The Daily Spectrum du lieu suivant : Saint George, Utah • 4

Great Salt Lake pushes record level utah briefs storms in the mountains have de by Ralph wakley mated the lake reached 4,211.6 teet i above sea level in 1873, 26 years after I Mormon pioneers settled in the val-Mey- It was not that high between 1847 and 1873. And, until Friday, it has not been that high in the past 113 years. "Humongous amounts of precip-i itation in the past week, up to 200 percent of normal for the entire month of May, has inundated the central portions of Utah's Wasatch Front" from Provo north to the Utah-Idaho state line. Alder said. Since the fall of 1982, when the current wet cycle began drenching Utah, the lake's surface elevation has risen 12 feet, spreading out over an additional 14.7 million acres of land and causing more than $100 million in damage to shoreline wildlife refuges, industries, roads and agriculture lands.

"To think of that another way, there is about 6.7 million gallons of water in the lake for every resident of the state," said Alder. Hatch said the lake is growing more radidly than expected because of the recent heavy precipitation and the cool April and May temperatures that have reduced evaporation, adding the lake's surface will probably reach 4,212.5 feet above sea level this summer. "All the hydrometeorological factors contribute to a rapidly changing situation and the nearly half -foot additional rise over what is normally expected for May," Hatch said. And, all that cool weather and valley rain which turned to May snow SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Salt Lake City was once about 10 miles east of the Great Salt Lake. But, with the lake pushing toward its highest level in recorded history, some city suburbs are verging on becoming lakefront property.

"The Great Salt Lake's surface today is estimated to be near its historic high of 4,211.6 feet above mean sea level," Bill Alder, National Weather Service chief Utah meteorologist, said Friday. And Ralph Hatch of the service's Colorado Basin River Forecast Center said the lake will probably rise another foot by June. The U.S. Geological Survey esti- layed melting of winter snowpack in the Wasatch Mountains east of the lake. "The snowmelt window, which is the normal time that the snowpack melts in a neat and orderly manner, is traditionally about nine weeks," said Alder.

"We have lost another week this past week and this window has now shrunk to about three weeks, or the later portion of May. We're rapidly approaching the worst scenario, like the spring of 1983," he said. In 1983, temperatures were unseasonably cool until late May. Then a week of daytime highs in the 90s resulted in a series of Memorial Holiday Weekend disasters in northern Utah. That year, Salt Lake City was forced to sandbag three major roads, turning them into rivers carrying mountain runoff through the city.

And soggy hillsides in Davis County finally crumbled, damaging or destroying dozens of homes in Bountiful, Farmington and Layton. 4 SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1986 PACE THE DAILY SPECTRUM Federal agents raid homes for artifacts "They let my wife call me after tected bv the desert climate, re united Press international High Court considers UTFC suit SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The Utah Supreme Court has taken under advisement a suit in which State Attorney General David IWlkinson is challenging the legality of the legislatively-created Utah Technology Finance Corp. The program, which would provide seed money for new companies entering so-called high-tech industries, would match state dollars on a 4-to-l basis with private venture capital during a firm's start-up years The idea was to invest in the stock of the companies, said UTFC director Grant Cannon. Once the firm was established, the state money would be recovered through the sale of the stock. The money would then be re-invested in new companies.

With encouragement from then-Gov. Scott Matheson, the 1 1983 Legislature created UTFC as a non-profit, public corporation. The bill was submitted to the Attorney General's office and approved. UTFC staff and the board of trustees developed the organization and began implimenting the programs, and, in 1985, the Legislature provided additional funding and clarified some aspects. But, during the 1985 special session, Wilkinson threatened to sue UTFC on constitutional grounds once any state money was invested in a professionally managed venture fund.

The UTFC filed suit, according to Cannon, "to clarify this issue so they (the corporation) could proceed with their legislatively-mandated programs." Last December, 3rd District Court Judge Scott Daniels upheld the con-titutionally of the program to invest public funds in private industry. Wilkinson then appealed Daniels' decision to the Utah high court. Wilkinson contends precedent prohibits authorization of "placing public money at risk in aidto private enterprise. The fact that the Legislature has stated a public benefit only emphazises a square conflict between the statute and the Constitution." Because of the pending court decision, UTFC has stopped making research grants available and has yet to make its first investment in the stock of Utah firms. Wet weather great for mesquitoes SALT LAKE CITY If the floods don't get you this year, the mosquitoes will, say northern Utah mosquito abatement officials.

Glen Collett, director of the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District, said the early spring in March gave eggs laid by mosquitoes last fall a jump on abatement efforts. And the record rains that left so much standing water in fields and backyards provided hundreds of acres more breeding ground for billions of the blood-thirsty insects. Field teams have been spraying larvicides and scattering poisonous pellets since March 28, about 10 days earlier than usual, Collett said. They expect to be battling the mosquito problem into October. Rex Passey, manager of the Davis County Mosquito Abatement District, said the bug warriors like to use natural methods to control the mos-quitos when possible.

"We use as many fish as we can," Passey said. "(But) many fish were winter-killed this year." If necessary, Gambusia, a tiny but ravenous ish when it comes to mosquito larvae, could be airlifted in from California. "We provide them (to residents) free of charge, of course," he said. Most efforts are directed at trying to eliminate the wiggling larvae to head off wave after wave of adult mosquitoes from being unleashed on northern Utah residents. "Normally you try to get them in the larval stage," Passey said.

"If we can't get them then, we move to 'adulticiding' from the ground or we spray from the air." The mosquito abatement program for Davis County has eleven employees, who also happen to be school teachers. "We work from the time school lets out until dark," Passey said. The teachers managed to survey everything in the county at least once a week. Peace march splinter group still in Utah HANKS VILLE (UPI) Although the Great Peace March moved into Colorado almost a week ago, headed cross-country on a mission of global nuclear disarmament, a hardy splinter group was seen treking through eastern Utah. A group of about 50 marchers was six miles north of Goblin Valley on Saturday, said Nancy Orton, dispatch supervisor for Utah Highway Patrol.

They hoped to reach Green River Sunday. From Green River they will ride to catch up with the main group of marchers somewhere east of Parachute, Colo. The small group split from the main body of 500 marchers April 29, near Beaver, Utah, when the main body elected to accept rides to Salt lake City for fund raising. The main group was bused again to Green River, Utah and walked into Colorado. The token peace group continued marching eastward across Utah to preserve the march's coast-to-coast continuity.

A similar 50-member splinter group walked through Colorado's Debe-que Canyon because road construction posed a hazard to a large group. The marchers, who began in Los Angeles March 1, hope to reach Washington D.C. on Nov. 15. SLC peregrine falcons lose eggs SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The Hotel Utah's newlvwed Dereerine fal "It is the largest law enforcement initiative in the history of the (1979) Archaelogical Resources Protection Act," Ward said.

Federal, state and tribal authorities created the task force in 1984 after archeological experts reported virtually every known prehistoric site in Utah has been looted or vandalized. Much of the plundering was done by commercial pot hunters. Most of the damaged sites belong to the Anasazi, cliff dwellers that settled in the area about 2,000 years ago and developed sophisticated tools, weapons and irrigation systems to survive in the arid climate. They also developed art, including turquoise jewelry. Before Columbus But a series of droughts beginning two centuries before the arrival of Columbus, along with competition from marauding bands of Navajos and Apaches marked the end of the Anasazis.

Their isolated dwellings, pottery and haunting cliff drawings, pro- Federal agents searched homes and businesses in three Southwestern states last week to recover the worldly goods of a peaceful people who passed from earth more than 600 years ago. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management officers, looking for Indian artifacts, executed 18 search warrants in Utah, Arizona and Colorado May 8. The unprecedented sweep was based on two years of investigation, said U.S. Attorney for Utah Brent Ward. Six of the suspects are believed to be dealers of Indian artifacts.

Pots and baskets The officers searched for ancient Anasazi Indian pots and baskets in the biggest action taken by the Artifact Looting Task Force. they terrorized her," he said. "I think she was almost going to get a gun and run them off. I'd have to say now that if I read in the papers about agents being shot, I'd have to be on the side of the shooters." But Ward said the searches were carried out professionally and he expects no legal complications from the sweep and seizure of evidence. "This was a carefully planned and executed operation," Ward said.

"Nobody was knocking down doors." Ward emphasized the searches do not necessarily mean the residents committed a crime. "It is possible the owners of at least some of the searched premises do not know the origin of the artifacts," he said. No arrests made No arrests were made and Ward said archeologists would study the artifacts to determine if they had been gathered on federal land. If so, charges would be issued as soon as possible. More than 300 Utah aritifacts, mostly Anasazi baskets and pots, were confiscated by agents, Ward said.

"I would presume, taken together, they are in the priceless range," he said. mained intact into the 20th Century. The settlements and drawings hide in the folds of the red rock canyons of southern Utah and northern Arizona. Besides being ravaged by pot hunters during the past century, many of the faded pictographs scraped or painted on the flat walls of canyons recently were vandalized with spray paint and the walls of remote cliff dwellings were battered down. Artifacts, even arrowheads and pot shards, cannot be removed from federal land without special permission, but the protective law doesn't extend to pot hunting on private property.

Raids called 'terroristic' One of the artifact collectors 0hose southeastern Utah home was searched, said his collection is legitimate, and the federal raids were terroristic. "I've seen movies about Gestapo raids and that's the closest it comes," said San Juan County Commissioner Cal Black, who said his Blanding home on the edge of the Navajo Indian Reservation was "invaded." Black said the agents spent four hours ransacking his home, taking 23 pots from his collection. Rescue workers find last of crash victims llU1-" FJ I OMOVO PARTLY flk I ClOUPY Qnj A Cl MOSTiv tessssA oroMrAM I Mum fair orMGUTCM ylcu.A.aTt ma V'i'T Utlrim IffiJlTCJOHCI chami TEMPS XX lAinEDl -rtf mJutrif Xs'' '1 0UNCMAN jjoiuaon "We have what we think was a structional separation of the tail section before it hit the ground," said Feith, adding investgators will attempt to piece the plane back together in a hanger in Provo to determine the exact cause of the accident. Kaiser Coal spokesman Jeff De-sautels said the two pilots and their passengers, all business executives, were apparently killed instantly in the Wednesday crash. Desautels identified the victims as: pilots Ray Tanzer, 36, and Russ Ha worth, 34; and their passengers Linda Landers, 33, John Corsberg, Harold Grinde and Gordon Shemilt, all of Colorado Springs.

The plane was found Thursday at about the 8,500 foot level in the rugged, craggy cliff country known locally as "The Goosenecks." The wreckage was about 300 feet down a ravine, 26 miles due east of Price. The plane was owned by Perma Kaiser's parent firm. Desautels said Landers worked for Kaiser and Corsberg, Grinde, Shemilt were top executives of Holly Sugar a customer. SUNNYSIDE (UPI) Crews have extracted the last of six victims killed in the crash of a twin-engine corporate plane on the remote Book Cliff mountains, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator says. Greg Feith, of the board's Denver office, said searchers struggled in deep snow on a 60 degree slope Friday to remove the last three bodies from the mountain crash site, 120 miles from Salt Lake City.

The first three bodies were recovered Thursday, but officials were forced to return to the crash site Friday to remove the remaining victims entangled in the wreckage. The plane, leased by Kaiser Coal was on a flight from Colorado Springs, to Price, Utah, when it disappeared from Denver radar Wednesday morning. "The pilot and first captain were very familiar with the operation from Colorado Springs to Price," Feith said. "They'd traveled it several times." A helicopter will lift the wreckage off the mountain Saturday and load it on a flatbed truck, he said. cons may not have a nest full of chicks this year.

The wild female, who mated earlier this spring with a captive-reared male, had laid four eggs on an ornate ledge on the downtown hotel. But, by Thursday, a Utah Wildlife Resources Division biologist said all the eggs were gone. They ve failed, said Bob Walters, the division's non-game biologist. "The birds were sitting on eggs Wednesday. But Thursday morning there was nothing in the nest." However, Walters said the falcons were then seen mating aeain and hp AREA FORECASTS: Utah showers and cooler through tonight with gusty winds; partly cloudy and warmer Monday; highs today from 55 to 65 and Monday in the 60s; lows tonight from the 40s into the lower 50s.

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