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Show ManyIssues Await Utah Le By MICHAEL WHITNEY SALT LAKE CITY(UPI) — A $1.6 billion budget tax relief, the economic impact of the Intermoun- tain Power Project and the Sagebrush Rebellion’’ are among the issues the Utah Legislature faces Monday when it begins the V Hansen. R-Farmington say there are several important non-budget items which will likely win theright to consideration during the session Before a non-budgetbill can be ad- mitted for full consideration both the Senate and House mustvote to accept the measure by at least a 1980 session. The 20-day budget session's prime order of business. of course, is the budget. Gov. Scott Matheson is scheduled to outline his proposed $1.6 billion spending package during his budget message Monday But the Utah Constitution aliows lawmakers to consider non-fiscal items during the “budget” session. and the Legislature often turns into a mini “general’’ session on the even years Senate President Miles Ferry, RCorrine, and House Speaker James twothirds majority A series of proposed amendments to the Utah Constitution top both Ferry’s and Hansen's list of nonbudget items. Prime among the proposed amendments they said is ‘one which wouldset strict limits on all taxation 1 think the debate will be over whether to send the tax article amendments to the voters as a single package or as separate proposals said Ferry. Hesaid the Legislature could consider as many as six proposals to amend the way the state ure Monday Thepi collects taxes If we lump them all together strong opposition to one part might mean the deathof all the proposed changes even one with strong support he said The legislative leaders agreed Utah's lawmakers will probably continue a tax refund program which ran into controversy and problems last year. “We admit it was little cumbersome But it wasn t as cumbersome as Mostpeopie thought said Hansen Under last year’s version of the program homeowners and renters are receiving rebates that varried from $100 to $400. Thesize of the refunds were determined by how much a homeowner paid in property taxes and how much of a renters rent went to payfor his landlord's propertytaxes. City tribute $56 million in si Power P; funds. but last year re fund application wi Ferry said the state probably owned land in Utah from federal ywned by the IPP plant will be a consortium of won't have as much to distribute in municipalities, it will not be subject refunds this year as in 1979 “Butall wehaveto dois trimthesizeof the rebates.” he said revenue fromthe plant the nearby Hansen said the rebate program likely will continue only throug 1980. “One of the constitutional amendments we will debate would makethe refund program unneces: sary by halving property taxes he said How to deal with the impact on Utah towns of construction of the nation’s largest coal-fired power plant near Lynndyl will be a major item on the agenda. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus approved to local property taxes Without taxes or some other form of Utah communities will not have enough money to provide the ser vices needed by thousands of new residents who will move in to build IpP Ferry agencies to State agencies Hansen and Ferry said Matheson s Sagebrush Rebellion bill will hikely eive serious debate but neither was willing to predict it would pass Hansen said Utah's lawmakers might decide to see how similar suits against the federal govern- ment in other states go before they plungeintothe so-called Sagebrush and Hansen said the Legislature will consider several solutions to the problem including a constitutional amendment which wouldlet local governments tax the plant. has prefiled a measure which would transfer control of federally- ject’s proposedplant late Because and laws that would allow IPP to make payments tolocal communities in lieu of taxes Sen Ivan Matheson R-Cedar Rebellion Nearly 150 bills and resolutions. many of them non-budget items. wereprefiled by Utah lawmakers as of Friday Hansen and Ferry said the House and Senate w 5 clear away the non-budget items quickly so lawmakers can get down. to the businessof drafting a budget U.N. HearsBitter Anti-Soviet Talk 107TH YEAR, NO. 140 PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY, JAN, 13, 1980 $4.50—MONTH, PRICE 50 CENTS By U.S. Delegate UNITED NATIONS (UPI) — US. right of a sovereign people and the Ambassador Donald McHenry, in a bit- lawless invasion ofits territory.” McHenry said the assembly must deter speech to the General Assembly Saturday denounced the Soviet inva- mand the withdrawal of Soviet troops sion of Afghanistan as a breach of from Afghanistan so that its people world peace and a threat to global could choose their ownleaders. lran Court security. Speaking on the third day of the assembly’s emergency debate on the Afghan crisis, McHenry said Soviet troops had “‘occupied’’ the small Executes Moslem country and ‘‘replaced Dissidents one leader in Afghanistan with another moretoits liking.’” Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanosvky wasnot in his seat to hear By ALVIN B. WEBB TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) — firing squad under Islamic court orders Saturday executed 11 followersofdissident Ayatollah Kazem Shariat-Madari sparking a rampage by mobs bent on vengeance through the northwestern city of Tabriz. Six former army menandofficials o! the shah also died beforefiring squads during the day, bringing to 728 the total number of death sentences since the overthrow of the shah 11 months ago, according to state radio reports early y. Iran formally asked the government of Panamato arrest deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi for his extradition to Tehran within 60 days. The return of the shah is the bottom-line demandof Moslem militants in exchange for the release of 50 American hostages,held for a 70thday atthe U.S. Embassy. But the militants said they knew nothing of reported last-minute negotiations on a proposalthat the hostages could be freed if the U.N. Security Council agreed to forego any economic blockadeandto considercalling for the extradition of the shah. They said their flat demandfor the shah to be returned -before any hostages are freed was unchanged ‘Therioting in Tabriz was the second: outbreak in four days. Revolutionary guards raided the Tabriz headquarters of the opposition Moslem Peoples Republican Party and arrested 30 persons. Within hours,11 of them were convicted by an Islamic McHenry’s speech. A Soviet-backed coup Dec. 27 dislodged President Hafizullah Amin — later killed in a gunbattle at the presidential palace in Kabul —and installed pro-Moscow Babrak Karmal. “The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan flouts international law, breaches world peace andthreatens regional and global security.” McHenry said. “It is imperative that we. the peoples of the United Nations. expressin clear and forceful terms that we will never condone lawless interference with the Provo City officials are working to tie down $9.7 million local financial commitment for a downtown hotel with convention facilities so the city can use a $2.2 million federal grant reported killed, and two guards and two across the street from The Daily Herald. Bids for the building will belet in the next few weeks, and construc- Pars A man posing as a representative from a Salt Lake City firm has apparently flown away from Provo Airport with an $80,000 airplane and has not been heard from for a week. Mountain West Aviation reported the incident to Provo Police, and Det. Martin Sheeran said a description of the plant, a twin engine Piper Aztec, has been entered on a nation-wide crime information computer Two employees at Mountain West Aviation, contacted Saturday, refused to comment on the missing plane, or release any information. The plane was reportedlyleased to a “gentleman representing himself as an employee of a Salt Lake City firm last Sunday (Jan. 6) and wasto return to the airport Wednesday,”’ Sheeran said. The manhasnot contacted the airport service since Sunday. Thefirm the mansaid he represented has been contacted, and authorities weretold they never heard of the man, Sheeran reported. Mountain West Aviation oispace the airplane was valued at, $80,000. plains several waysto cut taxes. The new booklet is designed to help taxpayers understand the new provisions of the 1979 tax returns as opposed to those of previous years. The $9.7 million must come from other private sources before it can have the federal money. Lee Roderick, the Herald's Washington reporter, tells the situation in the story on Page 4. Job Service Awaits New Building move next year to a new location Have BeenStolen we Provo Can Get $2 Million Hotel Grant The 19 othersstill couldfacetrial. From Provo May that Taxpayers Help Series Begins One revolutionary guard also was ‘Missing’ Airplane imperative tortured explanaticnsthat insult our intelligence.”’ “Forthis bodyto remainsilentin the face of open aggression would be for the membersof the United Nations to condone a violation of the only principles that small nations can invoke to protect themselves from self-aggrandisement by larger and more powerful states,” McHenrysaid. The assemblyis consideringa resolution, sponsored by more than a score of Third World countries, hat demands “the withdrawalof all foreign troops.”” Diplomatic sources said the draft resolution is certain to be adopted by more than the required two-thirds majority. but because ofthe large number of delegates that still wish to speak a vote is not expected until Monday. A booklet on helping taxpayerscut taxes without going to professional consultants is being offered to Herald readers.A series ofarticles, which begins today on page5, ex- Job Service, located in Provoat 190 W. 800 N. for 20 years, plans to said. The raid cameat 2:30 a.m., the executions were carried out before dawn andthe rioting erupted within hours. Reporters in the area said rioters roamed the streets of Tabriz, setting fires, shattering shop windows and defying revolutionary guards who lobbed tear gas into the crowds andfired warning shots into theair. Despite his disagreement with Khomeini, Shariat-Madari twice in the pasteight dayshastold his followers to ceasetheir opposition. end the violence and dissolve the MPRP. is the principlesof the (U.N.) charter by Sunday: revolutionary court and executed by a firing squad. party members were wounded, “It demonstrate we cannot be duped into ignoring our responsibility to defend tion should begin early in thespring. The project will take about one year to complete after groundbreaking. The facility will be twice as large as the present one and there will be twice the parking space. Story is found on page 3 Special Interests in Legislature While ethics philosophers around the country would probably shudder at the specialinterest and conflictof of interes in the Utah Legislature, the state’s lawmakers, instead, wear their special interest like badges and evenproclaim their con- Piove Post Office Has N ew Location Paul Patrick, carpenter from Springville, installs mailslots at the new vemper ry post office in southeast vo, which opens Monday. Provo's Post Office was caughtin the middle of moving operations Saturday by some 40 persons who appeared at two locations and expecte? services, according to workers. A temporary postal window and lockbox operations will be ready dergoes extensive remodeling, ac- cording to David Glines, a postal spokesman. + The temporary site is expected to operate tor five months and is owned by Olie Allen, who said part ‘The 12 lockboxes which were carried from the existing office to the temporarylocation weight about 450 pounds, Glines said. Remodeling of the existing: office includes expanding its lockboxes, and constructing access paths for the handicapped, said Kobert Look, ofthe lease agreementcalledfor Allen to do the moving of the director of customerservices. Mail maybe picked up at the temporary location 24 hours a day ex- lockboxes cept Saturday midnight to Monday instead of postal employees. at 4a.m., said Glines. Expect Tax Rebates in Few Days Mostof the rebate checks for Utahns will be mailed by this coming Friday, according to the chairmanof Utah's Tax CommisMailings have been held up for many people in Utah County becauseofillegible rebate forms, he said. Butthe bulkof the forms have been deciphered, and most checks will be mailed this week, he added. “About 25,000 checks were mailed Friday," chairman David Duncan said. “The bulk of the checks — another 65,000 — should be sent out by the end of the week,”’ he reported. Duncan says the rebate plan will cost the state and local governments about $750,000 to administer. Thecost will be split about50-50 between the state and county governments, he added Utah's legislators say this comes with serving in a part-time citizen legislature, which requires that the lawmakers make their living by other means. See thefirst of a twopart series on Page 16 It’s the Great Silver Meltdown ae Mondayat 640 E. 300S., (old site of Allen's Super Save Market) in Provo, while the existing office un- flicts in floor degate. Duncan explained lawmakers over-estimated the number of state residents who would be eligible under the plan, resulting in a surplusof funds in the rebate account, A Dec. 31 deadline was set for claiming the rebates, and Duncan said all applications “should be processed by Jan 31.” Silver ‘‘junk shops’’ have become popular acrossthe nation these days as people see theprice ofsilver going crazy and are taking second looks aroundtheir living rooms and desk drawers,to sell for scraptheir silver coins and pieces of sterling, ranging from thin chains to thick The ownerofa silver shop in Glendora, Calif., says: “‘If this silver smelting craze keeps up there will be verylittle silver left to buy from the late 19th and 20th century. And the itemsthat are available already arepriced outof normal reach.”” See story on Page13. Victorian-style vases. Return of ‘Trenchfoot’ Reported Somekids attached to their jogging shoes and sneakers, and women whoweartheirstyligh high bootsall day are breaking out with a World War ailment, called trenchfoot. this winter, according to a leading podiatrist. He explained that trenchfoot is characterized by blistering, redness, and breaks in the skin of the foot. See story on Page 16. More Showers; Snow Level to Drop Occasional rain showers and windy weather through Mondayhas been forecast for the Central Utah Area, with warmer temperatures in the mid 50s today, upper 30s overnight and mid 40s Monday. The snow level is expected to slowly lower late today to near 6,000 feet by Monday morning, and today's southerly winds should subside by tonight. 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