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Show IA The Salt Lake Tribune. Saturday February -- JJ'inU LEGISLATIVE t. Kead lor Moor 1 Positions Bend as Panel Approves Budget Continued f rom VI put final touches Oil the $70lJ pul Ip ip stale opcraii'Uis budget and $6.39 iniilion financing proposal, w.th both measures now in shape for Hour debate and action early next 10 W tek Committee work done by members 7 hud their p in. arid had the crux billion overall budget piupo-- . shape for floor debate and cotes early next week To skirt a House outcry on racing the school property-talew In UJ mill to generate an extra $8 2 million leaders found the state's highway urjd sturdy enough to withstand forfeiting that amount to cover the like amount hole in the general treason Before greeting the nation's vice president. Gov. Bangerter paid a solicited. closed-doo- r visit to the Senate Republican caucus Friday morning to personally convey and respond to hopes and doubts over where the budget process may lead a! a $2 7 it ion in x I Thursday night, however an unwavering House stance against his and the Senate s sentiments to hike Hall's si property levy led to lead ciship negotiations and a way around the impasse by the highway-revenuunite Then working from new subcommittee recommendations, the executive panel Friday also pared spending another requests by $7 5 million that had central compromise point been $23 million out of reach of revenues earlier this week. Public education look a $3 8 million cut including $1 6 million from the state's program that may force enrullccs returning to earn diplomas a tuition fee of up to hool-fun- e - adult-educatio- $.)iin Committee members also trimmed $15 million from the "critical school building" account to ensure the new general fund's balance Despite Gov. Norm Bangerter's request for $9 y million, the committee was able to budget $5 million in addi- - ii"nal funds for the public teachers "career ladder'' program, w tide heed ing Ins propos.il for a 2 percent hike in the baste school funding level That likely spells a 2 percent salary raise fur teachers as well pcr-pupi- l I 'tails state universities and col- leges absorbed $1 5 million in added reductions, with subcommittee chairmen recommending that the cut be taken from a potential $2 4 million pay hike for faculty and staff That would leave but $900,000 for salary raises, but the money would probably be funneled Into other programs. they surmised Higher education, however, would net a victory ol sorts by being allow to keep 70 percent rather that half of "reimbursed overhead" funds fixed to research grants. Advocates said that would enhance the institutions' profile in the state's "economic development" scheme. Meanwhile, the executive panel ap- - House Approves New Appeals Court To Ease Burden of Supreme Court By Dan Bates And Paul Roily Tribune Staff Writers A new court of appeals to spell the state's overloaded Supreme Court was approved Friday by the Hah House of Representatives, initiating a key judicial-systereform that voters approved in 1984. If adopted by the Senate, the governor will appoint seven appellate judges by the end of the year to hear and screen certain cases from the distrilevel. ct-court tential budgetary pawn earlier in the as lawmakers struggled to balance 1986-8spending proposals. A Rouse Republican caucus position suggested the hike in court-recorfees to ensure its funding. session The Utah Supreme Court would still hear select, major constitutional, criminal and civil matters, but the new court is designed to resolve a backlog in olher pending cases. said the Rep. James Moss. appellate system should expedite to 10 months an anticipated wait by 1990 before a given case w ould reach the Supreme Court. "The Supreme Court has done all it can do. It (Utah's judicial stratification hasn't changed since statehood 90 years ago," he said. House members advanced the appeals court measure by a 61-- vote. to Afterwards, they voted fees to raise an array of court-filingenerate some $800,000 in new money, with the intent to fund the new system with the higher fees. The appellate court became a po five-memb- six-ye- 4 42-2- 2 g d Rep. Scott Rolt, unsuc- cessfully tried to restore a provision requiring that no more than three of the seven judges come from the same county. Many House members felt rural d on areas may be the new court without that stipulaunder-represente- tion. But skeptics said that what would amount to a geographic quota on the appellate bench was unwarranted. "You pick judges on their merits, not on where they come from," said House Majority Whip Gayle McKeachnie, When voters ratified a revised judicial article in the Utah Constitution in 1984. they also opened an option for the Legislature to create the court of appeals. Supreme Court justices were among lobbyists for the new system, whose concept was shaped by an ad hoc commission comprised of legislators, judges, lawyers and citizen representatives. On the Senate floor Friday, senators killed a bill that would have provided for defendants in medical malpractice suits to pay damage awards early-sessio- n Continued From - SOUTH GATE. Calif. (UPI) A cloud of poisonous chlorine gas spewed from a ruptured line at a chemical plant Friday and injured at least 76 people, including three dozen children sickened by vapors that seeped into an elementary school. Workers at Purex Corp. accidentally cut into the line during repairs and caused the leak that sent toxic gas wafting over a halfsqFire Department spokesuare-mile. woman Deborah Shackelford said. The leak was contained "almost immediately and the chlorine vapors dissipated four hours later, she said Two Purex workers were in serious condition al Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital in south I. os Angeles with respiratory problems from the vapors, which can cause dizziness in low doses and can be fatal in greater concentrations, officials said Three olher Purex workers were in stable condition at the hospital Officials said 36 students from Tweedv Elementary School were taken to hospitals along with teachers, administrators and school crossing guards and other workers from Purex and nearby McCloud Metals A-- rather than in one Lake, and was introCornaby, duced as part of a package of bills designed to deal with the medical malpractice and liability insurance crisis. Sen. Cornaby said the bill was aimed at protecting the damaged plaintiff making the claim as well as the entity responsible for paying the award, but opponents of the bill said legislators were attempting to take too many rights away from the litigant making damage claims in court. "First, youre setting up an arbitration board that may reduce the original amount of the claim, then you're putting a cap on what the award can be. now you want to spread the payment of the claim out over a long period of time. You're taking the decisions away from the judge, said Sen Dale Stratford. Legislators applauded the up preach as rewarding workers with something without having to escalate salary schedules when pondering a pay hike a year from now Target of anxious, wary educators and lobbyists all session, the public education budget would still represent a $42 million increase in new money over the current year's level, noted Sen Haven Barlow. That its subcommittee would portend the highest spending level for schools in terms ol overall budget percentage since 1979 and meet expected enrollment growth demands next year, he added the exRep. Nolan Karras, ecutive committee's advised: "Somewhere down the line, the education community has to gel the message that we're out of money." Sen. Barlow said the time may be close to give local districts the option to reduce the number of days in kindergarten to avoid finance emergencies in textbook, utility or insurance areas. There was consternation over halving the money dedicated to the a topic that program drew some two dozen adult students to the Capitol's steps Friday afternoon to quietly protest. "It's time to send a message that we can't afford free education' indefinitely up to 30 years of age," stressed Senate Majority Leader Cary PeterHouse members of the son. executive panel suggested doing away with the program altogether. But Sen. Barlow pointed out that about 20 percent of those students who started but failed to complete ditheir education need plomas to get jobs. adult-educatio- high-scho- HfaZiO Irj. J Si , f c mm.Vj iDum: or tonh ac tur I ii. ? V iuA,i'',l rnr'f rates ur '' I:, ppropriations Subcommittee cut $943,200 in state dollars from the Departments of Health and Social Services. Actual cuts will be substantially higher because federal dollars contingent on matching state funds aren't yet included in the proposed budgets. The biggest chunk came from the ,v ' ' '' tnp ' RrueuseJOi re(i afVai'n) MB?80 tornm ments Exempt the ffn tn ur fr om on tt e e 0' .s i , Houke i4-Hb5DeVurrn) An endn.ens m Mmg 5 B y Corporate h anr hse fa the MB?9J (non) B'lSfd upon fre needs cni-Supparties, mandate n at temporar y Is port oe ordered a hen a duo'ce complaint filed H 4 House 5 r 0 HB2V5 lhlV) Tor purposes at to'm.ng a include nurses cm porqhon, professional of P Sessional anesthetists in the U Str yn.es Bf House 67 Ht))A (S.kusj uk ease C'v.l court filing fees B , Hot s e 4? 22 rnnhnih tr,r MB34J ((.'JOT low t HM'0'e-menunde top Mu'-cpaDish.vt Ait sho'i be uau deJ by hn-m- CTrds (Money) Revise equir ements for ansporting horses, mules, cattle and calves Bv Senate SB188 (Bangerter ) Peace Officer H ci nmg t U 17-- Amendments. By Senate 15-HBS! (Burnmgham) sfublish odd't unoi duties ond objectives for the Division of Stotr . History. By Senate HB?07 (Pees) ReQuIr e cor r ertu. e ac tion fur release of hazardous waste fi om a facility and establish criminal penalties tor trans pur tytion of hazardous waste without u man. ifest. By Senate Resolutions Passed SCR5 (Sowords) Declare the state s sup-poi- i for the ern River Pipeline Protect; and ur ge the federal energy i egulator v commission to grant a certificate of convergence and necessity. By Senate 150. HCR 1? (Hunter) Declare July 2 5, 1986 as Utoh Summer Games WeeK; commend the Utah Summer Games Foundation and Cedar City for sponsoring the 1986 Utah Summer . Games. By Senate HCR 14 ( ardiev) Recognize the American legion Boys State end Girls State pi ogroms; honor the participants and pledge support By House 600. By Senate 16-Bills Killed S9U7 (FlnMnson) Allow citizens the power to seek on initiative or referendum on toning ordinances. Killed by Senate 14-- (Needs 15 votes to pass). SB 155 (Cornaby) in medical malpractice coses, allow the court, upon request of a pot ty, to provide for deferred periodic to plaintiff. Killed by Senate 12 ' (Needed 15 votes to pass). of B s? 0 v rp odrmnuh ff'nn, finf nnshlo of t'n Council and the Ul.'non w fi"C AH' House 53-SB 17 (HnUnson) Unfv COn.jidoW fUmci deadlines Bv House 5 7 u U360 (Rugrus! f. enp hum unempiov ment conpensar v i'r u s ot's f'(se sr vice b , sec ur tits dea er wen eg nn gs ar e bv comrr sson By House rO-BM1 IMone) O a' 7 hey and enunht-quu the Out O rty 0 ego ;e hiu no g u Ing but nirg pe' md, B y Hot.se 49 ? Resolutions Passed HCR 19 (CrornuO Monnr those who hrjve contributed to St Vincents nup kitchen, and urge Utahn, to continue to be g' lirr ous. HR i 4 7 fMoS.. tonsdiihon and Bv Moose 47 0 HCR20 ff ree) the icdge of A1 f i Request forgres- to (intend eg'ance to mr ivoe he word House 4V-"responsibility, HCR?! (Vdlher) Vemnf al ;e fi'e Hite Vas lor ie f. ei'v, tnoif a snon of C on$rn CorruTiiss on on tnc bfatus nt Uof' By Mouse . HJRJ6 (Skousen) Command Ausafcn Front Chevrolet deoi s nr then ad.'tisinv campaign against d'ugs Bv House 5? o HR 3 (Selleneit) c onuvend Vor K A u eel and B yr on AHt ed tor help in House Cvrr.p-jsyS tern. B y House 5? 0 SCR6 (ViCAliivte ) Pesc.h.tlons concerning Utah high school cur r rcuig'n. Bv House 59-Bills Killed HB782 (DeMonn) Cont.nue State Tc Commission garnishments until the liability is satisfied or fiecomes unenforceable due to lapse of time Killed bv House HOUSE Bills Passed HB100 (Moss, et al ) Implement bv statute the revised ludlcial article of the Utah Const' tution. By House 61-HB235 (LeBaron) Define off highway vehi- cles and describe where they con be operated; establish requirements ond penalties. By . House HB247 (Pace) Require renters and owners to maintain premises in fit condition; amend of Mental Health which lost $31 1.300, including $250,000 for its proposed expansion at Ftah State Hospital. Rut a expansion will remain. d The health department ''"'I 57 0 state Division By Carol Sisco Tribune Staff Writer Nearly $1 million was slashed Frid health and soday from cial services budgets to match with reduced tax revenue expected next year. The Health and Social Services A- " (I n- qutf 'i'1"- - "I"' : crptun . SB176 U I..." IPi-es- 'th Amt'na o r'i,'g oMocaiion of odfninish uti, r G.e rtutJ 0 15 Bv conS Senate get StS 0 J (Mr. Alllster ) Arrtenj udnurisn al1 services act concerning accounting procedures for higher education and oh er Ogenc tes. Hv Senate SH104 (VcAlllster ) Pevh e fijnJ con soHdahon act tor new accounting pmce-du- ' es. b Senate 16-SB 57 (f mimson) Amend filing p'u. eau es for independent canddaes and estatd'sh filing dates for oil candidates for the office of t the pr esident ond e Unito ed Stages. By Senate 15 0. SB1ft5 (Sanberg) F.noct lease purchovn outhor jation for State Fair boa d By Senate Al'lstfcr 7 Health, Social Services Lose in Budget state-funde- Sen. Cornaby recited the story of a baby born handicapped in 1981 whose parents chose to receive the $300,000 in one lump sum rather than in periodic payments because they didn't believe the child would live long. It's now 1986. the child is still alive and needs a great deal of expensive medical care. And the money is gone. It has been spent," Sen. Cornaby said. "That's what this bill is attempting to correct." lost from its medical assistance budget that provides medical services to needy Utahns. But initial plans to cut the state's Emergency Work Program by $100,000 were reduced when Social Services Director Norman G. Angus said: EWP is our basic maintenance program where we pay people $100 or $173,800 $50 a week to work. "It's our attempt to address a need Cl! ! out there for intact households that is " already je-- t a Mop gttp measure Legislators agreed and uit it bv $20,000 rather lhan the full amount The stale Division of Aging's alternatives program that earlier was increased by $25,000 after subcommittee members heard the pleas of Park City resident Nan McPolin lost Ms extra $23,000 too. Mrs McPolin. who is in her 80 s. had urged legislators to add extra money to the program that provides home care assistance that often means the difference between staying home and moving to a nursing home for senior citizens the disaster and spent hours trying to find l cials stopped spilling water out of the Feather River's Oroville Dam to lessen the low of flood water and permit truckloads of rocks to be dumped in the break. Officials said it appeared the break would be closed by Saturday. "Once you get the big flow stopped you have it pretty well licked," Cliff Gregory of the flood center said. "There will be some leakage and some patching up after that." Less than a mile from the break was Linda's Peach Tree Mall. "People ran through the mall yelling. W'e had a break,'" Paul Moore, a radio station manager, said. By the time I got out of there, water was lapping at the doors in the parkand cars were d ing lot." An emergency radio station broadcast evacuation warnings in English. Spanish and Punjabi. The area has a large Sikh population as well as many Latino farm laborers. The message advised people trapped in their houses to display white flags made from sheets or linen to alert search crews Many of the evacuees look refuge in a big Sikh temple and at high schools from Yuba City to Wheatland as well as at the air base. Many families were separated in Retired U.S. Naval Officer Held in British Sp y Case Si installments lump sum. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Kay one-tim- Cr. nf rr mibfS b i Muusr Passed SB 10? M- - O SENATE Counties Disaster Areas Poisonous Cloud Of Chlorine Injures Dozens LONDON (AP) - British authorities lodged an espionage charge Friday against a man they identified as a former I'.S. naval commander and intelligence worker. Police said he was arrested while trung to flee the country John Bothwell. 39. identified in court as a retired Navy eommanuer who quit the military 22 sears ago and then worked in a I'.S intelligence agency for 10 years was ,n raigned on a charge of violating Bream's 1911 Official Secrets Act He was accused of preparing to divulge information thjt tould have been "useful to an enemy." The charge did not specify the information or the foreign power allegedly involved. Press Association. Britain's domestic news agency, reported without al tribution that Bothwell gave police a lengthy statement in which he allegedly admitted having a relationship with the Soviet Union over Im past in years The news agency said Bothwell told police he acted as a middleman in unspecified trade deals between in proved another Bangerter suggestion to give Utah's 14.001) ' bonus" employees a next year that would be equivalent to percent of their base wages un 40th Duv the Soviet Union and South Africa The report could not be independently confirmed In Washington. Navy officials al the Pentagon said they had no independent know ledge that the man was Bothwell. but released a service record for a Cmdr John Henry Bothwell that appeared to match It says Bollnvell spent most of lus Navy career in the submarine service. eventually commanding two attack subs He aNo had olher assignments for which he would have held a high security clearance According to the Pentagon records Cmdr. John Henry Bothwell was an warinstructor at the fare s' bool m San Diego, Calif Irom Oct. 6. 19b! to Aug 8. 1963. and from Aug 20. 1U64. until his retirement July 31. 1963. was assigned to the t ift of SuhniJiine Peelopment Group TWO at New London, Conn , Bothwell was born on June 30. 1926, in Schenectady. N Y but listed lus home of record as Narbeth, Pa the Pentagon record said He was inducted into the Navy on June 30, 1943, . , loved ones. A line of cars stretched 2 2 miles outside Beale as people inched toward the shelter. "I found water in the house and thought it must have come from the bathroom. evacuee Virgil Smith said. "There must have been a pipe broke or something. I opened the front door, and it came in the house from the outside. Then 1 knew what it was." Cindy Archer said a neighbor who had a police radio scanner told her about the levee break. The mother of two said, "We just grabbed our clothes and ran and got out." Meanwhile, an estimated 80,000 residents of western Nevada and the Lake Tahoe Basin were forced to use fireplaces, electric blankets or wood stoves to keep warm for the second consecutive day. They have been without natural gas since Southwest Gas Wednesday when a Corp. line burst on the Nevada side. Officials said the system could be back operation in four days. They also advised those without alternate heating methods to seek refuge with friends or neighbors able to keep their homes heated. Fortunately, the temperatures in the area have been mild for this time of the year. in John Zaccaro Jr. Pleads Innocent To Drug Charge MIDDLEBlRY, Vt. (UPI) -John A. Zaccaro Jr, son of 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate Geral- dine Ferraro, pleaded inno- cent Friday to a charge of possessing cocaine with intent to sell Zaccaro. 22, was arrested Thursday after police raided his John Zaccaro Jr. home near Mtddlebury College, where he is a student, Mtddlebury Police Officer Michael Bolduc said In a written statement. Ferraro said the family had hired an attorney for Zaccaro "We have lured an attorney to represent him." the statement continued "We love hint and have confidence in him We will he standing beside him " 1 AIDS KOKOMO. White, the A Napa County Road Department employee makes minor repairs on a street that buckled and shifted after a levee on the Yuba River broke. Students Return to School Shorllivcci - Ind. (AP) Ryan boy who was banned from srhool because he has AIDS, went back to the classroom Friday, but a judge later issued a temporary order to keep him front returning. Before the ruling by Circuit Judge Alan Brubaker. Ryan said it was "good to be back" at Western Middle School Dozens of parents kept their Ilih-Kankin- children home in protest Brubaker's ruling came alter a parents group requested that Ryan he barred from classes because he has a communicable disease The judge said he agreed with par ents who argued that pupils could he harmed if Ryan were in school More lhan 80 people filled the courtroom as Brubaker isucd hi- KGB Official Defects to L.S. g Los Angeles Times Service - A WASHINGTON Soviet KGB official has defected to the United States from his Athens post, the State Department said Friday, and intelligence officials linked his defection to the arrest in Great Britain of a retired US. Navy commander on espionage charges. high-rankin- g In a departure from its customary silence on such matters, the State Department said that KGB Col Viktor P. Gundarev, lus son. Max nil, and Galina N Gromova, described as a Gundarev family friend, had defected and were now in the United States. They were believed to have asked for asylum last weekend I A senior Pentagon official described Gundarev. 30. as "quite a find" and said he had worked in the same counterintelligence unit as Vi laly Yurchenko, the high ranking KGB official who delected to the United States last summer and then returned to the Soviet Union, charging that he had boon drugged and held forcibly by the CIA At the same time, intelligence ol f rials, speaking on condition they nut be identified, said the arrest Lot Sun day of retired U S Navy Cmdr John Bothwell as he allegedly tru'd to flee Gteat Britain was linked to Gundjr-es defection i ruling after the thn hearing, and many cheered and applauded "I'm upset." said Ryan's mother, Jeanne White. "I think anybody that was there would have to be upset. I w as stunned Ryan is very disappointed He really enjoyed school today." School officials banned Ryan from classes last summer, though lie has listened in on classes Irom home through a special telephone hookup J(t Hound for S.L. Seraprs Its Tail on TakrolT DENVER (AP) - A Continental Airlines jet bound for Salt Lake City scraped its tail on takeoff from Denver's Stapleton International Airport on Thursday afternoon, an airline spokesman said Ft tday The in-- , passengers were shaken up. but no one was injured, said Continental s Michael ( inelli Tile plane s, tap-- d - tail Gule taking oft at 2 a i p m Cinelli said tinned around in the air and headed buck to the gale, where it was then held fur tnspeetmn It- i |
