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Show r' K , , at. S,-- -., X.. IT- - CI C3 C6 fbpinloEi Comki EDITOR: MITCH WILKINSON THE DAILY HERALD 4 O30caDOu1 UEnjtfi :,1 2 m FRIDAY, MARCH 20. 1998 u n TV links judges, inmates for court bail hearings the judges for their bail hearings without actually having to go to court. Utah County Sheriffs Office PROVO You're arrested. ' You find yourself facing 4th Lt. John Carlson, who oversees District Court Judge Lynn the jail, said in the past, at were Davis or Judge Anthony least two deputies three or four times a required Schofield in Provo for a bail week to transport prisoners hearing. from the jail to bail hearings in Weli, you'd better smile, because you're on court cam- a van. He said the bail hearings save his department money. era. Each trip requires the equivavailAlthough they've been of one day's worth of alent 3rd in for some time able which he valued at $136. work, District Court in Salt Lake City Over could save the a that year, and elsewhere, the 4th District more than $20,000. He county Court is now experimenting said if more judges start using with video bail hearings. So far, only bail hearings are video hearings, the savings will increase. held by video although some "IH give it good marks so attorneys are worried the profar," Davis said Wednesday to could be gram expanded after conducting his third video, include other hearings. bail hearing. But the jury is still out on Saving money The hearings link Davis' and video bail hearings. They have Schofield's courtrooms in Provo a ways to go before they become to the Utah County Jail in See VIDEO, C2 Spanish Fork, so prisoners can ,. . By PAT CHRISTIAN : ,' The Daily Herald face '., '. - MARC LESTERThe On camera: Judge Lynn Davis conducts a bail hearing via tor is linked to the Utah County Jail in Spanish Fork. closed-circui- television Monday morning at 4th District Court t Court administrator Paul Sheffield said that on April 23 and 24, every computer in the PROVO Lines may get Provo court building will be down because of the project. longer at 4th District Court in "We will need some underProvo and the paperwork may standing and patience from the flow slower while a new compublic and from attorneys," puter system is installed. The changeover to the new, Sheffield said. "When everyWindows-baseCoria computer thing goes down, we will have e receipts." system started earlier this month to The and is expected to be complete on changeover has already May 8, according to 4th District occurred in the 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City and Court clerk Carma Smith. By PAT CHRISTIAN The Daily Herald d hand-writ- areas of the state. "We're one of the last judicial districts to go to the new system," Smith said, adding that it's designed to be easier to use but will take time for court swapping huge amounts of workers and the public to get court records and data to the used to. She said other courts in the new database system and then training court workers how to 4th Judicial District, which use the new system. Smith said extends as far south as about 78 terminals will be con- Fillmore, as far east as Heber verted to the new system. The and as far north as American changeover will require the Fork, will also make the switch by retraining of about 65 people. Sheffield said those transitions went relatively smoothly. The call for changes installing new equipment, mid-Ma- of tobacco y. 5 "A By AMANDA SKOW The Daily Herald : V By DONALD W. MEYERS " SPRINGVILLE The City Council has voted to unanimously to approve a $7.5 mil- lion Industrial Development Bond for Oldham Associates, which will enable the publishing business to expand and to Orem from relocate Springville. comes ;: The bond approval from the Utah Department of Community and Economic Development's Private Activity Bond Authority, with the city's tamp of approval. The bond roust be paid back by Oldham Associates and the city assumes no liability for the bond. of The Department Community and Economic Development issued one such bond for $2 million in 1396, to Z6vex of Murray, a medical manufacturer; another bond was issued in 1997 for $1.5 million to Nelson and Sons of Tooele, a fish food processing company. No other companies have won similar bond approval in 1998. The bond allows the company the right to borrow money from & bank or ether financial institution at an interest rate two or three points lower than conven-titinfinancing and most bonds terms last about 20 years, said Richard Nelson, director of the authority. He said the companies that win bond approval niUfit have good credit and creg ate jobs. This is not a government gjyeaway," Nelson said. Oldham Associates publishes the Utah County Journal; cwna the Liberty Press and owns Technology Digital International, which develops newspaper industry software. site It will relocate to a in Springville's industrial park, 180 Mountain Springs Road. The Daily Herald - A PLEASANT GROVE student effort to scuttle Rep. Carl R. Saunders' tobacco sales bill will continue, despite pleas from the Ogden Republican to snuff out the fight. The Pleasant Grove High School Esteem Team remained firm in its opposition to a clause in Saunders' bill limiting access to cigarettes and chewing tobacco that would have watered down Pleasant Grove's cigarette regulations. "I thought it wasn't fair because he wasn't listening to what we were saying," said high-scho- KfcVIN Li. Line Dsily Herald Walt a minute: Pam Davis, above, makes her disapproval clear during Rep. Carl Saunders' explanation of tobacco legislation that students fear will Jeopar dize Pleasant Grove's already-stric- t tobacco law. At right, dk4 rTMft. k . I j ' Saunders, i f U ol Saunders' bill requires tha tobacco products, with the except tion of large cases, be kept in a locked display cases in stores so anyone wanting the product has to ask a clerk for assistance.' The bill was amended at the' behest of the Utah Retail Merchants' Association to include a provision that local governments must enact ordinances that are "essentially identical" to the state law. But, Smith and her students said, that would mean Pleasant Grove would have to shelve most of its law because it is stricter than the proposed law. Pleasant Grove's ordinance, which was drafted with support from the Esteem Team, tobacco products be Kimberly Hexen, a PGHS junior. requires But Saunders said the stu- kept out of sight and reach of customers as a way to discourdents were the stubborn ones. The students have been pre- age shoplifting and minimize advertising. conditioned to fight this notion Smith said the clause is a and that has of standard ploy by the tobacco been blown way out of proporto defuse legislation industry said. Saunders tion," that runs counters to its inter: ests. "Essentially identical" Saunders dismissed that The group and adviser Joan Smith met with argument. He said the law does Saunders on Thursday morning allow local communities some to discuss the bill and their See DEBATE, C2 respective opinions. pre-empti- explains his position In support of legislation that would change tobacco laws statewide. ,." - al ' J "' nin ifiini. ilium itrrr tin ' in iir innmniiii mm ' in ra " Contract between Geneva, union moves toward accord high-payin- e other ivranMie over ewee o Springville 20-acr- Daily Herald in Provo. The moni- Disorder in the court: Computer switch expected to slow paperwork Publishing firm gets $7.5 million to help it move ! LJ . By DONALD W. MEYERS The Daily Herald VINEYARD Geneva SWel and the United Steelworkers of America Local 2701 expect to have a contract hammered out before the end of the month. Kelly Hansen, USWA's financial secretary, and Carl Ramnitz, Geneva's vice president for human relations, both said the negotiations are proceeding as smoothly as contract talks did 10 years ago when the mill reopened. "We are on more or less of the same problem-solvinpath we were on in the past," Ramnitz said. Hansen said the talks are going slowly but smoothly and he anticipates there will be an agreement by the March 31 expiration date on the existing contract. The negotiators have resolved lan g bers from 2,100 to 1,400, a number guage problems in the draft three-yea- r contract and are now moving into the Hansen then said was too low to operate the plant. economic issues, Ramnitz said. The smoothness of this year's talks Neither side would go into specifics on the discussions, citing a gag order comes in sharp contrast to the 1985 negotiations, when union members placed on the negotiators. An issue that was brought up earlier authorized leaders to call a strike if necthis year was reducing the union work essary and management cordoned off force at the plant. Joe Cannon, Geneva's the administration buildings with chief executive officer, said in January cyclone fencing and brought in a private he would like to reduce the union num security force. |