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Show METRO/ INTERMOUNTAIN 28 Saturday, Apni 30, 1994 Standard-Examiner Meeting on abortion leaves lawsuit question unclear By RALPH WAKLEY tard-Examuner stat! SALT LAKE CITY — Utah *lanned Parenthood Association and Gov. Mike Leavitt both Say their meeting this week was amicable, but they disagree on whether it means thestate is less likely to get sued for refusing to finance abor- tions for poor women whoarevicums ofrape or incest “We took a very productivestep away fromlitigation,” Leavitt said this week But Planned Parenthood’s Kerrie ON THE RECORD way said, “We sat down to- ters in four of those states ‘ gctherand lLid things ontheta ible nd no one threatened anyone, but we'reory right in the same place. “We have no interest of entering ) litigation, but the possibility is there. It's not reduced,” said Galloway, UPPA executive director Medicaid has told the states they must pay for abortions for poor Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan and Montana — have sued, seeking court orders requiring the payments UPPA has said its initial plan was to await the outcomeof thesuits in the other states “That's something we're watching very closely,” said association spokeswoman Mary Carlson. “And we're looking at women who are pregnant as a re- whereour talks are going before we talk lawsuit.” sult of ra pe or incest. Thus far, 14 tates have refused to obey theorrand Planned Parenthood chap- “I hope it doesn’t happen here,” said Leavitt. “It’s not a matter of people being denied services. Utah law allows abortions in cases of rape or incest, so it’s really an issue of whether government funds will be used to pay for those.” The governor also said he believes it is not a big issue “because there are only three to five instances a year” where a woman who qualifies for Medicaid assistance becomes pregnant as a result of rape or incest. “There were five cases in Utah last year where women came forward,” said Galloway. “But we don’t want to pretend there are on- ly five, we think it’s more like 10. However, that’s only $3,000for the state of Utah at $300 per woman” for a routine abortion before the fourth month of pregnancy. income women,” Galloway said. § “I don’t believe it is an abortio d question,” Leavitt said. “I believe it’s a mandate question.” He said the Legislature opted not to pay for the abortions “as ay means to express their set of Yala ues.” But Galloway said the einen She rejected Leavitt's claim that there is enough private moneyor charitable assistance to pay for the few abortions. “Westruggle daily of state’s nights “allows them not t to come up with enough moneyto meet the health care needs of low- they're just victimizing the wren again.” have to deal with the victinianons of poor women. By doing, this,e Casting a shadow A summary of actions taken by local public agencies on Tuesday, Apri 26 Harrisville City Council aConsidered but did not act on a zoning ordinance amendment aimed at limiting entry and exit points of businesses grouped together on major roads. The council is expected to discuss the controlled access amendment further next month. =Granted a business license to Lanna Lid- dell, who teaches a class in her home on how to use rubber stamps. Approved a proposal to compensate Police Chief Thomas N. Hill for overtime in the form of time off and extra pay. Hill will receive 84 hours of comp time pius $1,119.72. The council stipulated he use the comp time by Dec. | mApproved payment of more than $4,000 to the Utah Department of Transportation for the recent resurfacing and widening of Larsen Lane. @Approved payment of up to $10,000 from the capital improvement fund for a new computer system for the police department and court. @Heard from Cody Fernelius, assistant mayor on the youth city council, who said the youth council will be requesting funding for planting trees and painting over graffiti this summer. wApproved payment of $2,300 in unemployment compensation for two former employees A summary of actions taken by local public agencies on Thureday, April 28 Plain City Council Heard a report from Weber County Assessor David Haun who plans to re-evaluate property values in the Carver and Wheeler Subdivisions, both located between 1975 North and 2600 North on 4100 West. @Held a public hearing on rezoning a parcel located at 2000 North and 4100 West from residential to a restricted commercial zone to allow for a convenience store and storage sheds. Many of the 100 residents in attendance voiced concerns. All but two residents spoke against the proposal. Tabled a decision on the rezoning until the next meeting, scheduled for May 12, to allow time for consideration and recommendation from the planning commission. ws Discussed maintenance and use of the Posse grounds with posse leader Kent Vause and other horse group leaders. sAppointed Don Hanziik and Don Weston as hew landfill employees. Both will be paid $8 per our Appointed Russ Montgomery as the new fire chief. wHeard from Pariena Covington, coach of the city junior tennis team. She plans to hoid sign-ups the morning of May 14 in the city hall. She and Jim Foat, both tennis coachesat the new Fremont High, requested the city consid- er financing two more courts for the school to give youth the opportunity to host league meets. wOpened sealed bids for crack sealing of several roads. Officials tentatively plan to go with the low bid after further investigation. Bids were: $4,400 from Outdoor Maintenance Engineering, $5,050 from M&M Asphalt and 88 from Morgan Asphalt. w Discussed plans to extend the seweroff of 1975 North from 3400 West to 2200 West. Officials plan to charge an impact fee of some $5,000 to new individual homes, roughly equal to the cost of a septic tank. wSet a public hearing for May 26 to adopt the 1994-95fiscal year budget. @Set a public hearing for May 26 to amend the city zoning and subdivision ordinance. Offi- JAY DROWNS/Standard-Examiner Ogden resident Seth Johnson castshisline into the Ogden River while standing under a bridge to stay out of the rain near the mouth of Ogden Canyon. eee METRO BRIEFS Landfill reopens today for limited use PLAIN CITY — Residents here have learned to live without their city landfill but today they can start again taking yard and biodegradable construction waste to the site. The landfill, located at approximately 2550 North and 5100 West, reopens todayafter being closed for six months. Operation times are planned for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays until October, subject to cials plan to increase the amount of required frontage from 100 feet to 110 feet for 15,000- change depending upon use. square-foot lots. = Announced that applications are being taken at city hall for a new planning commission The landfill, closed in October to avoid expensive new Environmental Protection Agency requirements, opens now as the first class-four landfill allowed by state environmental officials in Utah, square-foot lots and 130 feet for 20,000secretary. Willard City Council @ Passed a resolution to place a moratorium on a building east of 250 East for 60 days due to problems with water pressurein that area. After 60 days fhe council will review the issue again. Heard compiaints from residents regard- ing neighbors with too many animals. The council told them they would have to pursue the issue through civil court since the area is zoned for rural residential use. s Approved the preliminary plat for the Val Hansen Subdivision to be located along 1200 West, contingent upon Hansen deeding 16.75 feet of road back to the city for future road improvements. = Discussed sending a letter to residents regarding delinquent water bills. Under a new Policy, the city will cut off service on bills that are 90-days delinquent and charge a $50 re- connection fee. Residents suffering financial hardships can request an exception to the poli- cy, which will be reviewed by the council. COURT LOG A summaryof local criminal court action on Thuredey, April 28 2nd District Farmington aShawn Rafe Washington, 26, 576 E. 275 South, Layton. Pieaded guilty to an amended charge of first-degree felony attempted rape of a child. Sentencing is set for June 2. A Layton woman Claims she discovered Washington in bed with her 6-year-old daughter in Janu- ery. She alleged that both the man and the gir! were partially undressed. Washington was originally charged with first-degree felony + rape of a child, but the count was altered in a plea bargain agreement said Mayor Lynn Moyes. Class-four landfills are limited to only natural materials. Concrete and animal waste, along with any man-made materials are prohibited. Moyes believes the class-four facility will serve the residential and farming communitywell and help reduce the cost of waste disposal. The landfill will continue to be reserved only for Plain City residents. Residents can dump materials free of charge. The $6,000 estimated annual cost of operation was added to garbage collection fees last year after residents voted to reopen the facility in the last general election. Thursday, the city council appointed residents Don Hanzlik and Don Weston to oversee operation of the landfill. Moyes said the two will pay extra attention for thefirst few weeks to those dumping at the site to be certain only approved substances are deposited. Peer Power recognize? 2 local teens Two locals were among & three high school students statewide to be recognized as outstanding advocates at Peer Power 1994, the fourth annual conference for high school students with disabilities and their peer tutors, sponsored bythe State Office of Education and the University of Utah. Nate Blanchard, a seniorat Ben Lomond High School and the son of Melvin and Caryl Blanchard of Ogden, said. James stressed the draft report is just preliminary. Even when final decisions are made, it will take a year or more to make changes, she said. “It’s been a hard year on campus, not just with strategic planning, there also have been a lot of self studies, It’s just been a tough year all around,” James said. Thompson said he understands task force members are frustrated iby campusreaction. “All they did was ask questions ‘and offer ideas to reorganize and reduce, and it made people mad,” he said. “If you asked task force members todayif they were glad they were elected or appointed, I think they'd -say no. But I hope next year, they can say ‘we did hard work and provided good service to the universi-ty,’ ” Thompson said MALAD,Idaho (AP) — Thousands, maybe millions, of Mormon crickets hide in the underbrush quiet as a sigh south of Holbrook Summit. They're waiting for a cloud to move away from the sun. When it does, a horde scampers across a Bureau of Land Management road — a brown wave cutting a swath more than three-tenths of a mile wide. It happens every year as various bands of crickets migrate 25 to 50 miles across Southeast Idaho. And if the weather conditions are right like they are this year — warm and dry — the crickets could wander onto the streets of down- town Malad. Or maybe Pocatello, said Matt Rendace, BLM range conservationist for the Deep Creek Resource Area. Idaho, especially the Malad area, has the largest concentration of Mormon crickets in the country. And this year is the worst, Rendace said. Three-quarters of an inch in size now, the crickets will growto 1% inches, resembling black bullets with feet. Rendace said their popu- lation density can reach 75 crickets per square yard. In 1938, for instance, the crickets infested more than 19 million acres covering 11 States. “No one knows whythey migrate or where they're going,” he said. Theyhatch at high elevations -including each other,” he said.“ Onecricket will consume upto 38 pounds of forage per acre. ‘Mormon crickets feed on sagebrush, ‘but they relish cultivated plants, devouring wheat, barley, alfalfa and garden vegetables. as soon as the ground temperature ‘when the skyis clear and tempera- reaches 40 degrees, then work their way down to lower climes. Legend has it that the crickets, which Indians ate as a delicacyas far back as 2200 B.C., once beset a band of Mormons traveling to the Utah territory. The besieged band prayed for salvation and were saved byseagulls that swooped out of nowhere to eat the crickets. Thus, the pests were named Mormoncrickets. Weather seems to be the only thing that hampers them. Cold and wet conditions stymie their growth and reproduction. Aside from that factor, the Mormon crickets don’t have manynatural predators other than gulls, rodents, hawks, crows and digger wasps. Rendacesaid the crickets are an efficient little bug. “They eat just about anything, tures above 65 degrees, the crickets Traveling up to a mile awday reach their destination sometime in July. At that time, they mate and die. Before dying, the female days as many as 160 eggs, up to '35ra day, in bare ground. As soon a&she deposits the egg in the soil, she covers it, and the egg lies dormant until the next spring. <9" Rendace said that it’s impossible | for the BLM to control the wandering bands. BLM officials have «ered biological control, using a fulgiis that kills the crickets when they eat it. Or dropping oats rolled in-poison along a migration route. In the past, when it got, had enough, officials sprayed from the air. "3 But what works oneday,is msignificant the next, Rendace said: “It’s impossible to guess which waythecritters will go,” he sajd. Dentist From 1B Finlayson Blanchard and Knisty Finlayson, a senior at Morgan High School gnd daughter of Richard and Janice Finlay- Finlayson, Morgan High's first peer tutor, and Blanchard, senior class president at Ben Lomond, both have been involved in the program for several years. dollars, and attract and retain high-quality students, Thompson Weathercreaies perfect conditions © for Mormon crickets’ yearly migration went son of Morgan, were the two local students recognized for their leadership. From 1B o USU gains prestigious research ranking He first heard about the video visor from the Utah Dental Association but said he eventually wound up purchasing it from a patient. “It's been such a worthyinvestment. I've had patients ask to stay and finish a movie and others have laughed right out loud because they are so involved.” One of Palmer's patients, 4year-old Jayci Hatch, was so nervous for a procedure that Palmer thought he would have to medicate her to help her relax but her moth- ofcolleges and universities in the nation by the Carnegie Founda- er said the glasses worked like magic. “This was her first visit to have ton for the Advancement of Teaching. any work done so she was really LOGAN — Utah State University has been namedto thetop tier USUis among 88 of the nation’s 3,600 accredited institutions of higher learning to achieve a Research University I ranking, said President George H. Emert. USUand the University of Utah are the only schools in the northern intermountain region to haveattained this status. The Research University I ranking includes institutions that offer nervous. But after those glasses were on she laid there and watched ee Aladdin and didn’t even flinch,” said Trudi Hatch. James Thorsted, 18 said he al- most forgot where he was while wearing the visor. “You didn’t think you were in the dentist office and the time went byreally fast. They’re pretty cool,” Thorsted said. said. “They look up at the ceiling and their mouths just open right up.” Clawson said the televisfdns have a lot of benefits but they take some getting used to. “We were so used to talking-to the patients or over them to éach Quorum Vision is only one of several entertainment features you'll find at the dentist office. Others, like Dr. Kevin T. Clawson have built TV screens into their ceilings. other. The TV basically ends ail conversation for the most part, but “I’ve had mine for over a year nowand it’s really been a great deal, especially for the kids. It really mesmerizes them,” Clawson by dentists are Intraoral cameras. The camera allows patients«to watch on a video screen the prapedure taking place in their mouth. close several cells at the county by a $150,000 increase in nea. one of the benefits is that you have less interruptions and the time gg¢s a little faster.” Another entertainment tool used landfill. The EPA requires special trict’s liners and leachate systems for $120,000 increase in salaries and drainage which the current landfill doesn’t have. Just the cost of hiring a full range of baccalaureate programs, are committed to graduate education through the doctorate level, and give high priority tore- From 1B Giani told district director Le- an engineer to study thecells and search, Emert said Grand Bitter she wants him to bond payments an wages, he added. On the other hand, the $3 per ton increase will only amount to 3@-or 40 cents a month for residents, Bd Burn Plant Manager Jack Sch Giani said she will have a h time explaining why the fees dad sull be increased. “If we've do well and expect to continue t tracts and grants from the cities in response to the fee increase, but the district Is USU's faculty brought in more than $93 million dollars in competitive contracts and grants during fiscal 1992-93 — an amount forced to raise its income to pay for new state and federal mandates plan their closure will cost the district $200,000, not including the cost of actual closure, he said. Bitter said the district has exceeded its projections for revenue this year by $1.2 million, That increase has already been added to coming into play this year. “Un- next year’s equation to Cul costs funded mandates are killing us this year,” The Environmental Protection Agency will require the district to This year’s proposed $3 increase will draw an additional $350,000 to $400,000 in revenueto the district. dents to another increase. “W: But that money will be swallowed all going to be hung out to d Universities within this category also award 50 or more doctoral degrees each year and receive more than $40 million in federal con- greater than the total state appropriation to USU of $81 million, Emert added — Standard-Examiner staff present the budget to her council. Bitter said he anticipates hostility well, why are we increasing the ip ping fee?” _ And Debra Ledkins said shez hesitant to commit Layton regs . cs |