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(o Tuesday, May 31, 1983 The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, Colorado Page 3 A low cost lawn TELEPHONE CABLE TV SERVICE fertilization service Installation Repair Pre-wire Have an even, healthy, weed free. beautiful lawn Costs with less no than missed strips PRICES START AT '25 PROFESSIONAL 242-3840 green OD FREE ESTIMATES Assoc Of Fungus control CONSULTATION Westcom 244-9119 ENTERPRISES ad nt 1g- li- ys ed 0- nd e- Is S. in of a One-third of schools to seek mill levy hikes DENVER (AP) At least one-third of Colorado's 181 grant this fall for all 181 districts. school districts will ask voters this fall approve While many school boards may agonize over whether higher property taxes than the 1983 Legislature was to cut budgets severely or appeal to the review board willing to grant, executive director of the Colorado or to voters for more money, the message most boards Association of School Boards says. got from the legislative actions was, according to Miles predicted "a third or more" of the Miles, "They'd better appeal this year, because who school districts will conduct mill levy votes, but cau- knows what the Legislature will do next year." tioned, "It could be substantially more than that." The Legislature, reneging on a promise to provide a Such a march to the polls would be unprecedented $175-per-pupil increase each district's Authorized in the state.

Since the present state school finance law Revenue Base, cut the increase to $159.62 per pupil. was adopted in 1973, no more than 14 school districts As a result, districts already expecting a budget have appealed to voters for property tax increases in shortfall due to spiraling costs and a cut or freeze in any one year. federal funding have had to add more figures in red The reason for this atmosphere is that many districts ink. are hurting financially, particularly since the Legisla- Denver, for instance, which was anticipating a 1984 ture gave them less state aid than expected and tied budget shortfall of $20.3 million even with the $175 indown what until now had been their main "safety crease, had to add another $900,000 to the red ink forevalve" for relief from budget pressures the State cast. School District Budget Review Board.

Jefferson County, the state's largest school district, Legislators limited to $1 million the total amount of was looking at a shortfall next year of $17 million, but school district budget relief the review board can has upped that gloomy prediction by $1.2 million. San Juan Researcher envisions timber sale steak from 'trimmings' opposed FORT COLLINS (AP) Someday soon, it's possible that steak you slap on the charcoal grill won't really be a steak. VALLECITO (AP) A U.S. For- It will look like a steak, cook like a steak, and taste like a steak, est Service plan to allow logging but it might just be a well-done imitation. just outside Colorado's largest wil- The New Steak envisioned by researchers and meat industry derness area the San Juan Na- professionals will be a patchwork of meat from all parts of the tional Forest has run into fierce steer, a light, cheap replacement for the traditional cuts.

opposition from nearby landown- And one researcher, Professor Glenn Schmidt, of Colorado ers, who contend it would destroy State University, says his version of the restructured steak might an economy based on tourism. start to take shape as soon as next year, thanks to a $19,000 grant The proposed timber sale would from the Colorado Beef Board and the Colorado Cattle Feeders involve a 40-square-mile roadless Association. area in the forest east of the Vallec- So far, the restructured steaks that manufacturers have develito Reservoir, a popular boating oped must be precooked or frozen to maintain their shape, a lake about 25 miles northeast of clear liability at the meat counter, according to Bonnie West, a Durango and just south of the Wem- spokeswoman for the Colorado Beef Board, and other experts. inuche Wilderness. But the steak that Schmidt wants to develop would hold really concerned about er fresh.

how it would affect the tourist busi- "We're talking about a whole new technology here," says ness. It's our bread and butter. It's Schmidt, who researched ham manufacturing at the University of how everyone makes their living up Illinois before coming to CSU. here," said Donna Carrington, a "We're going to enhance the value of trimmings presently going lodge owner and president of the into ground beef," he said. Chamber of Commerce in Valleci- That means pieces of meat that are now ground into hamburger to, a village just upstream from the because they are too small or irregularly shaped, will instead be reservoir.

pieced together with a glue-like solution made from meat "We don't feel the area should be proteins into the form of the steak. logged because it is already heavily Schmidt's major challenge will be to come up with the correct used for recreation horseback combinations of proteins, extracting them from the meat pieces riding, hiking, hunting and fish- in each steak. ing." And the taste? Carrington said virtually all of "The goal of the whole thing is to make it cook and bite and the 35 to 40 businesses in the area taste like an intact steak," Schmidt says. oppose the proposal because of fears that logging would create heavy truck traffic on county roads, cause noise and dust pollution, fill streams with sediment and scare away wildlife. "They're talking about putting in 60 miles of logging roads, plus the skid roads," she said.

"The area is a major elk and deer migration corridor, and we're worried about what it would do to them, as well as about the erosion it would cause." The opponents also have attacked the proposal as an unwarranted use 'of taxpayers' money to subsidize the lumber industry. A preliminary assessment by the forest service estimated the road construction and other expenses on the project would cost the government $7.3 million over the next 35 years, while the sale of the timber would bring in only $6.9 million. "We're getting beat over the head with our own figures," admitted Bob Lillie, a forest service spokesman. "But we're not going in there solely for the timber. There are certain benefits (to cutting trees) that can't be measured in pure dollars and cents." Lillie said logging some stands of aspens and conifers would enhance the wildlife habitat and improve the general health of the forest, and at a lower cost than if forest service crews did the work themselves.

Lillie said the timber sale, if approved, would yield an estimated 37 million board feet between now and 1992, for an average of about 4 million board feet a year. That represents about a sixth of the current annual output for the entire San Juan National Forest. The logging plan has aroused so much criticism that forest Supervisor Paul Sweetland, in an unusual move, has scheduled a public meeting on it Thursday in Vallecito. The meeting comes two weeks after the public comment period was to have expired. Lillie said Sweetland hopes to make a final decision on the matter before the end of June.

Schrock's widow continues search DENVER (AP) A year after her husband disappeared in Mexico, Ruth Schrock says her major regret is that she didn't go with him on the trip that ended in mystery. Nicholas Schrock, an economics professor at the University of Colorado, vanished May 30, 1982, after saying goodbye to his wife at the Phoenix, airport. He then crossed the Mexican border at Nogales and disappeared en route to a summer teaching assignment at Guadalajara. Mrs. Schrock stayed behind to earn her certificate as a licensed practical nurse.

Today she is working at a Denver hospital and studying to become a registered nurse. "I can't tell you how much I regret my decision not to go with Nick," she said recently. "Certainly things have changed in my life, but I still have my life," she said, adding "It is Nick who suffered. It would be wrong-headed entirely for me to bury myself in grief" instead of continuing to pressure authorities to solve the case. However, Mexican and American authorities say there really haven't been any new developments in the case since last summer, when several Mexican policemen from the small town of San Igancio were arrested and charged 1 with murdering Schrock, 44.

All the suspects have since denied their earlier confessions, saying they were obtained under torture. She said last summer that she felt her husband of 21 years probably was dead, but she still has a nagging suspicion that he might be in a remote village or clinic, possibly suffering from amnesia. "It would be much easier for many people to accept the theory that Nick is dead and pay respects to his widow. Helping press a search is more frustrating than sending flowers to the widow," she said. "A year spent on his behalf over his unresolved disappearance or murder is hardly excessive," she said, noting that she is sending out a new batch of letters to lawmakers, diplomats, and friends in an effort to solve the mystery.

But she admits it would be difficult to start a new investigation now because "the trail is so cold." "Things were happening last summer. They found his truck, they thought they found his body, they arrested people, but not much has happened since," she said. Twice last July, Schrock was informed that her husband's body had been found in Mexico. After Schrock, her sister-in-law, and other relatives flew to Mexico, authorities said no body had been found. In the second case, a body was shipped to Denver, but found to be a Mexican national 20 years older than Schrock and who had died several months before Schrock vanished.

More recently, Schrock said she has been angered by two reports in Mexican newspapers that she was jailed for conspiring with her husband to claim $800,000 worth of life insurance, and that she was jailed on charges of murdering him to collect the insurance. But she says there was no such life insurance. Heart attack kills Arapahoe County sheriff LITTLETON (AP) Arapahoe County Sheriff Ed Nelson died of a heart attack early Monday after he was hospitalized for nausea apparently caused by a high level of sugar in his blood, Undersheriff Pat Sullivan announced. Nelson, 57, had a history of blood-sugar imbalance, but wasn't a diabetic and had been able to control the condition by watching his diet, Sullivan said. Nelson and his wife had gone out to dinner! Saturday night with some friends, and he was feeling fine then, Sullivan said.

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Monday, he said. Nelson was a 14-year veteran of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department and was serving the first year of his second term as sheriff. He also was the current president of the County Sheriffs of Colorado. He is survived by his wife, Marcia, a son, John, 6, and three daughters, Kristy, 27, Connie, 26, and Vicki, 24..