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Show Charges Remain Elusive in Bombing Deaths by Mike CarLer Lliett. the chief ot the county attorney's Justice Division, assured media representatives that the complaints in the deaths of Steven F Christensen and Kathleen Sheets "likely" would be filed Wednesday The prosecutors assigned to the case had constructed their complaints, were drafting the probable cause statements and had decided which charges would be filed under what statutes, reporters were Tribune Staff Writer Months after bombs killed tw u Salt Lake City people and critically injured the documents dealer who would become the prime suspect m the case, prosecutors and detectives continue to huddle for hours behind dosed doors, emerging and claiming that murder charges are imminent. Those deadlines have the days have passed many times turned into weeks without charges d being issued. Last week. Salt Lake County Attorney Ted L. Cannon and Walter "Bud" told It looked to bi the real thing this time. Reporters began checking with the office early Wednesday morning and. in one case, a reporter from Cali fornia flew into town tor the event three months to the Wednesday day after pipe bombs claimed the Mr Christen lives of the Ant's inulysis . - sen and Mrs Sheets. 50 passed like all of the other days without a complaint being filed Mr. Cannon, his prosecutors and m vestigators remained locked in a conference room on the fourth floor of the Courtside Office Building discuss ing the case tor the second day in a row hat they have discussed and why barges have not been issued remains a matter of speculation. Nor does this most recent delay mean that charges will not be filed Every indication from the county attorney's of ice is that complaints will be issued within W i days W hat is know n, however, is that detectives continue to actively investigate possible fi aud angles and allegations that Mark W. Hofmann, the man pinpointed by authorities within 72 hours of the murders as being their Local panned out. And Mr. Cannon has acknowledged that the three experienced prosecutors assigned to the case have differences of opinion as to the strength of the evident gathered by police And despite the thousands ul man hours (mured into the case, sources have said that little new evidence pertaining to the murders themselves has been turned lip in the past two months. What police have done however. is track thousands of leads and investigated literally hundreds ol documents deals involving Mr Hoi "prime suspect," was involved in somehow lurging some of the valuable documents that he dealt for a living. The case, whatever it consists of, is not "together" yet It is also clear that, regardless ot the amount of time spent by the do ens of investigators from the Salt Lake City Police Department, county sheriffs office and the county attorney's office, that what police have at best is a circumstantial case that is causing prosecutors concern At least some of the evidence that led police to focus on Mr. Hofmann in the first place apparently has not 1 hur-ilii- January Morning v See Section It H-- Column l(. D( Iajic 1 Colleges Face Cuts If Budget Plan Dies H y Backup Idea to Bangerter's Spells Layoffs, Fewer Classes A By Peter Scarlet Tribune Education Editor Employee layoffs, fewer classes and shorter library hours are possibilities for Utahs colleges and universities if the Legislature rejects Gov. Norm Bangerters proposal to use some flood money to make up a $25 million budget shortfall. Like other state agencies, the Utah System of Higher Education was asked to come up with a plan to im2 percent budplement a get cut if lawmakers spurn the governor's plan. A 2 percent cutback would be necessary to make up the $25 million shortfall but would jump to 4 percent if legislators didn't require the state's public education system to reduce their budget by 2 percent, too. W. Rolfe Kerr, Utah's commissioner of higher education, outlined areas that would be affected by a d budget cut in a e memo to members of the State Board of Regents. These inlast-minu- -- Tribune rally at the Federal Building, 125 S. commemoration of slain civil rights leader Rev. High school students State, in Stott Photo by A1 Hortmonn Martin Luther King Jr. The students, from Salt Lake City School District, marched up State Street to the Capitol. last-minut- state-ordere- two-pag- clude: Lawmakers Urged to Declare Holiday Students March to Capitol to Honor King By Anne Palmer Tribune Staff Writer Approximately 350 students in the Salt Lake City School District showed that, like Martin Luther King Jr., they were willing to walk as well as talk by celebrating the slain civil-righleader's birthday with a march to the state Capitol Rotunda Wednes- ts i day. While Utah does not officially recognize Dr. King's birthday, w'hich was made a national holiday by President Reagan in 1983. the school district organized daily activities for its schools during the week. The march was billed as the highlight of the weeks events. After gathering at the Federal Building, 125 S. State St., at 1:30 p.m., participants marched up State Street carrying signs and banners emblazoned with human-right- s slogans to the Capitol Rotunda, where Mayor Palmer DePaulis congratulated the marchers for taking up the commitment initiated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He urged a continued commitment. one which may bring to this country a sense of right, a sense of brotherhood brought about by nonviolence, by working within the system." The majority of students in the march were from South, West. East and Highland high schools. Student representatives from Glendale Intermediate School. Rowland Hall-SMark's, the University of Utah School of Social W'ork, and an alternative-educatio- n program for students age 12 to 17, the New Pride project, also took part. t. The Rev. France A. Davis, pastor Calvary Baptist Church, shared his perspective on the historic march on D.C., in 1963, when Washington, 200,000 people demonstrated in support of black demands for equal rights. The Rev. Davis participated in the Selma to Montgomery, Ala., march with Dr. King in 1965. Recalls leaders speech. I ing the have a dream that this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, We hold these truths to be that all men are creof civil-right- t: ated equal, the pastor said, "This holiday reminds us we are still striving to become fully American. "We come to this seat of government unified because we dare to dream," U. of U. political science Professor J.D. Williams told the crowd. Citing figures which indicate huge discrepancies between poverty levels for blacks and whites, Mr. Wil- liams urged those gathered at the Capitol to "keep heat on lawmakers to let us dream these dreams. Two high school students who tied for first place in a districtwide speech contest on the theme of Mar- tin Luther King and the search for human rights, also addressed their peers from the marble steps of the Rotunda. West High School senior Mechelle Martinez gave an emotional presentation that explored the sources of Dr. King's sentiments. Calling segregation "an evil separation of human beings," she spoke of human beings repressed by the apartheid government of South Africa. East High School senior Peter See Column 4 B-- A hiring freeze and reductions or and tempoelimination of part-tim- e rary employment, resulting in fewer course offerings, reduction of library hours, further reduction of custodial services, disruption of faculty replacement, and further postponement of maintenance and administrative controls. Cutbacks in already limited planned expenditures for equipment and for library acquisitions, resulting in compounding problems now existing in the two areas, larger future requests for catch up funding, limiting instructional expenses for'eurrent studies. In some areas, institutional accreditation problems could result. Substantial cuts in remaining budgets for travel and current expenses, resulting in using up existing coal stockpiles (requiring more money next year to make up the loss), and inadequate instructional materials and laboratory supplies. Defer investments in physical plant maintenance, leading to additional deterioration, extra costs later on as a result, and a bigger backlog of postponed maintenance. "Some kinds of expenditures cannot be substantially cut back, such as snow removal or maintaining heat and lights when buildings are used. said Dr. Kerr. C. Gail Norris, associate commissioner for budget and finance, said a 2 percent budget cutback in the higher education system's current 1985-8budget would result the culling of $4.9 million from the system's $249 million base budget. In an analysis prepared for the legislative analyst's office. Mr. Norris said the University of Utah would have to cut $2.2 million from its current base budget. Utah State University would have to cut slightly more than $1.1 million. Weber State College would have to cut $598,262, Southern Utah State College $180,988, Snow College $101,850. Dixie College $98,824, and the College of Eastern Utah $83,412. Utah Technical College at would have to cut $219,954. and its counterpart, Utah Technical College at Salt Lake, would have to reduce its budget by $250,576. The regents office, which administers the higher education system, would have to drop its budget bv $25,864. 6 $95,000 Budget Cuts May Slow Flood Claims By Dave Jonsson Tribune Staff Writer State emergency services officials told a legislative committee Wednesday they're worried a proposed $95,000 funding reduction will close down their work in processing local governments claims for 1983 and 1984 flood damages. e Emergency Services Director Tempest told the Transportation and Public Safety appropriations committee that more than 85 percent of claims from the two years, being prepared for review and payment by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), still aren't completed. "If wc stop processing claims, they'll stop processing checks," she told lawmakers. She said it may take two more years to get all the money from FEMA that is being requested. Gov. Norman H. Bangerter has proposed a $4,197,900 budget for the Office of Comprehensive Emergency Management (CEM) but the Legislative Analyst's Office has pared this in such a way that the personal services budget would be reduced by $95,000 in total funding. The decrease woul amount to two staff posiu S. Ms. Tempest said the claims pro cess has been dragged out in part by the detail that FEMA requires getting down to just "dollars fur hard hats" before it pays claims. Partly, she also said, some counties have kept poor records, and costs for flood repairs or countermeasures have often had to bo reconstructed from time cards, receipts, etc. It also didnt help to have disasters" that forced claims work on 1983 to slow down while claims work on 1984 got under way. Ms. Tempest noted that about 15 percent of 1983 claims have been finally closed out, while only six percent of 1984 claims have been completed. Lawmakers are using the first l weeks to listen to agency officials and thus took no action on the CEM budget. Slate Public Safety Commissioner John T. Nielsen led off committee work by urging legislators to heed the growing drug problem in the state and not allow public safety funding to shrink. As a percentage of the sute budget, the department is slumping from 2.2 percent this year to 16 percent in the upcoming year. Lor-ayn- Wounded Falcon On Road to Recovery at Boise Center An injured peregrine falcon delivered this week to a Provo woman was transported Wednesday to Boise for expert veterinary care. The bird, a year-olfemale, had one broken wing and a flesh wound in the other wing. It had apparently been shot, said Bob Walters, a e biologist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. d non-gam- Despite the wounds, he said the bird appears healthy and will probably fly again. Peregrines are an endangered species which wildlife experts have been attempting in the United States. The bird to found near Provo had bands on its legs indi Emery Mining Contract cating it had been raised in captivity and released last spring in Grand Teton National Park. Peregrines were also released at two locations last year in Utah. A pair of the rare one wild and the other released sevbirds eral years ago in Idaho have spent the last two years in downtown Salt Lake City. Mr. Walters said the Provo incident marks the second time this winter that a peregrine has been shot. Early in the winter a trained peregrine was shot and killed while it was flying near the Great Salt Lake. No one has been charged in connection with that - tinier Constant There have also been recent reports of people taking pot shots" at bald eagles on Ogden Bay. Bald eagles are also endangered species. "It's just ridiculous for people to be plink-in- g at birds at all. It's deplorable," said Mr. Walters. It's also illegal. The maximum criminal penalty for killing a federally protected endangered species is a $20,000 fine andor a year in prison. Mr. Walters said a Provo woman who trains falcons received a telephone call Tuesday from an unknown person who told her to look on her back porch. There she discovered the injured peregrine in a gunny sack. The bird received first aid from a Provo veterinarian before being moved to the Peregrine Fund's new World Birds of Prey center in Boise. This is where most of the peregrines and other rare falcons are being bred for release in the wild. Mr. Walters speculated that the bands on the injured peregrines's legs may have alerted whoever shot it to the fact that it was a special bird. "Unbanded birds probably stand a much lower chance of making it," he said. Law enforcement officers are trying to determine who shot the bird and where and when the incident occurred. 1 Evaluation UP&L Says Insurance Woes May Alter Mine Economics By Guy Boulton Tribune Staff Writer Utah Power & Light Co.s continuing inability to obtain sufficient insurance for its coal operations could alter the economics of owning its own coal mines, Sidney Baucom, UP&Ls executive vice president and general counsel, said Wednesday. week on IJP&L's controversial UP&L has no qualms about canceling its contract with Emery Mining, the operator of UP&Ls coal mines, if economic conditions change, Mr. The conv contract with Emery Mining Corp., the operator of its coal mines, is "under constant evaluation, he said. His comments were backed by Baucom said in two interviews this eoal opera ti ,.s James Taylor, chief executive officer, who said, "Wc will continually look at the contract." Any decision to terminate the ery Mining contract, though, should be based on economics, Mr. Baucom said, and UP&L believes the contract Em- Patches of Blue Show Through, But Inversion Remains Patches of blue sky could be seen from the bait Lake Valley Wednesday after a weak slorm passed through Utah in the early morning hours The minor storm wasn't powerful enough to dislodge the inversion that has persisted over the region, but it did stir up the air enough to break the stranglehold which fog has held over northern Utah valleys. The storm also deposited freez- ing rain that made driving conditions difficult south of the border between Salt Lake and Utah counties, said National Weather Service meteorologist William Alder. Freezing rain was reported in localized areas between and Delta, and It was mixed with light snow from Ogden north into the Cache Valley. The slorm also produced rain in Milford and Cedar City and light snow in Panguitch, Mr. Alder said, Two to 3 Inches of new snow were repi ted In the mountains The Weather Service meteorologist said a storm expected to reuch the Wasatch Front by Saturday " "looks like Its going like bye-bye,- several of its predecessors. However, the cold air ridge that has sustained the inversion for so long In northern Utah valleys is weakening and there is a probability that storms next week could break It up. "The tendency (or the air to remain stagnant is still there, but we wont get quite ns strong of an Inversion," the meteorologist said. is in the best interests of its ratepayers. UP&L's insurance companies canceled their policies, however, after the Wilberg Mine fire that killed 27 miners in December 1984. UP&L currently has $7.5 million in property insurance, which is adequate to cover potential damage in one mine, he said. But the company's liability insurance has a $10 million deductible. I don't think we have sufficient coverage. I would feel more comfortable with more coverage," he said. "The insurance picture is an area for intensive scrutiny because that is the area where the risk is." Unlike an unregulated business, UP&L cannot raise its prices to compensate for the increased risk to its shareholders, Mr. Baucom said Ken Powell, of the state Division of e Public Utilities, said: "I think the Wil-Se- B-- Column 5 "back-to-bac- k sev-era- I |