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Show o 0u Copyright Son Progress 1982 91st Year Wednesday, October Price, Carbon County, Utah No. 81 54 13, 1982 Pages Single Copy 25c Citizens put bite on crime Nosy neighbors can be a help rather than a hindrance in a new crime prevention program residents want to establish in the Sagewood area of Price. A special seminar on how to Neighborhood organize a Watch program was presented to a small group of Sagewood residents Thursday by Price City Police Lt. Aleck Shilaos and Officer Larry Penrod. With 150 invitations sent to Sagewood dwellers, only 10 were present for the presentation. However, Shilaos said the 10 participants were very interested in deterring crime all having been victims of crime themselves. The spiraling crime rate not only has the police concerned but growing numbers of interested civilians are seeking to protect themselves from becoming victims of crime, according to Shilaos. The Neighborhood Watch program is geared toward neighbors helping neighbors, he said. According to the Utah Council on Criminal Justice A- vandalism, dministration, burglary, assault and violent crimes have diminished by some 35 percent in the areas Watch Neighborhood programs are functioning in Utah. In 1981, there were 80,488 felony crimes reported in Utah. Shilaos said 920 were in Carbon County with 530 of that number (Continued on Page 3A) where nvnf-TflL- u: f . By SCOTT LLOYD Staff Writer Proposition 1 covers a lot of territory. In fact, that has been a common complaint expressed by supporters and opponents alike about the first of four proposed amendments to Utahs constitution which will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot. Besides allowing the state Legislature to reduce property taxes on residential property up percent of the propertys value, the proposed amendment to 45 would do the following : M, 0, fJL v - second hospital in Carbon County get their way, Castleview Hospital would get some competition ... If proponents of a h I 'f , rt . ; ... and the old Carbon Hospital would open its doors once again, providing health care facility. residents with a full-fledge- d By ANGIE HYRE Staff Writer Another round in the continuing battle to open a second hospital in Carbon County will be waged at a public hearing next week. The Utah Health Systems Agency (HSA) will conduct the hearing at 7 p.m. Oct. 21 at Price City Hall. The meeting has been scheduled to invite public comment on the possibility of reopening the old Carbon Hospital. Robert Etzel, director of the Hospital Reactivation Corp., said the citizens group seeks approval to establish a d 26-be- inpatient facility providing 1: Do Eliminate the 75 percent limitation on the amount of funding the state may provide to the minimum school program and allow the state to contribute as needed. Permit the Legislature to place a tax on publicly-owne- d properties located outside the boundaries of the governmental entities owning the properties. Allow county governments to share revenues with cities within those counties. Allow greater flexibility to the Legislature in determining how livestock are to be taxed. Provide for consistent application of exemptions for property used exclusively for religious, charitable and educational purposes. Remove the $3,000 limitation on property tax exemptions for disabled veterans and their dependents. Allow tax exemption of pathology, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, black lung clinic, intensive care and speech a an emergency room facility. An estimated $6.3 million will be needed to open the doors of the hospital. Etzel said this figure was arrived at after a study of the building was made by architects and engineers with many years of hospital experience. full-fledg- ed However, taxpayers of southeastern Utah need not worry about footing the bill for a second hospital, according to Etzel. He said the multimillion dollar project will not require any local money. The importance of this public hearing can not be over stressed, Etzel said. The fate of competitive hospital care locally in southeastern Utah will be decided forever. The fundamental choice is yours, he added. Do you want to entrust your choice of medical service to one hospital here or travel great distances to seek quality, care at another hospital, with the additional loss of income, travel expenses and time away from home? Etzel emphasizes another plus in the reopening of the old hospital. He said the project will initially create more than 100 ve new jobs for Carbon County residents. Etzel declined comment on the funding resources sought in the project, but St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City has been involved with the corporation since it began investigating the possibility of reopening the hospital. St. Marks paid a $2,000 retainer fee to have the old hospital building appraised. Were continuing to help the Carbon Hospital Reactivation Corp., said St. Marks Hospital Administrator Tom Hartford. We will have staff present at the hearing but it is too early to good parts outweigh bad? property to the extent that property is used for irrigation purposes. (The property would no longer have to be used 100 percent for irrigation.) In an informational packet, the Utah Constitutional Revision Commission said all the provisions were packed into one comprehensive proposal because they are highly interThere is a common related. philosophical thread running throughout the entire amendment that of providing needed flexibility and clarification to deal with the complicated tax area, they wrote. There are too many things in it, countered state Sen. Omar B. Bunnell of Carbon County, a supporter of the proposition. If there are 10 things in it and one person is against each one, you pick up 10 opponents right off the bat. A group called Citizens to By SCOTT LLOYD Staff Writer Jobs for Americans seems to be shaping up as the major issue in the race for Utahs new Third Congressional District, which and Carbon encompasses counties. Emery Both Henry Hank the independent but Huish, would-b- e Democratic candidate, Howard C. Nielson, and the Republican contender, see full employment as an important goal. But the means by which they would achieve it differ. Huishs approach is born of his experience as general superintendent at U.S. Steels Geneva Works, a position from which he retired last year. We must put America back to work, he said. We must provide the private sector with the incentives and the fair marketplace to put the American worker back on the Campaign 82 job and restore our economy to the level that will generate the revenues to finance essential government services. The best way to achieve that goal, according to Huish, is to roll back the increase in foreign imports. The people of Utah should tell Washington loudly and clearly that our government must be concerned first and foremost with American jobs and American business and not international politics, he said. He calls for a partnership between business, labor, the to consumer and government achieve employment, solvency of Utah businesses and a perpetuation of Americas standard of living. help tell if we will run or operate tne hospital. According to Randy Baker, review specialist for the HSA, part of the decision process by the state to grant a certificate of need is that the public have input into the decision-makin- g process. Baker said anything that comes out of the meeting will be communicated to the Utah Health Project Review Advisory Committee, a joint committee of the Utah HSA and State Health Planning Save Utah Jobs, a coalition of businesses formed to fight the proposition, said the bad elements outweigh the good, so the entire proposition should be rejected. (The coalition includes the Utah Coal Operators Association, Utah Mining Association, Utah Railroad Association and Utah Tax- payers Association.) Although the coalition has keyed its criticism on the residential property exemption, they also object to other aspects of the proposition. In a published leaflet, they say the provision regarding state school funding could comlocal diminish greatly of school control munity operations and place it with the state. The revision commission said some local districts receive nearly all of their school funding from the state, while others receive no contribution. There is no evidence to suggest that those districts receiving large portions of their funding from the state operate with any less autonomy than other districts, they added. They said removing the limitation would allow for property tax reductions without unintended impacts on education. Nielsons attitude toward the issue reflects his fiscal conservatism fostered during four terms in the Utah Legislature, part of the time as majority leader and speaker of the Nielson said, Like his getting business the into power! (Continued on Page 2A) iV',uzdrJio:jderti The days of the old West were relived this weekend a$ enthusiasts from all ovef Utah gathered for the Bookcliff that got us in this mess in the first place, he said. Im not Huish counters: Im pro-Uta- h, anti-Reaga- n. and the (Continued on Page 2A) opponent, We must never President Reagans recovery plan. He said the solution involves significant cuts in taxes and government spending. The sad thing about all this is that critics of President Reagan are in no position to say what they would do differently except return us to the policies i:r '.Kimphfat The 1982 Utah Voter Information Pamphlet is included in todays Sun Advocate. The guide contains an impartial analysis and explanation of four proposed constitutional amendments that will face Utah voters on Nov. 2. Utah support to economic Muzzleloaders shooting competition. See page IB. 30-pa- Nielson gives almost unqualified INSIDE: and owning power his fellow region, George Superintendent forget he has the backing of the very party that put us in this horrible economic quagmire and took our jobs away from us in the first place. Republicans, Utah according to Baker. He said enough volume of business for a second hospital must be shown, all projections of the certificate of need application must be agreed to be reasonable and how well the project is accepted in the community will determine if the doors will be reopened. Behunin of the Carbon County School District said the state is near the 75 percent limitation now on the uniform school fund. If the costs increase, local school districts would have to make up the difference, he said. Bunnell said the measure regarding publically owned property is necessary because a number of municipalities are! House. Concerning and Development Agency. Several factors will be instrumental in determining the need for a second hospital in the southeastern Employment key issue in Third District race Editor's note: This is the second in a series of profiles of the major races on which Carbon County citizens will be voting in the Nov. 2 general election. "V o Hearing may decide hospital fate Proposition Editors note: This is the second part of a series examining each of the four propositions for amending Utahs constitution which will appear on the Nov. 2 general election ballot. The first part of the series dealt with the residential property exemption element of Proposition 1. This part concerns further elements of the proposition. . As Howard C. 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