Show STANDARD-EXAMINE- R SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3 1990 CITY EDITOR: 0 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS 625-422- School board bill gets committee OK Not everyone likes liquor bill 5 Pm:l JENSEN and LISA CARRiCAB'JRU Weber lawmakers disapprc s By PHIL JENSEN Standard Examiner SALT LAKE CITY — Two Weber County lawmakers have cast themselves in the minority by speaking against a new Utah liquor law that has steam-rolle- d through the Legislature The bill calling for the most sweeping changes in state liquor statutes since the end of Prohibition stormed through the House 4 Friday morning e bill was shipped The immediately to the Senate from where it came to ote on one 55-1- 292-pag- minor amendment The Senate did so without debate 25-- 0 and dispatched it to the governor's office Senate Bill 141 is the new- law or will be on April 23 upon - turned over to partisan politics under legislation approved by a House committee The bill passed the Slate and Local Affairs Committee Friday despite solid opposition from educators The measure would require candidates for local and state 9-- Og- th den asked during a floor debate Friday whether Holmes questioned the new law wi’l reduce alcohol- Standard-Examine- ism drunken driving or drinking by minors or even if those are the purposes Holmes said the bill embodies the danger of further hurting Utah's image as a state with strange liquor laws which is Wharton SALT LAKE CITY — Local school board elections would be Gov Norman Bangerter's expected signature Bangerter said at a news conference Friday afternoon that he wo ild sign the bill But two Weber County representatives a Republican and a Democrat don't think it should be happening “W hat are we trying to accomplish with this new law" Rep Douglas Holmes Blaze iy’jrscid Exa'r'rvf particularly bad he said because the state is a potential host of the Winter Olympics "Are we trying to be different" asked Holmes who is attorney for Riverdale City “I'm about what we are try graphic r ing to do" Rep Haynes Fuller said the bill holds hidden dangers of abuse and bootlegging By replacing the minibottle really-confuse- LIQUOR on 2C See He said the bill would infuse more public inter- 2 school boards to run on political party tickets or as independents as they do in other state elections lt Rep Blaze Wharton Lake City said the legislation is intended to infuse more public interest in local board races Both he and former state Democratic Party Chairman Randy Horiuchi said they were surprised that the bill passed The measure was opposed in est in board races committee by the state Office of Education the Utah Education Vssociution the PTA and other school groups All said they believe that school boards should not be turned over to partisan politics Northern Utah education officials echoed that sentiment in interviews I riday afternoon "I think the bill is ridiculous" said Donna Barker vice president of the Ogden school board “If we start putting politics into Se SCHOOL Hooper water dirty on 2C '10 District is under state health gun By PAT BEAN Standard Examiner The state Department of Health has given the Hooper Water Improvement District two weeks to solve its dirty water problems The time limit was established Friday during a joint meeting of representatives from the state n the water district and and Davis health disn tricts said Roger Wilde environmental health director “We had a three-hou- r meeting with them (Friday) morning durWeber-Morga- Weber-Morga- ing which they were given several alternatives" said Wilde adding that the district has had sporadic water problems since November He said the dirty water did not pose a health hazard but violated a secondary drinking water standard that requires water to be Patti Burton Joshua Smith and Robbie Stevenson (from left) take a class offered by the National Guard Cliff clear Students get chance to fire “You certainly can't wash your At times clothes in the water it comes out of the taps quite brown It's not really a health hazard but I certainly wouldn’t drink iu” said Wilde disn He said the trict has been getting about 25 calls a day about the problem “And the Davis district has been getting a dozen or so a day Even the state Department of Health has been getting calls" he By SCOTT HARRIS OGDEN — Rapid-firin- g semiautomatbrought grins to JROTC students at Ben Lomond High School on Friday as they shot blanks from the military rifles Other students were more excited by the power and climbing abilities displayed by the Heavy Mobile Wheeled Veic said The equipment and weapons were shown to the students by officers of the 1st Battalion 145th Field Artillery of the Utah National Guard in an effort to find new recruits For some students the weapons presentation was nothing new but for others it one-thir- “What they did last July during a big water demand period was to run out of water which put the pumps out of commission and contaminated their water supply" he said Wilde said he thought the district may have destroyed the well “They've been trying to solve the problems but maybe not hard enough" said WJJ noting that was why the health department fell it needed to set a time limit The alternatives he said are to get the main well back in opera- See HOOPER on 2C ear-to-e- ar hicle two-thir- Wilde M-1- rm v t is ts i' ' ' v cx- - s' was a little scary Karen Jones 1 5 a sophomore said she " Jason Shigley gets ready to fire as BJ Rust shoots in ROTC Friday and to see them fired Theron Prout 16 a junior has been in the school’s JROTC program for two years but had never before fired a semiautomatic weapon He said the rifle had “a lot of power and speed — it’s a good weapon” Brandon Fowers 17 said the 6 rifle is a “powerful weapon if I had to use it in real life I would” 16s Standard Examiner Weber-Morga- The water district serves about 1600 residences in Hooper west Roy Kancsville West Point and of the Syracuse About water connections are in Weber d in Davis County and County W ilde said the water district’s main well has been plagued with constant breakdowns the last few months forcing it to switch to a backup well that has water high in iron and manganese He said the district has been chlorinating the water to rid it of the bacteria bad taste and odor But the chlorination he said has increased the water's cloudiness The problems for the water district began back in July when the pump for the district's main well broke down resulting in contamination of the water supply At that time residents were told to boil their water said wasn’t “fond of weapons" but added it was interesting to handle the heavy M- - M-1- Maj Edward Lovejoy who heads the school’s JROTC command said the program offers a rifle range and various clubs to help students “become better students and citizens We are not trying to recruit for the Army” Friday’s presentation by the National Guard was aimed at “instructing the students about guns communications and showing them how the Army is different girl EDEN — Angela Bailey crying IVe Ski Area Chris Bailey her mother was screaming too — as she held on with one hand to her daughter's ski jacket "1 was just screaming at the was holding top of my lungs onto one strap on the back of her snowsuit and I could feel it rip- 1 " The Bailey family had gone skiing Monday evening at the Ogden Valley resort when Vngela slipped from the chair I op- rier Shawn Durrani a ski lift rjtor who tv afraid of heights "I look heard the Hreaming and id up ard she was banning Salute I tf' there her head level with the chair I couldn't believe it Then I remembered the stairs on the er" Durrant 18 said he told the other lift operator to continue running the lift until the girl's chair was even with the tower “I only remember seeing two steps as flew up that tower it 1 happened so quick" Once at the lop Durrant said he walked across the tower which is 6 to 8 inches wide until he reached the cable holding the chair shimmied down the cable and slid down until I hit tlu “1 M-6- rifles Richard Hunter 19 graduated from Ben Lomond last year and is going into the Navy later this month He said he learned a lot from Friday’s presentation “After I go into active duty I don’t think I will have to use guns in battle but I won’t be too afraid of confrontation" Hunter said PAT EEA’J fj" OGDEN — In a readjustment of manpower Thiokol Corporation's space operation is reducing its work force by 215 positions over the next 30 days According to a I riday press release the "adjustment reflects changes in workload associated with the completion of space shuttle redesigned solid rocket motor research and development and the resumption of full hardware production" The adjustment includes 35 added positions in production areas jnd the reduction of 250 positions in areas £ Byzon EArjoi V? tow M-1- Thiokol announces layoff of 215 in space operation B snow-packe- 1 1 from the myths or the movies" Lovejoy dangling from chair and screaming dangled from a ski lift 40 feet above the d ground at Nordic Valley M-1- 6s The JROTC program at Ben Lomond has produced state champions in rifle of the marksmanship competitions for last 12 years so many of the students at Friday’s presentation were eager to shoot 6 rifles to a round of blanks from the 0 test the weight of the fully automatic machine gun and to look down the sights of a rocket launcher Also attending the gathering were students who had graduated from high school but wanted to visit their past instructors and fire a few rounds from the said Ski lift operator rescues pmg LongmireStandard-Examine- r chair and then girl" 1 grabbed the ( hris Bailey said Durrant wai shouting encouragement the entire lime he was climbing the tower See SALUTE on 2C n to the press release foMuclcd I riday night t'd spokesman Steve said Ins response I (no- awson to the I company's decision would only be a repeat of the press release “A reduction in force is always a difficult business decision" Robert Lindstrom senior vice president and general manager of general manager of space operations is quoted in the release "We intend to support those employees affected by offering several approaches designed to help them through this difficult transition period" he said The press release notes that a hiring fieeze has been in effect since October to allow normal attrition to lessen the reduction The action will bring space operations manpower to 4300 and I hikol s total work force in I tab about 7000 |