| Show ZJL H mmmtSm December 29 1997 MONDAY m$m a(t akc ribtme Ehe 0 Section D OBITUARIES Davis Sait Lake Utah Red Wood Burning Prohibited Yellow Wood Burning Discouraged Green Wood Burning Allowed Weber AIR QUALITY - 12 Page D-- 5 533 7239 -- ROLLY & WELLS Power Juggle: How Should Higher Ed Be Run? the states flagship school At the same time legislative leaders are considering a new law to force changes in the way regents operate And then there are some who believe the U and its sister research university Utah State University should operate independently from the state's seven other public colleges and universities One of those s power struggles took center stage briefly Dec 12 when the regents debated a policy switch that would require them to consult with a college's board of trustees before picking its president As it works now the regents establish presidential search committees for the colleges A search committee typically includes regents and trustees as well as faculty members and community representatives The search committee interviews candidates and forwards a list of finalists to the regents who then select a president BY DAN LGAN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE and PAUL ROLLY JOANN JACOBSEN-WELL- S 1997 The Sait Lake Tribune HAPPY NEW YEAR? When political novice Dan Snarr defeated Murray City Councilman Leon Robertson in the citys mayoral race this year and two other newcomers John Rush and John Ward were elected to the City Council some feathers were y ruffled in the network New members of the City Council take office Jan 5 But this Tuesday after council members earlier said there would be no more meetings this year the good-olboys plan a special 2 pm meeting to pass an ordinance by Councilman Gary Ferraro The ordinance? That the mayor's chief of staff be required to be a resident of Murray The reason? Snarr plans to hire political veteran DArey Dixon Pignanelli as his chief of staff Pignanelli was the campaign manager who engineered Snarrs surprise victory in November She also is a Salt Lake City resident For good measure the resolution also may require the police and fire chiefs to live in Murray But the ordinance will not address the citys police officers and firefighters who live outside the city boundaries New University of Utah President Berme Machens head might start to spin as he tries to figure out who his boss is when he starts the job Thursday For the past three decades the Board of Regents has been charged with overseeing state public colleges and universities While each school has its own board of trustees those boards don't have final say in major issues they dont pick presidents set budgets or establish curricula The idea is a centralized board will prevent separate boards from squabbling over issues like funding It also coordinates degree offerings among the schools to reduce redundancy within the system Now some members of the Upiversity of Utah Board of Trustees are pushing the regents for more say in running in The Dec 12 debate was the result of a proposal backed by some U trustees that among other things recommended the regents formally consult with the trustees before making their choice New regent Chairman Charlie Johnson said he supported the idea He called it a trust issue Regent Ian Gumming didnt see it that way This isnt about trust Cumming said at the Dec 12 meeting This is about power It's about who is in charge of hiring and firing the presidents And according to Cumming it's a lousy idea This makes it even more confusing as to who is running the institutions s The regents shot that recommendation down but over who should control the state's colleges likely won t go away anytime soon behind-the-scene- aigu-ment- See THREE PARTIES Page D-- 4 old-bo- d IF YA CANT BEAT EM The word is out that since the Salt Lake County Commission took action recently to combine the Salt Lake County district attorney and county attorney into one elected post County Attorney Doug Short will not seek Instead Short is making overtures about running for Salt Lake County Commissioner Randy Horiucliis seat so he can become the colleague of his good friend Commissioner Brent Overson THE OLIVE BRANCH Democrats m the Utah Lege have complained for years about being left out of the budget-makinprocess This year there is a $100 million gap between Gov Mike Leavitt and Republican legislators over Leavitts proposed $61 billion budget Senate President Lane Beat-ti- e Bountiful has for the first time invited ranking Democrats on each appropriations subcommittee to join the GOP committee chairmen in presentations Tuesday to the islate g Executive Appropriations Committee 32 Beer? IT9 Thais the C i' - S '" s Strong Stuff f V KJ KTjr' ! V Tf? C ft - 4 '" "" Me rT f Alcohol Content Often Is Less Than 3 in Utah Family Gathers To Mourn V A r?y - 3 Still Critical A' ? Accident That Killed 4 r BY JOHN HLILPR1N BY 11011 Tsv itCT THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Think you're drinking 3 2 beer? Actually its probably 3 percent and could be even lower Utah and beer brewers are so afraid of violating Utahs 3 2 percent alcohol law they routinely give themselves some wiggle room Most beer sold to Utahns comes in below the legal limit sometimes just 2 8 percent according to beer industry experts All the beers will come in under 32 percent just to make sure theyre not pushing the envelope" says Mike Brennan general manager of General Distributing Co which handles Busch beverages in Utah Everybody tries to safeguard that he says Budweiser ships to Utah under 32 percent just to make sure we don't have any problems with the state According to Brennan Budweiser loses 40 minutes of production time about 200000 cans or 160000 bottles of beer every time it makes 32 beer The factory has to change equipment back and forth when making 3 2 percent beer for Utah and higher-alcohbeer for other states But commercial beer makers put up with the hassle for the prestige of having a national brand available in every state he says Joe Fuentes spokesman for Coors Brewing Co in Golden Colo maintains the alcohol content of his company's 3 2 percent beer is pretty consistent Were not talking a deviation of much at all he says We dont wait until it hits the bottle before we test it Coors only puts a 32 percent beer label on beer that is 3 2 percent Fuentes says We brew everything to specifications' William Christoffersen president ' T-- Ly - 7 A - -- - Students in Jean Hills See 32 BEER Page Ml IIhN THE SALT LIKE TRIBUNE "T The three Brenehley sisters Denise Tonya and Kate practiced for weeks to perfect their version of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy the song - they would perform at the annual Brenehley holiday family reunion in Preston Idaho Their youngest brothel 14-- j ear-olBen was in the back seat happy to hitch a ride fiom the family's Provo home with the big sisters he adored The siblings never made it At 5 50 p m Friday the Ford Escort the four were traveling m was struck by a southbound car that apparently hit a slick patch of Utah Highway m Sardine Canyon between Wellsville and Brigham City The accident claimed four lives Denise Brenehley 29 the driver of the Escort: and her sister Tonya 17 who was in the front passenger seat The driver of the southbound Pontiac Grand Am Carey Shane Gunnell 17 of Logan died shortly after the crash at McKay-De- e Hospital in Ogden The front-sea- t passenger Anna Christensen 16 died instantly Late Sunday afternoon three victims remained in critical condition at LDS Hospital They are Nick Stevens 18 of Logan Kathryn Kate" Brenehley 19 and Benjamin Brench-le14 Stevens was a back-sea- t passenger in Gunnell s car the two Brenehley survivors were in the back seat of their sister Denises car Utah Highway Patrol investigators believe Gunnell hit an icy patch while changing lanes and lost control of his car The car crossed into the northbound lanes and the Brenehley car at the passenger's side hit it head-oThe four in the Brenehley car were wearing seat belts as were the two in the front seat of the Gunnell car But Denise Brenehley apparently had no said UHP Trooper time to react d " - IK J 89-9- 1 4 " a nr y 3 7!V 7- - js y in Kan Galbraith 1 he halt st S rP- nfH n - lake Tribune ICE CAPADES Caitlin Romanowski 7 plays on the frozen ice of Pineview Reservoir on Sunday while her father Jerry and brother Derrick fished See weather on Page C-- 8 HISTORIC FIELD TRIP After See FAMILY GATHERS Page D-- 4 D-- 4 American history class at Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City recently asked if they could get credit for going to see Amistad the Steven Spielberg film about a 19th century slave rebellion that eventually landed in the US Supreme Court The students promised to go on their own time and pay their own way No need The next day Hill was informed that the mother of one of the students wanted to take the class to see the socially significant film Not just the 45 students Hill teaches but the entire junior class So on a Thursday before school recessed for Christmas break the mom who asked not to be identified financed a special showing of Amistad for 164 teens Sparks Flew Over Old Cabin Even Before the Fire BY CHRISTOPHER SMITH THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MONTICELLO Tempers were hot from the start when Manti-L- a Sal National Forest officials met with owners of an old mining cabin to tell them the structure had to be removed or destroyed They were not terribly cooperative Monticello Ranger District Geologist James Egnew wrote in a report In their eyes the government is the bad guy and there should be an open season on all environmentalists they should sell tags and let us get rid of em That was in July 1992 And though the Forest Service finally complied with federal regulations and destroyed the Glade Pit Cabin two months ago emotions have not cooled There were a lot of memories there but they came in and burned it down says Merwin Shumway of Blanding who was the last recorded owner of the cabin in remote San Juan County with his brother Sherwm I can see no reason why theyd want to touch that cabin because we have a lot of mines up there and if the uranium price ever comes back we wanted to live there Forest Service records show the agency spent nearly six years corresponding with the Shumway family prodding them to remove the decaying vacant cabin built in 1955 to support a uranium mine But after numerous warnings deadlines and ultimatums came and went a Forest Service fire crew arrived Oct 16 doused the and shack empty wood-fram- e with gasoline and burned it to the tie&Sfc The Forest Service burned down an old cabin near Round Mountain in October over the objections of a family who used to use the cabin for mining Meantime the agency is planning to restore the historic Scorup Cabin once used by cowboys ground within 30 minutes This was an unpatented mining claim that had not been worked for several years and that cabin was subsequently determined to be property of the federal government says Mark Sommer minerals management specialist for the ranger district The cabin didn't have any historical significance it was an eyesore and a safety hazard But a federal agency razing private cabins or shacks built on national forest land is touchy business here in southeastern Utah as evidenced by the presence of Forest Service law enforcement officers at the burn and the extensive file of correspondence kept by the agen-c- NOH1H Monticello Scorup Cabin TO BE RESTORED y' fj) Some of the tension stems from a tar-pap- See OLD CABIN Page The bait Lakelrihune D-- 4 c NEW A DOWNTOWN DOZENS OF INDOOR 4 SALT LAKE CITY OUTDOOR PICK UP YOU VENUES SPOTf BUTOPS 2CMI Center Malt GH lane TO ADULTS b Moveiik Country 7NsOPS Crossroads Ptoza Downtown AH 5PM FIRST NIGHT Blimpies CONR YEAR'S lli MIDNIGHT $500 '98 Stores CELEBRATION EVE IN MUSIC Agency of Salt take future Shops !t City AT of 2CMI THE GATE STREET PARTY KIDS Center Customer Credit Umoos Rogu Sloymoker Questar Corporation BEE THEATER KIDS' STUFF FIREWORKS 10 & UNDER FREE FOR INFORMATION BUTTONS AT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ADMISSION Kentucky Fried Chicken Utoh league Redevelopment $700 ADVANCE Albertson s DANCE Of THE ARTS Intermountam si- -res' Service Booth Restaurants Hectare 364 4885 OUTLETS Gollivon Utoh Center Suzuki Dealers Fidelity Investments Starbucks Coee Utah Power And ZCUI Ligft Schumann m Capital Monrgement IgS y |
