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Show c2 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Friday, December24, 1999 Hillside Hole Repaired, Canal to Be Rerouted Company opensbids for Riverdale repairs sxsegoy BY KRISTEN THE SALT LAKE M TRIBUNE 2 Thehillside hole left by a devastating rupture in an irrigation and now the Davis and Weber ounties Canal District plans to Teroutethe canal. ; Bids were opened this week the rupture andbuild more thana mile of new canal east of the break. Thework will be funded mostly with a $1.5 million loan granted this month by the Utah Board of Water Resources. The U.S. Degrant of $1.9 million to repair the canal, Though the canal companystill hopes political pressure can be applied by the congressional delegation, “It's not looking good right indJast for two projects that will pass the rupturedsection of ca- now,” Bahamsaid. The George W. Johansen Con- ham, the canal company manager. struction Co. will do the bypass, which will entail putting an 8- fal in Riverdale, said Floyd Ba- foot-by-8-foot concrete culvert box A breachin the canal July 11 sent a torrent into a downhill Riverdale neighborhood, filling dozens of homes with mud and waterandcausingmillionsof dol- wantsto start workthefirst week of January, but is awaiting final lars in damage. Bahai said it cost $1.1 million approval by the military and the Roy Water Conservancy ‘compact the soil. That work was just finished It will cost another $1 million api © for two projects to bypass The bypass, south and west of the rupture, will run for about a quarter mile through the northwest corner of open land on Hill Air Force Base and through a to fill the holeleft in the side of the hill withdirt, install drains and to underground. Baham said the canal company Subdistrict. ae Upstream from the bypass, Whittaker Construction Co. will install more than a mile of new pipe fora section ofcanal that will follow a differentpath than the old canal, moving it farther from homes. That is being done in part to satisfy Riverdale residents worried about another breach, “There's nobody whois built under thathill. It's sparsely populat- ed,” Baham said of the new route. The two contractors must be substantially finished by March 15 and fully finished by March 31, orthey will haveto pay $10,000 per day, Bahamsaid. * had to have a stiff penalty it's got to be finished by on Interstate 215 sent two people it is a possibility that it was sely inflicted,” he said. David Bour} 36,left his Las Vegas homeeariy flown to University Hospital and Canal company manager land. Centerville police Sgt. Von Ste: blik. “The medical examiners to the hospital with critical injuries. A Salt Lake City woman was Floyd Baham portion of the Roy water district’s 2 HURT IN PILEUP A traffic accident involving four vehicles Thursday afternoon “We had to have a stiffpenalty because it’s got to be Sinished by April.” partment of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency has refused a FOR THE RECORD April,” he said. Not only do farmers in Davis and Webercounties depend on the Lane Perkins, 18, West Valley City, wasairlifted to LDS Hospital, said Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Kramer. The accident occurred shortly before 2 p.m,at 1-215 and 2700 South when a northbound Chevy Cavalier drifted into the southbound lanes and slammed into the back Wednesday morningandtold }is live-in girlfriend he wasgoing{, cigarettes. He was found deadby 4 passing motoristonthesideoft\y» freeway shortly after 9 a.m Wednesday. On Thursday, poli:» were processing fingerprints +) the knife and inside Bourke’s Clinton, Roy and Syracuse use the water for yards and gardens, of a pickup truck. The pickup pickuptruck. There werenosigns of struggle or robbery, Steenblik said. a Without that supply, “These Cities are in a world of hurt,” said Baham, Mike Mansfield, Roy’s public a Dodge Neon, Kramer said. A SKIER,77, DIES southbound semi-truck then smacked the Neon and Cavalier works director, said the pipes and skidded into the pickup. canal to deliver water for crops, the cities ofKaysville, West Point, spun, and the Cavalier broadsided there are not big enough to carry water for both culinary and irri- gation purposes. After the breach lasi summer, residents were restricted to two days a week for outside watering. “If we didn’t get the secondary water, we would have the same restrictions this summer,” Mansfield said. Q STABBING INQUIRY A 77-year-old volunteer host jit Park City Mountain Resort di-d Thursdayafter he skiedintoaJiit towerat the resort. The Salt Lz City man’s namewasnotrelea seul Thursday. Mountain Patrol 1; Police remain puzzled about what caused the death of a Las Vegas man who was found dead Wednesday on interstate 15 in sponded to a man lying onthe sijle Davis County with a knife in his nounced the man deadjust befv; 4p.m, The accident was under i); chest. However, police were leaning toward suicide Thursday,said ofthe PayDay runat aid spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien. resort medical official pry vestigation Thursday. Some Want Vehicle Fee System Repealed ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Utah's newfee system forcar registrations favors the ich and their pricey vehicles over poorer driv- lawmakers who wantto returnto the former eal it, at least we should changeit e impact on the owners ofolder cars,” Ron Bigelow, R-West Valley City, sponsor ure to repeal the new system. ‘stem that bases fees on a vehicle's age insteat id of value has been roundlycriticized sinceit ffect last January. The old system taxed vehi- ngto their “Blue Book” market values. alt n't long before owners of older cars com- plained their new fee was higher than the old one. But counties said they were being shortchanged whentheir vehicle-registration revenue dropped. ‘To keep revenuessteady, the new system allowed es to raise real-estate taxes to make up for the difference. Sure enough, many counties raised proptaxes this year, with Salt Lake County boosting by$49on a $164,000 home. Worse, the new fees aren’t deductible from state andfederal incomestaxes, unlike the old ad valorem tax. And so lawmakers are realizing that when 1999 income taxes are paid this coming April, citizens will howl] again. If the system isn’t changed, Utah residents will pay $15.3 million more in income taxes, . Former state Sen. George Mantes, D-Tooele, led hundreds of thousands ofvehicles across the state each year. So lawmakers agreed a simple fee system based on theageof the car was the way to go. In descending order, the new fee charges $150 for cars newerthanthree yearsold, $114 for cars 3 to 5 yearsold, $80 for cars6 to 8 years old and $50 for cars § to 11 years old and so on. Before the change, a new, expensive car could carry a property tax of up to $500 a year. Now those car ownersare payingjust $150. Overtime, many car owners can save money on the new system as theysell older cars for newer cars, one study showed. But, says Bigelow, people in his neighborhood aren’t seeing the savings. “My West Valley constituents are very upset. I’ve had a numberof complaints. It just isn’t working out like we figured. In general, people out here don’t have the money to buy the expensivecars,”hesaid. Rep. Perry Buckner, D-Kearns, hasalsofiled a bill to repeal the new fee system. But for now, says Buckner, heis not pushingit. “T'm told that the impacts aren’t as bad as we feared,”he said. Davis County Treasurer Mark Altom said the new fee system is simpler to administer. Goingback to theold “Blue Book” system of valuing cars and trucks would cost governments a lot of money, state tax commissioner Palmer DePaulis said. “We can’t say now how much,” “Weurgelegislators to let the current fee system ithe charge to change the system. A car dealer, Man- run through 2000 and 2001 at least. Then we can tes contends the old system was wasteful, unfair and ineffective. And county assessors and the State Tax Commission found problems with assessing tweak it to make it better and we'd only have to change one computer system — our new one,” said DePaulis. BusinessmanDies in Georgia Plane Crash STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Salt Lake physicist and busi- nessman Bill McMahan, 63, the founder of two medical laser manufacturing corporations and owner of more than 20 patents for medical lasers, died after his private plane crashed Tuesday dura ttempted landing near Airport in south-central Dense fog in the area was blamed for the crash of McMahan's Ci County Citation, which Crisp said went down in a wooded area about 1! miles southeast of the | airport. McMahanowned a peanut and alfalfa farm in nearby Dooly County and reportedly was flying in to check on the operation when the accident happened. A state patrol helicopter foundthe plane’s wreckage Wednesday morning; McMahanwas the only one on board. McMahan was founder and chief executiveofficer of the HGM Medical Laser Corp., and founder of the American Laser Corp. His pioneering work with iasers included developing their use for surgical incisions; for opthalmological surgery, includ- ing repair of retinal tears; and for cauterizing and dermatology. He owned a ranch in Robertson, Wyo., as well as his farm in Georgia. McMahan was born Oct. 25, 1936, in Concord, N.C. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and their son William Jr.; and by daughter Julie McMahan Shipman and former wife Paula Julander. Services are scheduled Dec. 29 at noon at Larkin Mortuary,260 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Interment at Salt Lake City Cemetery will follow the service. SLOC Workers Take Timeto Help Local Charities LAKE TRIBUNE, Fund-raising may have consumed the cash-strapped Salt Lake Organizing Committee this year, but its employees have not lost sight of those truly in need. Workers have donated 44 units of blood, 417 pounds of food, 17 bags of new clothes and 200 toys in hopes of raising somespirits this Christ . They adopted a family through Sub for Santa and raised $14,000 for United Way. One employee, Elmer Benites, collected $6,000 for families left destitute by the floods in Venezuela where membersofhis familystill live. /The Olympic committee capped its monthlong charity drive ‘Thursday by delivering thefirst knowthis is not goingto solve all the problems of poverty, but it does makea difference.” As children staying at the Salt Lake Community Shelter and Re- 210 S. Rio Grandeaspart ofits an- source Center cuddled a Powder, Copperor Coal — the rabbit, coyote and bear trio that represent mons employees also are operating phone banks (333-3700) for the 2002 Winter Games — Romney nual Christmas campaign. Simthose wanting to makecredit-card donations. Atthe close of the tumultuous 20th Century, The Salt Lake Tribune presents a decade-bydecade look back at the events, the culture and the people who made thelast 100 years what they were in Utah, the nation and the world. This special 24-page, easy-to-follow, full-color section will be one you want to read and keep. Not only will it bring back memories and redefine humankind’s most significant century, it will be one your children will find interesting as well as historical, as cultural profiles of their birth decade and century are laid out before them. You mayfind yourself wanting extra copies for friends or to store in the scrapbookfor the next generation. This uniquesection will be included in the Saturday, January 1, 2000, edition of The Tribune which also names the 10 Utahns who most impacted the state during the 1900s. Addto that a recap of the millennium celebration of the night before andit quickly becomes lear that one copy is notenough. Call it our milleniumpresentto Utah Che Salt LakeTribune The independent newspaperthat helped shape Utah's 20th Century and yourtrusted companionfor the 21st. said it was his goal to have all people share in the Olympics regardiess of incomebracket. About 700 people a night are seeking help at the Traveler's Aid Society's shelters in downtown Salt Lake City and Midvale, says executive director Maun Alston, whooversees both facilities She What gift is practical and unique, has somethingfor people ofall ages, andfits inio every shopping budget? hoped Romney's visit will encourage others to drop off new socks, hats, gloves, and warm clothes. “And we always need cash,” she says. ever plush Olympic mascots to children in Wasatch Front hospi- tals and homeless shelters. What you're seeing is a wide variety of ways we can give back tdithe community,” said SLOC Pypsident Mitt Romney. “We ~ A gift subscription to The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News! : Avoid the holiday crowds and order the perfect gift for everyone on your list: PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER 19 with your eo mail into a The Simmons Group, ownerof sevenlocal radiostations,is doing live broadcasts from theshelter at And what a century it was. Wedding Anniversary ® Newlyweds Shut-ins ® College Co-workers @ Hard-to-shop-for Friends and Relatives Roy and Vonda Turner December 24, 1929December 24, 1999 We All Love You! A gift card is delivered with the first day of service, 237-2960 apd a a |
