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Fanner Reaps Harvest of Broken Dreams The Salt Lake County Sheriff rl oni Barberi 0F FAD OF W Ff K ut a "Idte being held hostage h, the L This session is starting out ss it h a kind of 'Rad News Good The good news is News' flavor that they (the lawmakers! haven t given mueh indication of being inter sted in our morals this vear as in ears past The bad news is that the state is in such financial trouble the legislators arc too husv looking into our wallets to pav much atten-- t ion to peeping into our bedrooms and living rooms to see what we are doing or watching He got "NORMYNOMICS" our first taste of the Gov s spending ideas on Utah's first prime time State of the State address the other night and I must say the one thing that kept popping up in my mind is whv was the Gov perspiring so much' Then after listening to the speech I realized that anybody would if vuu were trying to pul 10 pounds of stuThe school dents into a Govs solution volunteers in the sehools to try to help the overburAt first I thought dened teachers this was a silly idea but think how his might be applied to other area1' of state government Let's face reality. I'tah doesn t take in enough dough to pay for pro fessionals to do all the state jobs that nped to be done so let s expand on the Gov's (Hey, gang, let s put on a show If and pay off the mortgage) idea everybody carried some asphalt and a shovel in their trunk, we could solve the pothole problem in a weekend . . And if every neighborhood would elect their own volunteer snow blower, then the streets would be clear As evidenced after every storm in the past, we have plenty of experienced sandbaggers so that could free up that flood money burning a hole in the Govs britches and if the Great Salt Lake starts to rise we can just call them out I personally would like to volunteer to help out at any of the state stores, especially during any of the holidays because I realize that they do get really busy . And as far as compensation. I'm sure we could work out some kind of trade agreement LIVE FAST DIE OLD? That seems to be the message being offered by Wayne State U. researcher Robert Arking . . . living may produce prolonged life and good health instead of burnout and early death You must understand that the study done used fruit flies and Arking does say that flies and people are clearly ditferent (wc have mustaches and wear eye v I ... . Fast-pace- I BONAPPETIT. . .Good news for women and men out of the February Mademoiselle an article entitled "Skinny Girls Ain't Sexy heralds the advantage concluding that men consider women with a little extra sexier than the one-irolook . . Of course, as always, moderation in all things including moderation and a advantage might be a bit much . . . The one thing I find more unattractive than maybe too much of a woman is a woman who looks like Arnold Schwartzenegger . Where did these women get the idea that men like to look at biceps and eyeliner on the same body BOOZE NOOZE . In our nevei ending quest to try and keep drunks off the roads, there is now a dev no that attaches to your dashboard that is wired to the ignition and startei and measures your blood alcohol lev el . . The drivers blows into it for 5 seconds and if the level is above 04 I can see the car won't start where this can lead to a whole new set of social encounters Excuse me, miss, would you be so kind as to blow into my dashboard'1" Either that or a whole new industry of selling aerosol cans with pure air in them. STUFF AND STUFF . Tackiest idea of the year so far that Texas used car dealer who placed a $100 000 bounty on Moammar Khadafy s nose He doesn t . Literally, his nose want any more of him than his nose . I sympathize with the sentiment but question the approach There is no truth to the rumor that Salt Lake County Attorney Ted Cannon will publish a cook book with his favoi lit i IM I ecipes for crow LASH!!!! What if every resident r, 'he state of Utah aetuallv sent in then 'ntry to the Publishers (leat mg House sweepstakes and pledged to give the winnings to the state Huh ilie actual odds at 15 million to one vc could whittle down that to just L C I m one and who knows'1" 0 (Torn Barberi can he Inanl on K.LL 910 Monday Vtruuuh I rulau from 6 to 10 a m ) n ' - If you want CACHE COUNTY to gamble take $10 and go to Las V e gas The odds aie better there th n in farming That s the advice one Cache ValU v dairy farmer rereived from his fa (her 25 years ago But the fanner who requested his name be withheld ignored his fi he liked to see things ther s advice grow He wanted to work on the land Star ting with five acres, he puked up land over the years and equipment to work it by borrowing money and paying it back In 1979 he went $350 000 in debt to expand further and update his equipment He says that was a fatal mistake in his farming career 'But things were booming It seemed like the thing to do, he said He blames chance and bad tim.ag in part, for his woes Soon after borrowing the money, intciest rates rose, as did the cost of uti me and fuel, whtie farm commodity priu s stayed the same or declined 'Its a horrible squeeze.' he sa.d u You know the end is coiling. what do you do'1' Now, 54 years old. this farmer savs ' I m tired of fighting, tired of working for nothing" He is selling off equipment and parcels of land to keep ahead of his debts "I've slaved and slaved to accumulate a little bit Now I'm liquidating the thing I've worked my whole life to get, he said Brent Paiker, 40, a Cache County dairy farmer, hopes the government hu v out pro- County At present, 'here are dairy farmers and an estimated 18 000 to 19,000 cows, according to the Utah Depart Tunt of Xgriculture C.ui Mtrrih. 38 Southfield Cache Ccrnty 'u.d his dairy farm nine months ago after struggling with it for five years "I was going backwards. he said I was borrowing $3 000 a year on my equity and living on a meager income for the privilege of milking cows." he said He says he was working 90 to 100 hours a week and estimates he was earning about $1 50 per hour "I was willing to continue to merely exist if I thought I could have made it But I knew I couldn't," he said Mr. Merrill blames the end of his farming career on an inability to borrow money He said his small herd of 35 cows was "too small" to support his wife and six children ' I had a debt load I knew I had to match with a certain size of herd, but I was unable to get the financial backing to make needed capital improvements." he said But Mr Merrill counts himself He is hanging on to his cows, counting on the proposed government Whole Herd Buyout Program to help him pay off his debts, hoping he will at least be able to hang onto his home But he is prepared for the worst "The bank may take everything," he said Farming has left him bitter, near bankrupt, pensionless and looking for a new career If he could do it all over again, he said, he wouldn't be a farmer In 1982 there were 419 dairy farmers and 23 460 dairy cows in Cache - Utah State biophysicist is researching he use of ultrasonic videos to diag nose heart disease Seott Cannon said the research hould help do tors diagnose pros hetii heart disease without surgery Camion and his research group photograph working heart valves 'lien use a computer process he atal Ins group developed to define the pn lures LOGAN (ITI) A i allow survivors to make a decent living. lucky He still owns his home, he was able to get another job immediately Ring agricultural equipment and ' I did ha I wanted for part of my life Some people never get to ' Brent Parker. 40. a Hellsville Cache County, dairy farmer with 260 cows, has been in the business 16 years and said he thinks hell be around for a few more "I'm optimistic farmers naturalbut I don't rest as easy as I ly are used to." he said He attributes his survival in the business to good feeding, good production, conservative equipment purchases and reinvestment of his capital into land He says the survivors are those who got into business early and were able to reduce their debt loads to manageable proportions before interest rates rose Mr. Parker said he himself has a "good debt load." Many farmers got into trouble during the 1970s, he said "Annually or semiannually, there were price increases. Farmers assumed the price would be higher next year If you kept leveraging on that. for several years and even President Reagan attributes his youthful looks and good health to the daily use of bee pollen Mr Schwartz claims that since he began using pollen two years ago, he has more pep, a clearer complexion, needs less sleep and has fewer muscle aches People should be aware, however, that he is not encouraging everyone to fast. It takes years to build up to the amount of pollen Mr. Schwartz will intake. "You have to w ork up slow ly," he warned. "Like any drug, too much can offset the bodys natural balance " By Katherine Kapos Tribune Staff Writer Man cannot live on honeybee pollen and water alone But Walter Schwartz is sure going to try Mr Schwartz, a warehouse supervisor, plans to prove how nutritious honeybee pollen really is by living on it for six weeks Sound strange? Maybe. But honeybee pollen has earned praise from professional athletes, university professors and a United States president "I'm trying to show people that honevbee pollen can be an extremely significant contribution to their health," Mr Schwartz said Friday at 12 am. he switched from pizza hamburgers, steak and apple pie to a daily dose of 35 grams of pollen Eating pollen -only 9U calories per ounce - Mr Schwartz expects to lose a couple of pounds, but lies positive he will survive As a food supplement, pollen a wide spectrum of nutriprovides ents ' Mr Schwartz said 'It strengthens the immune system and tejuvenates cells Unlike milk that just helps bones or carrots that just help eyes, pollen helps the entue With T' bunf Stott Photo bv Lvnn R Johnson Walter Schwartz will live on bee pollen for six weeks. state Department of Health, "but he could end up with an acute vitahonmin or mineral deficiency ey bee pollen alone is just not an adequate die t jis test, conducted by the University of Minnestoa. found that bee pollen did have a high nutritive value even though the amount of each element was quite small Professional bisketball player Rill Walton has used it in his diet A 19 body ' I t be really won suffering like ' people think he added Nutritionists sav otherwise 'He wont die," said Jan Pearson a registred dietician for the all the self-contr- Mr Schwartz displayed, he will have trouble resisting some of his favorite foods like pizza and egg salad sandwiches But if you think 35 grams of pollen isn t enough to fill a stomach, Mr. Schwartz has news for you "I won't be feeling hungry because bee pollen works as an appetite suppressant," he said Mr Schwartz does sell honeybee pollen part time, but he said his fast is not a commercial venture "It is just a demonstration of sinpeople who want better cerity for health " Mr Schwartz will operate a booth at The Tribune Home and Garden Show, which falls during his completion date of Feb 28. He will be available to answer questions about honeybee pollen and "so people can see if I am still alive " six-wee- k you could gel into a lot of difficulty ' Additionally, agriculture has become so efficient "we have priced ourselves out of the market." he said There are way too many resources Now some will be in agriculture eliminated He savs he hopes the Whole Herd Buyout Program will thin the ranks and allow others to make a decent " living The proposed assessment on those farmers remaining in business. 40 cents per 100 pounds of milk, combined with projected price support cuts, will make dairy farming more difficult initially, Mr Parker said "Our only hope is that we will see an upward swing in prices for those w ho remain in business " Don Baily, 55. is a Wellsuhc dairy farmer with 75 cows He says he is not bank as often as he once getting to the did, but is ' holding even" in the business He says he has a modern, efficient milking facility But he said he has survived because he bought and built "only the necessities, not the luxuries of the business, and didn't berow a lot of money " : i Of I fice spent $3 million last year handling problems stemming fre n the area's transient population, a group studying the homeless has learned The report by Lt Elray Dowell was one of six delivered Thursday to the Mayor's Task Force for the Homeless Mentally 111 Lt Dowell said 8 percent of all bookings into the County Jail are la beled as transients, about 1,700 people in 1985 He said about 19 per cent of those arc sent to mental health facilities Salt Lake Police Major Deen Esk ridge recounted horror stories to the group involving mentally ill persons who must be left unhelped. Among those was one about a man beating cars and yelling at people, one com plaining about naked, invisible people shooting at him and another threatening to shoot the president In all cases no crime had been committed, and police officers could not make an arrest, Maj. Eskridge said Despite this, department resources were required to check out the calls that come from "people who just want them out of their area. he said In another report, Paramedic Paul Rowe detailed medical piubiems tha, attack the homeless. In one case he outlined, Mr. Rowe descr.bed a man with maggots on an estimated 30 percent of his body ' The maggots were doing him a r by eating dead skin, the paramedic said But people such as the transient frequently go without help until the medical problems become overwhelming Because their priorities center around food and shelter, medical problems are often ignored, said Wendy McLaughlin, a health volunteer at one of the city's shelters Those who are found are often shuffled from one agency to another g health because the g agencies want to reduce customers ft profit-makin- Lt Dowell said that sometimes when transients are taken to health institutions for urgent treatment doctors have said the illness can wait for a couple of days when an appointment can be made. The doctors later call the law enforcement agencies, saying they have "rethought" the problem and have decided no treatment is necessary. Lt Dowell said Bill Modifying Dram Shop Act May Reach Legislature Soon A proposed bill modifying Utahs Dram Shop Act, which makes liquor sellers potentially liable for their customers' actions, will likely be introduced to the Legislature soon Jerry Fenn, the bill's chief advocate and chairman of the Citizens Council on Alcoholic Beverage Control, a state advisory panel, said he plans to meet with several legislators this week and believes he can obtain a sponsor for the draft. We've got it in the works lets put it that wav." he said at a Saturday press confer- ence. Under the proposal, liability would be restricted to those w ho sell alcohol to persons already intoxicated, minors, or "a known interdicted person But the Dram Shop Act would be extended to the sale of all alcoholic beverages including beer, bringing convenience and grocery stores under the law "I think if there's going to be substantial opposition on Capitol Hill, it s going to come from the retail grocers," said Mr. Fenn. The law would also. Remove the current immunity lifrom lawsuits against state-owne- d quor stores statue of limImpose a one-yeitations on actions under the law. Limit damages to $100,000 per plaintiff and a total $300,000 per single "occurrence. Require all employees who sell intoxicating beverages to be trained by the state on the effects of alcohol, state laws, recognizing problems drinkers, ways in which to cut off ser- ice to "problem customers" and al ternative means of transportation to " get the customer safely home i k r 1 Many Office Jobs Open, UTech Says Students enrolled in programs have a good chance of getting a job, according to officials at Utah Technical College at Salt Lake "There aie jobs galore for trained clerical staff knowledgeable with word processors, secretarial duties and the like," says Duane Robinson, campus Job Service representative Dr. Michael M. Homer, dean of the School of Business and Industry at the college, said he is frustrated to have the school year start with several hundred students in office occupa office-occupatio- tions programs, only to have the majority lured into jobs as soon as they have minimum skills. If students stay to receive an associate degree, they may earn more money, he said. A baffling aspect of the program is there seems to be a gradual decline in the number of students going into office occupations, according to Dr Homer Yet the facts are, educational training slots are available, the Jobs are there, and the future looks good for office personnel, he said. 4 v t t. vv Offer to Finance Heritage Mountain Under Review B 1 He knows I, i ic NIc Millin'. ihunc Malf W i iter n oiler to fuiurue the FR(J() mammoth Heritage Mountain Resort tins been made and is being i ev lewed in the (aie of what is now a ten week S hurt si Service deadline by tin resort piesident aid MiDmigal said ret cntlv We have a pai kagt on the table he said ' 'I hev have made an offer and we have accepted it The resort has until April to put up $18 million or lose its Forest Service permits, which allow it to use public land for skiing Loss of the permits 'prettv much puts em out of business," Mike Griswold, Forest Scr-it e director of rei reation and lands said last wt ck 1 1 I'SU Scientist I'sing idros To Diagnose Heart Disease gram will thin ranks of dairy farmers to Is Honeybee Pollen That Nutritious? high-energ- shadow). Bv Stephen Hunt ribunu Correspondent t v sa 1 the of ft i is to 5 million $150 in Imam mg guarantee fortht it sort It is being reviewed t the i oi poration s bond tax and set u Mr McDougal titles iininwls and Still timid fall lliimigh lit at know letlgt s hut s.n- -' tun atioim vs have told us Ui.it mo ( halm allv the (dft is do able that all II ' pn es w dl lit i I tali sg.trs not to mention Frovo Cits and Forest Serhaw heart all this vice uffitials before w heard Everyone sacs oh he said Hus week that before I ' m not sjs mg mm h yet It s time to put up or shut up We re working to put up The $18 million is needed to finance the minimum operable unit d gondola, six chjirlifts. a railway transportation system and day lodge fatil 'I haf ,x why 1 ities Resort officials however, arc working a deal for much more than that lrovo City hjs approved $1505 million in tax free bonds Those bonds, which have been sold and are sitting in a bank, can he used only when someone guarantees their ment 'Right now the bonds themselves ate their best guarantee When some one with adequate credit provides a ic-pa- letli-- tin of tridll we tall stall to UsO III lie resol lloll lo In gill I t i would ll a- tin- $1H mil ollstl ll( lion immediate and w uld plan to open for skung in Novemoer 1987 The remaining mon ey would bo used as additional facilities are needed The catch is that the bonds c an be used for recreation only a sports complex, ski facilities possi bly a water theme park They cannot be used for housing and no ski resort the magnitude of Heritage Mountain can survive without overnight lodging and condominiums ly Initially, the resort will depend the nearly 1,000 hotel rooms available in the Utah Valley area Once the lifts are running, Mr McDougal said he expects contracts for housing options to he negotiated. "Were approached by housing people constantly, but that will wait until the financing for the resort itself is In " place Coordinating and negotiating the concerns of Frovo City, the Forest Service and developers has proven to be a gargantuan effort for Mr who replaced Gary William son as hoard chairman in August 1984 nd whose first coup was the set uring of bonds from Frovo ( 'it v upon Mar-Dmig.- Those bonds were the big break " the bonds Because they're carry an interest rate several points tax-fre- lower than market rates and made construction of the resort feasible, he said The next six months were spent recruiting and screening possible de-elopers "We've had dozens of people come through our doors interested in developing this resort. Most of them simply were not capable of a project this size." Out of those dozens, "maybe half a dozen were capable and out of them will come the one who will do the deal." v Mr. McDougal would not give any indication of the investor or investors other than to say they are from outside Utah. He would not say if they were outside the United States In 1980, the resort had a group of willing Canadian investors but the Canadian government stepped in and would not allow that much money to be invest ed outside its borders If the deal falls thiough more than pride and work will lie lost Mote than $20 million already has been spent on engineering studies, an environmental impact statement and land purchases. Of that, $16 9 million was invested two years ago by seven savings and loans The rest came from the 100 some stockholders of Heritage Mountain Resort, Inc. If the offer becomes reality, lt appears it will happen right on deadline, he said. "Our counsels have told us itll take about 60 to 90 days to verify the contracts) and weve got about 75 days." Once the contracts are secured, plans for the resort will be announced, he said. In general terms, though, officials still envision a winter and summer resort, complete with four European-styl- e villages, a Welsh castle, golf course and sports Jugcomplex and hotel. y glers and minstrels will stroll through the grounds. Skiing would be on eight square miles and 4 900 vertical feet of ter rain When complete, the resort would be the biggest in Utah and one "f the biggest in North America I I I i |
