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1 3 7 02052 2 a. 1 1 L.ike City UT 34119 THE DAILY Grant returns in Ute win over Aggies Page 4B Painting like the old masters Page 1B URrinesrlav Derrpmhpr A 1QQ1 50 Vol. 25 No. 287 Southern Edition Terry Anderson will be freed, say Shiites Springdaie holds closed session SPRINGDALE A closed session to discuss pending litigation, personnel and land aquisi-tion for a well site is among the items on Thursday's Springdaie Town Council agenda. A museum proposal will be discussed and the council will review the action of last week's planning commission meeting, where the largest development yet proposed was tabled.

The meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. at the town office building. i P-sl 'n A LA fx 1 ST. I Ail "-sw -f, Ik, 'mrtr Anderson's release mirrored hopes and fears about his fate throughout his captivity. Anderson, chief AP Middle East correspondent, was the best known of the captives and came to personify the long-running hostage ordeal.

Anderson would be the third American hostage freed in three days. His release was initially reported by Iranian, Syrian, Lebanese and U.S. officials, who said earlier today he had been turned over to Syrian troops and was en route to Damascus. But that could not be confirmed later. Eight other Westerners have been freed since August, when the United Nations launched negotiations involving a complex swap of Western hostages, hundreds of Arabs held by Israel, and information about missing Israeli servicemen.

Two German hostages are still being held. In Wiesbaden, Germany, a U.S. military doctor said today that freed American hostage Alann Steen suffered brain damage from being kicked in the head during his captivity. Steen was freed Tuesday; American Joseph Cicippio was released Monday. DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) A pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim group said today that Terry Anderson, the last American hostage in Lebanon, would be freed, but as darkness fell his whereabouts were unknown amid contradictory reports that he was on his way to Damascus.

U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who has been overseeing lengthy hostage-freeing negotiations, and the Syrian Foreign Minister expressed hope that he would be turned over to U.S. officials here by day's end. Perez de Cuellar said in New York that he believed Anderson's arrival may have been delayed by snow on the road from Beirut to the Syrian capital. "I am sure this is a technical problem.

I think mainly due to snow, the usual road they use to go from somewhere in Lebanon to Damascus," Perez de Cuellar told The Associated Press. "I am still hopeful that it will take place today," he said of Anderson's arrival in Damascus. A U.N. spokesman later said the secretary-general had no firm word on whether Anderson's captors had released him. The roller-coaster reports about Here comes Santa Claus ST.

GEORGE Santa Claus arrives for the Utah's Dixie, kept the jolly old soul from recent downtown lighting ceremony in a arriving the conventional way. (Spectrum car driven by Kaye Corbett. Lack of snow in Nancy Rhodes) Are there problems at Envirocare? He wants brown bag back tal Quality, said the 29 notices of violation of state rules that Envirocare has received during the past four years are not unusual for a waste-disposal company. The audit was requested by Reps. Frank Pignanelli, D-Salt Lake City, Kelly C.

Atkinson, D-West Jordan, and David M. Adams, R-Monticello. The two Salt Lake County lawmakers submitted a cardboard box full of documents about Envirocare to the auditors. Pignanelli said the material included copies of the daily diaries of state inspectors who work at the site. At least three diary entries indicated the inspector felt problems at the site were serious enough to recommend that the facility be closed.

"On the one hand we have state documents making serious allegations about the facility, and on the other we have the director saying there is no problem. Who is right? We requested the audit to answer this question," said Pignanelli. Judd said the diary entries tell only part of the story. He noted that each time an inspector identified problems at the site, he would return to the office and prepare a memo for his supervisor. This triggered a series of events in which the company received a formal notice of violation and sometimes a fine.

Part of the resolution of these violations is taking steps to resolve the problem, he said. Fossils are valuable resource Residents want UVCC expansion OREM, Utah AP) An overwhelming majority of Utah Valley residents would like to see Utah Valley Community College expanded to a four-year institution, a new poll shows. The Dan Jones Associates poll published Tuesday in the Deseret News surveyed 402 Utah County residents. The poll has a 5 percent margin of error. The survey reveals that 75 percent strongly or somewhat favor UVCC being converted to a four-year school.

Only 19 percent strongly or somewhat opposed the change. The survey also indicates 93 percent of residents consider the college a great asset or somewhat of an asset to the community. Only 2 percent thought the school was somewhat of a problem. Mexico moves to stop payoffs MEXICO CITY (AP) In an effort to cut down on widespread payoffs to traditionally underpaid Mexican journalists, a government commission for the first time has set minimum salaries for the journalists: $11 to $13 a day. The government's Notimex news agency reported the new minimum wages, which comply with a promise made to journalists by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

Commission President Bas-cilio Gonzalez Nunez announced the new pay base during a meeting Tuesday of the National Minimum Wage Commission. The new pay scale, which is to take effect in January, will mean a raise for many local journalists, who commonly rely on advertising commissions or tips called "sausages" or "squash" from the institutions they cover to make ends meet. Today's verse "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. I Peter 3: 7 i Abby 2B Business 10A Calendar 8A Classifieds 10-11B Comics 6B Local, Region 2-3A Obituaries 8A Opinion 5A Sports 4-5B Today's People 2B T.V 6B Weather See page 2A ple who brown-bag their liquor to drink without any controls by people who control the establishment," he said. Al Cooper, chairman of the Citizens Council on Alcoholic Beverage Control, also expressed reservations about the restoration of brown-bagging.

Peterson, a non-drinking Mormon, said his inspiration for introducing the bill was a humorous poem written by Ray Conrad, owner of a Fremont tavern, the River Inn, It reads in part: If you wanted whiskey, you bought your bottle first. But then the state of Utah seemed to tire of people drinking, And you all know what happens when a government starts thinking. They made some moral judgments and applied their do-good wisdom And passed a law that did away with the good old brown-bag system. They made it too expensive for a little rural joint To do what it had always done. I guess that was their point.

spill victims Monday night to question and criticize emergency workers' and the news media's response to the incident. The spill occurred on a Sunday about 3:45 p.m. when a hose pumping sulfur dioxide from a railroad car to a storage tank burst, spewing the chemical into the air. Sulfur dioxide is a colorless gas with an irritating sulfur odor that may cause death or permanent injury after very short exposure to small quantities. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -State Sen.

C.E. Peterson wants to resurrect brown-bagging, at least in the rural areas. Liquor-law reforms enacted by the 1990 Legislature got rid of mini-bottles and the Utah tradition of brown-bagging the practice of bringing hard liquor into beer taverns or restaurants. Peterson, R-Provo, has pre-filed legislation for the 1992 Legislature that would allow brown-bagging in any county with a population of 15,000 or less. "The reasoning is that people along the Wasatch Front who want to drink belong to private clubs and go to fancy restaurants and they can have liquor by the drink whenever they want it.

But people out in the sticks cannot afford that, and they ought to be treated equally," Peterson said. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Chairman Jerry Fenn said, "If you eliminated brown-bagging last year because it wasn good social policy, why are you now legalizing it in rural counties?" "Brown-bagging allows peo Chemical SALT LAKE CITY AP) Residents victimized by a spill of toxic sulfur dioxide at a chemical plant last month have lashed out at the company, law enforcement officials and others over the way the incident was handled. And many who say they are still suffering ill effects from the Nov. 24 spill have demanded that Thatcher Chemical Co. reimburse them for medical bills.

A group of residents filled Glen-dale Junior High's auditorium Mesquife by Scott Summerill Staff Writer MESQUITE, Nev. The Nevada Department of Taxation recently declared Mesquite the second fastest growing city in the state, increasing its population by 126 percent since 1980. Henderson topped the list with a 216 percent growth during the same period. Mesquite's current population stands at 2,060. City officials say the reasons for the dramatic growth from 914 residents in 1980 stems from resort development, a low overall tax structure and an influx of retirees seeking a warm climate and small town atmosphere.

Basd on current trends, the tiny city on the NevadaArizona border is projected to reach a population of 5.000 by the turn of the century, and city officials are taking steps to accommodate that growth. Since the 1980 census, Mesquite has shown a steady growth in population, generally increasing by about 100 residents each year. The smallest recorded increase came between 1983-84 when only 10 new residents were registered. The growth 'rom 1988-89. however.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Legislature's audit subcommittee has asked the legislative auditor general to investigate allegations of safety problems at Envirocare's Tooele County disposal site for mildly radioactive wastes. The subcommittee voted unanimously Tuesday to request the investigation into the allegations and into whether the state Division of Radiation Control has done an adequate job of regulating the facility. "Ultimately, the question we need answered is whether we are protecting the needs of the public," said Rep. H. Craig Moody, R-Sandy.

Charles Judd, vice president of operations for Envirocare, said the company welcomes the audit. He said most of those questions were raised in misleading reports mailed anonymously to members of the Legislature, news media and customers. Allegations about Envirocare include accepting unauthorized wastes, contaminating a railroad spur, allowing wastes to blow from the disposal site and lax security. Ken Alkema, director of the state Department of Environmen lash out "I want a plan, and I want it written," Alma Uluave told Thatcher representative Richard Doty. "How are we going to get reimbursed?" Doty said the company planned to look at each claim individually and that those who had questions could contact the company.

Russ Molstad, a member of the West Salt Lake Community Council who moderated the discussion, said the council also would help with the filing of claims. of growth, so are jobs. "We are focusing on drawing new industry to the area that will provide good paying jobs for people," oung said. "The new Primex plant will be opening in December and there is a possibility one of Primex's sister companies may locate here in the future." Primex will employ some 150 people, most of whom have already been hired and are currently-undergoing training. City officials have been involved in several recruiting efforts to attract other businesses, mostly heavy industries, to relocate in the Mesquite area.

"Construction on two new casino resorts is scheduled to start this summer," Young said. Construction on one of the new-resorts. Spanish Point, was slotted to begin earlier this year, but ran into boundary and contaminated soil problems. "There used to be a gas station Young said of the site just east of 1-15 across from the Mesquite Visitor Center. "There apparently needs to be some clean-up done before construction can second fastest growing city in "That's a correct implication," Kappe said.

"There is a market out there for those fossils; that's something that has to be looked at." The letter to Burge also stated that if the division decided the display of the specimen was of benefit to schoolchildren, "you may not be required to pay for the specimen itself." In the case of Burge's fossil discovery, the sale of the fossils would mean the loss of a one-of-a-kind dinosaur. The issue affects more than one rare dinosaur. Scientists say it pits underfunded scientific researchers against wealthy foreign collectors in an unwinnable bidding war for scientists, at least. The University of Utah and Utah State University both beneficiaries of the trust fund could find themselves being outbid for the very resources designated for their benefit. Nevada Nevada Cities of Growth 1991 Carlin Elko Las Vegas Source: Nevada Department of Taxauon quite's potential lor growth with ambitious industrial recruiting efforts should keep the city hopping well into the year 2000.

and current trends seem to support that theorv. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) State officials and scientists are at odds over whether Utah should tap the lucrative dinosaur fossil market by selling off some of its collection to private interests. "We have to consider the sale of fossil resources, just as we have to consider the sale of cultural artifacts," said Karl Kappe policy integration manager for the State Lands Division. "Where a market exists for a resource located on trust lands, we have to consider the potential to market those resources for the benefit of trust beneficiaries," he added. Last month, Don Burge, director of the Prehistoric Museum at the College of Eastern Utah in Price, received a letter from State Lands chastising him for not paying $200 for a right-of-entry permit for a recent excavation on state lands.

The letter implied the school trust fund must be compensated for fossils removed by the College of Eastern Utah. Fastest Growing Percentage 1950 300 200 ioo 1 Henderson Mesquite begin The other casino is being developed by Ted Lee and is expected to be named "Conastoga." City officials say coupling Mes VA VWM boosted the city's numbers by 230. Despite any other attraction, no city can grow without one vital element water. "We're looking at several ways to develop our water resources," said Ken Young, assistant city manager. "That's our primary concern right now." The city has already drilled several wells in the immediate Mesquite area to increase the availability of water.

In addition, negotiations are underway with Washington County's Water Conservancy District in Utah to develop a water retention area along the Beaver wash near the Utah Nevada boarder. Growth also requires land, and Young said plans to expand the city's boundary west of the airport are currently in the works. "We're looking at a 1.200 acre transfer from the BLM Bureau of Land Management he said. "It would be directly adjoining an earlier 1.400 acre acquisition where the airport and Virgin River Casino now sit." The cost of the transfer has not been determined, but Young said negotiations are proceeding. While water and land are essential elements to the infrastructure A Shopping s3.