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Greeley Daily Tribune from Greeley, Colorado • Page 5

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GREELEY (Cote.) TRIBUNE 5 mm mm Virtually all agencies 'frightened' by No. 10 By BILL PAHDUE Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) Politics made for strange bedfellows Friday as an unusual coalition assembled at the Governor's Mansion to oppose a referendum requiring voter approval of taxes. The group opposed to Amendment No. 10 on next month's ballot represents organizations of labor, business, government, educators and consumers. The proposed amendment, as described on the ballot, would an atomic bomb hit the state, there's not much more that could do more damage to the state," he said.

Here's a summary of arguments raised against the pro- require a majority of registered posal's passage in a meeting voters to approve all new and with reporters: increased taxes. -The cost of financing public Dr. Franks. Miles of the Col- works projects in Colorado Stapleton International Airport ballot The Colorado Supreme orado Association of School would soar, if state and local wou )j be SUD ject to voter ap- Court rejected on Boards said the ballot title ap- bonds could be sold at all, pears enticing even to him. He because of poor ratings, heads Coloradans Against Num- --Most current taxes and her Ten.

"This looks like the government fees would have to first-line answer" to holding be approved annually by vot- down costs of government, he not just new or increased said. levies. "But short of having an --Voter approval would be by DENVER (UPI) Robert Young, chairman of the city's Democratic Party, said he will make a complaint Friday unless Public Service Co. discloses the amount it has spent'on efforts to defeat two proposed amendments on the November ballot. proval because of the proposal's wording.

Speakers seemed to search for the most alarming words possible to describe the state's future if No. 10 were passed. "Maybe we have too many jobs in the public sector," con- nearly impossible on any issue ceded League of Women Voters because a majority of voters representative Ann S. Herbert, rarely turn out for elections "But this isn't the way to cut and those who stay at home (hem down. Our whole society would, in effect, be counted as is at stake." "no's." --And, such things as tickets The proposal has been fought "They're quite frightened" to University of Colorado foot- in the courts as opponents tried and presume they would "with- ball games and landing fees at unsuccessfully to keep it off Ihe drawnthe rating of every single bond," he said.

Gustafson estimated that if Ihe bonds could be sold, bond interest rates in Colorado that are now 4.35 per cent could climb to 7 per cent. "There would probably be a fair number of bonds that In a reports filed Thursday In addition, the report said new nuclear power plants in the would be unmarketable what- by supporters and opponents of Mountain Bell had donated stale. soever," he added, the proposals, Public Service $100,000 in cash and $8,027 in "I must ask the president of The 'referendum was spon- reported it had contributed services to the proposal's Public Service on what authori- sored by a Denver-based group battle against amendments PSC asked to reveal spending $100,000 in cash and $5,597 in defeat. salaries to defeat a proposal to According to the records, put a consumer representative PSC and Mountain Bell account on the Public Utilities Commis- for 90 per cent of the total sion. Scientists, engineers say 'no' to question 3 donations in the campaign.

The amendment would create state agency to represent consumers in PUC hearings on rate increases. The PUC regulates both utilities. In addition, Public Service has given $50,000 in cash and ty he acts in expending hundreds of thousands of corporate influence this election," said Young. In addition to filing a written complaint if PSC has not filed reports on the expenditures, Young said he mil asked the PUC to determine if the utility companies can legally spend huge amounts ot money to influence voters. According to Young, Public objections to the way signa- Contacted about the coali- tures favoring Ihe referendum tj on 's remarks, he discounted were presented, and the meas- any arguments about selling ure got on the ballot for good, government bonds.

He said vot- State Rep. Carl H. Gustafson, crs coul(1 guarantee future rev- R-Denver, described possible MIUCS to pay off bonds before effects of No. 10 on bond rat- llie were 1 ings. Guslafson, an investment If a governments have to banker, said he had contacted Pl charging golf course fees several services that rale gov- an maintain current landing ernment bonds according to tees at Staplelon, Moroni said, their likelihood of being paid that would be good, off on schedule.

don't believe the city belongs in the golf business. We're talking about do we want socialism where the government does everything, or do we want a system where free enterprise works?" he asked. The issues, Moroni said, are controlling growth of government by making it live within a fixed income as average citizens do and having voters'set spending priorities. Represented on theopposition coalition's board of directors are Common Cause, the Par- Moroni, ent-Teacher-Student Associ- Boards.ColoradoAssociationof ation, Colorado Education Asso- Public Employes and the cialion. Colorado Counties.

American Federation of Slate. Colorado Municipal League. County and Municipal Employ- and the Colorado Association of es. School Executives. Miles said business groups Also represented are the such as the Denver Chamber of League of Women Voters, Colo- Commerce also are supporting rado Association of School the coalition's campaign.

called Stop Tax Increases, Greet your spooks this Halloween! 353-0246 807 8th Street last June turned down a similar proposal by a 2-1 margin. The only nuclear plant in Colorado currently is located at Fort St. Vrain in the north serious mistake to restrict the use of this available, major source of electricity just when it is most needed," the petition said. "The United states must responsibly use domestic uranium and coal resources to generate electricity." WASHINGTON (UPI) -The central portion of the state. National Society of Professional Society president Edward E.

$67,549 in services to defeat the Service has spent ratepayers Engineers today released a Slowter said the signatures nuclear power amendment money to defeat a proposal petition signed by nearly 50,000 were collected in a one month which would require legislative which would give the ratcpay- engineers and scientists who period and said amendment approval for construction of ers a voice in rate increases, urged voters in Colorado reject opponents were convinced of i i an anti-nuclear amendment in the need to use "nuclear energy the November election. as an essential source of The amendment would pro- power." hibit any nuclear plant con- TM slruction not approved by the Sa nudear Colorado General Assembly It production was essential also included safety require- dd of the United ments for plam's so strict that alCS re gn the utilities have said they ergy and Said passage of any would make plant construction "nuclear amendment would too costly. bc contrarv to the national Anti-nuclear amendments IIlleresL also are on November ballots in "We feel that it would be a five other slates Arizona, Montana, Ohio, Oregon and Washington. California voters "6TRETCH ON YOUR LAST YEAR'6 LET'5 GET GOIN6." NOVEMBER 2 VOTE ELIZABETH (BETSY) EARNS LERK AND RECORDER WELD COUNTY IN 1774 WE NEEDED NEW GOVERNMENT NOW WE NEED TO MAKE IT WORK BETTER: Your Weld County Public Trustee, Your candidate for County Clerk and Recorder, She wants to bring efficient, cost-effective service, on a county-wide basis to Weld County's Taxpayers. EIECT fXl ELIZABETH (BETSY) KEARNS Committee, Michael Frick, Treas.

DEMOCRAT FOR CLERK RECORDER Convicted Utah kidnaper is charged with murder SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) who disappeared Jan. 12, Convicted kidnaper Theodore 1975, while on a skiing vacation Bundy, who has been ques- at Aspen with her fiance, tioned by lawmen about the Her nude body was found a deaths or disappearances of 18 month later under a snowbank young women in four western on a rural road leading into the stales, was charged Friday resort. An autopsy showed she with one of the slayings. had been killed by a blow to the Bundy, 29, a former Universi- head, ty of Utah law student from Tacoma, now serving a Michael Fisher an inves 'i8a- one-to 15-year sentence in Utah lor from Taker's office, State Prison, was served a ca raed Ihe first degree murder warrant accusing him of the warran to the Utah prison and 1975 killing of a nurse al Ihe served it on Bundy. Salt Lake County attorney's office filed a fugitive warrant against Bundy Friday afternoon as the first step toward extraditing him to Colorado to face the murder charge.

Arraignment was scheduled Tuesday morning in Salt Lake City Court on the fugitive Aspen, ski resort. "I will prosecute Mr. Bundy for murder in the first degree," said Pilkin County District Attorney Frank Tucker in Glenwood Springs, Colo. "Finally, we have received enough of the laboratory tests back, which were subjected to a host of sophisticated type of laboratory analyses," said Tucker. He said his office has worked actively for more than a year on the case of Caryn Campbell, 23, a nurse from Dearborn, charge.

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