Show 2B The Salt Lake Tribune Sundav June 26 1988 becoming more of a contradiction of terms than ever before? For exam- Mark Hofmann (remember - ple him?) blew up a couple of people but didn't have to pay the proper price for such acts while William Andrews who didn't kill anybody will Then there is Newt "The Brute' s As the story goes he and liis Es-te- I v- - - Tom Barberi 1 wife were watching TV one night and saw and heard things that outraged their sensibilities They even got out paper and pencil to write down some t of the stuff lest they couldn't retain it all "Filth and pornography" they cried and placed the blame squarely on the black-robeshoulders of the Supreme Court To demonstrate their outrage Newt attacked Justice Byron White while he was visiting our "pretty great state" r Newt did a few days in the slam-"me- r and had to write "I will not punch a Supreme Court justice" several times Being a man of his word when he got out he turned his atten-- r (ion to little girls and showed them dirty pictures because as he so logi- cally put it "The Supreme Court said anything goes" Then we have Commissioner Dave (I won't go and you can't make me) Watson who after pleading guilty to DUI and possession gets a fine and a couple of days picking up empty beer cans from the side of the road or some such community service but does no time and keeps his job Meanwhile we have people who have been overcharging and ripping off the state at the Timpanogos Mental Health Clinic in Utah County and what do they do? They rehire one of the individuals involved at an even higher rate than before ' Then there is ol' 5386125 or Har- : : old Jones insurance-salesman-turned-convi- because he stacked his firewood improperly Harold is a staunch individualist who isn't about to be bullied by the system and when he was served with a notice of his illegal woodpile he promptly ignored it Apparently there is an ordinance on the books that mandates your firewood has to be piled or stacked at 18 inches off the Yeah I didn't know this yround either Well Harold felt that he was being singled out and made an the urn M m©B v V full-tim- 24-ho- ) "They also have less than half as many active treatment patients in their caseload" They also have 50 percent more day treatment hours than any center meaning patients are being held there too long rather than being moved through the system he said "We hope to turn patients quicker through the system and do it on less money with the changes" he continued A major difficulty in the past fit ME JZZZmSZfJtmm Continued from B-- l ey" The latter referred to the governor's proposal to rebate income-ta- x surplus "When you get voodoo economics from the White House and yo-y- o economics from the Statehouse there's no wonder so many Utahns are going to the poor house" Mr Wilson exclaimed For his own agenda the Democrat said he plans to improve fiscal management repair Utah's tarnished outside image decentralize economic development and seek a fiscally responsible bonding program "But most of ali I will restore confidence in Utah by being a governor who has energy confidence and the ability to make clear crisp and decisive public policy" "I long to give up the notion of 'stack 'em deep and school 'em cheap' and replace it with good pay for teachers and quality education I want to pay public employees what they are worth I will assure that Utah workers are paid what they are worth and not by how many minimum-wage jobs can be created at Mr Wilson said Other convention results awarded Pat Shea the national committeeman post for the party and Louise Henson the national committeewoman posi- - W1 ter couldn't meet community needs the report said The new budget includes three decentralized outpatient units in Provo Park City and Heber City The Utah County unit would have a children's team for seriously disturbed children and adolescents an adult team for individ to serious psychiatric conditions and a chronic care team for the "severely and persistently psychiatrically The management team will ask the three counties to increase their share of funding by five per cent each over this year's budget the report says Team members also anticipate increasing private patient fees by 34 percent because low-eTimp's fees were among the in Utah However payment will still be based upon a sliding fee scale Third-partinsurance collections are expected to increase 184 percent because of increased outpatient and inpatient services and the team also assumes they will receive state funding based upon a $768 per capita ratio for the disabled" Summit and Wasatch county teams would use teams consisting of a psychologist social worker psychiatrist nurse and licensed y The new professional MV ham st clinical staff will include 4 physicians compared to 175 this year Timp also will hire 1505 psychologists compared to 6 now 2625 social workers with masters degrees compared to 95 and 725 registered nurses compared to 2 The lower budget is primarily due to the loss of the adult corrections unit closing the acute residential unit and closing a youth program in Clearfield The inpatient unit will provide the most intensive care at a locally accredited hospital that hasn't y three-count- been selected yet "In this contracted facility acute care and crisis stabilization are performed in a combination of locked ward secure beds and open ward beds" the report states "An important integrated tion A former state chairman Mr Shea is head of Utah campaign for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis He carried 878 votes to defeat former US Sen Moss 513 votes and state Sen Eldon Money 305 votes Mrs Henson a longtime Davis County partisan volunteer was described as the "mother hen" of the party by her nominator former Gov Scott M Matheson She garnered 1258 votes to defeat DeAnne Hanson 412 votes In legislative balloting Sen Omar was nominated by Bunnell acclamation with the withdrawal of opponent Art Martines in Senate District 27 covering southeast Utah counties Charles Gray carried 88 percent of the vote against JT Snyder to win nomination in Utah House District 56 covering Uintah and Daggett counties Elected as delegates to the Democratic National Convention July 18 in Atlanta were Palmer DePaulis Art Monson Ella Westley Bonnie Kilgannon Marvin Davis Beverly White Lynette Grow Mike Lyons George Stavros Jill Remington Jeanne DePaulis Scott M Matheson Pat Shea Ruby Hammell Karen Mayne Lucille Taylor Scott Johan- - Scottish bagpipe band the lapsed into a brogue and declared: "They accuse me of being a big spender but did you ever see a Scotsman throw a nickel away" "Our cup is full" Rep Owens told delegates "There's victory in the sen Mike Dmitrich Janet Rose Ann Wise Betty Condie Nick Flores and Pete Suazo Rep Wayne Owens of Salt Lake County's 2nd Congressional District and former five-terCongressman Gunn McKay in the northern-dominate1st Congressional District were unopposed for nomination Mr McKay characterized his foe Republican Rep James V Hansen as providing passive representation "not positive leadership that cares about people" And after being "piped" into the convention hall by a air" d Brian Moss with a florid booming speaking style brought delegates to attention when he declared: "We need decent jobs not unemployment lines We need real economic development not just press releases We need education not closed schools We need honesty in government not excuses" Utalin Drowns in Deer Creek Reservoir Salt Lake City man apparently drowned in Deer Creek Reservoir Saturday afternoon authorities said A Wasatch County Sheriff Edd Thacker said the victim was fishing in a boat near Charleston Bridge with his wife and four children when they were unable to pull in the anchor The victim dove into the water to retrieve it The sheriff said the family thought the victim looked like he was in trou in-la- ble so they threw a buoyant cushion into the water for him but he never resurfaced Deputies county search and rescue and state park officers were called to the scene at 3:15 pm and retrieved the body two hours later from about 6 feet of water in heavy growth near the bottom said the sheriff The man's name was not immediately released - ' population of y 279900 "As a management team it is our philosophy that any budget is a work plan where priorities and directions are set" the report begins "It has been our attempt to suggest that the priorities of Timpanogos Community Mental Health Center should be the deliv-er- y of services first and foremost to the most seriously mentally ill and that those services should be readily available along a fully developed continuum of care" OF SPRING AND - is crisis INDUSTRY ' nil 40-ho- part of the inpatient unit services" uals with moderate Wilson Out Front as Demos Grab His Coattails W V has been "the proliferation of multiple contracts with staff and difficulty in the monitoring of staff performance" the report states Timp had 93 staffers working on a contract basis this year including 78 with multiple contracts They had just 47 salaried staff positions and 41 of those people had additional contracts The new budget calls for 1285 salaried staffers who will be limited to a work week Timp will contract with eight people as group home parents The education staff will be comemployprised of school-distriees rather than contracting with Timp The inpatient staff will be hospital employees and bids will be let for custodial and maintenance services A lack of outpatient mental health services has meant the cen- 'I If ' " professional said health H- i ' Continued From B-- l satch County services will grow 305 percent going from 600 to 2430 hours e A crisis coordinator crisis will be hired and service will be available under the proposal Both residential and day treatment programs lacked required active treatment services the proposal indicates Both will be restructured to provide active treatment and facilitate the movement of patients to the least restrictive treatment environment possible "Timp admits less than half as many patients as any other urban mental health center" one mental-- six-pac- k d : Timp Health Center to Cut Budget Boost Staff example of and because of his refusal to restack his woodpile wound up in the slammer for two days The ordinance has to do with rodent control but putting Harold in I jail seems a little excessive must admit I didn't feel any safer in my home knowing that this illegal wood stacker was behind bars while other courts turn loose on the streets people who wouldn't blink an eye about hitting me over the head with a brick and taking my wallet The message seems clear: Go ahead and blow people up drink and drive do drugs assault judges and molest little girls but don't let the sun go down with your woodpile stacked wrong because we don't take kindly to that It s STUFF AND THINGS June 26 and David Wilkinson is still "Look up the attorney general in the sky it's a bird it's a plane it's Sheriff Pete Hayward's whirlybird The the "Blue Light Special" county OK'd the purchase of two surplus choppers at a cost of $1000 No that isn't a misprint — each they were going for only a grand so we bought two of them — one to fly I and the other for spare parts only hope that they don't get them mixed up and try to fly the wrong one Considering the price they should have bought a They didn't cost anymore than the commissioners' chair and the taxpayers will probably get a lot more use out of them then we got out of the commission Speaking of the military the best line of the week has to come out of the National Guard exercises that took place this past week in Utah Speaking of the field rations used by today's Army it was mentioned that they are now called MREs (Meal Ready to Eat) but those who have tried refer to them as "Meals Rejected by Ethiopia" Personal message to the Guv: The It seems key is under the mat that he got locked out of the governor's mansion a week ago Friday Strange definition of ethics from BYU: In the case of former Gov Ev Mecham if you've been accused of hiding campaign money but not convicted you're not welcome but if you have been convicted of obstructing justice and misusing state money and been run out of office then come on in and make yourself at home Parents you can relax and not worry about your children on Saturday morning watching Mighty Mouse I have it on firsthand authority that Mighty never has snorted cocaine Contrary to charges from Rev Donald Wildman executive director of the American Family Association I tried to talk with the Rev I did but he refused an interview talk with Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse producer and he assured me that Mighty Mouse has never been to the Betty Ford Center CIAO! 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