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Show .Major Candidates Gamer $1.5 MilEon Salt k( ibttnr Local News Business Obituaries Page B-- 15 Sunday Morning October 19, 1980 Section II Page One R Charles Seldin Tribune Staff Writer I'tahns, with a little help from outside political action committees, have contributed $1 5 million toward campaigns of 12 major candidates, ranging from attorney general to United States senator, a cheek of records reveals. Republican Sen. Jake Gam, with $340,9.10, is the wealthiest of candidates, although Democratic Gov. Scott M. Matheson isn't far behind, with collections of $292,497. Both also enjoy comfortable leads in the polls. Incomplete Records As the campaign enters its final two and a half weeks, records filed with the state auditors office and secretary of state, show that the political truism once again holds He who has the money, also has the lead For instance, Sen Garn, completing his first term in office, has jhout three tones the money as his opponent, attorney Daniel Berman, who has collected $116,315, $60,000 of which came from a loan Records, however, are grossly incomplete, with quarterly to reports covering mid-Julmissing r, y spokesman for Secretary of State Davia S Monson said Congressional reports are filed with the federal elections commission, with duplicates sent to the state. State officials have no enforcement capabilities to summon delinquent reports. Only five-terCongressman Gunn McKay, a Democrat from the 1st District, has filed a current report He A ha collected $153,266 toward a sixth ter n His opponent, Utah House of Representatives Speaker James V Hansen, R Farmington, has generated $28,570 However, his report is three months behind Mr McKay's Biggest Gap The biggest gap between candidates on a percentage basis comes in the 2nd Congressional District race, where two-terRepublican Dan Marriott has $86,116 bank rolled, to only $16,010 for Democrat Art Monson The Republican Party's gubematofl-a- l candidate, Bob Wright, is the only challenger to put together a first rate campaign war chest, according to figures All reports for state office aspirants are current, and ojien to Nothing Serious business evening. Hundreds of harried clerks and salesmen and bookkeepers and typists and stenographers spew out of the the buildings exactly at the stroke of 5 . . . .They over- flow into the streets and scatter in all directions like small wisps of tissue paper in a busy wind. Bachelor clerks walk out of the buildings, wishing they were going home to a home-cooke-d meal, as they head for the nearest restaurant . . . And married clerks wish they were going to eat in a restaurant as they head home for a meal . . . And pretty girls race through the doors and pop out into the street and into the waiting cars of boyfriends . . . And plain girls walk more slowly down the street, with wistful backward glances at the waiting boyfriends . . . And the buses stop and steam and fill the street with diesel fumes as they wait for carload after carload of elbowing fares . . . And an occasional housewife, her arms filled with packages and a youngster on each side. And tired young men and tired old women juggle for priority at the bus stops . . . And the bus drivers try to make change with both hands . . . And traffic cops run up and down the street to show theyre working . . . A time to stop ITS 5 OCLOCK working. . . A time to start living . . . A young man walks swiftly down the street whistling, carrying a teddy bear under one arm, a briefcase under the home-cooke- d ... other. . . man follows with a d happy smile on his face, a golf club in his hand . . . A young girl with dreamy eyes carries a hatbox under her arm as she races the clock home to get in front of a A middle-age- d paper-wrappe- mirror. Its . . . . . Death of the day Birth of the night . . . Elevators pop up and down the buildings like giant yoyos . . . And everybody smiles at the boss at 5 oclock . . . But the boss doesnt smile at anybody . . . And sometimes, on a spring afternoon, the boss wishes he wasnt the boss at all, but somebody who could leave at 5 oclock and say goodbye to the sun . . . And a steady stream of mail flutters down the long mail chutes in the building . . . And the traffic piles up like a gasoline snake as home-boun- d workers dash across pedestrian zones . . . And people pile up in front of drug stores . . . And friends wave goodbye to each other until tomorrow . . . ITS A GREAT AMERICAN TIME . . . This 5 oclock on a downtown Salt Lake evening. . . Husbands meet wives . . . Boys meet . 5 oclock . . girls . . . Sweethearts meet sweethearts . . . 5 oclock on Its the great leveler a downtown evening . . . Junior executives jockey each other for position to ride down the elevator with the boss . . . Junior clerks wait to follow that new blonde typist out of the office . . . Insurance men cluster around the building front telling each other what a great day they had . . . Lawyers stop and lie to each other ... Stockbrokers skirt home through the back alleys . . . Advertising men walk jauntily down the street in d clothes not paid for . . . Its 5 oclock in the evening . . . The day is dead . . . Long live the night! SAM, THE SAD CYNIC, SAYS: If our schools dont get busy, some of our children wont be able to read the handwriting on the wall! ... well-tailore- Tribun Teresa Bashmaa, left offers balloon to Pearl Day at Saturdays celebration dedicating City Stall Photo by Lynn R. Johnaon Park. New minipark Is an attempt to copy European squares where community meets. Well Flows At City Well Other parts of the valley may worry about their drinking water turning foul, but in Salt Lakes Central City neighborhood its flowing cool, clean and clear year-rounUntil this year, it bubbled up through a rusty pipe in a garbage-strew- n vacant lot at the comer of 8th South and 5th East. But now, the old pioneer artesian well has been turned into an attractive mini-para showcase for an inner city neighborhood rebuilding itself. Dedication ceremonies for City Well Park Saturday were an opportunity for residents of the neighborhood to pay homage to the history of their area and to their attempts to revitalize it. Dates Back to 1890s According to Richard Oman, a member of the Parks Committee of the Central Community Council, the well dates back to the 1890s, when a severe drought forced Salt Lake City Mayor Francis Armstrong to look for alternatives to the Wasatch Mountain streams that were the citys main water source. In its heyday, said councilman Palmer DePaulis, who presided over the dedication ceremonies, the well was a welcome stop for the horse drawn carriages using 8th South as a main throroughfare into the city. Over the years, other city wells have been covered over, but the one at 8th South and 5th East has continued to draw people from, as far south as Riverton and as far north as Centeryille in Davis County. Healthier Water Some claim the untreated water makes them healthier, said Mr. Oman. Othei s use it for their aquariums, or to make a special holiday punch that doesnt taste so much like a Chlorox bottle. When the community councils parks committee was formed three years ago, Mr. Oman said, one of the first things they decided was to begin pressuring to improve the "grungy-lookin- g the city vacant lot where the well stood, which had become a community eyesore. They succeeded in convincing the city to condemn the land, purchase it and apply $70,000 in Community Develop- ment Funds to the project, according to councilman DePaulis. Mr. Oman said the idea was to make the park function like the fountains and town squares of Europe, as a place for people to gather. The second faality occurred near the Special to The Tribune deer hunters wore killed and a Lower Enterprise Reservoir in north- third wounded Saturday as the season opened in Utah. Killed near Cannonville, Garfield County, was Wade Chynoweoth, 55, Ilenrieville, Garfield County. According to Garfield County Deputy Sheriff JohnNeimann, Mr. Chynoweoth was not wearing any hunter orange clothing. When he moved, a nephew, Brett Chynoweoth, 17. son of Ralph .Chynoweoth. also of Henrieville fired. The victim was pjonounced dead at the scene. I Area Pride Hunters Die in Gun Accidents Two with headquarters at 29t E Jl)00 South Party or committee donations thus total more than $75,01X1 for Mr Wright Gov Matheson, as head of the Democrats in the state, has lieen given By Jim Woolf By Dan Valentine DOWNTOWN SALT LAKE blossoms into a busy anthill at 5 oclock each of tees For instance, he has received $45,000 from the state and national GOP forces, and also $17,500 from a group known as the Citizens Political Actum Slate Flection Fund Another $10 080 has lieen donated b the National Conserv Political Action Committee, head quartered in Arlington. Vn and $5,000 has enme from a group simply railing itself the Political Acion Committee, The bulk of his have come through hundreds of private donations ranging from $25 to $100 $75 36 b - 111- party donations cam;aign On down the line, incumbent Republican I.t Gov David S Monson. seeking a second term, has collected $41,863, considerably more than Democratic challenger Sen Moroni Jensen, who lias i onti ibutions of $2t,Hi9 For attorney general. GOP candidate David Wilkinson who leads in the polls, also has a sizeable lead in donations, with $65 760 lbs opisment, James W McConkio, a Democrat, lias collected $.33,370 One more reixirt is due from each candidate, except those seeking Con gressional office, who have two due, including the delinquent filing Little Dell Project Stirs New Interest Dan Valentines doors public inspection in the auditoi 's office Mr Wright has contributions totaling $227,347 and continues to receive substantial support from local and national conservative political actum commit- ern Washington County. According to the Washington County sheriffs office, an elderly, unidentified, man died of an accidental gunshot wound. d Brent Howard Clark, 28, Logan, suffered minor leg wounds when his rifle discharged in the cab of his pickup. He had seen a deer, reached for the gun and it fired. The bullet fragmented and bits If it hit his leg The accident occurred near Hyrum. v : y.'-:- . "Wv, VN f! Tribune Staff Writer A book containing all the plans necessary to build the Little Dell dam lies neglected in the Corps of Engineers office in Salt Lake City. Its been there since 1976. So has the environmental impact statement and the numerous other documents needed to build the $70 million dam in Parleys Canyon. The project has had an erratic history since its birth in 1952. Occasionally it has had great support. Occasionally it lacked it. Today, the dam appears to once again be in favor. The Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake City Pubkc Utilities Advisory Committee have both recently gone on record in support of the dam. Salt Lake County flood control officials are also showing new interest in the project. Lee McQuivey, project planner for the Corps of Engineers, said Little Dell would be a dam constructed just above the present Mountain Dell reservoir in Parleys Canyon. Little Dell would actually be on a tributary stream known as Dell Creek. How It Would Work The lake behind the dam would have a capacity of 30,000 acre feet almost ten times the capacity of Mountain Dell. It would receive water from both Dell Creek and Emigration Creek. The water from Emigration would be piped diversion tunnel. in through a mile-lon- g extra water from Little Dell wouldn't be needed. On the basis of this report, final plans for the dam were prepared in 1976. Land was acquired and all the necessary documents approved. From our point of view, since 1976 flee Page B-- Column 1 ?, PROPOSITION 2 Here are some questions concerning the proposed amendProposition 2 ment to the Utah Constitutions revenue and taxation article. Q. Will the tax article revision permit state revenue sharing? A. State Sen. Karl N. Snow . Jr., The term sharing says, implies total freedom to share any revenue at any time with any government. There is no such revenue sharing in the proposed revision. provision Waters from higher on Parleys However, state Itep. Orval C. HarriCreek, Mill Creek and Big Cottonwood lt Lake City, claims the Creek could also eventually be piped son, amendment would allow revenue sharinto the reservoir. ing and calls this possibility the proposMr. McQuivey said the dams hot and itions most serious flaw. cold history began in 1952 when a major It violates a fundamental tenet of flood swept out of Parleys Canyon good government: That the unit of causing $2.5 million worth of damage in government which spends money Salt Lake City. should bear the responsibility for collecting it, the representative says. a for way Engineers began searching Q. Is the proposed amendment only to prevent another such flood and permissive? In other words, is approval decided on the Little Dell project. just the legislative The first flurry of interest in the dam A. Yes, say proponents. . . .The culminated in 1960 when plans for an revision simply permits the Legislature facility were completed. to make property tax reductions and does not require it to do so, says Sen. The first lull occurred after the state Snow. ; and federal government got into an do will What is the shift measure the how dam much the argument over tax burden from one revenue source to would cost to build. another and, consequently, from one In 1968 new plans for the dam were taxpayer to the other, replies Rep. drawn. This time the dam was large Harrison. . enough to back up 50,000 acre feet of Q. Opponents claim the revision wilf water. not require or result in tax cuts. Is this Interest Fades Away true? Due to lack of funds, interest in this A. Proponents say that it would be better to give the Legislature the plan slowly faded. Little Dell came to life again in 1974 necessary flexibility to reduce property when yet another report concluded the tax directly rather than to restrict tax dam should really have a capacity of reduction altogether. 30,000 acre feet. The rationale was that Rep. Harrison replies that the the Central Utah Project would soon be amendment does not limit governdelivering water to the valley and the ments appetite to tax and spend. 8,000-acre-fe- M Hi i . mXm. Year-roun- well water is a d refreshing treat for Tim K othy Posy. The water comes straight from the good earth. Property Taxes Key Issue Candidates Seek to Help Countys Image Editor's note: This Is the first of two articles analyzing Salt Lake County's two commission races. By Jack Fenton Tribune Staff Writer How would you like to work off that property tax bill? At least the prrt levied by Salt Lake County government. Mike Stewart, Republican candidate comfor Salt Lake Countys four-yea- r mission post, says he will give that idea a top priority if he is elected Nov. 4. Besides getting its due through the payment in kind, county government would reap some badly needed public relations," explains Mr. Stewart, direcUtah Centennial tor of the Foundation. Like his opponent, Democrat John Hiskey, 31, Mr. Stewart stresses efficiency in county government and an improved image for the three-ma- n commission. Each touts his experience: Mr. Hiskey as administrative aide and most recently as executive assistant to Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson. Mr. Stewart, iM, was on the faculty at Brigham Young University for 10 years, teaching constitutional history, minority affairs and public administra- tion. County Commission Chairman William E. Dunn, lone holdover on the governing bpdy with two years remaining on an unprecedented third term, resents the campaign that stress how unresponsive and inefficient the governing body has been. You go to jail for crimes against the person. . . You go to jail for crimes against property," Mr. Stewart explains. But theres nothing you can do about crimes against the pocketbook." Mr. Hiskey predicts. restraint, Theres unprecedented pressure from calling for an executive committee to set pay for elected officials. inflation. unpiecedented pressure He also wants to eliminate special from tax limitation. elections costing county taxpayers as Commissioners must set priorities much as $40,000 each election while then live with them no matter how unpopular those decisions become, he catering to special interests. declares. Tighter supervision at all managEstablishing those priorities may . ement levels especially the commission would insure county government gets its money's worth, he suggests. MM hs not difficult to meet expenses Theyre everywhere. 4 i Mike Stewart Work Off Property Tex John Hiskey Decade of Restraint' . mean abolishing whole programs He would choose that solution instead of an across-the-boar- d cut that would damage virtually all programs these that work and those that don't. If a programs working, lets keep it. . If its not working let's get rid of it. non-prof- Yculcrckij's Chuckle This is going to be a decade of Along with his payment in kind plan, Mr. Stewart would push a measure . . What would Mr. Hiskey cut? Thats something to be determined by new commissioners during their first few months on the job. Dont expect miracles overnight, he pleads. Mr. Hiskey is critical of the current commission for what he pictures as its antagonistic stand against incorporation of West Valley City earlier this year. Instead of fighting the incorporation, commissioners should have urged the new government to buy a year or two of transition services certainly police and fire protection, maybe highway maintenance, Mr. Hiskey contends. . . .The burdei s of startinv, a city are so huge. Air. Hiskey believes the new Jity and See Page B-- Column 3 |
