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Show Senate OK’s ‘In Lieu’ PaymentsBill SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The Utah Senate today gave preliminary approval to a bill which would let municipal power companies make payments to Counties and cities in lieu of Property taxes. Sen. Omar Bunnell, D-Price Sponsored the measure, which is aimed at helping Emery County recover revenueit lost last year generating facility. The portion of the plant which is now municipally owned is exempt from property taxes Commissioners said they or- construction local governmeius. of generating facilities built to serve customers of other power companies But Emeryofficials have complained the action seriously er- to sell part of its Huntington Lyndyll. Because the IPP plant Purehase power would be owned by a conglomeration of municipal companies and rural electrification association the taxes Meanwhile Sen. Charles BulJen, R-Logan, offered a bill which the problem of funneling some revenue from the IPP plant is Bunnell’s bill could also apply to the Intermountain Power Project’s planned power plant near from it wouid be exempt for property dered UP&L to sell part of the plant because it was unfair for UP&L’s customers to pay for from Utah Power & Light Co.'s Huntington Piant. Senators voted 28-0 to accept the bill for full debate. The State Public Service Commission last year ordered UP&L Plantto three municipalelectric companies in Utah which in i'tah and southern California roded the county's tax bases would take another approach to Bunnell's measure would allow Property taxes on nonprofit corporations such as municipally- owned power companies if their annual gross incomeexceeds $10 million. Only IPP would exceed the $10 million limit. Bunnell's bill would exempt churches and charitable organizations from taxes. ‘The House and Senate held only a brief voting session in order to 107TH YEAR, NO.147 allow tume tor appropriation subcommittees meetings. The sub- committees are grinding their way through budgets for various state agencies and programs in preparation for the drafting of a complete state spending package for fiscal 1980. In the Joint Higher Education Association Appropriation Sub- committee, lawmakers debated ihe budget for Utah State Univer stiy. Tne Legislature's fiscal analyst for higher cducation has recommended = $37 million Spending package for the Logan school So far. the subcommittee has stayed close to its analyst's recommendations in giving tentative approval to budgets for PROVO, UTAH, MONDAY, JAN. 21, 1980 Utah's colleges and universities The last nigher education budget given a tentative okay by the panel was an $804 million spending package for the University of Utah. It was $509,000 higher than the figure recommendedby thefiscal analyst The subcommittee also okayed an $8 4 million budgetfor the Salt Lake City's school’s College of Medicine, and a $1.6 million budget for education budget for educational programscarried on at the university’ hospital All college and university budgets have been givenonlytentative approval because the sub- crease for all faculty and adimistrative employees in the state's higher education system. The subcommittee has also withheldfinal action on proposed equity” pay hikes of up to 4.1 percent for faculty members at Utah's smaller colleges. The equity hikes are desgned to bring Salaries for small-school employees up to par with wages Paid to teachers and administrators at the Universityof Utah and Utah State . With less than two weeksleft in the Legislatures budget session lawmakers are faced with the committee has withheldfinal action on Gov. Scott Matheson’s task of figuring out how theywill proposed 12.1 percent pay in- surplus in the form of tax cuts distribute a $46.9 million state $4.50—MONTH, PRICE 25 CENTS Bull Ring Collapse Leaves 160 Dead BOGOTA,Colombia (UPI) — Police today reported at least 160 dead and 155 injured in the collapse of a wooden stadium at an amateur bullfight. Press reports said the death toll could reach 300. “There are many bodies that have not been identified or counted despite the unstinting work of the rescue teams,” Todelar Radio news director Jorge Pulido reported from the coastal townof Sincelejo in Sucrestate. Many of the dead, including numerous children, were trampled Sunday when spectators panicked, turning a colorful folk festival into a tragedy. Onereportsaid the stands collapsed because the crowd surged to the rear to escape a torrential rain. Bull ring suddenly was flooded with crowd after grandstandscollapsed. Carter Says Soviets Misjudge WASHINGTON (UPI) — Saying the Soviet invasion of Afghanistanis like an arrow aimed at the world’soil suplies, President Carter has warmed remlin leaders that they have “seriously misjudged” U.S. temperament and resolve. Carter was at Camp David today, in the mountains of western Maryland, where aides said he was drafting his State of the Union address to be delivered before a joint session of Congress Wednesday night. The address will stress an emerging “Carter doctrine,” which reflects a hardened public policy toward the Koons in the wakeof the Soviet inva- sion. “The Soviets have seriously misjudged our own nation’s strength and resolve and unity and determination,” the president said SunJay,in a glimpse of what he will say to Congress and the nation. Carter also saidif the Soviets do not withdraw from Afghanistan within a month, U.S. athletes should not participate in the summer Olympics in Moscow. “Times change and circumstances change,"’ Carter said on NBC's ‘‘Meet the Press’ program. ‘I am still committed to peace, but peace through strength,"’ The Soviet Union ‘cannot invade an innocent country with impunity,” Carter said, vowing that the Russians will ‘suffer the consequences’ of their incursion into Afghanistan. He said Afghanistan had served as a buffer ‘‘between the Soviet Union and Iran and the world’soil supplies,” and that Soviet actions ‘‘have now become kind of an arrow aiming at those crucial strategic regionsof the world.”’ “So this is a major departure by the Soviet Union from their previous actions,” Carter said. He said the Soviet invasion created “the most serious threat to world peace since the Second World War” and warned that the Kremlin has “seriously misjudged our own nation’s strength and resolve and unity and determination.” “This is a threatto a vital area of the world ... where our interests and those of our allies are deeply embedded,’’ he said. Carter said the administration also has been looking into establishing new facilities for U.S. military personnelin the northern Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf region. The president lacks authority to order a boycott of, the Olympics, but U.S. Olympic Committee officials have promised to poll potential team members about a possible boycott. Carter sent a lengthy letter to U.S. Olympic Committee President Robert Kane Sunday and said a boycott ‘‘is necessary to secure the peace of the world at this critical time." The president said he was not optimistic that the 50 Americans being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran will soon be freed. “T can’t predict the early end of that situation,” he said. ‘The concern that I feel about the hostages todayis just as great as it was a month ago or two months ago,” he said White House Race Starts Tonight DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) — The was “‘beyond reproach . otherwise I of Massachusetts and California Gov. 1980 delegate selection process begins wouldn't be here.” The last statewide public opinionpoll today, with Republican challengers to front-runner Ronald Reagan cam- showed Carter well ahead ot Kennedy paigning right up to the start of the precinct caucuses that open the presidential race. President Carter was favored over Sen. Edward Kennedy in the Democratic race, with public opinion olls showing Reagan the GOP favorite. Former Ambassador George Bush, the man given the best chanceto upset Reagan,was scheduled to fly to three WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Towacities and campaign right through Supreme Court today let stand a decithe conn of the evening caucuses sion allowing someone-race schools to held in school rooms, fire halls and liv- remain in Dallas because of long dising roomsin 2,531 precincts. tances students would haveto be bused Previously, the court had agreed to “We've comea long, long way, and tonight will tell how far,"’ said Bush at an appeal by Dallas school officials a morning newsconference. He would who argue the desegregation plan alnot makeanypredictions abouttheout- lowing for continued existence of a come. But noting that he was just an numberof one-race schools meets conasterisk in the polls a few months ago, stitutional standards. But today, over three dissents, the he said his showing would be “better court struck argumentsonthe caseoff than all the expectations."’ Former Watergate prosecutor Leon its docket Justices Lewis Powell, Potter Jaworski came to Des Moinestooffer an 11th hour endorsementofhis fellow Stewart and William Rehnquist wanted to hear the case. Texan. Writing for the three, Powell said: Jaworski said Bush's actions as Republican national chairman in the “This case presents a long-needed opfinal days of the Nixon administration portunity to re-examine the considera- Edmund G. Brown Jr. among Democrats, and Reagan with a lead over the big field of Republicans. poll. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and Reps. High Court Shuns School Bus Case 2 Senate Republican leader Howard Bakerof Tennessee. Bush and former Gov. John Coznally of Texastrailed the formerCalifornia governorin the lowa tions relevant to framing a remedyin a desegregation suit “It is increasingly evident that use of the busing remedy to achieve racial balance can conflict with the goals of equal educational opportunity and quality schools. “In all too many cities, wellintentioned court decrees have had the primary effect of stimulating resegregation. The experience in Dallas during this litigation presents a striking illustration ofthis problem." Following the court's action today, the appeals court will return the case to the federaldistrict court ‘for elaboration of that court's conclusions on the feasibilty of extensive busing to achieve racial balance in the Dallas public schools,” Powell said. Philip Crane and John AndersonofIllinois. were distant also-rans Atthe caucuses, less than 10 per cent of the state’s 1.6 million voters will begin a months-long processof selecting delegates for the national political conventions next summer. Towawill send 50 Democrats and 37 Republicans to the conventions, butit won't be known until spring exactly how manycan be claimed by which candidates What the caucuseswilldo is give the first real indication of candidate popularity in 1980, and begin the long trek toward the nominations. But the influx of politicians and pundits also made other formsofpolitical fortune telling popular. Some crystal balls showed Kennedy, with a hustling young corps of volunteers andlots of money, pushing Carter. Others claimed Bush was sure to be second to Reagan and maybefirst The candidates worked hard at the “perception game,’ claiming they would finish lower than they really expected in hopes of manufacturing an upset. Rain also apparently weakened the foundation of the wooden stands, authorities said. Police reported 160 dead and 155 injured early today but newspaper reports said there may have been as manyas 300 killed. The Red Cross asked for urgent shipmentsof blood, plasma,antibiotics and painkillers to supplement local supplies that were quickly exhausted, along with the supply of coffins. Thecollapse occurred at the heightof the annual Sincelejo Festival when the city 370 miles north of Bogota swells to double its normal 50,000 population with an influx oftourists and festival goers. More than 1,500 excited spectators were jammed into the ramshackle triple-deck wooden stands to watch dozens of ‘‘spontaneous”’ bullfighters from the crowd wave handkerchiefs, hats and shirts at 10 bulls released at the sametimeintethe ring. Any spectator is welcometojoin the free-for-all known as a “‘corraleja” and patterned after the runningofthe bulls at the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. The second bullfight of the day was under way at 4.05 p.m. when a 100-yard stretch of the stands gave way, Radio Todelar reported from Sincelejo. “The stands collapsed in slow motion,” Radio Todelar said. ‘Someof them fell forward into the ring, other collapsed to the rear or seemed to sag straight downward of their own weight. “People screamed in panic. Some were injured when they leaped from the upperlevel about22 feet high,” the report said, Scores of people beneath and behind the stands were trapped when the wooden beamsfell on them. Panic-stricken people searched for family and loved onesin the wreckage or athospitals. Gov, Hermes Perez issued an appeal for relatives to stay away from the Sincelejo Hospital because crowds were impeding the work of medical teams. Monday: Lawmakers Mull Cut of Surplus ‘Pie’ SALT LAKE CITY — With less than two weeksto go in the current budget session, the Utah State Legislature is trying to figure out the best way to distribute a $46.9 million state surplus as taxrelief. The Republican majority is drafting a proposalto chop the basic school support levy imposed on residential property. Democratic Gov. Scott Mathesonis asking for a continuation of the 4-mill reduction of the basic schoollevy. See Page 15 for details and other Utah news. Osmondsa Bit Apprehensive on Concert Members of the Osmond family are excited but somewhatapprehensive about this weekend's concerts at BYU. They said the last concert they did in Utah was about 10 years ago and since then they have been happy to live here as friends and neighbors rather than as pei- tormers. Donnysaid it will be a bit ‘‘scarry” knowing all of his friends and neighbors will be in the audience. Family membersestimate that they havesold about$77 million worth of records to date See story on page 3 ‘Holy War’ UsedforPolitical Gain Centuries ago the call for “Jihad,” or holy war, was a magic ‘ery that electrified Moslems and sent them headlong for battle to spread the faith. But today, with morethan 700 mil- lion peopie embracing the Islam, observerssee the bannerof holy war being raised for political purposes rather than religious reasons. See story on Page 11 New VD’s Reach Epidemic Level Although federal health officials are Tepoetof progress in the fight against syphilis and gonorrhea,they say the United States is facing an epidemic of new sexually transmitted diveases. These diseases have made a vast numberof womensterileas a result offailure to arrest the diseases or getting treatment too late, the national Center for Disease Control reported. See story on Page 5. Haze Expected, Fog Said Possible Generally fair weather, but increasing smoke and haze Is forecast through Tuesday for the Central Utah area. Patchy night and morning fog also said possible. Expect overnight lows in the upper teens and highs Tuesdayin the upper 30s. See additional Utah weatherinformation on Page 3 and national weather data on Page 11. Here’s Where ToFind It Amusements Classified Ads Comics Editorial National-Ipternational ” 15 19-25 16 7 5,11 Obituaries Society Sports Utah-Regional 4 13 68 13 |