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Show Tenants High and Dry neighbor's house so their family offive will have enough waterto drink and washthe next day. Just typical life in a “Carol Woodapartment,” Hofheins said. “It’s pitiful. I've never lived in conditionslike these.” Salt Lake City-County Health Department officials ordered Woodto turn the water on twice Is 3 Months Behind On Water Payments By Rebecca Walsh ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE * SOUTH SALT LAKE — For the past three weeks, Paul Hofheins has been driving to Clearfield and Grantsville to take showers at his parents’ and in- allow tenants to pay for improvements and deduct the cost from their rent. Butno statewide law regulates utility cutoff. Mostutility companies have their own rules about shutting off water, power and gas service. And once service is cut off, most apartments can be declared unfit by local health departments and then be shut down. Wood, who ownsseveralapartmentbuildings in South Salt Lake and Salt Lake County, is wellknown to city officials. Watkins says she is regularly late on payments. already. And Bruce Boggess, an laws’ homes Hofheins and two other families have been without water for most of December after South Salt Lake officias cut off water service to their apartmentbuilding at 2712 S. BlairSt. Landlord Carol Wood, an accountant, is three months delinqiient on the bill and the city refuses to subsidize the cost of the tenants’ water anymore. Wood says she is not worried about her tenants, some of whom she claims have stolen from her. vhe says the city is corrupt and she has no moneyto paythebill. And she has ordered all of the tenants out by the endof the year. “| don't feel any moreresponsibility for them than the federal government does for its werkers,” Woodsaid. “Theplace is beal up Dee. 31.” “Meantime, every night Ova Afo and her brother lug buckets and jugs of water for an hour from a environmental-health specialist with the department, tried to serve a citation Tuesday. The landlord slammedthe doorin his face. Instead, a city constable will serve thecitation. “Mostpeoplewill fix the problem. Most people respect the law,” Boggess said. “Mrs. Wood should not be in the apartment business.”” Boggess says he will close the building if all the tenants move out. Thesituation is not unusualin Utah, says KarenSilver, an advocate with CommunityAction Program, even though the Legislature in 1990 passed the Utah Fit Premises Act. ‘The problem is the Jaw has no teeth. Tenants may complain about damage or problems, but underthe law, the owner controls the process and tenants must continue to pay rent during the dispute. Salt Lake City, West Valley City, Murray and Salt Lake Coun- ty all have local ordinances that “She usually waits until we send a 24-hournotice,” Watkins said. “We've been through this severaltimes.” Wood has fiied for personal bankruptcy four times during the past two years. Each time, old water andgasbills haveto bedismissed and the city starts assessing from the date of thelatest filing, The last time Woodfiled for bankruptcy was in September. She owes $1,200 for water and sewer service at the Blair Street apartmentbuilding. Watkins says the tenants have the option of payingthebill themselves and deducting the money Hansen Gives Tribune it had been blackballed only The Silent Treatment good relationship with the con. gressman during her coverage of Paper’s Editor Denies Utah Congressman’s Claims of Unfairness By Mike Carter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Jim Hansen has cut off communications with the state’s largest newspaper, apparently stung by critical editorials and claiming bias byits reporters. Hansen's administrative assistant, Nancy Blockinger, confirmed Friday that Hansenhasordered that no further news releases be sent to The Salt Lake Tribune, and that staff members from their rent, which ranges from $475 to $675 per month But that is unacceptable to the residents. “It’s a waste of time to try to live here,” Afo said. She and her family are moving out next week. ‘They have a new home not speakto its reporters. “It's not that they’re not doing anything,” Blockinger said from Washington, D.C. “It’s just that they alwaystake one line out of [a release] andblowit out of proportion.” Brother Ordered to Halt - Work on Project being built. Hofheins says he will not pay his rent, and is determined not to give in until someone takes action. “I'm goingto stay until she goes down,” he said, “or I go crazy.” “Our reporters treat Hansen the same way wetreat all members of Utah's congressionaldele- gation, in a fair and accurate manner,” Shelledy said. “We will continue to do so in spite of the congressman taking his press releases and going home.” Shelledy makes no attempt to conceal his lack of respectfor the - Continued from C-1 der. “This is a project we've contracted to buy fish from,” said <Leavitt, who sits on the state ‘aguaculture advisory board. “If “thereis a problem, they should be dealing with the property owners.” Saying he was concerned thata story on the project would be “sensationalized,’’ Leavitt refused to namethe property owners. Leavitt's name is on a Certificate of Registration application for the Bulberry fish hatchery project, which must be issued by the Utah Department of Agriculture with approval from the Division of Wildlife Resources. That eeetce is required before oe can be planted. a mally meets with those who did the work. If it is determined they were ignorant of the law and there wasno malice aforethought, the agency usually allows the landowner to clean up the area and do somemitigation work. But a secondviolation could result in fines as high as $50,000. The Leavitts also ran afoul of ors in 1992 when State Liquor Stores Close Tonight at 7 the Corps of Engineers. Schwinn said the family was foundto bein violation in 1992 at the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, but suddenly foundherself in the cold Hansen was in, Maddox said Hough that he but Blockinger said he wouldn't thought talk to her. “She wasreally apolo getic. She said, ‘Give it a few months,’ Maddox said Tribune environmental report er Jim Woolf alsosaidhe has been meticulous in his efforts to get comment from the congressman but without luck Hough wondered why Republican The irony is that Blockinger freshman Sen. Bob Bennett wasn’t given a column, and Shelledy agreed that Bennett should have the opportunity because he said the congressmanandhis staff hold Woolf and Maddox in high regard — but in the next breath maintained even their reporting too was newto Congress is one-sided Hough then asked whether Hansencould write a column, and Shelledyscoffed “In all fairness, | probably said that about Jim Hansen. Except I think I used ‘idiot, not ‘stupid But the context was the same “Thataside, it has nothing to do with our reporting,” Shelledy said. “Professionally, I’m re- Hansendid not respond to several messages Friday Shelledy is convinced Hansen's boycott stems from the congressman’s unwillingness — or inability — to distinguish between the news gathering and editorial functions of a newspaper “Unlike therest of the delegation, who viewpolitical debate as quired to be fair with him even if I don't like him.” a healthy American attribute, Hansennowwishes to punish The Tribune for its editorial insolence by depriving us of his words of wisdom,” Shelledysaid. “It seems Reportersat the newspapersay they have gonetogreat lengths to get comment from Hansen onissues ranging from baseclosureto wilderness. His staff, th aid, has always been cooperative. The a little silly to me because heis only depriving his constituents by doing so congressman, however, has more often than not provenelusive In fact, the newspaper learned 2ey | Reglaze Your I Bath Tub : 4. | I “Bove 4 Re fart “5 $150 Sn Cy LOCAL & NATIONWIDE | Imperial Refinishing | New Year's imbibers be forewarned. All state-run stores will close at 7 p.m. today. That includes those stores that are normally openuntil 10 p.m. They will not reopen until Tuesday. Most other government ton office Dec. 12. Maddox had a Hansen was toostupid to write a guest column for the newspaper. Hough was complaining that The Tribune was running columnby former Rep. Karen Shepherd, D-Utah, a first-term representative in the class of 1992 I i 1-800-521-7727 9 EVE SUNDAY,31st PEN 4 PM NEW YEARS Di AY MONDAY,Ist OPEN 4 PM-8:30 PM i ser- vices will be closed for New Year's Dayand most communities will delay garbage pickup until Tuesday riculture, private hatchery owners must obtain a permit which allows them to plant a specific type of fish only after the state wildlife agency determines that there will be no adverse effect on public fisheries. The Bulberry Road Creek Project is proceeding before such a permit has been issued. “It's hard for us to issue permits for facilities that aren't yet built,” said Joe Valentine, hatchery-development coordinator for the DWR. ‘We might beable to approve a facility for a species, but that would be all. We didn’t receive a description of whatthey [the Bulberry hatchery owners] were goingto build. But we would have no problem with rainbow trout in the area.” Ron Goede, head of DWR’s fish they pleaded no contest to eight misdemeanorchargesofillegally moving andselling rainbow trout * The owners of the Road Creek one of its properties near Loa in Ranch made a $25,000restitution Wayne County. paymenttothestate to help fight “We're disappointed,”’ said the spread of whirling disease Schwinn. “We've dealt with Mark Thereis also confusion with the on a previous violation so we experiment station in Logan, says state permit for the project. Unknow heis familiar with the law his agency alsois required to deHe knows the permits are re- der a law which movedregulatory termineif such a project will have control of private aquaculture quired.I don’t knowif hejustfigadverse impacts on state reured these weren’t wetlands. But from the Division of Wildlife Rethat would be hardto believe af- sources to the Departmentof Ag- sources, ter looking at the photographs Somebody should have known better.”” The governor was at onetime SAT. DEC. 30 7pm - lam involved with the Road Creek Buffet Dinner, Dancing to Portrait, intain Thunder Ranch operation but removed Entertainment Featuri with NEW YEARS EVE PARTY Hi %, himself from ownership shortly after being elected in 1992 In the case of first-time wetlands violations, the corps nor- state regu) 1st District congressman, but says his opinion has nothing to do with the newspaper's coverage. Hereadily admits that, during Calif.; two stepdaughters, Marcia B. Daneman, Columbus, Ohio; and Marilyn B. Graham, Seattle, Wash.; and eight grandchildren. Funeralservices will be TuesPauline Behle day at 1 p.m. at the Lindquist Mortuary Ogden Chapel, 3408 Washington Blvd., Ogden. Friends maycall at the mortuary one hour before services. Burial will be at the Aultorest Memorial Park in Oeden. The family requests donations be sent to Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library orto the Spencer Stoddard Eccles Medical Sciences Library at the U. of U. in Salt Lake City. ble for anything that goes on there.” The workis being done on a system of old oxbows, meadows and wetlandslocated adjacent to the Sevier River. This isn’t thefirst time the Leavitt family, which operates the Road Creek Ranch aquaculture operation, has run into problems claimed ry, a claim reporters and Editor James E. Shelledy deny. Nancy Eccies Hayward, Homer, things, Mark Leavitt is responsi- also congressman for his side of a sto- Eccles, Salt Lake City; daughter, “It might be other people's property, but it is Leavitt's project,” said Schwinn, “According to the people who permit these Blockinger Tribune writers rarely call the Philanthropist, Civic Leader Dies Philanthropist and civic leader Pauline Hope Fox Eceles Behle died Thursday at her home in Ogden. She was 93. Behle was active in community affairs, volunteering in the Martha Society, the Ogden Symphony Guild and the Ogden Ballet Guild. She was a founding memberof the Junior League of Ogdenand later served asits president. Born Oct. 3, 1902, in Lewellen, Neb., to Benjamin M. and AlmaM. Fox, she attended Fairfax Hall, a ~ Virginia finishing school. Shelater attended the University of Utah. > ZShe married Spencer Stoddard Eccles Jan. 31, 1925, in Ogden. He died Sept. 22, 1965. She later married Calvin Augustus Behle. =Survivors include her husband; son, Spencer Fox Bruce when reporter Laurie Sullivan Maddox stopped into Hansen's Washing: the fall of 1993, he commented to then-Republican Party Chairman ) SeaBillsLeaves. 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