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DAILY SPECTRUM SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1985 PACE 4 'They'll bring up the causeway issue again Nuke protest SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Utah lawmakers could be haunted again by issues they had put to bed when they meet Thursday to correct a major mistake in a tax bill they thought would add $50 million to the state's sickly coffers. "Coming back for another day will make a real zoo out of this thing," said Sen. Dale Stratford, R-Ogden, Friday after the Legislature learned it had goofed on the bill designed to solve all their short-term problems. "That means they'll bring up the causeway issue again and we'll have to go item by item over the proposed budget cuts." Stratford was an adamant opponent of the causeway issue, which proposed punching a 300-foot-wide hole in the earthen structure that allows Southern Pacific Railroad to move trains over the large body of salt water. Great Salt Lake Minerals, one of the largest taxpayers in the senator's district, complained that breaching the causeway to prevent flooding on the south shore would dilute the mineral-rich water on Ihe north end and seriously hamper its business.

Notes must be repaid The issue was dead as the Legislature's special session ground to a close Friday. The Senate had tabled the bill and the House had banished a similar version to the Rules Committee. But just as lawmakers prepared to close their briefcases, lock their desk drawers and go home, Legislative Fiscal Analyst Leo Memmott told legislative leaders the half-cent sales tax hike effective from October, 1983 to October, 1984, would only bring in $25 million this fiscal year, with the rest coming in the next fiscal year. The tax anticipation notes the Legislature set up as an emergency fund raising measure must be repaid before the end of the fiscal year, Memmott said, so it was effectively worthless to the cause. The problem is the Legislature and Gov.

Scott Matheson agree the state will have to come up with somewhere between $25 million and $50 million for the flood and mudslide havoc that ravaged Utah this spring, plus another $40 million to $50 million for a projected revenue shortfall. Anything is possible The Republican majority caucused, eating pizza and shaking heads, after learning of the mistake. Then the leaders announced they would come back Thursday to once again deal with the budget problems. "We had it all worked out Friday night to solve the problem by imposing a one-cent sales tax for six months," said Senate President K.S. Cornaby, R-Salt Lake.

"But it was felt the House did not have enough members left to constitute a constitutional majority, so we had to schedule another day." Cornaby did not discount Matheson's proposal to raise $43 million by accelerating sales tax collections from businesses from a quarterly to monthly basis being resurrected during the extra day. "Anything is possible," he said. "But there is not a lot of support for that. I think we'll still be looking at a sales tax increase." Lawmakers rejected the tax acceleration proposal because it would take away the three-month lag time retailers enjoy from the time they collect the tax until the time they must pay it. Experts agreed Rep.

Lorin Pace, R-Salt Lake, proposed modifying Matheson's plan by changing the collection dates, but keeping the quarterly collections. His compromise was relegated to a conference committee. "That's something I would like to see us look at some more, but I think many people are nervous about the tax acceleration idea," he said. "One possible problem with a larger tax for a shorter period of time is that consumers thinking about buying a car would wait until the tax goes back down. That could seriously hurt some industries." "We looked at that," said Cornaby.

"And all the experts we talked to agreed that would not happen." Stratford also said a proposal to cut $9.5 million from this year's budget could awaken in the extra day. That "Christmas tree," as House Majority Leader Robert Garff, R-Bountiful, described it, was thrust into the Rules Committee Friday for consideration next January. GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash. Interior Secretary James structure's groundbreaking. Watt cited the dam as an ex Watt looks toward the Grand Coulee Dam during his key- ampe of progress at its best.

In the backgroud at left, pro-note speech Saturday honoring the 50th anniversary of the testers display anti-Watt signs. (UPI) Bus crashes on 'boring' 1-15, 44 hurt SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) About 200 Utahns gathered on the State Capitol steps Saturday to denounce the buildup of nuclear weapons and honor American veterans who worked around U.S. atomic bomb tests a generation ago. "Our purpose today is to pay our respects to the atomic veterans and to call attention to the fact that they have been overlooked by our country, the country they served without question," said former State Sen. Frances Farley The occasion was the first Atomic Veterans Day in Utah The purpose was to draw attention to people who participated in U.S.

nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and 1962. said Mrs. Farley, a former Democratic congressional candidate Gov. Scott Matheson formally proclaimed the day Atomic Veterans Day. LDS missionaries killed SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) A 32-year-old Mormon Missionary from Roy was killed in a two-car collision in Killeen, late Friday and another missionary died Saturday from injuries sustained in a July 4 accident in France.

Mormon Church spokesman jerry Cahill said Verla Lutz, of Roy, was killed instantly in the collision in Killeen. Her missionary companion, Juanita Suggett, 66, San Diego, was hospitalized with minor injuries. Cahill said Miss Lutz was serving in the Texas-San Antonio Mission. Also, Kyle Regan Harper, 19, of Albertson, N.C., died Saturday from injuries he sustained when he was hit by a car July 4 while riding a bicycle in Lille, France. Dynamite find probed SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Police Saturday were investigating the discovery of 40 sticks of dynamite discovered by firefighters who responded to a small blaze in a home on the Avenues.

Salt Lake City Fire Department Lt. Lee Stoddard said the explosives were discovered about 11:20 a.m. Friday after a woman contacted two firefighters who were inspecting an apartment building adjacent to the house. The firefighters entered the basement to turn off the power and checked the dryer. When they turned the power back on, they discovered the dynamite in a cardboard box directly below the dryer, Stoddard said.

Because the owner of the home could not be contacted, officials don't know why the explosives were being stored in the home, Dalling said. Jumper identified SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) A 32-year-old Colorado woman who leaped 26 stories to her death from the top of the American Towers condominium building has been identified as Debra Kay, 32, fom the Denver area. Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Thomas Brown said the woman entered the downtown highrise about 11:13 a.m. and asked a security guard to let her go upstairs to talk to a construction worker.

Rail service resumed SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Two railroad companies resumed passenger and freight service Saturday after wind-whipped waves from the Great Salt Lake forced the closure of several sections of track in western Utah. Thunderstorms and 50-mile-per-hour winds late Thursday and early Friday sent huge waves of the salt water crashing into the tracks of both Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. The waves dislodged some of the rocks from beneath the rails and ties, forcing temporary closure of the undermined tracks. Largest youth parade SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Six thousand young people marched down Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City Saturday in what sponsors called the world's largest youth parade. Meanwhile, in downtown Ogden 35 miles to the north, thousands of residents and visitors participated in the city's seventh annual street festival on Washington Boulevard.

Both the youth parade in Salt Lake City, part of the Days of '47 event, and the street festival in Ogden, under the banner of Pioneer Days, kicked off celebrations commemorating the arrival of Mor-mon pioneers in Utah on July 24, 1847. BARSTOW, Calif. (UPI) The driver of a Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas tour bus apparently fell asleep at the wheel Saturday, sending the vehicle careening nearly 450 feet off Interstate 15. Forty-four people were hurt, three critically. The accident occurred about 12:10 p.m.

MDT approximately 15 miles south of the California-Nevada border, according to the state Highway Patrol. "This is not uncommon for this stretch of highway, it's very boring," said Carol Martinez, a CHP dispatcher. She said there was no indication the driver was intoxicated or under the influence of drugs. Investigators said the bus veered off the roadway and rolled about 441 feet through two ditches before coming to a stop upright. "Most of the seats were torn loose," Mrs.

Martinez said, adding five people were briefly trapped. "There were some pretty good jolts." Thirty-eight people, including the driver, were transported by helicopter and ambulance to four Las Vegas hospitals. Six people who suffered only minor injuries were treated at the scene by paramedics. The unidentified bus driver, 42, of Cuda-hy, underwent emergency surgery at Valley General Hospital for a fractured right leg. He was listed in serious condition.

A 79-year-old woman was listed in critical condition at Valley General with unspecified injuries and two other people were listed in critical condition at Desert Springs Hospital, also with unspecified injuries. The rest of those taken to hospitals were listed in stable to guarded condition. None had life-threatening injuries, officials said. The tour, organized by Casablanca Express on Aztecs Bus Line, left Los Angeles about 6 a.m. and was due in Las Vegas at noon, an Aztec spokesman said.

Fire in hand almost 2nd child gone SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The Salt Lake City Police Dept. said Saturday a 13-year-old youth disappeared about an hour before a 4-year-old girl was abducted from a Kearns theater and he has not been seen since. Police said Graeme Cunningham was last seen about 8:45 p.m. Thursday.The boy is about 4-feet-9, weighs 85 pounds, has light brown hair, blue eyes and a freckled face. He was last seen wearing a turquoise polo shirt with a yellow and pink stripe, and clad Burmuda shorts.

Salt Lake County Sheriff's investigators are still searching for Tasha Bevan, 4, West Valley City, who disappeared at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday when she went into the lobby of Valley Twin Theatres to get a drink of water. acres within 24 hours. DOE officials said the fire was 10-15 miles from Yucca Flat, the nearest area used for underground weapons tests. They said even if the blaze reached the testing area, there was absolutely no danger of an accidental detonation.

Four aerial tankers dropped water and fire retardant chemicals on the blaze Saturday, while several helicopters ferried personnel to and from the fire lines. "The greatest concentration of the fire is at a place called 40-Mile Canyon," said West, who added the crews were fighting smaller blazes elsewhere within the fire's perimeter. Officials said there were no structures endangered by the blaze and only an unmanned radio relay station was in the fire's path. The communications equipment sustained scorched wires Thursday night, but were unaffected. MERCURY, Nev.

(UPI) Officials said they hoped to control a brushfire at the Nevada Test Site late Saturday and begin mopping up the blaze Sunday. "We still have 200 people on the fire-lines, although not all of them are fighting the fire. Some are sleeping in rotation," said Department of Energy spokesman Chris West. West said the winds at the isolated fire site, some 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, were "very calm, which is a big break for us." The massive brush and timber blaze began at 3 p.m. Thursday when exhaust heat from a work crew's vehicle acci-dently started grass ablaze near the site of the old nuclear rocket testing facility at the sensitive government facilitythe home of the U.S.

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