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Show "NT Thursday, October 28, 1995 The Daily Keraid M ay or Counties want watchdog panel SALT LAKE CITY AP) The Utah Association of Counties is campaigning for creation of a property tax consumer senices committee to act for taxpayers the way an existing consumer group represents public interests on utility issues. As envisioned by the association, the proposed committee would argue before the Utah Tax Commission when big mullieounty corporations appeal their property assessments. The idea is being opposed by of centrally representatives assessed properties holdings that cross county lines, like railroads, ntilities and some mines. their nature, centrally By assessed companies are diverse and difficult to assess. If the commission ultimately reduces their taxes, counties, school district and cities that have already collected and spent the money are left with often huge refunds to make. In addition to creation of a watchdog committee. Association spokesman Brent Gardner also suggested to a special legislative Property Tax Task Force that all centrally assessed property tax protests be heard', and a decision rendered, by the Tax Commission in the year the Cax.es are due. Dunn's attorney calls suit 'bad rap' wants to move tracks SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Mayor Deedee Corradini proposes to move the railroad tracks on Salt Lake City's west side and Corradini said she envisioned resithe area as a dential district that would serve as a haven for ethnic restaurants, entertainment and the arts. Td love to see an area of the city with the flavor of the cultures that make up this city," she high-densi- create a revitalized residential and commercial district. Corradini, speaking at a campaign debate Wednesday at the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics, said the city and the Utah Department of have Transportation put $200,000 aside to conduct a fea- ty said. '"I've always said (the rail- road tracks) split our city between east and west and this takes away the dividing line." City officials would need the cooperation of railroad owners, area businesses, property owners and the Legislature. There is no estimate on what the project would cost not sibility study. Deputy Mayor Brian Hatch said there are several models for redevelopment in the 500-acr- e area, none of which is solid enough to be called a plan. even a ballpark figure, Corradini said or how long it would take. Railroad officials have said they would be willing to consider plans to move their tracks farther west. The idea has been two years in the planning, Corradini said, and funding actually was set aside by the city and UDOT several months ago. Corradini said she announced the plan Wednesday, less than two weeks before the mayoral election, because there never had been a formal announcement about the city's hopes for the west side. son-in-la- - FARMINGTON The (AP) Press erroneously reported on Tuesday that a man who posed as a woman during a 3 marriage had been paid $5,000 by the television program I "Inside Edition." The program has a contract with Felix Urioste, who was sentenced to a year in jail for communications fraud and forgery, that stipulates ""Inside Edition' will pay $5,000 into the state crime victims' reparations trust fund on Unoste's behalf, said Sheila Sito-me- r. the show's executive produc- er. money, which will be applied toward Urioste's restitution, has not yet been paid. Sitomer said WednesThe court-ordere- d day. Hepatitis scare hits restaurant SALT LAKE CITY (AP) People who ate at a Midvale cafe earlier this month could have been exposed to hepatitis A by an y infected cook, the Salt Lake Health Department said. The department is recommending that some customers of John's Place be given immune globulin. But the risk is limited to patrons who ate particular meals at the restaurant on Oct. 13 between 3 ami II p.m.: Oct. 14 between 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. or Oct. 15 between 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. The meals were chef salads, garnished cold sandwiches and with garnished hamburgers onions, tomatoes and lettuce. The infected cook, who no longer works at the restaurant, mostly handled hot foods that do not usually spread the hepatitis A virus. But the cook also touched garnishes that could be contaminated. Hot foods, such as breakfast items, are not suspect, said Ilene Risk, epidemiologist with the Salt Like City County Health Department. No cases of hepatitis have been traced to the infected cook. But the incubation period for the irus can be as long as 50 I'ays. City-Count- Lottery jackpots growing larger DES MOINES. Iowa (AP) None of the tickets sold for the Pouerball game Wednesday night matched all six numbers drawn, Power-ba- ll which were: 9. Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the S5 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $9 million for Saturday. HELENA. Mont. (AP) There were no jackpot winners for Lotto Tri-Wc- Wednesday's game. The winnim: numbers were: 5 18-2- 4 (five, six, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-fou- i from rises The jackpot an estimated to $150,000 $ 75.0(H) on Saturday. ) a day taken to heart her complaint. Lockwood In said she created Mortgage Centre in June using Dunn's good name to secure business. She claimed to be the sole owner, director and officer. Dunn was to get a share of each loan orisination fee and If WILLARD. Utah (AP) one a the can apple day keep just doctor away, imagine what 70 or 80 could do. Better still, imagine Susie Facer. average year, the Brigham City woman will 20 paid Urioste Associated S3 Winget was hired as an independent loan officer, the complaint says. The complaint alleges fraud, interference with business, libel and abuse of privacy. Most of the allegations center on Winget, and Dunn is accused of helping Winget file false statements with state agencies in an attempt to take away what Lockwood claims is her business. She also accuses Winget, an entrepreneur and real estate developer, of breaking into her apartand stealing company ment records and checks. Lockwood claims she closed the office and moved its records To her apartment in September when she became suspicious of Winget' s ' -- activities. ; But Call said the counterclaim will allege that she breached her duties as a company officer when she removed the property and records. Moreover, Dunn was only acting in the company's interest when he removed Lockwood as a director and president of the company. Call said. The filing made with the state to show Winget replaced her was appropriate, he said. Call said the counterclaim will be filed by Dunn and Mortgage Centre. In an show hasn't TV An apple SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Paul H. Dunn's attorney says the suit naming the former Mormon General Authority as a defendant is a '"bad rap," and that Dunn will file a counterclaim in 3rd District Court. Lora Lockwood of Salt Lake filed a civil suit Monday in 3rd District Court, naming Dunn and his Jenl Winget. as defendants. She accuses them of trying to take control of Mortgage Centre Inc., a company she claims to own. But Steven Call, Dunn's attorney, said Lockwood is mistaken. '"I have seen the stock certificates," said Call. Those certificates show that all the company's stock is owned by the Jeanne C. Dunn Trust, for which Dunn is the trustee. Call said. It is run for the benefit of Dunn's wife, Jeanne. ""It's bizarre," Cail said. "It's a bad rap and I think she might be confused, but I don't see how her lawyers can be confused." through" 25.000 to 30.000 apples. No, she doesn't eat that many-applesBut she does make them look their best. On many autumn days you'll find her in her son's orchard in Willard. She'll pull up a chair and pull on a pair of cotton gloves. Her son. Jarvis Facer, will periodically climb out of an apple tree and set a basket of freshly picked apples in front of her Red and Golden Delicious. Mcintosh. certificates 551 ....... , sprays have made their way, bright and shiny, into the back of Jarvis' pickup. "I don't have anything to do, and I like to polish them," Facer explains of her unique hobby. "My children do so much for me. I'm always willing to do what I can for them." Although Facer has been prac- g for 40 ticing her years, she actually took up the craft relatively late in life when you consider it wasn't until she was nearly 60 that she began doing it. The idea came to her soon after her son began harvesting apples from the orchard planted in 1950. Shiny apples, she reasoned, would sell much better than dull, unpolished ones. So every year, her son buy s her a new pair of cot- apple-polishin- patients have had problems with their babies' j 1 AP Photo Susie Facer, 98, poses recently with a basket of apples in her son's craft orchard in Willard. She has been practicing her for nearly 40 years and works every day in her son's orchard, polishing up the apples before they go to be sold. Those who know Facer also ton gloves, and every year she know this is precisely the kind of buffs up the apples. a sort of female Over the years Susie Facer has thing she'd say shined more than a million apples. George Burns without the cigar. And. to hear her talk, there's not Asked by a visitor to name her been a worm in the whole batch. children. Facer launches into a list: "I'll give you a dollar if you "'There's Wilma. Naldi. Don. Darcan find a worm." she says, win. Lorin, Jarvis. Bill. John. motioning toward the back of the Andrew...." pickup truck, where baskets of Everyone has a theory on why apples sit. ready for sale. Facer has been around so long Those around Facer have a tenfrom clean living to proper eating dency to take her by the arm and habits to an independent attitude. help ner along as she walks. But But Facer has her own theory, make no mistake, this is more for it and has nothing to do with their peace of mind than for her or apples independence or living benefit. What she really wants to lives: others' "'Lisdo is drop your arm and say. "'I'm not good enough to go to ten, by the time you were crawling heaven, and hell's full." I'd been walkinc for 70 vears." apple-polishin- i. will be paroled Dec. 12. He will have served 2 12 years of a five years to life sentence that included a five-yepenalty enhancement for using a gun. When he is released, he will be five days short of his 2 st birthday. Christopher pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery for holding up the Kind's English bookstore on 29". 1992. April robberv-slavins- ar birth-certifica- te applications. cousin Adam. f Adam and Aaron originally were accused in the May 1992 slaying of Merritt Riordan. 29. a cook who surprised two masked robbers in the basement of the Green Parrot Cafe. "'The answer we got last time was that it would be very difficult to do this." says board leader Norman Chesler. This time. Utah Department of Health administrators will look at the feasibility of Spanish applications as part of a wider review of department records, said Charles Brokopp. director of laboratory SALT LAKE CITY West High School junior Rachel Bauch-ma- n has testified she was dismayed when school officials did not stop the audience from singing a reliiiious sone at graduation last June. Bauchman. who took the stand in her for the first-tim- e case against the school, district and choir director, said an appellate court's injunction didn't protect her at all. U.S. District Court Judge J. Thomas Greene heard testimony g all day Wednesday in a hearing on whether choir director Richard Torgerson and three oilier school officials violated an injunction by the 0th U.S. Circuit Court ol Appeals, and. it so. whether Bauchman suffered dam age. The hearing is expected to continue through Friday. The Court of Appeals last June reversed Greene's ruling and issued the injunction barring the a cappelhi choir's performance of two religious songs at West High School's graduation. Bauchman and her mother hud previously filed suit against the Salt Lake School District, its officials and choir director and they sought the injunction. Bauchman claimed being forced to sing "The Lord Bless and You You" and Keep "Friends" as part ol her graded choir class violated her civ il rights. Al the June 7 graduation, senior Will Badger took the microphone, gave a short speech about the meaning of the song "Friends" and exhorted the audience to sing it. The lyrics had been passed out earlier. "The injunction hadn't protect ed me at all." Bauchman testified. "I was dismayed that the defendants hadn't made a more effectual attempt to prevent the singing." Bauchman's suit names choir director Torgerson. principal William Boston, assistant principal Gene Bonella and school district Superintendent Darline Robles. School officials claim they did not know of students' plans to sing "Friends." Bauchman's lawyer, Andrew Hruska. suggested that because Torgerson allegedly did not seat the choir after they performed two replacement secular numbers that he knew the piece "Friends" would be sung. Rachel Bauchman. her mother and two other Bauchman Cheryl witnesses testified Torgerson didn't seat the choir in his customary manner of bringing his arms down slowly. Spanish services. Latino advocates complain of the difficulty in getting birth-certifica- te errors fixed. Applicants have to go to the state courts with an affidavit signed by two family members. And then they wait. Lee Martinez said it was not worth the trouble for his sister, misnamed Beatrice on her birth certificate. "She hates Beatrice, but there was a mistake on her birth certificate," says Martinez. "People say 'Beatrice' and she has to say, 'No, Beatriz.' " John Brockert, director of the state Division of Vital Statistics, said many hospitals see no problem. Of the state's 42 hospitals where babies are delivered, 19 have responded to a state survey about the need for Spanish-languag- e applications. birth-certifica- te Police discipline case heard SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Police Chief Ruben Ortega fired Officer Louis Jones in 1994 because of conduct during a domestic dispute. After the Salt Lake City Civil Service Commission ordered Jones reinstated, Ortega imposed a retroactive suspension of six months and one w eek, depriving Jones of back pay. Attorneys clashed before the Utah Court of Appeals Wednesday over whether Ortega's suspension order exceeded his power. Byron Benevento, representing Jones, argued the Civil Service Commission has the ability to not modify uphold or vacate the chief's ruling. If his decision is overturned, the chief can only take his case to the appeals court he does not have the power to craft a new punishment. Benevento contended. Judge Michael Wilkins asked Law yers: Leaders could have By KIRSTEN SORENSON Associated Press Writer ty g Then 17. Christopher was the youngest member of the gang, which authorities alleged also included older brother Nathan and g birth certificates, she says. "The name of the father, the name of the mother, or the spelling of the names of the babies were often wrong," she said. Corral went to the Salt Lake Board of Health for help and the board asked state officials for the second time to provide Spanish-languag- e City-Coun- 'Preppy bandits' get parole dates SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Aaron and Christopher Galli. two of the "preppy bandits" gang that police blamed for at least 19 Salt Lake-are- a robberies in 1992. will be getting out of prison soon. The Utah Board of Pardons announced parole dates for the pair this week. Aaron Galli will leave prison next May. His cousin Christopher, who kept changing his story about Aaron's part in a in SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Almost all of Dr. Silvia Corral's Spanish-speakin- Jonathan. Rome Beauty. She lifts an apple out of this ""in" basket, rubs it several times and places it in the '"out" basket. In and out. rubbing and polishing, until the apples in the trees dulled by dust, water spots and insect-contr- Board wants some birth why Ortega had not appealed instead of imposing the retroactive suspension. City Attorney Roger Cutleir argued the chief can suspend any officer at any time for the good of the department. Good public policy should allow the chief to reduce his own sentence at any time such as changing Jones' firing to suspension. Cutler said. Oitega needs that crucial power to manage the police department, ' the city attorney said. "If we don't control the police department ... we are not going te be able to have an ordered socf-ety.Cutler said. "Please, we ask the court not to gut the authority o" the chief." j The court took the issue under advisement and said it will issue a written decision as soon as possible. " stopped singing Rachel Bauchman claims that may have been an indirect "cue" to students and others to sing "Friends." Administrators contend that when the singing began, they could not stop it. "There was nothing I could do at that point," Bonella said. Bonella testified that when Badger gave his impromptu speech, Bonella tried to disconnect the microphone, but couldn't get the connection apart. After Badger finished, Bonella escorted him irom the stage. Bonella said he, too, was stunned and dismayed that the court order was violated. "It was just awful." he sai l. "I had a hollow feeling. It didn't fit the expectations I had for gradua- tion." Badger testified he did not tell administrators and teachers of the plan to sing "Friends." . J tried to keep my plan undej wraps," he said. "I knew that worl would be passed along." Badger said that prior to gradur ation exercises, "I still wasn't 100 percent sure I was going to gr c my speech." He testified school administr tors did not specifically tell choir members and students not to sing "Friends." The students werl aware of the injunction, but "dicC-n-'t believe we would actually be ifl direct violation of the injunction!'; Bauchman and her mother Cheryl Bauchman, testified they learned in advance that "Friends" might be sung, but attended gradu"1 , ation anyway. ; "There was no sign on the door that said 'Rachel Bauchman' not allowed." Rachel Bauchman said. "Why should I stay home?" |
