures seemed in the making Friday, two days after commissioners accepted County Attorney Steve Ki'lpack's report on the Sid Sandberg scandal. The cloud of controversy that crew out of Sandlx rg's firing of .:s Kilipack and his staff found four general areas in which the county could improve its compliance with state laws. The four areas were as follows: Closed commission meetings. Duties of the commi ..mop. clerk. Minutes of commission im flints, and Changes in chcik issuance !'!.. chaired the county commission at the time of the actions reviewed by Kilipack. He alo is the man who ordered the Kilipack report. He t'lld The Daily Herald on Thursday that he had no objections to any of the recommendations and said he expects them t" be adopted over the next cuuple of weeks. The fired secretary, Jalayne Warner, mother of a baby girl born two months after she was fired, told The Daily Herald on Friday that she would ldf to go bark to work for the counts if the opportunity aroM. "I worked f'.r the celiac, Mil ;ind By EARL BIEDERMAN wide-rangin- g D2-D- 3 vocates have tried several gambits recently to revive interest in the statehood issue, even as the city's image is bogged in municipal scandal, a monumental drug problem and the highest murder rate in the nation. One idea has been to post signs at the city's borders which read: "Welcome to the Nation's Iast Colony. All residents must leave their rights at the border. D.C. Statehood Now." Another, in Barry's last proposed city budget, calls for the election of Herald Staff Writer Timpanogos Mental Health Center e will cut 12 positions and two part-tim- e positions immediately as the result of a $528,251.78 budget deficit, the center board agreed Friday. Jerry Syme, budget officer, presented the budget report along with a recommended budget for the coming year. Syme said a reduction in staff and cuts in other center operations should give the center a deficit of $303,900 in the coming year. He anticipates, however, that the gap between revenues and expenditures will level out so that the center ends the coming year with a slight balance. The center has already lost 11 staff members through attrition and will reduce the staff by e and two part-tim- e the 12 positions, according to Floyd Clark, human resource manager. Several mental health workers of various work grades will be cut as well as a vocational training supervisor, a licensed practical nurse and a receptionist. Additionally, a licensed practical nurse employed 10 percent of the time with the center and a mental health worker hired for 40 percent employment will be cut. Director Don Muller said the center anticipates a $1 million reduction in revenues during the mining year, primarily in the area of con- ') -- !? $ ' life i .:Iti: i !i Commissioner S ? ll1, i Brent Morns favors tax hike By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Herald Staff Writer Utah County Commissioner Brent Morris said Friday he would favor increasing county taxes to make up a deficit in Timpanogos Mental Health's budget. Morris said the county is faced with two pressing problems, taking care of persons in need of mental health care and providing new jail facilities. "I would favor raising taxes for both of these needs," he said after hearing a report on budget and staff cuts at Timpanogos Mental Health Center. Sheriff David Bateman said earlier th.it staffing for the jail is far below the standard set by the National Institute of Corrections and the county faces liability problems because it is not able to provide the staffing and services now required for jail inmates. Morris said, "I don't sec; us netting any more money nut of the state to meet 'limp's budget problems. We're going to have to make hard decisions and raise taxes to meet the needs." He also said some of the residential facilities .per; ted by Timp Mental Health are in "horrendous condition." ing a list of priorities for mental health services that would give the highest priorities to seriously mentally ill patients who are nnfer.ded or partially funded. II viid present funding will not (See TIMP, Page A2i 7? ' .Vr-';- - off for more than 10 years," she said, ' and I really like the people there. I have a lot of friends m the .ounty government." Warner was a county employee at the Youth Detention Center when she was hired by Sandberg last May to be his confidential secretary. She was fired in November. One day after accepting the report current Commission Chairman Malcolm Beck was quoted in a Salt newspaper as saying that he thought Warner's Kill-pac- allegations against Sandberg. k if s true, constituted grounds for resignation. Beck told the Herald on Friday that he has felt that way from the beginning, A.ked specificallv if he (See SANDBERG. Page A2l Sand-berg'- Weather Outuiued (old weather and cloudy skies will likely brim more snow to Utah Valley Snow may Uqier oil Mi See Page A8. Air Quality The air quality report not available. was '; i iJ |
