Show Herald Journal Logan Utah A-T- I' s i-- I : O - Friday April 19 1996 s I delay projects for design review t V i ' ByUfchMlRWMMil j if too costly Ho company is planning to build a steel fabrication and farm equipment manufacturing facility at 800 W 750 North The building was proposed to be sided with metal although the city council has said it doesn’t want to see any more plain metal buildings in industrial areas i unHM argued that he shouldn’t have to build anything better than the buildings around him which are sided with conumded metal But Logan Municipal Council Member Karen Borg who was in die audience told the commission that such arguments would be like saying every design requirements are toff writer la a session that could signal tougher develop- ment review in the city the Logan Planning Commission put a hold on project puns Thursday sight that weren’t complete with design details ' The commission for example told Lundahl Research to come back next month with samples of buildieg materials and a landscape plan rather than saying “we’re looking at” putting trees and shrubs hoe and three Jeff lundahl said he wasn’t making threats but c- Pages his company could locate elsewhere if Logan’s cor-nigat- ed thing on 300 North should resemble the business on the Main Street corner Cache Valley Starters A Alternators located on that corner is a business commonly referred to as a local eyesore “Neither you as a commission or we as a council need to apologize for upgrading our standards” Boigsaid Commission Member Eugene Kartchner agreed “We’re going to be part of that ’being better’” The commission also held off on a decision about the design of a Midas Muffler shop at 1175 N 200 East The shop is located in the southeast corner of Cache VWley Mailt eventual expansion plans But adding another driveway to 200 East and where that driveway should be located were concerns raised by commission members worried about traffic problems and the nearby residential neighbor- hood The commission asked the proponents to return next month after the public works department can better study the proposal and report back to the commission about the traffic study that is under way In other business the commission approved the subdivision and design for Downs Meadows II at 320 W 1140 North and for Yorkshire Village between 200 and 400 West on 1800 North Spring By Gina Howard staff witter MSX launch delayed A high-tec- h telescope built by Utah State Univer- sity wasn’t launched into space today as planned The launch of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organiza- tion’s Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite including the SPIRIT III i Execu- tive Lynn Lemon have start- ed a series of monthly meetings to discuss issues facing both governments’ 1 j’1 Clark said she initiated the meetings in the same spirit that she started a mayor’s telephone hotline I I and started televising coun- i ik cil meetings — to make local government more open and accessible Logan is the county seat but in recent yean there has i i some been animosity between both governments "We’re always going to have some differences of opinion” Lemon said adding that his meetings with Clark will likely reduce some of the mutual problems facing both gov- i I uid accumulate” he it" in the snow “They (drivers) don’t adjust to that first storm after you have Brenchley Logan Mayor Darla Clark i ik to good driving conditions” and Cache County I starts Hoopers said motorists need to slow (town and drive safely leaders meet -- Brenchley said “Heavy wet snow is some of the slickest conditions when it conditions at the launch site Officials at Yfadenbeig Air Force Base Calif have Logan county i some” said Utah Patrol Lt Claron “We’ve had worse storms than this without any accidents because people are tuned into morning J and then Highway infrared telescope built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory at USU was canceled due to unfavorable wind tentatively scheduled the MSX launch for Sunday 5 Hoopers were kept busy with about a dozen accidents Thursday and said the snow contributed to many of them “We had all we could handle said Tvo people remain hospitalized and eight people were treated and released from hospitals following four traffic accidents in Cache County during Thursday’s snow Authorities routed traffic from 91 through Lewiston for about an hour following a two-c- ar crash abort 2:30 pm at 14391 North in Cove One person was ejected from a car in the accident fllS driver Seventy-year-- old Ralph Moon of St Anthony Idaho remains ia serious but table condition with an internal injury and fractured ribs at Logan Regional Hospital where driver Eric Salisbury 16 Spanish Fork is in satisfactory condition with a broken jaw TYavia Hatch 16 245 W 100 South Richmond a passenger ia Salis- bury ’a vehicle was taken by ambulance to ground McKay-De- e Hospital ia Ogden Biinl tecaughf to a ptftrm npar Mantua in WeUsvittepanyon V' t : Amptorcydist tj 4 " Pwersboro — Keller 20 Cub Rivet were land waSetleaaed fain retail treated for minor injuries such A Utah Highway Patrol press Betty J Anderson 28 580 S strains bruises and cuts 1000 West Logan ind Stone V release said a third passenger A press release uid the three Luke Anderson 15 137 E 100 Harper 59 Gariand were treatSouth Richmond was taken to ed tor minor injuries sustained vehicles were northbound and in the 11:15 am crash Flranklin Medical Crater in Prethat McDowell’s vehicle hit A press release uid Anderson Hanis’a vehicle which wu in ston but hospital officials had no record of him lost control on slick roads front of him and had stopped for The press release uid Saliscrossed the center lane and the vehicle in front him to turn rolled the pickup truck onto its left bury wu (hiving south on US The force of the accident 91 on wet roads when he tost aide She wu cited for unufe control the vehicle spun 180 lane travel pushed Harris’ vehicle into the Four people went to the hospifront vehicle McDowell was degrees and slid into the northaccident at 5 died for following too closely bound line where it smashed tal after a three-c- ar into Moon’s car Citations are pm on Main Street in Smith-fiel- d Logan City Police reported nine accidents including one at pending 700 E US 89 at 12:40 pjn in Don McDowell 38 Franklin A few hours earlier two peowhich 22 two people were taken by Franklin Shawn Harris a in were injured ple pickup truck rollover on Utah 30 near Marilyn Harris 21 and Jason a police officer to the hospital - u tote ' 8lMnaHmld £ JoiiimI awrf because tie read condiftona were too dangerous a police report uid Laura Iberlink 27 50 S 300 East Logan and Craig Fisher 24 ume address were treated and released A police report said their vehicle had just been involved in a traffic accident a few minutes earlier and they were in the process of moving it when it wu hit from behind by a vehicle driven Amelia W Stillings 21 112 S 100 East No 1 Logan who told police she tried slow down and miss the vehicle but couldn’t because of slick roads ernments as they start working together Democrats to gather The Cache County Demo- cratic Parly will hold its Jeffersoa-Jacksoannual fund-raisi- pm n dinner at 6:30 Saturday The price is ng $25 per person Speakers include congres- sional candidate Greg Sanders and parly officials There will also be an auction The event will be held in the Bullen Center in downtown Logan Hansen leads 1st District race in SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Rep Jim Hansen seeking his ninth term in Con- gress enjoys a huge lead over Democratic challenger Greg Sanders a new public opinion survey shows The copyright Deseret TV poll published Thursday found 60 News-KS- L percent support of those interviewed the Republican tocambent Sanders received 24 percent while 1 percent favored other candidates and 14 percent were undecided I I I I I I I I The survey conducted Match 26-2- 8 try Du Jones A Associates involved 202 1st Congressional District residents The margin for error was 7 percent Jones found that 24 percent of Democrats surveyed supported Hansen while 8 i i percent of Republicans ( backed Sanders Leavitt says he’ll sign bill banning gay clubs SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov Mike Leavitt uya he will sign the Mil banning gay students from forming school dubs and the American Civil liberties Union promises to challenge k “Not only does tt violate the rights of lesbian gay and straight students’’ said Carol Grade executive director of the ACLU in Utah “bid (also) everyone associated with a Utah high school including teachers administrator! and volunteers” State and school officials have been looking for a way to ban gay dubs since late last year whea some students at East High School in Salt Lake City announced they were forming a gay-straig- ht alliance The Salt Lake School Board reacted by banning all nonacademic extracurricular organizations believing that under the 1984 federal Equal Access Law that wu the only way it could prevent the gay students from meeting The federal law intended to keep schools from prohibiting Bible dubs prevents schools from discriminating against clubs because of the beliefs they espouse The Legislature’s first move against the gay students wu to pass bill that would have prohibited teachen and school volunteers from supporting condoning or promoting illegal conduct — such sodomy Leavitt vetoed the meaconcerns by the Utah Educaover sure tion Association that it would infringe on the rights of teachers i u portion wu reworded to prohibit school employees and volunteers acting in their official capacities from supporting or encouraging criminal The teacher-speec- sary but live with it UEA president Lily Eskelsen said the did believe the new law would violate the federal Equal Access Act for students Leavitt uid legal action could provide a lasting solution to the dispute “In our society sometimes you just have to go to a court to resolve the finer points’’ he said “Many people in the state rad I’m among them wish that this did not have to play out in our schools This is obviously a much larger national date “I wish it were finished h conduct It would extend to their private lives if the action results “in s material and substantial interference or disruption in the normal activities of the school The UEA thought the section unneces uid it could it don’t suppose The governor uid the measure “did not come out the way 1 would have liked giving the total decision to the local school districts” but said be would sign it The school boards association wanted the mandate to be statewide so that the state pays for the legal defense The bill wu written with legal action in During the debate one backer of the bill Republican Rep David Bresnahan uid his brother who died of AIDS had been misled into believing he sexual wu born a homo- “Statements were made that (youngsters) aren’t recruited and they sure are” he uid his voice breaking with emotion “Free speech does not include recruiting ' them into a homosexual lifestyle that can kill them” Sen George Mantes a Democrat called ‘ in our stale” it “another moral witch-huUtah is about 76 percent Mormon by calculation of the church which considers homosexual acts ground for excommunication The Legislature is about 90 percent Mormon nt June could bring $30 million shortfall for lawmakers SAIT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tkx collections have fi 130 million abort of state budget estimates a poss indicator that Utah's string of revenue surpluses in re years may be play tog out If the trend continues lawmakers could end this bin year to June with tax revenues in the red compared to lections For the past two years surpluses have In i large lax cats The potential cloud on Utah’s tax revenue bori cornea at a time whea the state is gearing up for lai scale transportatioa projects “If we have a S30 million shortfall next year that said Farr West Republican Rep M be interestipg Stephens chairman of the House Executive Apprnp ttons Committee But budget annhva stressed Wednesday that tax col dll lion sbll are larger than they were at this time last year What’s more revenues stall have three months to live up to expectations "We don’t think there’s any undue cause for alarm” said Douglas Macdonald the tax commission analyst w ho prepared the revenue report “We don’t see too many clouds we think we can maintain this 5 potent growth rate for a while” Utah's recent economic growth of more than 5 percent a year was bound to slow bin the state mill still be healthy if it stays at avenge growth rates of 3 percent until the 2002 Winter Olympic Games provide another spurt of activity said Lance Rovig an analyst to foe governor’s Office d Planning and Budget “We don’t see say recession between now and foe Olympics but we see it stowing down” Rovig said “If "A s 1 is” mind It is accompanied by 18 pages of "legislative intent’ Leavitt uid he “regretted” the bursts of rhetoric that came from during the debate A I wc stay just average we'll be doing fine” Tbe biggest dip was in individual income taxes which were S14 million below projections as of April 7 A total of $789 million had been collected — up $57 million from the same time last year but representing 77 percent growth rate instead of tbe 10 percent predicted A key factor may be that 30239 Utah residents had already filed for their income tax refunds by April 10 this year compared to tbe 191422 who had requested them last year Macdonald said Of more concern was the $5 million dip in expected corporate franchise taxes which bad been estimated to grow 159 percent Instead that category increased just 9 Krcent to $8 million sail $8 milliou more than was collected at the same time last year J i |