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ifstTGeorgeOKs zoning change.See page 2 The Daily in wasn.bT. 'Tempest' stars teacher See page 8 downs RYU hv 5 i try- See page 10 SOUTHERN EDITION SINGLE COPY PRICE: 35 ST. GEORGE, UTAH VOLUME 27 NUMBER 195 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1989 Copyrighted sj 18 PAGES mm TIOM Briefs Trial scheduled RICHFIELD. Utah (AP) A Governor taps task force in growth strategy Media seeks lift of gag in slay case PROVO, Utah (AP) Media attorneys argued Thursday that a gag order closing a preliminary hearing and sealing transcripts in a southern Utah capital homicide case should be lifted. Lance Conway Wood, 20, and Michael Anthony Archuleta, 26, are charged with first-degree mur Six x.

-n i iw. utL N7 by Margaret Traub Associated press writer SALT LAKE CITY Gov. Norm Bangerter hopes creation of a new task force will accelerate the state's economic growth while closing the widening gap between the average family income in Utah and that of the nation. Bangerter said Thursday that the 19-member Utah Biomedical Development Task Force is part of his Strategic Economic Plan to "target economic development" by focusing on key industries with the greatest potential for development in Utah. The governor's Aerospace Task Force was the first to be created and two other task forces will be formed in the areas of information and communication technologies and natural resources.

The Aerospace Task Force is nearing completion of its study. The Biomedical Development Task Force is chaired by Reps. Lloyd W. Frandsen, R-Salt Lake; David M. Jones, D-Salt Lake, and Franklin C.

Prante, D-Logan. Bangerter told task force members that the biomedical industry faces the challenge of long and costly periods of product development and research which require capital and other support in acquiring profitable commercialization and federal approval. "Another challenge is to keep in the state companies that had their beginnings in the state," Bangerter said. "That's why we stuck our necks out and funded $5 million for fusion research. We want to keep that technology and that industry in the state." The governor said technological innovations at Utah's universities and businesses, along with a "flourishing spirit of entrepre-neurism" have put Utah on the world map as a growing biomedical center.

Bangerter also said that necessary to the success of the task force is improvement of "communication and coordination between our educational institutions and our business institutions. "Business and education should work together. They should not be adversaries," he said. He said the recent controversy over James Sorenson's $15 million gift of Abbott Laboratories stock to the University of Utah was "unfortunate" and that controversy sometimes "gets in the way of big things happening." Sorenson has asked for return of the gift after university officials backed off from plans to rename the of U's medical school and hospital for the millionaire. "Jim Sorensen has always been a great contributor in Utah," Bangerter said.

"The biggest thing for us to do is not overreact. He's in for the long haul for Utah." Ex-teacher gets prison PANGUITCH, Utah (AP) A former Panguitch High School music teacher has been sentenced to one to 15 years in prison and fined $2,500 for sexual abuse of a child. Bill Lowe, 37, appeared in 6th District Court Thursday following a 90-day evaluation by the Department of Corrections. Garfield County Attorney Wallace A. Lee termed Lowe "an extreme danger and high risk." Lowe's attorney, James Shumate of Cedar City, sought to have Lowe placed at the Ogden Community Correctional Center but Lee and Richard Bagley of Adult Probation and Parole told Judge Don V.

Tibbs that Lowe should be imprisoned. Tibbs also ordered Lowe to have no contact with his two stepsons now in custody of their grandparents. Lowe was arrested May 22 and acknowledged incidents involving members of his family. Tibbs said he doesn't agree with a report indicating Lowe could not be treated so as to live in society. In sentencing, Tibbs said: "You obviously have superior intelligence and everything in the world going for you.

You must control yourself, control your emotions." Lowe said, "I was hoping to be allowed into Ogden. I feel I am not a threat to society right now. And, I am well on my way to recovery." Hooked on rugs SPRINGDALE Ann Vinograde displays traditional rug-hooking skills at the Southern Utah Folklife Festival. The colorful festival opened Thursday and will continue through Saturday. (Spec-trum Nancy Rhodes) Drug tests anger inmates Salina man has been scheduled for trial Oct.

2 after pleading innocent to six felony counts in an alleged shooting spree. Kitchard beager, 30, was ar raigned Wednesday on the charges before 6th District Judge Don V. Tibbs. Seager is accused with attempted homicide, four counts of aggravated assault and one count of aggravated burglary stemming from an incident at a bar following a street dance in Salina Aug. 27.

Officials said even though several shots were fired, no one was injured in the incident. Police Chief Gordon Keisel said Seager fired at a car and shot through a window of the Police Department offices before the spree was over. "He had some problems at a bar and then went home and got some weapons," he said. Seager was being held at the Seiver County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail until the trial. Couple killed STANSBURY ISLAND, Utah (AP) A man and woman have been killed in a plane crash on Stansbury Island at the southwest end of Great Salt Lake.

Tooele County Sheriff Don Proctor said the bodies of Joe B. Calvin, 40, of Fort Riley, and Jonna R. Allen, 23, a Dug-way teacher who moved to Utah recently from Mancos, were found Thursday near the wreckage. Proctor said Calvin, apparently on vacation from his post with the 82nd Medical Detachment at Fort Riley, was thought to be piloting the single-engine PA24 Comanche when it went down in Tabbys Canyon. "It looks like he caught the right wing on a turn as he came out of the canyon," the sheriff said.

Chapel bombed SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) A bomb exploded at a Mormon chapel in a Santiago working class neighborhood, causing minor damage but no injuries, police reported. The explosion occurred Wed nesday shortly before midnight at the Mormon cnapei in (juinta Normal, a district some 25 blocks north-east of the city center. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, ac cording to police. In recent months, a number of similar bomb attacks against Mormon chapels caused dam age but no victims. At least five of them occurred in July Santiago and provincial cities.

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10 before 4th District Judge George Ballif and Wood will be arraigned Sept. 12 in Fillmore before Judge Boyd L. Park. The defendants' preliminary hearings in January and March were ordered closed by Justice of the Peace Ronald Hare and the transcripts remained sealed when the pair were bound over to 4th District Court. Defense and prosecuting attorneys argued that release of the transcripts would impair the defendants' ability to receive fair trials.

Attorneys representing the Society of Professional Journalists and other news organizations appeared before Ballif on July 21, asking that the gag order be lifted and the documents made public. The judge acknowledged problems with the order and scheduled Thursday's evidentiary hearing in Provo, during which he and Park both heard arguments in the case. Thursday's hearing was mostly open to reporters but was ordered closed when certain evidence was being discussed. The judges expressed concern over the closure of the court file in addition to the transcript, but defense and prosecution attorneys said the documents should remain sealed. "I have taken the position that the preliminary hearing, having been closed, the whole thing ought to be closed." said Archuleta's attorney, Michael Esplin.

"It's impossible to put the whole thing back in the glass." In an evidentiary hearing, the burden of proof falls to state prosecutors, who must show that keeping the transcripts closed is the only way to ensure a fair trial. Contract let on weapons TOOELE ARMY DEPOT, Utah AP) The first contract has been awarded in a 2-year project to build a chemical weapons incineration plant at this western Utah desert military installation, says Sen. Jake Garn. Gam, R-Utah, said Thursday a $4.63 million contract was awarded Virginia's Defense Materials Division. In all, the Pentagon has set aside nearly $212 million to build and operate the demilitarization facility, approved by the Army last month.

contract will run through 1997 and will finance construction of the plant's baseline technology unit, the primary facility for destroying Tooele's aging stockpile of nerve and mustard agents. The agents stored at the depot 35 miles southwest of Salt Lake City account for 42 percent of the nation's chemical arsenal. The new plant, utilizing disassembly and incineration techniques pioneered at Tooele's Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System pilot plant, will employ a construction force of about 350. Once operational in December 1992, it will have 400 employees. The depot's stockpile, some of which dates to World War II, includes nerve, mustard and other blistering agents contained in rockets, artillery projectiles, mortar rounds and bombs.

Tooele has nearly 800 such munitions, some of which are leaking, stored in earth-covered igloos. The new plant will be located near CAMDS on a site adjacent to the pilot plant in the depot's South Area. Construction is expected to begin in late September or early October, with completion in the spring of 1992. A period of testing will follow. Congress has ordered the nation's old chemical arsenal destroyed by 1997.

The Army earlier had considered disposing of the weapons at regional facilities, or one national site options which would have required potentially risky transport by air, rail, truck and barge. i a i Tour association picks Si. said. "The strip search protected the integrity of the sample." Inmates are not allowed to dress during the testing because chemicals could be hidden in the clothing to contaminate the sample, Cook said. Doug Jensen, the inmate who filed the grievance, was given a seven-day punitive lockdown for refusing to provide a urine sample under those conditions.

"If they search you and they determine you're not carrying anything to contaminate the sample, why can't the inmate be allowed to put his clothes back on?" asked Jensen. "And then they automatically find you guilty of substance abuse if you can't provide a sample." Department of Corrections Executive Director Gary DeLand said there may be other ways of dealing with the privacy issue and still maintain the integrity of the sample. "Perhaps we could provide them uncontaminated jumpsuits," De-Land said. Penman said inmates are preparing a class-action federal lawsuit challenging the prison's drug-testing policies. Inmates also complain the drug tests, which are supposed to be random, are anything but.

Some inmates have heen repeatedly tested, even though they have never tested positive for drugs, Penman said. POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN, Utah (AP) An inmate says Utah State Prison's random drug-testing program is both humiliating and unreasonable, and some prisoners threaten to sue the state over the issue. "It's totally outrageous," said inmate Roger Penman, who said he is a spokesman for other convicts upset with the way drug testing is carried out. "They strip you naked, march you into a room and give you one hour to give them a sample whilev they stand over you watching," he said a comments published Thursday in the Deseret News. "You stand there naked on a cold tile floor trying to urinate with a stranger watching you.

Andif you can't do it, you are punished with a lockdown for refusing to take the test," Penman added. Inmates have protested the drug-testing policies through an internal grievance system, but prison officials have failed to respond to the issues, Penman contends. Further, prison officials have threatened to punish those who file "frivolous" grievances, he added. However, Warden Gerald Cook said only one grievance has been filed on the privacy issue, and it was determined to be without merit. "The grievance officer found there was reason he should have given the sample and there was reason for the strip search," Cook SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Gov.

Norm Bangerter says the National Tour Association has chosen Salt Lake City for its 1989 convention, an annual event expected to bring $3.5 million and about 4,000 delegates to Utah. At a joint news conference Thursday, Bangerter and Salt Lake Mayor Palmer DePaulis signed a declaration designating Oct. 29-Nov. 3 as National Tour Association Week, coinciding with the convention. The convention, at which lucrative group tours are arranged, is expected to give state tourism officials the opportunity to show off Utah.

Convention organizers predict that by hosting the event, the state will realize a 25 percent increase in its group tour business. Group tours already are a $126 million industry for Utah, officials said. Bangerter said the convention will provide "a great stimulus to our economy." DePaulis agreed, promising the city would do its best to "show them a very good time. They'll be pleased." The group's convention last year was held in Tampa. NTA spokeswoman Jackie Bel-lar predicted that after delegates size up "the appeal of Salt Lake City, the economic impact will be felt in all areas of the Utah tourism industry for years to come." Aaertcv (DEA) Utah lawmakers to consider opening higher ed records Federal fighters against drugs These four federal agencies are the major players hi the fight against illegal drugs.

Drua Enforcement Part of Department of Justice Investigates and arrests drug traffickers 1 9 field offices nationwide and in 43 other countries About 6,000 employees U.S. Customs Service Part of Department of the Treasury Cooperates with other federal agencies and foreign governments to suppress drug traffic Supervises about 240 ports of entry About 18,000 employees Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Part of Department of Justice Shares authority with DEA in enforcing Controlled 'Substances Act 58 field offices nationwide About 23,000 employees U.S. Coast Guard Part of Department of Transportation Enforces federal laws and treaties on the seas and investigates suspected violators About 5,500 employees the revised act is adopted by legislators in January. The section identifies salary data relating to higher education employees as "private information." Task force member Margaret Besso, representing the Bureau of Quality Control, said it is unfair for state higher education employees to have their salaries and benefits protected while other state employees' salaries are public information. The distinction was made in Utah law because it was decided that the market for public school teachers was "not as competitive" as that of professors, said Don Baker, a task force member and Standard-Examiner reporter.

Higher education employees were not the only group identified in the motion, however. The task force decided to make available the salaries of any non-federal public employees in the state. "There needs to be an affirmative statement covering everybody, not just higher education," Harward said. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Legislation that could open to public scrutiny salaries and benefit packages of state higher education em- filoyees is scheduled for considera-ion by lawmakers during their 1990 session. The Information Practices Act currently is being revised by a state committee made up of legislators, journalists, business representatives, city and county government officials and public-interest representatives.

But while the task force is scheduled to present a proposed bill to a legislative interim committee in October, Rep. Byron Harward, R-Provo, said the panel he co-chairs may need more time. He suggested that he and the other co-chairman, Sen. David Steele, discuss with legislative leadership the possibility of extending the task force study another year. During a meeting Wednesday, the Information Practices Task Force voted to recommend deletion of a section of the Utah Code if fill SOURCE: The Untied States Government Manual.