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Show mm The Daily Herald State sending letters about gambling laws Billboard blames state for traffic SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah Attorney General Jan Graham is writing three telephone companies and several Internet providers to warn them gambling is illegal in Utah. Graham said Monday she will notify AT&T, MCI and Sprint that they cannot allow numbers for the use of toll-fre- e the purpose of conducting gambling in Utah. The move stems from a decision by the Coeur d' Alene Tribe of Plummer. Idaho, and its manUnistar agement company. Entertainment Inc., to conduct a national lottery in a number of states. The lottery would use a e telephone number. "I oppose any attempts to conduct gambling in any form by using '800' numbers," Graham said Monday in a prepared statement. Graham also is writing providers of Internet services to inform them Utah prohibits all WEST JORDAN (AP) Motorists backed up in traffic on Redwood Road are being told in a billboard message posted by the West Jordan City Council that the state is to blame. It can take 15 to 20 minutes to drive the two miles of Redwood Road between 6600 South and 7800 South. "'It's horrible," said Assistant City Manager Fenny Atkinson, who has driven the stretch of road for 18 years. "I've seen it get worse and worse and worse every year." The city has learned that a S20 million project to widen the road has been pushed back on the Utah toll-fre- Department of Transportation's construction list. State officials say other projects are higher priority, such as a traffic light on Holden's Center Street, a bridge in Henefer and Oakley's Weber River Bridge. On Monday, the gambling. Computer users need only tap into the Internet to find Las Vegas-styl- e wagering, but state officials say it is difficult to crack dow n on misuse since the system is so vast. Graham said to conduct gambling over the Internet would violate Utah law because betting would be carried over a "wire communication facility." illegal to transmit across state lines information used to procure a lottery ticket, she said. John Halieck. computer administrator at the University of Utah Computer Center, said the logistics of holding Internet access providers responsible for their customers' actions could be a nightmare, with companies having to hire scores of workers to track customers. Meanwhile. KUTV said Utahns are able to gamble by phone right now. It is council unveiled a near 6700 billboard S. Redwood Road where four lanes constrict to two and where many West Jordan residents spend rush hour. The sign says. "The State of Utah has postponed indefinitely the widening of this state road. Let UDOT commissioners know how you feel!" The message ends with UDOT phone and fax numbers. The sign will stay up for a month. "We're going public with this to say we've done everything in our power," said Wayne Harper. West Jordan Community and Economic Development director and former city councilman. Cooking victim's status improves SALT LAKE CITY AP) The condition of a man burned in a cooking accident has been upgraded to serious, a nursing supervisor said. Lloyd Hawkins was rushed to the University ol Utah Health Scie ence Center's burn unit with burns on his chest, left arm and face. Doctors said the burns covered II percent of his bod and he initially was listed in critical third-degre- condition. Hawkins was injured while heating up his breakfast Saturday morning. He tailed to notice the sleee of his shirt was touching a burner. The shirt caught lire, and he fell to the floor, said his Shauna Jones. Jones, alerted b a smoke detector alarm, used a wet towel to put out the fire and then called Mil. His condition was upgraded to serious on Mondav. B 3 Tuesday, October 31, 1995 Court decision helps tenants "We hae already recognied that because of unequal bargaining power, low income tenants must Landlords cannot evict renters over housing complaint However. Utah has other laws intended to improve housing conditions, and. "If we were 'o permit retaliatory evictions, this intent -- often accept substandard housing," the court said, "and we will The SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah Supreme Court has ruled landlords may not retaliate against tenants who bring housing complaints. After moving into the Jordanaire West Apartments. Mike Paxton and Amy Lowder asked the manager to fix their wiring and plumbing. They subsequently filed two complaints with the Salt Lake City and County Health Department, reporting their inoperable refrigerator, leaking sinks, decaying bathroom walls and deteriorating carpeting. Both complaints, made in 1993. were followed by eviction notices. A 3rd Circuit judge found the couple's eviction was retaliation for the reports, but ruled there were no laws against it. But in a decision released Monday, the Utah Supreme Court ruled Utah landlords cannot evict tenants out of reenge for housing complaints. a health-departme- landlord." Eric Mittelstadt. the Utah Legal Services Inc.. attorney who represented the couple, said the decision offers new protection to tenants. "They did everything correctly and made a legitimate complaint, and they should have gotten some action instead of what they did get a quick eviction notice." Mittelstadt said. Attorney James II. Deans, who represented the building's owners, said the ruling is helpful to landlords because so few housing disputes reach appeals courts. "Lor vears. we've been practicing in a vacuum without any rules." Deans said. "It's good to have that guidance." The apartments are owned by Building Monitoring Systems Inc. Justice Richard C. Howe said thai while at least 31 states have laws that explicitly prohibit evictions. Utah does not. retal-iatoi- might well be frustrated because would be reluctant to report violations of regulations or to assert then rights." Howe said. ! Tenants must satisfy a current test, including being in their rent and having a legitimate housing complaint, made in good faith. After a renter has made a valid complaint, the landlord should not be saddled with a "perpetual tenant." Howe said. Instead, the tenant has the limited right to stay until repairs are complete. If a building ow net has attempted to evict the tenant in retaliation, "the burden is on the landlord to show that he has given the tenant a reasonable opportunity lo procure other housing." the court said. Landlords retain the right to ev ict tenants w ithout cause. Mittelstadt noted. To show an eviction was made in retaliation, tenants will need lo keep a log and copies of their requests for repairs, he said. tenants not help perpetuate this condition by allowing retaliatory eiction by v live-pom- Judge: North Star employees must share defender A 6th District PANG U ITCH (AP) for motions denied has separate public judge defenders for the eight North Star Expeditions employees charged with abuse and neglect in the wilderness death of an Arizona youth. Judge K.L. Mclff said there was not enough evidence the employees would implicate each other to justify hiring eight public defenders for North Start's two leaders and six staff members. h The eight are to be tried March 4 in and abuse on felony neglect charges in the death of Aaron Bacon. 16. of Phoenix, who died March 31. 1994. after a month in the outdoor program for troubled youths. During a preliminary hearing in May. North Star's defense team consisted of five Pan-guitc- attorneys. The leader. Sheldon Wellins. withdrew from the case last month and said s Bill North Star his clients be better would Lance and Jaggar Henry served with separate lawyers. Garfield County public defender Lloyd Holm asked Mclff to appoint attorneys for two of his three North Star clients, say ing there was a potential conflict of interest. In a ruling issued last Thursday. Mclft declared neither Wellins nor Holm had demonstrated any factual proof that such a conflict is likely to arise. "There hasn't been anything surface to date that suggests anything other than a unified defense bv all defendants in the case." Mclff said. Bacon died of ulcers that erupted in his part-owner- Development may prevent creation of 2nd highway The fate BOUNTII ULlAPl of a second north-sout- h highway through Davis and Weber counties hinges on acquisition of land that is rapidly being eaten up by housing developments, officials say. "Our decisions are being made for us." warns Jon Nepstad. a transportation planner for the Wasatch front Regional Council. "Some da soon, we might lose the entire corridor." Envisioned as a means of relieving traffic congestion on Interstate 15. the proposed road would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take years to build. However, residential development west of LI5 could kill the highway before it ever gets off the planning boards, the Western Corridor Steering Transportation Committee was warned last week. Nepstad said developments planned on the western ends ol Kavsville and barmington illustrate the growing "houses vs. cars" impasse that is rapidly developing along the corridor. As subdivisions absorb the available open land, that ground no longer will be available for highway construction unless state or local governments buy easements or use oning strategies to preserve the future right ol way. Lor the record, the committee itself has not take a position on whether the highway should be built. It has ju- -t begun a two-yea- r studs to deteimine whether the project is even feasible. intestinal tract during several days of hiking, , in the arid, rugged reaches ol the Escalante River canyon country, prosecutors said. They contend North Star staff members and leaders repeatedly ignored the boy pleas for medical attention, denied him food, water and shelter, and teased him for being a "faker" even as he took his final breath. Defense attorneys contend the defendants had little clue to the seriousness of Bacon's health problems and that the boy's death could not have been prevented. Attorneys contend their clients deserve to have an attorney arguing solely on their behalf, without fear of compromising one defendant's case in the act of arguing another client's innocence. survival-style- "If juries are capable of hearing cases with multiple defendants, which they have done for centuries, then it must be piesumed that they are capable of sorting lite ev idence and assessing culpability." said Mcllt. Prosecutors from Garfield County and the Utah Attorney General's Office had not opposed the motions to hire more public defenders. -- word "The ruling is a double-edgebecause it does save the taxpayers some money, but it raises a possible issue tor appeal." said Garfield County Attorney Wallace Lee in Paiiguilch. Mclff said he would reconsider if. as the case progresses, new tactual evidence - presented showing a potential for conflict ol interest. d Re Elect Jim Daley Provo City Council Jim Daley retired trnm llcrt tiles Aerospat e alter U years where he served as cost dt ( ouni manager and material ( oordinator. i Jim was a ( ost at mint manager on eat the inlli iwino; untrat is totaling out sjimi Million dollars. h ol ( my mil Trident I) - Submarine Lauiu iv,iiekeeier-Deterre- Panasonic portable CD boombox l.aum Titan Vehit le li Missile Dalev-PrnvoC- Missile Syste nt All D ili JJJU' JiiiiDakVs financial hiU'knuiiKl and managerial skills haw helped him to protect your long term personal interests in Provo's ongoing success As current Vice-Chairm- an Fc of La Veil Edwards. Jim's daughter, Lorraine Daley James is a graduate of Weber State College and currently is employed as a egis-tered nur ?t UVRMC's c r t ca care jnaer the direction of the y unit Another daughter, Denise Daley Cardwell. 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