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Show UtahnTestifies to Keep Information Act By JEFF MAPES Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — KSL Washington correspondent Ted Capener has spent four years listening to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R. Utah) speak his mind. But on Wednesday, Capener turned the tables and for once told Hatch whathe thinks on an issue before Congress Capener, who is now back in Salt Lake City as a Bonneville neglect that depended heavily on information pryed loose from the federal government through the FOIA Another time, pointed at officers That infor: mation was very important to maintain calm in the state Capener said reporters used the FOIA to obtain FBI informa: tion on the shooting death of polygamist John Wesley Singer Salt Lake Tribune reporter Bob Bryson “‘learned that the FBIinvestigation clearly showed that when he was shot and killed Singer did have a loaded pistol Hatch good-naturedly sparred with Capener (“I know it was an awful burden on youto listen to me” all those years. the senator said). but stuck with his conten tion that the law hasresulted in the release of sensitive govern: ment information that should have stayed secret For example, Hatch main tained that law enforcement agencies are finding it more dif ficult to cultivate informants Not one FBI informant has been revealed during the FOIA’s 15 years, Dornfeld maintained Saying he thinks many of these because many peoplefeel their identities will be exposed through fears about thé FOIA’s badef. the release of government docu ments That was disputed by Steven Dornfeld, a Washington reporter representing Sigma Delta Chi. a enforcementofficials who didn't national nalists organization of jour: fects may be exaggeratedby law like the lawin thefirst place Hatchalso has complainedthat the majority of FOIA requests come from businesses seeking in: formation on their competitors not the private individuals. formation Act (FOIA), Hatch, on the other hand, has introduced legislation to more tightly ment documents. As chairman of a Judiciary subcommittee, Hatchlistened as Capener told how the law “is a workable,often-used, important tool for Utah journalists.” For instance, Capener said KSLwonseveralnational awards for a story on nursing home 1978 or 1979. Employment in home construction also is down appreciably. The survey revealed that homebuilders in 1981 have only 15 percent of the employees they had in 1978. Builders listed high interest rates, unavailability of loan money, and too much government interference as reasons for the business slump. Builders questioned in the survey indicated they were obtaining only 10 per- 108TH YEAR, NO. 302 PROVO, UTAH, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1981 recently was named vice presi GOP Sees Indexing Of Taxes Winning WASHINGTON (UPI) — Assistant Senate Republican leader Ted Stevens today predicted approval of a controversial amendmentto tie tax rates to inflation, despite White House opposition. ‘The proposal to ‘‘index”’ the tax rates to prevent taxpayers from being pushed into higher tax brackets by inflation wasto be offered as an amendment to President Reagan's 33-month, 25 percent tax cut package on the Senate floor today. The amendment. sponsored by Sen. William Armstrong, R-Colo., would take effect in 1985. “I'd be surprised if it didn’t pass,’ Stevenssaid. Stevens, R-Alaska, called indexing ‘‘one of the major modifications of the tax system.” ‘I've decided to supportit —- as have most of the members of the party — despite the opposition of the administration "’ he said Some Democrats contend indexing would build inflation permanently into the tax system. Reagan — who supports the principle of indexing — opposes any amendmentsto his taxbill. Meantime, the House Ways and In a nearly unanimous response, they said bankruptcies are twice as prevalentin Utah County this year than they were in 1980. “Everyone is hurting; even jobs which are good wecan’tfinish. Interest rates must get downto 10-11 percent to do any good for the industry,” some commented. fice ran out of forms, and lists a telephone number which those interested may call. See story on Page 4. ‘Ultimatum’ Angers Utah GOP a speciallegislative session for July 31 unless the Republicanlegislators take a caucus position by July 28 to restore about$6 million each to the Medicaid and corrections budgets with supplemental appropriations during its budget session in January. See story on Page 17. ‘Half-Time’ Marriage Hectic Melany Stehl does all the house and yard work, tends her four ly's welfare. Melany likes this ‘‘half-time” marriage because both partners can pune individualinterests. Life is ectic at times and Melany’s bubbly accounts of family activities sound slike lines from a comedy writer. See story on Page 19. Police and Fire Issue Bubbles Arguments for and against consolidation of the Orem Police and Fire Departments continue,with opponentsciting cities who havetried the project and abandoned it, and proponentstelling success stories. The main conclusion seemsto be that very careful planning must go into such an operation in orderforit to succeed. See story on Page 32 Some Cloudiness Forecast Partly cloudy skies are forecast Friday for Central Utah, Overnight lowsare expected to be in the mid60s with highs Friday in the mid-90s, Additional Utah weather information Is on Page 4. A national weather story is on Page 14 Where To Find It Amusements Arts... Business Clasglfied Ad Comics . Commun ncies to significantly in the amount of time they spendfilling FOLA requests dent of news and public affairs for the Mormon Church-owned broadcasting group of 13 celevi sion and radiostations cent of the building permits this year they secured in 1970. Subcontractors and material suppliers questioned in the survey indicated the average decline in business suffered by those subcontractors serving home builders was 55 percent. Manyindicated they were forced outof business or had to switch to otherlines of work, or find work outofstate. Subcontractors indicated they had 25 percent fewer employees in 1981 than they had in 1980 because fewer homes are being built. Listing their reasonsfor the business decline, they claimed excessive interest rates, lack of business, fewer homes built, and too much government regulation. Car Ordering Office Closes children and deals with the trials of a single parent — almost every day. Melany is married. But since her husband is absent from their home for weeks cr months at a time, she takes complete chargeoftheir fami- me crease his own backyard. Capener $5.50 MONTH—PRICE 25 CENTS Means Committee planned to work un- Official Drinks Pesticide Republican leaders of the Utah Legislature reacted with carefully controlled angerto a proposalfor increased Medicaid and corrections funding which they viewed as an “ultimatum” from Gov. Scott Matheson. The governorsaid hewill schedule the FOIA andallow other govern: was to let Hatch know how im portant the law is to reporters in Thursday: The Provo office of the “secretarial service'’ which promised to provide 5'% percentinterest for financing of cars has closed its doors. A notesaid the of- Dornfeld admittedthe law may need some fine-tuning, but complained that Hatch’s legisla: t de the FBI with a virtual blanket exemption from that a major reasonhetestified Valley Builders Decry 95% Dive In Homes Market 1980, the construction rate was 68 per- beneficiaries of the act Sigma Delta Chi on any changes in the law, and hetook extra care to praise the press and in par ticular Utah journalists Capener saidafter the hearings MHerala restrict access to many govern: cent lower, andonly five percentof the homesbuilt in 1978 are projected to be built in 1981. Furthermore, home builders said the number of foreclosures in 1980-81 amonnted to 15 percent of the homes built. No foreclosures were recorded in nalists, and scholars that were intended to be the primary Hatchsaid he would work with broadcasting executive, testified in support of the Freedom of In- Only 1/20 as many homes will be built in 1981 as were built three years a a survey conducted by the Utah alley Home Builders Association revealed. Using 1978 as the base year, the survey relisted that 28 percent fewer homes were constructed in 1979. In public interest groups. jour Crossword .........6055 National-International B.T.Collins, director of the California Conservation Corps, jokes about the effects of his downinga glass of diluted malathion for his troops to show them it was safe. “It’s horrible tasting,”he said. ‘‘It tastes like liquid liver or kerosene.”’ Five helicopter sprayed the pesticide malathion UPI Telephoto over10,133 acres in California in an escalated aerial attack on the Mediterranean fruit fly which has already caused $4.2 million in produce losses over a three-county zone the state calls a ‘major disaster See earlier story on Page 2 til midnight tonight if necessary to complete action on a Democraticalternative that would cut individual taxes 15 percent over 21 months, focusing most of the relief on people earning between $15,000 and $50 000 annually. On Wednesday the House committee approved a Democratic plan to lower estate and gift tax rates from 70 percent to 50 percent, exempt estates valued at less than $680,000 instead of the current cutoff of $175.625 andlet a surviving spouse exemptall inherited propertyinsteadofjust 50 percent. as it is now. Poland in Vicious PowerStruggle WARSAW, Poland (UPI) - A vicious power struggle to wrest control of the Polish Communist Party from Stanislaw Kania was reported underway today, only hours after his predecessor Edward Gierek and six members of his disgraced regime were purged from the party. Sources at the party’s emergency congresssaid all otherissues had been sweptaside by behind-thescenesbattles to win support from the 2.000 dele- Spy Suspect Claims He's ‘Not Guilty’ JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI) — Accused spy Joseph George Helmich Jr. pleaded innocenttoday to chargesof he sold top secret information about a U.S. coding machine to the Soviet Union. Officials said the device may have enabled the Russians to break intel- gatesin the unprecedentedsecret ballot to choose a party leader. Kania who replaced Gierek last September, faced a challengebyatleast seven other candidates While the party struggle was underway in Warsaw talks in the labor stronghold of Gdansk to avert a strike by 40.000 Baltic coast dockworkers broke down today and the leaders of the Solidarity union chapter went into emergency session to decide whether to walk out. —in an increasingly wide-open race. The Congress — four of them considered pro-Moscow hardliners met behind closed doors today to begin the lengthy selection of a newly expanded 200-member Central Committee with 70 alternate members. after which the party secretary will be elected by secret vote of the entire Congress. Blacks Ransack Homes In British Rampage LONDON (UPI) — The chief of Scotland Yard appealed strongly today for calm in London's simmering Brix- ton district where violence exploded again in the early morning hours. Blacks angry at police ransacking of 11 homes built flaming street barricades and rampaged in violence that injured 10 officers and resulted in six arrests, Scotland Yard said ligence messages during the Vietnam The Brixton outburst, on a smaller war. scale than previous incidents in 11 U.S. Magistrate Howard Snyder set nights of urbanviolence ranging across Helmich’strialfor Sept. 14 before U.S. country from Southampton to Scotland, District Judge Susan H. Black. The broke a 2-daylull in youth rampages. brief arraingmentlasted less than five Quiet held elsewhere across Britain minutes. The partial breakdown of law and Firemen Put Out $55,000 Blaze At Provo Building order brought emergency responses from the government and officials reaching up to Queen Elizabeth who expresed her concern. The statement bySir David MeNee, issued by Scotland Yard, was only the latest “Sir David McNee wantsa return to quiet and appeals strongly to the community to assist in bringing this about,’ the statement said Brixton tensions had been building since predawn raids Wednesday on 11 homesidentified by an informant as bomb factories and drug warehouses. Thelatest outbreak Wednesday night shattered a two-day lull in Britain's urban riots The largest fire in Provo this year caused $55,000 in damages to Health Products International at 900 South University Avenueearly this morning. Fire Chief Boyd Carter said a call camein at 1:37 a.m. abouta fire burning out of control at the business. Two pumper trucks and nine men, under batallion chief Dave Wheeler, weredispatched When firemen arrived, the warehouse-type building was engulfed in flames. It took nearly three hourstobring the blaze under control No injuries were reported Chief Carter said the exact cause of the fire still is unknown. Reaganfo Divulge Crime Plan at Salt Lake President Reagan is The task force report will form the basis of expected to announce a tough anti-crime program SALT LAKECITY (UPI) Reagan's anti-crime policy Quinn said during a meeting at the Hilton Hotel with local police chiefs advocating mandatory jail terms for convicted drug dealers during an international police chiefs conference in September, the head of ¢ lawmen's: organization said today. William Quinn. presidentof the International As sociation of Chiefs of Police. also said he expects a federal task force on violent crimeto complete the first phase of its study prior to the conference in from 45 states. “T can’t say for certain but I feel very sure that the president's programwill include something on the death penalty and mandatory jail sentences for drug offenders,” Quinn said. Hesaid he hopes the New Orleansconferencewill be a ‘truly international’ gathering so that partie vant = eo" ot ttn waysto curb world distribution of drugs and terrorism. ‘The organization is committedtoraising $1.5 million over the next two years to establish a center for the prevention of international crime. he said. Quinn said several multinational corporations have indicated they might help fund the center, and Motorola Corp, has already donated $15,000. 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