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Show c3 J 05 3 3 Monday, April 6, 1992 The Daily Herald - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Amy Spencer owes her life to experimental surgery performed while she was in Facility wants a second chance Five-year-o- ld her mother's womb. But some doctors who perform proceSALT LAKE CITY (AP) dures to save dying fetuses believe they -dust addicts, alcoholics, sexual would face criminal prosecution if the state's deviants and a killer have been givlaw goes into effect. en second chances at Northwest new For the abortion law remains on now, Passage. Now the treatment center hold battle over its constitua court pending wants a second chance of its own. tionality. Little has been said about its Still reeling from intense publiclanguage. ity for accepting Boston child killer Dr. Steven Clark, a specialist at LDS Matthew Rosenberg, and respondwho performed the surgery to save ing to concerns from neighbors, Hospital the halfway house is phasing out all Amy, believes the statute is unclear. "I don't know if I'm in compliance when I treatment of sex offenders. treat a mother or I try to save babies," he "This is going to hurt, but we have to do it," said director Craig said. "The law makes it possible for some Hansen. "We're going to have to attorney wanting to get a reputation to go catch our breath. We'll have to after me." Kenneth Ward, a University of Utah find the strength to keep going. ' ' physician, is looking for work elsewhere Northwest Passage drew nation al limelight two weeks ago after revelations it had secretly treated Rosenberg, who at 14 admitted sodomizing and drowning Kenneth Claudio in a Boston sub- - Angel- anti-aborti- on Bird watchers meet with Hansen - OGDEN (AP) The sighting of a rare Eurasian wigeon wasn't the only unusual occurrence at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge this weekend. Bird watchers and duck hunters also showed up together. So did Rep. Jim Hansen, who was able to soothe some of the ruffled feathers of Audubon Society members upset over his support of policies reducing wetlands. Hansen was the kickoff speaker Saturday at the retreat for the society's Utah chapters. They gathered at the Canadian Goose Duck Club near the refuge, and club members also attended. Sandy hoy shot in incident at home COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS (AP) The weekend shooting of a Sandy boy was the third such incident in three weeks involving juveniles in Salt Lake County. Omar Salmon died Saturday evening after being struck in his home by a stray bullet fired from another room. Authorities said a group of youths was playing with a handgun in the other room when it was fired. Sheriffs Deputy Jim Potter said a pulled the trigger. The victim had been playing in the garage away from the other youngsters. The bullet went through a wall and hit him in the head. He was taken by helicppter to Primary Children's Medical Center, where he died a short time later. er . Woman dies after car sinks in lake - A TOOELE (AP) old woman died Sunday after the car she was in rolled down a freeway embankment into the Great Salt Lake and sank. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Dean Rogers said Thelma Gunnell was pronounced dead at the scene, about eight miles west of the Salt county line on Inter74-yea- state 80. The woman and her husband, Preston P. Gunnell, 76, were traveling east, back to their South Salt Lake home. Gunnell, who was driving, apparently became sleepy and pulled off the highway to stretch his legs. ToddSer dies in fire ignited by candle ' - A SALT LAKE CITY (AP) house fire believed sparked by a candle killed a sleeping boy and injured four others, the Salt Lake City Fire Department reports. The victim, Max Curtis, was ' found on the floor of his bedroom about five feet from a window, fire Capt. Dan Andrus said. Firefighters were rushed to the eastside Salt Lake home about 2 a.m. Sunday. They found flames second-stor- y pouring out of the boy's window. bedroom Neighbor Lawrence Ashcraft ran over to the house just before the firefighters arrived and saw ' flames rising from the structure. "They were shooting up around 20 or 30 feet, and there was a lot of fire. It was going light from the ' pretty felt it would be wrong if fetal tissues or parts from babies were used in experiments," said state Rep. Evan L. Olsen, Ward, who helped pass the legislation. Physicians want the slate's experimentation ban to have an exception for therapeutic procedures techniques geared to save life. Wood said the law already makes such al- defects." Most doctors understand this to mean fetal surgery is unlawful, said obstetrician Mary Beard, vice chair of Utah's chapter of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. But state attorney Mary Anne Wood said the law does not prohibit procedures to save a fetus. In fact, prohibitions against fetal experimentation have been on the books since 1974, but few doctors knew they exist- lowances. One doctor who specializes in pregnancies agrees. Greggory DeVore said the law allows for experimental procedures as long as they're intended to benefit the fetus. "I don't have the concerns other physicians have. I can do experimental procedures to help the fetus, with no fear of prosecut ion. " But Ward said an overzealous prosecutor could have gone after researchers for a procedure pioneered at the U. that had been done only on sheep and monkeys before it high-ris- k ed. Last year when lawmakers passed the bill outlawing most elective abortions, the old ban against fetal experimentation was included. The fact that no researcher has been prosecuted is proof a doctor performing an untried but procedure would not be penalized now, Wood said. "I don't know all the ramifications, I just was used to save tw in fetuses. life-savi- Group starts parimutuel wagering petition good," he said. - LitLAKE POWELL (AP) deep, looking for artifacts and of thousands of ar- burials. The only access to the chaeological sites dot the Utah site was by houseboat. Just last Sunday deputies arlandscape, from dry caves scattered around the shores of the rested two men digging up Indian k Great Salt Lake to the graves in Millard County . "There seems to be a resurgcanyons of southern Utah. For more than 10,000 years, ence of the problem all over the various peoples have called Utah state," said state archaeologist home, leaving behind a rich lega- David Madsen. "The Forest Service lands are getting hit hard, cy of architecture, ideology, artifacts and art work. and they're saying the problem is But it's a cultural resource that as bad as it's ever been. ' is under attack Vandalism and pothunting are again. Reports of criminal vandalism of archaeo- generations-ol- d problems in Utah logical sites in Utah is on the that became particularly acute increase, and archaeologists about 10 years ago. State and fedfrom across the state are sounderal authorities responded by ing the alarm. raiding the homes of suspected cases the most serious Among pothunters in San Juan County. raids Those investigated by federal authorities in the past 12 months: pushed the problem into other A rock art areas, like Washington and Kane on the Juan San River, counties. But on the whole, there panel called the Kachina Panel, was de- was a noticeable reduction in pofaced by vandals who engraved thunting cases being reported, officials say, due in part to a masobscenities on the prehistoric that some believe could sive education campaign. But the trend toward less vanbe as old as 2 ,000 years . Vandals dug huge craters in a dalism has reversed in the past dry cave northeast of Moab, year. One area hit particularly hard has been the Glen Canyon seeking saleable baskets, figuone rines and other artifacts. The National Recreation Area cave was believed by archaeoloof only three national parks in the e entire Southwest with a gists to have contained an irreplaceable stratigraphic record of archaeologist. Officials at Lake Powell have thousands of years of human ocPlaon the been Colorado cupation routinely monitoring sites since 1986, while some phototeau. Roof beams from two differgraphs and site records go back ent Anasazi cliff sites on the north 40 years. "Many of those sites side of Lake Powell were ripped are not even recognizable tofrom the structures and burned. day," says Chris Kincaid, a National Park Service archaeologist The sites, popular destinations for boaters on Lake Powell, were assigned to the area. Much of that destruction is due irreparably damaged and important scientific data was lost. to the cumulative effects of An important Archaic habitahundreds of thousands of visitors tion in a sand dune near Yuba walking over and around the Reservoir continues to be desites. But Kincaid is now dealing d vehicles. The with a new kind of visitor. stroyed by Division of State Lands has re"We didn't see any real pothfused to protect the site from onoles until last year," Kincaid said. "We went out and monigoing damage. e At an Anasazi site in tored 60 sites (in 1991), and Canyon, vandals dug a found 12 to IS incidents of crimitrench 30 feet long and three feet nal vandalism. What we're erally tens red-roc- much-publiciz- world-famo- X A i " per X i .if. i , - . - . J - - .f v v" - - 1 4 i . . - ... 2- - &LJ , ; By - whether betting at horse races should be allowed in the state. Members of Citizens to Put Utah First, which failed to persuade the Legislature to legalize parimutuel horse racing, kicked off a statewide initiative petition drive Saturday in South Jordan and Salt Lake City. "The Legislature is much more conservative than the population ii general," said the group's spokesman, Jon Freston. "We will make our goal of 65,000 signatures." . Former world middleweight boxing champion Gene Fullmer, Lake state Rep. Janet Rose, head of the Mac and Murray, City, petition drive, were the first to put their names on the list at a signing party at the Payne Family Horse Farm in South Jordan. The other signing party was at the Salt Palace during a gun show exhibition. "I feel pretty good today," Freston said. "It was only announced yesterday and we had hundreds of people showing up today to sign up. We should really get rolling by next week. We'll have 4,000 petitions out by this time next week." Murray said the petitions will be available in all 29 counties and stressed that those who sign do not necessarily have to be for parimutuel racing. "We want to give people the right to vote. " if the issue is to be included on the general election ballot in Citizens to Put Utah First needs to collect the signatures of nearly 65,000 registered voters by ed us D-S- i "VS. full-tim- off-roa- Esca-lant- The Associated Press They only have three months, but backers of parimutuel wagering believe they'll collect enough signatures to let Utah voters decide JL. h , ..Am- - I,, .iii1 rimnfimrnnrn"-"'- - J- -- AP Laserphoto Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Julie Howard checks an example of vandalism of prehistoric rock art on a sandstone wall near Moab last fall. seeing now is criminal stuff, people who know its illegal but do it anyway." In one case, park service officials noted a site precariously located in a cliff face where a whole pot and a burial were observed. Money was requested to scientifically recover die artifacts before the site could be vandalized and the artifacts lost. "Three years later we finally got the money. But by then the pot and the artifacts were already gone," she said. Dale Davidson, a Bureau of Land Management archaeologist in San Juan County, has also not- ed an increase in vandalism, though not of the professional pothunting variety that prompted the raids there in the 1980s. N6-vemb- July 3. r: Lake-Tooe- le ; advisable, in the best medical judgment of the physician, may be tested for genetic Region's archaeological sites under attack urb in 1983. large-calib- . because of the law, which he believes will stymie research and drive top doctors from the state. "The law hits those of us who work on the cutting edge, those of us who see patients other doctors refer to someone else," he said. "We tried to get lawmakers, the governor and the attorney general to listen, but nobody did." Amy's mother, Sue Spencer of Provo, said her daughter would have died without experimental surgery. "The bottom line was that we were allowed a choice and we went with what we thought was best. ' ' A cyst had lodged inside Amy's lung, filling her body with fluids and attacking her kidney and heart. Before Clark operated, Amy was one week away from cardiac failure. She is now a healthy March of Dimes poster child. The abortion law states that fetuses "may not be used for experimentation, but when Extra bucks in paycheck not a gift from Uncle Sam SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Workers might think the few extra dollars they've found in their paychecks lately are a gift from Uncle Sam. But local payroll preparers warn that more taxes may follow. That's because the tax break is a reduction in the amount of federal income taxes withheld from paychecks, not a reduction in the amount of taxes owed to the federal government. The difference is confusing workers, said Don Lowry, president of Payroll Services, a Salt d company that handles 180 small business in for payrolls Utah and other states. "We've had more problems, questions and employee hysteria with the new tax tables," Lowry said. "They could end up owing money. That's the big fear. People don't want to have to take out loans Lake-base- next April 15." Lowry, along with payroll officials for some of the state's largest employers, have tried to caution workers they're the ones responsible for making sure they don't end up in debt to the government. So far, though, few appear to have heeded the warning. "This time next year we're going to be the bad guys," said Dick Leonard, director of payroll for the University of Utah. "It's going to be our fault they've got to pay." Leonard said fewer than 5 percent of the 13,500 employees at the U. and the University Medical Center have checked and changed their withholding rates. "I don't know why they don't think it's going to affect them," he said. Workers will either see a slightly smaller tax refund in 1993, down from the more than $900 the average taxpayer is getting back this year, or be surprised to find they owe the government money. The only way to know for sure is to rigure out how much less is being withheld this year and compare that amount to the bottom line of this year's tax reiurn. Employers should have the IRS forms necessary to do the calculations and make changes in the amount of withholding. The decision whether to have additional money withheld is up to employees. "We try never to get in the position of being a tax consultant," said Sharon Broadwater, director of payroll and benefits for Smith's Food & Drug Center Lie. The reduction, announced by President Bush in his State of the Union address, is intended to help stimulate the nations economy by e increasing pay. take-hom- killed in accident Five-year-o- ld WOODS CROSS (AP) truck-pedestri- an - A accident has claimed the life of a Woods Cross boy. Authorities said Alejandro Aguado was killed Friday when he ran from behind a parked truck into a road and was struck by a truck driven by David Williams, 30, Bountiful. Under-use- d 379-612- program PROVO MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA low-Incom- under-utilize- ty To register any public comment or question concerning 0 and leave a message agenda items, please call on the automatic answering system. Comments will be transmitted to Council members. offers tax credits to e workers SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Sen. Orrin Hatch has teamed up with state and federal agencies to d call attention to an to credits tax offers that !rogram workers. Hatch joined representatives of the state Division of Community and Economic Development and the Internal Revenue Service Satword urday to try and spread the Credit. about the Earned Income Working families who earned less than $21 ,250 and have at least one child who lived with them for more than six months can qualify for the credit. Hatch said an estimated 2 million families nationwide qualify for but don't claim the tax credits. In Utah last year, 70,000 families took advantage of the promilgram, returning almost $40 lion to the state. county-by-coun- The child was flown by medical helicopter to Primary Children's Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, hospital offi- cials said. The group wants Utahns to have the opportunity to decide on a vote whether they should be allowed to have wagering on local horse races. . "I think we can get the signatures by July 3," said Freston. "Getting it approved in the general election will be the heavy lifting.' DATE: April 7, 1992, 1. 7:00 P.M. Opening Ceremonies a. Invocation b. Pledge of Allegiance c. Proclamation declaring the week of April can City Quality Week" in Provo City. 2. Action Agenda 1992 aa "Ameri- . a. Planning Commission item from March 11, 1992 meeting Robert Gunnell, agent for Otto Belvedere, requests the annexation of property located at approximately 880 North to 2000 North, West toward Utah Lake, or any from the railroad tracks and '. portion thereof, into Provo City. Lakevlew Neighborhood. Council A resolution of Provo, Utah urging of the Municipal b. of the United States to halt the practice of enacting unfunded federal mandates, or In the alternative, to provide federal funding for any mandates which it does enact. 3. Questions for the Mayor and Council 4. Requests for Information. 5. Meeting Adjourned. The next Municipal Council Meeting will be held April 14, 1992, at 7:00 P.M. In the Council Chambers, 351 West Center, Provo, unless otherwise noticed. - |
