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Show Thursday, September 27, 1990 F Regional The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah tt Briefs f i rr :i .i Expert hired for three-daworkshop f y $2.5 billion approved for projects - WASHINGTON (AP) Legislation authorizing new water projects for flood control, storm damage reduction, inland navigation and port development in 18 states and Puerto Rico is heading to a conference committee. A bill approved 350-5- 5 by the House on Wednesday will be taken up by a joint House-Senat- e panel soon to blend with similar legislation passed by the Senate. However, the $2.5 billion package of 25 Army Corps of Engineers water projects still must get over some other hurdles before work can begin. The projects are to be joint state-federefforts, but no federal money has been appropriated yet, and al - SALT IAKE CITY (AP) A legislative task force on education is sending 32 people to Snowbird for three days to hear from an expert hired for $40,000. Rep. Richard Bradford, chairman of the Utah Education-StrategiPlanning Committee, said! if the workshops serve their intended purpose, the money will be t. President Bush has threatened to veto the bill in its present form. The act contains $5.2 million in flood control improvements for the Mill, Big and Little Cottonwood creeks and a stretch of the Jordan river in Salt Lake County. The county's contribution would be $2.7 million. "The impact of this funding will be felt for hundreds of years," said Rep. Wayne Owens. "We certainly won't see any more rivers running down State Street." Flood-contrfeatures include a Mill Creek diversion structure and a diversion conduit to the Hillview Detention Basin, which is to be enlarged from 26 to 100 acre feet. le well-spen- The committee was created by the Legislature last winter and given a $150,000 appropriation. The committee has contracted for $40,000 with William Cook, director of Cambridge Management Group, which specializes in strategic planning and management. He was selected by the committee from several applicants wanting to perform educational services for the committee. The contract involves the workshops at Snowbird today through sesSaturday, and two follow-u- p sions within the next six months to identify and implement specifics of the strategic plan the committee hopes to envision during the sessions this week. The 32 representatives of the committee will spend two nights at Snowbird lodges. Each room costs $65 per night. The rooms and the meals will be paid for out of the $150,000 committee budget. The Fiscal Analyst's Office has asked the Governor's Office, the state Office of Education and the Board of Regents for $10,000 each to help pay for the contract with ol g, Nearly $30,000 paid just to lose ST. GEORGE (AP) - Attorneys city's longstanding practice this southern Utah the bills for exterior of pay- representing city in its five-yelosing battle with Phillip Lang Foremaster over subsidized lighting of the local Mormon temple were paid officials say. Rex Lee, who is affiliated with a Washington D.C. law firm and now is president of the church-owne- d Brigham Young University, was paid $25,365.88, according to the city manager's office. St. George attorney Steve Snow was paid $4,199.81, but James T. Mitchem of Denver, who assisted the city during its appeals to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, received no remuneration. Foremaster sued in 1985 over the ar 9, ing lighting of the temple and because the city's logo bore a depiction of the structure. Last April, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the city's appeal of an appellate court ruling that both practices amounted to an unlawful promotion of religion. The subsidy that began in 1942 and in later years cost an estimated $180 a month was discontinued in 1986. The logo also has been changed. On June 4, the city agreed to pay $85,000 in attorney fees. About 0 went to Foremaster's attorney, Brian Barnard of Salt Lake City, and $10,200 to his R. Clayton Huntsman of St. George. $75,-00- Luggage leak nets drug arrest SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Malothe ar- dorous luggage resulted in rest of a man suspected of smuggling $1 million worth of PCP through Salt Lake City via bus, authorities said. The suspect apparently tried to transfer buses while traveling through Salt Lake City to Chicago from Los Angeles, but was stopped because his luggage smelled pecu- liar. Marcus D. Johnson, 31, hometown unknown, was being held in the Salt Lake County Jail after being charged in a magistrate's complaint with possession with intent to- distribute PCP, said Utah - - The BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) man accused of murdering two people in a Billings coin shop is drawing a crowd here next week a crowd of law officers from around the country and Canada who suspect his involvement in similar crimes. Aug. 13 T. Sgt. Allen Larsen. The man allegedly was carrying the liquid PCP a volatile halluin six metal cinogen containers that had leaked, creating a serious hazard, said UDI Lt. Dave Fullmer. Ether is used in the manufacture of PCP, or phencyclidine, which can explode if exposed to a spark, Fullmer said. To carry the drug in metal containers which can create their own sparks was dangerous for that reason, and be- cause the corrosive chemicals could have become more unstable in metal containers than in glass. killings to be analyzed Coin-sho- p Charles Department of Investigation Sinclair, arrested in Alaska, is fighting exmur- tradition to Montana to face der charges for the Billings homi- cides. Next week, law officers from at 15 agencies will meet in Billings to compare notes on a string of killings they believe Sinclair committed. The "conference" is sponsored by the Billings Police Department and the FBI. Billings Folice detective Sgt. Jerry Archer said Sinclair is a suspect in at least 12 slayings. Those in least clude the July 31 deaths of Charles Sparboe and Catherine Newstrom, who were shot during the robbery of a Billings coin shop. Archer said the conference will give investigators a chance to share evidence and background information and to track Sinclair's movements during the time the murders occurred. "Basically, the idea is for the agencies to assist each other in any way they can," Archer said. "Some of the agencies have information that only they are aware of." In addition to the murders of Sparboe and Newstrom, Sinclair is suspected of killing coin shop workers in Everett, Wash., in January 1980; Vacaville, Calif., in November 1986; Spokane, Wash., in July 1987; and Kansas City, Mo., in March 1988. tree Judge extends protection on area tree the A judge RIVERDALE AP) has extended a reprieve for a tree being protected by a woman who claims a shopping center developer has no right to chop it down. Elizabeth Carlin had perched in the black walnut since Friday to save it from a chain-sabut turned to the courts after suffering a deep gash in her right leg when she fell from a ladder while climbing out of the tree. On Wednesday, 2nd District Judge Stanton Taylor continued an earlier restraining order until a hearing next Tuesday, said Carlin's attorney, Steven Bailey. ur Under the order, developer Associates Ltd. and its contractor. Big D Construction, Hermes cannot dig in the or even until touch the dispute is resolved. "I figure they probably will pay attention to the judge," Carlin said. "If they don't, there will be a lot of problems. They are smart enough not to get themselves in a lot of problems." Hermes Associates is building a Shopping Center in this northern Utah city. Hermes contends the tree is on its property and must be cut down in order to meet landscaping requirements imposed bv the Riverdale City CounWal-Ma- rt cil. However, the county surveyor has determined that about three or diameter four inches of the tree is on Carlin's land. I CITY 4 I IfsMf 1 if .""' U jr to the ini- tiative that would remove the sales tax on food. Commission Chairman Mike Stewart also blasted the proposed federal budget for the coming year because of a provision that would eliminate the deductibility of state and local income taxes. 'There is deep frustration across this land that, in fact, you're pillaging the village that makes the American intergovernmental fabric work," he said, adding that the provision would harm what he called the average taxpayer's most valuable tax shelter. Stewart said the federal budget is moving further away from local revenue sharing and predicted the deduction for local property taxes 1 AP Laserphoto ferred Wednesday to the new $36.6 million facility. The prison is expected ultimately Guards explain the rules to inmate Ronald Kelly at the new prison in Gunnison. Eigh- teen medium security inmates were trans- - hold 600 Cook. Gov. Norm prisoners. Bangerter's chief of staff, Bud Scruggs, said the Governor's Office has decided to contribute $5,000 to the contract. "We have committed to support Disbarred attorney files 23 bankruptcy cases on final day - A (AP) disbarred attorney filed 23 bankruptcy cases on the final day before his suspension from federal court became effective. SALT CITY LAKE Richard Calder has filed 174 bankruptcies since last July when the Utah Supreme Court disbarred him for negligence in representing bankruptcy clients. In a unanimous ruling, the state high court disbarred Calder for 15 violations of disciplinary rules and negligence, stemming from two bankruptcy cases he had handled. In one, Dennis Job won a $54,000 judgment against Calder in a malpractice suit in 3rd District Court in 1986, but could not collect because Calder filed a Chapter 13 action in bankruptcy court three weeks after the judgment. A judge dismissed the action later that year, ruling it was in near-collap- lature, and this is all we can afford." Higher Education Commissioner Rolfe Kerr sent a letter to the Fiscal Analyst's Office complaining about the amount being spent. But he said the Board of Regents probably could come up with the amount requested. Doug Bates, of the State Office of Education, said that office would contribute a portion of the contract, but he doubted it would be the $10,000 requested. Bradford said that considering the overall education budget, the money spent to develop a solid, five-yestrategic plan will save the state money in the long run. The meeting is necessary, he said, "because it has become evident we need a sequestered type of environment to get everyone involved and develop a consensus for a long-terplan. Friday. "Your honor, I was thinking, I don't want to ask too much, but I was thinking that the people I've talked to and taken their money and have it all ready to file, I will just file those, and I would stop right now," Calder told Winder. "I wouldn't have any more new clients from this point on," Calder said. "But the ones I have already made a commitment, I would file those by Friday." Utah State Bar attorney Stephen Trost objected, and asked that the suspension be immediate. ar m MIT - FiSALT LAKE CITY (AP) nancial aid services at Utah colleges and universities have escaped a multistate crisis triggered by the of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation, officials say. "It is a message we are trying to get out to students in the state: That student loans are available as always, said David A. Feitz, assistant higher education commissioner of student financial aid. "There is no lack of educational credit. The lenders are cooperating. We are millions (of dollars) ahead of last year," he said. Indeed, the Utah Higher Education Assistance Authority the state's designated guarantee agenhas hired six temporaries to cy handle the crush that hits each fall. Feitz said the UHEAA handles of the 25,000 to 30,000 loans it makes annually. The agency works with 40 lenders in the the Legislature's efforts toward strategic planning," Scruggs said. "But we have just a very small budget for planning, a budget that is appropriated to us by the Legis- ed but not before suspending him until the matter is heard on Oct. 19. Without citing a number, Calder asked if he could dispose of his remaining cases before the suspension was to go into effect last bad faith. Calder then filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy to further delay payment, it was alleged in state disbarment proceedings. The federal bankruptcy court ruled the $54,000 judgment is not part of the bankruptcy. Calder appealed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, which recently upheld the ruling, and ordered Calder to pay the debt. In July, the Utah Supreme Court said Calder cannot apply for reinstatement to the Bar until he satisfies the judgment with Job's widow, who carried on the lawsuit after her husband's death. Calder was to have appeared last week before U.S. District Judge David K. Winder for a hearing to determine if Calder may practice in federal court. Calder asked for a postponement, which Winder grant National crisis hasn't hurt Utah WWII WAR SOUVENIRS se will be in Provo buying WWII German and Japanese relics for my personal collection. Why not turn those items into cash? will pay top prices for items in fine condition. I I Sept. 28th, 29th, 1990 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Seven Peaks Resort (Excelsior Hotel): Canyon Room Fri.-Sat- ., Japanese Swords German Swords German Daggars WWII Pistols & Rifles German & Japanese Meoals German Uniforms Flags (embroidered) up to Common Flags Helmets, Hats, Cloth Insignia, Beer Steins, Photo Albums, Saki cups, Miscellaneous $100-$200- 0 S50-S50- 0 $25-575- 0 S50-S60- 0 S5-S2- S50-S50- 0 $15-515- 0 $500 S5-S2- ANYTHING BROUGHT BACK AS A WAR SOUVENIR. ALSO BUYING: two-thir- ds WWI! U.S. Air Force Items Leather Flight Jackets state. Higher education officials say the UHEAA is financially sound. 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