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Show mm Obituaries B2 Lifestyle B5-B- 6 TEACHER SALARIES Estimated average salaries of public D.C. Mich. Calif. R.I. Md. schoolteachers. top & bottom ten United States $43,153 40,461 38.925 37,950 36,601 36,418 36,057 36,010 35.676 34,175 N.Y. D.C. Md. Calif. R.I. 33,895 33,037 32,221 , Mich. Mass. - Alaska Conn. .34.233 NJ. average: I $41,754 37,343 36,654 36.290 34.823 34,684 N.Y. . NJ. Mass. 1988- 89 Neb. $29,570 Idaho $31,166 Miss. La. Okla. Source: NEA Mont $23,845 22,852 22,734 22,578 22,470 22.370 22,249 21.904 21.395 20.530 Utah - 1989- 90 N.D. W.Va. Ark. S.D. Uflato Bas'5: 1989-9- 0 1938-3- 9 Alaska Conn. last year New Jersey led the nation in spending an average of $8,439 per pupil, while Utah again ranked last at d less than that amount. New Jersey, now locked in a NEW YORK (AP) one-thir- bitter struggle over school finances, thus replaced New York as il the nation's spending per-pup- leader, according to the National Education Association ranking. New York placed second at $8,094. Utah spent $2,733 per pupil, according to the annual report. "It's not a pleasant place to be," $25,081 24,364 24.300 23,861 23.735 23,070 23,016 22,842 22,009 21,300 Miss. La. Idaho Utah Okla. N.D. W.Va. Ark. S.D. , Scott Bean, Utah deputy schools superintendent, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. He pointed out, however, that the Legislature enacted some $130 million in education spending increases last year. Superintendents 5. - SCHOOL SPENDING 1989 90 1938-- 89 gm N.Y. $7,717 NJ fTTl N.J. 7,571 N.Y. DtTI Conn. 7,249 fTTI Alaska 7,151 ESI Dc- - 6,376 Alaska 7.252 and secondary schools per R.I. 6.085 R.I. 6.523 pupil Mass. 6.001 Mass. 6. 1 70 average daily attendance, top Md. 5.545 Md. 5.887 751 T7TL $8,439 . D.C. 7.407 Del. 5,478 Del. 5.848 BUI Pa. 5,329 Wis. 5,703 d J expenditures for public elementary Conn. 7,934 flTl S.C. Estimated current 8,094 i $3,556 N.D. & n. 3.435 Tenn. 3.503 Okla. 3.383 Okla. 3,484 Tenn. 3.304 La. 3.457 S.D. 3.197 Ala. 3,314 Ala. 3.194 S.D. 3,312 Ark. 3,146 Ark. 3,272 Idaho 2.935 Miss. 3.151 Miss. 2,923 Idaho 3.037 Utah 2.579 Utah 2.733 A Provo jury has acquitted a Salt Lake man on a charge of dealing drugs. The jury of seven women ?jid one man deliberated for an hour Tuesday afternoon before finding Michael Anthony Espinoza, 30, not guilty of arranging to distribute cocaine. Afterwards the jury members spoke with Deputy County Attorney Jim Taylor. They said they thought Espinoza was indeed guilty of the crime but said there were many questions left unanswered about what Happened on May 7 when Espinoza allegedly gave cocaine to Steven Anthony Morales to sell in smaller packages. Morales, who is serving time in the county jail after pleading guilty to three second-degre- e drug charges, testified that cocaine the Provo adopts cable ordinance By CHRIST1 C. EVANS Herald Staff Writer Provo Municipal Council members adopted a new citywide cable television ordinance Tuesday, opening the door to begin negotiations on a new franchise agreement with TCI Cablevision of Utah. Councilmembers had previously adopted a cable ordinance regulating customer service practices July 10. However, Municon, a cable television consulting firm hired by the city, drafted the new ordinance and advised city officials not to proceed into negotiations without having it in place. franchise will end TCI's Dec. 31; an agreement must be reached by then for TCI cable service to continue in Provo. Richard Dalebout, council attorney, said the new ordinance 25-ye-ar addresses the same items drawn out in the first ordinance, but also expands on items not covered previously. These items include the terms and standards of the franchise, Mayor Joseph A. Jenkins said had submitted a letter to the city outlining the company's concerns with the new : ordinance. "I'm sure TCI is not complete--'' ly happy with the ordinance. We did not expect them to be," Jenkins said. "They feel they have been in substantial compliance all along." TCI's concerns included whether the new ordinance was constitutional. "I've seen things in this ordinance I have not seen in Utah" or the rest of the country," said Dan McCarty, state general manager of TCI. TCI restoration of property to its original condition, construction standards and required insurance amounts. The ordinance sets into law many items which would have needed' individual consideration during negotiations. Before drafting the ordinance, Municon studied TCI's operations and found technical problems as well as substandard equipment, according to the company's final report. Dalebout said the new ordinance was good, but not perfect, and would probably need revisions as the city went through the negotiation process. Jenkins said Municon guarantees the ordinance will stand up to any constitutional challenge. McCarty said TCI has a meeting with Municon and city staff scheduled Oct. 3. Draper men arraigned on drug charges By SONNI SCHWIXN Herald Correspondent About 120 healthy MIDWAY marijuana plants growing on U.S. Forest Service property west of Cascade Springs have been harvested for evidence by Wasatch County deputies and forest service employees. Christopher E. Belim, 29, Stephen Behm, 30, and Chris R. D'Angelo, 26, all of Draper, were arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. Charges against the three were brought by Forest Service for cultivation of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, and also possession of firearms in the act of committing a felony. They were arrested as they left the area Sunday afternoon following 18 months of investigations and surveillance at the site. Sheriff Edd Thacker estimated the 5- - to plants had a street value of between $1,000 and $2,000, each. The sheriff's office pots had been brought in. Rogers said surveillance was discontinued in August because fires kept Forest and forest service busy. But a week ago they returned to the site to find the male plants had been removed, leaving about 20 high quality females to bring the best price on the market. From then on two officers with video cameras watched the area during almost all daylight hours and the Forest Service conducted helicopter surveillance. Motion sensors were set up to transmit signals to the sheriff's office when anyone entered the area at night. Last Satuday, an infrared camera was installed with a tracking mechamism to take pictures of anyone at the scene. Sunday at about 2:30 p.m.,the Forest Service offices and a deputy at the scene reported three men cooperated closely in the investigation since May 1989, when a citizen reported finding marijuana in an isolated area between Cascade Springs and the Alpine Loop, according to Deputy John Rogers. He said there was evidence of a "pretty good operation." The site was monitored through the There were signs that people were coming and going where the marijuana was grown. Then early last June officers discovered an elaborate irrigation system being set up to tap water from a stream to a nearby site. By July the system was completed and about 36, marijuana plants in sm-me- r. ot Council commends biker By CHRISTI C. EVANS Herald Staff Writer Local motorcycle hill climbing champion Travis Whitlock was officially commended by the Provo Municipal Council Tuesday for winning the Lamonte Impossible, a hill climbing competition in France. climbed 900 feet The in 18 seconds and became the first rider to reach the top of the mountain in seven years. Mayor Joseph A. Jenkins congratulated Whitlock, adding that the last 0 feet of the climb was on an 87 degree angle. Whitlock said he won $320,000 20-3- ladder school-spendin- g lot that can be done. Right now Utah has a higher percentage of tax dollars going to education than most states." According to Administrative Assistant Superintendent Noal Greenwood of the Provo School District, "Our teachers do a remarkable job with what they have. We don't have a lot of money and if we did we could do some things better. Especially if we could lower the class size, we could have more of a oriented class strucone-on-o- ne ture." in Idaho was the second-loweil spending at $3,037. The expenditures the year before were $2,579 for Utah and $2,935 for Idaho. Nationwide, spending per pupil up from averaged $4,890 in 1989-9st per-pup- 0, the year earlier. Average teacher salaries reached $31,166, compared with $29,570 the previous year, according to the teacher union's figures. Alaska, with its high cost of living, paid teachers the most on average: $43,153. South Dakota teachers ranked last: $21,300. Connecticut's teachers got the $4,607 third-lowe- biggest pay boost last year and now rank second. Average pay was $40,461 in 1989-9- 0, $3,000 from $37,343. francs in the contest, which exchanged to $60,500 in United States currency. "It happened so fast, it hits you all of a sudden that you went over," he said. Motorcycle riding started for Whitlock when he was four years old, and he started racing when he was ten. For his latest accomplishment, Whitlock rode a Yamaha FJ 1200 bullet bike that had been lengthened out. Whitlock's father Steve said Whitlock had been invited to return to Europe in March to participate in a competition in Spain. Service employees and deputies had arrived at the marijuana patch. One suspect who had a rifle stood watch as the other two at- tended to the garden. Within 10 minutes a deputy in a plane spotted a couple of trucks parked on a dirt road. Highway patrol officers set up road blocks to blcck any escape into American Fork Canyon. Deputies on the ground arrived in time to watch the suspects get into their truck and arrested them as they approached the paved road. Evidence found in the truck led officers to believe there might be another patch of plants and a search Monday morning uncovered another site with about a 100 more, Rogers said. officers found in his home on May 8 was given to him the day before by Espinoza. Morales said he took the cocaine and agreed to pay Espinoza after he had sold it in smaller pekages. He said he measured out the cocaine into "bindles." During cross examination by defense attorney Dean Zabriskie, Morales said he agreed to plead to lesser charges and had some dropped in exchange for his testimony against Espinoza. Also, a plea agreement was agreed to for his wife, Nikki Jensen Morales who was also arrested when the cocaine was found at their home. Mrs. Morales also testified Tuesday and discussed two conversations that officers recorded during a wiretap on the court-authoriz- : 23.6. New teacher ratio in Jersey's was 13.4, among the states for which such ' ' v statistics were available. Other factors accounting for spending disparities in1989-9- 0 New Jersey replaces New York at top up more than Idaho teacher salaries ranked at an average of $23,861, compared to $22,578 the previous year. Utah followed at 46th with an average of $23,735, compared to $22,852 the previous year. Spending per pupil actually declined in two states: North Dakota, where it fell to $3,581 in 1989-9- 0 from $3,662 the year before, and in Montana, where it dropped to $4,-1from $4,176. In North Dakota a voter referendum in December repealed three tax increases. Officials differ on whether more means better money necessarily 45th schooling. "A lot of people say, "Throwing more dollars won't help education.' Well, I'd like to try it just once," said Utah's Bean. Will Myers, a school finance consultant who helped compile the il NEA statistics, said spending bears a strong relationship to class size. Utah had the highest pupil-to- per-pup- Salt Lake City man acquitted Source: NEA $3,581 La. on Sept. 26, 1990 in bottom ten y around Utah County stated their concerns with the spending per student and class size. They said they are doing the best they can with what they have. "We're working on reducing the class size in the Nebo School District, but there's no question to me a teacher with a smaller class size would be able to help the student progress more," said Nebo School District Superintendent Denis Poul-so"The families in Utah just have more children so there's not a 1 - Wednesday ocal Also in this section: Morales telephone. She identified Espinoza as the man's voice on the tape. Mrs. Morales said she was told that if she cooperated and y testified her jail sentence may be postponed until the baby she is expecting is 6 months old. She said she understood there were no promises, however. Police officers testified about finding the drugs at the Morales home and officer Karen Morales, no relation, discussed the June 12 arrest of Espinoza on the charge of giving drugs to Morales on May 7. She said Espinoza told her he had a cocaine habit and sold drugs to support that habit. She said he claimed he could shut down the cocaine traffic to Provo by turning in the people who sold to him for the last two years. st state-to-sta- te clude how homogeneous the student population is and the cost of living in a given state. "Most of the research that deals with spending versus school per-- . formance indicates that family background is pretty important," Myers said Tuesday. "When you have a heterogenous population, ' you probably have a more difficult job bringing students to the same ; educational level than when you have a homogeneous population." "Utah and New Jersey are in sharp contrast in that respect," he said. The NEA survey is based on ; statistics from state departments; of education. The data are regarded as among the most reliable of, their kind by education research-- ; ers. Other top spenders among the 50 ; states included: New York, $8,094 per pupil; Connecticut, $7,934; the District of Columbia, $7,407; Alas-' ka, $7,252; Rhode Island, $6,523; Massachusetts, $6,170; Maryland, $5,887; Delaware, $5,848, and Wisconsin, $5,703. '. 1 Pres. Benson stili serious but stable SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mormon Church President Ezra Taft Benson, 91, re- mained in serious but stable condition today as he recovered from surgery to remove blood from between the skull, and lining of the brain. Benson was admitted to' LDS Hospital Sept. 18 with headaches and difficulty swallowing and underwent surgery the following day to remove clots from both sides of the head. A second operation was performed Sunday to remove a of blood on reaccumulation the left side of the head. ackin By CHRISTI C. EVANS Herald Staff Writer Academy Square representatives encouraged all citizens to give their money and talents toward removing the "eyesore" from downtown Provo during a presentation before the Provo Municipal Council Tuesday. of the Community Foundation, recent purchaser of the Academy Square property at 500 N. University Avenue, described the buildings' restoration plans. Members Services "They have been an eyesore for City wants inpu on removal of food sales tax The Orem City Council wants to hear what the residents have to say about the removal of sales tax from food. According to Mayor S. Blaine Willes, the council is yet undecided on whether to draft a resolution in support of or opposition to the sales tax initiative. "We want to have a chance to hear the residents' opinions on it," he said. The council originally was set Tuesday night to pass a resolution on the initiative, but drew up short after the mayor asked that a public hearing be set. The hearing has been set for Tuesday, Oct. 2, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Resident's statewide are being requested, in the general election in November, to approve a ballot measure that would remove sales tax on food. The issues of removing sales tax from food has been hotly debated in this state over the last 10 years and in the past the tax issue has been defeated by the voters, Mayor Willes said. If the sales tax were removed from food, the loss of revenues to the city of Orem has been estimated by the State Tax Commission to be $558,000, Willes reported. "This all goes to the general fund, and is used for police fire, streets, maintenance parks and those kinds of things," said City Manager Daryl Berlin. If the initiative passes, the city will be forced to consider reducing a number of services or increasing revenues, he added. so many years. There's no reason they can't be one of Provo's greatest assets," said Maurine Brimhall, foundation coordinator. "We of the are appealing to the people valley, BYU anyone interested alumni, in or historical preservation to do their share for Academy Square," she said. The group now needs volunteers to coordinate fundraising efforts, Brimhall said. The Education Building would then be renovated by January, 1992, the 100th anniversary of the square's dedication. Brimhall said renovation on two rooms in the southwest corner of the Education Building will start as soon as a permit for the work is granted by the city. Losee said the buildings would be maintained after non-pro- Project architect Dan Losee said the total renovation project is expected to cost $22 million. The foundation would like to raise $15 million initially. renovation through rent charged to the occupants. Even groups must I pay for their facilities, he said. fit "This is a way to pool these efforts and economize them into one location," Losee said. California man waves a preliminary hearing A California man accused of sodomy on a young Utah County boy waived a preliminary hearing Monday in 4th Circuit Court in Orem. Richard C. Worthen, 42, was bound over to 4th District Court where he will be arraigned on e the felony charge of forcible sodomy on a child. One of two men accused of negligent homicide also waived a preliminary hearing. Russell L. Jensen, 34, of Payson was in American Fork's 4th Circuit Court Tuesday. He had previously been bound over to 4th District Court where he was expected to plead guilty to felony drug charges while the class A misdemeanor negligent homicide charge was dropped. There was, however, some first-degre- confusion over the negotiations and the case was continued. It was finally sent back to the circuit court for a preliminary hearing. Richard E. Wilson, 33, Helper, is also charged with negligent homicide following the death of his wife Michelle Daniels Wilson, 27. All three were arrested in April and shortly following that arrest, Mrs. Wilson died of a drug overdose. Officials said she ingested lethal doses of cocaine. Wilson's case, which also involves drug charges, was also sent back to the circuit court and his preliminary is scheduled Oct. 4 at 3 p.m. Both men previously waived preliminary hearings. Deputy recovers stolen goods On a routine stop in Spanish Fork Canyon, a sheriff's deputy recovered nearly $5,000 in stolen photography equipment. At about 3 p.m. Monday, Sheriff's Deputy Carlie Beeder stopped the driver of a 1976 Volkswagon bug for weaving along the highway, said Beeder. The driver, Ricky Stichler, 34, Elk Ridge, Calif., didn't have a driver's license and said the reason was because he had recently been released from prison. Beeder ran a check on him and it turned out he was wanted nationally for several felonies, said Beeder. He was arrested and the car wes searched. About $5,000 of stolen camera equipment was seized. Stichler's passenger, Denise Rol lins, 28, Elk Ridge, Calif., was also arrested and taken to Utah County Jail, said Beeder. THEFT A home under con- struction in Orem was broken into and burglarized sometime during the night Monday. An electric saw valued at $200 was reportedly stolen from a home in the area of 1600 N. 200 West, said a police spokesman. INDECENT EXPOSURE An unidentified man approached a convenience store in Orem early today and stood in front of a female clerk without any clothes on. The suspect was able to get away from the store at 800 N. State St, before police officals arrived, a police spokesman said. |