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Show 2D The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, January 13, 1966 Streamflows, Biotech Research Are Top Farm Issues for Lawmakers By Eric McMullin Tribune Agriculture Writer Minimum streamflows, a $1 million request for biotechnology research and a 91.2 million addition to the states water and soil conservation loan fund highlight farm issues in the upcoming legislative session. The 45th Legislature convenes Monday and farm officials will be monitoring those issues as well as an effort to exempt farm buildings and equipment from personal property tax, potentially a $4 9 million exemption, said Booth Wallentine, Utah Farm Bureau executive vice president. Other farm issues include the Department of Agriculture's $8 million budget request and efforts to restrict wildlife damage payments, to provide money for the state to buy the Marysvale railroad line and to allow on state the use of three-wheele- rs highways. The departments budget request represents a 2.1 percent increase 6 over the budget and a nearly $4.5 million reduction from the 1985-198- original request, said Agriculture Commissioner Cap Ferry. The increase would allow the department to hire four food inspectors. "We didnt cut health and safety. When health and safety are concerned, you dont cut. He said the department needs a meat inspector, a meat inspector-grader, a weights and measures inspector and a food and dairy inspector. The meat inspectorgrader is a new position designed to eliminate inefficiency. An inspector checks sanitation while graders grade the meat as to choice and prime, he said, and with the number of small meat-packein Utah, one man can perform both jobs, saving the businessman considerable cost. One possible saving in the weights and measures division, which verifies such things as grain scales, supermarket scales and gas pumps, is to charge companies for the service. The state requires an annual inspection and Commissioner Ferry said that should be provided free. After rs Federal Program Aids In Salt Lake and Tooele Counties Job-Seeke- By Anne Palmer Tribune Staff Writer More than 4,000 disabled, dislocated and unemployed workers in Salt Lake and Tooele Counties took advantage of assistance provided by the federal Job Training Partnership Act last year. The largest group of served in the second year since JTPA was developed were primarily adults seeking entry-levjobs. The second largest group aided by JTPA training and employment programs were disabled and disadvantaged youth. According to the second annual assessment of the Wasatch Front South Private Industry Council, which administers local JTPA programs, 582 dislocated Salt Lake and Tooele County workers were given assistance. Many lost their jobs when closed its Utah copper mining operations and laid off 2,200 workers last March. Salt Lake County Division of Job Training and Development spokesman John Nicksich said former workers referred to JTPA were at more of a loss because of the specialized nature of their former positions. He said many workers who sought job assistance come from families where generations have rs low-inco- Ken-neco- tt Ken-neco- tt rs worked in the copper mining operations. More than 78 percent of adults served by the Wasatch Front South PIC programs entered employment after undergoing skill assessments and participating in job seeking and training skills sessions. That compares to a national standard of 59.6 percent of adults who are hired after completing JTPA programs, which are funded through the U.S. Department of Labor. The number of welfare recipients and youth program participants who secured employment after completthough ing the local program slightly less than the number of adults who find jobs exceed national levels by comparable amounts. Those eligible to participate in JTPA programs must be certified to receive assistance, economically or physicially disabled, or dislocated workers. A list of requirements also stipulates that participants must be residents of Salt Lake or Tooele County. The JTPA certification unit is located in the Job Service Building, 1234 S. Main St. Dislocated workers also can receive assistance at the Resource Center, 3540 S. 4000 West, Suite 260. Computer Executive Dies of Leukemia Special to The Tribune OREM Rulon LaMar Thayne, president and principal owner of Highland Systems, a computer software company, died Saturday of leukemia. He was born June 8, 1933 in Mountain Home to Rulon and Margaret Thayne. He married Wilma Pearson, June 9, 1952 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He was serving in the Navy at the time. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1958 with a degree in political science. ; He worked in computer systems with the federal government in Illinois and Washington D.C and joined the IBM corporation in 1963 serving that company until 1970 when he became the director of systems planning for the State of Utah. He was a member of the board of directors of the National Association of State Information Systems. In 1973 he became vice president of Envirotech Corp. He left that company in 1980 to begin his own company. He was active in the LDS Church. He is survived by his wife; mother, Bountiful; children, Robert, Charlotte, North Carolina; Richard, Elk Ridge, Utah County; Mrs. Brian (Michele) Nimer, Salt Lake City; Jeff, Maracaibo, Venezuela; seven grandchildren; sisters and brothers, Leola Stapley, Prescott, Ariz; Mrs. Don J. (Laree) Gines, Bountiful; Mrs. Alan (Mona) Hiaght, Farmington; David Blaine, Salt Lake City; John Dewey, Houston, Tex. Funeral services are scheduled for noon Tuesday in the Orem 18th Ward Chapel, 1050 E. 200 North. Friends may call 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Sund-ber- g Mortuary, 495 S. State, Orem and at the church one hour prior to service. He will be buried in Orem City Cemetery. HEARING AIDS CUSTOM-MAD- E Custom built to your FREE HEARING TEST. Test done in our office or in the privacy of your home. (Helps hear in noisy places and soft sounds.) Sold elsewhere up to $600. 90 $290 c.w.o. DAY EXCHANGE Includes electronic testing aid selection, dispensing, counse service. follow-u- p WHY BUY HEARING AID SPECIALISTS CO. YOUft hearing aid 70 South 900 East, S.L.C., Ut 533-006- ELSE? ANYWHERE HEALTH CENTER EXPIRES JAN. 30th 4 one-tim- low-intere- st 8.0 FOOTHILL THRIFT 104 I (X)thill Dr. 2029 L. 7000 S. (in I kins 1 xx)s) $100 minimum Avthill I Still Mt"iJi.m il t I'tpOIrtllOtt, ' t rlldl tltlUY I f owtinJ maiKidl A.hhJ, S I'fowv, I W .ur iM.UtVul tip to HO tht lid UstM.ll J 1 tlir Ml a hm Hill iv Klvtt fiairttun. KiJiaul Sue JiiliniMil I Vi'iuni' 58HMO; 944 MW cut this ahead of health and safety, but just ahead. The Utah Farm Bureau supports Commissioner Ferrys budget request, said Mr. Wallentine. "Virtually all of those legislative initiatives were reviewed on a county level, he said. We applaud Mr. Ferry for going out to the farmers and ranchers to be sure their budget is what farmers and ranchers want. The bureau will be busy monitoring its own issues. The minimum streamflow bill represents a compromise and Mr. Wallentine gives it a good chance of passage. It encourages the Division of Wildlife Resources to purchase water rights where it wants to maintain minimum streamflows to maintain fishing opportunities. The Farm Bureau has long opposed any mandatory minimum streamflows, preferring to use the water for irrigation when necessary. The $1 million for biotechnology research is included in a $6 million USU research grant and would be used for research into practical ap rp'H4lHn, pilMtf hkh tv ret At) ihsliu if hr Male il I th or olrul ( lotrrnmeni as to plications of such things cloning e strains, wheat new produce innoculations that can be made permanent and more efficient ways of fermenting food. The request has been approved by Gov. Bangerter, the Board of Regents and each of the states 17 farm organizations. one-tim- Ward, is Rep. Evan Olsen, sponsoring a bill to exempt farm property from property taxes, an exemption granted by some 20 states nationwide. Farm officials also are supporting state to purchase the Marysvale railroad line in central Utah and to allow farmers to use vehicles on highways if their use is agricultural. The use of ATVs on farms is growing as many farmers find them cheaper and more convenient for transportation than drive vehicles and tractors, he bills to allow the four-whe- el said. are concerned that may attempt to reduce legislators agricultural representation on both the state land board and the Committee of Consumer Services. Officials also Lou Grant Series Veteran Recalls His Dream Role By Teri Gomes Tribune Correspondent PARK CITY If the truth be known, I never did identity as much with Billy, the female reporter on Lou Grant, as I did with Joe Rossi. Do you remember the television series for five years, which took us inside the city room of a major metropolitan newspaper and introduced us to all of those wonderful characters? Then you rememg ber Rossi. He was the journalist who was rather green, but eager, tough, wanting to be fair l. and slightly My kind of - hard-hittin- pate issues and hard news. Walden said those scripts were developed three months before the show even aired. Nonetheless, the writers did seem to have a news nose. In fact, Walden said that Connie Chung, Now an anchorwoman for NBC, admitted to him more than once she had taken an issue from a Lou Grant episode and developed it into a news story. Walden is now in his second season in the popular comedy on Showtime, Brothers. He plays the owner of the bar and the middle journalist. After that Walden had a bit of the bug. To date he has produced more than 14 articles for publication from New York Magazine to the San Francisco Examiner. 1 think newspaper writing is the most underpaid skill around, said Walden. Even if I had the talent, I doubt if I have the stamina to work like real journalists do. Often it seemed on the episodes that I watched, there was stories that seemed to antici of Lou Grant anti-socia- guy- - This past weekend Robert Walden, the actor who portrayed Joe Rossi, was in town to lend his talents to the Steve Garvey Ski Clas- sic for Special Olympics. Rossi, er Walden, took time to talk about journalists and their profession. Lou Grant was my dream series to do, said Walden. Id wanted for years to see a show done on television about the news profession. Because lets face it, it is a dramatic profession and I learned a lot about it doing that series. As part of his research for the character, Walden began to explore how journalists work and talked about the fact that one day he should really try his own hand at writing a piece. It was a desire well known to an entertainment reporter for the Washington Post. So When Alden showed up for his scheduled interview at The Post, the reporter said something like So I understand you want to write. To which Rossi, er Walden, said Yeah, one of these days I plan to do that. The reporter then challenged him to produce a piece that very afternoon in the offices of The Post, by deadline, just a few hours away. I really couldnt see any way out of it, so I sat down at the typewriter and began. (Bob Woodward walked past my desk snickering and Ben Bradley Editor announced to everyone that they were running an interview by Johnny Carson and some piece by Robert Walden, that there was this incredible amount of pressure to produce. The piece which did make it by deadline was a first person article on what it was like to portray a By Conrad Walters Tribune Staff Writer The Salt Lake City Arts Council, given near autonomy when created as a city advisory board in 1976, is scheduled to te re evaluated to ensure its goals still parallel the city's. Ironically Salt Lake Citys move to reassess the groups freedom stems from the organizations successful efforts to secure a prestigious federal grant for expanding the citys arts program. Formed as a clearing house for arts requests, the Arts Council in the spring of 1985 asked city executives for supportive letters for a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Sydney Fonnesbeck wrote one: We support the Councils grant application because we know how much mileage it gets out of each dollar it receives. The Arts Council also asked Ted Wilson for a letter. The NEA received one flush with praise because the Arts Council wrote the letter and, with approval, signed Mayor Wilsons name. The result was that the Arts Council was one of 12 groups nationwide selected for one of the grants. But the City Council was not told the grant required matching city money, said Council Director Carole Stokes. The grant gives the Arts Council $200,000 on the condition that Salt Lake City donates $400,000 in new arts money over three years. The current budget includes $50,000 that qualified, and earlier this month money was found that was ten brother of three. In the series, his older brother Lou is a and his younger brother Cliff is gay. Once again for Walden there is an attempt to make the show relevant to breaking news. red-nec- k, "I read some stories last year about a wave of gay bashing that was taking place back East, you know where gays are beat up. In one case I ran into a gay in Buffalo who was basically forced to jump off a bridge and he died. I suggested to the writers that we do a show about gay bashing and they said whats funny about that? They didnt want to do the show. After we talked for awhile I told them if the characters Joe and Lou decid- ed to dress up and go into the gay bar in the area where their brother Cliff was beat up that maybe they could at least do some funny bits about the dressing up part of the story. When the episode did air, there was Joe and Lou fighting over getting something a little more blue, you know I really look best in . blue. And this fall when the networks Robert Walden, who portrayed a journalist on the Lou Grant show, was in Park City to raise money for Special Olympics. were struggling with producing movies and episodes about the disease, Aids, it was Brothers who aired the first television show on the topic. But Walden was careful to point out that the show was about much more than Aids. It was about Aids and it was about Downs Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis and loneliness and loss. All those things were somehow in there. It was real emotional for me. Walden composes himself, then continues. Ive never shown that much emotion in front of a camera, never. It is still real emo-- ; tional for me to even talk about that episode. I asked him if he was still doing any writing and he said just last year he had a piece in Ski Maga- zine about being a novice skier. Walden left to join his team of Special Olympians, a program he has been involved with for a number of years. He was back on the slopes and I was left to sit in the sunshine at Deer Valley and savor one tiny detail. Last year I also had a small piece in Ski Magazine about a Russian journalist who had visited Park City. Imagine that, Joe Rossi and I, working for the same publication. ; ; ! ) ' ; I ; New Building Usage Arts Council to Undergo then-May- I well-spen- You Park City Visitor Aids Ski Classic City Councilwoman SAVINGS: but originally was meant to be built up to $90 million. The department initially requested $2 million this year. The $750,000 for insect control is down from an original request of $1.3 million, be said. The principal problem facing Utah farmers again next year will be grasshopper infestations, much of which will occur before the fiscal year begins in July. The department has some $650,000 left over from last year but plans to use that spraying 3 million acres this spring. One area the department will not cut is the approximately $60,000 used to help Utah farmers in marketing. A new position of marketing specialist was approved last year by the Legislature and some $37,000 is used in market development. This is money Commissioner Ferry t. says is This is probably one of the most important positions here. With the glut in farm goods, weve got to show farmers how to market. The whole goal is to make agriculture profitable. That takes care of all the other problems. Goals Must Parallel City's HEARING AID Litetime circuit warranty and a 30 day money back guarantee. that, however, he said the state should be able to recoup its costs. Even with Utahs clean record in dairy, another inspector is needed due to more stringent federal requirements In the wake of the salmonella crisis in Chicago and the Mexican cheese crisis in California, he said. Otherwise, Gov. Norm Bangerter denied the departments requests for a brand inspector, an additional meat Inspector, $69,000 for travel expenses that a previous Legislature mandated be paid to citizens who serve on advisory boards, $35,000 for software to computerize an agricultural data base and $500,000 for a loan fund for projects in the Deer Creek watershed. e In appropriations, the department will request $1.2 million for water and soil conservation loans and $750,000 for insect control. The $1.2 million would add to the states Agricultural Resource Development Loan Fund, a loan fund sponsored by Mr. Ferry when he was Senate president. The fund now has $13 million in resources, Re-Evaluat- ion tatively redefined as new money for the arts. The bulk of the remainder needed, $,0,000, will be used for a proposed parking lot at the Arts Council s headquarters. If the money can be found, financial scrutiny and a rechecking of goals is appropriate, said Mary Lee Peters, director of the city arts council. We think thats proper. That isnt a threatening thing to us, Mrs. Peters said. She said the city and arts group need to improve communication to avoid confusion like that surrounding the NEA grant. The Arts Councils enabling ordinance allowed it to hire an executive director, but since inception the organization has acquired a paid staff of 3V full-tim- e people. The budget has also grown from $118,000 in 1979 to $238,000 this year, said Arts Council aide Kim Duffin. He said administrative costs during the same time grew from $30,685 to $60,800. The reason for the growth, he said, is a broad expansion of programs expensive to administer. With the increases in budget and staff and the acquisition of the grant, a reassessment is planned, said Mayors Assistant Emilie Charles. "The City Council has made it very clear to me that they are concerned, Ms. Charles said. "Former Mayor Ted Wilson pretty much left them alone to do what they pleased, and they have remained independent," she said. "They are supposed to be city employees, but its a whole separate system. She said a revision of the organizations powers does not mean the City Council or Mayor would overtake Arts Council duties. But it would make sure they are accountable because they are receiving public dollars, Ms. Charles said. She said the Arts Council has already balked at one change. When Mayor Palmer DePaulis took office he revised the method for appointing members to city groups like the Arts Council. In the past, the Council submitted one name and awaited automatic ap- proval. But Mayor DePaulis wants three recommendations, and then he evaluates them. Ms. Charles said Arts Council was reticent about the change because theyve had control of their board and want to keep politics out. Mayor DePaulis also said he foresees an Arts Council review. But all city commissions and boards will receive one, too, he added. Although supportive of the Arts Councils work in the past, the mayor said communication lines and reporting requirements might need refocusing." As to whether the NEA surprise indicates the Arts Council requires scrutiny, he had a mixed response. "Yes, the city should be in the position that all decisions should be made within the parameters of budget and policy. But no in the sense the Arts Council wasnt out of tune with it, Mayor DePaulis said. UTech Close to Maximum At Special to The Tribune TAYLORSVILLE The new business building on the Redwood Road campus of Utah Technical College at Salt Lake is already close to maximum usage, pointing up the need to get the second phase of the building completed as soon as possible. Dr. Michael M. Homer, dean of the school of business and industry, said the standard measurement as used by the state Division Facilities, Construction and Management shows the usage between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. is up 100 percent in laboratories and nearly 79 percent in classrooms. This points up dramatically the need to get Phase II of this building completed as rapidly as possible," Dr. Homer said. If, say, we add 1,000 or more students in the fall of 1987 the date by which the University of Utah plans to restrict its enrollment of new students by increasing its entrance how will we accomrequirements modate them unless we get new classroom buildings under way? Dr. Homer noted its virtually impossible to find a classroom anywhere on campus not in use at some hours of the day. "The only real soft period is during the early morning and middle afternoon." He said the college has tried to get students to sign up for afternoon courses, but most of those have been canceled because of insufficient enrollment. Building on the campus is at a standstill In 1986, apart from an addition of a second level to the students' College Center, which begins In the summer. - |
