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Show GUIDE TO GRADUATIONSIN UTAH / C-4 heSalt Lake Cri http://www.sltrib.com une Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 258 Number 38 143 South Main Street (80) Salt LakeCity. U SATURDAY, MAY22, 1999 © 1999, The Salt Lake Tribune SA Natal PNP ON SECOND THOUGHT Old Brains Become Karl Malone Named NBA MVP — Again HotPotatoesfor The Smithsonian The Mailmanputs his stamp on league’s highest honor ©1999, THES) his buddy, explorer and fellow geologist William McGee. tough year id for my teammates. . Jai officials would not comment on the MVP LAKETRIBUNE vote, since the league doesn’t plan to announce PORTLAND, Ore. — The Jazz's Karl Malone has won the NBA's 1999 Most Valuable Player Each man wassure hehadthe bigger brain and, hence, the larger intellect. the winner for a couple of weeks. Malone, who averaged 23.8 points and 9.4 re- bounds while helping the Jazz to a 37-13 record in the regular season, outpolled Miami center Alonzo Mourning in a nationwide vote of 118 said Kim Turner, the Jazz's director of media relations. news-media members whocover the NBA. The MVP award is Malone’s second in three Besides his scoring and rebounding figu the 35-year-old Malone finished 11th in years. He won in 1997 beforefinishing second to Chicago's Michael Jordanlast season. Jordan’s retirement and the 50-game schedule made this MVP racea far different competi- | rivalry disappeared longago. So did the belief that brain size determinesintelli- gence. leaguein field-goal percentage (493). Healso moved into fourth place on the NBA all-time scoring list behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain and Jordan. Malone has scored tion than in the last few seasons, but Malone gladly will take the award. He spoke recently about howhe wouldlike a “‘little buddy” for his But some of the primerelics from that era remain. One famous brain — that of Ishi, a well-known California Indian — resides 29,946 points duringhis 14-year career Seven players have won three or more MVP “I haven't heard anything,” Malone said Friday. “Butif it happens,it would be a great hon- or.It’s not my biggest worry right now. We're awards, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with six Jordan (five), Bill Russell (five), Chamberlain (four), Moses Malone (three), LarryBird (three) and Magic Johnson (three) arealso on that list still trying to get to the next round [of the playoffs}. But if it happens, I would sayit's for the See MALONE, Page A-7 first Maurice Podoloff Trophy. along with Powell's and 250 othersin the Smithsonian Institution’s “wet collecTrent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune Karl Maloneis the NBA's 1999 Most Valuable Player. While the votingforall of the NBA’s awards was complet ed earlier this month, the presentations are staggered duringthe playoffs “Nobody from the league has notified us, award, The Salt Lake Tribune learned Friday. But how to settle the bet? Theyfinally agreed that upon their deaths, both men would be autopsied by a mutual colleague. Their brains would be weighed and measured, and theirdispute laid to rest. The results of that turn-of-the-century tion,” tanks of Formalin in a Maryland storagefacility. Earlier this month, after intense public pressure, museum officials said they fans of Utah, who supported meduringkindofa BYS] EVE LUHM geologist John Wesley Powell had with would return Ishi’s brain to California so it could be given a properburial. “We're being flayed for things that were nevera consideration 80 or 100 years ago,” said David Hunt, the collections managerof physical anthropology. “In the 1920s, when an anatomist saw something they thought wasscientifically important, they sent it off. They didn’t ask the family; they just sentit off.” WhenIshi died, in 1916, he was autop- sied, which was againsthis religious beliefs, and his brain was given to Ales Hrdlicka, a Smithsonian curator with an interest in the humanbrain. Bowing to public sentiment, Smithsonian officials hastily decided May to re- Utah Households Pay Highest Taxes in West Burden for families and individuals continues to grow turn the brain to two California tribes. The repatriation process normally takes several years rather than several months. The tribes have not yet said when they want the brain brought back, said Thom- as Killion, who heads the Smithsonian's repatriation office. But why did the museum want it in ee thefirst place? Or the other eight Amer- ican Indian brains that wound up in the collection? Researchers once collected brains THE SALT ‘TRIBUNE Despite politicians’ reminders Utahns havereceived morethan$1 billion in tax relief in the past six years, aged children. “Our propensity to produce more families here continue to shoulder the children with higher demandson education translates to higher taxes,” said Douglas Macdonald, Utah Tax Commission chief economist heaviest tax burdens in the West. A state Tax Commission study re- leased Friday says Utah households pay 8.5 percent of personal incomein direct taxes. That compares with 7.6 percent in California, the next highest-taxing looking for links between their size and intelligence Western state Meanwhile,the tax bite on businesses Thornton, an anthropology professor at falls near the middle of the pack, at slightly less than 3 percent of gross state product “It wasscientific racism,” said Russell UCLAwhoserves on a Smithsonian committee overseeing the return of American Indian remains. “They might not have called it racism, but that’s what they thought — that Indians had smaller brains and so they were less able to developadvanced societies. Thebasic idea wastryingto relate intel- abnormalities that caused criminal be havior or the markings of superior intel ligence. ‘Among someprominent people, like Powell and McGee,there was even acer ‘The stalemate over hospital reim- viduals and families should carry a heavier load than businesses. well-educated work force,” Macdonald growing Morethan 150,000 Utahnsinsured by Regence BlueCross BlueShield will not be covered at six Columbia hospitals along the Wasatch Front after June30. largest health insurer and second largest hospital chain in thestate a partnership that dates to Blue- y do reap somebenefits from a said. But he noted that in competition for economic development and jobs. Despite the business-tax uptick in the 7.6 percent in 1985 to 8.5 percent in BY NORMA WA\ THE S. LT LAKE TRIBUNE bursementrates is threatening to “It’s a good public-policy question,” enstates surveyed. that early period as made up of “Indi- ValueCare ends coverageof treatment at Columbia chain policy call. Utah political leaders for highest to third-highest among the sev- ans, criminals and geniuses,” representing the thinking at the time that careful study would allow researchersto seethe Households [ff] Business enda long-termalliance between the many years have determined thatindi- years, shifting its ranking from sixth- family and individual taxes just keeps %Personal Income or gross state product vidualdecision over which government said Macdonald. “Are businesses pay eir fair share? Thorntondescribes brain collections of the brain.” Hospitals Effective Household and Business Tax Burdens in Utah has no control. But how thetax burdenis dividedis a es rose 0.23 percent in the past two ligence and personalitycharacteristics to burdenonbusinesses in Utah — and even morethan the tax burden on California residents. The size of Utah families is an indi- Theeffective tax burden on business- most recent two-year period, the longer view shows a decreasing tax burden on companies, Meanwhile, the burden for A new studyfinds Utah households pay 8.5 percentof personal incomein direct taxes. That's more than the tax mists call it a dependency ratio. There are few working-age adult taxpayersto finance government services for a large proportion of nontaxpaying school- BY DANHARRIE BlueCross Drops Six x Burden business taxes Household Tax Burden (Selective Western States) % Personal Income $B Households Cross’ first contract with St. Mark’s Hospital in 1942 Most of the members affected are in BlueCross’s 140,000-member Va lueCare health plan, thoughall the carrier's health plans include Co lumbiahospitals can beafactor in reloca- tion and expansion decisions. Utah Taxpayers The Columbiafacilities affected are: St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake County, which recently ranked Association spokes- man Greg Freddesaid he is “uncomfortable’” comparing the business tax amongthe top 5 percent of hospitals burden to household burden. Instead nationally for cardiac care; Lake view Hospital in Bountiful: Timpa 1998. The business tax burdendeclined made with other states ness tax load makessensefor everyone, nogos Regional Hospital in Orem: Brigham City Community Hospital to 3 percent The household tax burden rose from he said the comparisons should be during the sameperiod from4 percent Utah’s policy of lightening the busi- Utah’s heavytax load primarily is a result of its large families. Tax econo: See UTAH TAXES, Page A-6 Utah State nda Halles Maylett The Salt OgdenRegional Medical Center, and Lake Tribune e BLUECROSS, Page A-7 tain vogueto having one’s brainstudied, remains, he is so hated that people have Gun-Show Vendors Don’t Welcome Attention | COMING SUNDAY TRADITION Somefeelthat extra layers of gun laws won't stop shootings called himthe Antichrist, Hunt said. “People identify him as this terrible, horrible man,” Hunt said. “He wasjust a manofhis time period BY JOHN HEILPRIN There are still thousands of human skeletons that the Smithsonian must re turn to tribes, but just threeof the nine American Indian brains still remain in the collection, Killion said. The others have been returnedto descendants. | | Salt Lakecity’ | AnnLanders Asimov/Bridg: At Home D4 Mw o Births Business C7 C9 Classifieds Comics eM De Editorials Movies Obituaries | senseless shootings and the frontier spirit, have brought a new sense of un of his rights. also is, at Puzzles Sports Star Gazer TV Programs | Ai2 D4 ce | | £2 a WEATHER: Mostly rain-free. Details: D-8 | Archaeologists for the National Park Service are exploring and protecting the submerged history of . 34945 JOR COPY 01234 easiness to the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Utah State Fairpark this weekend Not in anyphysical manner. But as Congress considers more gunrestric tions, thelicensed and unlicensedsell ers whofrequent these types of shows are hotly debating the proposed changes. ‘They'refeeling threatened. They've never had this muchattention,” said Bob Templeton, a Fruit Heights resi dent whose family owns and organizes &3 D7 the United States. | A-5 | Friday andSaturday nightlong times,a violenttradition that Salt LakeCity police want to end 1 Gun-contro|battle looms in House previously was convicted of a firearms felony. Hereceived a rare restoration Street is a effort to see and be seen. It THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Gunpolitics, the cross fire between | | 50 Crossroads shows in five Western states that draw 350,000 people a year. ‘Templeton said he would support re quiring background checks for all fire armsbuyers at his gun shows, thoughhe does not believe it would do muchgood. Instead, all sides should talk about the underlying issues It's timefor a na tional dialogue said Templeton, who = so sure werethey that their superior intelligence would be visibly apparent Among some American Indians, partic. ularly in Alaska, where Hrdlicka dug up sacred burial grounds to collect skeletal N That dialoguealready has begun. In Washington on Capitol Hill, guns are Topic A Republicans this week led by Sen Larry Craig, R-Idaho, a member of the National Rifle Association's board, ini tially defeated a Democratic amend: ment to require background checks on all firearms purchases at gun shows Lawmakers on Thursday agreed to make those checks mandatoryafter a half-dozen rank-and-file Republicans complained to Craig. Senators in both parties also agreed to background checks for all guntransactions at pawn shops andto require all handgunsto be sold with trigger locks. Congressional Democrats, bolstered by public pressure, gained momentum for gun controlin the nameof the fam See GUN SHOW, PageA-7 | | S109 1 Knight Ridder Trine RN MORE ABOUT THIS ovine ar wwsuesecr sta. com |
