Show e it 11m Standard-Examin- er Thursday July 30 1993 Business Editor 625-424- 11 A 5 IR1ISF : ' ' -- r- $45 million development project will produce employment for 641 ri includes a S63 million Davis Conference Center a restaurant and a S3 million parking terrace Construction of the entire By BRYQN SAXTON project expected to be awarded Davts Bureau to the team of Big D ConstrucLAYTON - The y tion and MHTN Architects will buildings that are part of a $45 begin this summer on 13 acres at million Davis County develop750 W Heritage Park Blvd ment project will do more than north of the Layton Hills Mall change the Layton skyline Christopulos said the office An economic specialist says tow will bring about 500 jobs the oflice tower and large hotel while the hotel will bring 100 with its accompanying amenities more He said the conference will also bring 641 jobs to downcenter and restaurant will comtown Layton bine for about 40 jobs Layton City Economic Devel“The whole issue of developopment Specialist Tom Christo-pulo- s ing that area was to create a job said high paying “producbase that was il oriented er” jobs will have the effect of We need to Christodiversify” creating the same number of spipulos said noff jobs giving the city the job He said developing a business base officials have been seeking district in Layton’s downtown “It's a real change in the face will allow residents to of Layton” Christopulos said work closer county to home “It says we can house businesses Community Development Diup here We are not just a bedrector Wilf Sommerkom said the room community” new jobs will reduce commuter y The 147000 traffic on Interstate 15 office tower and square-fo“This plays into our whole hotel are two a of See JOBS12A parts project that StandarO-Examne- 130-se- 4 x " - yjoOTMgffiurai x : at Lsytcn Lrivycr V-- r multi-stor- c ' S tohecdcgcocy - 3 v SALT LAKE CfTY Layton lawyer Anthony Taggart acting head of the Utah Securities Division for the past four months has been named division director 'I'm very pleased that Tony has accepted this challenge Doug Borba Utah Commerce Department executive cbrectOT said “1 believe he has the respect of the securities industry and a proven record of strong enforcement and creative consumer advocacy" Taggart joined the division kl 1993 as legal counsel and securities examiner From September 1994 until this past April he served as assistant division director With the division he ! managed an innovative program which assisted more than 3000 Utah nvestors in recovering more than $10 million from Prudential Securities after the company ’ was found to have parbeipsted n unlawful sales practices involving limited partnershipsUnder Taggart’s administration Borba said he! expects Utah securities industry to ‘continue to thrive and investors will continue to ! receive the high level of come have to protection they k?v£ "I C3 I r " V 4U Avf ' ' J- i " i non-reta- a as Ssr vt v--v £ r 4k nine-stor- ot seven-- 223-roo- story m '! five-pie- ce -- f Ay- fi SL International airport screeching to a halt Comes in as 8th slowest airline y system Although Salt Lake is a hub for Delta Air Lines the airport is designed to let only one plane at a time move from the ramp area Tho Associated Press to the taxiway SALT LAKE CITY - A systems typically require large computerized study of the na- numbers of flights leaving or artion's 100 busiest airports ranked riving at the same time Salt Lake City International as USA Today which published eighth slowest in the time it takes the survey of the nation’s 100 planes to become airborne after busiest airports this week said leaving the terminal gate the construction of a new termianalUSA Today’s According nal and concourse set for comysis of US Transportation Depletion in 2003 should ease the partment data Salt Lake Interna- congestion on the ramp area and tional’s average wait from gate to take the airport out of the top 10 takeoff is 159 minutes slowest ranking The wait is even longer from 10 am to 11 am - 201 minAirport management saw the utes The best hour is from 7 newspaper’s analysis as support pm to 8 pm when the delay for the airport’s development program drops to 114 minutes The newspaper attributes the “Thankfully they highlighted wait to the design of the Salt' what we’ve been saying all Lake terminal and ramp areas along” said Barbara Gann airwhich do not accommodate an port authority spokeswoman o f -v t n ‘ ' ' ti 1 4 of i” H v IS ' hub-and-spo- in study of nation’s 100 busiest air fields (Sr AV expect YV flATiOMAL Hub-and-spo- ke Amtrak has long been criticized as slothful and irrelevant to modem America its new beard of directors strongly behaves otherwise and there are signs the public is beginning to KORTDUCEStandard-Exarnr- A patron of Lagoon cools off beneath Orbit Systems’ misting Rattlesnake rapids ride and in some of Its buSdings system Lagoon has the system on They’re selling like hotcakes Mist stands mada at Orbit Irrigation Products in N Sait Lake are popular v " v f $ t agree Statistics released Wednesday showed ridership was up 58 percent over the same period last year whto e performance had improved to 80 percent Revenues also exceeded its on-hm- V ''A'? '‘ft By BOB HUDSON StandanExarerar (tart Government looks at air bag devices NORTH Last year BMW began selling start and wre sedans with an air bag its Air bags already are in front of that from the roof above deploys drivers and increasingly air bags the front doors and from within are beside them Now auto mak- the front roof pillars ers are putting air bags around Mercedes-Ben- z begins next their heads and the government its month sedans offering safenew the wants to make sure curtain-styl- e with a ty device is safe to use air bag Like a model already Transportation Secretary Rod- offered by Volvo it will extend ney Slater announced today exover the windows beside the drivpanded National Highway Safety er and front passenger keeping Administration head protection them in the vehicle buffering standards to take effect Sept 1 their heads from outside objects revolutionwill incorporate They and shielding them from spraying ary head air bag designs already glass being put on the road by car d Northern Autoliv manufacturers which makes airbags for autokill Every year car rollovers makers around the world has roughly 7700 people and serf- an Inflatable curtain ac- ously injure 9200 ejected See BAG312A through side windows r roof-mount- Utah-base- pa-ten- ts j WASHINGTON -- While product in trying to boat the heat SAFETY Sandard-Exarnre- AmtTskrffetklp: showing tfiamss SALT LAKE -- The Arizona doesn't represent a of Orbit Irrigation But with the nation in the grip of an extended heat wave Arizona Mist products are if you’ll pardon the pun a hot item “As you can imagine everything that water goes through is selling very well right now" said Orbit president KG Erick sen earlier this projections by $55 mason The report was immerfcalafy embraced by the members of Amtrak Reform Board -Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater Wisconsin Gov Tommy Thompson former Massachusetts Gov Michael Dukakis and Meridian h§$& Mayor John Robert Smith - as they gathered for their first meeting Inabnef quesbon-and-answe- session r the board said fulfia a nt planned to pledge to make A mtrsfi by 2002 it week Among its products is the Cobra mist stand which sells for under S10 at stores such as Wal-Ma- rt and Home Base The stand a formed piece of PVC pipe with a pair of nozzles is attached to an ordinary garden hose and produces an evaporative cooler effect in an area of one’s garden or yard “These Cobras have gone absolutely nuts all over the Sun Belt” said Erick sen He noted that one store in Oklahoma has sold over 12000 this summer and added that it is difficult for Orbit to manufacture them quickly enough to keep them supplied to their customers Outdoor misting systems are catching on quickly according to Orbit spokesperson Midi- See MISTY12A runxETs Northwest Grain nxxTtaO-mwiiwn1 ykr pwcw icrng 1 S7SIMMKV l p— JL - WhM LIE? S7£T:22: Ort Systems of North Sa5 Lake makes misting systems which can lower temperatures by as much as 20 degrees on hot si mmer days 4 Prices WDnma Copp4r PM share were $157 compared to $148 last cantly by the strengthening US dollar earnings as it sharply lower second-quartyear a 6 percent increase For die fourth was $2091 million compared to $2459 continued its reorganization amid a federal quarter earnings per share were down by million for the second quarter of 1997 fraud investigation targeting the company 24 percent to 28 cents SALT LAKE CITY - Questar Crap For the quarter ended June 30 the compaDo£ar Thrifty Automodvw Group announced higher earnings for the second Iki ©dn Enlarpriss Inc ny reported earnings of $78 million or 12 TULSA Okla - Dollar Thrifty Autocents per diluted share on revenues of quarter of 1998 reflecting improved perPROVO - Nu Skin Enterprises Inc remotive Group Inc reported results for the formances by its primary exploration and $478 billion A year ago the company revenue and ported earnings for the too second quarter ended June 30 Total reveearned $412 million or 62 cents per dilutproduction and gas transmissiondistribu-tio- n ond quarter ended June 30 For the quarnue for the quarter was $2272 million a ed share on lines The company had net income of ter net income was $485 billion in revenues S301 million and 67 percent increase over the $2129 mil$161 million or 19 cents per diluted share diluted earnings share were 35 cents per Anadarko lion reported for the second quarter of Potrttesn CwpL compared with $136 million or 16 cents excluding charges related to 1997 Net income for the was S92 - Anadarko Petroleum HOUSTON quarter period per share in the the recent acquisition of Nu Skin Interna- million or 38 cents share For the Corp announced financial and per tional operating This Inc represents a slight increase Morton International 997 quarter net income was results for the second of 1598 over the financial results from the second comparable quarter $92 million or 46 cents per share which included of $27 million or 2 cents CHICAGO - Morton International requarter of 1997 where net income was per share Revenues for the quarter were ported sales during the fiscal year which $299 million and diluted earnings per CchrrAUUCA HesAhcarw $1376 million ended June 30 of $25 billion an 8 percent share was 34 cents Reported revenue for NASHVILLE Tenn increase over the prior year Turnings per the quarter which was impacted signifi Healthcare Corp reported Sea EARNS12A er non-recurri- year-ag- o 1 Colum-biaIlC- A Ul KMM MI Akmmm-t- l Conoon M4M Morton International ends fiscal year with an 8 percent increase Mm ij 14POT0W4 tocmn ax&SndErw Questar Corp reports higher second quarter earnings i tmtm 2M pom D pwcn 2M POM 9 ParriANO mi t s to MMOyl tdmm b4fy CXW' 4 Ildoamr 11 11 Bf KORT M fmyiso W10 fmM IS town 7) 11 1 M Mr Esft MM 7710 otnti pat fe NT m M pat 2nc XW MUNpkMM40 S3 7720 Tua Quid - 02 10 at Nr Mete wel wo MaacwatlOM 8War04SPO7tMV Matounr UTiOO pat 70 Oaak 7tww4S3aopofMir M V ’ Matew IRTETZ3T Rates SCHmahsnO KXyaatNMa Twant II Xunda MmoaM Ponda StarxtertHEjorshir rXY and wte BUSINESS rr' |