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Show The Dally Herald Monday, October 14, 1996 Opponents of Billing s temple site organize SLC apartments gutted in blaze SALT LAKE CITY (AP) About 75 people fled from their burning apartments Sunday after a three-alarblaze gutit ting their building. .' .Salt Lake City Fire Capt. Jeff Stansfield said there were no injuries, but damages to the strucwithin a complex of Heartture land Apartments units was estimated at $15 million. The building was made of wood and the fire spread so quickly, that firefighters had only 20 minutes inside the unit before flames forced them out. "We know these buildings well. We come here often," Stansfield said. "The structures are sound enough, but we knew they'd go in a huny." Crews managed to ev acuate the building and then used hand-hel- d hoses and a pair of d nozzles that each poured 750 gal-Ioof water a minute onto the blaze before it was controlled. The fire w as reported at 10:45 a.m. In all, 1 8 people were assistant to safety by firefighters, Stansfield said. Crews from Salt Lake and West Valley responded to the fire. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire was not immediately known, although it appears to have started in a second-floor apartment and spread into the ceiling and roof. fast-movi- m 12-un- tower-mounte- ns Woman beaten, left for dead : SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A prison parolee has been arrested after a woman allegedly was raped, choked, beaten on the head with a rock and apparently left to die. Salt Lake County Sheriff's Sgt. Jerry Townsend said the woman awoke Sunday morning in the mountains east of Salt Lake, lying in a pool of her own blood. She stumbled to a nearby restaurant at Solitude Ski Resort, where police were called. The woman was then flown to the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, where a nursing supervisor said she remained in stable condition today. "She was lucky to make it out," said Sgt. Jerry Townsend, a Salt Lake County sheriff's homicide investigator. "She had been left for dead." Detectives were able to gat a detail description of the woman's assailant from her. Townsend and other officers found the suspect at an apartment complex in West Valley City. The man attempted to leave the apartment complex in a car and into vehicle the backed Townsend's unmarked sedan, the detective said. f Board debates inmate funding SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Department of Corrections has been taken to task by the state School Board for purportedly jlraving public and higher education footing the bill for teaching inmates. I JFour years ago. the state's pub-- I lie, and higher education agencies Ldaim. they agreed with prison officials to split the cost of the prolan! three ways. "decent studies show recidithe rate of inmates returnvism ing to prison after being released ti- - had dropped 20 percent among prisoners involved in Project Horizon. But during discussions about the school board's 1997 budget request. Corrections was accused of, bailing out of its financial commitment. Board members consid- ered pulling their 2.1 million appropriation for the project. "They are not doing their part." member Katharine Garff charged. ' board instead, the urged staff lo make it clear to Corrections officials that they are dissatisfied with the current fiscal arrangements. Steve Kukic. who oversees Project Horizon for the State Office of Education, argued that Corrections contributes to inmate education by providing classroom space, social work and assessment. On another matter, the board decided it would not ask for additional funding to reduce class sizes when it submits its $2 billion-plu- s budget proposal. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) police protection. The church has Some homeowners have organized said it will fund all improvements. against the proposed construction of a Mormon temple near the The opponents newsletter Billings Rimrocks. One opponent includes a form that can be mailed says the structure would constitute to the City Council, urging denial the "corporate takeover" of a of the annexation. neighborhood. The church, its through John Hanson's home near the spokesman, has said it w ill do all it Rimrocks has become temporary can to meet the concerns of resiheadquarters for the group, with is dents. fighting construction of the temple There have been other cities in front of the "Rims," a west where temple construction was Billings area that prov ides a refuge opposed, but people changed their from urban trappings. minds after the Duilding was in The opponents have organized place, said spokesman Don as the Billings Rims Preservation LeFevre of Salt Lake City. He said Society. Its newsletter includes that "in virtually all cases the computer-assiste- d neighbors love it." pictures showHanson, Deborah Anspach and ing the Idaho Falls, Idaho, Mormon temple superimposed against their twin sons live in a home they the Rims. built in 1982 on the northeastern The Church of Jesus Christ of edge of the land owned by the Latter-da- y Saints owns about 34 Mormon Church. acres proposed as the temple site, Last Hanson and week, and has asked the city to annex Anspach returned from a three-da- y the property, opening the way for driving tour of temples in Idaho services such as sewer lines and and Utah. The trip "underscored our fear that this is not appropriate for the Rims location." Hanson said. Most of the temples were big. white or topped w ith spires and brilliantly illuminated all night, he said. Critics of the Billings site say concerns include increased traffic and loss of tax revenue, but Anspach and Hanson say that above all. they want to preserve "the integrity of the Rims." Richard Larsen. a' former Billings mayor and chairman of the Temple Task Force, said the church is several weeks from selecting a local architect. Questions of size and design aren't settled, he said, so there is little the church can do to answer questions raised by opponents. Larsen objects to use of the Idaho Falls temple to show how a temple might look in Billings. "I'm really disappointed that they're making assumptions without waiting for information." he light-colore- d, one in Denver, built in 1984 to serve about 70.000 Mormons in Colorado and parts of adjoining states. The temple encompasses 29. 7 square feet and is topped by a spire. To the Billings opponents, who say they number 200 to 300, it is significant that the Colorado temple drew strong opposition at the first two proposed sites. The church eventually selected a third site that brought few complaints. Hanson and other opponents are careful to confine their opposition to the choice of site, not to the Mormon Church or temples in general. "Nobody has said. "We don't want a temple in Billings.'" Hanson said. LeFevre said the opponents seem to be saying they have nothing against temples, "just notjn my back yard." Opponents say the Rims are a backvard for all of Billinss. said. Hanson said his visits to temples in Idaho and Utah indicate the pictures in the Rims Preservation Society newsletter are not exaggerations. The newsletter the says church's most recently constructed temple, in American Fork. Utah, covers about 104.000 quare feet and attracted 300.000 visitors within its first six months. LeFevre said the temple actually drew 680.000 visitors during an open house that lasted six weeks, not six months. In any case, the opponents in Billings made some inappropriate comparisons, he said. There are more than a million Mormons in Utah and the American Fork temple w ill serve a much larger, more condensed population than would the Billings site. Church leaders say the Billings temple would serve nearly 60.000 Mormons in Montana, northern Wyoming and the Dakotas. A similar temple might be the 1 1 90-fo- ot Group questions timing have solid leads, of political contributions Leavitt, Graham according to poll SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Democrat Ross Anderson has made measurable progress in his fight to close the gap between himself and Republican Merrill Cook for the 2nd Congrerssional District seat, according to the latest poll. The copyright Deseret NewsKSL-T- V poll, published Sunday, also showed GOP candidate Chris Cannon and Democratic incumbent Rep. Bill Orton still in a dead-hedogfight for the 3rd District seat. Results showed GOP Gov. Mike Leavitt, Democratic Attorney General Jan Graham and 1st District Rep. Jim all with comHansen, fortable leads less than a month before the Nov. 5 election. The poll, conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, showed Bob Dole with 9 point lead over President Bill Clinton with 12 percent undecided. Jones is an independent pollster hired by the Deseret but he also News and KSL-Tdoes work for some of the candidates involved. Jones said Sunday he has conducted polls for Cannon and Graham, and has been approached by Leavitt 's campaign. For the presidential poll and all statewide races, Jones interviewed 900 respondents and his results have a margin of error if 3.5 percent. Congressional races involved 300 respondents and have an error margin of 5.5 percent. Here are Jones's results: President: Clinton's 35 percent showing, while trailing Dole's 44 percent, falls within the 12 percent of the voters who are undecided. The margin of error means the Democratic president feasibly could be within 6 points of the Republican. Clinton's showing is significant particularly because Ross Perot received just 8 percent of the vote in Jones's latest poll a far cry from the 28 percent showing Perot had in the 1992 general election. Utah, in fact, was the only state to give Perot more votes than Clinton in that election. President Bush got 43 percent of the vote in 1992. Governor: Leavitt. seek ing his second term, continues to enjoy an almost insurmountable lead over Democrat Jim RepubBradley. The first-terlican received 75 percent of the vote to Bradley's 14 percent, with 10 percent undecided. Jones's result pretty much match the results of a Valley Research poll published by The Salt Lake Tribune last month. at m Attorney General: Graham leads Burns 55 percent to 23 percent with fully a fifth of the electorate undecided. Burns came within 2 points of beating Graham four years ago and has had the help and supRepubport of some big-nalicans this year as well. Sen. Orrin Hatch, chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary had endorsed Committee, Burns and has lent him some staff, including personal aide Heather Barney, for advice. 1st Congressional District: Hansen, seeking an unprecedented 10th term, leads Democratic challenger Greg Sanders 62 percent to 2 1 percent, with 5 percent undecided. 2nd Congressional District: Cook, a millionaire explosives manufacturer who only recently returned to the Republican fold after years as an unsuccessful Independent candidate, received 45 percent of the vote to Anderson's 36 percent with 17 percent undecided. That's an improvement for Anderson, a civil liberties attorney, over a Jones poll in September. Then, Anderson trailed Cook 50 percent to 28 percent with 18 percent undecided. That poll had a margin-of-errof 7 points. 3rd Congressional District: Orton, the Democratic maverick seeking a fourth term in one of the most Republican districts in the U.S., was in a statistical dead heat with Cannon given the 5.5 percent margin of error. Orton received 43 percent to Cannon's 36 percent, with 21 percent unsure of who they will vote for. The poll is essentially unchanged since September, when Jones found Orton had Orton received 45 percent to Cannon's 38 percent, matching the poll's 7 percent margin of error. Fifteen percent were undecided. President: Clinton's 35 percent showing, while trailing Dole's 44 percent, falls within the 12 percent of the voters who are undecided. The 3.5 percent margin of error means the Democratic president feasibly could be within 6 points of the Republican. Clinton's showing k sionifi- cant particularly because Ross Perot received just 8 percent of the vote in Jones's latest poll a far cry from the 28 percent showing Perot had in the 1992 general election. Utah, in fact, was the only state to give Perot more votes than Clinton in that election. Clinton got 25 percent of the vote, and Bush received 43 percent. 1 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Political contributions made by Snow basin ski resort ow ner Earl Holding and others have come under the scrutiny of a Washington, D.C. think tank. The Center for Responsive Politics reports the contributions were made at key times over the past year to lawmakers positioned to n push the Forest land swap proposal through Congress. Holding, his wife, Carol, and aide Ken Knight gave S6.500 to Utah politicians through June 30. according to the CRP's study of midyear finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. Sen. Orrin Hatch accepted $2,000 through his political-actio- n committee, called the Capitol Committee. Rep. Bill Orton received $500: Sen. Bob Bennett. $1,500; and Rep. Jim Hansen. $2,000. Hansen's campaign received another SI, 000 last week from Carol Holding, a campaign official confirmed on Friday. Another $10,000 went to other lawmakers on influential committees, the CRP contended. The nonprofit, nonpartisan group did not focus on the sums involved because the Holdings' contributions would be considered modest in modern politics. Rather, the group noted the timing of donations as the Snow basin bill Service-Snow-basi- The Snowbasin exchange progressed in Congress. "It's important because it raises questions about elections and campaign contributions to lawmakers." said the CRP's Jennifer Shecter. who allowed that the donations were perfectly legal. "You draw the conclusions yourself." Steve Petersen, assistant treasurer for Hansen's campaign, called the CRP review "offensive." "farfetched" and "a smear" to benefit Democratic congressional challenger Greg Sanders. "There's no quid pro quo." he said. "I expected some low stuff, but this takes the cake. It reeks. It shows how desperate the other side is." Shecter insisted the CRP has not had any contact with the Sanders' campaign. The organization said FEC . reports showed that on March Hansen received SI.(KX) from the Holdings. Hatch's PAC accepted $2.(KX) from the couple the next day. Then. March 13. Hatch's PAC gave S5.000 to Hansen's campaign. That was the day the House Resources Committee passed the Snowbasin bill along party lines. On June 26. Hatch's Capitol Committee gave another S5,(KX) to Hansen two days before Hansen reintroduced the Snow-basi- n swap, coupling it with a widely supported New Jersey 1 1 CRP. He pointed out the Holdings, longtime Hansen supporters, have not given the Republican lawmaker even the full $4,000 allowed. Campaign reports through June confirm the Holdings donated just $15,500 to candidates for Congress and president. Federal law permits the couple to contribute up to $25,(XX) apiece to candidates' campaigns, political-party PACs and advocacy funds. or Aviation enthusiasts killed in plane crash An aviatiHURRICANE (AP) couple whose backyard bordered an air strip were killed while flying an experimental airplane in southern Utah. Dennis Smith, 55, and his wife. Joy Keith. 39, crashed early Saturday morning shortly after take-ofrom the Sky Ranch airstrip, an airport community six miles south of Hurricane. The couple took off in their RV-- 6 on-loving ff single-engin- e, two-se- at airplane about 6 a.m. Saturday. Smith apparently experienced some difficulties and was trying to make it back to the airstrip e when the plane went down a short of the runway. Neighbors said they heard the crash about 6:25 a.m. The couple died on impact, said half-mil- Washington County Sheriff's Sgt. Casey Thacker. Available wherever books are sold. The plane "was so covered in dirt and dust it didn't even resemble an airplane." Thacker said. It took more than an hour for rescuers to find all the wreckage, strewn over a large area in the d desert. Cause of the crash was not immediately known, said Mike O'Connor, the Federal Aviation Administration regional duty officer in Seattle. Wash. Sky Ranch is made up of about 20 brush-covere- homes built along a single runway. There was conflicting information about where the Keiths were headed, although the couple flew BEL almost every day and Keith often visited his mother in Mesquite. Nev. Nick Berg, a resident of Sky Ranch, said the two had planned to fly to Mesa. Ariz. Gibbs Smith, Publisher PO Box Industry Pioneering Technology 1 avion. IT ' 84041 Professional Care thourough explanation of your hearing loss A Reliable High Quality Hearing Instruments y ... Muscular Dystrophy Association . Comprehensive Evaluation nt MDA fV)7 (fero Starm Stiff ffhfe. UUNTHERS finaf-l- y passed just before Congress adjourned Oct. 3. Tucked in a bin for parks projects nationwide, it transfers 1,320 Forest Service acres to Snowbafin in return 'for : 4. 100 acres. Proponents sold the idea as needed for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Critics contend it benefits Holding, who can expect huge profits from the Sun Valley-styl- e development. Hatch aide Robert Dibblee called it "ludicrous" to view-rh- e Snowbasin bill and the campaign contributions as more than a coincidence. The Senate had passed the legislation long before the contributions noted by the CRP. he said. "The Capitol Committee disburses amounts on the basis of the requests that come in." he said. "There was no direct link because there was no connection with everything that was going on." Clint Ensign, vice president of Sinclair Oil. one of the companies owned bv Holding, also faulted the Rlnlnam ToNew Heights! 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