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Show Consolidation of Precincts Looms Snowstorms Fury Melts Away JPs Fight to Preserve Neighborhood Courts By Jack Fenton Tribune Staff Writer It 11 be efficiency and economy in government versus a personal brand of justice as justices of the peace serving the unincorporated Salt Lake Valley fight plans to consolidate their neighborhood courts at the county's new government center. "... Well fight like hell," Judge Ralph Bishop declared Thursday as justices of the peace voiced concern over the impending consolidation. Completion of quarters in the new government center at 2100 S. State St. $b t jalt months away, but facilities for the consolidated court are being planned and any changes must be made soon Explaining the philosophy behind the concept, Roger A. Livingston, chief deputy county attorney for administrative affairs, said the Salt Lake Valley is "a different place than it was 30 years ago Think of the quality of justice ... the delivery of services," he urged. Social workers could be assigned to a consolidated facility, Mr. Livingston suggested. Witnesses and jurors is 15 . akr . somemight be paid thing the justices of the peace proposed "Now that you're urbanized, you need these justice of the peace courts more than ever," said Rex Conradson, Magna justice of the peace. Judge Bishop, president of the justice of the peace association, elaborated. He gets a lot of calls seeking advice about a host of problems from a neighbor stealing wood to getting a biting dog out of the community. While those people could call the police, Judge Bishop feels few would because of bad experiences with law enforcement No, the judge said, he doesn't want to see the justice's of the peace personal involvement end. Judge Daniel K. Armstrong was critical of county officials who see the system as a way to raise money "But thats the way it is," rationalized John administrative aide to Commissioner M Tom Inch-Morga- Shimizu. "The court system is designed to promote justice . . peaceful and safe See Column 5 . A spokesman for the National Weather Service at the Salt Lake City International Airport said "the system just fizzled out. Randolph, in Rich County, suffered the lowest temperature in the state with 5 above and St C.eorge and Zion National Park both had highs of 63. The high temperature for the Salt Lake area was 39, with a low of 24 The weather Friday will be mostly sunny with increasing valley haze and highs in the upper 30s to low 40s. Fog may return to the valley by the weekend in areas. low-lyin- B-- Local ibunr A storm front exjiecled to bring three to four inches of snow to most of northern Utah "just fizzled out" Thursday, although it did drop up to three inches of snow early in the afternoon at several area ski resorts The storm brushed by northern Utah, with Logan and the Cache Valley reporting about one inch of snow which glazed the roads just after noon and smaller amounts of snow noted south to Ogden. Snow also fell in the Uinta Mountains Brisk winds were reported in the southern part of the state under mostly cloudy skies. Friday Morning Section B January 21, 1)U Page 1 GOP Caucuses Pick Remedy For Shortfall 2 Budget Cutback, Gmstructiou Holds By Douglas L. Parker Tribune Political Editor The Utah Legislatures Republican majority got the Thursday in Senate and House caucuses to draft a bill combining spending cuts and delay of some construction in this fiscal years budget to avert a projected $25 million revenue shortfall. The plan, contemplating about a 2 percent cutback in the 1985-8budget, contains these elements: Trim about $13 million from operational budgets of state agencies already approved for this fiscal year end Lake City, ing June 30. Sen. Warren E. Pugh, said it appears this can be appropriations achieved after consultation with the various agencies identifying areas where they will bleed the least." Postpone release of a planned $4 million for paying off bonded debt, which can be carried into the next fiscal year. Defer $7.4 million in spending already approved for construction of a new University of Utah dance building and a womens correction facility. The latter isnt ready to be built so $4.6 million is available, and about $500,000 in planning funds can see the dance building go forward while about $2.8 million in construction money is released to cover the shortfall. This, too, wont delay planned construction as long as follow-u- p funds are subsequently approved. Divert about $2.4 million left in the $12 million annual appropriation for school building aid, which is allocated to local school districts on a formula basis of critical need. The House GOP caucus unanimously endorsed the plan and the Senate caucus voted 13 to 6 in favor. Legislative leaders said they hoped to have a bill before the Legislature as early as possible, perhaps Friday. We want to get this settled so we can move onto to next fiscal years budget, said Sen. Dix McMullin, R- - South Jordan, assistant majority leader. The major projected spending cuts, still yet to be specifically approved, included $3.3 million for higher education, $2.4 million for public education, $1.5 million for social services, $1.5 million for health, and $1 million for natural resources. It comes largely from delayed planned hirings, some postponed capital costs, or program services not being used at the rate projected. Frankly, most of it we think has been sitting on the table anyway, said Rep. Nolan Karras, appropriations Correction of the estimated revenue shortfall is counter to Gov. Norm Bangerters suggested course of transferring revenue held in a Great Salt Lake flood control fund. He has said there possibly would be as much as $10 million unused funds lapsed after the end of this fiscal year, narrowing the shortfall. Legislators suggested the spending trims are basically identifying money that was expected to be lapsed later. Some of the opposition to the plan in the Senate caucus was against resorting to the critical 6 lt Tribune Photo by Jim Woolf Window Blind Peak juts up from Emery Countys San Rafael Reef. Creation of a national park in the San Rafael Swell would be redundant. . according to Emery County commissioners, who had been considering the park to increase tourism in area. i Emery County Rejects Proposed National Park By Jim Woolf Tribune Environmental Writer Creation of a national park in the San Rafael Swell of central Utah would be redundant and unwarranted, according to Emery County commissioners, who had been considering the park as a way of increasing tourism in their area. After several months of study, they concluded this week that the potential benefits from increased tourism would not outweigh the possible economic losses from restrictions on agriculture, mining and industrial development associated with a park. Besides, they said, outstanding examples of southeastern Utah geology are already captured in existing state and national parks. Therefore, additional parks, national monuments or wilderness designations in the Swell are seen as being redundant and unwarranted. This comment, made in a prepared statement, marks a significant shift in the approach being taken by the county. Just last October, Emery County Commissioner Bevin Wilson had said the San Rafael Swell was very worthy" of national park designation and spoke enthusiastically of the need to protect that area's heritage. San RaPreliminary plans called for a 200,000-acr- e fael national park including parts of the Mexican Mountain and Sids, Mountain wilderness study areas, the Buckhorn Draw and the popular Wedge Overlook. The San Rafael Swell is a huge geologic formation located south of Price, west of Green River and north of Hanksville. The outer edge of the Swell is marked by a ring of upwarped red sandstone cliffs which are cut by narrow canyons. These cliffs are known as the San Rafael reef. Dick Carter, coordinator of the Utah Wilderness Association, said the Emery County commissioners are losing an incredible opportunity to diversify their economy and do something positive with the local environment. He conceded that Emery Countys opposition will likely slow attempts to win park status for the San Rafael Swell, but said the park idea has too much support to be killed by the commissioners. Emery County has opened Pandoras Box by agreeing theres national park quality out there. We wont let them forget it, said Mr. Carter. He claims the Utah Wilderness Association and other conservationists had been willing to negotiate with the Emery County officials and accept fewer acres of wilderness in the area to achieve national park protection for the heart of the San Rafael Swell. With the county taking a hardline position against a acre national park, Mr. Carter said conservationists will likely return to their hard-lin- e position in favor of about 350,000 acres of wilderness in the San Rafael Swell. more troopers and 18 more workers in support services, all costing about $2 million extra a year, if it is to keep up with its increased workload and new duties, according to UHP Superintendent Dennis Nordfelt. But the patrol isnt asking for that many new employees, because officials realize funding isn't available, Col. Nordfelt told members of the Transportation and Public Safety appropriations subcommittee. Over the past several years there hasnt been a year that additional responsibilities havent been assigned to the Highway Patrol," the superintendent told lawmakers, "yet our manpower is no larger than it was before." He noted that between 1977 and 1984, the Utah population increased 23 percent and licensed drivers increased 56 percent. The miles Utahns drove on Utah highways rose by 20 percent Yet, field strength, at about 255 sworn troopeis, has remained essentially unchanged, he said. "We have an immediate need for 25 new troopers," he said. But as a bare minimum, present service levels could be maintained with 13 additional field officers. He noted that officials concede "were just not handling commercial vehicle inspections properly" due to . a shortage of personnel at He said the patrol needs coverage by a sworn officer at the port stations What the patrol is asking this year, ports-of-entry- round-the-cloc- pro-activ- They said there was overwhelming opposition to any change in the status of the San Rafael Swell at public hearings on the park idea. Opponents included miners, vehicle enthusiasts. ranchers, hunters, and There was also concern that a San Rafael national park would be subject to stringent air- - quality requirements that could hamper industrial development in the reoff-roa- d gion. It means this will be fought out in Washington, D.C. And thats a real stupid thing, he said. Although opposed to any changes in existing land management practices, the commissioners left open the possibility of entering into some sort of stewardship management option for the Swell that would involve the county, the Bureau of Land Management and various interest groups." rather than Castledale, Utah. school-buildin- By Anne Palmer Tribune Staff Writer Una Loy Clark, widow of the first artificial-hear- t recipient, told medical experts Thursday that exper- rme equipment at the sunons ana Hie lull appropriation to buy 100 new cars. He noted the analyst cut the computer request to $50,000, not enough to replace all of the equipment, some of which is 15 years old and hopelessly antiquated. He said without the full appropriation, the old computers and printers will have to be kept operating at a cost actually higher, for repairs, than it would cost to replace them with new. Supt. Nordfelt noted that if the Patrol is only allowed enough money for 80 new cars ($200,000) it wont be able to reduce the average mileage on the fleet below the high 60,000s. He said that even with the planned purchase of new cars later this of the vehicles in the spring, fleet will have 70,000 miles on them or more. Sixteen vehicles are still being used because theyre needed, but they have over 100,000 miles on them. Older vehicles can cause as much as six days a year of down time, where a trooper in an outlying area isn't otherwise able to get a substitute vehicle. He noted the patrol has asked for 100 new cars a year, meaning that the entire fleet is replaced every four years (there are some 350 vehicles in use ) He said the new hot Mustangs have proven a success and have gained acceptance of the public and of the officers deficit-coverin- g g aid. Clarks Widow Expresses Frustration, Hope for Artificial Hearts Future he told the committee, is restoration of a request, contained in the governor s budget blit reduced in the legislate. analysts leeomrrv da, .ns. h $141,009 to mod computer one-thir- d These restrictive management initiatives have the potential to adversely affect local economies as well as historic land-us- e patterns. For this reason, the commission has no choice but to vigorously engage and become e in the debate over development and use of the San Rafael Swell. To do otherwise would be to abdicate local decision making responsibility and defer that role to others who have little or no knowledge or interest in the condition of our local economy or lifestyle, wrote the commissioners. 200,000 UHP Chief Lists Need For Men, Equipment The Utah Highw ay Patrol needs 39 In their prepared statement, Emery County commissioners Clyde E. Conover, Clyde M. Thompson and Mr. Wilson said the public lands were becoming subject to restrictive management guidelines at an alarming frequency. imentation with the mechanical its pumps should be advanced as rapidly as possible. Justifying the experience of Dr. Barney Clark as one of great value, she said her husband was a vehicle through which a great medical breakthrough was made." Dr. Clark suffered a series of strokes and lived 112 n days after the pump was Una Loy Clark Patients Decision implanted in his chest at the University of Utah in December 1982. Mrs. Clark said she is convinced artificial hearts eventually will improve the quality of life of patients e with heart disease. In the three years since her husbands death, Mrs. Clark says criticism of the innovative procedure has centered around two major issues: that artificial heart patients are not properly informed of the risks involved, and moral and ethical questions regarding the extension of life by artificial means. end-stag- S.L. Gourls Will Ik Empty Today Lawyers to Gather for State Bar Meeting Courts in Salt Lake City will be empty Friday so lawyers can attend the Utah State Bar midyear meeting. The meeting will focus on changes in the law and the legal profession, said bar spokesman John Becker. But an awards luncheon featuring Utah Jazz coach Frank Layden also has been scheduled. Judges in the 5th Circuit and 3rd District courts in Salt Lake City have cleared their calendars for the day, except for morning criminal arraignments. Judges in the U S. District Court for Utah also have cleared their calendars, clerks said. The bar asked judges to leave the day open for lawyers to attend the meeting, said presiding Judge Frank G Noel of the 5th Circuit Court. Mr Iiecker said the bar made the request to judges statewide. Nevertheless, court clerks offices will remain open for people to file complaints, pay fines and conduct other business. The Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City attorneys' offices also will remain open, spokesmen said - n --i i f r -- m m start at 8 a. in. at the Marriott Hotel, Temple, and run through the day. A variety of seminars, including a lecture by U S. District Court Magistrate Ronald N. Boyce on rules of evidence at 8 15 a m. and one by lawyer Larry L. Keller laws at 10:15 a m., will take up most on drunken-drivinof the morning. At noon, lawyers are scheduled to attend an awards luncheon and hear Coach Layden. Afternoon seminars are scheduled to begin at 1.30 p.m and will feature a 3 15 p m. panel discussion on the future of law in the next 20 years Utah Supreme Court Justice Michael D. Zimmerman will moderate the disThe meeting will 75 S. West cussion. The panel will be made up of U S. District Court Chief Judge Bruce S. Jenkins, Leonard S. Janofsky, past president of the American Bar Association, lawyers Stewart M. Hanson Jr. and Donald B. Holbrook and Jerry Brown, a law firms business director. However, both she and Dr. Clark were privy to "extensive and accurate information," and were "fully cognizant of the risks involved" before the decision was made to undergo the operation, Mrs. Clark said. Redeterioration of calling the four-yea- r a her husband's heart, she said the dentist was "well aware of his critical condition, and felt he owed a debt" to those who had done so much for him, and for medical science. After being referred to the University of Utah, the Clarks learned a surgical team, led by Dr. William C. DeVries, was seeking an appropriate recipient for the Jarvik-7- ' artificial heart. Seat-tie-are- While "no one offered him any promises," Mrs. Clark said her husband told her, "I would be dissatisfied with myself as a human being if I did not volunteer. I would like my life perhaps even my death, to count for something." Moral and ethical questions are subject to personal judgment and cannot be resolved by anyone but the patient. Mrs. Clark added. Noting the human desire to sustain and protect life, she said she does not consider the use of artificial organs as running "contrary to God's plan." . . . Frustrated by the fact that the "great medical breakthrough" has been primarily "criticized, scrutiand threatened with abannized,. . donment," Mrs. Clark says she is dis- See Column 5 B-- |
