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Show Tuesday, Septembers, 1992 The Daily Herald D5 QmQ2 psttesti moseyls dystrophy fundraiser - Million dollar hay fire extinguished - MODENA (AP) A fire in an Iron County barn has been extinguished after destroying hay worth about $1.2 million. There were no injuries.. Officials were still investigating the cause of the blaze, which began Saturday. Cedar City fire officials said the smoldering hay packaged in compact cubes for easy transportation was extinguished by Monday morning, about 40 hours after the fire began in the unwalled barn five miles north of Modena. Officials emphasized that used to compact the hay did not burn in the fire and posed no health hazard. Bentonite is a fire retardant. ben-toni- te Globe canceled as defendant in suit - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The supermarket tabloid The Globe has been dismissed from a libel suit brought by former Salt Lake businessman J. Gary Sheets. The action leaves a writer as the only remaining defendant. The $2 million suit claimed Sheets was defamed him a 1989 story about singer Marie Osmond's financial losses from his failed CFS Financial Corp. U.S. District Judge Bruce S. Jenkins recently dismissed The Globe from the suit, leaving as the lone defendant in the case Laura contributor to Deni, a the tabloid. The judge ruled Deni was not an employee of the Globe and that the newspaper was therefore not responsible for her actions. The judge earlier had dismissed two Globe editors from the suit. Sheets claimed libel for an April 18. 1989, story that alleged that Sheets had bilked the singer. Sheets was indicted on 37 counts of mail, security and pension-frau- d charges. He was acquitted by a jury. free-lan- free-lan- ce ce Oval enemies draft ballot initiative - ReSALT LAKE CITY (AP) in buffed their first effort, opponents of Salt Lake City's plan to g build an Olympic oval on Block 49 a new ballot initiative. The city recorder denied opponents' first application for a ballot initiative. Third District Judge Timothy Hansen on Friday upheld the recorder. '.Tim Funk, a spokesman for the .' activists fighting the oval planned near Pioneer Park, expects the new , petition also to be rejected by the city prompting another round in court. The judge said the first initiative was too broad and illegally tried to regulate a redevelopment agency . The new petition would prohibit spending city funds to build, maintain and operate the oval. An oval would conflict with other plans and harm cultural and ethnic flavors of the neighborhood, the petition states. It also claims the city cannot afford it. speed-skatin- have-draft- ed . Fued polarizes ICaysville residents KAYSVILLE (AP) - A feud over Kaysville's recreation pro- gram and its longtime director has polarized this northern Utah town of 14.000. ; ' Last Thursdav. a special recrea- tion board meeting was abruptly canceled as a dispute between rec- -' reation director Marianne Gardner supervisory and the board to a head. five-memb- er Gardner maintains the board is trying to force her out with trumped up charges. Recreation board chairwoman Helena Handsaker denies the charge, insisting the board just wants to improve the program's weak points, Gardner is not cooperating with the board's effort, she said. Nearly 100 people showed up for the special board meeting, only to see it canceled because an official notice had not been posted 24 hours in advance as required by state law. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A group of protesters joined demonstrations nationwide in denouncing a muscular dystrophy fundraiser on Labor Day as unfairly depicting the disabled as helpless. The demonstration at KTVX-Tin Salt Lake was one of several held across the country in opposition to the televised Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, which was broadcast in V Utah on KTVX. Protesters, including seven in wheelchairs, carried signs urging an end to the telethon, which they claim makes money by painting a false picture of people with disabilities. The annual telethon "portrays the handicapped as childlike, helpless, hopeless, said disableand d-rights activist Barbara Toom-e- r of West Valley. The Lewis "pity approach" is S.L. County residents in no hurry to conserve water SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Even in the midst of a drought, Salt Lake County residents consume nearly twice as much water as residents of some other large Western metropolitan areas. Utahns also are as much as a decade behind other cities in methadopting ods such as toilets and restricted shower heads. Residents of the Salt Lake City 3 water district, which serves homes and businesses in the city and in Salt Lake County along the East Bench, average about 242 gallons of water per person per day. By comparison, San Diego residents consume about 191 gallons per day; Denver residents use about 203 gallons a day, and the residents normally of Portland use 115 gallons per day. The only city that comes close to Salt Lake City is Phoenix, where average daily use is about 240 gallons, much of it in evaporative coolers. Utahns take water for granted, said Curt Kidman, an who is now a spokesman for the San Diego Water Department. "More than 90 percent of our water here in San Diego comes from somewhere else," Kidman six-ye- ar water-conservati- low-flo- w 85,-73- rain-drench- ex-Uta- said. "We're at the end of the pipeline and we know it. We have to demeaning and damaging, the protesters said. He's telling millions of viewers "that we are to be pitied. That being disabled is horri- ble." And that, contends Toomer, and prejudice promotes terror toward the disabled. They point to an article Lewis wrote in 1990 in which he envisioned himself as having the disease and said the experience would make him "a half person.'' "That's extremely offensive to me," said Toomer, who contracted polio as a young adult. Telethons, she says, portray the disabled as "inferior beings deserving but not depity and protection serving of dignity, equality and re- spect." "With the proper equipment and access to buildings, "there's no reason we can't live the same lives as everyone else." A West Jordan father whose 1 son suffers from muscular dystrophy defends Jerry Lewis and conserve." A week ago, water officials pleaded with Salt Lake County residents to voluntarily cut water use by 20 percent. The drought has forced the the telethon. "I care for those people (the county to divert culinary water for farm irrigation. Many farmers rely protesters). I really do. But they on Utah Lake for irrigation until have a problem," says David M. well into September but have been Batchelor. "And they're infringing on my left high and dry as the lake level has dropped to its lowest level in rights and the rights of my son 30 years. In July, a new law went into effect mandating the installation of toilets and restricted-floshower heads for new construction, said Sandy City building examiner Scott Marsell. Standard toilets use about 7.5 gallons per flush while models need only 1.5 gallons. The appliances have been required in new construction in San Diego and Denver for more than 10 years. Both cities offer toilets bought rebates for to replace existing toilets. In Denver, the $80 rebate check covers the entire cost of the toilet, said Denver city planner Tom Clark. The drawback for Denver is the toilets the huge stack of city has collected. "We're thinking of crushing them and using them as road base," Clark said. low-flo- Michael," he said from the Salt Lake Airport Hilton, where the Utah portion of the Lewis telethon was staged. He admits Lewis uses children to "tug at the heartstrings of donors." And the telethon may promote pity for victims of the crippling disease, he says. "But that's iife that's why people give. " If funds raised by Lewis can help find a cure, "then I don't care if the man is green, or has polka dots and horns," said Batchelor, a volunteer for the Utah chapter of 1 Muscular Dystrophy Associations" of America. Doctors diagnosed Michael with Duchenne muscular dystrophy at 3 months, giving him a life expectancy of 10 to 13 years. "So a cure will come too late for my son," he said. "But if Jerry Lewis and the association can make the quality of life just a little better or eventually what more can save just one life anyone do?" The telethon ended Monday with a record $45.8 million in pledge. 75 rally against prejudice -- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A rally against prejudice drew 175 people to the state Capitol. Billed as the first "Friends of Each Other March," the rally Monday night brought together e, Jews gay, lesbian, and others. The rally was launched as a reaction to last year's neo-NaLabor Day rally. A group of white supremacists obtained a pro-choic- zi demonstration permit for this Labor Day, but never ap peared. "Rather than show Utah s, what we don't like about we are going to show Utah what we like about each neo-Nazi- other," Dale Sorenson, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats, said before the rally. "While Utahns may not realize the diversity in the state, they do respect it. What this event will do is put a face on minorities and the stereotypes." w w low-flo- low-flo- w w low-flo- Leadership Can't Be Proclaimed. w ItHasToBe Demonstrated. old-sty- le Pat Shea For Governor Miners muck and drill in Labor Day contest - The and rock into a narrow-gaug- e PARK CITY (AP) his miner hand and rail mining car faster than his judge drops Rich Martinez lunges toward colleagues. the target boulder, lugging a The mining celebration each -- roa ri n g 12 "LaboTDay is one "of the1asr sed-air-powered Jackleg Park City's mining drill. Water squirts from the tip vestiges of The town is better heritage. and chips of rock fly at the known today for its ski slopes, bit crowd of bystanders as but a scaled-dow- n mining inspuds in. survives 911 miles and dustry In less than 2 'A minutes, of tunnels remain underground Martinez bored two in the surrounding mountains. holes into the boulder, winning The drilling and mucking the Park City Miners Day drillthe at contest city Monday ing competitions, once open to amin for All the work a are now the province of ateurs, day's park. Park City native, professional miners, due to inwho has labored underground creasing concerns over liabiliat nearby Park City Mines Co. ty. The event drew hundreds to the town park, where food for the past 40 years. "The secret? Just get it up booths and children's games there and give her hell," says also were held. miner who Other Labor Day observthe ances included a performance has won the drilling competition off and on for the past 37 by the Salt Lake Philharmonic Orchestra Monday night at the years. Von Beddoes won the muckUtah State Fairpark in Salt Lake dirt City. ing competition, loading compres- te I 6 third-generati- Some schools unaware they're supposed to identify 1 8-year-- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Sschool districts apparently are unaware that the Utah Legislature has passed a law requiring them to inform county clerks of are attendhow many ing classes. ome Under the law, passed early this year, the clerks must then send enough mail-i- n voter registration forms to the schools to allow the students to register. "I guess we just let it slip by, with all of the other issues we are concerned with," said Darrell White, an executive with the Utah School Boards Association. He said a letter had been sent to each of the 40 school districts last week to make sure they know of the requirement. The law gives the schools the month of September to make their numbers known to the concerned county clerks, so schools still have time to meet the mandate, White olds said. The schools must tell the local county clerk each September and March how many students are 18 or will be within the following period. six-mon- th Douglas Bates, legal and legislative officer for the State Office of Education, said each school district received a summary of 1992 legislation affecting education and should have been aware of the law. State Sen. Scott Howell, sponsor of the law, said the primary objective was to encourage eligible students "to take more interest in their own education by becoming involved. The most powerful statement one can make is to exercise the right to vote." Howell said research for the bill indicated that many were not exercising their franchise, often because they didn't know how the process works. The 1990 census showed 30,300 in the state. 1 Jl C' J n Consider this when you vote September 8th: "Mr. Shea's responses placed him closest to the average Utah voter." The Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 30, 1992, on reporting results of one of the most comprehensive public surveys ever taken on Utah values and .issues. The same survey went on to say: "The genius of the Shea position is that he is positioned well for the general election..." Pat Shea was the first candidate to draft position papers on education, Tax Reform, Economic Development, Environment and Human Services. These position papers have been placed on file in public libraries for public scrutiny throughout the Primary Campaign. In naming Cache County Economic Development Director Bobbie Coray as his Lieutenant Governor running mate, Pat Shea was the first candidate in Utah history to choose a woman for that position and remains the only candidate to name someone outside of the Wasatch Front. "This campaign, our campaign, is about touching lives. It is about change. It is a campaign that will integrity in and trust our state government. My goal is to be a governor for everyone in Utah." Pat Shea. Feb. 29, 1992! "5 SEEACOW Democrat THl WlllMfWIIHT Paid For By The Shea For Governor Committee. |
