Show I I 1ceaagzitztiLt:rt 1 LOCAL News Desk: 1 237-204- January 26 SUNDAY 5 1992 B1 o I ft I - - i t t - t I 1 it i ! - - : ' t1 -LI - !t' () -- r 4 - 1 Cr K 1 : '' ''''- - ''''''''' -- - '' '' r' 4' :: I It II i - " - I ‘ i' i I - t ! 4 1 i my 41 ' —0 IT( - ±' i I I ( -- v I i - '701--1I - 4 - 0 - 1 t - s 4 F f ''- -- rr ( rg ''''' 'q-1- '' - ' 1 '"st '''' - I - t t' I ' - cr--0- " 0 i Ne I - -- - e -- t ' 1 - - '' - ' V J - - :4 - 7— i t z I I i ' I- 1 ' ' ' ' rm $) ts: ar 1 4 - t 4 i "L' I t i k 4 ' L" : ) MICII 1 0:r- --- i ' ' By looked like we weren't even going to have one at all for a while" The warmer temperatures melted the Salt Lake Valley's inversion allowing the sun to make a rare appearance Another small storm moving in late tonight may also keep the Church of Jesus Christ of THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Parimutuel horse racing has emerged as one of this year's most divisive issues on Utah's Capitol Hill pitting the horse industry against the LDS Church Racehorse owners and trainers say that without parimutuel betting in Utah they — and the millions of dollars they spend annually — will be forced to leave the state The American Quarter Horse Association a major sponsor warns that this year will be its last in Utah if the Utah Horse Racing Act is not passed They say they'll take their races to neighboring states all of which have parimutuel racing Parimutuel is legalized betting where bettors backing the top three finishers in a race divide the total pot in proportion to the amount wagered minus a percentage for track operators and state taxes The state's take could amount to several million dollars annually Until a few weeks ago proponents of parimptuel racing had been making headway with legislators on a proposed initiative that would allow citizens to vote on whether to legalize it in their counties Backers of the Utah Horse Racing Act announced last fall they were close to having enough votes in their favor In a Jan 5 statement the horse-racin- g 1 1 1 I 1 "You go there to be refreshed and often you are repulsed It's tough landscape People once it was a body offresh with an outlet to the sea In fact it's a basin of old old water In that sense it takes on a mythic character and one that does not yield itself easily to visitors" — Author Terry Tempest WIIEarns on the Grvat Salt Laki i 1 1 I i 1 1 7 - l'1'E 4 4 - - ')I'tak: - ' ' a 1' - -- 4- k t ' s 1 ) r e: LE 01 -- to Jr 4 I 0 A 7 '' - V ' la ' ' k' f A — - tri -- t'g r IF 2:- - ''' ' ''''' '1' O'' 0 : - ‘ t 71' r til-- : ‘t "i '1f f :' i - - oi ' 44 " ts 1 t ' '1 i s if 'P'' s i ' - 1 ''' i l't ' 1 k- I - - 1 0 '' t ' i''''t ! - f T 1 '' t k tl 'tk'i t'' k ' V4 t tt t '' e ' '' i I 'V ! ' ' ' ' i 4' i - I' "t ''' - ' v - "!'''P' 41' i i i i ' - I:to001100 H 4 ' '' k-- --- r - eit - 5) A '' -- 1z - vi 1 I IA '':- A 1 T ri - ii t I 0 41 It tr ' - - ' k ' k t ''' - ' t t - I Jeff AllredThe Salt Lake Tribune Chariot races at Pheasant Run Ranch give lawmakers a chance to see that horse raising and racing can be a family affair Lobbyists Treat Lawmakers to Day of Horsing Around By Tony Semerad THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE lifeor-d- B-- 2 i t''' ' 11: 'A 1 - ''' '' r''- - t tfr Al f '(4 i I ' - 4 girN'i 7 ty 71 4 - ' B-- 2 nI - ' ‘! ' 1F' ttss'4': 4LH ' mmr- 7 1 ' ' tary "Brother's Keeper" "The Waterdance" was written by Neal Jimenez while in the hospital with a spinal cord injury It tells of a young novelist played by Eric Stoltz whose life changes suddenly and forever when he has a similar experience Mr Jimenez also was presented the festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award named after the late writer of "Midnight Cowboy" "Serpico" Column 4 See ! '44 A' : y a k ( 0E' i I 1 '' ' 4‘ - -- i- 4 t '"- t 1 04 I n 4 44 4 3 e had to sit upstairs at the movies we couldn't swim at Wasatch Springs and we couldn't bowl We could go to Lagoon but couldn't swim or dance" — Mary Washington Green re- calling the segregation she faced as a child in Salt Lake City 1 I York-base- d ' The Audience Awards based on ballots cast by festival-goer- s ranking films on a sliding scale from I (poor) to 6 (excellent) — went to the dramatic film "The Waterdance" and to the documen- Performance prize The dramatic competition jury included Newsweek film critic David Ansen film and music video director Beth B director Bill Duke ("A Rage in Harlem") and screenwriter Cal lie Khouri ("Thelma and Louise") The documentary jury included filmmakers Stephanie Black William Alexandre Rockwell the New director and of "In the Soup" said his film is in part autobiographical "I was down to my last dollar when I decided to sell my saxophone to buy more film" he said about the movie's genesis "I put an ad in the paper and a guy tk Saints reasserted its opposition to gambling including horse-rac- e betting "on grounds of public and private morality" Many speculated that the church had given the bill a kiss of death Parimutuel backers say the LDS Church has used Mafia-liktactics "To me there's not a bit of difference" said South Jordan rnehorse trainer and breeder Ed Giles "It doesn't matter what the organization — whether organized crime or a church — there's none in the world that should dictate how to vote" said Mr Giles a member of the LDS Church "That's not right "They the LDS Church dictated in a letter to legislators that they should vote against parimutad" Competition from surrounding states with parimutuel tracks is making the issue in Utah a eath proposition for racing Mr Giles argued He figures it will prove fatal to the Laurel Brown Track at Salt Lake County's Equestrian Park in South Jordan Owners of racetracks outside Utah on the other hand do not want to see Utah's laws altered At Evanston's Wyoming Downs just over the Utah border and 90 minutes from Salt Lake City track owner and president Joe Joyce said a change in See Column 4 "We Ia 1 nies and FARR WEST — About a dozen legislators spent an afternoon at the horse races Saturday courtesy of lobbyists campaigning to make betting on those races legal Members of Utah Citizens to Put Utah First a group pushing a parimutuel racing bill now be fore the Legislature bused lawmakers from Capitol Hill to Pheasant Run Ranch a new facility north of horse-breedin- g Ogden After a lunch and a tour of the complex leg multimillion-dolla- r islators got passes to a slate of chariot horse races at the Weber County Fairgrounds "I'm hoping this generates some fun in the Legislature" said Vernon Borgeson who attended the event with his grandson "It's been serious so far" Put Utah First spokesman Bret Schvaneveldt said the event was s intended to show that horse raising and racing in Utah is a family affair "It isn't evil" Mr Schvaneveldt said as children ran between horse stalls near the race track and owners shook buckled harnesses "I guarantee voting against the bill will be seen as a vote against agriculture and against rural Utah" That bill is the Utah Horse Racing Act which horse owners say would stem the loss of millions of dollars now spent by Utahns at race courses The leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints opposes the measure and Gov Norm Bangerter has promised to veto it About 350 people turned out to watch Saturday's 17 races at the out-of-sta- policy-maker- y t foot of the Wasatch Mountains Though traditionally not a betting sport chariot horse racing — known as cutter horse racing — draws thousands trainer Tom Close said "It brings a lot of people closer together" he said If attending lawmakers — of them representatives from Weber County — were swayed by their visit they weren't letting on "The morals are something each person has to judge for themselves" said Sen Glade Neilsen a Roy Republican many IL k : Utah Quotes of Note 1 I Latter-da- Place with actor and writer Spalding Gray as master of ceremo- Greaves and Isaac Julien journalist Berenice Reynaud liNNM 1 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL "' Prize m named Frank called Frank turned out to be a small-tim- e gangster who took a shine to me He asked me how much I needed for the film and I guessed MON Without hesitation he gave me the entire amount He became my first 'producer' " "In the Soup" stars Seymour Cassel and Steve Buscemi Mr Cassel was cited by the festival jury with an Outstanding THE dent Dramatic Film Competition at the Sundance Film Festival Two films tied for the grand prize in the documentary category "A Brief History of Time" Errol Morris' portrait of physicist Stephen Hawking and "Finding Christa" Camille Billops' and James Hatch's film about a young woman's search for her natural mother who gave her up for adoption in the early '60s The awards were announced at a ceremony Saturday night at 'Z' Entering the Stretch Parimutuel Victory Is Long Shot at Best By Nancy Hobbs o Other speakers emphasized that - PARK CITY — "In the Soup" a comedy about a destitute movie director and a gangster who becomes his financial backer took the grand prize in the Indepen- inversion at bay "It won't be a big deal as far as storms go" he said "But at least it may keep the haze and gunk broken up" Of the last 56 days 35 have been hazy said Mr Alder Tonight's storm is likely to drop 1 or 2 inches of snow in the mountains Some of the state's valleys may get some rain The state's high temperature Saturday was in Zion National Park where it warmed up to 59 degrees The low was in Hanksville where the temperature dipped to minus 4 Service meteorologist "It Terry Orme THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ralliers were urged Pro-choi- to run for office or to vote "Seventy-twyears ago women were given the right to vote" said Ms Threedy "They had to change the Constitution to give us the right to vote Its about time we started using it" 'hi the Soup Takes Independent-Fil- Sun Breaks Through Haze Smothering SL Valley When it comes to Utah's January thaw it's better late than never "It normally comes around the 20th of January" said William Alder National Weather office Ms Cumming said anti-choic- activists listen to speeches inside the state Capitol during a rally for women's abortion rights pro-choi- year legislators repeatedly told Annette Cumming of Utahns For Choice not to worry "We were assured by state legislators this would not happen" she said "I can tell you they were condescending and patronizing and we were lied to" need to do What now is vote those legislators out of full-fledge- d Tim KellyTim Salt Lake Tribune More than 3000 Before Utah's Legislature sion belonging to each woman This rally is about whether Utah will treat its women Morlike adults and mons she said e stance is not a "The political position Mormons can fall in line with like little toy sol- diers if we respect woman" Ms Farr said i' 1 1 ) 411's I passed one of the strictest antiabortion laws in the country last pro-choic- '' I e n pro-choi- :" -- k - 7''''' 4aA 4 - t anti-abortio- ' 1''10"41y l'f' 1 '' y "Pr -' 1 ' ' ' - 'L t: 10 - ' '- W - if' the most conspicuous were female members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints which has a strong stance "I will say it loudly and clearly to legislators and leaders Listen to me: I am Mormon and I am said Cecilia Konchar Farr a Brigham Young University English professor "There are many of us though most are silent because we are afraid" A woman's right to an abortion is not the Legislature's business she continued It is a moral decis - -n-' i t- - 7 I '' i t 1 I - g 1 ge " Viig:-J- 3 i i abretii-(1)11alp- ' P I -- - - "t 1 t --- 1 ' - : 0 I "I -' pordiCk'r-- rt" 1 A '" - 1 - - - t ' itrm- 4 r - - F -re -- ' 4 1 -- ' 1 40 -- to ''- - ' ( )' ' i i rifolet'CI ‘" I vt' 61srt C 1 - ''''' " 44 t -- - iii - g - i1 i '- ‘' t 11 AtO abortion issues are not about whether the act is right or wrong If government makes the decision it can choose whether a woman will or will not have children said Debora Threedy a University of Utah law professor The latter has already happened Ms Threedy said an Indiana judge had DK'd the sterilization of teen-aggirl because her mother had said the daughter was mentally incompetent More than 3000 filled the state Capitol rotunda Saturdáy to sing chant and listen to speeches advo' cating women s right to choose 7- 11' '11 74' ' - T4 c -- - 464 4slit t Pr-k- cf f l'it r ft-- s 1 $ li iT tdr 0- r44 i't:- '1' T 1 ' I 1 7- 7114''' tha ti ( ' u - OA ' i f ' ' 1 - sit - t ' i vqT - X t- !::' i rt“ ' - ' - I 2 I '''-- 4 ' 4 '''' t ekr ' - '' 4 '-- - t -- r' 4 - ' eiiA1 ' ' ' 1 'y-7-- li A ' I ' 4 k't - 1 1 - - nt ' J 1- g 11 - '- 1"411r - ' - ) 40 Paula Huff By THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE it v - ' I ri- 4 t4 v '''' — '''''' 1 1 11 17 ' 4-''- - It t 4 1 - it e ally Crowds Capitol 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I r1 Y - 1 t I - L irto 1 mv - f A - ' r t U114 't 04 ti A "" 6 Vi'4 44 : J A 4 !I - - 1 r ' -- c t ' J T"r'll'A-t1- ' '''--: t ' "''''‘"''1r ' ft " " '1 ' "I came out of that festival with a completely different idea of what was going to happen to me That was when the roller coaster left the starting mark" — Director Steven Soderbergh on the reception his film "sex lies and videotape" was given three years ago at the Sundance Film Festival 'It is not 'Gone With the but it doesn't need to be Thank God Spiel-berdoes those so the rest of us don't have to" — Filmmaker Peter Sellars on his debut movie "The Cabinet bf Dr Ramirez" Wind' or "If you work for Salt Lake County and have a pulse you (Notify for a $300 bonus" — Howard Stephenson president of the Utah Taxpayers Association after Salt Lake County handed out about 4 million In pay raises and bonuses one month after raising property taxes by $87 million 'ET' g "In Florida if your children sight you were un- were not in : t t : : easy Here you do a head count not to see if they're safe but to see if you've picked up any extras" — Jerry Martinez on the good life in Utah County : t i I 'a t 44 k 0 4 41t |