Show tilt I " j s Si'- - ‘J “ f - $ - rm' v V: 1 Saturday April 29 2000 BOISE (AP) — The decision by major American processors to stop buying genetically modified potad customers toes for their seems senseless to Steve Love the University of Idaho potato breeder who helped develop Monsanto Co’s NewLeaf potato five yean ago ' “However it’s not unexpected" said Love just in from a morning of planting that included some of the super spiids VThe problem we're seeing with acceptance is that we have never really given the public a anything that they can measure and say ‘Is it good enough? Is it worth me taking something I don't know fast-foo- - l JRSimplot Co one of ment The deal requires that the first $17 million of any cash cushion be believed and for corporations projects redeposited in the reserve “better than forecasted performance Budget writers were also unable to for the entire fiscal year get a handle on the skyrocketing cost Cash surpluses have been a boon to of health care for the poor and simply the state in recent years providing ' cut millions of dollars from the alkv needed revenue to meet emergency cation to Medicaid to keep the budget March ballooned the state's cash surplus to $312 million buoying opti- mism for a sufficient financial cushion to cover legislative budget commitments made last winter Kempthorne administration analysts remained focused on the rev- enues being generated by the income tax for April concerned that receipts so far this year reflect earlier filing and will mean collections this month One quarter of all income tax payments which account for over half the state's general revenue were made in April faym! e Much of the surplus could Tear that if proves oyt But evaporate chief economist Michael Ferguson ' said recent revision in key economic I V - Total collections were $133 mil- lion higher than projected for the month due largely to the perform mancc of the personal income tax Substantially lower demand for : two-tiere- ’ --- ' m l a a The administration expected a 6 percent increase' in income tax receipts this year but through March - 1 ': strength ar ‘ : refunds was a main reason and had been expected in light of the heavy ' demand for refunds in Fehratuy AnaV lysts believe computers have acceler- ated the filing of lax returns moving the refund peak earlier in tin year But there was also anotltcr bulge -' in paycheck this time $2 million withholding which is a key indicatin'' of the economy’s underlying joh' flat-ra- te one-tim- kf room for policy makers in the black Unless program costs contract on their own that money spring’s performance is critical will have to be paid next winter because the need for extra money fol- And to secure the needed votes for lowing the 2000 budget deliberations passage of pet public workers prois significantly higher jects key lawmakers put together a iTo settle a successful challenge to ' construction package that provides' d its truck tax the state limited cash for planning new build- -' agreed to pay interstate truckers $27 ings in every corner of the state It tax But essentially commits the state to tens million and adopt a because of the insistence for an elec- - of millions of dollars in future years lion-yetax cut lawmakers had to to actually build those facilities So the Division of Financial Man- pull $17 million from the state's $36 a: ! 11 lections provided some breathing expenses not contemplated when the original budget was written But this highcr-than-expcct- ed s' Page statistics shows much stronger employment growth their earlier BOISE (AP)— A surge in personal and corporate tax collections in Idahcfs 's - ' The Herald Journal Logan Utah V- "''V 'j 'v J ' the nation's largest processors told its growers in the Columbia Basin Idaho and North Dakota that it’s not buying biotech potatoes this year : ' because McDonald's and other chains don’t want them “You're talking about a highly visible retail product in french fries and'thereforc pressure from extreme environmental groups and groups managed to raise this to a level where there appeared to be consumer reluctance" Zcrza said ' ? gy "We think biotechnology is important for agriculture and for providing affordable food" he said “So by no means are we writing off (genetically modified) products but for now we have to respect the of our customers" ' But the growers already knew that They can save about $140 of the typproduction ically $1500 cost by planting the potatoes that pref-creiK- cs y fr - " pcr-ac- re '7--y See SPUDS on Page 12 & In brXof ' Heston ‘'Vto take part er' in stage show i d ?!! OL'jV IDAHO FALLS (AP) - National A js Hs r ' ' - - f ' ’J -- "i A mance to his trip in late June to eastern Idaho Heston and his wife Lydia Clarke Heston will perform the play “Love Letters’’ by AR Gurney on June 24 at Idaho Falls’ Colo- nial Theater the day after Heston n conservative takes his views before the Republican State Convention in Pocatello : two-perso- - v - Vi 'T - Rifle Association President Charlton Heston is adding a theater perform i i n n ) 4 t ' W‘ well-know- V r Heston famed for his role as Moses in "The Ten Commandments” agreed to do the play to fill the theater's schedule after Robert and Jill St John canceled their appearance in the play because of other commitments The play covers a relationship of 60 years through the reading of love letters Heston and his wife of 36 years performed it last summer for three weeks at London's Haymarket Theatre "V Wagner - Hispanic students gather for seminar SUN VALLEY (AP) — Three hundred Hispanic juniors and senidrs from across Idaho are gathering for the 11th annual Hispanic Youth Symposium Many will go home Sunday with college scholarships ideas on how to improve the image of Hispanics in communities and ways of improving their “We'll have Hispanic speakers who are household names among Hispanics trying to convince the kids to stay in school consider education beyond high school stay away from gangs pregnancy and dni$s and appreciate their culture" said Bud Albin an organizer who works for Bechtel BWXT Idaho It runs the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory The symposium was founded by a group of businessmen who noticed that the high school dropout rate for Hispanici in Idaho was 60 percent and that wai among the students whohuide it (0 high school But today 12 years later the dropout rote is down to 30 percent according to state statistics self-estee- m Albin believes the symposium played a role in lowering the dropout rate Some symposium participants have gone back to their schools and started organizations like the Future Hispanic Leaders of America Cache Valley news tips Cal reporter Tucker Het 1 ExL 3030 752-212- v O The donor of the house deducted s The the auction price as a charitable V donation and the land trust received : a cash donation from Tidwell's thrift ’I HAILEY — Bnicc Tidwell store after expenses accepts most any type of reusable ' construea from materials Having seen the potential bonanza surplus in recycling houses doomed for libn site or household equipment destruction Tidwell said one of his from spring cleaning and The items arc as small as nuts tnajor goals now is to spread the bolts and as large as well as large word through building contractors real estate brokers and demolition as the whole house thank you In fact a complete a companies to hold back on the and consider donating homes house has been the hugest coup for be sold and moved can that Tidwell and his nonprofit Building v 39 a Meridian native is Tidwell which he Material Thrift Store q former contractor who sold his founded in 1991 as a unique charity : mechanism for channeling funds to Company six years ago to embark on this new career of salvaging the nonprofit Wood River Land reusable materials and equipment Trust which preserves scenic open ' before it reaches the dump and in : space' turn using funds from the thrift store house was The to help acquire and preserve open donated to Tidwell's store by the owner to make way for construction space He said it is a far more gratifying of a newer larger home achievement house Saved from demolition the “I was burned out as a building fetched an undisclosed purchase Tidwell said "Starting contractor" a moved to was and auction at price new site my own new entrepreneurial com- By Pat Mutphy A Timee-New- £ bull-doze- rs : A- 3000-square-fo- ‘ pany was fun'-- ov ' ??? - used-- ?' a that day on Porlrey Post Register IDAHO FALLS (AP) — One tan two-do86 Nissan Sentra looks much like the next hut any can tell you that no two can are really alike Each comes with its own smell or lcr quirks personality and often a name lts been that way for yean “Cars are so important" said Renee Portrey a speech teacher at Taylorview Junior High School “They are independence to a teenager!” Portrey clearly recalls her high school car VMv father bought this copper 1970 Ford Galaxy 500 He sold it to me for a dollar The first thing I did was promptly back it into a tree and put a dent ui the bumper" The car proved indestructible from MW ' brothers taught her to patch holes in the gas tank with soap and spray paint and she frequently drove it — and bottomed out — d The car held up to 12 people and was the adventure mobile for camp-in- g trips jaunts to the Mississippi River and visits to college pals ing stopped the car — unless the driver fluttered the gas pedal in just the right way “I miss it big time" said Portrey Idaho Falls High School history off-roa- teacher Jim Francis’ old vehicle nature of didn’t have the die-ha- rd POrtrey’s "It always used to die in the driveway" he said of the "red refrigera- tor" a Fiat “It had all the ncato lights — lights on pillars lights on backseats — but they never worked at the same time It had a personality — fussy You'd IliWI - I V '“- ' - 20-fi- - : atr-fiel- 4000-square-fo- TrLV d s with cars one thing and another goes wrong" Just after Francis had the entire fifc ’ ot Teachers had love-hat- e By Kira Stoops V- - Customers arriving to scoiil the Thus far the Wood Rivcir Land store will find upw ards of 5(H) items Trust of which Ttdwcll also is presin as many as 50 categories such as ident has acquired 2600 acres of furniture windows? land easements in Blaine Custer ' plumbing stoves wood and Camas counties to protect complete hnihiromii and dryers washer's scenic views agricultural fields equipnwnt mirrors recreational access and riparian tubing’tHvcui refrigeratiKS : habitat granite gas hulerx for melt nig t electric piwvered show and a 't But in the process of recycling ' thrift which store awning goods Tidwell's Tidwell belies e that witlKuti the opened in its larger present location thrift store's inventory of reusable last year has struck another blow household materials and equipnient for environmental good sense: he his customers pnbably would do has saved an estimated 7000 cubic without rather than purchase new from being yards of materials landin the waste as goods at double or ' triple the thrift county dumped store's costs fill at Ohio Gulch Customers conie from as far aw a It is equivalent to 1167 garbage as Pocatello Stanley Boise Tw in truckloads Falls Ginxling Jerome and f A modest $8000 of the land for the great deals trust’s funding has come from TidSonw of the store's donul ginnU well's operations at the thrift store to othei chat in turn are But that $8000 came the hird way ties and civic causes Operating from a For exampte ihe St N inceni de warehouse-lik- e location south of Paul Center was given appliances to remarkable has Tidwell a Hailey distribute to needy families collection of materials some never or any radio at first But I umII ciuk to love this car 1 ow ned it foi 1 1 )cars Sally Chambers first car was a engine redone all the transmission 1957 Oldsmobilc convertible that fluid drained out in I960 for $500 numbers who Francis offered some advice to car w ithout at Taylorview remembers teaches Fiat a "Never buy shoppers: an Italian mechanic — in the trunk" driving it from Grand Rapids Mich Fellow teacher Mark Hatch's car of to Washington DC on spring bieak "On the wav back to Grand youth didn't have a trunk "Daisy" was a converted ambulance Rapids the rag top came unstitched and we had to put a blanket from in the around drive to '1 got door to door to keep the w ind from foothills and pretend I was Heming"Such way 1 was taking wounded prisoners tipping it more' she siid memories” save Hatch them” off the foothills to Mary Noble journalism advisor at recalled Marsha Blackman' who teaches Idaho Falls High drove “Bessie"-'54 Chcv y w r language arts at Taylorview started and siuoke black w hich that spurted greasy out with a 1967 Saab Delux 75 miles oil of Sucked a every she acquired during her freshman quart But it was a luxury limousine in her year in college “The fust time 1 saw the car 1 was eves “I still wish I could find a brand devastated" she said “This was not like her” Noble said my dream car It did not have a heater new one just sin-g- two-doo- cn ot ! |