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Show . f V I Protesters Win Build Lillie Dell Dam, Water Board Says In County that divert the runoff from that creek possible to Continued From Tax Assessment the dam without version where it reservoir Little cussed since heavy spring eral assistance for about 4B The Salt Lake Tribune, B-- Friday, January l 1952 when runoff in Parleys Creek caused extensive flooding in Salt Lake City. Realizing that Mountain Dell was too small to contain the flood flows, city officials began preparing plans for another reservoir in the canyon. The Corps of Engineers initially proposed a huge, $80 million project for the Little Dell site. Those early plans included the construction of a tunnel to upper Emigration Canyon 17, 1986 it was to to Dell the could be stored until needed. The necessary land was acquired long ago and all the necessary envi- South. Bryan Butts, 28, Murray, went to the parking lot behind the club about midnight and found that the handle on scaled-dow- million. smaller than the Corps dam, it still alleviated the flood problems and provided enough drinking water for about 20,000 people a year. ronmental, hydrologic and geologic studies completed, but construction was stalled because of lack of federal funds and the inability of local sponsors to fund their share of the work. After languishing for years, Little Dell was revived last year when a local engineering company showed The Corps of Engineers responded with a scaled-dow- n version of its own that could be built for about $42.5 million. Although similar to the small dam proposed by the engineering firm, Mr. Countryman said the Corps proposal "may be safer because it included several features that should permit it to better handle a major his camper shell had been broken and flood. that the equipment, checkbooks and a credit card were missing, according to a police report released Thursday. Equipment included an amplifier, receiver, drum machine, speakers, violin, keyboard, gravity boots, digital delay, records and a box filled with bookkeeping materials. At their Tuesday meeting, the Metropolitan Water District board members decided to pursue the Corps revised plan and leave the engineering firms proposal as a backup in case problems are encountered obtaining federal funds. Todays Weather Thf Forecast 50r ' for 7 p.m. EST, Fri., Jan. 1 n Utah Forecast 7 Continued From l commissioners to revoke the Green-bel- t designation. "Whoever loses will appeal," Mr. Reed said. While appeals normally start with hearings before county commissioners, the state ordered board of equalization sessions closed Jan. 15. So, owners who couldnt get their cases to the county commission should go directly to the state, Mr. Reed was advised. He talked about another case thats a classic tale of why owners may be reluctant to seek equalization. Owners of eight properties in the block between State and Main from 200 to 300 South appealed a $3.3 million taxable value the county put on their facilities. That would have meant a tax bill totaling about $288,500. Owners didnt attend an initial hearing. But assessors, armed with the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agencys $3.5 million offer for those properties, were there. Value of the property was inB-- creased and taxes climbed to $306,000, Mr. Mostly cloudy skies, today with scattered rain and snow. Continued hazy, with a few areas of fog. Chance of mea- surable precipitation 30 percent. Afternoon highs will be in the upper 30s to low 40s, with overnight lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Reed said. U.S. Dapt. of Commerce Air Pollution Index Suit l.altr Bountiful Provo Ogilrn 100 Morginol 75 Good Very Good MU Excellent IS 73 64 23 OZ CO TP OZ Source: Utoh Health Dpt. 50 CO M OZ 42 CO M OZ CO Monoxtoe Friday and Saturday cent. Little change In temperatures. Daytime highs are expected to be In the upper 20s to low 30s, with nighttime lows In the upper 20s to lower 30s. Northern Utah Forecast Cache Valiev: Mostly cloudy, with a chonce tor snow possibly mixed with rain. Continued haze and fog, with colder temperatures. Highs will be In the low 30s, with lows In the mld-20- Western Desert and the Wasatch Front: The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies, with scattered rain or snow showers. Continued hazy ond cold, with patches of valley fog. Chance of measurable precipitation 30 percent at Salt Loke Citv. Temperatures throughout the region are: Wendover, low s 30s and overnight. Ogden, upper 30s and upper 20s overnight. Tooele, highs In the upper 30s to low 40s, evening lows In the upper 20s. Southern Utah Forecast Southwest Valley and Sevier Valley: Conditions will be mostly cloudy, with a few fog patches mainly during the night and morning hours. Very little change In temperatures. Afternoon highs will reach the low to mid- - to mld-20- upper 40s at Cedar City, with overnight lows In the mld-tupper 20s. Milford temperatures will be In the mid-tupper 40s, with nighttime lows In the lower 20s. Delta: in midIn the to lows the Highs upper 40s, mid- - to upper 20s. Utah's Dixie conditions will be partly cloudy, with area fog diminishing. Temperatures will be In the mld-tupper 50s, with overnight lows in the mld-tupper 30s. Recreational Areas Canyonlonds and Lake Powell: The forecost calls for Increasing clouds, with occasional patchy fog. Relatively little change In temperatures. Mostly cloudy ond mild Friday, becoming partly cloudy Saturday. Winds southwest 10 to 15 mph during the ofternoon hours. High temperatures today at Lake Powell will be In s with lows in the the highs ore expected to be In the mid s to 40s, with nighttime lows in the o o o o mld-30- mid-50- mid-20- lower 30s. Northern Utah ski areas: Conditions will be mostly cloudy, with scattered snow showers Friday and Saturday. Little chonge In dally temperatures. Daytime highs at 8,000 ft In the mld-30Evening lows In the lower 20s. Moderate west winds through the period. Northern Mountains: Mostly cloudy, with scattered snow showers. Moderate west to northwest winds. Slight change In temperatures Snowbird highs will reach the low 30s, Weather Summary with Brighton highs In the mld-30Nights to lower time lows mostly In the 20s. Southern Mountains: Conditions will be mostly cloudy today, with widely scattered snow showers. Light to moderate west winds are expected. Highs will be in the upper 30s to low 40s, with nighttime lows In the mid-teenExtended Forecast for Utah Sunday through Tuesday A weak Northern and Southern Utoh high pressure ridge will build over the Region early next week. The extended forecast colls for occasional In cloudiness the northern areos and fair to partly cloudy In the south. Very little In temperatures. The daytime change to highs are expected to be In the mid-20- s mid-30- s in the northern valleys, and In the 40s and 50s In the southern locations. Statewide lows will be mostly In the teens and 20s, except for single digits In a few high northern valleys. Extended Forecast for Idaho Sunday through Tuesday Northern ond Southern Idaho The extended forecast calls for occasional rain or snow showers In the valleys, and occasional snow showers In the mountain regions. to Afternoonhighs will be In the mid-20- s near 40, with evening lows In the teens to near 30. Global Temps Intermountain M Missing T Yesterday's By Guy Boulton Tribune Staff Writer The Utah Attorney Generals Office has yet to decide whether special agent Wayne Wickizer can return to k suswork although his with pay expired Thursday. pension Chief Deputy Attorney General Paul Tinker said he did not know when a decision on Mr. Wickizers job status will be made. "My guess is the current arrangement of administrative leave will be extended for at least a couple more days, he said. Mr. Wickizer was suspended with pay after testifying before a panel of 3rd District Court Judges assembled to hear issues people believe cannot be properly investigated by the county attorneys office or the attorney generals office. The judges plan to impanel a grand jury to investigate matters relating to Utah Power & Light Co. and the Salt Lake County Attorneys Office. Mr. Wickizer has worked on a Continued From B-- l made by the defendant until the jury is impaneled. The judge also postponed action on a motion for a change of venue until jury selection begins next Tuesday. Defense Attorney Brown based his arguments for a change on pre-tripublicity and the fact the prosecution attorneys both lived and worked in Summit County. In other motions, Judge Daniels denied a defense motion to suppress evidence of flight by the defendant. Mr. Mitchell was indicted by a Summit County grand jury in May 1985 for the murder of Mr. Duncan, and remained a fugitive until he was apprehended by FBI agents in Springfield, Mo. in October 1985. The judge, however, did grant a defense motion to drop an aggravated burglary charge, but did not agree to e murlessen or drop the der charge. Judge Daniels ruled the testimony of a telephone operator may be heard at the trial. Mr. Brown had argued that information obtained form the al first-degre- SCMBSa Conditions Montana Trace short-hande- d Utah Legislative Auditor Generals reported to the Legislature Thursday. A shortfall, whose cause hasn t been pinned down, has left the commission without enough maintenance money or enough cash to cover the salaries of its seasonal workers. Inadequate budget preparation and controls" stemming from a "poorly structured budget is at fault, reported Legislative Auditor Wayne L. Welsh and State Auditor Tom L. Allen in a joint statement Thursday. This condition resulted in important items being excluded from the budget. The exact reasons they were excluded is unknown. Contributing to the deficiency was poor communication between management and division directors regarding budget needs. The report, asked for by Gov. Norm Bangerter, twas submitted to the Legislature through the joint Audit Subcommittee. The auditors said, "It is important to state that the Tax Commission has made significant progress in correct Office Commission and executive director are "working hard to correct them auditors Welsh and Allen said "We estimate that the Tax Commission needs an additional $1.05 millevlion to achieve planned service some said. Originally, the report els, as needed; $2 6 million was projected to million $1.05 been has pared this through incorporating the likelihood that currently unfilled staff positions will remain unfilled through the end of the current fiscal year. The shortfall has left the Tax Commission short some $347,000 that it is expected to need to hire seasonal workers to process tax returns, and short some $68,000 for rental of its of the budget, parking lot. Left out also, was $305,500 needed to help maintain the Heber M. Wells Build; ing. "The shortfall should have been discovered much sooner. At the end of the 1985 legislative session, the combudget officer did not prepare a of plete and accurate reconciliation the final appropriation and the budreget request. Consequently, the wasnt shortfall the fully said, port recognized until September. criminal investigation into UP&L for three years. His testimony before the secret judges panel has not been disclosed. Mr. Wickizer said his attorney has been negotiating with the attorney generalss office and referred all comments to him. Personally, Id like to get back to work, Mr. Wickizer said. Mr. Tinker said he would not put a specific day on when a decision on Mr. Wickizer will be make. There are some other things that have to fall into place," he said, but would not explain what he meant by things. Mr. Wickizer was suspended with pay because his appearance before the judges panel violated an office policy against disclosing information obtained from an investigation. The attorney generals office requested in writing that Mr. Wickizer disclose what he told the judges panel. When Mr. Wickizer refused, he was told to hand in his badge, weapon and office key, told to clean out his desk and was placed on administra- tive leave. Any speculation that the attorney generals office was covering up its investigation into UP&L was said Paul Warner, head of litigation, when Mr. Wickizer was sushog-was- pended. The attorney generals office still maintains Mr. Wickizer did not have the right to testify before the judges panel, Mr. Tinker said. But a lawsuit filed in 3rd District Court Jan. 6 by Mr. Wickizer alleges that Attorney General David L. Wilkinson and Mr. Warner violated the law in attempting to force him to disclose what he told the judges. The lawsuit also contends Mr. Wickizer is protected by the whistleblower statute passed by the Utah Legislature in 1985. Mr. Wickizers lawsuit would not prevent him from returning to work, Mr. Tinker said, "but it certainly poses problems. Judge Rules Jury in Murder Trial Need Not Be Death Qualified Porhcutontt Area Forecast Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo Forecast A moist westerly flow will prevail over the Beehive State. Mostly cloudy today, with scattered rain or snow showers. Continued hazy, with o few areas of fog. Probability of measurable precipitation 30 per- Tribune Staff Writer The State Tax Commission is because it's short of cash some $1 million this fiscal year due to an error in budgeting last year, the 200 T" i ex- Attorney Generals Office Yet to Decide On Reinstatement of Suspended Agent two-wee- Mottonol ffMittar Sarvlca NOAA, that ing management problems exhave the of problems ist Many isted for years, and the current Tax By Dave Jonsson fed- $25 While it was much Musicians Vehicle Robbed of Equipment A musician told Salt Lake City police that equipment valued at $3,200 was removed from his vehicle while he was performing Wednesday night at the Green Parrot Cafe, 155 W. 200 build a of Tax Commission Strapped By Shortfall in Budget Yesterday's Conditions 3" Post Bunk Bed Heavy Bunk telephone operator in the early morning hours following the murder should not be admissible in the trial. The call is alleged by the prosecution to have been made collect by the defendant to a man in Miami at 2 a m. on Aug. 5, 1985. Mr. Duncan was killed Aug. 4 about 11:30 a.m. Since the call was collect, the operator had to wait for the Miama party to accept the charges. After he did, apparently the operators equipment did not immediately shut off and she overheard the first part of a conversation between the two men. Judge Daniels ruled that since it was not a willful act to overhear part of the call, it was not unlawful and therefore the evidence could be used in the trial. The judge also denied a defense motion to have prosecutor Terry Christiansen removed from the case. Defense Attorney Gerald McPhee argued that Mr. Christiansen, a deputy Summit County Attorney, should be removed because he was an attorney for Mr. Mitchell in a 1982 real estate transaction. In that transac Heavy Bunk Daily Data Note: This Information Is received daily from the National Weather Service at the Salt Loke International Airport. Precipitation readings ond temperatures ore those recorded at the airport. Yesterday's Weather Data Trace. Precipitation Precipitation Accumulative In o 27. January o 39. detlcencv 5.93. Precipitation since Oct. 1, 1985 Accumulative excess 1.54. 58 at St. George. Utah high 8 at Logan. Utoh low S.L.C. high 45 degrees. S.L.C. low 24 degrees. 37 Normal high tor this date degrees. 19 Normal low tor this date degrees. 56 degrees. Record high for this date 5 Record low tor this date degrees. Sunt Ise Today 7:49 MST. Sunset Today 5 27 MST. Utah Agr Iculture Forecast: Continued hazy ond cloudy, with scattered roln and snow showers Ar eas of valley tog. ffiEDCSB' in 1984. The same motion and arguments had been heard in November before 5th Circuit Judge Frank Noel, who denied the motion. The prosecution had argued that after executing the trust deed, Mr. Christiansen had no further dealings with Mr. Mitchell and in fact, the property in question had been foreclosed upon in 1983. Mr. Brown asked Park City Police Chief Frank Bell if one of the earlier theories in the case hadnt been that the bullet was actually intended for Mr. Oliver and not Mr. Duncan. Chief Bell said that had been an early theory, but when questioned by Judge Daniels about whether that would have been an argument the prosecution planned to use, Mr. Adkins said it was not. The trial of Mr. Mitchell will begin Tuesday in Coalville. iravinffm ravin rra TSTTnrg S303SHM FREE Frame or Headboard With Any Set Sold 2x6 Sturdy Bunk Bed a trust deed the trustor was Brian Oliver and the beneficiary was Mr. Mitchell. 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