Show Bangerter Sees Tax Hike As Key to Utah’s Future By Douglas L Parker Tribune Political Editor e Defending his $200 million proposal Gov Norm Bangerter told the Utah Legislature Monday night the state’s outlook for a “world-clas- s economy” hangs in the balance “You will need to weigh the future of children in fact the future of Utah along with the additional burden on taxpayers” the governor said His focus was the increased education spending tied to his tax proposals during the governor’s annual State of the State message delivered to a joint session of the Legislature on the session opening day of a y “Of course we can all choose to refuse to raise taxes If you make that choice it should be with the under tax-hik- 45-da- standing that you will also be choosing to cut many programs that now benefit school children” Bangerter warned ‘ Tribune Staff Writers Two state employees Monday barely took the seats they won in the Utah House of Representatives in elections last fall And before the cushions warm they were had 'y 1 J' 0' i & j ' t lie V m 2 Disputed Lawmakers Allowed to Take Seats per-pup- il state-reven- torical anecdotes of Britain’s former wartime prime minister Winston Churchill and former President Harry Truman to make his case for decisive budgetary action From Mr Churchill he said he found this principle: “Success is measured not by the circumstances we find ourselves in but in how we respond to them” And from President Truman the governor recalled a governor’s query as to whether the president enjoyed “giving ’em hell” Mr Truman replied: “I don’t give anybody hell I just tell them the truth and they think it’s st ’ hell” “In my own case I’ve told you we’H have to cut said budgets” Bangerter r if & fp1 SI !! m 10 vices and Rep Evans a Utah State Prison counselor faced raps for serving both the executive and legislative branches of state government — voting on pay and other personnel matters that they eventually fall under Fully braced and counseled on their predicament in advance the two now find themselves encased by a three-side- d legal dilemma: two articles of the Utah Constitution on separation of governmental-branc- h powers and legislative autonomy plus a statute the Legislature passed in 1984 welcoming the likes of Reps Evans and Rose to its ranks conflict-of-intere- early-mornin- “I’m convinced that if we fail to act responsibly to provide education or even if we are perceived to have failed our present economic problems will worsen and could even become chronic or permanent” he added In his speech before a crowded gallery in the House of Representatives’ chamber and aired live by statewide television the governor urged skeptical lawmakers to deal with unpleasant “hard facts” in dealing with increased school enrollment of 12000 students this year alone The chief executive’s defensive A By Dan Bates And Paul Roily g posture was heightened by the rally at the Capitol by at least 1000 citizen protesterschanting repeatedly “No more taxes” Gov Bangerter noted it would require a $500 million tax increase to bring Utah to the national average in spending He acknowledged Utah cannot afford that but his tax recommendation — representing less than half that figure — can provide “a foundation for the future” His proposal for $206 million in tax boosts including raises in the income and sales taxes would only partially go for education The governor is also suggesting a boost to raise some $40 milgas-ta- x lion for state and local road needs Gov Bangerter drew upon the his JCKSW SV? r-- " C: '''' n 'SraT 3 f) -- -- 2 1 sTavlL( jnorjL TA¥ Both managed to temporarily beat the rap by a slim 3 margin on barring them from being seated 3 They then garnered support to take their oaths and chairs — needing House majorities on both counts House leaders purposely drafted motions to put most legal questions in context and indirectly to coax a Utah Supreme Court ruling sought by an external party While the other 73 took their oaths in unison Monday morning Reps Rose and Evans were marked "absent" by design and waited in a lounge adjacent to the House floor See 6 Column 1 ? H0ME 39-3- Lake and R Mont Evans were sworn in as lawmakers for the time beings Meanwhile Utah Attorney General staff was contemplating recourses to overturn their status The House chambers on opening day of the 47th Legislature’s annual 'session was turned into a jury box of ports as 73 of the 75 representatives deliberated whether the two state wprkers would be “excluded” from the polity by virtue of their “current employment” ' Rep Rose an assistant supervisor in the Utah Department of Social Ser- - - Treasury Department as chief Donspokesman for ald T Regan now the White House chief of staff Among reporters Fitzwater enjoys a reputation as an unflappable See A-- 2 Column 4 S F Tribune Staff Photo by T m Kelly thousand protesters brave cold at Capitol Monday to give Gov Norm Bangerter their opinion of his proposed $200 A A-- straightforward spokesman with a good grasp of issues During an earlier stint at the White House he frequently came to the press room to smoke a cigar and banter with reporters and photographers He was greeted with applause from reporters Monday as Speakes escorted him to the press room to announce the appointment “I think he is the ideal choice for the job” said Speakes “He knows you you know him he knows the White House he knows the staff” Speakes said “I think he’s a man that can step into the job and do it very very effectively” Saying he did not want to get into debate today” Fitz“a water ducked reporters’ questions Monday of about whether he would skit Stair3® i I million tax hike A radio personality organized the event urging Utahns to shout loud enough for lawmakers to hear Snow Falls in Monaco Bush Press Aide Moves Up To Take Over for Speakes : WASHINGTON Marlin (AP) Fitzwater the easygoing press secretary to Vice President George Bush Was appointed Monday as chief spokesman for President Reagan succeeding Larry Speakes “I think it’s obvious that the president wanted an anchorman type” the balding stocky Fitzwater joked ’ He will take over the $77400-a-yea- r job Feb 2 when Speakes leaves the White House after six years to become a vice president for public relations at Merrill Lynch & Co Inc At 44 Fitzwater has spent nearly half his life in government service including more than two years at the nlfiM Then trsfr 49-2- Inside The Tribune A Novel Cold Grips Europe Tribune Telephone Numbers on 3 A-- Business Classified Comics Crossword Editorials Entertainment Foreign Intermountain Legislature Lifestyle National Obituaries Public Forum Sports Star Gazer Television In a Winter of Discontent C-l- D-6- 7 B-- 4 A-1- 4 A-- ll A-4- A-- 3 9 A-- 6 A-- 3 B-- 3 A-1- 5 D-l- -5 D-- 7 D-- 8 Washington A-- 2 Today’s Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity — Cloudy skies with a chance of rain Highs 30s Lows 20s Details B-- 2 United Press International It was colder than the North Pole across parts of Europe on Monday as the continent shivered in Siberian weather that heaped snow on the palms of Mediterranean Monaco and froze the chimes on London’s Big Ben More than 60 people have died in k the frigid spell of severe two-wee- weather that has spread from the Soviet Union to the Mediterranean bringing heavy snowfalls and record low temperatures Norwegian meteorologists said many places were colder than the North Pole region US government meteorologists reported that high temperatures at the North Pole on Sunday and Monday were about 6 degrees and the low Soviet Avalanches: A-- 5 Sunday night was about minus 6 But in the Rhone area of France temperatures plunged to a record minus 9 degrees and in the southern Norwegian town of DrevsjMhe thermometer fell to a record minus 526 degrees In London the thermometer dropped to 16 degrees making Sunday night the city's coldest in 40 years The chill muffled the chimes of Big Ben the famous clock in the British Parliament building Its sonorous boom was reduced to a muted clunk because the machinery froze A musician who sounds the hours in a colorful ceremony at a church at Mariacki in Poland had similar problems His trumpet froze and wailed out of tune Elementary schools shut down because of the freeze and the Polish news agency warned of hourlong power cuts in some regions The winter weather proved to be the downfall of a burglar in Winterthur Switzerland The man’s footsteps were frozen in the snow all the way from the villa he broke into back to his apartment leaving police a clear trail In Austria the citizens of Vienna heeded a radio appeal to feed the birds and scattered seed on the icy sidewalks y Pilot Reports 2nd UFO Sighting Over Alaska - A Japan Air ANCHORAGE Alaska (AP) Lines pilot who said his cargo jet was shadowed by a huge unidentified flying object over Alaska in November has reported another encounter of the eerie kind report-e- d Capt Kenjyu Terauchi and his the sighting of lights Sunday morning while on a flight from London to a refueling stop in Anchorage “His statement to the controller was ‘irregular lights looks like a spaceship’ ” said Federal Avi- ation Administration spokesman Paul Steucke But Steucke said there may be an easy explanation for Sunday's sighting: light reflecting off ice crystals in the atmosphere Terauchi a veteran pilot told the FAA he saw the lights twice Sunday once for about 20 minutes and again for about 10 minutes as his plane flew at 37000 feet Steucke said The plane's reported seeing the lights Steucke said but the flight engineer who sits farther back in the cockpit “indicated he was uncertain whether he saw any lights at all” Terauchi did not immediately return a tele- co-pil- ot co-pil- ot at the JAL office in Anchorage Both the November sighting and the Sunday sighting were near Fort Yukon but there were few other similarities Steucke said “The second sighting doesn’t seem at all like the first one” he said On Nov 17 Terauchi reported two bright lights and an object as wide as two aircraft carriers placed end to end followed his JAL Boeing 747 cargo plane for more than 300 miles as it flew to Anchorage from Iceland The lights stayed with the plane even when Terauchi changed altitude and took other evasive action Terauchi had said In the sighting this weekend the pilot said in both cases the lights approached from the front of the Boeing 747 went beneath the aircraft and reappeared to the rear In November the object showed up on the plane's weather radar and may have appeared on FAA radar but there was nothing shown on radar Sunday Steucke said At the time of the November incident Anchor- phone message left for him age air traffic controllers spotted what they believed was a split image of the JAL aircraft caused by a minor problem with the plane’s radar transponder Steucke said earlier He said it was coincidence the split image was located where Terauchi reported seeing the objects The military dismissed the blip as radar clut- ter Steucke said FAA officials and experienced pilots speculated Sunday's sighting could have been caused by light bouncing off ice crystals in an inversion layer In a temperature inversion a layer of warmer air traps a layer of colder air closer to the Earth’s surface Lights from below could have reflected off ice crystals in the inversion and appeared to be hovering in midair Steucke said As the plane approached and passed over villages the reflected light would appear to go under the aircraft and reappear behind it as Terauchi described Steucke said Steucke said the crew appeared in good condition Sunday “They seemed fine professional" he said X Snow showers fell as far south as the naco palm-fringe- principality of d Mo- In Italy hurricane-forc- e winds buffeted Naples and the Isle of Capri and the regional authorities urged the government to declare a state of emergency In France 12 people died in the severe weekend weather The latest victims included two joggers who died of heart attacks induced by the cold and a fisherman who drowned A Triad President Denies Role In Arms Sales By Guy Boulton Tribune Staff Writer Triad America Corp President Donald Fraser said Monday he had nothing to do with financing arms shipments to Iran “As I told the RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police I have never been involved in arms deals” Mr Fraser said in an exclusive interview with The Tribune “Ninety percent of what has been written in the press has been lies And some of the truths have been taken and warped” The interview was Mr Fraser's first since he and Canadian businessman Walter (Ernie) Miller weije linked in December to the arms deal arranged by Saudi arms dealer and Triad Chairman Adnan Khashoggi "The only financing is financing for said Mr Fraser by telephone from Grand Cayman Island in the Ca- Triad" ribbean Euro Commercial Finances BV a Netherlands corporation headed by Mr Fraser was to loan Triad $9 million according to Salt Lake County records Mr Fraser confirmed Triad has not received the entire $9 million but said there “have been subsequent loans" Triad is the US holding company of Mr Khashoggi Mr Fraser also said that "to the best of my knowledge" Vertex Finances SA "has never been involved" in arms sales to Iran Vertex is a Cayman Island corporation headed by Mr Miller that loaned Mr Kha- shoggi $31 million at roughly the same time the arms sales occurred- Mr Fraser who is a director of Vertex said he did not know how Mf: Khashoggi used the $31 million ifi loans But Mr Fraser confirmed news re- - 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