Show j Jazz 105 Mavericks 92 Lomond 68 B Elder 62 Ogden 74 Bear River 45 Davis 44 Clearfield 36 Roy 62 Viewmcn! 53 S I J 1 ZaWHIPIWJUW SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 OGDEN UTAH 'LUlhLJJJJ 50 CENTS Clyde MueilerStandard-Examine- r John Bailey addresses the nearly 1000 people who filled the Capitol rotunda Hundreds join rally for human services Organizer wants lawmakers to see needs By CHARLES Standard-Examtne- needs are one thing and funding F TRENTELMAN SALT LAKE CITY — Bearing signs that said “We are Humans too" and “Create ability ’don’t continue disability" more than a thousand people turned out Friday to try to get the Legislature’s attention Whether they succeeded remains to be seen Even legislators who support their cause — to get more funding for human services r'c-’around the state — admitted s Birthe Johanson of Enable Industries Inc participates in the rally at the Capitol quite another Gov Norman Bangerter also a target of the rally because he is needed to declare a fiscal emergency to get more funds for human services needs had already said at least part of the rally’s goal was not on his own agenda Speaking earlier in the day Bangerter said he doesn’t want to declare an emergency for human services Instead he said he wants to amend legislation passed last year that prevents is f House rescinds call for convention By PHIL JENSEN Standard-Examine- SALT LAKE CITY — Legislation championed by the John Birch Society to rescind Utah’s call for a Constitutional Convention stumbled through the House — and back As state lawmakers repair to their homes for a weekend respite the highly charged issue remains in limbo The House voted to rescind the call Friday then changed its mind as lawmakers bounced back and forth At issue is states’ prerogative to convene an historic convention ‘They’re spending a lot of time on something that is not the burning issue of the day’ — Gov Norman Bangerter to change the US Constitution a move backers say is needed to force Congress to balance the budget flew Sen Orrin Hatch here from Washington with a prepared House speech saying the nation faces a financial cancer growing “minute by minute hour by hour day by day" ah Pitted against the Republican senator was Don Fotheringham a critic who said any convention would be controlled by liberals who would broaden the agenda to alter cherished US rights Fotheringham from Appleton Wise is the manager for membership services for the John Birch Society Meanwhile downstairs from the House and Senate chambers LONDON (AP) — Authorities have dropped the number 666 from car license plates after some motorists complained that the Biblical number of the beast had bedeviled their lives causing everything from fender benders to bad water “It's not that we as an organization give any credence to this but we don't want to be inadvertently causing real distress to people" Jeff Mumford the session The Legislature is being asked e to recall its 1979 resolution call-Se- on 2A senior executive officer of the policy branch of the government Driving Vehicle and Licensing Center said Friday The belief that 666 represents Satan comes from chapter 13 verse 18 of the New Testament Book of Revelation which refers to “the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred threescore and World applauds de Klerk’s intentions LONDON (AP) — South Africa won worldwide praise Friday for legalizing the African National Congress and promising to free black leader Nelson Mandela and Britain immediately restored cultural and academic ties Other nations tempered plaudits with reminders that apartheid remained groups asked governments to continue economic and other Anti-aparthe- id DE KLERK: militants optimistic id 11 A sanctions which they said had pushed the white authorities to reform Javier Perez de Cuellar the described UN secretary-generPresident FW de Klerk's announcement as “celestial music" he hoped would herald the end of apartheid al Bill White House offer of negotiations and begin in earnest the process of a peaceful demotransition to a cratic South Africa" The Soviet Union said the measures were “an important and non-raci- State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwilcr said: “We call on all South African parties including those unbanned by President de Klerk to take up this al step in the right long-expect- non-prof- di- rection" but the official news six" Tass quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying: “It is necessary that they should agency Among those who shun the number is Ronald Reagan who changed his California ad dress from 666 to 668 St Cloud Drive after leaving the White House Complaints also arose in Tennessee in 1988 over the number when the state began using new three-digtags The Davidson County clerk withdrew all 366 license plates from the county stockpile bearing the number 666 when motorists refused to accept the plates and said they bore the it mark of the devil man from North Wales claimed that within one week his house was burglarized a garbage truck backed into his car and he was told his water supply was poisoned Mum-for- d said The man blamed his troubles on the 666 in his number plate “Then there was a lady who claimed the car actually took hold of her and she couldn’t control it It reversed mounted the doorstep and squashed See 666 on 2A A See PRAISE on 2A aiding federal retirees awaits governor’s signature By KATHARINE BIELE Slandatd Examiner SALT LAKE CITY — A bill giving federal retirees a chance to qualify for 1985 tax refunds passed the Senate Friday with only one dissenting vote House Bill 373 sponsored by House Speaker Nolan Karras sailed through the Senate under the sponsorship of Glade Nielsen The legislation extends the filing deadline for tax refunds until April 16 Federal retirees arc enmeshed in a legal battle over whether the i President Bush called it “quite positive" and said he would review US sanctions A Bush aide said both de Klerk and Mandela an ANC leader when he was sent to jail would be invited to the ar Authorities are having devil of a time selling motorists on 666 plates GOP Gov Norman Bangerter said the whole thing is much to do about nothing “They’re spending a lot of time on something that is not the burning issue of the day” Bangerter said Friday “This comes up every year and I've been around here for 15 years and they haven't had a convention yet" But the emotion of Utah’s position has taken hold of legislators one of whom said the oe to rescind is the most important of CONVENTION the state from increasing spending as much as it wants to The rally was called by Sen River John Holmgren City chairman of the Social Services and Health appropriations subcommittee Holmgren said at the time his idea was to try and make the rest of the Legislature realize there are other needs in the state besides education adit Utah Issues a vocacy group for the poor organized the rally as part of its See RALLY on 2A Utah State Tax Commission or the courts will decide their fate A class action lawsuit is pending based on a US Supreme Court ruling last March In that ruling the court said both federal and state pensioners had to be taxed equally In fact state retirees were given tax breaks that federal retirees did not have Since then federal pensioners have been filing claims with the tax commission lor the years 1985-8- 8 to protect their rights to the refunds r This most recent pensions bill however dealt with only the 1985 tax year upon which claims r had a statute of limitations that expired last April The tax commission disqualified about 3500 of the 7709 claims sent partly because some were filled out incorrectly But retirees claimed they cither had chairman of the Utah State Federation of the National Association of Federal Retirees “These people are not asking for anything that is not something that is due This will give them the opportunity to recover taxes paid for 1985" not received the forms had inadequate instructions or were unjustly disqualified “I am just very hopeful and feel that the state has made the right move" said Bess Jensen ly three-yea- ( She said support came primarifrom Davis and Weber legisla- tors including Protman th Rep Grant Ogden who the House bill “At least now if the court decides in our favor people entitled to a said refund will gel it" Jensen Nielsen said the bill now goes to the governor for his signature "It extends the filing deadline for those who have missed the deadline or had some problem with the forms or didn't get proper tax advice" he said in reThe tax commission sponse to the angry retirees con- ducted workshops to help with state forms and was supportive of the bill that passed Friday Nielsen said |