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Show Che Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Mi FOR THE RECORD/D.2 STATE OF THE STATE/D.3 Section D BUSINESS Plunging prices will have shoppers plugginginto electronics /D-4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1998 ROLLY & WELLS PAUL ROLLYand JOANNJACOBSEN-WELLS 998, The Sait Lake Tribune Why Won't Utah Refuse to Insure + Incestuous Pair? With the Kingston polygamy clan back in the newsafterits garbage dis- posalcontract was canceled by North Salt Lake for numeroussafetyviolations, we decided to point out a little discrepancyin Utah government’s policy enforcement. You might recall the outrage Gov. Mike Leavitt displayedearlier this year becauseAtty. Gen. Jan Graham did not enter Utah's namein a legal defense of Vermont's ban on same- sex marriages. Leavitt was concernedthatif Vermont’s law was struck down, Utah would have to recognize homosexual marriages fromthere and pay benefits to gay spouses. Currently,the state denies benefits te gay spouses onthe groundsthey arenotlegally married Meanwhile, Jason Kingston, who works in the State Auditor’s Office and is a prominent memberof the Kingston clan, has claimed his niece as his wife for insurance coverage benefits. State lawsaysit’s a third-de- greefelony for an uncleto marryor have sex with his niece. oO A Christmas Story Chrissy Lund, a 17-year-old senior at Timpview High School in Provo, lost her 12-year-old brother Tanner to cancerlast February Chrissy felt driven to do something in his name. She decorated a Christ mas tree for the annual Festival of ‘Trees that benefits Primary Children's Medical Center, the Salt Lake City facility in which Tanner spent three years beforehe died. ew Budget azardous 0 Health? Officials say looming cutbacks could unleash conquered medical threats BYNORMA WA THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Looming budgetcuts for the Salt Lake City-County Health Department are so severe that public-health threats quelledin recentyears could reappear, according to agencyofficials. With a cut of$1.7 million next year, andother longterm cuts, board of health memberstalked Thursday abouteliminating the injury prevention program and hepatitis A vaccination project, conducting fewer restaurantinspections, reducing public-health nurses in schools by 50 percent andperforming fewerchildhood immunizations. Officials also said they may be forced to close the department's MainStreetClinic at 3189 S. Main, where low-income womenandchildrenget prenatal andpediatriccare. “The proportionof the overall property-tax rate dedicated to public health has not increased since 1991, said board chairman Alan Seegrist. “With these funds we have protected the citizens throughhepatitis, salmonella, shigella measles and pertussis outbreaks. We haverespondedto issues of drinking water contamination andillegal dumpingofhazardous waste. We have madestrides in improving one of the nation’s worst childhood immunization rates. “However an immediateandlong-term More Leaks At Tooele Arms Burner in the water; the other depicting a boy whojust caughtafish. Tanneralso lovedto play chess, so thetree is rife with small stuffed boysin a thinking position Chrissy’s tree sold for $15,000. oO Republicans Can Do It, Too A NewYorkCity-based Website thatspecializes as an educational in formation source for herbs and vitaminsis capitalizing on the Monica Lewinskyscandal AllHerb.com has peppered the country with press releases and pro- motional fliers on a new program called “Walk on the WildBill Side.” It is designed to help Republicans “get in touch with the fun-loving, risk-taking Democratic party animal hiddeninsideusall.” Byregistering as a “fun-loving Re publican”on the Website, ihe subscriber gets a free bottle of natural a 8 Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune Immunizations such as Tamara Milosavljevic’s with nurse Melanie Karmazsin may be jeopardized the budgetcuts will be felt in basic publichealth programs which areprimarily supportedby tax dollars and in manycases required b: ite health laws County commissionersplan to reducethe tax rate on the health andlibrary funds, siphoning $3 million from those accounts in hopesof offsetting a budget shortfall The Army has reported 24 small leaks duringthe first phases of destiuction of 105-millimeter projectiles stored at the Deseret Chemical Depotin Tooele County. No one has beenhurt, but news of the numerous releases has caused some concern. Cavity for nerve gas a of $37.5 million in the general fund. In all, commission- ers cut $53.5 million from departmental requests in an attempt to avoid a property-tax increase — to no avail A $15 million tax hike still is needed to operate the See HEALTH BUDGET, Page D-3 Residents | Warned on Well Water Bolt at the noseof the projectile 24 occur during unpacking of lethal nerve-agent weapons Tanner lovedtofish and loyed to read. The tree featured books with bronze bookends — onedepicting a father whosefishing line is lying still impactof . | | BY JIM WOOLF BY BRENT ISRAELSEN THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE. Aflurryoftiny leaks at the Army's Tooele County chemical-weaponsincinerator is being blamed on a new munition being processed ‘Twenty-four vaporleaks have been reportedin just two months, all involving 105mmprojectiles. These 16-inch-long, bullet-shaped objects were designed to befired by a cannon. Eachcontains0.17 gallonsof a deadly nerve agent knownas GB. Allleaks haveoccurredwithin the enclosed “unpack area” at the incinerator, where the fumes are captured and run through an elaborate air-filtration system before being released into the atmosphere. Noonehas beeninjured “In planning for the operation, we knew there maybethis kind of vapor,” ——————— Bursterwell (designed to hold explosive) Body ofprojectile | MLengi!i — 16 inches Number destroyed — 24,253 Diameter — 105 milimeters lumber awaiting destruction 655,050 Total weight — 44 pounds M Purpose — Designed to be fired by cannons and Nerve agent — GB release a cloud of nerveagent. Amountof agentin each: 0.17 gallons er for operations and engineering at the incinerator. So workers in the unpack area, where weapons arefirst brought into the incinerator complex and removed from the packingcrates, are re- quired to wear special clothing that protects them from vapors when handling theprojectiles. “It will have no impactonthe workers late last month in Milford Plats, an agricultural/residential area just south of Milford and about 12 miles or overall processingoftheprojectiles north of Circle Four Farms, which operates a massivehogf le Sail leaks has refocused public attention on the controversial disposalfacility and age lagoons have shownno bacteria See LEAKS,Page D-3 | | | | men” — and a condom | “This will be thefirst step toward LAKE TRIBUNE MURRAY — Jerry Eldon Hanagarne had been a bounty hunterfor three days when heand his partner shot and wounded a man during a confrontation in a Midvale driveway last November. Members of the Wasatch Presbyterian Church at 1700 South and 1700 East in Salt Lake City circulated a petition recently to persuade the city to landscape a largefield below the church into a park. The city landscaped the park, in- pened, I quit,” said Hanagarne, who nowworks as an city cleanup crews dumped hundreds of bags of leaves they had accumulat- The Honeymoon Is Over As the NBAlockout continues deeperinto the season, players are discovering the pampering they are used to is beginning to wane. Jazz center Greg Ostertag and fam- ily were spotted on Delta’s non-stop flight from Atlanta to Salt Lake City Mondayafternoon — in coach. Witnesses said the cramped seating left the 7-foot-2 Ostertag basically in a fetal position fox the four-hour ight. Brennan | TheUtahLegislaturethis year passed a measure bail enforcement officers, to be licensed. They must Investigation, said about 40 bounty hunters attended Hanagarne, whohad notraining, said he was learn- spotlight on bounty hunters, who have the powerto cross state lines, do not need arrest warrants and, in most states, are not required to be trained or li- See BOUNTY HUNTERS,Page D-3 wouldtake “decades” for the water to travel from the hog farm to Mil ford Flats, said Fred Pehrson, assis tant director of the Utah Division of WaterQuality The division this week formed a special technical committee of state. private and countyinterests to deter mine the source of the contamina tion. Environmental scientists alreadyhave taken additional samples to reconfirm earlier testing andto and stock-watering purposes. The committeeplansto test all of ing “handson’ from Brennan, who had beenin the business about 10 years and was workingfor a handfulof bail-bond companies. The nightof Nov. 21, 1997, the pair were working for American Bail Bonds when they tracked Brad Larsen andhis girlfriend, Alisha Nagel, who were wantedin connection with drug cases. The bounty hunters almost caught Nagelat a convenience store, but she escaped by nearly running and geological studies suggest it narrow downthe boundaries of the contaminated underground aquifers In thefirst roundof sampling, con ducted by the wells’ owners, 23 26 wells tested positive for co bacteria, The wells arefor culinary pass a backgroundcheck, complete a two-day train- the first training class and another 15 have asked to attend the next session. electrician. On Thursday, Hanagarne, 24, and Brennan, 29, pleaded“no contest” to one count of class A misdemeanor assault. They face up to 1 year in jail when 8rd District Judge Joseph Fratto sentences them Jan, 21 This case and others across the nation threw a one was happy — until this fall when requiring bounty hunters, whoreferto themselves as Hanagarne and Mark Joseph Brennan werearrest- cut out to be a bounty hunter, ‘The night it hap- stalled playground swings, and every- | days in jail before bailing out The experience convinced Hanagarne he was not ed, charged with aggravated assault and spentfive Land Use Planning censed ing course and get approval from state board, which is scheduled to meet forthefirst time Jan. 6 Steve Anderson, with the state Bureau of Criminal " sewage lagoonsthat disp is Stateofficials, however, do not be lieve the well water contamination originates at Circle Four. Testingin 88 monitoring wells aroundthe sew Small leaks at the incinerator and ad- jacent weapons-storage area have becomerelatively common, but thespate of news releases announcing the recent Bounty Hunters Plead No Contest in Assault reclaiming a little bit of that devilmay-care attitude demonstrated by the leader of the free world,” says the press release. Perhaps they never heard of former GOP Sen. Bob Packwood. Oo Is bacteria, promptinglocal health of ficials to advise residentsin the yi cinity to boil their water. The contaminationwas discovered Todd Adams/ TheSalt Lake Tribune said Ted Ryba, assistant project manag- Morethan 20 private wat in Millard County hav been found to be contaminated by fecal coliform herbal aphrodisiacs — “Damianafor women and Horney Goat Weedfor ed in the parking lot and driveway, blocking entrance to the park. Oo Bacteria foundin sources around Milford Flats area the wells used bythe approximately 75 homes in Milford Flats Pehrson said the committee will look at a varietyof sources, includ ing bad well construction, agricul tural operations, septic tank systems and the Minersville River, whose re | cent floodwaters could have perco lated agricultural waste into the groundwater Put Away T-Shirts, Get Out Shovels: Major Storm Headed Our Way With Good Measure of Snow Expect a lousy drive home from work today. A majorwinter storm bearing down on Utah is expected to drop 4 to 8 inches of snow in Wasatch Frontvalleys during the day. Areas of southern Davis and Salt Lake counties could receive even more snow if the storm picks up moisture asit Grosses the Great Salt Lake. “We're probably going to havea dey ution derby” on Interstate 15, said Wil- liam Alder, meteorologist in chargeof the National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City. “Parleys Canyon may be a Snowand freezing temperatureswill be an abrupt change from Thursday's record warmth and clear skies. The high Thurs- add another foot to thetotal in Big and Little Cottonwood canyons, said Alder. Elsewherein the state, all of the valleys dayafternoonat theSalt LakeCity Inter- of western Utah should receive snow from would split in two,with half going north of national Airport was 63, breaking a record of 59 established in 1939. this storm, Utah and the other half through Arizona But Weather Service computer models late Thursday all agreed the cold, slow- rocks should welcome which is expected to drop up to 2 feet of terrain in southeastern Utah also should directly across Utah. snow in Utah's northern ygountains. Lingering snow showers on Saturday could parkinglot by 4 p.m. or 5 p.m.” Forecasters earlier predicted this storm moving storm will remainintact and move Skiers fed up with dirt patches and today’s storm, including the low desert aroundSt. George. All of Utah’s mountains and the higher prepare for snow. Only the Uinta Basin and other low-lying parts of easternUtah maybe spared. |
