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10 -Spectrum Thursday, March 19, 1992 Family wants incident behind them EPA names 470 entities as parties to pollution He broke into the hospital, then shot Roth while attempting to retrieve additional ammunition and a bomb trigger from his car. Yocom said the plea likely saved tens of thousands of dollars in court fees for the same verdict a jury would have returned. The state would have had a hard time proving Worthington intentionally killed Roth, he said. death penalty. Three other felony charges were dismissed.

Worthington had gone to the hospital armed with a handgun, shotgun and 14-pound dynamite bomb hoping to find Dr. Glade Curtis, an obstetrician who performed a tubal ligation on his wife two years earlier. Worthington claimed the operation, which prevented Karen Worthington from having more children, was done without his permission. Worthington's plea bargain might help SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The husband of slain nurse Karla Roth said he agreed to a plea bargain for his wife's killer so he could put the incident behind him and his four children. David Roth spoke a day after prosecutors agreed to a plea arrangement permitting Richard L.

Worthington to escape the death penalty by pleading guilty to a lesser charge of murder. Salt Lake County Attorney David Yocom said prosecutors were faced with several reluctant witnesses going into the trial inplnHino mnet rf the Yocom said. "But none of them wanted him executed." As things stand, he said, it's likely the 40-year-old father of eight will be "eligible for Social Security before he's eligible for parole' David Roth said Tuesday that he talked to his children and his wife's family before signing off on the plea bargain. Justice for Worthington, he believes, will not be found at Utah State Prison. "In my opinion, he's got a greater power to answer to," Roth said.

"That's where justice will come from." "I wanted to do what was best for my kids and Karla's family," he said. "I just want to get it behind and out of sight and out of mind and gone." Worthington pleaded guilty to felony murder, eight counts of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated burglary for the Sept. 21 siege at Alta View Hospital's Women's Health Center. He will be sentenced March 26. He had been charged with capital homicide in Roth's death, placing him in jeopardy of the HOME HEALTH CARE "When you're In pain, call me.

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None of them, he said, believed their captor should die for his crimes and may not have testified at a penalty hearing if Worthington had been convicted of aggravated murder. "All of them wanted Rick put away for a good, long time," Ask about our Senior Discount. Serving St. Georoe Area SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Hill Air Force Base, Weber State University and the city of Ogden are among the 470 entities named as "potential responsible parties" for the pollution at the defunct Ekotek oil recycling site. As such, they may have to help pay for cleanup at the 20-acre site on Salt Lake City's north side, the Environmental Protection Agency says.

Others named by the EPA include Merrill Bean Chevrolet, Western Zirconium, Hinckley Dodge, Davis County and the cities of Lay-ton, South Ogden and Brigham City. While some of the parties are outraged at being held responsible, others like Weber State and Davis County are offering minimal settlements to the EPA. Davis County has agreed to pay $5,166 for 1,600 gallons of waste oil its shops department sent to the site for recycling, according to EPA records. WSU attorney Doug Richards said the university is working with the Ekotek site remediation committee to set an appropriate settlement figure. The committee, which formed in 1989 to lead cleanup activities, was organized by the top generators of waste at the site.

The top two are Union Pacific, which is being held responsible by EPA for about 2.5 million gallons of waste, and Kennecott, which EPA claims sent 1.8 million gallons to Ekotek. Richards said WSU is considering either a formal offer of $2.75 per gallon for the 1,000 gallons of waste oil the school sent to the site, or "something like $7 per gallon, which will get us out of the liability loop permanently." Laura Williams, EPA remedial project manager for the Ekotek site, said "good faith" offers of financial remuneration are due in May. Williams acknowledged that those being charged payment did nothing illegal. EPA decided to go after them because efforts to collect from the owners of the site failed. Owner Steven Self was convicted recently of 12 felony environmental law violations and his former partner, Steve Miller, who testified against Self, pleaded guilty to three felony charges.

"Even though you did nothing wrong, going after the generators is the only way the EPA can pay for cleaning up the site," Williams told several hundred potential responsible parties at a meeting Monday. She said the EPA set up the Salt Lake City meeting after getting more than 200 calls in 11 days in response to EPA letters to the 470 entities. "We played by the rules, and now you're telling us we have to pay," said truck dealer John Kalange. "You're going to break the small businessman. We can't afford the solution you're proposing." John Meacham, another protester, said the agency is penalizing people who tried to do the proper thing recycle waste oil and may just hide it next time.

Several also said if the EPA is assigning cleanup costs to generators, it should place the burden on everyone who drives a car. "Businesses only sell oil to people, or transport it. The real generator of the waste is the person who dirties it," said waste-oil dealer Ed McCasland. "But instead, you're chasing whoever's got the most money." Williams agreed with the protesters. "What it comes down to is you're paying for picking the wrong recycling facility." However, those are the present rules under which the EPA has to operate, she said, and the only way to change the system would be to convince Congress it needs changing.

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Bellevue our main competition is growing just as fast as we are," Bradford said. He said Utah Valley is expected to be second, however, in software sales. "We're backing a software powerhouse here," Bradford said. "As far as software is concerned, we're ahead of Silicon Valley." Also listed in the association's report were 53 new businesses in the past 12 months, of which 38 survived. The association considers any business high-tech if it produces a product requiring a high degree of technical input, which includes more than electronics or computer production.

"We have companies working in composites like Fibertech of Alcoa and machinists like Val-teck and Teleflex," Bradford said. PROVO, Utah (AP) Utah Valley's high technology industries set a record for growth in 1991, increasing sales by 28 percent and creating 2,300 new jobs. The year's total sales were estimated at $2.3 billion, surpassing the previous year's record of $1.8 billion, according to a report released Monday by the Utah Valley Economic Development Association. More than 11,500 people are employed in the valley's hightech industry, which includes software giants WordPerfect and Novell among 175 businesses surveyed. Association Director Richard Bradford said the average growth prior to 1991 was ciose to 20 percent.

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(AP) A Shoshone Indian leader indicted for capturing wild horses in a 1990 helicopter roundup said his tribe was only trying to reduce the number of horses on land it claims belongs to the Indians and not the government. "Our goal was to bring the numbers of horses on the range down there with what the range could support," Raymond Yowell, chief of the Western Shoshone National Council, said. "We were within the Western Shoshone aboriginal territory." Yowell and the council are locked in an 18-year battle with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over the government's orders to remove what it contends are excessive livestock being grazed by Shoshone sisters Mary and Carrie Dann in central Nevada. The council contends the lives tock are being run on tribal land around the Dann ranch that is subject to Indian law and not federal statutes.

But the BLM has removed 160 head of horses so far this year, according to bureau spokesman Bob Stewart in Reno. Yowell was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas along with sub chief Alan Moss and council member Ian Zabarte. Jim Hicks, Cliff Heavernne and Dave Cattoor, who also were indicted, have worked with the BLM in the past to round up range horses, according to Stewart. Under federal law, only the government can conduct such roundups. All six men face misdemeanor counts of conspiracy and use of an aircraft to hunt wild horses, which carry a maximum of six months in jail and a $500 fine.

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