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£ ’’fv v " fVr’t v JS4 V- X v Xv v Wr if S ar'" ft N - 4 y’X-'- r 5 Hi t' e X third issue addressed by the agreement was the issue of the election of a new leader for the counA try’s collective presidency Serbia blocked what should have been Croat Stipe Mesic’s routine rotation into the post May 15 helping increase tensions that led to the secessionist violence The leadership post rotates among the country’s six republics Mesic's rejection followed months of maneuvering between Marxist-rule- d Serbia which wants a strong Yugoslav federation and See YUGOSLAVIA on 2A ed V ' Am v X fl V - BusinessEconomy Classified ads Comics & puzzles 12A 7-- 4B 1 Dear Abby Editorials A 4-- 5 4A IDA local news National news 1 1A Obituaries 7B Religion Sports news Theaters TV scheduip A “3-7- 8 6A 3A “ o V j M if s' 4 J t - A i v fe m if — lrliim area X HibiNMMaiiHMiabM i Force Base m Davis County goes Without question — more than one-thir- d of the county’s wages are earned by people who work on base “When you start rolling over the ijiQriey a HiU Air Force Base worker earns — he comes here and Jie buys groceries at the local store and the ShopKo and the Kmart — that’s a lot of money into the economy” said Layton city ’development director Scott Carter Unfortunately for Davis County not to mention the entire state the federal government is cutting the military budget Though no one knows how much that will affect the base many local officials expect continued jcjb losses in the next few year$ (The Air' Force has announced a 25 percent reduction m its budget over the next five years Bill traditionally have held up the higher end of the salary continuum in Davis County” said Bob Lowe veterans employee representative for the Clearfield Job Service “People coming out (of Hill) are The challenge of change expecting certain wages and those jobs just aren’t here anymore” Lowe works extensively with If that affected Hill’s workload laid-o- ff Hill’s workers helping base could the proportionately them and locate new jobs retrain from its lose 5000 people 18000-membHe’s had some success for incivilian and milistance retraining aircraft maintetary workforce nance people to repair high-tec- h A shrinking Hill not only means fewer jobs for the local economy machinery for local manufacturit means lower-payin- g jobs The ers But still the pay is lower — $8 base’s salaries along with the private contract jobs dependent on to $9 an hour compared to the the base are some of the best in $1275-an-hosalary on base Lowe said ' the state Not all local officials believe “The Department of Defense cuts are affecting the whole econ- Hill cutbacks will cause major problems They say new firms omy not only because of the layoffs but also because there are moving into the county will refewer contracts let Some contrac place those jobs — such as the er ur compromise includes solve differences The Senate measure calls for a wan of five business days before a handgun purchase is completed During that period state law enforcement officials would check if the purchaser had a criminal re- cord Many states do not now have computerized criminal records The waiting period will be phased out once a national instant background check system is m place‘ but not for at least two yeart In May the House passed its version of the Brady Bilk calling fora seven-da- y waiting period but did not include a phaseout or a provision for a computerized record- - check svstem It was the change from a seven-da- y period to a waiting period that broke an impasse in the Senate and led to the large majority which included 48 Democrats and 19 Republicans All senators from Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Michigan (vot-e- d for the modified Brady measure which is named for James S Brady the former White House press secretary who was severely wounded in 1981 when John Hinckley Jr fired at President Reagan The handgun provision was approved as an amendment to a comprehensive crime bill which the The seventh Installment of ji J eight-da- y Senes ot articles detailing Davis County changes Sears Payment Systems Inc especially its expansion of the death penalty on federal crimes and limits on prisoners’ legal appeals The House plans to take up a crime bill later this year The compromise Brady measure was sparked by a proposal made by Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell It was an attempt to balance the concerns of Today: - National Cold Fusion Institute closed Us doors Friday its star researchers long gone and a $5 mil- lion budget exhausted The institute’s researchers have shut down their experiments and found other jobs Director Fritz Will is on sabbatical but will return next springto take a research pro-- ' fessorship-iwitthe University of Utah f “Basically' lhe NCFI has come to art cikI The research has come to a sUp¥ said university spokes‘ man Larry Weisl lhe msiituie’s demise has been anticipated for months because i' Will and others have been unable to raise private or government funding to pursue the research The research center was estab- hihed with the $5 million state appropriation in August 1987 five months after clectroihemist B encouraging results Many critics however remain unconvinced Earlier this year the federal Department of Energy’s director of energy research James F Decker concluded there was “no future energy source in cold fu- sion” Stanley Pons and his British colEarlier this month Will said league Martin Flnsthmann rockworld by promising results such as detection ed the scientific announcing they had found the key’ of tritium considered 0 sign of a to producing a sustained nuclear nuclear reaction had been detected Tusion reaction in the institute's experiments in the Since then scientists in the Unitpast few months but that institute ed States Japan Italy India the scientists had seen scant sign of the Soviet Union and elsewhere have excess heat Pons and Ucischmann established fusion research proreported m their work However Will said he planned grams and several have reported i i X - fXi the Sears Payment center won’t go far to change that officials agoewi Even at Freeport the average-wagis only about $7 said Steve Barrett Freeport’s director of ec ' T nomic development The response of local officials to those problems varies 'Jn Clear- e field the emphasis is on diversift-catio- n: The city wants to attract firms that don’t dependon deP i fense spending In Layton officials still sceliope in attracting manufacturing firm3 ! salaries and other contractors who catt support Hill work The city also has budgeted about $1 million fo See HILL on 3A in- come at $12750 already is lower than the state average of $13080 and the new jobs at ur wait senators from states experiencing urban violence with those from ru- -' ral states where there are thousands of hunters and members of the Na- tional Rifle Association which is strongly opposed to any waiting pe- riod In a key 54-4- 4 vote late Thursday night the Senate had defeated an attempt 1o strip the Brady provision from the crime bll “This is the first rational modern ate step toward stopping killing in the streets” said Sen Joseph manager of the crime bill “It is the least we owe the American police officers and the Sea BRADY on 2A Bi-d- en D-D- to continue work on cold fusion on a much smaller scale In fusion the power of the sun and the hydrogen bomb atoms arc fused rather than split as tn nuclear fission Pons and Flnschmann had conducted experiments at the institute as well as their campus labs but both have left both the center and reportedly arc doing much of their work abroad I arher Will said some cold fusion work “at 0 much reduced lev-cl- ” likely will continue in the physics chemical engineering and mate- rials cnpincrpng £ Tomorrow: The Issues of 1 ' growth - Others say most of the new firms are either retail or service industries — retail stores and telemarketing operations — and those pay poorly compared to Hill university's departments of ’ Coming up: 4 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The t ’ he said per-capi- ta 4 Sound Buffer zones around base being considered 3A Wal-Ma- rt Davis County’s x tt i' cen- ter in Layton and Zero Enclosures Corp a container manufacturer in North Salt Lake Layton also recently landed a and Reams and Farmington’s getting a new Kmart The Freeport Center in Clearfield which currently employs 7000 continues to attract residents “Something will come along” said Kay Chandler economic development director for Clearfield “When the naval base pulled out of here a lot of people thought Clearfield was done for and now there’s 7000 people” at Freeport five-da- y Senate is expected to complete after the July 4 break President Bush has said he might sign the measure if it is included m an overall crime bill that pleases him Bush’s aides have expressed general approval with some of the crime bill’s provisions so far ’ Fneptioto issues in Davis County growth-relate- d e©®K®:miy V tors already have packed up and left the county And (those jobs) DAVIS COUNTY 'ejf 1 v Itott The importance of Hill Air ' s Force Base — the atate of Utah’s largest employer — and the contractors that serve it play key roles in a number of By MARY ANN LEMON Standato Examiner Davis Bureau - - m v r — - n t A ' s EHnEHSZZ3 u of U’s National Cold Fusion Institute runs out of energy June 29 1991— Vol 104 No 180 A i I v ’ version of the Brady Bill which would require a five-da- y waiting period before handgun purchases and which takes the first steps toward a mandatory instant background check of gun purchasers m the United States The 67-3- 2 vote was a surprisingly wide margin and put Congress a significant step closer to passing federal handgun the toughest-eve- r purchase law Both the House and Senate have now passed handgun control measures though a conference committee will have to re- - M Jfe r - Xty 4 v r f’V r - & Vrv £ 3 WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday passed a compromise '’'i ? J Y Senate’s Brady Chicago Tribune -- t Vf r V xw“r V 4 V v DJc25te?y ciufts ment X T j J jej- Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jacques Poos said the European ministers received assurances during talks in this Croatian capital that the army would be ordered Ku-ca- r m lfc3r V ! X a i ure porarily the implementation of (their) declarations of independence” n Slovenian President Milan and his Croatian counterpart Franjo Tudjman apparently agreed to this but no time limit was announced and no guarantees made public for abiding by the commit- J’t" v Hill Air back to their barracks He said Croatia and Slovenia were also asked “to suspend tem- 2 h Commission to study length of school year ' WASHINGTON (AP) —President Bush has signed lcgjflafion creating a natiqnal commission tq study whether Apiencamchildcn spend enough time studying Bush said the' new National Commission on Time and Learning “will examine thcquality and adequacy of the study and learning time of the nation’s elementary ana secondary students” The American school year (ypi cally 180 days is shorter than that of most of the nation’s industrial rivals Japanese children sptndfan average of 240 days a ycar)rvjlhe classroom including' '‘sdTtiraay mornings South Koreans 'spend 250 days in school and rnovt Euroacapean countries have 220-daM demic years A wide range of reformers' have suggested scrapping much of the y’ summer vaca- tion instituted in theagrariap 19th century to give larm ‘children enough time to help parents bring in the crops k Bush in a statement saw) the commission “will consider issues regarding the length 'of the school dav and year the role of homework the use of time spenffor aca- demic subjects year-rouprofessional oppoituntiics for teachers and liu use of schools lor extended learping programs” ' nd 'A ' v |