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Show LOCAL %* 2B Thursday, March 19, 1992 Standard-Examiner Officials scramble for veterans’ bookiet Abortion arguments narrowed By LISA CARRICABURU Standard-Examiner staff SALT LAKE CITY — Written and oral testimony by Utahns who believe they would be most affected by the state’s yet-to-beenforced anti-abertion law may never be heard because the court is moving to narrow the scope of arguments in the upcomingtrial. U.S. Magistrate Ronald Boyce on Wednesdaysaid that while he believes much of the already-submitted testimonyis heartfelt and interesting, it probably would not help District Judge J. Thomas Greene decide whether Utah's law is constitutional. “Many of the witnesses should be on Donahue rather than in court,” Boyce said. “I want Judge Greene to resolve this issue in the most productive way possible. I see a narrowing to a point where the number of witnesses will be modest.” Boyce will issue on March 24 a formal recommendation regarding witnesses for the April 6 tral, but made his comments to attorneys for both parties during a Wednesday afternoon hearing. Once his recommendation is forwarded to Greene, attorneys can dispute his suggestions. Greene then will be charged with making the ultimate decision. Most of Boyce’s comments ap- plied to 25 plaintiff and i7 defense witnesses who have submitted written testimonythat would be subject to cross examination at trial. He said much of the information provided by such witnesses for both parties was anecdota! and, “I essentially believe attention needs to be directed awav from non-empirical items and toward information thatis critical to this case,” Boyce said. Healso cautioned the plaintiffs’ attorneys to choose carefully the witnesses who will represent the class of pregnant women who would be denied abortions if the lawwere enforced. Boycesaid he believes testimony should be confined to explanations of how and why the law’s enforcement would impact them negatively, and should be non-repetitive. Mary Anne Wood, an attorney hired to represent the state in the dispute, said she was pleased with Boyce’s directions. She said she maintains that the matter could be settled without a trial, and several pending motions she filed earlier this year couldeither lead to the dispute’s dismissal or could significantly alter the Candidates gather support Teachers’ union says education will win with Leavitt or Shea Standard-Examiner staff SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s major teachers’ union has endorsed gubernatorial candidates Mike Leavitt and Pat Shea, while a group of national business iecaders is endorsing Richard Eyre for governor. Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Stewart, meantime, announced two key business leaders will head his finance committee. They are Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller, and James Sorenson, who controls many companies at the forefront of medical technology. The 17,000-member Utah Education Association said it endorsed both Leavitt, a Republican; and Shea, a Democrat; because education will win regardiess of which candidate is elected — assuming Leavitt and Shea face off in November. UEAPresident Lily Eskelsen said significant progress in education “results from the actions of a governor who wili be the educationai leader and put Utah kids first.” Eyre, a Republican, said he’s created a national economic develop- ment advisory board that includes top executives of major companies aroundthe nation. They include Nolan Archibald, chief executive of Black & Decker Co.; M. Anthony Burns, CEO of Ryder Systems; Raymond Noorda, CEO of Novell Corp.; Ronald Rasband, president of Huntsman Chemical Corp.; Donald Staheli, president of Continental Grain Co.; George Romney, past president of American Motors; David Checketts, president of the New York Knicks; and Mark Willes, president of General Mills. trial’s scope. However, “If there does have to be a trial, we think evidence can be presented by a sma!l number of witnesses,” she said. Rachel Pine, an attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said she doesn’t ob- State agencies bombarded with requests By STEVE GREEN Behrmann, who had yet to see a Standard-Examiner staff SALT LAKE CITY — A bureaucratic mixup hasleft state officials ject to having fewer witnesses, but wants to make sure women and scrambling for copies of a new veterans’ services guide so they can others who would be affected by the law have a chancetotell their stories. The Utah law, passed by the 1991 Legisiature, prohibits abor- mail the booklet to veterans. The Governor’s Council on Veterans Issues printed 2,000 cop- ies of the 28-page booklet and it wasreleased last week to the Standard-Examiner and to officials of veterans’ groups. However, the agency that is supposed to distribute the booklet tions except in cases of rape, incest, grave fetal deformity or when the mother’s life is in danger. Enforcement of the law was does not yet exist and won’t be in operation until July 1. postponed by Greene pending the could go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. WHAT’S HAPPENING MEETING: For Throw the Hypocritical Rascals Out, a citizens Ave., Ogden. Agenda includes speaker, Tim Hill, spokesman for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Doug Anderson, and a video presentation. Information, R.B. Swenson, 394-6579. OGDEN — Discover a rain forest — in the Ogden City Mall. The temporary mock rain forest, which opens Saturday and runs for six weeks, will be part of the mall’s Mother Earth Celebration, said Debra L. Luby, mall marketing director. “We wanted to give the community a taste of what a rain forest is like,” she said. April is designated Mother Earth Month, with Earth Day on Apmil 22 and Arbor Day on April 25. The rain forest will be on the lower level next to J.C. Penney’s. Tours will be given every 15 minutes during regular mall hours and tour guides will explain howeach person can help preserve the environment, such as recycling and planting trees, Lubysaid. Monday through Thursday, school field trips will be conducted. Friday-Sunday, the rain forest will be open to the public. Council Real plants, tamed animals and birds will be make up the rain forest. Humidifiers will be installed to “give you that wet feeling you get when in a tropic area,” Lubysaid. “Our goal is to make it seem as close to the real thing as possible. Hopefully you won't be able to see the mall,” she said. Admission to the rain forest and all related events is free. Events include: a “For the Earth” fashion show, | and 3 p.m. March 28. wFree seedlings handed out by Tree Utah, | and 3 p.m. March 28. w@ OgdenSierra Club wildlife photography exhibit, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. April 4. m “Kids for a better Earth,” 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Apmil 11. Sponsored by Ogden Nature Center. Children are given the opportunityto learn about animal tracks, create a bird feeder from a recycied liter bottle, and other activities. mHogle Zoo docent appearance, nocn to 2 p.m., April Li. From 1B ate income factors in project areas. The recommendations of DACOG now go tothe state to be reviewed before being forwarded to the federal government. Woods Cross received funding this year to relocate a junkyard a half block from city hall. Last year, the city’s $400,000 funding request for the project was denied, but Mayor David Wright Jr. said he changed his strategy this year in requesting the funds. “We were more reasonable in what we asked for this year,” Wright said. Woods Cross was the only applicant that received all the funding it requested — $225,000. Other requests were cut before being approved. Trip According to figures released by the district, the $16,000-plus cost of the trip included $5,300 for air- From 1B East Coast, said Harley Poulsen, a director with the state office’s Project Assistance Services Section, which processed the grant. The educators on the New York City excursion were again accompanied by Ogden school board president R. Brent Cherrington, who went last year. “He is familiar with New York and is kind of a travel guide, plus he is interested in the program,” said Kendnck West said Cherrington’s return trip was a good move. “This has been one (program) that he has tried to build and grow and make happen in the district and it makes sense for Brent to be brought along continuously with it,” said West. Cherrington, like the 13 others, had all travel and hotel costs paid for by public funds. Each of the 14 was given an additional $30 a day in per diem expenses for the nine days. Toxic From 1B Thiokol, said Wednesday the aerospace firm supports the voluntary reduction program and will meet the 33/50 goals. “We're making good progress in that direction,” he said. The 33/50 program was launched by the EPA in January 1991 as a voluntary solution to the nation’s toxic chemical pollution. Magnesium Corp. of America, which is the nation’s No. | toxic line tickets, $2,400 for three nights at the Milford Plaza, $2,200 for five nights at the Courtyard Mar- riott in Maryland, $850 for rent-acars, $3,800 in per diem, and $1,900 for substitute teachers. Eight of the 14 travelers are teachers from Ogden, Ben Lomond and Washington high schools, who each missed eight days of school. The group flew out of Salt Lake City on March 10 and returned Wednesdaynight. Besides Cherrington, the other seven men and six women on the trip were Ogden High Assistant Principal Larry Leatham; Ben Lomond Assistant Principal Tim Smith; Washington High Principal Craig Pace; Margo Shaw, a Curricu-° lum consultant in the district offices; Ken Littlefield, a guidance counselor at Ben Lomond; Ben Lomond teachers Theresa Noel, Mary Lions and Harvy Neuber; Ogden High teachers Janet Tueller, Jodi Lunt and Barbara Stoddard; Washington teacher Steve Blodgett, and Dave Smith, a substitute teacher in chemical air polluter, is not participating in the 33/50 program. DEQ officials said the mineral company’s primary toxic emission is chlorine and that particular chemical is not one of the 17 chemicais on EPA’s prioritized reduction list There are currently 320 chemicals on the annual Toxic Release Inventory. The 17 selected for the 33/50 program are considered of high priority because of their high toxicity and also because theyare used in high volumes by industries. Overall, Utah industries dumped made it clear that the beoklet is available through veterans’ groups like the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans. one whoasks,” Bird said. “We can print more.” Until the state Veterans Affairs veterans’ organization or from a news item Tuesday in the Standard-Examiner. “We don’t even have the budget to mail them out until July 1,” said office opens July 1, the booklet can be obtained through veterans’ service organizations or by cailing the Community and Economic Development Department at 538-8700. BN BOND.- providing an environmental leaming opportunity Standard-Examiner staff Bird took responsibility for the problem, saying he should have Weber County and northern Davis Mock rain forest sprouts in Ogden City Mall, By LORETTA PARK fice of Veterans Affairs will be tocated when it begins operations County, officials suspect veterans learned of the booklet from a hour of business Wednesday. Be- ber County Library, 2464 Jefferson The bookletlists the phone number of the Community and Economic Development Department because that is where the state Of- cause most of the calls came from Ten calls from veterans seeking tc federal government deficit spending, 7:30 p.m. Monday We- booklet to requesting veterans. “I’m taking a case of them down to Community and Economic Development today,” Bird said. He said the booklet wasn’t printed for Utah’s 135,000 veterans, but instead was intended for counselors and others who work with veterans. “Put we won’t deny one to any- the book were logged in thefirst group supporting term limitation -for elected politicians and an end aide to Gov. Norm Bangerter, vowed to find a way to mail the July 1. So veterans requesting the guide have been calling the state Department of Community and Economic Development, which doesn’t have any copies yet. “We've been bombarded with calls,” agency spokesman Russ Behrmann said Wednesday. outcome oflegal challenges that copy of the guide. “Certainly this shows there’s a need for it.” Behrmann and Darin Bird, an gw Environmental fair, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. April 18. More than 30 booths of local businesses will be showing how those businesses protect the environment and howindividuals can recycle. WITH SELECT _ w Recycling drive April 18. People can bring newspapers, plastic and glass to the mall to be recycled. w Deseret Book “Day of a Thousand Books,” 10 a.m. to noon April 25. More than 200 schoolchildren will read for literacy, a fund-raising event for elementary schoollibraries, said Dani Miller, manager at Deseret Book. w“Kids Garbage Art Museum,” April 1-30. Sponsored by Treehouse, A Children’s Museum. Art pieces created from garbage will be displayed. mw “Ecosystem survival pian,” April 11-12. Hogie Zoo unveils its new parking meter. “It looks exactly like a parking meter but it has a colorful background,” said Luby. “or DUTY“WASHERS e America’s No.1 loidaiacd brand * Built to last longer, fewer repairs * Costs less to service F Patrol From 1B out by foot. Warnshuis said after he finally got the man into a position to where he could be flown out of the canyon, he discovered the long, steep climb back to the road was more difficult than it had been when he hadthe excitement of the rescue going for him, - MAYTAG * Based on consumer brand preference surveys BIG LOAD DRYERS the district. Cherrington, Leatham, Pace and Lunt went last year. West said he authorized the 14 people on the recommendation of Leatham, described as intimately involved in the essential schools program. West said he didn’t know how many local educators have gone on how many trips for essential schools but added that the program is in its third year in the Ogden district. He said bringing in a video would have been less expensive but not as productive. “You have to be in the classroom,” he said, adding that the travel and training “is the purpose of the grant.” The essential schools program involves about 180 ninth-grade students at Ogden and Ben Lomond high schools placed in smaller classes with the same teacher for the entire year. Instructional methods change to hopefully develop thinking skills. “It is essentially a reorganization of the way we do education, asit were,” said Kendrick. Added West: “It’s working.” 130 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air in 1989. 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