Show - - " gma— ii- f- f f Wbt Monday Morning — May 4 1987 Halt $al tribune Section B Page 1 Horiuchi Assails Bangerter’s ‘Blatant Hypocrisy’ By Paul Roily Tribune Staff Writer State Democratic Chairman Randy Horiuchi Sunday blasted Gov Norm Bangerter for “blatant hypocrisy” over the gov-- r ernor’s criticism last week of Con-gressman Wayne Owens’ stand against a new which oped by McDonnell-Dougla- s has built a plant in Salt Lake City and plans to hire 200 to 300 people at that plant to build parts for the 7 Gov Bangerter told Rep Owens he didn’t understand why the congressman would oppose a project creating jobs in Utah in favor of other cargo plane programs being built in other states But Mr Horiuchi said the governor’s concern for Utah jobs seems to $40 billion military program The governor criticized Rep Owens for proposing to sponsor an amendment to eliminate funding in the propose Fiscal 1988 military budget for the C 17 Airlifter The 7 program is being devel “shift with the political winds” “It’s interesting to me that when Congress quietly dropped funding for the Salt Lake Office of the National Park Service with the apparent blessing of Utah’s congressional delegation that Gov Bangerter didn’t say boo” Mr Horiuchi said ' “That office fielded 15000 calls a year mostly from potential tourists checking out their vacation plans and finding out what facilities are available where There’s no telling how much tourism money the state is losing because that office has been closed” the Democratic chairman said “Now the governor becomes very excitable over 200 to 300 jobs because of the actions of the state’s lone Democratic congressman” Gov Bangerter asked Rep Owens to reconsider his position against the 7 funding But Rep Owens said over the weekend he would not change his stand The congressman said McDonnell-Dougla- s was playing a “porkbarrell-in- g game” of putting little bits of the 7 project in 100 different congressional districts in 27 states C-1- C-1- ‘The theory being" he said “that they would insure all those votes in Congress because no congressman would dare vote against a project that woulji bring jobs to his district “But I’m going against the wind on this because of my commitment to cut spending and work towards reducing the federal deficit” was Rep Owens said the 7 wasteful because it wouldn’t do anything the already funded C-- 5 cargo jet would do The proposed Fiscal 1988 7 funding would be about $17 billion with the total package costing nearly 40 billion over several years said Rep James Hansen Rep Owens doesn’t know what he's talking about regarding the 7 because he didn’t sit on the House committee that listened to 10 hours of hearings on the program The 7 Rep Hansen said provides necessary defense capabilities the C-- 5 cannot match Mr Horiuchi Sunday applauded Rep Owens “courage" for “standing up against a wasteful military program Somebody’s got to do it Perhaps these continued pork barrel programs that nobody will vote against because they’re in their districts have something to do with the Reagan deficit the biggest deficit in the history of the world” Mr Horiuchi said “the Republicans talk tough about cutting spending and being fiscally responsible but when something like this comes along their actions don’t match their words They are the first to jump on the pork barrel bandwagon” The Democratic chairman $aid when the 393000 for the Salt Lake Office was cut out of the Park Service budget last year there was no opposition from the congres- sional delegation He said that move came in the midst of rumors some Utah Republicans initiated the reduction because of political differences with Salt Lake director Doug Gillespie “Gov Bangerter said nothing” Mr Horiuchi said “Had a Democrat been in Congress at the time he wotild have screamed about it This just proves once again the need for political balance among our public officeholders When we have officials from different parties they’re much quicker to criticize each other's actions in the media And that’s good” 2 Seriously Hurt In Two-CCrash in SL ar Two people were seriously injured accident in Sunday in a two-ca- r which six people including four children were ejected from a van Salt Lake City police said LL Tom Brown said none of the children all under the age of seven was hurt badly in the 11:15 am accident at 500 S 300 West The driver of the van Willie H Vasquez 64 438 Williams was transported to Holy Cross Hospital where he was in serious but stable condition His wife Sarah Vasquez 56 was in serious condition at LDS Hospital The children — Edie Cavret 7 Lis-si- tt Cavret 5 Rafa Cavret 3 Reinvo Cavret 2 and Sinpo Cavret 1 no addresses available — were taken to Primary Children’s Medical Center where they were treated and released All but Lissitt Cavret were ejected from the van Lt Brown said An eighth passenger Edna Cande30 438 Williams was not ejected and was not injured in the acci- laria dent LL Brown said a car being driven westbound on 500 South by Bradley J Stary S3 Long Beach Calif apparently ran a red light at 300 West and collided in the intersection with Mr Vasquez’? southbound van $21 Million Cost Project Starts Today to Tame Lake By Mike Gorrell Tribune Staff Writer The Great Salt Lake marina soon will be arising from the water The marina closed last year when the state could not assure boaters protection from damage when the wind whipped up waves on the rising lake will be repaired and given additional protection when the state initiates a $21 million project that also will build up the breakwater protecting Interstate 80 The marina and breakwater work will begin Monday Utah Department of Transportation spokeswoman Shirley Iverson said some traffic interruption can be expected on westbound Interstate 80 during the next few weeks The improvements along with development of a beach east of Saltair resort are part of a state effort to tame the lake's destructive potential its value as a tourist and attraction and recreation outlet for local residents “I have general hope now although I learned a long time ago out there not to expect anything until you see it” said Tedd Tuttle Great Salt Lake State Park superintendent “We hope the marina will be done and will be in use by the first of July But from past experience I know that strange things have happened because of what we now call the contemporary name for Murphy’s Law — the lake effect" That effect was evident Easter weekend when waves badly damaged Southern Pacific railroad's causeway westbound lanes line and closed for several hours The marina survived with little damage primarily because sailboats weren’t moored in its exposed dock Mr Tuttle said The project will reduce the exposure by raising the north breakwater which protects the marina from the bulk of the lake The breakwater has provided little protection this year since only a few boulders stick out above the water level which is near the modern historic high of 421185 feet above mean sea level The north breakwater will be raised 6 feet placing its top at 4218 feet almost 25 feet higher than the lake’s elevation at Its modern low point in 1963 The west breakwater which provides additional protection will be raised 3 feet The new breakwaters should end the marina's susceptibility and Mr See B-- 7 Column 1 X New Grazing Plan Fuels Debate on Tortoise Survival By Jim Woolf Tribune Environmental Writer A new grazing plan for the extreme southwestern corner of Utah would have “about the same or a slightly beneficial impact” on the desert tortoise according to a study released this week by the Bureau of Land Management But Steve Johnson southwestern representative for Defender of Wildlife described the grazing plan as “disgraceful” because it continues “business as usual” at a time when emergency action is required to protect the tortoise “It shows that BLM fails to understand the natureof desert survival” he said The tortoise population in Utah is considered a "threatened” species under the federal Endangered Species Act because of long-terdeclines in its numbers Recent studies indicate the speed of the decline may have increased dramatically in the last decade Estimates of the number of tortoises left in Utah vary from 400 to 3700 depending on who’s doing the counting Bob Ruesink field supervisor for the F&WS’s endangered species office in Salt Lake City said the grazing plan is being reviewed and a decision will be issued in about two months BLM’s proposed “Allotment Management Plan for the Beaver Dam Slope Allotment” calls for 1200 animal unit months (AUMs) of livestock use in the tortoise area each year for a four month period extending from Nov 1 to Feb 28 This is a slight increase from the 1134 AUMs of use permitted during the past three years An animal unit month is the amount of forage it takes to feed a cow and her calf for one month A controversial grazing plan for “threat- - ened” desert tortoise may help raise the Thirty five square miles of land in southwestern Utah were designated as “critical habitat” for the tortoise when they were placed on the list of threatened and endangered species in 1980 More than 60 percent of that land is affected by BLM's new grazing plan i I population of the species but it has raised ire of some who say plan is not sufficient Mr Johnson believes competition with cattle is a major reason for the decline in tortoise numbers and claims the new grazing plan will do nothing to alleviate that problem BLM believes its grazing plan guarantees enough feed for both cattle and tortoises and that other explana tions must be found for the precipitous drop in tortoise numbers A decision on whether the grazing proposal will benefit the tortoise or speed its demise will be made by the US Fish and Wildlife Service which administers the Endangered Species Act Over the four month period this level of grazing means an average of 300 cows will be in the tortoise area on any given day The actual number of cattle will vary from from less than 100 to a maximum of 423 howev- er This wintertime grazing prompts only minor concern among those con- cerned about the conflict between tortoises and cattle because the tor-Se- e B-- 2 Column 1 Utah’s Japanese Newspaper Still Lives Thanks to Its Typesetter 90-Year-- By Cathy Free Tribune Staff Writer Inside the cluttered calendar-covere- d (there were 23 on the walls at last count) newsroom of Kun-ik- o the Utah Nippo Teresawa is searching for the right words to finish a story on a Japanese bonsai exhibit It has taken her three hours to come up with an ending but time is of little importance to Kunlko She has spent nearly 50 years handpicking thousands of pieces of metal type to put out her monthly four-pag- e Japanese newspaper Another hour or two will make little difference Kuniko pushes the sleeves of her blue sweater over her elbows polishes her magnifying glass and squats to the floor to search the bottom row of her type board for the final Intricate characters needed to put another edition of the Nippo to bed She holds the fine type next to the magnifying glass the magnifying glass next to her thick eyeglasses mumbles a few words in Japanese and nods her bead “My food will taste especially because I have good tonight worked hard today” she tells her daughter Kazuko who drives her to work each day and helps her Old a week but “so what?” she tells Kazuko manage the newspaper "Tomorrow will be another long day but that is good Life is kind to those who work hard and are humble" Kazuko tosses her head back and laughs then helps Kuniko stack the four heavy plates of type Next week another issue of the Utah Nippo will be delivered on time to 6)0 subscribers providing the 100-ytold printing press is good for another run “It should be OK” says Kazuko “After all Mother is nearly as old as it is and she doesn't need an overhaul She's in better shape than most people half her age” Kuniko's lips crinkle into a smile Although she does not know English (except for the phrase “That is a cat’’) she knows that Kazuko is discussing her “condition" again Kuniko does not understand what all the fuss is about She is nearly 91 and works seven days sr “Why would anybody want to do a story about me?" she asks “This is just an everyday routine for me I'm just doing my job” She hangs up her printer's apron brushes the dust from her hands and leans against the front doorway A few feet away from the old printing press and the antique racks of War II Japanese type the modern world rushes by A store and a McDonald's restaurant are on the corner a barber shop and Taco Time are across the street Cars speed along North Temple on their way to the airport truckloads of people looking for good deals on black paintings and Dean Martin albums pull into the swap meet at the fairgrounds Inside her Nippo office hidden from the rest of 10th West by flowering peach trees and Japanese cherry trees Kuniko shakes her head and looks through the latest Tokyo newspapers for stories to reprint “The old ways take more time” she says as Kazuko translates "but old things bring much joy The reason I have kept working is to See B-- 2 Column 4 pre-Wor- ld velvet-backgrou- — Tnbun SlN Ptvxo by Lynn R Johnton Glasses pushed back oo her bead Is trademark of Kuniko Teresawa who at 60 publishes monthly Japanese newspaper |