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Show CheSalt Lake Cribune VOLUME I SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84 TODAY'S READERSHIP: 433. 100 Utah’s Drive for Clean Air Runs Into Car Trouble By Jim Woolf and Mike Gorrel THE SAL’ LAKET Smokestacks at Kennecott Geneva Steel and North Salt Lake oil refineries used to bear mostof the blame for dirty Wasatch Front air | No longer. The area’s largest industries have slashed emissions during the past five years with more than $1 billion in pollution-control equipment robably will expand duce the commuting mileage ployees by 20 percent durears no-drive” days when pollu- tion is bad. The statealso is looking into M Use of “remote- sensing devices — simi- clean the air. it has not been enough to bring lar to PhotoCop — to catch big polluters with defective or untested emission controls. qualitylaws. @ Requiring vapor-recovery units on gasoline pumps andprocesschanges. Although this has helped the areainto full compliance with federal airWith industrial sources approaching the technical and economical limits of pollution reduction, state regulators are taking aim at cars. “Right now, the cheapest controls that will producethe greatest returns are on automobiles,” said Utah Division of Air Quality Director Russell Roberts. In the works are: WeEnhanced inspection and maintenance programs to clean up auto exhaust in Salt | ed early this year, use of various enriched Lake, Davis and Utah counties. @ Oxygenated fuels. These cleaner-burning fuels have been required for three wintersin Utah County. While the mandate was suspend- When youask air, the overwh tant.” Roberts s support progra: Be Julie Mack and Utah Coun easy to find about reducing to generate suppor @ Requiring automobiledealers to sell more low-emission or electric-powered vehicles5 cpa s It will be difficu ourselves and cha rely so muchon automobiles Industry's e! have paid large divi donc: a ‘oc Vy rc > 2 buying dirty cars from people encouraging alternative workingg hours . 99 tons in 1994 @Cracking down on exhaust from such things as off-road vehicles, bulldozers. locomotives and lawn mowers. M Giving pollutioncredits to industries for, °° and working by computer from home These changeswill affect hundreds of thou- Funes Gee 7 eeypany eraane ateey spent about $50 Gata dae O ig construction of a light-rail #@Advocating systemand other mass-transit improvements sands of individual motorists, many of whom are reluctant to change habits or pay higher bills for clean air. A battle is guaranteed Zo, in northern Salt Lak eae Let gram cuttin, hf Salt Lake Davis Utah Weber PY 4.04 5.97 2.90 2004 Projected . 1 in Utah y . GenevaSteel County spent $120 milliononits ¢! vicele betiesal = T p and modernizationprofine particulate (PM10) emis- sions from15.39 7 tons in 1990 to anestimated @ See CLEAN AIR, Page A-6 Party Isn’t Over, Ulinton Declares MBINED NEWS SER WASHINGTON — Dances formally launchedanattempt to resurrect their party andpresident Saturday withstrong appeals for a centrist agendaanda clear signal that new Republican House Speak B Gingrich on Defensive Republican House Spe Newt Gingrich on Saturday giraffe hunters and physicallyinferior to the At the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting, party leaders and I was making the} th you move into theinforma President Clinton insisted thereis nothing wrong with their pitchto voters or the administration's record The problem they said, was that people did not give themballot-box credit for reducing the deficit by $700 billion, creating 5.4 mil- womenhavelargerroles tant. My point was actua strengtheningthe pole of wor Historicall ¢ be the gathere to be te: Republicans, whose c n winter meet- ing here also ended Saturday counter that the voters fully understood what the and emphatically rejected it in the November midtermelections In appearances here, Clinton and Vice President Al Gorealso revealedin part howthey will try to blunt the GOP agenda moving through Congress and advance. Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune THE ICEMAN CARVETH David Doxey carves away at snow-sculpture competition Saturday at 9th Annual Ogden Hof Winterfest in front of the Union Station on historic 25th Street. The festivities honor Ogden’s sister city in southern Germany, and include German food and music at the Browning Theater. Winterfest runs until 4 p.m. today. By Dan Harrie THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE WEATHER Mostly sunny;highs in 30s, 40s. eeee SPORTS The Utes beat Colorado State and BYU downed Wyoming but Weber and Utah State took it on the chin. Pag <1 a good deal for the two out of three Utahns who own homes. Butif you are among the third of property tax — representing roughly a quarter of the annual property- tax bill. The remainderofthe levy is imposed byschool districts, cities, counties and special taxing districts. Lawmakers said they get more complaints about the property tax ments, the package will have you digging deeper for the tax collector than any other. At the same time, seven of the nine Republican leaders pushing the plan are among proper- That is because a tax cut is only ty-owning Utahns who stand to bene- part of the equation backed by the Robert Redford says he wants the Sundance Film Festival to maintain its focus as it expands. majority party. The larger picture is fit. Even the most conservative law- SUNDAY a massive $289 million tax shift, awayfrom propertyandto sales and businesstaxes. The heart of the measureis elimination of the state portion of the Gibbs Smith, Layton publisher, spreads the wonders of the West through his books. Doctors Suon May Make _Page B-l CAREERS A special 30-page section of Career Opportunities can be foundin today's Classified section, A must for anyone looking for a job or career change in 1995. __________Iside Classifieds BUSINESS A cold spell in ratings can cost a TV station millions Page F-1 JB Letters to Ed sare yy BS Bill Hal Lottery... Book Reviews K-11 B6 _ 33° Media Column. F:3 Births ...... B6 Movies. E10 5 Newsof Weird. AS Crossword.. K-11 Earthweek A-2_ Editorials... D-1 People of Color Personal Ads Real Estate _A-2 16 KA KS Obituaries. Forthe Record. B-2 StarGazer Jack Goodman, £2 Travel OR COPY ternoon AndClintontried to joke about the be- makers agree state government can- not write off $289 million. So they propose to replace two-thirds of that moneyby increasing other taxes. Muchof theshifting will be in the business sector. Examples are a proposed 2 percent increasein the cor- porate-income tax. and bumps in utility taxes and severancelevies on gas, oil and mining companies. Forresidents, legislative anal project a $115 million property j erence t ame from a college which discussed the bushmen of the Kalahari. “There is an innate aggressionin younger biologically there because it wa: useful when youhad to go out and find giraffes.” <<< leagueredstate ofhis presidency ar ty. “Remember what Mark 7 wain said The reports of our demise are preme ture The midterm results, he said, could be attributed to the fact that many people @ See CLINTON, Page A-4 S.L. Olympic ‘Team’ Shoots for More Than the Final Four ts By John Keahey THE SALT cut. That means anestimated 27 per- LAKE TRIBUN: cent reduction — or a $270cut in an annual $1,000 house-tax bill Olympic boosters have no doubt their city will is a proposed $73 million increase in emerge Tuesday as one of four finalists for the 2002 Winter Games ery purchase, fromaloaf of bread to sion boosters face: They worry history could re a newcar. Legislators estimate resi- peat itself between now and June Onthe other sideof the equation thesales tax that Utahns payon evdents will pay $48 million of that ee TAX SHIFT, Page A-16 LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Salt Lake City But that self-confidence belies the apprehen Four yearsago this spring, Salt Lake held w! then was viewedasthebest technical bid. It lost by fourvotes thepolitical fight for the 1998 Games | Nagano, Japan __PageJ-1 . i The huge property-tax cut being pushed by Republican lawmakersis Utahns who rent homes or apart- UTAH Auitude firmly, to his loudest applauseof theaf- Tax Shift Gives Utah Renters the Shaft INSIDE Ann landers .. J-4 Jumble .... their re-election campaign in 1996. They will fight to keep moneyfor crime-preyention programs national service and the ban on assault weapons We must not go back Clinton said t you use nonphysical syst : upper-body strengthis less imy lion new jobs and cutting the federal bueaucracy by 100.000 workers. administration was trying to sa de fended his remarks tha er Newt Gingrich is the embodiment of the enemy B7 International Olympic Committee (IOC) mem bers had votedjust six months earlierto award the 1996 SummerGames to Atlanta. Two US. cities in arowfor back-to-back Gameswas too hard for the High-Tech House Calls European-dominated IOCto swallow ‘But this time. we have the same advantage gano did in 1991: We have nearly four ye By LeeSiegel hard running behind us,” says Tom Weich, Lake Olympic Bid Committee president. THESALT LAKETRIBUNE A soldier is shot on the battlefront. A device on his wrist detects disruption ofhis vital signs and alerts med- Na of Salt “And it North America’s turn for a Winter Games This week's meetings center around a special ics miles away. They come to his rescue eight-member selection committee. which will s¢ lect fourfinalists after 30-minute presentations by patient awakes at home with chest pains and calls the each of the nine competing cities. In the middle of the night, a recovering heart-attack hospital. Without leaving the building, doctors activate a Tuesday's announcement is scheduled for 7 a.m MDT. small pump worn bythe patient. It sends lifesaving, clotbusting drugs into his bloodstream. Farfromthebig city, a small-towndoctor is perplexed by a patient's problem. He sits her in front of a TV camera and a device with robotic arms. Hundreds of miles away, a specialist dons a head-mounted display and places his arms in two other robotic arms. He can see, touch and examine the patient by remote control, helping the rural doctor make a diagnosis. Such examplesof ‘telemedicine’ may happen within several years, thanks to advancesin robotic technology and computerized virtualreality, says Stephen C. Jacobsen, president of Sarcos Inc. and director of the University of Utah's Center for Engineering Design. By Feb. 15, Sarcos and twoother companies will pro- K-43 duce a working model of a “‘personnel-status monitor.” HA Soldiers can wearthe device on a wrist to monitor their vital signs andlocation, then automatic radio communi- cationswill alert distant medicsif they are deadoralive Salt Lake City’s combination of technical and political strength is recognized by boosters from the other eightcities. “Ourgoalwill be to get into the top four. alo’ Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune Utah's Stephen Jacobsensays doctors one daywill be able to use a robotic arm via remote control. side Salt Lake City, and then work over the n five months to convince the IOC wecan put on : better sho: ays Ostersund’s delegation leader Christer Persson. His north-central Swedish vil lageis viewedas Salt LakeCity’s toughest compet Jacobsenoutlined some of the futuristic medical devices he is developing during a lecture in San Diego on Saturday. He was amongthe main speakers at a conference on health care and “interactive technology The meeting focused on howmedical providers s will use virtual reality, which involves placing humans in computer-generated, simulated surroundings itor. Other potential finalists include Quebee, Cana da, and Sion, Switzerland. Also competing are Graz, Au iste Jaca, Spain; Poprad-Tatry, Slova kia: Italy; and Sochi, Russia. Olympic watchers Believe Graz could be a dark horse in the @ See OLYMPICS, Page A-4 @ See TELEMEDICINE, Page A-8 —_ - oe di |
