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Show y -- y Owens, Bangerter Clash Over Stands on Taxes By Dan Bates Tribune Staff Writer The subject was taxes, and Utahs two major candidates for governor Friday had plenty to say regarding campaign pledges of late. Both stood firm in promising to neither raise nor reduce them, but they accused each other of slipping a little grandstanu.ng into their recent rhetoric on tax issues. Otherwise, it amounted to a luncheon talk before members of the Utah Taxpayers Asinterest sociation, a business-secto- r Democrat Wayne Owens referred to his opponents commitment to spare the state from any tax Increase in the next two years irresponsible and electioneering. He added, I feel very strongly that you simply can't say'" Republican Norman H. Bangerter countered that Mr. Owenss plan to phase out property taxes linked to public school funding puts you in the same ball game of electioneering From there, the two nominees alluding to being friends, like they have throughout the campaign largely exchanged attitudes on taxation. provements in Utah's education system, those tax rates now in place cannot be lowered anytime soon. He reiterated his proposal to use half of the budget surplus to replenish textbooks and other instructional materials, a prudent use of essentially one- time money that continuing programs should not count on. "There are only two ways you find money." the Republican said. "You either tax for it or it comes from a growing economy." He then made a pitch for reforms "to get the most out of the money. Mr. Owens said his plan to abolish the states school fund levy would initially contain a "break" next year for residential and business property owners. His intent is to use $32 million of the budget surplus in led his promMr. Bangerter d ise to seek no tr axes during the first two years of ms administration. Given the states budget surplus potential of up to $130 million next year, he said, I dont think thats going out very far. He added that, given needs for im ls85 to dismiss 4 nulls of the levy, then resort to modifications in other tax sources to erase the rest. The Democrat even claimed State Sen Warren E. Pugh. Lake, as an ally, though perhaps to the senators surprise. Mr. Owens said the Senate's appropriations chairman urged a shift from dependence on the property tax during a legislative interim taxation committee this week. lt In reponse, Mr. Bangerter, speaker of the Utah House, said the Legisla- ture had initiated that concept when it reduced the school fund levy by 6 mills four years ago. ll dont have any problem with moving in that direction, he said. But he said Mr. Owens has yet to say how he would replace some $170 mil "I lion in annual revenue that the levy currently generates. Mr. Owens said Utah is on an economic roll like weve never seen before," a circumstance that accommodates a perspective that both candidates take but also one that should permit some necessary spending increases. He detailed his desire to "invest" surplus revenues and new money drawn from "built-in- " tax sources in Utah's economy for upgrading education and the state's economic development and tourism promotional efforts. He warned that the state was "not paying the market price for teachers and professors" and that salary boosts were a crucial part of ensuring a productive education system. Halt fake tribune Local News TV Weather Page Fare, B-- 5 Saturday Morning, October 20, 1984 Section B Page 1 UP&L Repairs Most Lines Felled by Storm By Jim Woolf Tribune Staff Writer Furnaces clicked on and Salt Lake County residents began to thaw out Friday as crews from Utah Power & Light Co. repaired most of the power lines damaged by Thursdays snowstorm. "Yesterday Thursday we had islands where the power was on. Today we have islands where the power is off, so were making progress, said record-breakin- John Serfustini, g spokesman for UP&L. The storm, which dropped 18.4 inches of snow at the Salt'Lake City Trtburte Stott Photo by Tim Kelly in a Salt Lake City- Richard Walkenhorst and crew were busy Friday, and will be for a couple of i I weeks to come, removing branches w hich snapped off dreds of trees mangled by Thursdays heavy snowstorm. hun-clean- UP&L Linemen Exhausted , Yet iGiggly By Conrad Walters Tribune Staff Writer Utah Power & Light lineman Jerry Wheeler said that after long shifts of working to restore snowstorm-crippled electricity service, you get giggly He delivers it with a smile and a yawn. But the grin evolves into a giggling session that is stopped only with determined effort. It's Friday afternoon and hes been working since 1 a.m. Wednesday. n Mr. Wheeler and the other members of the crew have entered what some call the Gumby Stage of exhaustion which arrives after a second wind of energy. They have been restoring service to a Rose Park neighborhood hit by the city's record-breakin- g snowstorm. Their area runs from 900 to 1100 West and from 1000 North to North Temple, said Dennis Wiedbusch, crew supervisor. They have lost track of how many jobs there have been. Some last an hour, others take as much as five and six hours. six-ma- Their story is one of many. UP&L spokesman John Serfustini said 500 workers from Rexburg, Idaho, to Delta, Millard County, are working across the county trying to answer some 10.000 complaints which had been received by 6 p.m. Thursday. Mr. Serfustini said UP&L has estimated the cost to the company at a half million dollars. He described the calcuation of wage and material costs as conservative. Answering some of those calls, Mr. Wiedbusch's crew has encountered live wires and one irate neighbor. For the most part, however, customers have been friendly to crews, said lineman Kent Schlehuber. They received a warm reception from a woman living on Chicago Street whose husband had to be moved when power stopped his dialysis machine. The appreciation of customers is one of the reasons linemen do the work, said Mr. Schlehuber. He said it is a human supplement to the wages employees are earning. Linemen say it takes more than money to do the work which usually coincides with the worst time-and-a-ha- lf Minority Groups Charge Puzzles State Officials By Dave Jonsson Tribune Staff Writer A charge that the State Purchasing Division hasnt aggressively sought to do business with companies owned by minorities and women Friday puzzled state officials. In an unsigned press release, the Governor's Hispanic Council criticized a recently-adoptepolicy providing that 15 percent of all purchasbid invitations go to ing The businesses. minoritywomen council said the figure does not ensure that minority Women businesses will be awarded (that percentage d of bids. And noting the council would be asking "hard questions" of guberna- torial candidates during the coming weeks, the press release charged ... Governor Matheson. your actions have not matched your rhetoric." State Purchasing Director Cathryn Collis said Friday the complaint gives her concern because the 15 percent figure was initiated by Gov. Matheson to "make certain minority women businesses get a chance to bid." It was felt the automatic sending of invitations to a large number of minority businesses would prove an advantage She said a system for producing bid invitations and analyzing contract awards shows only 6 3 percent of invitations could be addressed to minority 'women businesses, because applications on file from minority businesses only reach that level. The Hispanic Council asserted the policy "was supposed to adnress some serious concerns of the minority community and provide the kind tonomic inccntffe to minority d i businesses that would encourage investment in inventories and facilities. "The minority community asked for participation goals to be a part of the new policy and was told that the governor realized the needs for such goals. the statement said. "An invitation to bid does not ensure minority and women-owne- d businesses will be awarded the bids Without puchasing goals expressed in terms of budget dollars . . . inequities of the past cannot be corrected. Ms. Collis said the division couldn't consider implementation of a set See Page B-Column 4 weather. You work this many hours and the money isn't worth it, says Jerry Wheeler, one of those who stressed how pleasant customers have been. Most of their work is expected to be completed within the next few days, Mr. Wiedbusch said. Some work is being performed in a temporary manner so service can be restored as quickly as possible. Next week, he said, will be devoted to restoring street lights which have been ignored in favor of home service. But for now, the work entails battling leaves. Youve got to tear the world down to put the lines up, said linesman Wayne Calobeer. If the storm had occurred later, after most leaves had fallen, the job would be much simpler, he said. When utility crews finish the work for the rest of tae city, they will have one job left. It's not going on the deer hunt, as everyone in Mr. Wiedbusch's crew had planned on. When they finish the repair jobs, they can go home. Then we clean the messes in our own yards, said Mr. Wiedbusch. International Airport, temporarily cut electric service to 100,000 homes, according to new estimates from the .; power company. Mr. Serfustini estimated 2,000 to 2,500 customers will still be without power Saturday which is a substantial improvement over Thursday night when 20,000 were left in the dark. The full force of UfL crews by 8 p.m. Friday had logged 25,00 man hours and will continue working until service is restored &o all customers. Work was being hampered by fallen limbs in the remaining places where repairs are needed. UP&L is also maintaining a bank of 50 operators to assist people with questions about their power, advising people to get an electrical contractor if their power meter was torn away from their residence, or if there was damage to the interior wiring. Two emergency shelters which served 55 cold people Thursday night were shut down Friday as most of the electric service was restored. Officials from both the Salt Lake County Division of Aging and Red Cross remain ready to help anyone still experiencing problems from the storm. Carol Dunlap, spokesman for Mountain Bell, said Friday about 800 Salt Lake County residents were still without telephone service. The company hopes to have these problems resolved by Saturday. ' William J. Alder, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service's Salt Lake City office, said Thursdays storm set a new snowfall record for October. The previous record for the most snowfall in the entire month of October was 16.6 inches in 1977. This week's storm dropped 18.4 inches in just 18 hours bringing the monthly total to 18.8 inches. (The 18 4 inch storm total is a revised figure from the weather service which earlier put the snowfall at 18.6 inches). Mr. Alder said the October snowfall record should be extended even further this weekend as a series of small storm fronts move into the Salt Lake City area. Several inches in the valley locations wouldn't be too unlikely sometime Saturday or Sunday. There will be areas of heavy snow in the mountains, he said. Salt Lake City crews were working shifts Friday trying to put a dent into what is expected to be a month-lon- g chore of cleaning up the thousands of tree's mangled and mutilated by the storm. City officials estimate the cleanup of fallen and broken trees will cost several hundred thousand dollars. It's hard to estimate, but. our costs will be tremendous," said City Forester Ross Bagshaw. Some 10,000 trees on city property in parks, golf courses and alone were damaged, he parking strips said. Thousands of broken trees on private property will increase the citywide total. Some 150 city employees, divided into several crews, are focusing first on the worst trouble spots, especially where trees are blocking streets, sidewalks and driveways. Although the city has received thousands of requests to help remove trees on private property, crews won't be able to get them until city property is cleaned up. If residents don't mind doing their own clean-uthey can haul tree limbs to several city parking lots where the refuse will be disposed. Those locations are: Nibley Park Golf Course, 2700 S. 700 East; Derks Field, 1300 S. West Temple; Jordan Park, 1000 S. 900 West; Sherwood Park, 400 S. 1400 West; Sorenson Park, 1190 Indiana Ave.; and Rosewood Park. 1200 p, N. 1200 West. City crews will also pickup broken limbs placed in front of homes until Oct. 29. The wood should be stacked neatly in the parking strip. The county landfill will accept loads of broken limbs free of charge. Police Convention Tests Emergency Command Post By Rodd G. Wagner Tribune Staff Writer off-dut- One would hardly equate 8.000 police chiefs converging on Salt Lake City with a major disaster, but there is one similarity. The state's new -post 35-fo- Channel 5 for radio traffic between y offithe post and some 30 cers shuttling the first arrivals from airport to hotel. emergency-command- trailer was sum- moned into action for the first time Friday to organize many logistical hurdles before the police chiefs' arrival. Salt Lake City police set up a dispatcher in the Host Chief Command Post, parked between the Salt Palace and Symphony Hall, and cleared the department's Most of the chiefs coming to the 91st annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police will be flying in Saturday event. morning for the five-da- y But several hundred arrived Friday. keeping the special police channel filled with calls of, Chief is at terminal one and needs a ride downtown. One radioed in, "Do you have any more cherries?" And one chauffer called for a backup van when his car proved too small for a party of three plus one set of golf clubs (someone apparently hadn't heard about Thursdays weather). The trailer was purchased recently by the state to serve as an emergency communications center at the site of a major disaster. Salt Lake City police Lt. Alex Pahl said using it for the convention will test its usefulness. It also serves as a center for the fairly high security that usually surrounds IACP conventions. At past conventions, chiefs have had their lives threatened, there have been bomb threats and demonstrations, and once a chief was shot and said convention public information officer Bob Angrisani. But Mr. Angrsani said he expects no problems with this year's conference. Most demonstrations coincided with a U S. president's address to the chiefs, and Friday officials learned President Reagan will not be coming to address the police executives. "He'll be in Oregon and Washington where he is more needed for the campaign," said Teresa Clark, director of the Salt Lake City campaign office The White House did. however, prepare a videotaped message Column 5 See Page wounded, h B-- 2nd Congressional District Candidates Square Off By Charles Seldin Tribune Staff Writer Candidates for the 2nd Congressional District squared off in their ongoing schedule of debates Friday, needling one another on vulnerable issues of abortion and questionable both recurring business practices race bethemes of an tween Democrat Frances Farley and Republican David S. Monson. The forum, held before University of Utah law students, afforded neither candidate a chance to embrace issues in depth. Rather, it provided a sniper exchange that appeared to favor Mrs. Farley, according to audience response. Mr. Monson, however, was not without his moments, dwelling in particular on Mrs. Farley's abortion stance, one that the Republican said was not piresentative of Utahns. g Mrs. Farley, who broke from the availability of contraceptives was a "constitutional one, which has been strict speech format to aliow audia tact she often' addressed and upheld by the courts. ence participation found heruses to her advantage g self confronted with the question on her policy of abortions. Emphasizing that she is adamantly against abortion, Mrs. Farley said she remains reluctant to "make that decision for other wo men. long-standin- Mr. Monson seized upon it. pointing out that mainstream Utahns are fiercely opposed to abortion, lie also alluded to her stance on the availability of contraceptives for teens, maintaining that he thought her inconsistent since she favors more parental involvement in education, but declines to support a concept that ale lows parents to be informed on matters. Mrs. hVrlev had stated that the repro-ductiv- She commented no further, adding only that as a state senator, it was her policy to vote against legislation that was "unconstitutional, unnecessary or just plain dumb. In addressing the moral issues of abortion and contraception, Mr. Monson fully evaded responding to the question of his business dealings. Mr. Monson has been investigated and cleared of any legal impropriety in his private business dealings while serving as lieutenant governor. Still, the issue whether he used his public profile as lieutenant governor to influence private dealings has generated an aura of judgmental suspicion, particularly since a former partner of his is now under federal espionage imctment Mrs. Farley had addressed the question, although she did not dwell on Mr. Monson. Rather, she said she took unpaid leaves from her employment to both run for office and serve, although she was not required to do ber stamp for anyone else's ideas." Mrs. Farley said, drawing the only spontaneous applause given during debate. "If the administhe hour-lontration's policies are right for Hus district, I'll support them." so. Mr. Monson countered by stressing that he has broken with Reagan policy on a number of occasions, most recently in the president s decision not to impose copper import restrictions, as well as daily subsidies 'I know what people in this state want in their representation. I will not go as a rubber stamp, but when polic ies are right, I support them," Mr. Monson said. It's essential, as public servants, that we separate our public and private lives," Mrs. Farley said Aside from the two moral-baseexchanges, the two agreed that economics remains central to the campaign Mr Monson taking his familMrs. iar stance of Farley contending that Utahns are uninterested in "parrpt" representatd g ion. Mrs Farley said Mr. Monson, as a Republican, will have "little or no power," since Democrats control the House. 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