The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 3

I lit'. UMl.Y gy Spectrum 3 A Tuesday, February 11, 1992 Local Region Local Briefs Land purchased for detention center the site, which is directly adjacent current county property on the east side of the Hall of Jus extend beyond the juvenile center, the property will allow expansion of the current Washington County Jail when inmate growth warrants adding space to the facility. Offices for the county attorney and staff could also be built on tention center will be'built on the property. The facilty, which is still in the Elanning stages, is scheduled to ouse up to 12 juveniles, primarily from Washington County. Both long and short-term detainees will be held at the center.

Though current plans do not by Scott Summerill Staff writer ST. GEORGE Washington County commissioners voted to proceed with a five acre, $500,000 land purchase from Mill and Lumber. A new juvenile de Other items covered during the commission meeting spire lower employee turnover, higher employee commitment, less waste and higher productivity. Presenters will cover hiring employees, work-base learning programs, on-the-job training programs, classroom training programs and skill testing. For more information please contact Camille Ballard, Job Coordinator, Iron County School District, 586-6527; Bob Cranford, JTPA Coordinator, 586-6585; or Danny Shakespeare, SUU, 586-7988.

MS self-help group to meet ST. GEORGE The Southern Utah MS Self-help group will hold its monthly meeting 10 a.m., Feb. 15, at the Washington County Library, St. George branch. Shanna W.

Hacking, CPA, will be the guest speaker. Hacking will discuss tax saving tips for people with medical expenses and dependent care credit. Jo Lee Heaton form the Utah MS Society will also be attending to inform members about activities planned for the area. Family members and friends are invited to attend with members. For more information, call Peggy Cornia at 628-5572.

Diabetes speaker discusses eye care ST. GEORGE Opthamo-logist Ron Snow will speak at an American Diabetes Association education meeting Thursday. Snow will speak about diabetes and eye care, at 7 p.m. in the Washington County Administration Building. The public is invited.

i Orton conducts town meeting RICHFIELD Congressman Bill Orton will conduct a town meeting tonight (Tuesday) at the Sevier Countv Court house at 6:30 D.m Orton soec ifically asked for citizen in Eut regarding ealth care. Orton budget reform, and economic recovery. Presentation looks at prison system CEDAR CITY A controversial look at America's prison system will be presented in a two-part Southern Utah University Convocation beginning Thursday. The first presentation, which will be held at 11 a.m. in the SUU Auditorium, will be the film "Through the Wire," produced, directed and co-written by Nina Rosenblum.

In the second Convocation of the series, Feb. 20, Rosenblum and former Rikers Island corrections officer Zivko Pu-lisic will discuss the film and give firsthand accounts of American prison conditions. The Convocation programs are free to the public. Business seminar held at SUU CEDAR CITY A seminar on business productivity and successful employee management will be held in Room 113 of the Southern Utah University Industrial Ed. Building Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

Topics include how to in $39,275 bid for a new roller and offered a used roller at $25,000. The two pieces of equipment will replace worn out counterparts now is service. Commissioners adopted a revised emergency operations plan identifying and describing actions to be taken during a natural or man-made disaster. "It's quite an updated plan from the one we had before," said Commissioner Gayle Aldred, who oversees emergency operations. Under the old plan, "associated agencies had not been schooled as to what they were doing." Approval came with a recommendation to include 24-hour numbers for private agencies.

"Emergencies always seem to happen at the most inopor-tune times," said Commissioner Scott Hirschi. No action was taken on Shelby Frei's request for Greenbelt Rollback tax abatement on his property near Santa Clara pending additional information on the property's tax history and submission of an abatement application. Frei sold the six acre parcel to Sunbrook Corp. in 1988, but the now defunct company failed to pay for the land. Frei has recovered the property and is continuing to use it a pasture, which qualifies for lower taxation under the Greenbelt classification.

Commissioners okayed the release of a $2,000 warranty bond for roads on the Doug Thorley subdivision. Orlin Trainer was approved for hire in a full-time temporary position to help with a road project. The commission approved a change in the Washington County School voting districts. The restructuring brings the size of the Washington County Commission Commissioners approved Mountain Fuel Supply's request to install high pressure natural gas lines from the Kern River Pipeline into Central, Veyo and Enterprise. The conditional use permit request received a favorable recommendation from the county planning commission last week.

Bids for the county purchase of a street sweeper and vibrating roller for road paving projects were reviewed with no action taken until the bids are verified for compliance of county requirements. Cate Equipment of Salt Lake City submitted a bid of $12,500 for the sweeper. No bid was entered for a roller. Scott Equipment of Cedar City offered a bid of $8,988 for a sweeper, with another $1,895 in optional equipment. The company also submitted a KUTV 'top guns' arrive to handle controversy "We don't want to be perceived as the evil empire from Salt Lake ramroding our way into St.

George." Maria Smith Moore, KUTV Channel 2 station manager Commission's request denied tice. The county attorney's office is now being leased from a private owner. Funds for the purchase were scheduled in the 1992 county budget. five districts closer allowing a 10.7 percent variance. Precincts included in each district are: District 1 Veyo, Gunlock, Ivins, Santa Clara 1, Santa Clara 2, St.

George 12, 14 and 17 and Enterprise. District 2 St. George 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 16. District 3 Bloomington 1, 2 and 3 and St. George 1, 5, 6, 7 and 15.

District 4 Washington City 1, 2 and 3, Bloomington Hills 1 and 2 and St. George 2. District 5 Hildale, Springdale, Rock-ville, Virgin, Toquerville, Laverkin 1 and 2, Hurricane 1, 2 and 3, Leeds and New Harmony. With the Tri-Star agreement in Washington County and one in the works in Iron County, KUTV plans to begin insertion of local commercials Monday. will definitely build a transmitter in St.

George and hope to be on the air with KUSG Channel 12 by the end of the year," Moore said. "We've had such good experiences in Southern Utah, we didn't expect problems. We may have been a bit naive about this. jn0(l )Though some' of county ground is still not tirm and com- Dlamts from local broadcasters nrill mnct lilrolv rmrcict Mnnrft will said the station will not back away from its surge into Southern Utah. "As troublesome as it may be to some, we will go forward with our business plans," she said.

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Iron County Commissioner Jim Robinson said no solutions came from their meeting with station executives Friday. "There were a lot of proposal thrown around," he said. "But from my perception, nothing has changed." In a letter to KUTV, Iron County commissioners asked for prior notification of broadcast insertions and warned that such alterations could result in the station being pulled from the system. "We have left a very open line of communication with KUTV," Robinson said. by Scott summerill Staff writer ST.

GEORGE Controversies surrounding KUTV's arrival in Dixie brought corporate "Top Guns" to Southern Utah to calm urvor over the broadcast giant's tactics. "We don't want to be perceived as the evil empire from Salt Lake ramroding our way into St. George," KUTV Channel tion Manager Maria Smith Moore told The Daily Spectrum Thursday. "We want to be a long-term player in the community." KUTV ran into trouble last month when Washington County commissioners threatened to shut off re-transmission of the station's signal over county-owned translators if local advertising was inserted. Commissioners felt such action utilizing a taxpayer-subsidized facility created an unfair business advantage for the Salt Lake station over local broadcasters.

A similar ruling came from Iron County commissioners who, likewise, felt the insertions would be nothing less than government subsidy of a private enterprise. KUTV has installed facilities allowing insertion of local ads and programing into their signal at the station's Levan transmitter. "There is nothing wrong with what we're doing under FCC (Federal Communications Commission) rules," Moore said. "From our standpoint we have done nothing illegal or unethical." FCC officials in Washington D. See Zion submitted and many more are expected before the March 2 ideadline.j iiU.iiOi39H The commission alsorreviewed a grant applicationfrom the Exchange Club Festival of Performing Arts.

A $500 request was approved pending a specific explanation for the use of the money, at which time the commission will present the grant to the City Council for approval. On Feb. 6, the commission presented the Dance Consortium's grant application to the City Council. The council approved the $1,000 "mini-grant," for the upcoming dance extravaganza of April 4. Commission member Walter Wiest accepted the assignment to write letters to similar arts councils throughout the state and adjoining states requesting copies of their community arts surveys.

The commission would like samples of surveys to help compile its own survey, said Bennion. Commission member L.K. Abbott was assigned the compilation of a pamphlet showcasing arts offerings of this community. The commission's next regularly scheduled meeting will be Feb. 19 at 11:30 a.m.

at the city offices. Mary Stewart of the Regional Youth Honors Orchestra will make a presentation to the commission. The public is invited. received ST. GEORGE Specific reasons why the Utah Arts Council denied theCity Arts Commission's request for grant monies to better train the commission in its duties, was explained Friday by UAC representative L'Deane Trueblood.

Trueblood suggested a closer working association with Sherry Waddingham of the UAC. Wad-dingham may assist with the grant application as well as suggest a particular approach that would be most advantageous and give a better chance of success for funding, said commission spokesperson Kris tine Bennion. Trueblood noted the UAC was originally established in 1899 as the Arts institute and was the first state in the Union to form an arts council. Utah has been and continues to be a forerunner in the nation as far as model art councils and arts programs, said Trueblood. The commission reaffirmed one of its purposes was to act as liaison to the City Council on behalf of local arts groups, particularly in reference to budget requests.

Commission Chairman Leon Jones reminded board members that applications for grant applications are still available at the city offices or at City Leisure Services office, 86 North Main. Two applications have been Donation i 1 JLTN JJLX JLJLJA. C. have verified the station's position saying program alterations through low-powered transmitters, such as KUTV's Levan station, is legal. "County involvment in the translators made sense historically," said.

"Ru things have changed. The counties want out of the television business and we sympathize with that. But that's not a problem we started." Commissioners in both counties have taken steps to wean translator facilities off government funds. Washington County Commissioner Scott Hirschi, who met privately with the KUTV contingent Friday, said the county has no quarrel with the station's plan if taxpayer monies are taken out of the loop. A service maintenance agreement between KUTV and Tri-Star Media, which is in charge of the county's translators, may be the solution in Washington County.

Under the agreement, KUTV will pay a portion of maintenance costs for the facilities, which should lower county contributions. Moore pointed out the agreement is with Tri-Star and not the county. "If the county can turn this into an advantage where they don't have taxpayer money oine to the translators, that ine. But that will be between the And he said attorney Pat Shea, who hasn't even announced yet, is the Democratic frontrunner. The only announced Democrats are attorney Stewart Hanson Jr.

and a longshot former county candidate, Kyle Kopitke. "Shea is a proven commodity. He'll raise the intellectual level of the debate," Mayne said. "Hanson's been campaigning for a year, but he's getting no respect. "All the Democrats are friends of labor," Mayne added.

"We're a jump ball right now." In the 1st Congressional District race, Mayne said he thinks voters should reject Republican Rep. Jim Hansen's re-election bid. "You can't pick a fresher flower" St. George's Newest "Full Service" Florist 707 NO. Bluff 2 St.

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Senate, may be a Republican but is strong on trade issues. "He understands the unfair trading field we're faced with." U.S. Rep. Wayne Owens, considered the Democratic fron-trunner in the Senate race, is a known quantity, Mayne added. But "to say we always get along is not a true statement." He described millionaire Doug Anderson, another Democrat running for Senate, as formidable.

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