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Show oca $be jialt Cakr tribune TS umlay Morning eclion It Oltum His Beat -T- something so warm about that voice. Just listen: It comes rolling out of the overhead loudspeakers so smooth'y. soothingly full of a penetrating huskiness that's almost a growl. All is well, the voice is saying. Fasten your seat belts; settle back. Relax and enjoy the flight with us today. And after the seat belt sign has been turned off, the flight attendants will be around to serve you champagne. And so we relax. Lulled by this mellow voice, we uncurl our toes inside our shoes and fold our hands on our laps. It's only 10:30 a m. or so, but suddenly a glass of champagne sounds like a wonderful idea. All is By Douglas L. Parker Tribune Political Editor Utah lawmakers were handed last week a potential "hit list" of new construction projects that could be delayed to provide money for covering a projected state government revenue shortfall for this fiscal year. Gov. Norm Bangerter has ordered about $43 million in spending for loan programs and building projects be held up pending the Utah Legisla tures decision on how to cure the looming deficit by the end of the fiscal year June 30. While legislators were in recess this weekend after completing their first week of a seven-weesession, they were left to examine what might be vulnerable on the construction list projects where the money has already been appropriated, but where the money is yet to be spent and could be diverted for the currently estimated $25 million shortfall. The money available from the stalled capital projects totals about $22 million, half of the governor's freeze." Lawmakers took aim at cutting back existing appropriations rather than initially following the governors recommendation to use reserve funds to balance the budget. The stalled building list includes most of the $3 million appropriated last year for building a new University of Utah performing arts building to replace the existing deteriorated dance building, an amount approved contingent upon the university rais wel. e, I am- - Bangerter Gives Legislature Hit List to Choose From here's THE VOICE OF the airline pilot does this every time: It's so deeeeep and reassuring, like some Papa bear. The voice produces a definite feeling of languor. Ahh, but wait. There's more going on here than meets the ear. This is to report that its all a sly trick. Indeed, weve been had. Stop and think with me: There just cant be that many growly voices in the world. Nor is there any reason to believe that all airline pilots in particular sound that way. Ive met several airline pilots in my time, and a lot of them are natural tenors who speak in voices just like the late Truman Capote. Surely you recall that arch lisp. Other pilots Ive known have breathy, whispery voices, like Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. (Kelly is another one of those guys whose entire career would have been ruined if he had ever blown his nose). .Well, then. If one of these pilots were to speak in his normal voice on a flight, there'd be panic in the skies. I can just picture the passengers glancing about nervously, thinking, Hoo-bodid you hear that? If we get into any trouble on this trip, that silly twit is going to come scampering out of the flight deck screaming, Oh, my stars! WELL, MY THEORY is that theres some sort of secret device planted in the sound system on airliners. Its called Old Velvet Tones or something like that, and it acoustically lowers the voice several octaves and adds special timbre. And, presto! the pilot comes off sounding just like Orson Welles daddy. I figure the airlines have conspired to keep this device a secret from all of us just to foster the illusion that all types pilots are gruff, hairy-voice- d wholl get us there safely, through thick and thin. . Think about it: Who knows what our airline flight crew is really like up there behind the closed door? Im no more jumpy than the next frequent flier (oh, all right, maybe a little), but sometimes I look at that flight deck door and fantasize. I mean, lets assume that our pilot is terrific; just a wonderful, talented guy with a great career safety record and all that. However, its just that he happens to speak in a high, squeaky voice with a pronounced lisp. He turns to his associates and says, Lookth like a thwell flight, gang. I wanna Hand me that miewo-phonthpeak to the folkth back there." And yet here we sit, aboard Westerns Flight 56, climbing toward our assigned cruising altitude of 33,000 feet, all of us calmed and soothed by those mellow tones coming over the loudspeakers. For those of you seated on the right side of the plane, the velvety bass voice is saying, that's Flaming Gorge Reservoir. . We dutifully peer out the window. Sure enough, the reservoir. All is well. Meanwhile, back at the galley, the flight attendants are uncorking the bubbly. I State May Shelve Projects to Cover Shortfall Bob AIRBORNE OVER UTAH January I'), I'JlWi k flood-contr- ing another $15 million from non- state sources. Another unencumbered $5 million is for campus developments at area vocational schools in Davis, Weber and Cache counties. In the corrections field, about $5 million remains free in planning for a Salt Lake County diagnostic center and a Davis County resource center. Still unspent is most of $2.9 million for another expansion phase at the State Fairgrounds Agricultural Expositions Facility and $1.1 million for completion of the northern Utah microwave system to link the state's communications network. Other substantial items on the building "freeze list include $1.6 million for the Snow College career-skill- s center and boiler work, $1 million for building repairs due to ground settlement at Southern Utah State College, $1.5 million for remodeling of Utah State University's building, $700,000 for a northern belt road around Utah Technical College at Salt Lake, and work at $400,000 for Weber State College's library. Gov. Bangerter doesnt advocate diverting any of these construction funds and will lift the freeze later to fulfill without legislative action the earlier legislative appropriation direction. He said he froze unspent funds to "enhance legislative options in curing the shortfall. But, at the same time, he indicated, it will force g again regional political See Column 6 plant-industri- flood-preventi- horse-tradin- B-- Salaries, Personnel Money Is Key Factor In Quality PSC Staff By Guy Boulton Tribune Staff Writer Tribune Stott Photo by Frank Porschatis Artist Karl Momen, left, chats with Colleen Bangerter, Gov. Norm Bangerter and arts council Director Carol Nixon at dedication of sculpture on salt flats. 83-fo- ot Dedication of the Tree of Utah Draws 1,000 With an Impressed Governor By Jim Woolf Tribune Environmental Writer WENDOVER Gov. Norm Bangerter squinted into the bright desert sun Saturday afternoon and studied the multicolored spheres atop Karl Momens gigantic sculpture of a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats. I like it, concluded the governor. distincIts something different tively different. Its more impressive that I thought it would be. It certainly will be something that draws atten- - tion. Gov. Bangerter was among the crowd of some 1,000 people who clogged traffic on the freeway Saturday to witness the noontime dedication of The Metaphor, Tree of Utah. The abstract sculpture is located 26 miles east of Wendover and just north of the westbound lane of Interstate 80. Its more than I have imagined," said Mr. Momen, the from Sweden. "For the first time, the product of my imagination has been surpassed by the product of my imagination. Swedish Minister of Labor Anna Greta Leigon, who interrupted a trip to attend the dedication ceremony, also said she enjoyed Mr. Momen's sculpture. "I like it the more I look at it," she archi- tect-turned-artist cross-countr- y said. The sculpture reminded the labor minister of one of the decorative poles around which Swedes dance in festivities. "Each sum- - mer there should be dancing around this, she exclaimed. Dan Baxter, a Salt Lake City artist, set up his easel about a half mile from the sculpture to capture the dedication ceremony in a painting. I like to paint events that are happening. I guess it's a case of art inspiring art. I also like the sculpture. It brings to attention the whole landscape. Youre more aware of it bee cause of the object, he said. Not everyone was happy about the sculpture. A small group of pickets attended the ceremony to complain about the sculpture's intrusion on the salt flats. c "It violates the purity of theman-mad- de-Se- B-- Column 4 Two state attorneys going against the legal department of a utility and an entourage of attorneys from two law firms is not uncommon at a Public Service Commission hearing. Its a situation PSC Chairman Brent Cameron thinks should be changed. "We have got to equal the odds a little bit and the way we can do it is to increase the attorney general's budget so he can do that, Mr. Cameron said. The money spent by utilities fighting for rate hikes is passed on to consumers through higher rates. The state agencies challenging those rate hikes, in contrast, face constant budget constraints. The utilities pay their employees d lawmore and can hire yers. Simply, the utilities have more resources. Regulators deny they are outgunned, but admit they are outt. numbered and "Overall, it is important that good people are on the Division of Public Utilities and the Committee of Consumer Services so they can present good evidence for the record, said Mr. Cameron. The division monitors investor owned utilities and the committee represents residential, small business and agricultural customers before high-price- out-spen- the PSC. The divisions budget is $1,018,800; Second Test - Tube Twin Is Ready to Leave U. Trlbuo The first twins born through the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in vitro Stuff Photo bv Poui FrougDton fertilization program are Ryan, left, and Jarred Farrcr. They were 11 weeks early. I Jarred Farrer, one of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center's first twins born through in vitro fertilization, was going home this weekend as the hospital prepared to reactivate its IVF program. Jarred's brother Ryan went home last week. The in vitro program has been on hold for a few months as the U. of U. medical term attended the fourth annual IVF world conference in Melbourne, Australia, last November. Dr. William Keye, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, said several innovations discussed at the conference will be incorporated into the U. of U. program. Researchers learned of possibilities of removing eggs from women without surgery and freezing embryos after fertilization for use later. Dr. Keye said the advantage of not needing surgery is obvious, while a potential mother could have several embryos frozen In case the first attempt at in vitro fertilization fails. The $5,000 process, in general terms, Involves four steps: stimulat ing egg production in the female, removing the eggs by surgery, mixing the eggs with sperm and reinserting the embryo into the female, where it gestales for nine months. At least its supposed to be nine months. With the Farrers, the twins were born 11 weeks early, weighed only 3 pounds and spent the past two months in the U. of U. newborn intensive-care unit. The parents, Teresa and Blanc, met with the media Saturday. They said they plan to take the twins home to Castle Dale, Carbon County, where eager grandparents are waiting. They were scheduled to leave Sunday but were hopeful doctors would allow them to leave Saturday. "We'd just feel more comfortable at home," said Teresa. The parents will have to monitor the children, who still are underweight at 5 pounds apiece, for heartbeat and respiration, and doctors were determining Saturday afternoon whether the parents needed the extra day of training in contrast, Utah Power & Light Co has spent as much as $500,000 on a single rate case. The division has a staff of 62 people; in contrast. Mountain Bell has 18 people working in its rates and tariffs department alone. A body, the PSCs decisions are based on the information presented in hearings. "If you arc going to be able to analyze the data of the utilities, you have to have people as competent as the people who generated that data, said Ralph Creer, director of the division Mr. Cameron said the division and See B-- Column 1 quasi-judici- Vet Memorial Coming To Capitol An exact replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. DC., will be on display at the State Capitol rotunda for a week beginning Monday. Gov. Norm Bangerter and Jan Scruggs, founder of the Vietnam Memorial Fund Committee, will open the exhibition at a 9 a m. ceremony Monday morning. Mr. Scruggs, a highly decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War, developed the concept for a Vietnam Memorial in 1979. The memorial was created to provide a tangible symbol of the longest war in U S. history and to initiate a process of national reconciliation. The replica displays names of more than 58.000 Americans who gave their lives or are missing in the war between 1959 and 1975 Approximately 2 7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75.000 permanently disabled. Of the casualties. about 1,300 remain missing The Vietnam Memorial was established at a cost of $7 million raised entirely from private contributions from the American people. Corporations, foundations, unions, veterans, civic or- ganizations and more than 275,000 individual Americans provided the money to build it. The replica is owned by the Vietnam Veteran Project of San Francisco, which exhibits it throughout the Western United States. A cooperative effort of the Veterans Administration, Veteran Service Organizations, Utah National Guard and various state agencies made the exhibition possible. |
