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A-6 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Monday, august 24, 1 992 Horse betting measure shakes up society, politics in Utah role in trying to defeat the initiative. H. E. "Bud" Scruggs, a Republican political analyst and Mormon who opposes the initiative, said that "it i On the agenda Following is a list of governmental meetings that are scheduled this week in the Magic Valley. This list is compiled from advance schedules.

The Times-News suggests that you confirm the information by calling the appropriate clerk's office before attending. TODAY Blaine County commissioners, 9 a.m., courthouse. Cassia County commissioners, 9 a.m., courthouse. Jerome County commissioners, 9 a.m., courthouse. Lincoln County commissioners, 10 a.m., courthouse.

Minidoka County commissioners, 9 a.m., courthouse. Twin Falls County commissioners, 8:30 a.m., courthouse. TUESDAY Buhl School Board, 8 p.m., superintendent's office downtown. Twin Falls County Commissioners, 8:30 a.m., courthouse. Wood River Medical Center Board.

5:30 p.m. in Hailey. WEDNESDAY Cassia County Memorial Hospital Board, 5 p.m., hospital auditorium. Heyburn City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall. Twin Falls County Commissioners, 8:30 a.m., courthouse.

THURSDAY Bellevue City Council, 7 p.m. City Hall. Gooding County Memorial Hospital Taxing District, 11 a.m. conference room at the hospital. Twin Falls County Commissioners, 8:30 a.m., courthouse.

Wendell City Council, 8 p.m., City Hall. FRIDAY Twin Falls County Commissioners, 8:30 a.m., courthouse. makes no sense tor it to become a referendum on the LDS Church." This is recognized by James Jardine, the Salt Lake lawyer directing the strategy against Initiative A. Jardine, a Mormon who led successful battles against tax-limitation initiatives and for an initiative backing an unsuccessful bid for the Winter Olympics, has organized a religiously diverse opposition committee. Its head is Terrel H.

Bell, secretary of education in the Reagan administration and a Mormon who said he opposes the measure on social rather than moral grounds. In an interview, he talked movingly of a is allowed because other states are footing the bill for Utah, which has no racing commission. The wagering measure, Initiative A on the November ballot, would create a statewide commission and permit limited racing, mostly at county fairs. But the initiative has touched deep-seated feeling within and outside the church. The non-Mormon minority here traditionally has resented attempts by the church to impose its doctrines on public policy.

"If this becomes a moral issue, we're down the drain," said Palmer DePaulis, a former Salt Lake City mayor and a Roman Catholic who opposes the initiative because he is concerned with "social costs" associated with gambling. Some Mormons also resent the idea of the church telling them how to vote. The Salt Lake City Tribune, which supports parimutel betting, reported recently that, in the horse-raising area of West Jordan, seven people walked out of Sunday services when a Mormon Church official compared gambling to adultery. Nonetheless, the church is determined to prevent gambling in "Zion," as strict Mormons refer to Utah. The Deseret News has led the fight with fiery editorials and a policy directive to reporters that Initiative called "parimutuel wagering" in the ballot title, always must be called the "gambling" initiative.

The semantic distinction is important because polls show that a majority of Utahans favor the initiative if the question is put to them as a county choice on parimutuel wagering but oppose it when the word "gambling" is used. Some Mormons are expressing unease about the church's highly visible and sometimes heavy-handed Unsolved slaying still affects town SUNSET, Utah (AP) Ten years have not diminished the effect 3-year-old Rachael Runyan's kidnapping and murder had on the tiny northern Utah community of Sunset. As the crime and its nightmarish memories have become part of the fabric of the town of 5,100. Many of those closest to the case found ways to heal their wounds, but they still found their lives forever changed. "The gut-wrenching thing is it's still unsolved," said Sunset Police Chief Phil Olmstead, who as a detective headed the investigation.

The $20,000 reward for information leading to the murderer's capture still sits untouched in a trust fund set up through Sunset City and the Rachael Runyan Committee, which was headed by Thomas' husband, Glenn. The girl, named "Little Miss Sunset" the year before, was abducted from the Mitchell Park playground next to her home by a man who offered her bubblegum. On Sept. 19, picnicking children found her body bobbing in a stream near Trapper's Loop in Morgan County. Losing their child mobilized Rachael's parents, Elaine and Jeff Runyan, to crusade for children's protection.

At least once a month, the couple, with their two sons, Justin and Nathan, still speak to religious and civic groups. Elaine Runyan serves on the state's Crime Task Force and testified in Washington before the House Select Committee on Children. Youth and Families on the need for stiffer child protection laws. Jeff Runyan is manufacturing a coloring book and T-shirt kit that teaches kids safety tips such as running away when approached by strangers with candy, staying away from drugs and understanding traffic safety. He plans to market it within the next six months.

"1 may get criticized because each book has a "scare 'em scene showing the child getting taken away to show what could happen, but there's nothing wrong with empowering children." Jeff Runyan said. "Elaine told Rachael over and over not to take candy from strangers, but she never had the scare factor. If your child is raised in innocence, how will they under stand what can happen?" The Runyans' story was used to help pass the Comprehensive Child Kidnapping and Sexual Abuse Act. which provides stiffer penalties for perpetrators: and the Missing Children's Act. under which descriptions of missing children are entered into the FBI's National Crime Information Computer.

This week at CSI The following is a schedule of meetings and events that will take place this week at the College of Southern Idaho. TODAY Fall semester begins. Overeaters Anonymous meets at 3:30 p.m. in Desert 1 13. Codependents Anonymous meets at 6 p.m.

in Desert 1 13. TUESDAY Alcohol Drug Awareness program meets at 1 p.m. in Desert 112. Military testing will be held at 6 p.m. in Shields 106.

WEDNESDAY AIDS education for chronically mentally ill workshop will be held at 1 1 a.m. in Aspen 108. "Beauty and the Beast" movie will be shown for CSI students at 4. 7 and 9:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts auditorium.

Idaho State University paralegal open house will be held at 6:30 p.m. in Shields 101. THURSDAY American Federation of Grain Millers Local 283 will meet at 7 p.m. in Shields 1 1 SATURDAY Military testing will be held at 10 a.m. in Shields 106.

Twin Falls Junior Rodeo will be held at 7 p.m. in the outdoor arena. Twin Falls vs. Boise chess tournament begins at 8 am in Desert 112-113. SUNDAY Twin Falls Junior Rodeo will be held at 2 p.m.

in the outdoor arena. The Washington Post SALT LAKE CITY A ballot initiative that would give Utah counties the option of allowing racetrack betting has pitted the state's horse breeders against their church and ignited an emotional controversy in this citadel of conservative, Mormon culture. As a sidelight, the measure also has stirred the competitive juices of the city's rival daily newspapers, the independent Salt Lake City Tribune and the Deseret News, which is owned by the dominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church) and faithfully mirrors its views on moral issues. Utah and Hawaii are the only states that outlaw all gambling. In Utah, this prohibition is embedded in the state constitution and reflects the position of the Mormon Church, which claims adherence of nearly 70 percent of the state's 1.8 million people.

But the ban on parimutuel wagering has stirred the ire of Utah's 30,000 horse owners, most of them Mormons. They say Utah's rigidity threatens to drive out a $1.6 billion industry and is depriving the state of wagering taxes from bettors who drive to tracks conveniently located nearby in Idaho and Wyoming. "We never get to play a home game; we're always on the road," said Jon Freston, editor of Western Racing News and a horse owner and Mormon. Horse races are allowed in Utah, and side bets sometimes are made, but public attendance is scant. The Jockey Club and the American Quarter Horse Association, national organizations that sanction horse racing, say they will withdraw support at the end of next year unless parimutuel wagering King Continued from A5 seat against three-term Rep.

Leanna Lasuen. D-Mountain Home. King, who lives in a county whose legislative politics have been dominated recently by four-term Democratic state Sen. Claire Wetherell of Mountain Home, says she will bring solid Republican values, common sense and a varied resume to her first campaign for elective office. If elected, she'd also be the first legislator from eastern Elmore County since Wilson Steen retired from Idaho Senate in 1982.

"When you've done so many different things. I think you develop a more common-sense approach to government." she said. King is a Texas native: her father, an Air Force colonel, came to Elmore County when he was transferred to Mountain Home Air Force Base. After she graduated Music Continued from A5 grew up in the wilds of early 20th-century Colorado. As a teacher in one room schoolhouses all across the northwest.

Bertus said the silence of the great plains helped her to appreciate the impact music could have on the children she taught. "I found I couldn't live without it." Bertus said. "I was out on the prairie with nothing but my own voice, and it dried me up. I would go down to Denver for visits every once in a while, and would literally weep when I heard music. "And so whenever I had a piano at the schtxil, the children got lessons.

I have a great respect for music. Ancient Greek math was born of music. It's part of out physical world, and it teaches us to branch out into other disciplines, like math and languages." "The 88 keys of the piano covers the whole gamut of what the human ear can hear," Bertus added. "Higher or lower has no meaning for us. Politics Continued from A5 survey of her own, for candidates to send to PACs.

Some of the questions on it (along with a few of my own): How many individual members does your organization have? How many of them actually live in our candidate's district? What percentage of your organization's membership knows you are sending candidates these questionnaires? If our candidate should answer your group's questionnaire, how much would you be willing to donate to our candidate's campaign? Specifically, which issues do you expect our candidate to support you on if takes your money? The form concludes, "Your completed survey will be reviewed and be used as the basis for our decision as to whether or not our candidate will answer your survey form." The whole issue of campaign orother who died after becoming a gambling addict and then an alcoholic. A public poll in the Deseret News and private polls show almost even division. Three-fourths of those who call themselves "active LDS" oppose it, and about the same percentage of less active church members and non-Mormons support it. In raw numbers, this would give the proponents a slight advantage, but active church members tend to vote in higher percentages. Proponents easily were able to meet Utah's restrictive requirement of obtaining the signatures of more than 10 percent of registered voters in 15 counties to put the initiative on the ballot.

But opponents, better-financed, are banking that Utah's traditional culture will prevail in the long run. "Utah's a beautiful place," Jardine said. "Our schools are good and our lifestyle wholesome. Gambling is the wrong direction for us." Instead, King backs a plan -developed by the National Association of Health Underwriters that relies on a combination of tax incentives, small-group market reforms, risk pools for the uninsurable, and individual medical savings accounts. She entered a crowded GOP primary race, campaigned extensively sparsely populated Owyhee County and ended up winning it along with rural Elmore' County.

She did well enough with voters in Mountain Home to win the- nomination handily. King, who has been a teachers aide and substitute teacher, says the current school reform effort should emphasize increasing parental involvement and building school- business partnerships. don't believe throwing more and more money into the education system is going to give us better education," she said. babies desire to make music," Bertus said. "I love the beginner pianists.

That's where they develop muscular patterns and an awareness of self. "Even though the bones in the wrist of a second-grader are not even, completely calcified yet, the hand is able to perform miracles of motion." ALTERNATIVE TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS Excellence in Education Smaller Class Size Emphasis on Wholesome Lifestyles Daycare Facilities AGAPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 734-3693 No Lunch Available from high school in Boise, King served three years in the Idaho Air National Guard. From there she went to work for Braniff International as a flight attendant: sold cars in Dallas for a short time after Braniff went bankrupt: and moved back to Elmore County after deciding Dallas wasn't friendly enough. "I lived in an apartment there for a year and I never knew who lived next door to me," she said. King got her first up-close look at state government this past winter as an attache to House GOP Caucus Chairman Con Mahoney of Idaho Falls.

After watching Lasuen argue for higher state spending on public schools and outspokenly support the controversial "IdaHealth" bill. King decided to take her on. "Socialized medicine is not the answer," she said. "I don't want it in Idaho, and unless I defeat Leanna it will keep coming up." "It's a fascinating instrument, not only because it has this wonderful sound for humans covered, but because the playing of it is very interesting." Bertus imparts this musical wisdom to a full schedule of students every week, teaching them, in 45-minute sessions, everything from breathing and relaxation techniques to developing a "good ear" for music. One thing she doesn't teach, however, is the tortuous, recital-by-rote method of playing the piano.

"Music students love to perform and show off what they've learned, but I never call them recitals," Bertus said. "What you see and hear from a beginner is more than music. It is himself, expressing the music from inside." Most of Bertus' piano students are children, and she says many parents are surprised at how quickly Bertus is able to inspire their tiny fingers to perform. "My greatest joy is watching my contributions reminds me of the Chicago definition of an honest politician: "One who, once bought, stays bought." Drew DeSilver is The Times-News political writer. care system) is the only way you're really going to address cost containment." Lasuen believes that a state-managed insurance system will not only wield the financial clout to control medical cost, but will help refocus the state's health-care system toward prevention.

Lasuen, who unseated a Republican incumbent to win a place in the Legislature in 1986, and she's won by progressively larger margins ever since. A legal secretary, she also serves as the Mountain Home city treasurer If, as is widely expected. Gov. Cecil Andrus asks the Legislature for a general tax increase next year, Lasuen said she would like to use the opportunity to broaden the Lasuen Continued from A5 IdaHealth on an unprecedented 42-0 vote, Lasuen remains a firm backer of a "single-payer" health-care system, and plans to introduce a new version of IdaHealth in the 1993 Legislature. To do that, Lasuen will first have to defeat Robbi King of Glenns Ferry, the Republican nominee for the District 20A seat.

Because of the high profile she took on IdaHealth, as well as general concern about health care, Lasuen expects it to be one of the major issues in the campaign. "We have to keep pushing for serious, comprehensive health-care reform," she told The Times-News. "Some measure of state influence in administation (of Idaho's health Services Bernardo Guenechea, of Shoshone, Mass of the Resurrection, 10:30 a.m. today, St. Peter's Catholic Church, (Bergin Funeral Chapel).

Patricia L. Wilson, of Hagerman, 10:30 a.m. today, Hagerman Christian Center, (Demaray's Gooding Chapel). Austin Benjamin (Bud) Luther, of Gooding, 2 p.m. today.

First Christian Church, (Demaray's Gooding Chapel). George Francis Trombley, of Oakley, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oakley LDS Stake Center, 301 N. Center, (Payne Mortuary in Burley). Katy Mae Horn, of Twin Falls and Burley, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, Joseph Payne Memorial Chapel, 221 W. Main in Burley, (Payne Mortuary in Burley). Hospitals state's tax base. That could mean lowering the sales tax rate but expanding" it to cover services, as some Democrats have proposed. Such a service tax would be more progressive than the current sales tax.

Lasuen said, because people with more money usually use more services. Lasuen says all of her legislative activities, from IdaHealth to supporting public education, have the ultimate aim of strengthening rural communities. Her job, she said, "is making sure that whatever committee hearing you're in. whatever floor debate you're in, or when you're in the hallway talking with other legislators, that rural perspective is always argued." Lillis Leona Graham, of Twin Falls, memorial graveside service, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Twin Falls Cemetery.

(White Mortuary). Amy B. Sexton, of Hailey. graveside service. 1 1 a.m.

Saturday, Kctchum Cemetery, (Wood River Funeral Chapel in Hailey). arrangements will be announced by Reynolds Funeral Chapel of Twin Falls. JEROME Elaine Irwin Schorling, 77, of Jerome, died Sunday August 23, 1992, at the Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls. A service is pending and will be annouced by the Hansen Mortuary of Rupert. Harold Floyd Groce, of Twin Falls, memorial service, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, White Mortuary. Agnes M. Rivera, of Twin Falls, memorial service, noon Wednesday, Our Savior Lutheran Church, (Reynolds Funeral Chapel). Death notices TWIN FALLS John Walker, 70, of Twin Falls, died Sunday. August 23, 1992, at an Idaho Falls Hospital.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Reynolds Funeral Chapel of Twin Falls. K1MBERLY Frank Horsh, 83, of Kimberly, died Sunday morning, August 23, 1992, at West Magic Care Center of Twin Falls. Funeral AUCTION BY ORDER OF THE IRS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1 992 Located: Comer ol Madrona Orchard Dr. Twin Falls, ID Sale Time: 6:00 p.m. scon rubber -3 Seat taler Bun urn Honda ATC 90 3 wheeler Ppirawl Jn DT.S JSSS? ait steel trader Gold recovery machine -Triple Aide Traler tso Ran1 portable comprauor XL10SO Tandm cart Gold Recovery Machine, "ay ttavator 2 wheel cart Acetylene Prop Mr tjl 5 pra.

da, of trie. Th Di H. MAGIC VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER Admitted Jeremy Clark and Marie Sedano of Jerome. Released Minnie Benkula. Ruth Broadwater.

Carrie Campeau. Edna Kramer, Esther Reed. Jeannie Thomas, ruti. Webb and Danny Winkler, all of Twin Falls; and Leo Fullmer of Burley. CASSIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Admitted Rynold Baumgartner of Burley: Harry Clark of Oakley: Jennie Osborn of American Falls: Rex Simons of Haelton; Bonnie Sorensen of Albion: and Lydia Pcna and Lois Toevs of Heyburn.

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