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Show Kennecott and Its Unions Part in Anger After Company Rejects Wage Cut Offer Continued Prom Page B--l cents and ending with a threshold of 11.40 and above for 100 percent restoration. At stake in the outcome of talks here, according to Kennecott: possible shutdown of the Utah Copper Division. Three years ago, with 7,300 employees, Kennecott was Utahs largest private employer and one of the states oldest industries with origins dating to the early 1900s. It now employs 2,400 and is operats ing at capacity because of two-third- a depression prices. in domestic copper Kennecott is one of six copper companies meeting here with their unions. The others include Asarco Inc., Consolidated Inspiration Cop- per, Pinto Valley, Magma and Phelps-Dodg- e. Though Kennecott for years has been the acknowledged industry leader in wages and benefits, it was Asarco Inc.s proposals that were termed by one union leader as "the least offensive. Though terms of the Asarco proposal have not been disclosed, it is believed the most recent Kennecott union proposal would be ever less offensive from the union point of view and might set the standard for accommodation by the other companies and their unions. It was later learned Asarco asked for a $2.50 per hour across the board wage cut. Proposals and counterproposals are typical in copper contract negotiations. But here in Albuquerque, the term contract negotiation has not been used. If there is a shutdown, workers are entitled to unemployment compensation. If strikes were implied. Continued going. The day isn't here we could tell them to go to hell. And they cant tell us either." fice. Utah Forecast Areas of fog Friday morning. Otherwise fair skies Friday with variable clouds Friday night and Saturday. Lows will be in the mid-teeto low 20s. Highs will be in the low ns mid-30- s. from Page to run I.ogan Nottonol Weather Service NOAA, U.S. 1329 Salt Lake City 1833 Wendover Provo Ogden Ogden Dept, of Commerce Air Pollution Index Sail Lake Bountiful 228 1628 Vernal Provo Marginal -- 816 1431 100 75 Green River 0034 Good Cedar City 50 Moab 1645 Very Good 1843 is Blanding St. George Excellent M 78 OZ CO 12 Tf Sturcr UMi HmND Dept 44 35 OZ CO M OZ 47 CO M OZ 1844 3056 47 CO aref worker Sara Hudgins. Legislators also took turns sitting at the front counters where workers are rapidly bombarded by client questions. The main concern is to find out what a person needs and get them individual help as quickly as possible, Jim Yates said as he guided Rep. Stephens through the ofSitting at the front counter as clients lined up for assistance, Rep. Stephens heard workers asking clients how many hours they work, if they have the necessary Social Security cards, and if they speak English well enough to understand application forms. Workers also were overheard admiring one young womans new baby daughter and telling another his next appointment was on a lucky day. Thats my son s birthday. Social services contracts with the Phoenix Institute Friday and Saturday Salt Lake City, Ogdon and Provo Forecast Strong high pressure along with valley temperature Inversions will remain over the Wasatch Front through Saturday. The high will weaken Friday night and Saturday os a series of Pacific troughs move to the west coast. Continued hazy through Saturday. Areas of fog or low clouds early Friday mronlng. Fog will be dense at times. Otherwise fair skies Friday with variable clouds Friday night and Saturday. No large change In temperatures. Lows will be In the mid-teeto low 20s. Highs will be In the No measurable precipitalow to mid-30tion is expected. Continued areas of haze through Tuesday with patchy fog In the northern valleys. Otherwise variable clouds with widely scattered showers at times. Local patches Southern Utah Forecast of late night and morning fog In the valleys through Saturday. Otherwise fair skies through Friday evening. Increasing high clouds Saturday. Highs will be In the mid-30- s to near 50. Lows will range from zero to 20. No measurable precipitation is expected. Forecasted temperatures for the area : Delta 1339; Cedar City 1645; Milford 1440; Richfield 1441; Bullfrog 3150; Moab 1843; Green River 0034; Blanding 1844; Montlcello 1629; Kanab 2150. Continued ar Northern Utah Forecast Weather Summary Intermountain eas of haze and fog through Saturday. Fog will dense at times, especailly early Friday. Otherwise fair skies through Friday with variable clouds Saturday. No large change In temperatures. Lows will be mostly In the teens. No measurable precipitation Is expected. Forecasted temperatures for the area : Vernal 816; Price 1035; Roosevelt 618; Wendover 1628; Provo 1431; Tooele 1130; Salt Lake City 1833; Odgen 1329; Logan 222. Utah Recreation Areas Lake Powell and Canyonlands: Local patches of morning fartth through Friday valley fog otherwise night. Variable clouds Saturday, with areas of early morning and . late evening fog. Highs at Lake Powell will be near 50. Lows will be In the upper 20s. Highs at Canyon-land- s will be 40 to 45. Lows will be In the teens to low 20s. No measurable precipitation is expected. Northern Mountains: Strong high pressure will continue through Friday night and Saturday os a series of pacific troughs move to the west coast. The high will weaken Friday night and Saturday. Local patches of late night and early morning fog, otherwise mostly fair through Friday. Increasing clouds Friday night. Variable clouds Saturday with a few snow showers. Lows zero to 15. Highs will be In the low to Southern Mountains: Strong high pressure will continue through Friday night and Sat -- -- -- mld-30- s. urday as a series of pacific troughs move to the west coast. The high will weaken Friday night and Saturday. Mostly fair skies Friday with areas of late eevening and early morning fog. Ridgetop winds northwest to 15 mph. Variable clouds Saturday with areas of fog. Rldjetop winds west to northwest to 20 mph. Temperatures at Bryce Canyon will be 9 for the low and 4 for the high. No measurable precipitation is expected. Extended Forecast for Utah Sunday through Tuesday A westerly Northern and Southern Utah flow aloft will allow a series of weakening disturbances to move across the great basin during the period. However the systems may not be strong enough to dislodge the temperature inversions in many northern valleys. Continued areas of haze with patchy fog in the northern valleys. Otherwise variable clouds with widely scattered showers at times. Highs will be mostly in Lows will be mostly In the 30s to mid-40to mid-20No measurable the mid-teeprecipitation is expected. Southern Idaho Forecast Sunday through Tuesday Fair skies are expected to prevail Sunday through T uesday. Mostly dry through the period. Highs will range in the 30s. Lows will be In the teens to mld-20No measurable precipitation Is expected. Global Temps By Brian Wilkinson Tribune Staff Writer A controversial request to expand a nursing home has been tabled until March by the City Council so that a more creative solution can be to provide all levels of retirement care. The new unit would include 42 apartments for the elderly, whose residents would have access to the villas health care, meals and housekeeping services and social programs, said villa associate administrator Richard Erick. This type of a continuum of care would be unique in Utah, he said. Trouble is, the city would have to close a portion of Ramona Avenue between 400 East and 500 East to accommodate the new building. And, some neighbors and a major- ity of the City Planning Commission say the villa is out of character with the neighborhood of single-famil- y houses. The addition would be too tall, would block views and the street closure would change traffic circulation, a handful of neighbors told the City Council Thursday. Other neighbors, however, support the expansion, saying the long-terbenefit to the community overrides any negative effects of creeping zoning. Council members found themselves in a quandary, recognizing the need for such a facility, but finding themselves on the verge of going against zoning policies they had strictly upheld in the past. Besides the street closure, a pocket of land would have to be rezoned residential to a from higher-densit- y category. That constithe bane of urban tutes planners. History has shown that once a spot zone is enlarged, chances are it will continue to grow, engulfing neighboring houses, said Councilman Ronald J. Whitehead. The intent is good, but there are good developers and bad developers, and bad developers know how to get around the rules, he said, Note: This informcrtlon Is received dolly from the National Weather Service at the Salt Lake International Airport. Precipitation readings and temperatures are those recorded at the airport. Yesterdays Weather Data Troce Precipitation 0.50. Precipitation In January deficiency Wyoming Caspar Cheyenno Rock Springs Evanston L .... (ramie Boise Idaho FaMs Pocatello Rexburg Twin Falls ....... y 49 44 36 M 48 27 15 24 M 31 21 21 17 M 85 12 83 94 M 98 1, 1984 0.16. 6.45. 2.06. Utah high 55 at St. George. Utah low 20 at Jensen. S.L.C. high 30 degrees 22 degrees S.L.C low 37 degrees. Normal high tor this date Normal low tor this date 19 degrees. 56 degrees. Record high for this date -- 5 Record low for this date degrees. Sunrise Today 7:49 MOT. Sunset Today 5:27 MDT. Utah Agriculture Forecast Strong high pressure along with valley temperature In- versions will Bangerter Sees Few Changes In His Budget B-- l of his proposed budget, is coming up Daily Data Precipitation since Oct. Accumulative excess spot-zonin- g, that could call for further revision Conditions Accumulative low-densi- ty Continued From Page Yesterdays remoln over the Wasatch Front. The high will weaken Friday night and Saturday a series of Pacific troughs move to fie west coast. B3 two-wee- "Weve discovered as a department that we were not paying attention to women on welfare or giving them what they needed to get off, supervisor Helen Thatcher said. They wanted information and support. One young woman said she had worked since she was 14 but got pregnant just as she finished high school. My whole world caved in, she said. I never dreamed of being on welfare. Now I know I can go to school and become She is training to become a surgical technician. Another woman worked as an operator for seven years but quit to have a baby. Six months later, when she tried to return, the company was laying people off. "When it gets to the point that you have to take your kid to Sub for Santa at Christmas, you need to get off welfare, she said. But the only traimng I had was as an operator saying, How are you, can I help. She plans to improve her work skills and get a job so she can support her d son. "Id be one on the social services committee who normally votes yes, Rep. Stephens told the women. I dont know where Ill be in 20 years. I could be in a rest home and need help. I believe in a lifetime that sometimes we lean on others a little and sometimes we lift. three-year-ol- Plan to Expand Nursing Home Tabled high-densi- ty Area Forecast 18, 1985 City Seeks Creative Solution m PorlKwonn toenoxtov riday, January k support groups that help women with On Thursday, one their first efforts at group finished and all the women said they felt much better about finding jobs than they did when the class started. B-- l anybody says people on welfare like it that way, maybe theyre talking about five percent of the people. I don't like it. I get $289 a month and my rent is $249. Tell me how to make it on that. Diapers Several broke do'n in tears as they told Rep. Stephens and Sen. Holr.gren that they need a little help to move off welfare. effort was first funded one year The ago. Welfare workers have since noticed a decline in welfare caseloads, more welfare clients going back to work and increased use of subsidized child care, said found. St. Joseph Villa, 474 Westminster Ave., wants to add a three-stor- y wing -- F Laivmakers Introduced to Welfare they would not receive such compensation. If history is precedent, proposals and counterproposals are a style used for years, and after angry rhetoric, final result .n an agreement are somewhere oetween that originally proposed and originally rejected. Richard Bass, recording secretary of Local No. 485 of the United Steel Workers, told The Tribune most workers would rather agree to a wage cut than compromise the health and retirement benefits the older workers had fought for over so many years. "Cancer or a heart attack could wipe out a family, he said. Dean Lipsy of Local No. 3 of the Operating Engineers said talks have been aimed at keeping the company Todays Weather to The Salt Lake Tribune with recommendations for the Legislature on alternatives for flood control, particularly the rising Great Salt Lake. You cannot do anything there without a risk, he remarked. To help crystallize thinking, he said wants to see the costs and benefits of every solution on one sheet of paper, and has so directed the Department of Natural Resources to do so. It would appear, he added, that strictly in terms of flood control, some combination of pumping lake water and diking would have the most impact. In one matter discussed, Gov. Bangerter said its likely state government can do nothing more to ensure Kennecotts Utah Copper Division remains open. The possibility of closure has been raised in negotiations with unions for pay and benefit cutbacks. The state last year permitted a sales-ta- x exemption on major improvements at the mine, a course that hasnt been taken yet, the governor pointed out. Losses of $150 to $200 million annually cannot be subsidized by the state, and more tax breaks c.not solve the financial crisis, which is determined primarily by copper prices set internationally, he said. State government may be confined to further encouraging of a more diversified economy, he suggested, continuing to reduce the ripple effect on the Economy from Kennecotts 7 tailspin. adding that he puts St. Joseph Villa officials in the good category. Speculators know how to change confirmed City Attorney zoning, Roger Cutler. Sydney R. Fonnesbeek, who represents northeast Salt Lake City, said that LDS Hospital also provides a needed service, but where the expansion of LDS stands today was once single-famil- homes, some very y homes. beautiful single-famil- y Ms. Fonnesbeek noted that the neighborhood surrounding the villa is in a critical transition phase. The next five years or so will tell if the area stays the way it is or becomes inundated with commercial uses. She suggested sending the matter back to the planning department to find a "creative solution that will allow the expansion while making the neighbors happy and preventing the specter of continual growth. Councilwoman Alice Shearer endorsed the idea, saying, At some time, I mght be very alone in this world ... If there is a place Id like to be, its St. Joes. In an eloquent statement that no doubt had an effect on the councils decision to study the issue further. Dr. Victor Kassel said agism -- r is prejudice against the elderly making it difficult for senior citizens to get the services they need. Suspects Are Arraigned For Armed Robbery Of Four S.L. Stores By Rodd G. Wagner Tribune Staff Writer Four men suspected of holding up an east side Safeway store last Thursday while police waited nearby were arraigned on armed robbery charges Thursday in 5th Circuit Court. Among the defendants are two cousins, inmates of a state halfway house, who were also charged in three other armed robberies committed since their release from the state prison. Charged with the robbery of the Safeway store at 2040 S. 2300 East were Keith L. Shepherd, 25; Moses H. Shepherd, 26; Richard B. Ixmg, alias Richard B. Torango, 24; and Randy L. Brown, 23. The Shepherds were also charged with the Dec. 6 robbery of Payless Shoes at 812 E. 2100 South; the Dec. 20 hold-uof Checker Auto at 1781 S. State St.; and the Jan. 3 robbery of an Albertsons grocery store at 1350 Foothill Blvd. Clear Other Cases Robbery detective Don Bell said police believe they have cleared 38 robberies in Salt Lake and Utah counties and countless burglaries with the arrests. Police were continuing their investigation into two other suspects believed to have been involved with the ring, but who did not participate in the Safeway robbery which led to the first four suspects arrests, said detective Jerry Mendez. Stores Staked Out Detective Bell said the Shepherds are believed to have had two shoot-out- s with Utah County officers in which the suspects escaped and no one was injured. p Because of a string of apparently related grocery store robberies, detectives were waiting at about 10 stores in the county when the Thursday robbery occurred. Detective Mendez was assigned to the Safeway store, saw the robbery and radioed for more officers. Detective Ron Nelson, who rushed to the scene from the Dans Foods store he was staking out across the street, fired six shots at the fleeing suspects. Suspect Richard Long was found to have been shot in the lower leg when arrested that night Routine investigations, begun whenever a police officer fires on a suspect, are being conducted by the police department and county attorneys office. Detective Nelson remains on active duty. One Suspect Escaped Suspect Keith Shepherd escaped from a questioning room on the eighth floor of the Municipal Hall of Justice on the night of his arrest. He was arrested again at 3:30 the following morning hiding in a closet at 947 E. 400 South. Also arraigned Thursday were two Wilpeople at the house that night liam Candelaria, 20, and Tammy J,. who are charged with Fabela, 18 obstructing justice by allowing Shepherd to hide in the house and shave his beard there. Both knew Shepherd had committed the robbery and denied having seen him when detectives came to the door, the complaint alleges. r Preliminary hearings for set were defendants for Jan. robbery 23. The two defendants suspected of harboring Keith Shepherd are scheduled for a pre-trihearing on Jan 30. the-fou- al UP&L Files Another Motion . v t Sides Move to Next Round In Simonelli Legal Brawl Continued From Page B-- l degenerate into the type of hearing and investigations characteristic of those involving Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. The dispute has in many ways bel. come a The PSC has criticized the consumer committee stating Circumstances suggest that the committee may have sponsored Mr. Simonellis appearence in the Utah Power & Light general rate case primarily for the purpose of generating publicity. The Division of Public Utilities has been drawn into the fray. The attorney generals office has alleged "back-roodeals and secret arexist between UP&L rangements and the Division of Public of Utilites. Joseph Ingles, the director of the Committee of Consumer Services, has asserted the division is aqsaid his agency does not trust the division. could free-for-al- pro-UP&- L Moreover, the attorney generals office attacke the PSC for ordering the division to' conduct its investigation independently contending It prevented any party that represents the public from uncovering and articulating the truth about UP&L and its coal contract The attorney generals office and the committee contend the division is prevented by statute from impartially investigating Mr. Simonellis allegations. UP&L interprets the statute differently and notes the PSC order does not prohibit the committee from conducting investigations and refiling i(s case nor does it inhibit the attorney generals office from conducting in-" vestigations. UP&L also dennied the attorney genernals allegation that UP&L tempted to influence the divuftons vestigation. atin- |
