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vp be Jiatt £ake tribune UTAH I It 11111 ii niM HI BUSINESS lISlIlF cCT0j Inflation is low but the cost of romance is soaring D-7 SATURDAY FOR THE RECORD D-2 STATE OF THE STATE D-3 FEBRUARY 13 1999 mr if yy1 Olympics Gun Ban Clears Senate Panel Churches homes also covered But bill faces trouble even before it hits floor for debate Is Tooele Big Enough to Hide A Whole Back Yard? this one he said after the hearing it will be far more Author of the 1995 legislation that loosened requirements for getting a concealed-weapon permit Waddoups is allied with the gun-rights advocates He led negotiations on SB 122 with the Utah Shooting Sports Council (USSC) the most vocal critic of gun control USSC lobbyist Rob Bishop praised Waddoups and the Olympic Committee for handling the issue pragmatically and he said his group found the bill bearable But he agreed with Waddoups that the measure is not perfect bill still needs a few bits of he said Bishop also defended the wording about residences and houses of worship does not damage what we be But even before senators debate the bill on the floor it faces trouble Many signs of that surfaced during a Friday committee hearing on the bill Sen Lorin Jones R-Veyo called the measure most blatant infringement of the constitutional rights of the American He recalled the Holocaust to suggest it is crucial to preclude any erosion of rights need to kill it right he said of the bill as he choked back emotion Olympics is not the most important thing in the Jones cast the sole opposing vote Even the sponsor Taylorsville Republican Sen Mike Waddoups said he would cast the deciding vote against his measure on the Senate floor He said the measure ran counter to his own beliefs on the issue will be an Olympic bill if lieve is current he said clarifies Supporters of the bill included the Salt Lake Organizing Committee and the state Department of Public Safety- Public Safety Commissioner Craig Dearden said the Games would be a target for terrorists even with the tightest security Olympics will be the most secure thing that has ever happened in this he pledged I anticipate ever having to do this However Dearden promised he would not go as far as to designate all of Salt Lake City or Park City as SLOC lobbyist Bill Shaw said even though the bill is otherwise accept- See GUN BILL Page D-4 BY JUDY FAHYS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Slalom slopes and skating ovals like all other Olympics venues would briefly become weapon-free zones in 2002 At the same time private residences and houses of worship would get explicit and permanent permission to turn away anyone carrying a concealed weapon Senate Bill 122 passed the Senate Energy Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee on Friday 3 to 1 Under legislation headed for the Senate floor the Olympics gun ban would cover venues beginning Jan 25 two weeks before the Games and ending April 1 2002 after the Paralympic Games It would apply to anyone with a valid permit to carry a concealed weapon including 22400 licensed by Utah BY BRANDON LOOMIS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Just because people are flocking to Tooele for affordable new homes mean the newcomers have to squeeze together in cramped neighborhoods say city officials The city is cracking down on builders who ignore setback requirements and put homeowners within a few feet of neighboring houses want to be viewed as an easy target for Mayor Charlie Roberts said But after a new homeowner complained of having a back yard only 4 xh feet deep the city learned that its existing ordinance does make Tooele an easy target So the city attorney is rewriting the setback statute to make sure everyone gets at least a 20-foot back yard The dispute started last September when Josh and Rebecca Nickle bought a $110000 home from See BACK YARD Page D-5 Coming Soon: Movie Buffs Trial Part 2 nsi Judge says defense motions should be decided by a jury Veterans Stand Down Clyde Scott a World War II veteran gets a haircut Friday from volunteer Jennifer Gabriel a student at Sherman Kendall's Academy of Beauty Arts and Sciences at the Utah National Guard "Sunnyside" Armory in Salt Lake City The haircut was part of the Homeless Veterans Stand Down '99 in which free services were offered to homeless military veterans They took advantage of haircuts physical eye and dental exams as well as mental health substance abuse legal and spiritual counseling The services were provided by some 250 volunteers from Hill Air Force Base charitable and veterans organizations businesses and state agencies The veterans also receive clothing and other personal items The event continues today at the armory 850 1 500 East Scott said he was a colonel in the Army and received a purple heart He lives at the Utah State Veteran Nursing Home I 4 BY PHIL MILLER THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Somewhere in Utah County six unsuspecting residents are walking around unaware of how four legal rulings handed down Friday will change their lives completely oblivious to the ordeal ahead of them The six still-to-be-chosen adults will act as jurors in the second Movie Buffs pornography case which was all but guaranteed to go ahead complete with hours and hours of sex-film viewing when 4th District Judge Steven Hansen rejected four defense motions asking that the case be dismissed The Provo trial of former Movie Buffs general manager Larry Peterman on 15 misdemeanor counts of distribution of pornography is scheduled to begin March 9 assuming six willing and impartial jurors can be picked from a pool of 170 The first trial which one juror described as going to war with ended in a hung jury last June attorney Randy Spencer had argued last week that the case should be dismissed for four different reasons: the charges violated his First Amendment rights pornography law is unconstitutionally vague Peterman was being illegally singled out for prosecution and the Lehi City Council gave its tacit permission for adult videos by issuing Movie Buffs a business license But Hansen after considering the arguments and inspecting what prosecutor Curtis Larson called a of introduced as evidence denied all four assertions disappointed but ready for Spencer said thought we presented a compelling case but I respect Judge The Lehi motion maintained that because City Council members discussed what sort of adult movies would be rented then sent Police Chief Karl Zimmerman to another Movie Buffs store to investigate before they voted on license Peterman reasonably believed he had explicit permission to rent such titles as and Hansen however decided that "the validity of that argument should more properly be resolved by the For one thing he wrote is conflicting evidence regarding the council understanding of the very nature and content of adult In addition Hansen said witnesses See MOVIE BUFFS Page D-4 State Absorbs 2 County Roads to Block Nuclear Waste Shipments Tactic would halt shipments of radioactive matter on rail spur that crosses highways Tooele official dubs the move Northard questioned whether the state legally can interfere with interstate commerce by refusing to approve the railroad crossings and warned it would set a dangerous precedent if the governor is successful time the state agree with an economic development project in a rural community are they going to take over roads and block he asked think that is something anyone would like to Clint Topham deputy director of the state Department of Transportation See NUCLEAR Page D-4 fence said Hunsaker Go-shutes are our citizens and they are entitled to make a living just like you and me They have an opportunity now and so far no one can show us this is unsafe for either the storage or Scott Northard project manager for Private Fuel Storage (PFS) the consortium of eight private utilities proposing to build the storage facility said Friday he continues to negotiate a deal that would allow Tooele County to share the profits from storing radioactive wastes hopeful that we can find a way to ensure that all the local communities benefit from this project" he said ously controlled by Tooele County Both roads would be crossed by a proposed railroad spur to haul highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel to a storage facility on the Skull Valley Band of Goshute reservation Utah law requires a state permit for railroad crossings of highways and Gov Mike Leavitt announced last month he would not give his approval Tooele County has not taken an official position on the proposed storage facility but it has been clear for months that the commissioners are leaning toward supporting it governor is helping us get off the BY JIM WOOLF THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The latest attempt to block construction of a nuclear-waste storage facility by taking over two dirt roads in western Skull Valley was described Friday as by Tooele County Commissioner Teryl Hunsaker just a political ploy by the governor to try to harass the Native said Hunsaker there is nothing I can do about Members of the Utah Transportation Commission voted Thursday to transfer to the state some 60 miles of roads previ- Add Removing Congealed Diesel Fuel To Moving Expenses corrections Clarifications really is no says Val Pope director of parks for Salt Lake City local company that does this kind of work removing environmentally dangerous liquids from old tanks should have it cleaned up sometime next No one knows how much old fuel is there but Pope says it is enough cause a The removal process should be easy he says Workers will heat the fuel with probes as well as heat steam lines attached under the tank They also could put in a small amount of new diesel fuel to help liquefy the older material Then it will be pumped out disposed of in a proper The move is being paid for through special funds raised by the Ogden museum group Pope says He did not know how much the move or the environmental cleanup would cost Crews were getting ready to lift the BY JOHN KFA11EY THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Crews preparing to move a historic locomotive and its tender from Salt Lake Pioneer Park to Ogden discovered solidified diesel fuel that had been In the engine's tank for at least 26 years The potential for the fuel to leak and create an environmental hazard forced history buffs to delay the transfer to railroad museum in the old Union Pacific Depot The locomotive and tender reportedly are only one of two remaining sets in the nation and date back to the 1940s and 1950s era of railroading Originally planned for this weekend the move on specially designed semitrailers could take place next weekend or as soon as organizers can reschedule $700 per hour cranes needed for the work Solidified diesel fuel a quarter-century old must be scoured from locomotive in Salt Lake City's Pioneer Park before moving train to an Ogden museum Utah Democratic Party Chairwoman Meghan Holbrook last year called for censure not resignation of President Clinton A story in Tribune stated otherwise Randy Dryer is a member of the Salt Lake Organizing new Management Committee His name was not Included In a list of members in Friday's Tribune CD The staged reading of "A Lively Lad" at the Salt Lake Acting Company was presented Feb 8 An Incorrect date was listed In the Calendar section Friday historic locomotive and Us tender on Thursday when someone looked into the tank and discovered the oily diesel residue Apparently the fuel was In the tank when Union Pacific donated the two units and Installed them on Pioneer northeast corner in 1973 guess there was not as much awareness then about these environmental issues" says Pope Pope says that once the locomotive and tender are gone the parks department will remove the cement walkway that now goes around the site and plant new grass ywJHW copy: i 1 1 1 -A -A 1-1 IL.