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Show y Also in this section: Obituaries B2 Opinions B4 Sewing & Crafts ocal B6-B1- 0 schools will have to make tough busing decisions Loft: Provo By KAYLENE NELSEN Herald Senior Reporter State busing regulations plus rising fuel costs will force Provo School District to make tough decisions on busing. That's the prediction from Dr. Phil Lott, director of transportation for the district. He was speaking to members of the Provo School Board Tuesday night during a work meeting of that group. He explained busing rules which include that elementary students must live more than one and a half miles from school and secondary students two miles from school in order to qualify for busing which the state will reimburse. If the district determines there is a hazardous situation and buses children closer than those required distances, the district picks up the tab through the transportation levy. He said to qualify for reimbursement from the state a bus route must have at least five handicapped students who receive service right to their door, or at least 10 regular students who live the required distance from the school. When picking up students who qualify for the bus, other students who do not qualify for service are also picked up at bus stops along the route. That's where one of the problem's lies, Lott told board members. State requirements are that no more than 20 percent of the children on any of the 105 bus routes can be unauthorized (live under the required distance). He said Grandview Hill is a classic example of the problem. Most of the students there should walk to Dixon Middle School but are given bus service. Originally, it was determined to be a hazardous route but with adequate sidewalks, the hazards no longer exist, Lott said. If forced to take unauthorized riders off the route, many middle school children will be walking to school. The same situation exists at Canyon Cove, an area east of University Avenue near Wil's Pitstop. Those students have been bused to Canyon Crest Elementary, less than the required mile and a half, because there were no safe sidewalks. Since a new road has been opened up to Edgemont, complete with good sidewalks, the hazard no longer exists. The only way the district can continue to transport unauthorized students is to raise the mill levy, he said. Lott also discussed a problem in the Harbor Park area where par Herald Staff Writer Merrill Cook, chairman of the Utah Independent Party told a small group of citizens Tuesday night that removing the sales tax on food will simply lead to better governmental management, less duplication of services, less stilti-fie- d bureaucracy, and better teaching loads in higher education. Speaking at a "meet the candidate" night at the Utah County Administration Building, Cook debated the food tax issue with Paul Rogers, former state senator. Cook zeroed in on higher education, saying that Utah subsidizes students to a greater extent than any other state, resulting in a great influx of students. He also hit on a recurrent theme of low teaching loads at the University of Utah. Rogers declared that a full teaching load is 15 hours, but some professors have special contracts allowing them to engage in te "That research has brought $200 million income to the state in research grants and awards," he said. In response to questions, Cook said he would like to see all taxes lowered, not just the tax on food. "We went after the most regressive tax first," he said, although he conceded that his group had failed in attempts to get property and income taxes lowered. "I'd like to see the gas tax lowered, too," he said. "We could also close the loopholes in the sales tax system which single out some businesses and exempt others." He said lowering the taxes could encourage economic development and improve the economy. "Utah citizens are paying the highest taxes in the nation and supporting students from out of state. And the Board of Regents refuses to look at those imbalances," Cook said. Rogers charged that Cook placed the emphasis only on the impact to higher education, which involved Herald Senior Reporter former Utah County Commissioner told a jury Tuesday that the county commissioners never contracted with Shoreline Development to operate a dredge on Utah Lake. Shoreline is suing the county for and expenses $250,000 in sen-icethe two principals of the company, Milt Jones and Milt Hanks, claim they are owed for work they did in 1986 trying to bring dredging equipment to Utah County. They claim the county was going to turn the dredging project over to them to operate. Former Commissioner Gary Anderson, testifying in 4th District Court before a jury of four men and four women, said the county never authorized the two men to represent them. "I was adamant that there was no working relationship with the Milts." The two men claim they worked with Utah Division of Surplus Property Director Bill Arseneau to locate the Dredge Harding in Port A s land, Ore., and went through the government red tape to gain control of it. The county could use pumps, engines and dredging equipment off the ship while selling off the rest of the ship for salvage to pay for moving the equipment to Utah and setting it up in Utah Lake, they contended. It eventually took an act of Congress to transfer the ship's ownership to Utah. Anderson said he was told about the ship and "we were expecting something kind of neat." A list of items on the ship included brass bells and other collectibles. However, he said, when he and three others went to look at the ship. "It was a pile of junk." He said he almost fell off the old plank getting onto the ship "and that was the good part of the tour." He said the ship had been badly vandalized and that someone had been living on the ship, unknown to the military. None of the "neat" items on the list were found on the ship, he added. The county went on to get the ents had signed a petition about a change in the bus route. Lott said the bus has to take a medically fragile Carterville child home first because of severe lung problems the boy suffers and that put Harbor Park children 25 minutes later getting home. He said he told parents there are two other buses the children can ride if they must get home earlier for music lessons, etc., and explained the situation with the ill child. Transportation people are also looking closely at zone busing as the price of gas skyrockets. Lott said he is paying double the gas price of last spring. To conserve, the district could make only one stop in a neighborhood and could require elementary children to walk one and a half miles and secondary students two miles to catch their buses. Lott said he has been approached by the Thomas Bus representatives to participate in a study of converting the buses to natural gas. He said the Thomas buses are constructed with the frame extending below the floor and could accomodate the tank necessary for natural gas. The bus could use the same engine with some modifications and would cost less to run on natural gas. School. The school had to pay $133,000 during the sanctioned period for patients that otherwise would have been covered by Medicaid, and ultimately could have faced loss of $18.1 million in annual federal reimbursement and closure of the school. Superintendent Mary Ellen Wilkinson said Tuesday. The school has been unable to meet federal active treatment standards off and on since 1986, accord- - 30 percent of the tax. "Heaven help us if we have to begin denying students access to Utah Valley Community College. The average student age there is 24 because it involves not just young students, but people who have to return to the work force in a different way." "What about the poor who are served by the social service program? What happens to them? What about the impact on transpor-atioand the infrastructure we are supposed to drive on? What about the other 70 percent?" Rogers asked. He urged voters to look at the whole picture. "It's such an enormous pill to swallow, don't blame the people, because nobody should have to swallow it," he declared. "I am glad the people of this state have not allowed Merrill Cook to form our economic policy. We've been successful in our efforts and are beginning to see tangible results," Rogers said. just n, ship but "it came to a point where we didn't want the dredge before we even got it." Although Anderson said he recalled at least one meeting with the Shoreline people in his office, he said most of the work to obtain the dredge was being done by people like Arseneau, Sen. Jake Garn who stopped in to get the amendment prepared that turned over the ship and Gov. Norman Bangerter who wrote a letter. When asked about a newspaper article that said Shoreline had a deal with the county, he said, "I'm never surprised at what's printed in the newspaper." The jury heard testimony- from County Engineer Clyde Nayior who said he signed a letter which said the county planned to hire Shoreline to convert the dredge for use on the lake. He said the county had $150,000 in 1986 earmarked for a dredging project but never used it and turned it back into the general fund. - Investigation continues Law enforcement autnonties are continuing to investigate a bank robbery that occurred Monday morning. FBI officials are king for three men, described as being in their late teens to mid-20- , who entered First Interstate Bank, G6 E. 1650 North. Provo. at about 11:40 a.m. carrying handguns. The suspects were wearing Halloween masks described as a clown mask, a ghost mask, and 1 a green rubber mask. Provo police officers responded to the scene and discovered the masks near a trash bin in the Riviera Apartment complex, located west of the bank. The suspects were last seen heading, on foot, south across the bank's parking lot. Anyone with information concerning this robberv is asked to call the FBI's Salt Lake City 1 office at or the Provo Police Department. 355-752- ing to the new superintendent. Herald Staff Writer Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Karl Snow told members of the Provo Kiwanis Club Tuesday that waste, fraud and abuse in government programs amount to a sum nearly the amount equal to one-thithat will be collected in 1991 income taxes. He said reducing and eliminating three unnecessary drains on the federal budget would be steps ,he would use for reducing the federal deficit. Snow spoke to over 50 Kiwanis Club members at the Excelsior rd Hotel. His Democratic opponent Bill Orton spoke to club members last week, and spoke much about the federal budget and deficit. Snow said he supported the Congressional Budget Office's propoal to increase the federal budget 4 percent over the 1990 budget, but he said congress seems to want to allow the usual 10 percent increase. Snow also said that much could be trimmed from the federal budget by simply collecting money owed to the government from student loans, farmers and veter As much as $325 billion could be saved through oversight and programs that could eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, Snow said. The Republican said he sup- ports many of the numerous budget proposals developed by the Grace Commission. Snow said the best fiscal minds in the nation were commissioned to examine federal financing and come up with proposals. He said among the Grace Commission suggestions is a proposal to go to a two-yebudget cycle and employ reductions in agricultural subsidies. ar He said the commission also determined that of the 3,000 military installations in the United States, 2,000 could be closed. Asked about President George Bush vetoing the Civil Rights Bill, Snow said the bill threat- ened businesses and could have pushed American businesses into a hiring quota system. Snow said it would have also overturned seven separate U.S. Supreme Court Decisions. Asked about a ground swell of opinon of establishing tariff bar- - iers, Snow said if there is a ground swell, it hasn't been reflected in Congress. ,He said he supports open and free trade. Asked if he supported limiting congressional terms of office, he said he did. Snow said 12 years ' seemed like a good term limit. He urged everyone to get out , and vote in two weeks. Asked about a value added tax on financial transactions, Snow said there has been resistance to the proposal because if is thought to be inflationary and the cost of managing such a system would add to the cost of government. Snow was introduced by Provo Mayor Joe Jenkins who said he had worked with Snow in the Utah legislature. "Snow has tremendous experience and we need someone with experience," said Jenkins. Jenkins said a candidate's private life should be examined, but he said it should not be open to private abuse by people with hidden agendas. He said if candidates' private lives are abused, "pretty soon good men will not run." Jenkins said Snow is a good man. Some Republicans back Orton Organization has some 50 members Feds lift training school's sanctions - AMERICAN FORK (APi The federal government has removed sanctions that could have forced closure of the Utah State Training ans. By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Commissioners never contracted with company to operate dredge, jury told By KAYLENE NELSEN B. Snow addresses Kiwanis Club Cook pushes food tax removal By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Wednesday Oct. 24, 1990 Last September the federal government stepped up its surveillance by removing Medicaid funds for new admissions until the standards were met. The Department of Health and Human Sen-ice- s officially removed the sanctions last Friday, Wilkinson said. "They will pay Medicaid for new admissions as long as they meet admission criteria." she said. "We also can apply for Medicaid at this point for the five people the state has been paying for. But we cannot receive retroactive reimbursement." School funding was first jeopardized in 1986 when a federal audit determined gang showering and bathing techniques were still used on patients with little attention to privacy. Later that year the state agreed to move approximately 300 of the school's 688 clients into community programs while upgrading senices at the school. By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer crack in the Grand Old Party has opened up in Utah in the 3rd Congressional District with the formation of Republicans for Democrat Bill Orton. "We feel that Karl Snow does not represent the principles of the Republican Party," said Mike Schna-blpresident of the organization. The Salt Lake County businessA e, man said his organization has nearly 50 members so far and is seeking more to support Orton. The organization's logo shows a surprised Democrat donkey arm-inarwith the Repubican Elephant. It was commissioned by the revolutionary Republicans and drawn by a Utah County freelance artist. Snow campaign manager Clark Caras questioned whether the supporters were ever really Republicans in their hearts if they can now support Orton whose national party's platform supports abortion on demand and the National Educational Association's position that alternative lifestyles such as homosexuality should be taught in public schools. In a Republican's for Orton press dispatch, the organization said Snow has avoided public debates and wherever possible sticks to memorized speeches. "(He) is a carefully-package- d PR product which his campaign keeps hidden as much as possible so the public will be unable to see his ineptness," it states. The dispatch also spoke of the alleged Snow entanglements with Michael Strand, and companies Strand was involved with. Strand was the convicted felon who was manipulating stock involving a merger between Unique Battery and Global Oil Company. well-financ- Logo for Republicans for Bill Orton Smith said his organization is Many investors lost money when much smaller and has operated the merger failed. Snow claims he was one of the victims too. mostly in Roosevelt and was una"In the Mike Strand affair, he ware of the Salt Lake County based either is quilty and lying or his is group. Smith said he formed his organi-zato- n incredibly gullible and lacks discernment in his choice of business because Orton was the only candidate who seemed to spend a associates," read the dispatch. Republicans for Orton, led by lot of time talking with residents of the 3rd Congressional districts othSchnable, are not the same organier 12 counties that are more rural zation as Republicans for Orton, than Salt Lake and Utah County. led by Kerry Smith of Roosevelt. Layton Construction to build caster Bv" PATRICK CHRISTLVN Herald Staff Writer Layton Construction Co. of Salt Lake City will construct the $95 million continuous caster at Geneva Steel Co. Announcement of the selection of companies working on the new steel technology came this week from the local steel mill, located in Vineyard. Geneva Steel Co. has selected SMS Concast of New Jersey to design a continuous steel slab caster for its Vineyard steel mill. Engineering will be done by Lockwood and Greene of Dallas, Texas. The announcement this week that the Utah County steel mill is moving to the design phase of installing a continuous casting facility is the newest step in a $226 million modernization program. Geneva spokeswoman Man Kay Lazarus said actual construction is expected to take about two years. Since Geneva Steel bought the local mill from USX Corporation on Aug. 31, 1987, a continuous caster has been under consideration. In its prospectus issued in March, when it first issued public stock, Geneva Steel first officially announced plans to install a contin-ou- s casting facility to produce high quality steel slabs directly from liquid steel. Geneva Steel's present process of rolling steel slabs is slower. In the present process, steel ingots are cast in molds and are later reheated and rolled into steel slabs. The continuous casting facility will replace substantially all the company's ingot mold operations. Steel is currently produced in h furnances installed in the 1940s. They are being replaced next year by modern basic oxygen furnances, and construction at Geneva is already underway. In the new process, molten steel from the new basic oxygen furnace will flow directly through the con- open-heart- Sheriff's Department finds teens Two teens reported lost in Hobble Creek Canyon were found this morning following a short search by the Utah County Sheriff's Department. fied According to a spokeswoman, a Orem male and a Springville female were reported missing at midnight Tuesday. the teens, who were not identi ing. by ine Sheriff's Department, believed reported by their parents to be missing. According to Lt. Dick Casto, officers discovered the couple at about 9:40 after a short search this mornwere "They had just run off the road and got stuck in the mud and they spent the night. There was no problem," a department spokeswoman said. fc V'' tinuous caster to form slabs that will then go to the rolling mill. Geneva chief operating officer Robert J. Grow said the caster will be located adjacent to the plant's rolling mill, avoiding the expense of reheating and handling cold slabs. "We expect that the combined (basic oxygen furnace), caster and direct rolling technologies will improve the mill's finished product yield, reduce energy and labor costs, increase throughput capacity and improve the metallurgical and surface quality of the mill's Grow. finished product," said I "Geneva is the first U.S. producer to announce the installation of thin slab casting at an integrated steel plant," said company pres ident Joseph A. Cannon. The new caster will be designed to produce conventional slabs six inches thick, which can be used to produce Geneva's existing product mix of sheet, plate and pipe. Typical end uses for these products include gas and water pipelines, ships, fabricated metal products and construction applications. The caster will also be engineered to produce two-inc- h thin slabs. "After months of extensive re search, and in consultation with leading caster designers, we have concluded that the technology of thin slab casting and direct rolling will provide operating cost benefits compared to traditional thick slab casting, reheating and rolling technologies," said Grow. hot-roll- |