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Show Union Vetoes Contract, UTA Shuts Down dnu'i and mechanics promised Utah Transit uthinu contract Sunday. ensuring a transit svstem 'luitdow n ordered by the lns I iiimi the board ol directors m belli ol "sabotage" and violence that oi cui us! ill PCs. the last time employees and the authority could not reach agreement on a contract. That year the union went on strike This year, the union has vowed not to strike and has expressed a willingness to remain on the job w itliout a contract while negotiations continue. But I'TA General Mummer John C Piimrec said a systemwide shutdown is the only way to ensure patron safety, althmmh grounding the buses will strand thousands ol patrons who depend oil them lor transportation to work and school The shutdown, he said, is vv it inn the hoard's legal power. I'nion members will be paid by the company while they are "furloughed." by a rvjccled IT A Labor Union Hall. 2201 S. Redwood ami in Ogden. members ol Amalgamated Transit I'nion lxieal 3x2 rejected the contract by a vote of 297 to In j volin.; a! i Hoard ol Directors Chairman V. I Inches Hrockbank said Sunday that rejection ol the contract would force tile authority to cancel all bus service. Since there is no service on Sunday . the shutdown will have no el feet until Monday morning. But Mr. Brockbank said employees will be kept off the job beginning vv it h the 11 p.m. Sunday shift. He said the shutdown was approved L'TA But slui per week is tile maximum unemployment compensation that can Ikpaid employees who normally earn s. ',i ill Cents Per Hour The contract voted on Sunday was the result ol negotiations begun lietween union and the litian the cially troubled I'TA on Nov hi. It would have provided employees with a raise that would lioost workers" annual salaries by $i!2 1. But union oflicials claim the annual increase would actually amount to only s204 because employees must help pay insurance premiums that have escalated 57 percent. Although union members cnticied the contract proHisal mainly on the grounds that it does not provide a ill o P t nl living ov or other increase. t lu clement' as .in- uiiltap well Lewis l ilioll loc al president la slel" said toll lime employees oppose a CTA pioposal to hire more part time help The union is also lighting a I T move to lorce more employees to woik split 'hilts that span t hours m one day "Can't Afford Demands' I T olticials claim that the onion's demands amount to a pay raise ot 2s all increase they cannot percent al U rd The authority has raised lares tluee times in the last two years in an t the attempt to make- ends meet same tunc', according to Mr Brock hank, ridcl'ship has declined The authority tears that loss ol lederal dollars, which currently make up 20 - Nothing SeriousValentine Jr. MONDAY WASH LINE: Guess who's John; to be in Stilt Luke tonight? Frank Zappa. Hes performing at the Terrace . . . world famous rock musician. Zappa is a world famous father. alentine Jr. jjjs childrens names? Moon Unit. Dweezil. Ahmet Eniuukha Rodan and Diva . . Before Diva was born. Zappa was considering naming the child Clint Eastwood. (But she turned out to be a girl) . You cun sure tell there's a recession gomg on. The other day a reader walked by Temple Square during a wedding, and he reports, Half of the guests were throwing rice, and the other hall were catching it!" . . .And I bet you didn't know that, in the beginning, the family name of KSL-Tanchorman Dick it was Nurse! Nourse wasnt Nourse V . . , ipti , s . I like this from the Bountiful Elk s An unbreakable informer: toy is useful for breaking other toys MORE WASH LINE: Add BYU soccer player Tom Goldthorp to the list of people with unusual nicknames. His teammates call him Tin Tin." Why? Because of his physical resemblance to the popular European comic strip which features a little curly-haire- d "character named Tin Tin, who along with his canine companion, travels the universe battling the forces of evil . . I like Ibis from the weekly news bulletin of the Evening Optimist Club of Salt Lake: "If the weather bureau were really honest, they would have to refer to themselves as a nonprophet organization" Asparagus belongs to the same family as Utah's state flower the sego lily, il ask you. where else Can you get information like this on a Monday morning? This is the kind of tidbit that wins quiz show contestants microwave ovens. If you have nothing else to be mad about this morning, be mad about this: A reader just back from Saudi Arabia informs me that service stations there charge just 15 cents a gallon for gas. AND MORE WASH LINE: Talk aland unusual claims to fame, listen to this: As a hoy. the first job of retired Salt Lake businessman Howard Williams was working for a blacksmith. It was his task to keep flies off the horses And did ypu know that the average cow in Utah eats six Ions of feed each year and drinks 37 tons of water? i didn't either . Wednesday is the 97th birthday of the ballbearing roller skate. It was patented by Levant Richardson of Chicago back on Dec. 9. 1884. (Happy roller skate!) birthday, . Leslie D. Spilsbury has a set of appropriate initials lor Salt Lake But not his nephew the "L.D.S." Rev. Michael J. Baker His initials are . . . . . . . g . "M.J.B." . . . . . Davis County Auditor Ludcen Gibbons takes her dog for motorcycle rides. (Now. this little tidbit probably doesn't thrill you at all. but I bet it does .And her dog.) TODAY'S VALENTINE A special Valentine today to a special Utah woman. She is Doreen Mohrke who is retiring early year as next head librarian at S pra gu c Branch Library in Sugar House. Every Christ mas season for the past ljyears. Mrs. Mohrke has read "A Christmas Carol" for library pat rons. It's a Salt Lake Christmas tradition. Her yearly reading of "A Christmas Carol" started when she was head librarian at the Rose Bark Branch Library in 1900. That year over JtiO people showed up to hear the story and the numbers have steadily increased through the years. the Tuiiight at 7 at the Sprague Library. Mrs. Mohrke vv ill give her lamous rendition of "A Christmas Carol " for the last time. And an Certainly an event to miss. extra special Valentine to you. Doreen . . Mohrke! SAM. THE SAD C YNIC. SAYS: An average American father is a person who feels poor because he can't afford lo Imy his kids video cassette recorders for Christmas. Tribune tall xuaslature Brockbank the authority is "'between a rock and a hard place with respect to its linaiui.il situation Is willing to Bat he said tile l'T em late turthcr with the union More money however, will not be oltclvd liecn'.lse ll isn't there Mr Uingrce that the two Mr to rv lassilinl I ( split may octree on a. "better I I Iar air. 15-- 2 Monday .Muniing. sum-teste- 'ales way to Dec ailable funds-- up " are vv ilium, re. nly and desirous Column I Sec Iage eniber 7. HIM it i. iv Ale George A. Sorensen Tribune Suburban Editin' Two teen-aggirls were killed and two other youths were seriously injured when a Kemmerer. Wyo . sellout bus lost control anil Hipped over Sunday afternoon about two miles tip Little Cottonwood Canyon The bus. loaded with 38 Kemmerer High School students, was headed down the canyon from Alta Resort where the students had spent the day skiing, according to Salt Lao County sheriff's deputies. The bus. driven by Ki mmerer School District driver Julie Am Nishi. 25, was to meet a van containing six other Kemmerer students at a re. tauraut at !M)th South and 115 where they were to eat dinner and then go home to Kemmerer. Killed were Julie Ioulsen. 17. who a was dead on arrival at Cottonwood Hospital, and Annclise Wilson. Hi. who died in surgery at LDS Hospital. Medonna Crossweight. 17, is in crit ieal condition at Cottonwood Hospital and George Crank. Hi. is in fair e all you folks over 40 ask . . Well, besides being a Dan I Viordim; By Ballroom A nd who is Frank Zappa? . the Suit ialu 1age ( Hie Section It Bus Smaslmp In Canyon Kills Students Dan Valentines By Dan percent ol Us total luudmg. will com pound its money problems A request to hold a spoc ia! election on the issue ol raising the quarter cent sales tax which provides so percent ol CTA was "turned down cold by landing -- With overturned school bus in background, LDS Hospital's rescue helicopter takes off with injured girl. Bus carrying Kemmerer, Wyo., High i VaOuncii z- . Tribune Staff Photos b School ski club lost brakes and in Lif tic- - Cottonwood Canyon about One girl was killed. 23 i m iOie 11 Frank Porschafis overturned 1:15 p.m. others were injured. ' X, S condition at Cottonwood Hospital The other :!s students on the luis returned home on a school litis which rushed Ironi Kemmerer to Cottonwood Hospital carrying several parents ot the students alter learning ol the tragedy Scores ol Irienils and relatives ol the youths lloeked to the hospital alter receiving calls from Kemmerer parents seeking inlormation on their chit dren The students are all members ot the Kemmerer High School Ski Club. The trip to Alta was a one of about lour day long trips the club takes In western ski resorts each year. Kemmerer School District Superintendent Bill Mowrv said the school principal. James Close, lelt Kemmerer late Sunday in another school district Inis to pick up those students able to travel and bring them home. He said arrangements were madclpr another bus shortly alter city and school district elficials learned of the 15 p.m accident. Zcm Hopkins. 33. the ski club's. See Page Column I If-:- !. 1 , As Fortuneteller In West Side Growth By Dan Bates Tribune Staff Writer Enchanted with the potential, some residential and commercial builders are convinced that downtown Salt Lake City's economic rebirth will burgeon further on a dozen or so blocks ol "blight" between Main Street and the railroad tracks. The Salt Lake City Council, acting in its authority as the citys Redevelopment Agency, plays the role of fortuneteller Tuesday night as it determines how far this westside reincarnation may go. Three Major Plans The council will consider varying phases of at least three major redevelopment proposals that could transpose the pace and appearance of west side civ ilization as citizens today know it. .Ml ol this will come in the lorm of the Redevelopment Agency's Seventh-Yea- r Implementation Program, which if adopted by the council, may literally clear the way for at least $500 million worth of new construction over the next 10 years. In no particular order, the projects subject to public hearings Tuesday night include the American City Company plan to foster about $107 million in condominium and limited rental unit facilities around Pioneer Park: the Triad Utah Inc. scheme to invest some 841 10 million in residential and office development around the historic Mansion; and a proposal by a group called Block 58 Associates lo revitalize business activity along Main Street's west side from 2nd Smith to 3rd South. It could he a long night, conceded Michael Chitwood, executive director of the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency. The Block 58 proposal is already under fire by some merchants and investors whose properties may he taken away by the agency's power to condemn and acquire what it needs. And the council, brioiod extensively last week on the American City project, may have more questions regarding how the city might finance the task ol land purchase it would encounter. The council, however, generally agrees that west of the downtown business center is where both commercial activity and a rekindled interest in downtown living should be encouraged. Pioneer Park, often singled out as a hangout tor vagrants, transients and seedy characters. would lie the centerpiece ol American City's envisioned setting. Tin park, bordered by 3rd and 4th South and 3rd and 4th West, would be surrounded by about 1,109 condominium and a lew liund.ed apartment units situated on eight largely vacant land parcels uver u five-bloc- k area. Commission Study The City feasibility study Count'd commissioned a $159,000 last year by American City, a development consulting firm based in Columbia, Md., to dotermif the- west downtown redevelopment project area's investment potential. American City concluded that there is vast developers' interest to build middle- - and high-cos- t housing in that section of town. Last week, city officials were presented a confidential list of about six local residential builders who have expressed such an interest. American City will also solicit the deattention of several velopers. By adopting the Redevelopment Agency's new plan Tuesday night, the council would amend the agency's Central Business District Project Area to include American Citys proposal, which lakes in Pioneer Park and the two city blocks immediately north of the park, the one to the east and See Page B-- Column 3 - five-bloc- k Cottonwood Canyon. Thousands of cars beading down canyon from resorts were blocked for hours. Us back and right side ripped open by impact of wreck, school bus blocks road in Little Arraignment Today for Slay Suspect By Gordon Harman Tribune Staff Writer Arraignment is scheduled for MonDonald Eugene day for Leonard, formally charged w ith theft of a weapon and attempted armed ot a residence in Salt Lake City. iAxmard is also the prime suspect in the killing of two Salt Lake City men last week. Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Marty Vuyk said the county attorney's office roo-tior- y in the vicinity ol 500 South and East, where lie was "sitting on a wall, eating a doughnut." According to Salt I.ake City Police reports, tile suspect attempted to flee arresting olfieers. hut stopped when police ordered him to do so. The charges of thotl of weapons und attempted armed robbery stem lor two separate incident'. According to police reports. Kevin Giktu. 23. 13s;i S. 31K) East Apt. 4. told olticers that a pistol of See Page Column 3 will file formal charges on two counts of tives criminal 100O homicide against l,eonaid Monday and arraignment on those homicide charges will probably he conducted Tuesday. Mr. Leonard is suspected in the murders Dvr. 2 and Dee. 4 ot Robert Ross. 51. and Eglicrt F. William Emend, tiii. Mr. I,connrd. East, was arrested 10:30 a. m. Saturday by Salt Lake Citv Police robbery homicide detec 049-50- B-- l. Sub for Suntu Drmlliiw !vurs Maybe You Should Slow Down and Touch Someone world. But. Sure, il is a hurry-uare you so wrapped up in your own interests and in such a hurry that you would want tu bypass youngsters who may be untouched by the Christmas brightness around them? If your answer is "no." you will want lo take the time to volunteer to become a substitute for Santa Chius lor nine needy youngster through Tlie Salt Lake Tribunes Sul) lor Santa program, a community effort tli.it has seen volunteers tiring Christmas cheer to more than on non children through its history. The task of assisting the less lortiinalc is never over. Therefore. this call for assistance is repeated every year at Christmas time to bring the real meaning of the holiday to homes that could otherwise be missed. Being a Sub for Santa is an experiinexpensive, ence that can bring rewards throughout Hie year. Simply phone Sul) lor Santa headquarters at and an experienced Sul) worker will provide the name of a family ur families in which there is a need for assistance if the children are to have Christmas this. year. The selection ot gilts is lelt up to the Stills. Inil usually a toy or an article of clothing is all that is heart-warmin- g 237-209- needed to bring a Merry Christmas to a grateful child. Subs are encouraged to care lor children first. The ages of eligibility are 3 through 12. Individuals, families, neighborhoods. social eluhs, civic organizations. ollices. linns, churches, fraternities and sororities all are needed to become substitutes for Santa. Solis are needed Ironi throughout the area, and will lie needed Ihiuiigh Christinas eve. Meanwhile, pel soils seeking assistance through Tile Tribune program are reminded they must apply by Friday. The application for help must be made in person at either Suit for Santa headquarters in Room 1002 ol The Tribune Building. 143 S. Main, or at the Kearns Sul) lor Santa office in the Kearns Family Life Center. 1115 W. 5295 The South. Kearns olliee, which will register applicants from that area only, will lie open from 8 a.m lo 5 p m. Monday through Friday. Sub headquarters will lie open Ironi n a.m to 1:30 pm. Monday through Friday friends and rda lives cannot apply on behall nl I, .inilies ncding help. Well meaning" 237-209- 7 |
