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Show UTAH 467 PRESS ASSOC. E. 300 SO. I J. SALT LAKE m A A Saaff. UT hr 84111 4. C ' l Single Copy IE 25 t 0 New Member Named, KID Tax Poll Worries GSD Board Board Elects KEARNS. The Board of Trustees of the Kearns District has Improvement reorganized by appointing a new member and electing new officers. Royce Gibson has been elected to serve as chairman of the board. Mr. 'Gibson has served as a trustee for 'two years. He is a resident of Kearns and is the owner of Gibson Painting and life-lon- ' by Ralph H. Goff Green Sheet Staff Writer GRANITE PARK. "When it comes down to November and the election, it will come down to -- who can they credibility believe?" pollster Dan Jones told members of the Granite Board of Education here Tuesday. Jones made his comments during a study session in which the board probed impacts of the three tax initiatives on the November ballot. a recent poll Analyzing concerning the three measures, Jones told them "if the election were held today, the tax initiatives would pass. There has been some movement (in the numbers of people voicing support or opposition to the initiatives), but not as much as we had g Decorating. George Sadowski will serve as the board vice chairman. Mr. Sadowski will also continue to serve as the Kearns Improvement District representative on the Central Valley Water Reclamation Board. As a new member of the Board, Michael C. Cannon, was elected board clerk. Mr. Cannon was appointed to finish the unexpired term of Donald Russell. Mr. Cannon is a writer and photographer in the Church News Dept, of The Deseret News. He was formerly editor of the anticipated. Part of the reason, he said, is "the public doesnt understand how education is funded - where their property taxes go. They feel education can find sources of Intermountain Contractor. -- Two Are Named To CofC Board income somewhere else." He warned the board, however, "I dont think you can defeat the initiatives making threats. Just give them the facts. Jones pointed out "education is the number one issue in this state, but people are not willing to pay for it. They see a lot of fat at the top assistant principals and counselors as well as administrators. Most of them dont even know what an assistant principal Connie Haughn, marketing director for Utah Pizza Service Inc., the Utah franchise for Little Caesars WEST VALLEY. Pizza, and David DeLaMare, manager of Continental Bank in Kearns will serve as new members of the West Valley Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Haughn started her career in Utah as general manager for Rax Restaurants located in Sandy and West Jordan in 1984. In 1985 she was hired as marketing manager and for Utah Pizza Service became marketing director, in 1986. DeLaMare is a graduate of LDS Business College and Southern Utah State College in business administration. He has been with Continental Bank for six years, becoming bank manager for the Kearns branch in 1986. Annexation On Murray Docket - Those Dog Days Of August PUPPY LOVE ... he tan said that "only mad dog and Englishmen go out In the noonday sun," but Chris Paterson and his young friends proved the old saw incorrect when they recently chose a shady It night. Holding Park Murray Amphitheater, where fair officials said it would be held "from now on, the pageant proved to be a big success. A former Miss South Salt Lake, Jennifer Sanders, topped the field of 12, who competed in interview, street wear, evening gown and talent. Miss Sanders was a finalist in the recent Miss Utah pageant and was announced as the winner of the evening gown and talent competition. She said "Wind Beneath My Wings" and appeared in an exquisite white gown. The new County Fair the pageant in the MURRAY. The Murray Planning Commission reached a impasse on annexing a portion of Bennion Aug. 4, but that same area will be studied again tonight this time to eye (Thursday) master and zoning plan recommendations. decision The on ultimate whether the city will pursue annexation rests with the City Council, but Planning Commission input is traditionally sought on zoning issues. The proposed annexation is bounded by on the north, Redwood Road on the west, the West Jordan city limit on the south Murrays current western boundary at the North Jordan Canal on the east. The Planning Commission will meet tonight in the Council Chambers at Murray City Hall, 5025 So. State. The meeting will 3-- 3 - begin of the "Dog Days" of Me summer. Royalty Reigns Over Fair MURRAY. A sparkling beauty pageant in a new setting produced a new Salt Lake County Fair Sweetheart and drew a considerable crowd here Tuesday Sweetheart is a graduate of Highland high and attends BYU. She will now compete in the State Fair queen contest and the winner of that affair will in turn compete for the Miss Utah crown. is a former Miss First runner-uSandy, Wendy Burch. Also a student at BYU, she performed a dance routine to music from West Side Story. A piano solo was performed by second runner-up- , Tammy Bell, of Bluffdale. The trio will reign over the remainder of the fair, which continues through Saturday. They will also represent the county fair next summer in parades and other events. Professional entertainment will be in the limelight tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow. Shows at 8 p.m. will feature hypnotist vocalist Martha VanderMeide, Chavez and the Kismet Belly Dancers. The Farm Bureau Talent Find will be conducted Saturday night. In addition, animal displays and competition continues and the largest art competition in fair history is displayed in the Fine Arts Building. There is no admission charge to County Fair events and a fireworks display concludes each evenings events. p 4-- H at 6:30 p.m. Burch Sanders Bell Council To Call For Master Plan On Hercules Land At Session Tonight movement. "When they get into that little booth (in November), they each only have one vote he points out. But the media - both electronic have done little to and print help TLCs cause, Crenshaw says. "The two daily newspapers in as representatives of the people, but all theyre doing is worldng hard to make Utah safe for the Cren- Fifth in a series "When the LAKE. SALT opposition tells you that if the initiatives pass, the blind and elderly will be turned out into the streets and kindergartens will be closed, do you really believe them?" Mills Crenshaw asks. Crenshaw, the afternoon radio talk show host who has become sole the public virtually spokesman for the three tax initiatives which will appear on the November ballot, is one of the founders of the Tax Limitation Coalition (TLC) which spearheaded the recent petition drive to put the measures to the vote of the people. Crenshaw apparently has little respect for those who oppose the tax limitation movement. "People with their snout in the public - whove trough for decades retired on fat, cushy consulting jobs are presenting themselves -- - government bureaucracy," shaw asserts. "In my opinion, they dont care one whit about the -- - creation resolution to start a master plan. At its Tuesday study session, an abbreviated version of the city council was told the project will take about six months and during that time a consortium of companies going by the acronyms passes people." dubbed Taxpayers for Utah both the "Big Guns Committee" and "The Millionaires Club" by Crenshaw and the TLC - predicts that if the tax initiatives pass in November there will be severe reductions in services in public education, education, higher social and health services and many other areas of government. The results, that group claims, will be "catastrophic." "The people are getting fed up," Crenshaw claims. "Apparently politicians feel welfare programs more are bureaucrats for important than the will of the people. Were going to stop them dead in their tracks." He is not worried, however, about current and former Utah politicians and other influential people who have joined those the tax limitationopposing In SOVIETS : Some insights on the status of women and family life in the Soviet Union are given as Ralph Goff continues his series of articles based k on interviews with the Russian INF spectors. See Section SPORTS: the three tax limitation petitions were drafted to: 1) limit property taxes and place both on state restrictions government appropriations and local government taxing authori- Disaster Or Salvation? essence, I A in- B. young Brighton team took Taylorsville to the limit, but it was the defending champs ' who emerged with the trophy as American Legion play wound up. See Green Sheet Sports. ties, 2) reduce rates of state income, sales, gasoline and cigarette taxes to 1986 levels, and 3) grant tax credits to parents who enroll children in private schools. High taxes, it is asserted, are the primary cause of Utahs current economic woes. If these three intitiatives are passed, TLC i STAGE Milius had : The Green Sheets Olga a busy weekend as major theatrical productions opened at Hale Center Theatre and City Rep. Read her reviews on Page B-1. Continued on page 3 - identification cards, an ordinance for the payment of constable services and will repeal an ordinance setting standards for child Council care services. members are also expected to a resolution urging approve Hercules to take a West Valley City mailing address, appoint a planning commission liasion to the citys board of adjustment and ratify appointments to the citys cultural arts program. Inside TLC-sponsor- The Tussle Over Taxes: R-l-- MBG & A, EDAW & ERA will develop a master plan and a marketing concept for the city. While no official name exists for the parcels of land, city officials have called it the "Hercules Hill" area, and also the West Ridge and have Commerce Park, previously discussed the possibility of building a golf course in the area, as well as establishing a manufacturing park. At the 6 p.m. council session tonight, will also council members here." -- a development of this valley and virtually all the television and radio stations in the state have merely mouthed the words that the Big Guns have told them to say," he claims. "We Radio) have been only one voice in this valley, but through the major sacrifices of a lot of little people, were going to change the way things are done (K-Tal- consider an ordinance for a change in the citys master plan on about 50 acres of property at 3500 So. 4800 West. Public input will be welcome. John Paras wants the city to approve two major changes to the master plan - changing one parcel from low density residential to commercial, and another from Agricultural to commercial (C-2- ) 8 to residential (residential, homes, 8,000 single family square-foo- t lots). The council will also adopt an ordinance outlining procedures for obtaining police CITY. The VALLEY 1,600-acr- e of a development on property the city purchasedannexed from Hercules Inc. last year will take a step forward tonight when the council WEST Tax Impacts: Who Do You Really Believe? by Ralph H. Goff Green Sheet Staff Writer or counselor does." Board member Lynn Davidson, asking how the board could turn around the public perception Continued on page 3 spot in which to conduct thalr "bualneaa." This "suburban paatonT scant caught our photographers eye and seems to be in keeping with the arrival ( |