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Show Also in this section: ir oca Obituaries B2 State B3 Opinions B4 Thursday I June 14. imo' v. Waller projects in budget, White House adviser says Well, - wet my whistle! budget-bargainin- Sean McQuay thought he'd just get a few drops of water to help himself cool off when he stuck the garden hose in his mouth Wednesday afternoon at Wymount Terrace, but his friend, Sarah Pimen-te- l, couldn't resist from turning it on... Herald PhotosTrent Nelson y-- qjfjk. v .5:"v ,.,, ' ,.... M. irf By JUDY FAHYS Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Big Western water projects, like the $1.5 billion Central Utah Project, have been g laid out on the table along with other domestic programs, White House domestic policy adviser Roger Porter said Wednesday. Calling the massive irrigation and Take 1, Herald Staff Writer The opening scene of a feature length motion picture, to be released early next year, was being shot today on Center Street in Provo. The movie, "Fast Getaway," described as an action, adventure, comedy, features such stars as Corey Haim, Leo Rossi, Marcia Strass-ma- n and Cynthia Rothrock, said Jefferson Richard. Because the director, Spiro Raza-to- s, is a former stunt director, the movie will be packed with plenty of car and police stunts, Richard said. The movie is being shot in Utah except for three days in Colorado. The Colorado scene will have the two-ma- n fall ever per- formed and was done from the Royal Gorge bridge. Four days will be shot in Provo. Other areas being .v art : K mm ? m XX ... s i - $X m 9 be hammered out." The Utah congressional delegation is asking the Bush administration to back its request for the $550 million needed to complete the Utah project, the final portion of system to haul Uinta Basin Water over the Wasatch Mountains for use by Salt Lake City and other Western Utah communities. Scene: Provo By ANTON GARRITY highest drainage portion of the project "an issue that engenders intense local interest," Porter said CUP is part of the budget negotiations now under way between Congress and the White House. "We are not entering the budget negotiations with any preconditions," Porter told reporters at a Wednesday press conference. "That is one of the issues that will have to used City said. Man found dead in home are Lehi, Park City, Heber and East Canyon, Richard hot tub An Orem man was found dead In his hot tub early today. Robert Dennis Downard, 42, of 40 E. 1575 North, left work at the Provo Post Office at 1:30 a.m. today and returned home by 2 a.m. He had had a hot tub installed in his back yard about a week ago, said Gerald Nielsen of the Orem Police Department. Downard reportedly told his wife that he was going to go sit in the hot tub for awhile. At about 4 a.m., his wife awoke and realized he wasn't in bed. She found him dead in the bottom of the hot tub and called police, Nielsen said. An autopsy will be performed today, Nielsen said. The movie is about a father and son who go around the west robbing banks. "This is a family picture. Even with the fight scenes and crash scenes, no one gets hurt or killed," Richard said. The scene being shot in Provo today was the father and son's first bank robbery. Although the outside scene of the bank is being shot at a bank on the corner of 300 W. Center St., the inside will be shot in a Zion's Bank in Salt Lake City because the bank in Provo had been gutted this past year, Richard said. The producers for the picture are Paul Hertzberg and Lisa M. Hansen. The picture is being filmed by Wasatch Productions and released through Cinetel Films and New Lines Cinema. city energy employees say they want to be treated fairly laid-of- f Department, workers dispute lack of 'bumping' policy By CHRISTI C. EVANS i : i Herald Staff Writer While they understand the decision has been made, nine laid-of- f employees of the Provo Energy Department say they want to be treated fairly. The men met Wednesday to discuss the situation and what it means to. them and to the Provo Power Plant. The layoffs were announced last Thursday when the city disclosed its plan to save $1.25 million a year (including $500,000 in wages) by power switching from to commercial sources. The plan includes shutting down the city's main power plant and laying off 11 plant operators and 3 mechanics. The terminated workers were Robert "Todd" Carter, Fred Boone, Danny Frank and John Simpson (Operators I); Charles Haws, Darrel Drurrmiondo, Lee Netcher, Fred Lee anu John Barton (Operators II); and senior mechanics Ellis Austill, Leonard Grill and Ed Martin, according to a city list. Grill, Barton, Lee and Carter were not at Wednesday's meeting. Those who did attend agreed they feel it was unfair for the city to disallow "bumping" in this case. "Bumping has always been a part of city policy," said one man who, like the other eight, did not want to be identified. Bumping is the practice of letting K ... o . W II 4 v - laid-of- f 22 ft u.y city administrative Ivers, 1 7, gets heart transplant today By MITCH WILKINSON Herald City Editor Provo received a call Wednesday and, early this morning, underwent surgery to receive a new heart. Jason Ivers. 17, was "beeped" about 5:30 p.m. on his pager, informing him that a donor heart may be ready for implanting. He was taken to University of Utah Medical Center and taken into surgery at about 10 p.m., according to Chris Ivers, Jason's mother who spent the night at the hospital along with her husband, Dewane. "The heart didn't arrive until 2 A long-awaite- tccn-an- cr d a.m. and he got out at about 6 this morning," Mrs. Ivers said, adding that she is "on cloud nine." "It's kind of like Christmas here. Jason was ready." she said. Mrs. Ivers said Jason had been losing more energy of late and the family was hoping they would not have to wait much longer for the lifesaving surgery. Jason was born with congenital heart disease. He had a pacemaker installed last fall but his heart was too weak to accept it. A hospital spokesman reported that Jason is in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit, which is normal for heart transplants. Jason's was the 313th heart transplant at the hospital. The spokesman said there were no complications with the surgery. Mrs. Ivers said they spent a long night in the waiting room but that the medical center staff kept them posted on the progress of the surgery. Jason will be sedated most of today and Mrs. Ivers said she will stay with her son at the hospital until he is released from intensive care. She said he looks well but doesn't expect him to awake until later today. Union: Ironton strike talks progress By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer There may le progress in the strike at Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe at Ironton, Just south of Provo. Union leaders and company officials have met and have bvn talking, said Dave Selman, president of United Steel Workers of 1G54. America Selman would say little else, except that a meeting has been scheduled for Thursday evening for Im'i1 1654 members and that he could say more after the meeting. A secretary for plant manager Charlier Matlock said he was not available and said as far as she knew company representatives are not commenting on the strike. Nearly 200 members of the local walked off the job April 1 and began picketing the company that water pipes manufactures cast-iro- n after negotiations on a new three-yea- r contact broke down. Union and company have disagreed over seniority, wages and benefits. In May Ixx-a- l Vice President Jack McQuivey said workers have not have a pay increase in 12 years. Unidentified picketers at the plant Wednesday who said they were not authorized to seak said there had been rumors of as manv as 10 workers who had crossed the picket lines. But they said only one union member had been confirmed as crossing the line to work. Selman confirmed that one worker had crossed the picket line. In May union leaders claimed the company had initially welcomed the strike as an opportunity to get rid of pipe of an overabundance produced one of its other plants outside Utah. The unidentified picketers said they believe that overabundance is gone or nearly gone now. They said the believe company manages have been producing pipe on one shift every other day. Ixcal senior qualified workers avoid unemployment by taking over job slots occupied by junior workers. The men said Chet Waggener, 1654 i officer, told them in the meeting their termination announcing that bumping would not be allowed. In a meeting with reporters the day of the layoffs, Waggener said bumping problems past. had caused too many within the city in the employees, two of have almost 20 years with the city, disagree. "We think what's fair in the past should be done now," one said Wednesday. Waggener said today that bumping has not been a standard city practice. He said it was allowed in only one time in the past connection with budgetary layoffs in 1986 and it worked so poorly that the administration decided not to do it in this case. "What we're after is we'd like to get a little consideration in other departments," one man said. All said they would like to be hired back by the city to save their retirement benefits. Mayor Joe Jenkins, at the time the layoffs were announced, said the city expected to be able to rehire most of the laid-of- f workers in other jobs over coming months. However, one worker said Wednesday, "The ones that have gone fo personnel they say they have nothing." City personnel chief Eric Mausser said this morning that he has spoken to all of the workers. He said each of them has been told of four existing vacancies in the city. Mausser said the workers have been told that those positions will be filled competitively, but the deThe whom partment heads with vacancies have been told to give "very serious consideration" to any of the power plant workers who apply. Some of the workers said Wednesday they are considering filing grievances against the city and have until Friday to do so. Grievances must be signed by the department head, the men said. Energy Director Ron Rydman has been away all this week attending an energy conference. "Chet Waggener said he didn't want to alienate any workers," one man said. However, employees in other departments are now also concerned about their jobs, he said. The men said they also are concerned about only one man staffing the plant from 4 p.m. to 7 a.m. with the reduced employee numbers. This operator is yi charge of all the power in Provo at that time, they said. If power outages occur, this man must answer all phone calls. At the same time, he will be required to order power for the city, dispatch line crews and start up the deisels, the men said. The reduced staffing at the plant has also forced a reduction in the attention paid to the plant's boiler, they said. One said the boiler was not supposed to be left unattended for more than three minutes but employees are now leaving for an hour or more to attend to other business. Waggener said this morning that, while there can be differences of opinion about what constitutes safely, the city has carefully studied the situation. Local cemetery vandals stealing families' mementos, memories By KAYLENE NELSEN Herald Senior Reporter The letters have been heartbreaking precious memories stolen from gravesites all across Utah Valley. And police officials are at a loss for what to do about it. Four letters to the editor have been received at The Daily Herald from families who left mementos at cemeteries during the Memorial Day weekend and returned later to find them stolen. "What joy does a silk floral arrangement, weathered by nature, give to a thief?" wrote Julie Owens of Orem. "I don't know if it is more hurt I feel or anger that personal property has been stolen." Gerald Nielsen, of the Orem Police Department, said he had no solutions to the problem. "It's disheartening. It is sad. Over the years, I have seen people really brokenhearted." He said there is no way his department can stop every person removing flowers at the cemetery and verify they are doin;j so legitimately. Iorraine Hill said in a conversation that she hasn't written a letter yet but sho was just as upset. Vandals wiped 'The thief did not have to see and hear the devastation ... of a husband of 50 years who found the grave of his beloved wife in shambles.' Darlene Anderson clean her young nephew's grave and family members are upset about it. She said she thinks the culprit is unaware that her nephew is Jason Overman, a young Orem boy who died of a rare nerve cancer last fall. Residents of the valley pulled together to raise the money needed for a bone marrow transplant. Jason recovered for about a vear beloro he died in October, 1H89. All the family has left are the memories and mementos. Hill said. Now, some of those are missing, too. She said the family left several wreaths and personal items at the gravesite ami des- perately want them returned. Among the items was a gracv-in- e heart with a white teddy bear in the center, a grapevine wreath with a curved wooden name plate inscribed with Jason's name and a Tonka jeep, a grapevine basket with two stuffed inside, an and a Roger Rabbit white rose bush. h also suffered Hill year Easter rabbits losses this when vandals stole a wreath from her son's grave. Darlene Anderson, Payson, expressed similar feelings in her Setter about a thief who stole a baby's wreath with a small teddy dressed up as a cowboy from her son's grave. "This was nut just any old wreath that could easily be replaced because there is not much a baby can acquire in 20 days of life." She said the same thing to her mother's grave. hapiH-ne"The thief did not have to see and hear the devastation in the eyes and voice of a husband of 50 years who found the grave of his beloved wife in shambles." In-a- r d |
