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LaVerkin approves budget See page 2 The Daily Major leagues active See page B1 Teaching America's children See page 6 SOUTHERN EDITION 6 Copyrighted SINGLE COPY ST. GEORGE, UTAH VOLUME 27 NUMBER 122 THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1989 22 PAGES PRICE: 35 Briefs Jones Theatre debuts Friday "'i Temporary stoplight and brass grand foyer will set the mood for the particular play. Marilyn Wilbanks plays piano music of the 1930s for The Glass Menagerie and harpsichord music of 18th Century France for The Imaginary Invalid. For Nothing Like the Sun, which is set in Elizabethan England, David Rogers will play lute songs. The Randall L.

Jones Theatre magnificently inaugurates a new era for the festival. The first building in Utah designed exclusively for legitimate theater since the world-famous Adams Shakespearean Theatre was dedicated in 1977, it incorporates the thrust stage from Elizabethan theater design. The new theater also enjoys the best features of Post-Elizabethan theater, including a roof overhead and climate control. These features will allow future seasons to continue into the fall. The Randall season begins Friday and continues through Sept.

2. Six evening performances and two matinees are offered each week through July 13. Beginning July 14 there will be tour maanees offered each week. July 6 is the opening of the traditional Shakespearean season at the Adams Shakespearean Theatre with productions of The Tempest, Mac-Beth and The Winter's Tale. The Adams season will also continue through Sept.

2, offering six evening performances and two matinees in the adjacent auditorium. The Randall L. Jones Theatre expands the repertory to include "Shakespeares of other lands" plays written by Moliere, Ibsen, Chekhov, Miller, Wilde, Coward, Anouillh and many more. The new theater is the first building in a planned Shakespeare Square complex. by Sheena Wolfe Cedar city Editor CEDAR CITY America's newest performing arts theater is set to open its first season Friday at 8:30 p.m.

with Tennesse Williams' The Glass Menagerie. The Randall L. Jones Theatre will be officially dedicated earlier in the day with a gala reception and program beginning at 2 p.m. The opening marks a new era for the Utah Shakespearean Festival and doubles the number of performances available to locals and tourists. On Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m.

a new play written by Doug Cristensen and starring Patrick Page, Nothing Like the Sun, premieres in the new theater; and Saturday at 8 p.m., the evening premiere of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid takes place. Festival officials say every detail of the building and productions has been planned for the theatergoers' maximum comfort and enjoyment. Constructed over a two-year period at a cost in excess of $5.5 million, the Randall L. Jones Theatre will not only double the USF offerings, it is also expected to further enhance the festival's contribution to the economy of southwestern Utah. The Randall L.

Jones Theatre seats 767 patrons in armchair, air-conditioned comfort. The seats fan out from a modified thrust stage to give every patron an unobstructed view. Sound and lighting are controlled by state-of-the-art computer systems, and walls and surfaces are acoustically designed to carry stage sounds from front row to back at the same volume. Before each performance, background music in the elegant glass stoplight should provide better traffic control at what was becoming a major safety hazard due to high speed, high volume traffic. The stoplight will remain in place until modification of the south 1-15 interchange is made.

(Spectrum Nancy Rhodes) ST. GEORGE The new temporary stoplight at the intersection of Bluff, Main Street and Hilton Drive may take some getting use to after installation by the Utah Department of Transportation was completed Wednesday. St. George City Public Works Director Larry Bulloch said the Group hits mortgage firms SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Mistakes, neglect and abuse by mortgage companies put many Utahns in danger of losing their homes, a newly formed citizens group charged. Victims of the companies' abuse have found they have no recourse to defend against the wrongdoing and there are no laws to protect them, the group said.

Help Save Homes, a group founded recently in Logan to assist homeowners put in default by mistakes of mortgage companies, held a press Legislature will break limit Feds designate 4 counties "His next month's payment may be applied to the previous month, be found late, and again accrue more late fees," she added. "This initiates a cycle which throws respectable homeowners into default, puts their mortgage records into disarray, damages their credit rating and could cost them their homes." Mrs. Jerome said her group has learned that when a homeowner is found to be in default on a mortgage loan, even when that homeowner has canceled checks and other evidence to prove up-to-date payments on the loan, the assumption is the mortgage company must be right and the homeowner has to battle the "dead-beat" stigma. "There is no perceived recourse, advocate or means to file a complaint, thus there is no verification of the existence of a problem and no acknowledgment of the need for protective laws," she said. Such state agencies as the Division of Consumer Protection and the Department of Financial Institutions do not have authority to investigate alleged wrongdoing by mortgage companies, she said.

Even when her house was up for a foreclosure sale for loan default and she had all her canceled checks to show she was up to date, the agencies could do nothing, she said. The Help Save Homes group sent surveys to homeowners in Cache County. Of the 96 surveys returned, 55 complained of wrongful late fees, 31 cited errors by mortgage companies concerning homeowners insurance payments and 15 complained the mortgage company wrongly manipulated their interest rates. "We are concerned about this problem and are currently trying to determine what laws may be necessary to protect homeowners," said Assistant Attorney General Brent Cameron. "We hope to determine what state agencies should be involved in protecting homeowners and what legislation might be needed to address the issue." Accept free trips WASHINGTON (AP) Utah Republican Sens.

Jake Gam and Orrin Hatch accepted 58 free trips to various states, Europe and the Far East from lobbyists and other private groups during the last session of Congress, the watchdog group Public Citizen says. Hatch accepted 34 taps during 1987 and 1988 the second highest number of free trips of any senator. The only one who accepted more was Sen. John Breaux, who took 37. Garn accepted the seventh highest number of free trips 24.

But he traveled for free to more foreign destinations than most of his colleagues, records show. "Many of these junkets are designed to give lobbyists the chance to fraternize with lawmakers, frequently at pricey resorts, and provide special interest groups with yet another opportunity to gain access and influence," said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, founded by Ralph Nader. Most of the free travel comes as groups pay for senators to travel to give them speeches, for which they are paid up to $2,000 per speech in fees called honorariums. Utah quake felt TREMONTON, Utah (AP) A small earthquake was felt here, but no property damage or injuries were reported. The quake at 3:53 p.m.

Wednesday measured 3.7 on the Richter scale and was centered in the Blue Springs Hills area about 11 miles West of Tremonton, said Sue Nava at the University of Utah seismograph stations. She said the quake was felt in Tremonton and at the Morton Thiokol plant west of Brigham City. Tremonton is about 20 miles south of the Idaho border. Pat Jorgenson at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, said the quake was minor.

The Richter Scale is a gauge of the energy released by an earthquake, as measured by the ground motion recorded on a seismograph. A quake of the magnitude 2 is the smallest normally felt by humans. Prison paper OK'd SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah Corrections Director Gary De-Land has overruled the warden and will allow inmates to publish a newspaper at the state prison. Distribution of the Blue Collar Advocate was stopped after it was deemed "a security risk," according to a written response to an inmate grievance filed by editor John Hicks. Hicks started the newspaper earlier this year without the use of prison facilities.

Editorial material was sent out and finished co pies of the Advocate were mailed back to the prison. In April, that distribution was halted. Gerald Cook, director of institutional operations, said he was unaware of any inmate publication and Warden Eldon Barnes had "no comment" when asked by The Tribune if the paper existed. INDEX Business B3 Classified B6-9 Comics B5 Legal Notices B9 Lifestyle 8 National World 4 Obituaries B9 Opinion 5 Sports B1-2 State Local 2-3 TV Listings B5 Weather 2 Weather St. George: Tonight and Friday fain not quite at cool; high 90; low 55.

Today's Bible Verse "The next day John seeth Jesus coming nuto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29 YARD SALE GIVEAWAY! Receive 2 Yard Sale Signs And 2 Inventory Sheets Absolutely FREE! Just By Placing A Yard Sale Ad In The Dally Spectrum. SALT LAKE CITY AP) Uintah, Duchesne, Emery and Carbon counties have been declared agriculture drought disaster areas by the federal government. The designation Wednesday will allow ranchers to qualify for federal emergency feed and emergency assistance programs. Under the feed program, the federal government pays for 50 percent of the hay or grain a rancher buys for livestock.

The emergency assistance program lets a rancher purchase government reserve grain below the market price. To qualify for the assistance, the counties had to prove 40 percent of the livestock feed growing on range-lands and in farmers' fields died because of lack of moisture. Uintah County reported 68 percent of the rangeland grasses, pasture and alfalfa hayf ields were dead. Emery County reported a 61 percent loss, while Carbon County was 60 percent and Duchesne County 47 percent. "This is the worst I've ever seen it in my life," said Verl Haslem, a 58-year-old rancher who has lived his entire life in Neola, west Uintah County.

In the past few weeks, Haslem has seen Uintah Basin cattle trucked to greener pastures in Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming. Some have also been programs or change the law it imposed on itself during its last general session, the report said. The spending limitation law addresses just the amount of state money spent from the state's General Fund, the Uniform School Fund and the Transportation Fund, and does not deal with federal money that passes through state agencies for selected programs. In fiscal 1990, the formula devised in the law would put the limit for state spending from those three funds at $1,680,856,000, nearly $30 million above the projected expenditures from the three state funds, the report By fiscal 1991 the projected limit of $1,781,047,000 will be about $1.3 million above the actual expenditures, and by fiscal 1992 the limit of $1,887,590,000 will be about $4.5 million above actual expenditures, the report said. But by fiscal 1993, the expenditures will exceed the limit by more than $6 million, according to the projections.

The Fiscal Analyst's Office estimates the limit will reach $1,994,621,000, but expenditures will go above $2 billion. The projected expenditures will exceed the spending limit by nearly $9 million in fiscal 1994 and by about $2 million in fiscal 1995. A h- Ar fa 1 1 conference at the State Capitol Wednesday. "Under the current laws, your refrigerator is more protected than your home from being wrongly repossessed," said Cynthia Prante, one of the founders of Help Save Homes. "If a homeowner is assessed a late fee, even wrongfully, he must pay," said Kristy Jerome, another founder of the group.

"Otherwise, the mortgage company's computer system will automatically reject his monthly payment as insufficient. moved to Kamas and Coalville. "Cattle have been sent anywhere just to get them out of this area where they were starving," said Haslem, president of the Uintah County Cattlemen's Association. "Well. I shouldn't say they were starving, but they definitely were not gaining weight." For livestock owners unable to find alternate pasture for all their cattle, the auction block has been the answer.

Bruce Nielson, manager of the Producers Livestock said sales at the Salina livestock auction have doubled compared to last year. This week 988 cattle were auctioned whereas 450 were sold on the same day last year, he said. "I know a lot of that (increase) is due to drought," Nielson said. "In the last three weeks we have started to get cattle coming in off the pasture and out of the mountains because they are out of water and feed." In the Uintah Basin, which includes Uintah County, Duchesne and the northeastern part of Carbon County, moisture is 45 percent of normal, said William Alder, state meteorologist in charge. In the remainder of Carbon County and in Emery County precipitation is 62 percent of normal, Alder said.

In other parts of Duchesne County and the Uintah Mountains, precipitation is 92 percent of normal, Alder said. deregulation, and as a result we are in danger of a severe capacity shortage" at both urban and rural airports, Herbert D. Kelleher, chairman of Southwest Airlines and the Air Travel Partnership, said at a news conference. To help make its case on Capitol Hill, the group included in the study many statistics on the civil air economy of each state, using a federally-approved formula to calculate all its "trickle-down," from the total sales price of plane tickets to a fraction of the barbershop economy generated by pilots. Fractions of some jobs like the barbers' were also added together to come up with the employment totals, the study's authors explained.

The report put the direct economic impact of civil aviation at $76 billion, the additional indirect impact at $93 billion and the "multiplier effect" or "trickle-down" at another $350 billion. The air industry sponsors said this was the first study ever to calculate the civil aviation economy in this way or to this extent. Military aviation and the aerospace industry were not included. "These are big dollars that everyone benefits from, including those who never have set foot in an airplane," said the chief economist for the report, Robert J. Zuelsdorf.

The Air Travel group's top priority is convincing Congress to spend more of the Aviation Trust Fund on airport safety improvements and the air traffic control system. Aviation supports economy SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Legislature has been projected to break its own spending limitation law by 1993. The state's five-year budget forecast was presented to the Legislature's Interim Appropriations Committee Wednesday, with projections that the state's budget will grow by more than a half-billion dollars over the next five years and will rise above limits set by Utah law. "The revenue projections for Fiscal Year 1991 through Fiscal Year 1995 look very encouraging at this time," said an introduction to the report prepared under the direction of legislative fiscal analyst Leo Memmott. The report said the spending limitation formula devised by the Legislature earlier this year will probably be the cause for limiting the state budget rather than a shortfall of revenue in the future.

The state is budgeted to spend $2,993,923,800 for fiscal year 1990, which begins July 1. According to the projections, Utah's expenditures will grow by 5.34 percent in fiscal 1991, 4.72 percent in fiscal 1992, 5.51 percent in fiscal 1993, 5.28 percent in fiscal 1994 and 5.06 percent in fiscal 1995. By then the state will be spending $3,854,315,000 on necessary programs, the report said. But the state will either have to curtail that spending by cutting back Clowning around II I ir If WlJ4 i 'Ahl JW by David Hawklngs Spectrum Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Civilian aviation creates more than half a trillion dollars annually in American economic activity and accounts for much more of the gross national product than usually reported, an air travel industry study contends. Among the findings announced Wednesday is that the total value of aviation to the Utah economy in 1987 was almost $3.5 billion.

The report put the national total at $522 billion, about 6 percent of all the economic activity that year. The report also found that 69,860 jobs in the state, representing 9.9 percent of the civilian total, were somehow related to the industry. That was slightly higher than the national figure of 7.3 percent, or 8 million of the civilian work force in 1987, the most recent year with official complete records. And while government economists said air transportation counted for $34.2 billion in GNP two years ago, or seven-tenths of 1 percent, the industry report juggled the formula and arrived at $254 billion, or 5.6 percent. The Partnership for Improved Air Travel a coalition of airlines, aircraft manufacturers, travel association, tourism groups and unions said it hoped its study's glowing findings would bolster its case with Congress and the Bush administration for major spending increases for the air travel system.

"That hasn't been happening since U.S. aviation was revolutionized by SALT LAKE CITY Grace Flloyd (left) and Sarah Ing Wednesday of the 1 989 Utah Arts Festival In Lewis, both 8, put on happy faces at the open- downtown Salt Lake City. (AP).