Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday Page 3 28 1996 April Housing officials: Expected rent hikes routine 4irHwa f iia t ' rr rn “r V' i USU Rental Rates Dormitory (apartment stylej quarterly rental rates for 19911995 and the proposed rates for " i - 1996-199- ' ‘ ‘ ' ii Utah State University students will ear but housing officials say the rent v - We're not the most expensive and not the cheapest but we are competitive on likely pay more to live on campus next 7: ikes are routine Increases averaging 295 the low side We feel very comfortable with the housing program at USU’ percent have been approved by the USU Board of Trustees and will go before the governing State Board of Regents Friday If Regents agree as campus directors expect the new rates will kid: in fall quarter Only the campus trailer park with 178 spaces and full occupancy escapes higher rent Those rates will remain at $12750 a town-hous- t A r : lMt 5if v 1 - Mosa Qrumw Randan f jfV'ri ' -- 1 ili (Ms BuNn Ulntah Jonas fiLC"-- : V-i? wyvv-A ApBrtHWnf :'4v - K ' a ! ly " j campus rents among 20 colleges and universities in the West this year “We’re not the most expensive and not the cheapest but we are competitive on the low side” Black said “We feel very comfortable with the housing program at USU” Black pointed with glee to a report just in that snows average response time to calls about maintenance problems rivals that of paramedics: 79 minutes “We’re very very proud of that” The proposed increases were approved by the Housing Advisory Board made up students and USU Student Services before they went to the Board of Trustees earlier this month Proposed rent increases across campus ’ I V i v- - ' si Rental increases based on the Consumer Price Index of inflation are an annual event and next year’s would be Ratos also rase quarhey for traditional stylo apartments and monthly tor Aggio VHtaga the USU traitor court and the townhouasa 'V'f "I"1" ' I'M'' I ' ' es But Michael Bla Services said signups so far indicate beds will be taken by fall despite the rate hikes v the lowest on average over the past five years Black said He said USU has the seventh lowest " 'tappmoMtanld'JounMfl two-bedroo- — Michael Black director of Housing Services month for the 142 older spaces and $15250 for the 36 larger spaces There are 3115 beds rang- from to dorms ing single family and they are 86 percent fuu i - by percentage with new dollar amounts are: Married students: Aggie Village — $350 a month 53 percent for one bedroom $470 27 percent for premium two bedroom $450 65 percent for three bedroom The is no m increase for the 414 regular units which will remain at $37250 a month New townhouses — $490 a month 7 percent West Stadium Villa — $470 a month 38 percent Traditional dormitories: $540 a quarter 28 percent for single rooms $460 a quarter 11 percent for Phi Jensen By staff writer Bullen Davis and Jones Hall — $545 a quarter 3 percent Merrill Hall — $570 a quarter 775 percent Moen Greaves Reeder Hall — $500 a quarter 3 percent Student Living Center — $570 a quarter 775 percent Uintah Hall — $610 a quarter 153 J percent Pioneering new ground ‘Oregon Trail’ program features familiar face Township drive Horses wagons tempt legislator to try hand at acting on track Grant Nelson who chairs a committee to form a township in College Ward and Young Ward said he is con- fident of getting the 80-8- 5 signatures needed to put the township issue on the ballot A law passed earlier this year in the Utah Legislature allows communities in unin- corporated areas to form townihips Ths law goer tali 'effort Monday Townships would have their own planning commissions with power to approve or disapprove annexation of land within the townships boundaries to adjacent cities College Ward and Young Whrd residents have said they want to form a township to keep from being annexed eventually to Logan Nelson who also chairs the Cache County Planning Commission said a Survey- or is completing details for a legal description of the proposed township’s bound- aries south and west of Logan Once that is completed Nelson said he will call a community meeting to circulate petitions “We think we can get them signed in one night” he said But he added the petitions will be circulated throughout the entire community to give all residents a chance to sign San Francisco SAIT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is making an appearance this summer in San Francisco for the fiist time in 30 years The choir will perform July 0 at Davies Symphony Hall as part of the Bay Area's Festival of History Week the First Presidency of 330-memb- er 29-3- The Church of Jesus Christ y Saints said the performance will commemorate a historic voyage on Feb 4 1846 in w hich some 250 church members tailed Horn to Yerba Buena That Pacific Coast settlement where they landed five months later on July 31 later was named San Francisco Some of them alto crossed the bay and helped found the town of Brooklyn ihkh later became part of Oakland Calif The choir has five gold and two platinum albums and won a Grammy for its rendition of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic ii It w F-'- a J rf' A Hollywood film crew shooting a t' ri- - t : movie here last week stinpd up a fluny of excitement But few realize one of northern Utah’s owq legislators is no stranger to the silver screen Well the ?' Ktvs ' : ‘i i ' V 4 ' - ' f 'Tv ' J-- - small screen anyway Local residents tuning in to In Search of the Oregon Trail on PBS Monday night may recognize a familiar face: (hat of the lone Democrat in Cache County’s legislative delegation Eli Anderson was “discovered” a few yean ago while another public television film crew was negotiating with him for the uk of part of his extensive collection of authentic horse-draw- vehicles The n producer couldn’t help but notice Anderbeard his son’s foil looks “He sturdy build and told me I looked like a trader of the period” Anderson recalled' When the Oregon Trail film crew came through Idaho and Wyoming in 1994 the man remembered Anderson and recommended him as an extra Indeed if one were trying to find an authentic replica of a Western pioneer he probably couldn’t come much closer than Anderson He’s descended from several of them rode in a cov“My ered wagon over parts of the same country we were filming” he noted For Anderson who's always had an era the interest in the experience of retracing the pioneers’ footsteps on the Oregon TYail was a bit eerie “You can still see wheel ruts from 150 yean ago” be said “Once in a while we’d pass rocks with names carved in them The dates were a hundred yekrs gy ago to the month of when we woe Also of the 350000 to 500000 people who traveled the trail only a relative film- ing” handful were attacked by American Indians the filmmakers maintain The Indians often approached camped wagons to trade or to ask for money for passing Narrated by Stacy Reach the three-hodocumentary attempts to dispel some of the mvths of the westward migration For instance notes a press release most Western movies depict wagon trains as 20 or 30 wagons long In ur but the vast majority of the encounters were peaceful To make sure the Ameri can Indian perspective gets told the Kvcral scholars and umen taiy leaders from the tribes who lived along the trail reality most of these long trains split up early in the journey The norm was two or three wagons belonging to an extend- doc-featu- res ed family or a few families traveling together SAIT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has the dubious honor of being among the frontrunners in a “race to the bottom' of states who provide only m programs for impoverished bare-minimu- Researchers at National Centre for Children in Poverty at Columbia University's School of Public Health said Utah ranks in the bottom 20 per- cent of states when it comes to voluntarily mailing programs to healthy growth and devel- opment among poor children The Beehive’s States peers are all found in the West and deep South All were singled out for not efforts “beyond what providing any is federally required" Cynthia Taylor KidsCount coordinator for Utah Children echoes the NOCP findings particularly when it comes to Utah's poor and struggling state-initiat- ed “Utah is not doing well by our children particularly in families where there is poverty said Tavlor KidsCount coordinator tor Utah Snlhia “The state is being led by some people in the Legislature w bo don't understand issues of the working poor" Highlighted in the report were these findings: w - Of the 213447 children under age 6 in Utah 29124 — 136 percent — live in families with inoomes below the poverty level Utah is not among the 14 states that provide supplemental health insurance for children Utah is not one of 14 states that supplement the federal Head Start program Utah ia not one of 29 states with state-fundprogram And Utah is not among the 37 states that supcomprehensive pro- port at least one state-fend- i The Public Broadcasting System was so impressed with the film produced by Nebraska ETV and Oregon Public Broadcasting that it choK it as its “pro- gram of the month” for April Meanwhile Anderson's not about to quit his day job but he’s open to any other acting opportunities that involve hones and wagons “That's where I’d be anyway out on a wagon if I had my way” he said In Search of the Oregon Trail runs Monday from pm on Channel 7 7-- iHnl!liniii!i Utah ranked low in children’s programs of Latter-da- aboard the Brooklyn from New York around Cape ' s By Cindy Yurth staff writer hone-and-bug- Choir to perform In ? ? Vehicles In Cache Valley it - Tho number of vehicles including trucks registered in Cache Vadley over Iht last five years: UTAH WJOO 49967 49845 B NICE ed 41000 o O 47728 ed :ram targeted to young children and their amilics such as programs home visiting programs for infants and toddlers H l 44 997 or family support and education programs 44730 Utah also lacks affordable bousing in many communities and often the apartments and homes that are affordable to the poor are overcrowded and lack adequate plumbing or other facilities Finally Taylor said the eligibility for childm to receive Medicaid in Utah also ia troubling The NOCP found Utah among the 17 states that offer coverage to young children only if the bouvhold income is at 133 percent of the poverty fine or below The federal poverty level ia $15141 a year for a family of four 4 s000 n n 49 472 40 00C t?33 1932 'r r l ET a fW -- WY V frj i t7?5 1SS4 74 ‘V" && — — — nMfoRid$ f $ W-t- —J W |