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Show + eeee ews Tonight, it’s all about the flame| srorrs Daily FEBRUARY10, 2006 www.heraldextra.com Hevald wk UTAH VALLEY’ EDITION 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN: YOUR NEIGHBORS ‘ YOUR NEWSPAPER 2006 LEGISLATURE Mad cow disease death in Utah: Analys State surplus much lower Eureka Alan Choate DAILY HERALD. A $100 million tax cut would leave Utah lawmakerswithjust $92 million in the surplus to fund new and expanded state programs — about 25 percent of what’s been requested for state priorities, according to an analysis released Thursday. Furthermore,the larger $230 million tax cut advocated by GOP membersof the House of Representatives wouldlead to a $38 million deficit even beforeitems suchas raise for state employees or new Medicaid costs are considered. That's because nearly $400 million of the surplus could be takenup byroadprojects, growth in the base budgetandincreases in health insurance,retirement and other personnelcosts. The analysis was released by the Senate Republican caucus, which backs the smaller tax cut. Much has been made of the opentutiies ffor the state this year, when a strong economy crear to generatea surplus of as esas$$ That huge number comes with some significant caveats, however,andthe state also has a long list of expensive needs. The surplus is divided into two categories: “one-time” money and “ongoing” funds. Ongoing moneyis expected to recur from year to. year, while one-time funds have accrued but areBneot likely to reoccur. ey The ongoiingsisurplus is esti Budget analysis SURPLUS LEFT: a $23 .uillion in ie General Fund and mj on in the Education Fund, a total of sor76 mi. n. ae, The Senate analysis firstbbadkedout costes for expected education and th and human services growth, as well as state employ- widow looks for answers Estimated ongoing surplus: $577.6 million a sUBrnACT: Growth in base budgets: $98.4 million Increasein health insurance,retirement, etc.: $87.3 million $3919million PROPOSED CUTS AND EXPENDITURES Senate House Fat any Roads $200 million $200 milion Tax cuts $100 million $230 million oe LEFT OVER. $91.9 million -$38 million See SURPLUS, AS Heidi Toth A Eureka manhadtheonly confirmed caseof Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, commonly known asthe human form of mad cowdisease, in Utah last year. Max Sorensendied on Dec.30 at age 62,just five weeksafter doctorsat the University of Utah diagnosed him with the degenerative brain disorder. He was autopsied and quickly buried in a sealed metal casket, without being embalmed becauseofthe risk it would present. The worstpart of the devastating ordealfor his wife, Julie Sorensen,is the uncertainty. She said she's not sure when hegotthe disease or how he gotit, and she's not getting much help from the doctors, because they don't know much more. “I don't think they have anyidea,” she said. “They knowso verylittle aboutit they really can't give us any definite answers.” CJD is most commonly known as the human form of mad cow disease, but most of the cases are unrelated to the bovine disease. The diseaseis rare; aboutonein a million people worldwide haveit. Most have the sporadic type; they have no known risk factors but got it anyway. It’s not contagious except through contact with an infected brain,spinalfluid or nervous tissue. Sorensen’s death wasthe first case in Utah in the past few years. The state average is about two deathsa year, said Dr. Susan Mottice, an See MAD COW, A8 White House details 141 programsto cut, eliminate Andrew Taylor ; Charles Bascom stands on the auction block during the play “Echoes of American Slavery.”“It’s a story that must be told, andit will affect your life,” ‘ said Producer Adam Slee. The play opened Thursday night at UVSC’s Ragan Theatre as part of Black History Month and runs through Saturday.Thescript for the production camedirectly from transcriptions of more than 2,300 interviews and 500 photographs from the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writer's Project compiled in 1936 and 1938, archived at the Library f of Congress. Slee, 24,a UVSC theater major andjunior from Kittanning, Pa., came across the collection while conducting personal research on American history. Tomb found in Egypt First discoveredin Valley of the Kings since 1922 Grants for safe and drug-free schools, vocational education and reading programsforjailed young people are among 141 federal programsPresident Bushwants to eliminateorcutsignificantly Bush has proposed axing most of them before, only to see Congress save them. The Office of Management and Budgetreleased the newlist Thursay. Manyof the programs proposed forelimination have an emotionalpull,like one providing $107 million for food for the elderly poor. Others are pretty arcane,like one giving the Postal Service $29 million to payit back for the generous subsidies it once provided to nonprofit mailers. And how many Americans know thereis a $9 million “Exchanges With Historic Whaling and | Trading Partners” program, which gives money to museums, aquariumsandheritage centers in Alaska, Hawaii and Massachusetts? Killing or cutting these and scores more would See BUDGET, A& Lee Keath THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS CAIRO, Egypt — The first tomb to be discovered in the Valley of the Kingssince King Tut's in 1922 find but has seen photographs of the site. “It could the tomb of a king's wife orson, or of a priest or _court official,” he told The Associated Press on Thursday. So far, authorities haven't had | | contains five sarcophagi with a close | mummies, breaking the nearly cenbelief that there's nothing more to find in the valley where some of Egypt's greatest pharaohs were buried. The tomb’s spare appearance ests it was not dug for a phasaid U.S.archaeologist Kent Weeks, who was not involved in the University of Memphis team’s is in the tomb. Workers have been clearing rubble toallow archaeologists to examine it. Egypt's mattoaes authority has said that, the sing] rr tomb contains five wooden sarcophagi, in human shapes with colored funerary masks, surrounded by | h look to know who | | | Supreme Council of Antiquities This image shows sarcophagi and pharaonicjars discovered in a new tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, outside Luxor. American archaeologists have uncovered thefirst tomb there since King See EGYPT, A4 Tutankhamun'sin 1922, Egypt's antiquities chief announced. é INSIDE Sumy 9‘ ; but chilly somo owas GE OURTOWNS 1 sie UFE & STYLE BUSINESS HOROSCOPE OBITUARIES OPINIONS WEATHER 8 06 BS 4 AG a WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM — CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE i Tay OAen PONTIAC« ale Cadillac CTS aay iY TEAL ‘065 Cadillac STS a eA ek *in Provo CLEP SEDSS. COMEek) ima Sareea anna |