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Show r Second time around for condominium plan Management benefits mustangs them, Hail says When it becomes necessary to reduce the population in an area , there are three methods that can be used. The first is to capture and relocate the borsps, winch may cost as much as $1,000 per head A second method is private maintenance. Under this plan the horses are given to people who are interested in taking care Arva Smith Deseret News staff winter in Utah and it) Wild hurst other western states have become an emotional issue, says Ron Hal!, wild horse specialist for the Bureau of Land Management whose office is in Sait Lake By City Wild horses, like al! other wildlife, benefit from good man aeement practices. he says The time i approaching (he esfimates it is about three years away; when some of the 1,409 ' wild horses in Utah should be relocated. The two areas most iiktiy to ream population limits are Dogway Proving Ground and the Cedar Mountains near Modena m Iron County. When iiorses increase ig nificantiy, as much as 29 percent per year, they tend to eat themselves out of bouse and he says. Competition home, among the wild horses, domestic livestock and other wild life for vegetation becomes too intense There is still a lot we don't know about wild horses, and more money is needed to study could be given ownership, he believes more people would be interested in canng for them. The horses cannot be sold now. Mr. Hail Many of the wild horses have become good saddle horses and a few have become show horses, he said Colts are easier to place Under present regulations, anyone wanting one of the horses can have his name put on a list If he has proper facilities to care for the horse, he may receive one. An attempt is made later to check on the welfare of these horses. than older horses and the market may become saturated. Another change in the law he recommends would be to allow people Dugway SALT LAKE CITY our TD, CharSes A. Jonas I Hoteling dsnaa The firm also asxed for rezoning to permit office buildings on about 2.8 acres fronting Wasatch Boulevard. The Salt Lake County Commission denied a similar petition Oct 31 after a stormy hearing attended by about 300 resident of the upper income, predominantly single family area. Earlier, about 500 persons had signed a petition opposing attached unit development About tOO residents opposed the proposed Ground. Jordan woman was Mouday with "criminal homicide in connection with the shooting death of her husband early last Saturday. Karla Peitet Denos, 20, 1469 W. ?suu swum, was charged in a complaint signed before City Judge Paul G. Grant. She is being held in the Salt Lake County Jad without bail Mrs Denos is accused of shooting and killing her husRonald Denos, 22, band-, L JPs. He called Judges Warren D. Cole, Lyle Gunderson and Thomas D. troublemakers Hof ding and said they tie up too mu h of his men s fame. I guess I'm not convenient to the deputies, Cole told the Deseret News. Per example, the law requires an officer to wait while an entire criminal complaint is drafted by the JP and then signed by the officer. Cole said he does this. However, "some judges simply put the name, date and place of the crime on the complaint and have the deputy sign that and leave, Co!? said. The JP then falls in the rest of the data later, he added. These considerate JPs also do not question officers about the reason for a charge, as the law says they must do, and simply write it out as told by the deputies Cole explained. Hoteling, a JP appointed m May 1973, said he got static right away when I wouldnt let deputies outline to me what I should do. He said the officers indicated their displeasure and said I wouldn't last very charged Gunderson Thomas housing Wile faces death count A West Wayne J. p he They make mistakes. said Larson promised Ins ... .. .I uuvs pal uitCia find out why the incidents happened. While the sheriff denied there is deliberate judgeshopping by office! s, he admitted that the department takes a dim view of some R-2- Studies have shown that the horses will go as much as 20 miles for water in the summer if they are in good condition. B-- l think basically do not judge-sho- Proving S, Bernard same address, at Saturday Ml JOCVY 1.30 am d long. KEARNS MOO South many tickets written m Hofeluigs district were sent by deputies to JPs who border his district The majority of misdirected citations went to the court of Judge Ralph Child Not a single instance was found in which a citation written in his district was sent to another JP because o! a natural mistake. An officer should have Warren D. Cole Geraldine Christensen WEST JORDAN 8200 South 9400 South Lyle B. Gunderson Ernest Dfecterieh South Bingham Canyon RIVERTON DRAPER Elmer L. Johnson j Salt Lake County districts served by justices of the peace. no right to pick a court, s.u.l Geraldine Christensen, a JP in P rennet many offenses in his precinct were signed over by a deputy to the Mai ray City Court. Few tickets were ever directed to Midvale City Court where Cole is a city ludge m addition to being a . Although the sheriff de- nies his men are guilty of fc did threaten, in the presence of a Deseret News reporter, to instruct officers never to assign a citatum to any JP who gives his oliice trouble He could do that legally by ordering deputies to direct the defendant to the nearest an action city court judge allowed by state law That section of the law could have been used in The seret News study showed that JP Despite the illegality of judge shopping, little is ever done to prosecute. Officials b.tik at the massive and time consuming job of cheeking through thousands of traffic citatum cards on hie m the shmffs office Cole said he attempted to cheek out complaints ot g and was told tv fKoj fly Cofttiaaed from Page B 1 the average rate for U.S women, while women are above average with 101.7 percent. LDS males have 75 9 percent, a 24 percent reduction mostly in men have 86 and lung cancer, percent of average, he said. Lyons said Utah also has about 23 percent fewer deaths due to heart attacks than the rest of the country We assume tobacco is probably 9 major reason for that Dr. Harry L. Gibbons, director of the Salt y Health Department, said Lake he is proposing an ordinance requiring rest mania std other fotabhshmsnts inspected by the Health Department to set up areas. obsignated it took almost two generations to really accept the data that smoking causes lung cancer, he said. It would oe a tragedy if we take two more generations to acreti! the fait that people exposed to second hand smoke have harmful effects. This is now irrefutable He sax) state law already governs Siitok-kinobody is making public places, but S City-Cout- uere destroyed alter .io davs h a single attempt to enforce that state law The board adopted a resolution presented by Roy W Sions. YTAC exeentive director, recommending that the Legislature consider Kfvth mrnocp state revenues and discourage smoking Simmons pointed out that Utah's e.ght cent per pack tax is iower ihan any in the nation excppt those of a few tobacco-growin- g states. Since substantial nnm'oers of crippled citizens of Utah, victims of tobacco-relate- d diseases, are swelling our welfare rolls and doing so at early ages it would serve a provident purpose m the public interest, to tne resolution im. reuse the cigareue tax, states. Simmons said the YTAC is expanding its junior division board membership because members feel young people can better communicate with their peers Members are wUjtruwVl ti'act ran John Bytheway, Wasatch School Hreiiu Flurer. University of Utah Tim Locwon, Bryant Junior ILgh School and Laun Kettering and Jo Ellen Marriott. Highland High School Clayton However, the Deseret News search was carried out with citations spanning the entire year of 1974. Resuits of the newspapers research will be turned over to the County Attorney S.L. location for academy wins support judge-shoppin- A lower LDS cancer rate non-LD- The American Party of Sait Lake County will hold its first meeting of the year Thursday at 7.30 p m. at the South Salt Lake auditorium, 2300 s. State. SANDY judge-shoppin- During its investigation, the Deseret News found that American Party to meet Thursday 6400 South and A resolution supporting location of the Peace uiucers Academy in Salt Lake County was passed unanimously today by the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of the Peace Officers Association attended a chamber board breakfast at which the resolution was adopted. Ralph Jonee, director of the wwWiduOiit i and noted that there was a steamroller effort m the Legislature to have the academy located m Weber County. We can save $68,000 by building the academy in Salt Lake County, he said. Capt N. D Hayward of the Salt I.ake County Sheriffs OtfiCe, and presiuriit of the Peace Officers Assoeation, said a survcY of the members indnated a 99 pment favor for Salt Lake area Sheriff Floyd Witt, president of the Utah Sheriff s Association, said 79 percent of the peace effirers of hs association favored Salt Lake vauey because of the energy ends h ' , - ti iv s A - r --- SltAvi, r" - new petit'-K. S. Comabv, spokesman for area residents, argued that flood control was only a secondary consideration in the early County Commission decision and that the major He renewed its request before the Salt Lake County Planning Comniiasiou to construct about 180 condominium units at a cotroversial site near the Olympus Hills .Shopping Center, 39th South and factor was that the area Wasatch Boulevard. residents were almost uniform y and massively opThe developer, Artistic asked tnat posed to condominium deHomes, tnc about 18 acres be rezoned velopment. from K-- l, which permits sing Cornaby said Commis sioner Ralph Y. McClure had homes, to which allows planned com- pointed out at the earlier munity develnmrient containing attached and clustered Currently, wild horses are rounded up with saddle horses, which is pumsing to both because neither gets enough rest. Wild horses in Utah are found in bauds of 50 to 250 and are scattered almost the length of Utah, from the Salt Lake area to the Arizona bordtr. He aid he was surprised at the vast distances over which they are rangir in Utah, compared to the Pryor Mountain range where 33.000 acres are fenced. Both the horses and the ranges m Utah appear in pretty good condition, he said. Immediate plans call for developing summer water for some of the horses that need it, especially nar the uncovered position. 1 A development firm today j maintenance 'Judge-shoppin- g' Continued from Page helicopters to drive the horses. He believes this would be more humane than the pretest method of driving them with saddle horses. With a helicopter the hnrcee jre highly timhle end they ca be driven five to 10 miles then allowed to rest, he said. 'The third method is to humanely destroy the old, lame and sick animals. Ilali believes two changes in present law would improve conditions for the horses. If people given the horses under private . at today's hearing. Paul M. HalUday, spokesman for Artistic Homes, said the County Commission rejected the development earner on grounds there were inadequate provisions for flood control. Halliday said developers have since planned underground catchment basins to solve any possible flood nrob lems. Medium density development would be consistent with the areas Big Cottonwood District Master Plan, the developer maintained. This calls for an apartment-typ- e buffer zone between the Olympus Hills Shopping ncri Center and nearby family dwellings. Although it was overruled the County Commission, by the Planning Commission favored the earlier rezoning petition, on the grounds that rezoning would be consistent with master plans. Today, the planners postponed a recommendation on hearing that the Big wood District Master Plan is not the Bible. It certainly does not have the effect of irrevocable law. The new petition is even more objectionable to area residents than the old one because it ceils for office development not provided for in fh earlier plati, and eliminates a proposed buffer park between condominiums and homes on the east end of the property, Coreahy added How to get U A for west valley; The Utah Transit Authori- - proximateiy 120,100 persons the area. ty could be serving the areas west of Redwood Road within We pay about $U5 million two or three weeks, says a year m taxes to stport the William D. Oswald, legal UTA and yet have no UTA " counsel for the UTA. service here. said Henry H A!! it would take is for Price of Granger. Lewis Brothers Stages, own-er- s The taxes come a of the frsnchiss to quarter-cer- t p fi-the area, to rit down in court sales tax wliich Salt Late and and agree to a binding arbit- Weber county voiers ap-- ' ration. proved in the November and which became effecThen UTA would the fm c dec-tio- pay price set by an arbitrator. ' said Oswald. Oswalds statement today followed a meeting Monday of citizens who met at the Valley Fair Mall to discuss the problems of getting bus service west of Redwood Road iore man 0 residents attended the meeting and agreed to form a special citizens group composed of representatives of various west side community councils, including those from Granger-HunteKearns, West Jordan, Magna and Tavlorsvilie. r, The citizens group met today at I p.m. at the mall to discuss tactics and strategy for getting bus service in their area. newly-forme- d At the present time only Lewis Brothers Stages has buses in the area about three that pick up about 10O persons a day. Residents at the meeting Monday said there were ap-- tive Jan. 1. n ; Most of the citizens attenb mg Mondays meeting criti cized Joseph Lewis, owner uT Lewis Brothers Stages, for not providing belter bus service. He was present at the meeting and spoke at length about' the troubles: he has experienced in the past 12 years getting funds to supply bus service to the area and described his losses. My company has almost gone bankrupt trying to maintain bus service west of Redwood Road, said Lewis He said his firm has suffered losses amounting to more than $366,000 in the past 12 years . He said he would a9ree to non binding arbitration over the pnee of his franchise, but said the UTA has refused so far to bargain. "They offered me $35,000 which I refused, he told the audience - , |