| Show Miller's controversy Jazz boss PAGE Lawsuit dogs Utah is still unbeaten Co Doleac B-- 1 & dump Wake PAGE C-- 1 Coug spikers cruise Next up? Texas A&M PAGE C-- 1 http:wwwsltribcom Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871 VoluiiH 25r) Number 54 i 1997 The Salt Lake Tribune SUNDAYDECEMBER 7 1997 nfiiiJhmilrirri rt South Main Street (80li237-2tiUSalt Lake City Utah 84111 Thirsty for a Booze Debate? Drink Up m-- ' mm 143 BY JAY BALTEORE THE SALT LAKE TKIBUNE 2S 1989 Map I NORTH Pa Special Study 1 For a state that prides itself on downplaving liquor consumption Utah has spent considerable time and taxpayer money the past 18 months kicking around the issue And Utahns soon will find themselves more the subject- either in the courts or fiWnlft 1998 Legislature A major point of contention developed last year over liquor advertising soon after the U S Supreme Court threw out Rhode Island's sanctions against certain forms of liquor ads In response Utah's liquor-contrauthorities developed guidelines on beer advertising but ignored pleas to extend those policies to wine and distilled spirits That prompted some bar owners to file a federal lawsuit that would force the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (DABC) 997 Map - Special Study J Area CTrf LluJ Area Known Fault Known Fault Suspected Fault (Some buildings below did not exist in 1989) State n mail-orde- g See LIQUOR ISSUE Page A-1- 6 State Capitol 700 N Capitol 700 N T JL r "— Washington School as V ' Washington School jr- ' 300 N Assembly Bldg site 200 N Temple Palace Performinci Arts Center f N 200 N 1 S Temple 100 S T200S Gateway J300 S Salt Palace 5' 5 oo o oo o N it 55 C w 500 S 0) ra 2 600 S w 5 f) Dozens in Siberia J I COMBINED NEWS SERVICES sive search at daylight IRKUTSK Russia — A Russian At least 74 of the military cargo apartment build jet plowed into a residential neighborhood in a ing's 108 registered destroyed tenants survived and had Siberian city on Saturday spewing fiery wreckchecked in with authorities said the Ministry for age as it broke into pieces and hit an apartment Emergency situations in Moscow building At least 38 people were killed in one of Russian television stations showed Russia's worst air disasters pictures of the smashed aircraft's giant tail The mammoth 4 — reportedly leaning against a five-story carrying two jet fighters — apartment building Surrounding plunged to the ground 20 secstructures were gutted by flames and still smoonds after takeoff from Irkutsk damaging four ldering in Irkutsk 2600 miles east of Moscow apartment buildings an orphanage and a school "Look at that tailpiece standing there like a witnesses said Scores of terrified children were devil's monument among the flames and clouds evacuated of black smoke The death toll was Think of it it could easily expected to rise as more have been than 1400 firefighters soldiers and medical my house It makes my hair stand on personnel with heavy machinery and dogs scoured end" Sergei Vorontsov 35 who lives 500 yards from the disaster area said by phone massive heaps of rubble The workers searched through the night as temperatures plunged below zero They were preparing for a more exten See JET CRASH 7 Square Performing Arts Center 400 S 5" - Assembly Bldg site Temple fffig Salt 300 Temple N Square -m f £ 3 5 8 8 8w Source: Salt Lake County An-12- J?? g 2 500S s w 600 s Sieve linker The Salt Lake Tribun WHERE'S THE FAT IT New Map Omits Potential Hazard BY LEE SIEGEL © 1997 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE When a building sits directly on a fault line a major earthquake not only will shake it but aiso literally can rip the structure apart Salt Lake City and County have banned new buildings on fault lines since the 1980s So accurate maps of faults are im- portant But a branch of Utah's Wasatch fault was wiped off maps of downtown Salt Lake City because of breakdowns in the svstem nf -- " rhonhc uiiu uaiauica intended to protect buildings and lives Those failures allowed the Salt Palace to be rebuilt between 1994 and 1996 without the required "special study" to learn if the fault passes directly under the $85 million convention center If a fault is found hv suph a ctn1 nniw vaiicu a IdUU- - j nru j rupture hazard investigation" a proposed building must be redesigned so it doesn't strata tvQ -- ! 1 hat s expensive if construction has begun Yet consultants never did such a study for the Kose Wairner Performing A ('OO South) Thev looked for nnri rtiHnH uwjcuui me uuo vnurcn s piannea 21000-sea- t Assembly Building Zions Securities' Gateway Tower West at South Temple and Main Street and the adjacent parking garage under Main They didn't include fault investigations in geotech-nica- l reports submitted before excavation or con tiJ cu Page YEAR-EN- struction began on those three projects "That's irresponsible" said engineering geologist Bruce Kaliser a former Utah Geological Survey official "These geotechnical professionals must know a horse comes before the cart Professionals can get d away with a job here in Utah that would never fly in California 20 years ago" "Everyone is trying to do the right thing but we need to take a close hard look at the system" said Craig Nelson who was Salt Lake County's geologist 1985-199and reoccupied the job Nov 1 during "It's not working right" r University of Utah Don Cur-re- y said it is "a departure from responsible planning that the Warm Springs branch of the Wasatch fault vanished from downtown on Salt Lake County's 1997 geologic hazards map when it was present on the 1989 version of the map "The best case is it was an unintentional mistake " Currey said "The worst-cas- e scenario is it is revisionist geology to accommodate somebody " Disappearance of the downtown fault shows independent geologists should review changes to earthquake hazard maps said U seismologist Walter Ara-bas- z D TAX-3AVIN- G STRATEGIES half-asse- 2 geologist-geographe- chairman of Utah's Seismic Safety Commission He said there also must be a "clear mechanism" to See FAULT LINE Page A-- 4 BY GARY KLOTT TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES Between now and New Year's Eve there are many things people can do to trim their 1997 income-tabills Part 2 today on 1 and position themselves to take maximum advantage of me new tax law While year-en- d tax planning is always worthwhile s it especially critical this year because of the sweeping changes made by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 With most of the new law's provisions set to take effect New Year's Day many taxpayers have incentive to take steps in the remaining weeks strong of the year to ensure they will be eligible to make the most of the new law's benefits To be sure plotting year-en- d tax moves is going to be more complicated this year In fact trying to trim this year s tax bill while also attempting to position yourself for next year's tax breaks may seem at times like trying to dance the Macarena while the orchestra is playing a Strauss waltz JOHN KEAIIEY il il h Karl-Hem- - raad" Swl Page Day Care Utah is known as a family-friendl- y state but not in the eyes of national child-care experts SUMMY MAGAZINE Section J inside the Travel section A-- driver C3n move as manv as 1R4 nnccpn gers at a time They will ride on steel rails — welded secSACRAMENTO Calif — Early this tions — together in quarter-mil- e that eliminate the rumble and century trolley cars plied Salt Lake City creak people associate with trains streets — clanging and creaking their way The technology is primarily European the Avenues downtown and centrthrough says UTA Bryan V Sawyer who al-city neighborhoods They rested for spends twoengineer or three days a week in Calithe night in barns at what is now Trolley fornia monitoring construction of the on 700 East Square TRAX vehicles In the 1950s the last tracks disap"They operate all over the world" peared from Main Street as automobiles Sawyer says looking over a giant orderly and buses took over work space jammed with light-racars in Now in the face of growing auto convarious stages of completion In fact gestion the trolley is returning to Salt many of the TRAX-styl- e light-racars Lake City — much as it has to this northused in US cities originally came from ern California community Germany A north-soutsystem dubbed Now Siemens a Germanv-base- d com"TRAX" by the Utah Transit Authority vehicle shells in pany makes light-ra- il is under construction between Sandy and Carson Calif before shipping them to downtown Salt Lake Service is anticipatSacramento for outfitting with wiring ed to begin in early 2000 computers and furnishings Nearly 70 It is the continuation of a trend sparked percent of the vehicle's components origtwo decades ago when Portland Ore became one of the first American cities to inate in the United States The electric motors however are usher in the modern era of light rail SacLynn R JohnsonThe Salt Lake Tribune made in Spain the undercarriage ramento San Diego and the Canadian "truck" ? Fiiz plant manager left and frames are Austrian and gear Bryan Sawyer a UTA enqineer cities of Edmonton and Calgary followed ' boxes and traction-contro- l aboard one of the Salt Lake Valley's new light-rai-l computers are cars in Carson Calif as did St Louis in 1985 and Dallas last German year Utahns can get a preview of TRAX New TRAX coaches under construc3rS down the middle of Main Staciament0'S a 2in8 a Km5UL along Sacramento streets tion in Sacramento are a 1990s creation accou- Street the city's most historic thor- ' S2L?1? coaches a pedestrian-friendl- y glide through Each unit will carry its own comoughfare city center They appear to be Some TRAX critics refuse to shake the puters and contain 10 miles of wire and full of passengers "Really the only most of the day of cables Top speed is 55 mph old wooden thaflTght image trolleys when they light rail and a 1901 The b'ght-racars here are nearly iden' discuss the Finished coaches operated by a single tical to those Salt Lake City residents will ers ridicule "folly" of light rail And oth- the $312 million plan as "runA-- 6 See TRAX il Day by E-- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE f $ x I Utah Light Rail: Nostalgia Yields Right of Way to Technology 80-fo- A-1- How to Make The Most of New Tax Law See TAX LAW Page 15-mi- le 1 mail-orde- X X BY to further ease liquor advertising That case is pending And last month a Utah ruled the State imnrmmrl trior! in dnn in r nois firm from selling microbrewed products to Utah residents The company's alleged crime: shipping beer with an alcohol content above 32 percent — the same product the DABC sells in its state-ruliquor stores in Utah The Attorney General's Office on Friday filed a notice of appeal r As the case was being decided the Deseret News concluded its weeks-lon1mm! slapping of the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau for sticking two bottles of locally brewed beer in hospitality bags for reporters attending the Olympic Media Summit in October INSIDE Valley rain and mountain snow WEATHER Page EM 2 Memories of Dec 7 1941 are recalled by Utahns who survived the Pearl Harbor attack yTAyti'rre 0-- 3 Television viewers feast your eyes on a varied holiday menu THE ARTS Page D-- 1 ski resorts still part of the winter sports scene are dwindling in number BUSINESS Page E-- 1 For a contrast in mountain biking pedal through the Trossachs in the Scottish Highlands TRAVEL Page H-- 1 Family-owne- Ann d landers J-- Book Reviews Movies Obituaries Classified Ads Personal Ads Crossword Puzzles Editorials AA-- Reader Advo Letters to Ed AA-- Star Gazer Lottery Weird News III ' 34945" 02345 111 AA-- J-- |
