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Show A ca April 29, 1997 TUESDAY | <M Weather forecast: 3 r Wednesday: Sunshine } a rt LONFLOMOOOIG eet NCBI OA CREE followed by clouds, F high 64, low 45. # Done with Clips, Jazz look ahead = Volunteers Second round coming up Readingto children has big impact. vs. Lakers or Blazers. 1B = Spartan fare, simple survival pushliteracy Pioneers’ food decisions ic. a life-and-death matter. 4p Standard-Examiner | http://www.standard.net 50 cents _ Flooding oddsclimb SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 Beattie: Red lights go off over high pay at workers’ comp C1 Snow,rain, cool weather _ keep the Wasatch snowpack ?' from declining _] The fund’s CEO By PAT BEAN Whenthe top wage earnerin . . received a compensation the average Utah family takes home between $30,000 and package worth $266,000 $40,000 annually, Beattie said, “The public isn’t going to buy - Standard-Examiner staff MotherNature is being stubborn. She’s holding on to her enormous snowpack, increasing the odds of flooding later this spring, says Weber Basin Water Conservancy District ManagerIvan Flint. During the past week, snow,rain and cool weather continued to put the snowmelt on hold. Mondaynight overan inchofrain fell in the Ogden Valley and nearly an inch wasrecorded in Ogden. Yet another storm is expected to bring morerain to Northern Utah on Thursday. Theresult is that quite a few area snowpackshave again edged past the 200 percent of normal mark. National WeatherService hydrolOgist Brian McInerneysaid normally this time of year the snowpackstarts >=, melting off at the rate of an inch or so a day. Butless than half an inch cameoff all last week. 5 “The problem is that the later in * the seasonit is before the melt comesoff, the more chancethereis for sustained warm weatherto bring it down too fast for stream channels “.>2 to handle,” McInerney said Monday. This year’s heavy snowpack melt, even without warm weather,hasalready caused flooding along the Blacksmith Fork River in Cache County. And the Logan Riveris running dangerously high, say waterofficials. The Ogden and Weberrivers are also flowing fairly high, says Flint. “But they’re still well within their banks. And we’ve got plenty of reservoir storage above to somewhatcon_._ Atal flowsin those tworivers,” he that. We're dealing with asitu- Standard-Examiner staff ation that’s hard to sell.” Lane Summerhays, Workers’ Compensation Fund president and chief executive officer, received slightly more than $226,000 in salary, incentives and other compensation in 1995 and $266,000last year. The legislative auditors looked at Summerhays’ salary and compensation packages paid to top executives in the Utah Housing Finance Agency, Utah Retirement Systems and the Utah Transit Authority and compared them to other state agencies and private industry. The first three are called quasi-governmental agencies, meaning they were created by the state and the governor ap- > See PAY/6A American, Russian take walk in space uled 5 1/2 hoursto finish work. “Theyare both feeling fine,” mission control spokeswoman Vera Medvedkova said at the start of the spacewalk. “A voice littk has just been established and I can hear our mission controllers congratulating Linenger on making his first spacewalk. He is laughing and saying he likes it fine.” It was the first spacewalk for Linenger, and the first time an American astronaut has used a Russian-madespacesuit on a spacewalk. A giant screen at Russian mission control in Korolyov, just outside Moscow, showed the two menin white spacesuits using a crane and other equipment to conduct experiments on materials for building future spacecraft. Linengerarrived on the Mir on Jan. 14. _lIn a first, astronaut, cosmonaut spend 5 hours outside Mir The Associated Press KOROLYOYV, Russia— An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut worked outside the Mir space station foralmostfive hours today, gathering cosmic dust samples and installing a radiation meter during the first joint U.S.-Russian spacewalk. The men spoke in Russian as they worked, asking each other to pass tools or operate controls. Russian mission control said everything went so well that Jerry Linenger and Vasily Tsibliyev completed the mission early, taking four hours and 58 minutes rather than the sched- | How muchfell? Mondaynight’s rainfall Nordic Valley 1.19 inches Ogden .86 inches Salt Lake City .78 inches | Brigham City .66 inches Clearfield .54 inches | Roy .46 inches | Logan .33 inches By RALPH WAKLEY SALT LAKE CITY - The pay is the problem, says Senate President Lane Beattie. When Gov. Mike Leavitt's salary hits $87,600 next year and the highest paid state department head tops out at $97,000, here’s the CEO of the Workers’ Compensation Fund of Utah getting more than twice as much. “It seems to me that the thing that doesn’t sell publicly is these salaries. The red lights go off,” Beattie said Monday after hearing a report from the Legislative Auditor General’s Office on executive compensation packages in four independent agencies created by the state. >» See RAIN/6A STEVE CONLIN/Standard-Examiner RUMBLING RIVER: Althoughhigh, the Weber River remains within its banks in Weber Canyon. Appeal goesout for blood donations er A TOGEAETOE DOD RES PORE ERE SOP DEP ER (4 Ogden Regional is only blood bank Operating in Northem Utah until state’s EL ee ge) | largest supplier gets back online ‘By KIRSTEN SORENSON ’ Standard-Examiner staff -, Columbia Ogden Regional Medical Center ‘will be the only blood bank operating in North- ern Utah until the state’s largest blood supplier fixes a host of problems. Arlene Sparrow, the Ogden center’s blood dorior recruiter, is appealing to people to donate blood to offset the possibility of a shortage this summer, when the demand for blood normally rises. “Wewill be asked to help provide not only to our sister hospitals, but also to help provide to “the state of Utah,” Sparrow said Monday. *._The Food and Drug Administration on Friday suspended the interstate license of Intermountain Health Care’s blood services, which provides 80 percent of the state’s blood. . IHC’s license suspension was prompted by three consecutive inspections that revealed sever- workers, mislabeling of products, poor recordkeeping and lax methods in determining donor suitability. Utah has appealed to blood banks throughout the country for blood and IHC has recommended Utah hospitals suspend elective surgeries that require blood transfusions. Most surgeries don’t require transfusions, but the suspension of surgeries that do - like total joint replacement, some heart procedures and transplants — is necessary to ensure Utah has sufficient blood for emergencies, Jess Gomez, spokesman for IHC’s LDS Hospital, said Monday. “You never know when there’s going to be a 72-car pileup on I-15. We're trying to be as conservative as possible in case there’s an immediate need.” Ogden Regional typically provides its own blood through its blood donation program, and won't have to cancel surgeries. Two other Columbia hospitals, in Payson and Salt Lake City, also will be collecting blood. Ogden Regional provides blood to the Columbia hospital in Brigham > See BLOOD/6A al dozen violations, mostly in the training of if you want to donate blood Columbia Ogden Regional Medical Center's bloodfacility is open9a.m.to5 p.m., Monday-Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday. It is closed Saturdays, but blood donor recruiter Arlene Sparrow said the donor room will openif necessary. Sparrowalso is asking businesses who DANA JENSEN/Standard-Examiner HELPING OUT: Jennifer Hunter fills out paperworkfor Roger Perry while he donates blood at Columbia Ogden Regional Medical Center Military plans to acquire 3 new fighteraircraft | (J Emphasis on weapons could bring more troop reductions WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary William Cohen says the United States should mod.-ernize its weaponry so it can a dominate future battles strategy one senior defense offi- cial said will mean contracts for three new fighter aircraft. A new generation of costly weaponslikely means further reductions in troop strength to help offset the expense, analysts say. Pentagon officials previously said the Army may be asked to reduce its roster of 495,000 active-duty troops by as many as 50,000, a move some Army commanders say would be disas- trous. Among other things, the defense review retains three highprofile fighter aircraft programs the Air Force F-22, the Navy FA-18 E and F, and the multiservice Joint Strike Fighter, according to a senior Pentagon official, In outlining the strategy behind the so-called Quadrennial Defense Review, Cohen said the A | plan is based on a flexible force prepared to respond to missions ranging from embassy evacuations to full-scale war. Conspicuously absent from Cohen's speech, however, was anydiscussion of the overall size of the force. The Pentagon hasall but completed a multiyear force reduction to bring the military down to just over 1.4 million active-duty personnel. want to sponsor a blood drive to contact her at 479-2389. inside today April 29, 1997 — Vol. 110, No. 119 Business/Economy 3-5C Mini Page Classifiedads|+~+~=«-7+14C Northern Utah news Comics Obituaries ~~ 4A DearAbby 0A Editorials &letters«12, 13A_—‘ lie 4,26 “ee Sportsnews 1-68 Theaters 40 «46D TV schedule D Printed on recycled paper | 50 104 |
