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Show I ritUiv. April i. im Daily lltrulcl. I'rtmi, Ihe Utah Hah B3 State Hospital faces decertification SALT LAKE an' iAPj Vuh Stale Hospital, just eks away from possible Medicaid decertification, has been unable so far to find enough money to pay for additional staff demanded by federal officials. Superintendent Bob Verviiie said the hospital has been told by the Health Care Financing Administration that it has until June to com-l-.-y. At stake is roughly $6 million in Medicaid funding, about one-thi-rd of the hospital s budget. The state Department of Social Services and the Division of Mental Health asked legislators during the last session to appropriate $374,000 to hire the 36 staff members needed to meet federal standards. However, lawmakers adjourned in February without coming up with the money. If the hospital is decertified, it could lose 150 of its 340 beds. Medicaid funds would be lost for several patients, including children, adolescents and gena.c cases. Verviiie said state mental health officials have come up with several ideas to prevent decertification. "We proposed $481000 to the feds, but they rejected it," Verviiie said. That figure was included in the governor's budget proposal but was not part of the final budget. The mental health system may have to close down 25 beds, probably from the adult general psyctuat- - nc jupuLition, Verviiie said, and shift staff to uiiprtne patient-staf- f ratios. 4 Otherwise, the 150 people who would not be funded by Medicaid would have to be muved into community settings, which aren't a Verviiie said "We've looked at our programs," he said, "trying to find somewhere else we could cut to take care tf this. We haven't found any money just floating around." ail-abl- e. Healing woman still holding up oil drilling ANETH (AP i An oil company has obtained a temporary' restraining order against protesters but is holding up work while a solution is sought over drilling rights in an Navajo woman's ceremonial herb patch. Besie Adakai Morgan stood in front of bulldozers, holding off work for four days, but Chuska Energy-Co- . obtained tl restraining order earlier this week from a tribal court in Shiprock, N.M. A spokeswoman for the acting leader of the Navajo Nation, Leonard Haskie, said representatives from the tribe's Historic Preservation Office have been dispatched to the site near Aneth to deter .nine if Mrs. Morgan's secret herbs and ceremonial sand are endangered. Harvey Risien, Chuska president, said no work will go forward until the tribal office makes a finding. Risien said he hopes something can be worked out. The company would like to sink its well and then revegetate the area, he said. But by telling the company what to revegetate, she could give up her secret. "As a possibility, we could have her identify a host of herbs. We would agree to reseed a number of them, so she doesn't have to identify her secret," Risien said. Vrs. Morgan has gathered herbs in the area for at least 50 years. She has run sheep and goats on the land 11 miles northwest of Aneth for 74 years, said her granddaughter, Yanua Morgan. The elder Mrs. tion, she said. "We sympathize with Mrs. Morgan and her plea. But the bottom line is that a lot of them want to get compensated." Ms. Begay said. Risien rrntended Mrs. Morgan's family knew that the well was coming. "They have known about our activities and our plans for a long tune. We have gone over there and conducted seismographs on that same tract." Yanua Morgan said the family had no idea Chuska was planning on sinking a well on Mrs. Morgan's sacred area. "They just arrived and started bulldozing. We said. What is going on? Stop.' But they said they had their orders," she said. Morgan, who speaks no English, has grazing rights to the area, said Yanua Morgan. The drilling w as approv ed in 1987 during the administration of former Navajo chairman Peter McDonald. The healing woman and her ceremonial land apparently fell through the tribal administrative cracks, said Lenora Begay, spokeswoman for Haskie. ""According to the Natural Resources Department of the tribe, these agreements are not executed until numerous surves are made to ensure that these types of things don't happen," she said. And while the elderly woman's claim may be legitimate, her family members and other protesters in the area may be after compensa u HI lull! mW" )z&afi!&tBm',l Action continued on Sheets suit against publisher - Lindsey and Simon & Schuster, publisher of "A Gathering of Saints, contends the writer wTongly obtained his late wife's diary and included excerpts in the against A SALT LAKE CITY (APi federal judge has deferred ruling on a motion for summary judgment to allow attorneys for Gary Sheets to attempt to question Robert Iind-se- y, author of a book about Utah's murder-forger- y case. l'jo Sheets's $1 million civil lawsuit book. Kathy Sheets was killed on Oct. b made by 15, 1985, by a pipe-bom- Health board sues schools - diary-relate- estabper year on lishments. The Utah Restaurant Association sued, contending local health boards had no authority to impose a fee or tax to cover inspection services. SALT LAKE CITY AP) The Board of Salt Lake Health has filed suit against three school districts for refusing to pay for health inspections of school kitchens and cafeterias. Salt Lake, Granite and Jordan school districts contend they should be exempt from inspection fees. The health department is seeking to recover $185,000 in unpaid fees and late fines from 19S schools. The dispute follows a case that began in 1987, when the Health Department imposed fees on $40 to $100 City-Coun- ty food-servi- Mark Hofmann, who later confessed to forging and selling early Mormon documents and other Americana. Another Hofmann bomb killed collector Steven Christensen. Sheets' attorney, Kent Linebaugh, said a footnote in a defense memorandum said Simon & Schuster would assume, for the purpose of the motion for summary' judgment, that Lindsey's obtaining the to an intrusion on Sheets' privacy. Linebaugh said that admission was reason enough to seek to depose Lindsey in order to pursue the ce The Court of Appeals a year ago ruled that the Board of Health had adopted the fee schedule in accordance with state law, the board of health had the authority to impose user fees, and that a surcharge for inspections was not a tax, but a permissible fee. lawsuit, highly offensive, but they don't want us to prove it was highly offensive," he said. Linebaugh said Salt take City and county authorities had denied that lindsey obtained the diary from their employees during the investigation, and that only the author could say how he obtained the material. Defense attorney David Isom countered that Sheets could subpoena city and county officials to question them on how the diary-cam- the defense's despite motions for summary judgment and a companion motion for dismissal. "They admit what they did was into 8 , Test launch succeeds An experimental Pegasus rocket has been blasted into space from a 2 and successfully delivered its first satellite payload into a polar orbit. The rocket was powered by solid fuel made in Utah by Hercules Aerospace. Twelve minutes after it was dropped from a wing of the tracking crews at the Flight Research Facility at Edwards determined the satellite had successfully reached orbit 368 miles above Earth. "Everything went according to the mission profile," said C.J. Fennel, spokesman for "This is a big step for the Air Force, NASA and private corporations interested in spce." B-5- B-5- 2, Ames-Dryde- n 440-pou- nd lindsey's posssion. After the hearing, however, Isom said that as a journalist, Lindsey could claim that he was not required under the law to reveal his confidential sources in a deposition. Ames-Dryde- n. Roosevelt considers incinerator ROOSEVELT A (AP) committee will study a toxic waste incinerator proposed for the Roosevelt area by a California company. Roosevelt City Administrator and committee spokesman Brad Hancock said the study will verify the credibility of Global Telcsis, the company proposing the $7 million and assess the wste company's contractual obligation. In addition, he s?id the committee will visit an existing toxic waste incinerator and talk to residents living nearby. Based on the study's results, he said, the city of Roosevelt, the Ute Indian Tribe and Duchesne County will decide whether to abandon the proposal or solicit public comment. Earlier this year, the company asked the three entities to support the incinerator for an unspecified site in the Roosevelt area. Hancock said although the proposed plant would dramatically improve the local economy, it would not be wo.th if it poses a health hazard. LAKE CITY (AP) -Though facing a projected $3.4 million deficit for next fiscal year. Mayor Palmer DePaulis does not know whether he will seek a property tax increase. "I don't think I can say with any certainty at this point, because I really don't know," the mayor told his monthly news conference Thursday. He said administration officials have made little headway in reducing the projected deficit. DePaulis must prepare a pro SALT PaasEgg The mayor and city Treasurer Verl Hunt contended that the city's economy is picking up. But a formula that takes part of the city's sales tax revenue and gives it to other cities on the basis of population is undercutting the city's reve- & Pink Marshmaliows Yellow Off Reg. .99 or veilow & Pink f . P-- fKul tXD rfi7wi l&Ly) yy W vjXj -- 1 vrJjk w mfoch "t A Ifr-- d HObnobblnS These funny, friendly --U- YJ sale Toy Basket 16 pk. Beach SALE Q99 Holidays 1 OZ. 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