The Daily Sentinel du lieu suivant : Grand Junction, Colorado • 10

I Thursday May 8 1986 TTw Dmlty Uonttnmt Feds bust black tar dealers and thwarted attempts by Mexican traffickers to develop a Louisiana market for the drug Black tar, which gets its name because it is dark brown to black and hard, is up to 45 times as pure as conventional Mexican heroin and has accounted for scores of deaths among addicts in 27 states, according to health officials The suspects were expecting $1 7 million in cash for the drugs, McCormick said, which would be worth $20 million in one-ounce street sales. lican assemblies in Mesa County recently approved resolutions seeking a state law that would prohibit formation of improvement districts where at least a majority of property owners did not approve their formation Some speakers at the hearing Wednesday said paying the proposed assessments would force them to sell land. That would be unfair they said because the sagging local economy has depressed real estate prices The city has offered to finance those payments over 10 years, city officials say Other property owners said Oil Shale Trust Fund money from the state should be subsidizing the street improvement costs. Under city policy, those costs generally are shared between the city and property owners in residential areas. In the districts considered last night, the city is to pay 74 percent of the $1.7 million costs.

Ashby said the trust fund money was never intended to take the place of assessments to property owners on street improvements. improvement districts and of other groups in the community I feel that I was elected to do a job, Phipps said The City Council is scheduled to decide how much to bill each property owner in the improvement districts at a meeting May 21 David George, 2941 14th St warned the council he might seek a ballot initiative outlawing creation of improvement districts if the proposed assessments are approved George said he would seek voter approval of a law that would allow formation of such districts only when property owners approve Now, the City Council can form improvement districts regardless of property owners wishes, city officials say. City Clerk Neva Lockhart said George would need to collect 1,322 signatures from registered city voters on petitions to get his initiative on a special election ballot He could have it placed on the next municipal election ballot in April 1987 with 661 such signatures, Lockhart said. Both the Democratic and Repub Phipps said Wednesday he does feel there was a conflict. He said he was chosen to serve on the committee because as a developer understood matters concerning construction and improvements.

Genova said Kreissler had a conflict because her husband, Jan, was chief estimator for Elam Construction Inc the firm that won the bid the street improvements on 15th Street Kreissler said this morning that participation was not a conflict interest Her only benefit from Elam Construction was her husbands salary, which would have stayed the same regardless of whether improvements were made 15th Street, she said. Phipps said after the meeting that council members would discuss appointment of a board of arbiters at a workshop on the assessments scheduled for next week 1 personally have the feeling that's not the way to do it, Phipps said of the arbiters board Genova proposed that the council create it with membership including members of the council, of the f. At VK- ts-l 1 tf 1 i r. J. t'iii 1 (.1 4 -ft I "I I t- 1 1 II 'I ki Board.

From Page One 13th Street from Hermosa Avenue north to the cul de sac; and Hermosa Avenue from 13th to 15th streets Genova also is concerned about improvement districts scheduled for assessment decisions by the council late this summer Those districts include property along Patterson Road from Seventh Street to 28 14 Road, and she said decisions on the districts consid ered Wednesday could set a precedent Her charges of conflict of interest concerned the districts formed by the council for improvements on 15th Street north of Patterson Road Genova charged that a council committee made up of Mayor Ray Phipps, then a council member, and former council member Christine Kreissler should not have provided opinions on the 15th Street improvements Phipps lives in a subdivision abutting 15th Street. Genova said Phipps participation gave him unfair influence compared to other property owners in that area (S 4 4 1 Look GREATiGIETS.EOR MOM Tk An Additional Tbt Already fltducad i Pnc oh Saloctad Womens Shoes i 1 1 Fitarrf Saturday Taka An Additional nnn, CmUQ fl i Tha Alraady Aaduead Prtea on Saloctad Children! Apparel Frtdeyind Saturday O' An AddiHnl 0 0 u-Jo On Aadueod Pit on len Apparel not he for her of on that Friday Saturday for the Red Tag, your ticket to savings. lcWJa.MsJAW8MMlrf8ktiiadMiig DALLAS Federal drug agents and Louisiana troopers raided a hotel here and confiscated 23 1 pounds of Mexican black tar" heroin, the largest seizure of the drug in U.S. history, officials said today Phil Jordan, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Dallas, said five people were arrested in the raid Wednesday at the Summit Hotel Louisiana State Police Col Wiley McCormick said the raid followed a yearlong investigation which led agents as far west as Los Angeles March. From Page One potatoes, steaming portions of mushroom soup and vegetable sandwiches.

Some said the power of the written word alerted them to the march and compelled them to join Others merely said they heard the march was being planned Inke Bomer, 47, a West German native living in Los Angeles, said i I Vv 3 up An A JctT! a-T ft a 1 Tr A fun Jy TucJ Pn. on S- fe-Ued Gin Leisure TiO A A nf -J Tl' A i p-e on is-leclsd 5-4 1 I i i Houseware a-v; A' f-i Sat 10-6. Sun. 11-5 S' Take an additional she read two phrases a free weekly paper article that hit home. Step forward Put yourself on the line.

That really talked to me," she said. So she took leave from her job as a manufacturers representative and headed east Bomer had just joined a newly formed neighborhood in the cluster of tents called Peace City. She was sipping a hot cocoa in a van driven by the honorary mayor of Peace City, Diane Clark, 43, of Chautauqua County, N.Y. Clark took a leave of absence for one year from her kindergarten teachers job. I love to teach, she said.

I also have a deep commitment to end the arms race and to promote world peace. I knew this was for me, a way to express myself. It might be self expression, but most people who spoke with a stranger Wednesday said they arent just walking for themselves, but for everyone. Denise Woods mentioned future generations that had as much a right to life as the current population. Just like the highway that has its ups and downs, so do the marchers.

Woods, 26, of Anchorage, Alaska, said when shes feeling low, she wonders if people appreciate her efforts. Just then, the group passed a car bearing Mesa County plates. A woman in front and two children in waved. Thank you, the woman said. Keep up the good work.

And Denise Woods beamed. Passage From Page One think it may take steady pressure from Reagan to keep senators from giving in to those complaints. Even with Reagans support, some special interests may be difficult to resist. For example, as many as 20 million families covered by a company pension will lose a valuable tax break on Individual Retirement Accounts a tax break dear to Reagans heart. Many investors will object to giving up preferential tax treatment of capital gains.

And some heavy industries can be expected to protest their treatment under the bill. The Investment Company Institute, for example, which has a big stake in retaining IRAs, said the proposed change represents a breach of faith, since Congress and Reagan agreed in 1981 that the IRA break was important to increase savings. Under the IRA program, the cost to the Treasury is temporary since taxes are paid at ordinary tax rates on money withdrawn from an IRA at retirement, said David Silver, president of the institute. Packwood predicted the bill will be approved by the Senate in basically the same form it came out of committee. Meltdown- From Page One Federation of America.

The fact that the bill removes so many loopholes that wealthier taxpayers take advantage of means that people will be paying their fair share, said Joe Goffnan of consumer advocate Ralph Naders group Public Citizen. Business was not unified in condemning the plan The National Federation of Independent Businessmen issued a statement applauding it Paul Huard, a vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, said reaction within his group ranged "from delight to agony, probably more agony than delight Repeal of the investment tax credit would be especially tough on durable goods makers, he said But he said the measure, which would lower rates for millions of Americans, was bound to create a lot of consu mer buying power out there. For the housing industry, however, there was universal agreement that the bills new restrictions on deductions were guaranteed to cause headaches. The home builders association said the measure would wipe out 400,000 bousing starts in 1987 and slash the value of existing rental property as much as 20 percent The fallout from these proposed tax changes would be concentrated in rental housing, but it eventually would reach every sector of the housing market, Colton said. He said rents would climb 20 percent and some investors might begin to abandon marginal properties.

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