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Ctah Vol. 221, No 38 Saturday Morning ember No 21. 1981 Price TwftUv V Redistrict Snagged iln Congre Special Session By Vaughn Roche and Douglas L Parker Tubune I niitical Writers Utah legislators traveled a circular path Friday m passing a House plan acceptable to both the House and the Senate, breaking a deadlock created between the two houses Tuesday The Senate feigned agreement with a H U'-plan it had objected to Tuesday and iomed the House m overriding Gov Stott M Mathesons veto of the bill, avoiding a political insult to House rr embers which would have come with (he Senate's refusal to override 37 I Both Houses Adjourn As Deadline Passes By Dav id Espo Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON 21-- 300-mil- e Ends Special Session F nday s settlement ended the special reapportionment session, which had run otf and on since Oct 28 Legislators passed Senate, House and congressional reapportionment bills by Oct 30. ihon reconvened Tuesday to address the vetoed House hill Tuesdays deadlock forced them back into session Friday The approved reapportionment plan, and the passed by the Senate, also would appear to erase .House, the governors objections to the original apportionment scheme by redrawing lines to cut the long district in noon Goverment Out of Money That meant that any compromise could not be passed until after the deadline passed Technically, the government ran out of money at the stroke of midnight Negotiations on the compromise, Baker said no doubt will continue for much of the night I think they are making progress I hope they are making progress and I urge them to make progress " At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said failure to pass the hill left the administration with no choice but to initiate governn ment procedures But Speakes, when pressed to name a specific government service or mdi- idual that would be directly affected at midnight, when the government officially runs out of money, could name 17-- 46-1- 7, 300-mi- hull A mother Tribune Christmas tree, shimmering and Community child admire The President Reagan Washington hotel Although Brady will in Arlington, Va . he return to the hospital week tor four hours of outside a live at home will have to five times a physical and the Tribune Building. 143 S Main, and Gernt VanDijk, president of the Salt Lake Javcees, saw to it that the lights to the city s decorations came on right on schedule too The evening began and ended in a traditional way with the West High a The Christmas season was ushered in Friday night in Salt Lake City with a blaze of Christmas lights with '.he annual lighting of The Salt Lake Tribune Community Christmas tree and the citys downtown decorations Tern Lin Page, 25, North Salt Lake, flipped the swatch to turn the lights on the living Christmas tree outside Photo, Map, Pag A2 30-fo- cappella choir under the direction of James Maher singing traditional and contemporary carols for the crowd gathered to join in the festivities The crowd, which seemed oblivious to the cold temperatures was caught up in the carols and the celebration of the annual lighting ceremony Ms Page won the honor of lighting the Christmas tree last Apnl dunng the .Arbor Day program at Mountain Dell Golf Course It was then that her name uas chosen from about 3 000 coupons submitted m an Arbor Day Contest sponsored by The Tribune m I960 After Mr Van Dijk offered some brief remaiks Ms Page flipped the switch and the downtown area was shining in Christmas beauty The tree lighting ceremony, now in its 36th year, precedes the Santa Claus Parade, planned this year to begin at 9 a m. Saturday The parade route follows Mam Street from the Brigham Young Monument to occupational therapy. White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said Bradys doctors say they expect him to regain his normal speech and to walk unassisted, although he may suffer some weakness on his left side now partially paralyzed and reqmre use of a cane They say Brady eventually will be able to hold a responsible white-colla- r job Speakes said Brady will be going to home for good Were very pleased at that news and trust everythings going to go well " he added "I know Jims pleased to get home Heavy Snows Pound Midwest Areas As Tornado Socks Atlanta Airport Bv David L Langford Associated Press Writer A storm that left at least 12 people dead in a blitz across the Midwest laid siege to Michigan cities With Friday, while a tornado damaged two dozen an planes in Atlanta Alxmt 70 000 homes and businesses went dark in western Michigan as the up to 14 inches deep hc(avy wet snow in places yanked down kev power lines Many schixils were ti lorced to close Driving on some highways was impossible Even the snowplows were stranded in Muskegon Heights because the doors at the city garage are electrically pow ered and there was no power In the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, crippled by 11 inch snows earliei in the week, 77(88) residents icmamod without electncity for a second day and utility officials said it might lie Sunday before full sei v ice w as cstored The storm which swept through the Twin Cities Wednesday night and Thursday, was .inked soinewheie in the top 10 among the worst stoinis in st,,te liistmv acioiding to tolar fool-dee- p after lighting in all its splendor mony Friday night in g cere-usherin- holidays. shut-dow- Tribune Yule Tree Illumination Heralds Start of the Holidays Hospital to Discharge Brady WASHINGTON (API Presidential press secretary James S Brady will go home for good Monday after spending eight months in the hospital and undergoing four operations for a bullet wound in his brain the White House said Fnday Bradv . 41, has been a patient at George Washington University Hospital ever since he wras shot in the March 30 assassination attempt on Congressional leaders abandoned efforts Friday night to meet a midnight deadline for emergency legislation needed to keep the government from running out of money But negotiators for the House and Senate, still struggling against a threatened veto, met late into the night trying to produce a compromise that both houses could ratify on Saturday and minimize disruptions in government serv ices With talks dragging on, House Speaker Thomas P O'Neill recessed the House at 8 05 pm until 10 a m About 9n minutes later, Saturday Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker told senators to go home until But the Senate Override vote of 0 came only in return for a House ptomise to then pass a bill revising thp House reapportionment plan The new hill was to dispel Senate objections to a long House district in the southern part of the state r JLPJLHJ. j Utahns Wind Up Regardless. Rep Roger Rawson, D Hooper, minority leader, said he will suggest another veto because the new reapportionment bill offers no alternative Arguing the bill leaves no opening for a veto on legal grounds. Sen Fred W said the gover- Finhnsnn, nor bv vetoing the plan, "will be m a position of showing he vetoed the bill because it places two Democrats in one disti ict fore ing the elimination of one Then the governor will have descended from his exalted position of staving out of politics and into the putter with the rest of us He said he See Page 2, Column 1 Cents Till p'OJLil'LJJLlLJlg Soions OK Plan to Tne rtrategv emploved by legislators Friday was to lay a trap for the t ov i Tior .f he should not approve If he vetoes the bill passed Friday, the original reapportionment plan to which he objected will be in effect, having been lorced mtn law by the legislative veto nveiride Offers No Alternatives Fie specialist Ramer Dombrowsky of the National Weather Service The snow contributed to the collapse of the inflated fabric dome of the new Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome, future home of the Minnesota Vikings A piece of steel tore a large gash in the fabric roof deflating the $5 million dome before it could weather its first snowstorm a stadium official said Friday It toie )ust like a bed sheet said Don Poss, executive director of the Metropolitan Sports FarilitiesCommis-sion The Thursday night collapse which caused no injuries 01 damage to the uncompleted shirts ar ra, apparently was due to a bolt thai weakened and snapped as the roof sagged under the weight of Minneapolis' worst 24 hour snowfall since 16, Poss said Crews labored Fnday to repair a rip in one of the Teflon coated fabric panels whu h make up the dome Poss said an if fort would he made to reinflate the loof possibly by Sundnv night s automatic system was not in full opeta ion and the roof liegan to sag m the The stadium snow-meltin- g middle under the weight of snow and slush That problem was remedied briefly when stadium crews were able to channel a strong stream of warm air into the roof area The collapse finally came about 8 30 pm Thursday A rush of air was audible several blocks away and the fabric qumklv dropped into a forlorn concave shape Meanwhile, in Atlanta Friday a ''mall tornado tore into the new Hartsfield International Airport leaving millions of dollars in damage, according to airport spokesman John Braden He said five people were injured none seriously At least 24 planes were damaged, Braden said and damage to the teimmal was extensive Power was knocked out and trees and signs were none To Sign Compromise? Earlier, Baker said President Reagan would sign a compromise if the House went along with a Senate plan to cut $3 3 billion from domestic programs Otherwise, he said, the president stood ready to cast his first veto O'Neill, an opponent of the cuts, had said the House might go along with the At a bargaining session Senate plan From there it will head east and disband at 200 East This year, as m past years, the parade will feature marching bands, fioats and the jolly old man himself Assisting with this years holiday lighting ceremony was Utah Power and Light Co , and the public works and parks department of Salt Lake City, w'hich made sure the complex electrical arrangements were working 300 South end on Fridav and the bureaucratic headaches could grow both cumbei some and costly At the White House, deputy press secretary Lai ry Speakes said. It is the presidents position that he will find it difficult to accent anything less than the Senate bill " Dec lines to Say But sidestepping the question of a veto, he declined to say how much further the administration was willing to compromise on its projiosed spend ing reductions "We'll just have to watt and see what happens in Russia Asks Details on Missile Cuts A Kremlin spokesMOSCOW (API man said Friday the Soviet leadership, while still skeptical, is ready to hear details of President Reagans missile reduction offer when U S Soviet arms talks begin later this month m Geneva -- Soviet Brtzlin'h Letter, A t proposals at the talks starting Nov 30, the spokesman, Vadim Zagladin, told a news conference Although Zagladin repeated the Kremlin position that Reagans speech vc as aimed at making the Geneva talks more difficult, his criticism was less harsh than the initial Soviet reaction A Peacemaker' If m fact Reagan wants to he a after issuing warlike statement since taking office, then we can welcome this as a turn for the better, Zagladin said Reagan proposed major cuts m involving House and Senate nuclear and conventional forces in negotiators, delayed once so necessary Europe m a speech Wednesday in papers could be readied and then so a Washington He said the United States larger room could be located, House would scrap plans to deploy 752 new Democrats offered to make the overall range missiles in Western cuts that Reagan wants But their intermediate if the Soviets dismantle 600 Europe insistence on including defense in the SS-SS-and SS-2misnew round of reductions drew a swift comparable siles already targeted on NATO counSenate from Republicans rejection tries Too Large to Bridge Zagladin said Soviet leaders were about the offer because, he skeptical That left the negotiators at an asserted, Reagan had not spelled out impasse, and aides indicated that the which arms the United States was differences were too large to be bridged w tiling to forgo in Europe in return for a in time to produce a compromise and Soviet withdrawal of missiles already win approval in both the House and in place Senate before the deadline Military Edge Shortly after that, the House quit for The purpose is to give the LTruted the night not by States a military advantage The measure is needed to replace an increasing its armaments but by forcearlier stopgap bill which carried ing the Soviet Union to unilaterally Friday's midnight expiration Without disarm," Zagladin insisted the new authority, most of the governSoviet negotiators in Geneva would ment would be out of money demand withdrawal from Europe of While that hardly would mean actualU S and NATO ground-basenuclear ly closing down shop, several agencies weapons systems in any discussions already were going through some about removing Soviet medium-rang- e technicalities toward that theoretical missiles, Zagladin said Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page 2 A-- Page C-- Page Lifestyle National Obituaries Regional Sports Star Gazer Television Washington 7 B-4- -7 B-- 2 C-6A-1- 4 16 expect their negotiators American counterparts to present a more detailed version of Reagans peacemaker 4. Amusement Bridge Business Church Classified Comics Editorials A Foreign he said conference, 3 I)-3- -4 D-- l C-l- C-- 7 C-- 5 Saturday's Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Considerable cloudiness with a chance of showers developing bv late afternoon and evening Weather details on D-- 0 5 d 3 'iu VrT"- - boLfe' tf be .. v. ss . ? blown down Mu higan communities hardest hit bv the jxiwei outages were rural areas north of Muskegon, and Grand Rapids Cadillac. Big Rapids and Clare II s going to take us most of today to put Giand Hapids hn k together," said 'ce Page 2, Column 1 4$ Hubert II Humphrey Metrodome collapsed after one roof panel, ripjied bv ire and snow, let the air that supports the dome escape. The Metrodome is scheduled to open in April, 1982 ; |
