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Show COMFORT FOOD TRAX DIGS IN NO MIRACLE Eating as home remedy B-1 Work about to begin C-1 Starzz lose to Orlando D-1 iti = CheSa LakeSribinine Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Telephone numbers listed on A-2 WEDNESDAY,JUNE 14, 2000 Volume 260 Number 61 ©2000, The Salt Lake Tribune FRUIT FOR ALL? Industry Reps Korea Comes Together Homeowners ‘Ketch-Up’ on Get Olympic Tomato Topics Tax Break BY JENNIFER COLEMAN People whorent their homesduring Games won’t pay nonresidentrate THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO,Calif. — It was onlyfitting that the town nicknamed “Sacra-tomato” should play hostto 500 industry leaders for the WorldCongress onthe Processing Tomat Saeanento has been a hubof tomato production since the 1940s, said Richard Orzalli, director of procurementfor the Campbell Soup Co, and formerpresidentof the World Congress. California grows more than 90 percentof tomatoes used for processing in the United States and nearly half the tomatoes processed worldwide, Tomatoes grown for use in tomato-based products are firmer and stand up to mechanical harvesting better than other tomatoes. Thestate produces so manytomatoes that more than a million will roll off trucks, smacking roadways and unlucky motorists, in this year’s harvests alone,he said. The next harveststarts in July. “With the deepsoil, plentiful water and climate, we havethe perfect growingconditionsfor tomatoes,” rzalli said. And members ofthe World Con- BY LESLEY MITCHELL ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Utah homeownerswhorenttheir dwellings during the 2002 Winter Gameswil! not be required to pay higher property taxes, the Utah Tax Commission has ruled. Normally, homeowners whorenttheir properties foras little as a few weeks a year risk being taxed at nonresident property tax rates, which are nearly double whatresidents pay. Salt Lake Countyresident with a $150,000 home, for example, pays $1,178, while a nonresident pays $2,142. A Summit County resident with a $250,000 homepays $1,451 compared with the $2,640 a nonresident homeownerpays. The Tax Commission. determined homeowners should not be penalized for renting their homes during the Olympics, spokeswoman Janice Perry Gully (§aera) said. “It is an isolated, one-time event.” @ Web Links Commissioners decided to M Past Stories clarify the tax code after receiving a numberofcalls from a Utahns; most of whom live in [RERASaSMmee the Park City area. Someresi- dents of the resort community want to rent their properties during the 2002 Olympics, Feb.8-24, while gress on the Processing Tomato others plan to rent them for monthsbefore andafter hope to tempt more consumers into eating more tomatoesby touting their nutritional benefits. Though the industry can’t claim tomatoes can definitely prevent cancer, studies that pointto increased tomato consumption as a potential way to reduce cancer rates was a prominenttopic at the four-day event that closed Tuesday. “There is a strict regulatory framework in which you must provide clear and convincing scientific evidence before you can make those claims,” said JeffBoese, president ofthe California League of Food Processors. “The weightofour evidence on tomato products and cancer doesn’t yet meet that standard.” David Heber,director ofthe Cen- the Games.Because ofits proximity to a numberof Olympic venues,the ParkCity area will be a popular place for visitors to stay. While the ruling helps ease someconcerns ofarea residents, property-tax rates remain a touchy sub- ject. Many upper-middle-income residents in the ParkCity area rent their homesfor part of the year Tomatoes contain lycopene, an antioxidant, and processed toma- toes contain loads of lycopene, Heber said. Antioxidants search the body for roaming oxygen molecules, known as free radicals, suspected oftriggering cancer. A 1995 Harvard study followed the eating habits of47,000 menfor six years and foundthat those who ate at least 10 weekly servings of tomato-based foods were upto 45 percentless likely to develop prostate cancer. Arecently released Harvard Medical School summary of72 studies takes tomato powera step further, finding that lycopene seems to shrink prostate tumors. ‘The Campbell Soup Co. uses abouta million tons of tomatoes in its products annually,including tomato soup,pasta sauce and,of course, Spaghetti-Os, said company spokesman John Faulkner. “Tomatoes excite us,” he said. The tomato has long been misunderstood.It was classified as a fruit until the Supreme Court intervened in 1898 and declared it a vegetable. A member of the nightshade family, tomatoes were considered poisonous until the mid-1800s. Americans got over that fear and now consume tomatoes at an annual rate of 90 pounds per person, muchof it in the form ofjuice, soup, sauce and ketchup, according to the California Tomato Growers Association. Business C10 D6 Puzzles ClassifiedsC7 Sports bo Comics"BTV Programs Weather: Warm and sunny stateWide. Highs in the 90s. Details: A-22 He and his wife, Wilma, have been ordered to pay $6,500 ayear in propertytaxes on their condominium @ Families hope to reunite A-11 it year. “itmz makes a lot of sense that they aren’t going to CHICAGO TRIBUNE penalize people who rentout their homes during the Olympics,” he said. “But they need to look at the tension, name-calling and icy disdain that have defined their dysfunctional relationship. SEOUL,South Korea — Thehost talked aboutthe lovely weather. The guest admired a large painting on overall way they handle property taxeshere.I live here, vote here and I'm not considered a resident.Is this constitutional?” The Jeppersons live in their home more than six So many unexpectedly delightful the wall. They smiled. They joked. exchanges and vignettes happened Tuesday in Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, that some stunned South Koreans said they might never‘again look at North Korea in the same suspicious way. If this was the belligerent communist regime bearing down on South Korea with 1 millionsoldiers, it was also now the gracious host who organized an extraordinary display of 600,000 North Koreans lining the streets waving pink vinyl And when the host, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, more seriously pronounced that “June 13 will be proudly remembered in history,” the guest, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung,agreed:“Let us make history from now on.” “In a typical state visit between friendly countries, pleasantries and promises come easy. But for North and South Korea, archenemiesstill in the gripof a 50-year civil war, the first day of the first summitoftheir leaders was a breathtaking contrast from the decades of military months a year, which normally would help them qualify for the lowerproperty tax rate. Buta problem arises because they charge renton a nightlybasis. Renting a property on a nightly basis usually qualifies homeowners for the higher property tax rate, said Blaine Willes, director of the Tax Commission's property tax division. Butit won't during the Olympics,he said. “Wedo nothave a problem with a very short time North Koreans cheer Tuesday for the motorcade of North Korean leader Kim JongII ‘ i i and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. See NORTH KOREA,Page A-11 period like the few weeks that the Olympics will run.” et ap @ Delta jet features Olympic legend : is icing tp for Bate’s poet C2 C6 Gambling Industry Gathers in Vegas for Conference on Growing Pastime BY BRENT ISRAELSEN town. Another maycallit proofthat God is not happywith this place. ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE LAS VEGAS — Gambling expert William Eadington displays a stunning photograph taken during a nighttime thunderstorm in which dozens of lightning bolts zigzag from the heavens to the glitzy Las Vegas Strip. ‘There are two ways to look at the image, he says. One person might view itasaportraitof Las Vegas as an electrifying, energized The dueling interpretations of the pho- _tographillustrate the ongoing debate about the good and bad of gambling, which has exploded in popularity —and legitimacy — during the past two decades. “Gambling has become a major economic, social and political presence in manyparts of the world,” said Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, based at the University of Nevada, Reno. particularly on the young and elderly; its This week, in the world’s undisputed . economic effects; regulation of Internet gambling capital, Eadington is leadingthe gambling; proposed prohibitions on sports llth International Conference on Gambetting; the rise of the Indian gambling inbling and Risk-Taking, the largest gatherdustry in California; and thelatest in prevention and treatment of gambling ing ever of gambling scholars. About 500 of them, representing two disorders. “This is a three-ring circus of gambling dozen countries from every inhabited conresearch,”said Eadington. tinent, will discuss gambling’s gamut. Andit is not without a certain element ‘There are 97 topics designed to help society “comprehend, understand and man_Of intrigue. age” the issues of gambling. Among the See GAMBLING,Page A-15 topics are gambling’s social impact, - Park Not the Place for Development, Historians Say BY TOM WHARTON Astrology Obituaries C6 contract with a property-management company to bhthe Deer Valleyarea, up from the$3,500 they paid BY MICHAEL A. LEV ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A-20 87 Park City resident Richard Jepperson, for example, recently was told his property would be taxed at rent their hometo skiers in the winter while they vacation in warmerclimes. play part of oldchumsduring summit” INDEX Ann Landers B-9 Editorials Asimov C12 Movies and therefore must pay the higher nonresident property-tax rates. the higher nonresidentrate because he andhis wife Leaders offeuding North’and South: « ter for Human Nutrition at UCLA, said men who consumed 6 ounces a day oftomato and vegetable juice had a 40 percent lower rate of prostate gland cancer. ‘Associated Press pool photos e North KoreanleaderKim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung Tuesday in Pyongyang, North Korea. Like the story of Utah it interprets, This Is The Place Heritage Park is a work in progress. changes are apparentat the 450-acre park at the mouth of Emigration Canyon overlooking the Salt Lake Valley, where,legendhas it, Mormon leader Brigham Young told his followers this was the place they would settle. A 1998 switch in management, from the state Division of Parks and Recreation to a private foundation, has spurred development, a fact that does not please some historians and ‘neighbors who question the metamorphosis taking place, The area's history as a tourist destination started in 1921 when an obelisk was erected on the Mormon Trail. The dedication ofThis Is The Place Monument designed by Mahonri. Young, a Ne A grandsonofBrigham Young, was in 1947, State park status came in 1957. ‘These days, visitors dodge construction workers putting in red brick “European pavers”in front ofa modern visitors center and gift shop. While yolunteers dressed in period costumes practice pioneer skills, workers scrambleto. conanareplicaofthe Eagle Gate spanning State Street in downtown Salt Lake City. The dirt roads inside Old Deseret Village — the living history area designed to depict Utah life from 1847 until the coming ofthe railroad in 1869 — contrast with the sprawling asphalt parking lots being finished on the outside. Developmenthas started on a new area that will interpret the period from 1869 until Utah became a state in 1896. er Page A-17 Se tne entail passes behind her. © Place Heritage Park while a 4 |
