Show 2-- Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday December The 3 1987 Deficit reduction plan wins key test vote WASHINGTON r multibillion-dolla- (UPI) A spending plan billed as the first legislative step toward implementing the deficit cut ting agreement between Congress and the administration won a test vote in the House today Lawmakers split nearly along party lines in the Democratic-controlle- d House voting 236177 to accept the rules drawn up to govern the after noon debate on the measure House Speaker Jim Wright said the outcome of the final vote on the will depend on how much Sackage support the bill will draw rIt will be a close vote” the Texas Democrat told reporters before the House convened "The key to the outcome” he added "will be whether House Republicans will honor the commitment made by their party leaders and support the deficit reduction agreement reached and embraced by the resident after 20 days of difficult E partisan month” finance many government operations in fiscal 1988 was written to modify an earlier House bill in order to ensure a final tax and spending outpackage will fit deficit-cuttinlines set by congressional and adg ministration negotiators Under those outlines the House was asked to go along with a plan to boost defense outlays to $2854 billion up $11 billion from the level recommended in the earlier House proposaL Domestic spending would drop to $1788 billion about $26 billion below the previous recommendation In both cases specifics were not mentioned in the bill because they negotiations here last Republican leaders have criticized the Democratic package largely because of a string of unrelated revisions that might be attached to 8 le 587 billion spending plan The heart of the plan which would be left to a House-Senacommittee that eventually would resolve the differences between spending packages passed by the two chambers of Congress If new tax and spending plans are would te not approved by Congress and President Reagan — negotiators said they must trim more than $30 billion from the deficit in fiscal 1988 which began Oct 1 and $45 billion in fiscal 1989 — the balanced budget law demands $23 billion in automatic cuts this year House Republican leader Robert Michel of Illinois and his assistant Trent Lott of Mississippi criticized the plan facing the House today calling it vague and laden with provisions “unacceptable in today’s economic climate” Some Republicans predicted GOP support for the proposal would be scant but House Democratic leader Thomas Foley of Washington said he expected the bill to gam approval regardless of Republican action Meanwhile the Senate Finance Committee at work on the moneyraising elements of the new tax and spending plan tentatively agreed Wednesday to drop some of the most controversial items it was considering Tourist Council heads to county with budget needs By Debbie Christiansen Travel Council was presented with the Travel Association’s highest award for advertising The Cache-Ric- h Tourist he said is being Another Council is ready to approach the Cache County Council for a planned for spring and plans for second time with its budget the winter advertising camrequest for 1988 paign have been developed staff writer mini-inse- rt The Tourist Council nesday approved a Rare meeting today in only the fifth meeting between a pope and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox churches since the great schism of 1054 I Local motor carriers are conveying to the Utah Public Service Commission their complaint of unfair business competition from Utah State University and Weber State College A meeting with the PSC staff is set for 9 am Monday Farmington-base- d Key-Nort- h Limousine and the Logan Cab Co claim the two schools are in violation of state law when they pick up at the Salt Lake Airport a guest speaker such as for example sports celebrity Tommy Lasorda "It’s money out of our pocket” said Stuart Thatcher non-stude- nt a partner Thatcher said state law Key-Nort- h pro- hibits a college from using its motor pool to do anything more than transport students and instructors to or from school or Landfill Continued from page 1 County Zoning Administrator Lorene Greenhalgh hinted that lersonalities may be at the teart of the issue and was oined in that assessment by jouise Brown chairman of the Herald Journal USPS24I8 2000 Paul Publrnipr W R Published every evening Monday thru Friday and Sunday morninq by Caihe Valley Publishing Co 75 West 3rd North Loqan Utah 84371 PO Box 487 Telephone 7S7 7171 Second class postage paid in Logan Utah MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulation United Press International NEANews Service SUBSCRIPTION RATES S' SO One Month Carrier 00 One Year Carrier S87 00 One Year Mail Subscribers not receiving delivery of their Herald Journal please phone 7S2 7128 before 7 pm week nights or t am Sundays OFFICE HOURS: 8 00 am to 5:00 pm weekdays 1:30 am 1017 30 pm Saturdays POSTMASTER: Herald Journal Logan Utah 84321 Address changes to The 75 West 3rd North school activities If the schools do more than that they need the PSC’s approval and must meet the requirements for insurance and other details the PSC requires of motor carriers such as h and his company said Logan Cab owner Dennis Simonson "The Public Service Commission doesn’t want Utah State University in the transportation Key-Nort- business” Simonson said "because that would be competition with private businesses” "It’s a finer interpretation of the law than we’ve become used state-subsidiz- to” said Evan Stevenson vice president for USU And he said “it’s part of our hosting responsibilities” Stevenson said most if not all of the state’s colleges and universities will be on hand for Monday’s meeting on the issues raised by the motor carriers "They are all concerned” he said The meeting is set for 9 am in room 427 of the Heber Wells state office building in Salt Lake City Thatcher claims Weber State and particularly Utah State are more than costing $20000 annually in business Simonson estimates he’s losing several thousand dollars a year "They shouldn’t be in the Key-Nor- th Highway landfill and we’re not taming about moving it” Greenhalgh said “It’s more a concern with a system of checks and balances in government” If the landfill is annexed it comes under the control "of one perseon” she said The county would have no input in landfill matters which affect the county residents who are living nearby Greenhalgh said “The mayor says there will be public hearings like the one (tonight at the Logan Municipal Council)” she said "But I don’t have the feeling people will have the opportunity to be Brown added "I don’t feel comfortable that this (city) administration is open to hearthe issue ing from the public is whether you (the planning commission) want to give up control over the landfill The new fee schedule sent on to the County Council includes a hike from $20 for subdivision applications to a $250 base rate with an additional $10 charge for each lot above 10 lots tne sharpest increase week-lon- g USU Institute Division seminars and Conference and workshops Thatcher and Simonson disagree Those people who represent a great deal of potential revenue are not members of the school’s studentbody enrolled quarter by quarter they said although admitting that what actually defines a student will be one of the questions for Monday’s meeting ad- ministrative affairs Stevenson said USU has for years transported and escorted Invited guests such as visiting researchers or speakers ana the university feels such a Continued from page 1 practice is withing the law Twedt said although that section of highway appears to be less sensitive Logan Planning Commission than environmentally there are Logan Canyon who was in the audience still issues concerns and that we’re not that “It’s questionwill need careful study and ing the need for expanding the heard there” business of business they should be in the business of education” Thatcher said While Stevenson said the university considers as students the people who visit the campus for the day- - or attention Woolley said more than $22000 1987 region” Woolley said contingency The new budget was unanimously approved by the Tourist Council and will once again go before the County Council for its Local carriers complain of unfair competition By Tim Gurrister staff writer Now snow is needed Wed- budget "Virtually every state in the and the same Union recognizes the imamount that failed to gain the portance of tourism” Woolley County Council’s approval in said In response to this October because of questions awareness budgets to promote tourism are being raised all concerning expenditures "The 1N8 budget has been over the nation he said The Utah Travel Council has worked over consideral been an example for most we last met” said travel organizations throughout Council Chair Ted Seeholzer Tourist Council Member Val the United States Woolley sail Peterson said the County Throughout the four states Council had concerns about the surrounding Utah he said amount of money allocated in tourists ranked Utah high in four areas — administration rest and relaxation good value office supplies building for money historical and cultural events and friendliness of expenses and advertising The county’s concerns still the people "We nave a lot going for us” existed even after the reasoning behind the amounts was he said On the average summer explained to the County Council in November The new budget tourists spend $22 a day in Utah should do away with those and winter tourists spend an concerns and meet the approval average of $96 a day Skiing of the County Council Peterson brings in a lot of the money in the winter Woolley said said One of the cooperative efforts The adjusted budget includes reductions of $8000 in ad- Woolley mentioned was the ministration $1000 in office Heart of the Rockies project in supplies and $2480 in building which Utah has joined with expenses However the amount surrounding states to promote a of money set aside for loop tour which includes Yeladvertising was increased lowstone and the Tetons and advertises Salt Lake City as the $2980 over the original budget $5500 was added to funds for entrance to the tour information booth personnel "It is the only way we can and $3000 more was placed in survive as a state and as a of $80000 less than of Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios of leader Constantinople Italy spiritual the Eastern Orthodox churches and Pope John Paul II met at the Vatican 1988 both from an engineering and environmental perspective Visual aspect wetlands in dry lake deer migration routes near Sherwood Hills Resort and steep erodable slopes and a stream on the Box Elder Canyon section of the highway are primary concerns that need to be addressed he said Such cooperative efforts have made an famazing” difference and a study done by the University of Utah shows tourism is one of the best hopes for rural areas' economies and in some cases the only hope he said approval In other business the council heard from Jay Woolley The budget to promote director of the Utah Travel Council Woolley addressed the tourism could justifiably be group concerning the im- doubled but Utah does not have portance of cooperative efforts that kind of money Woolley In the state and region to said Thus the need for cooperative efforts and the neea for increase tourism in Utah "There’s a lot going on in prosperous areas to help other Cache and Rich counties” he areas said Some of the things tourists "Bridgeriand has made some in this area can enjoy are Bear great strides” he said Lake Logan Canyon the Currently Utah receives 11 ercent of the tourists annually Festival of the American West the Mountain West and if that Jensen Historical Farm and could be increased to 15 pep Hardware Ranch he added A color brochure cent an additional $700 million advertising Utah was run in in revenue could be gained Sunset magazine in 1988 and Woolley said was highly successful he said "There is no place with the Woolley said this type of variety of scenic beauty and advertising brought in $35 mil- things to see and do than in lion to $65 million in additional Utah” Woolley said "All we revenue Recently the Utah have to do is tap it” 24-pa- ge Circulation problem? 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